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And we'll get right to the business of the program this morning.
Continuing our reading and discussion of the book, A Woman Rides the Beast by Dave
Hunt.
Dave is showing us the unholy alliances that the Vatican has made with the kings
of the earth.
Committing fornication with the kings of the earth.
And when we concluded the program yesterday we were talking specifically
about the 1929 concordat with Mussolini.
So we'll back up a paragraph or two to the middle of the page 218 if you're following
along in your own copy of the book.
Again, the 1929 concordat with Mussolini.
He says, we've already referred to the fact that in 1870 the independence of
Italy was declared and what remained of the Papal States was absorbed by the new
united nation.
We've also noted that the Italian people voted overwhelmingly against the Pope's
rule and for the new independence.
They voted for the new independence.
This was regarded by the Vatican as rebellion, heresy.
The Roman Catholic Church had ruled the Papal States in virtually all of Italy and
the Italians simply got tired of it.
They wanted their own constitution, their own liberties, they wanted to elect
their own governments much as the rest of the nations did at this time.
Now it says, the temporal powers of the Pope were ended including their prestige
and alliances with earthly regimes.
The Pope's civil authority was limited to the Vatican only where they remained in
self-imposed exile.
Where the Pope's remained in self-imposed exile for nearly 60 years until,
in 1929, Mussolini and Pope Pius XI signed the Lateran Treaty.
The Papacy had, as it were, suffered a mortal wound and could no longer control
the kings of the earth until Mussolini and the Pope got together and signed their
Lateran Treaty.
It says, this concordat, this treaty between Mussolini and Pope Pius XI made
Roman Catholicism once again, by national law, the sole religion of Italy.
Neither Peter nor Paul, and surely not Christ, would ever have entered into such
an arrangement with any government, let alone with a fascist dictatorship.
The Vatican, which claimed to be the true and only church, the bride of Christ who
said his kingdom was not of this world, was acknowledged once again as a sovereign
state with the status of a secular nation able to send and receive political
ambassadors.
For having seized the Papal territories in 1870, Italy paid to the Holy See,
Mussolini paid to the Holy See 750 million lira in cash and 1 billion lira in state
bonds.
Some of these funds would be used to start the Vatican Bank, now so infamous for its
corruption.
Some would end up in rather strange investments for Holy Mother Church,
such as, quote, an Italian firearms factory.
What would a church of God have to do in building firearms?
And a Canadian pharmaceutical company that manufactured contraceptives.
Hypocrisy of hypocrisies.
The Roman Catholic Church actually financed a pharmaceutical company,
was a major controlling stockholder in a Canadian or a French pharmaceutical
company that manufactured the birth control pill.
As a matter of fact, what is most horrifying about the birth control pill,
of all of us professing Christians who say that life begins at conception,
we discover that the birth control pill does not prevent conception.
It only prevents the conceived ovum from attaching to the uterine wall.
And a life passes every month.
He continues, he says, there is no doubt that the Roman Catholic Church put
Mussolini in power.
In order to obtain the Lateran Treaty, the Pope required Roman Catholics to
withdraw from participation in politics.
Many of them had been socialists, actively opposed to Mussolini and his
fascist party, and gave the Church's backing to Il Duce.
The Pope made public statements so strongly in support of Mussolini,
for instance, quote, Mussolini is the man sent by Providence, capital P,
unquote, that Catholics had no choice but to support the aspiring fascist dictator.
Without that help, Benito Mussolini would not have been voted in, and history might
have been much different.
Quid pro quo.
On his part, after the Concordat was signed, Mussolini declared, quote,
we recognize the preeminent place the Roman Catholic Church holds in the
religious life of Italian people, which is perfectly natural in a Catholic
country such as ours, and under a regime such as fascist, unquote.
All the Cardinals of Rome, in an address to the Pope, hailed Mussolini as,
quote, that eminent statesman who rules Italy by a decree of the Divine
Providence, capital D, capital P, unquote.
Looking back, one wonders how men who claimed to be the emissaries of the Holy
Spirit could have been so wrong.
There is, however, a selfish reason for their folly.
It was a quid pro quo that promised much for both parties.
Mussolini needed the Roman Catholic Church to establish his hold on Italy,
and on his part, the Roman Catholic Church was willing to support Mussolini in
exchange for restoration of at least some of its former prestige and power.
With the solid backing of the Roman Catholic Church, Mussolini was established
as dictator, and with the Lateran Treaty, the Roman Pontiff once again achieved the
status of right-hand man to the Emperor, a position which Popes had earlier
enjoyed, beginning with Constantine, and continuing with his successors.
Quote-unquote, fornication with kings, after a brief interruption, had begun
again.
The Roman Catholic Church remained throughout World War II the loyal partner
of an oppressive dictatorship which had been only too happy to give the Pope what
he wanted, the suppression of basic human rights.
With Catholicism now the state religion, religious education was made compulsory in
the schools.
Teachers and textbooks had to be approved by the Roman Catholic Church.
Religious marriage became compulsory, and divorce was forbidden.
Criticism of Roman Catholicism, either oral or in print, was made a penal
offense.
You could go to jail for criticizing the Roman Catholic Church, and likewise
criticizing his fascist dictator in Italy.
As Avro Manhattan points out in his book, The Vatican in World Politics,
quote, thus the Roman Catholic Church became the religious weapon of the fascist
state, while the fascist state became the secular arm of the Roman Catholic Church,
unquote.
No such arrangement with any secular government could be entered into by any
other church, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, or whatever, even if it so
desired.
Only Vatican City is capable of spiritual fornication, and surely its concordats
with Mussolini, and later with Hitler, and with a wide variety of other
governments, are exactly that.
There's simply no mistaking this woman's identity.
Speaking of the woman who rides the beast, the woman representing the Roman Catholic
Church, the scarlet-colored beast representing the persecuting kings of the
earth.
It's called a global church-state union.
That's what is described in Revelation chapter 17.
The woman, the harlot, is the Roman Catholic Church, and the scarlet-colored
beast are the governments of the world over which she rules.
She holds the reins to the governments of the world, and they do what she tells them
to do.
On June 3rd, 1985, the Vatican and Italy signed a new concordat that ended,
quote, a number of privileges the Roman Catholic Church had in Italy, including
its status as the state church.
The new treaty guarantees religious freedom for non-Catholics, and ends Rome's
status as a, quote-unquote, sacred city, but still recognizes the particular
significance of Rome to Roman Catholicism, unquote.
Now, you might say, well, that sounds like progress to me, but you can bet that that
all ended after Vatican Council too.
Now, we're going to talk about the 1933 concordat with another fascist dictator so
renowned in history, the 1933 concordat with Adolf Hitler.
One of the key figures in negotiating the 1929 concordat with Mussolini was
solicitor Francisco Pacelli, brother of Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, who later became
Pope Pius XII.
The latter, Eugenio Pacelli, as the Vatican Secretary of State, would play a
key role in negotiating the lucrative 1933 concordat with Hitler.
It was lucrative for the Roman Catholic Church, to be sure.
One of the benefits of the concordat was the hundreds of millions of dollars that
would flow to the Roman Catholic Church through the Kirchenstauer, that is,
the church tax, throughout the entire war.
In return, Pope Pius XII would never excommunicate Hitler from the Catholic
Church, nor would he raise his voice to protest the slaughter of six million Jews,
and I will add, the unrecorded number of Protestants.
Leading Roman Catholic prelates and theologians were ecstatic at the signing
of the 1933 concordat.
Catholic theologian Michael Schmaus wrote in praise of the authoritarianism of the
Nazi regime and compared it to that of the Roman Catholic Church.
The strong emphasis on authority in the new government is something essentially
familiar to Roman Catholics.
It is the counterpart, on the natural level, to the church's authority in the
supernatural sphere.
Nowhere is the value and meaning of authority so conspicuous as in our holy
Roman Catholic Church.
Of course, that was true.
The papacy had for centuries worked in close partnership with autocratic kings
and emperors in the suppression of basic human rights.
Today's Roman Catholics need to face the fact that the totalitarianism of their
church was a major factor in preparing German Catholics to embrace the Nazi
regime.
Catholic professor of church history Joseph Lortz said, quote, never tired of
speaking, quote, the fundamental kinship between National Socialism and
Catholicism, a kinship which runs amazingly deep, close quotes.
In the same year, 1933, a well-known prelate from Cologne, Robert Groschy,
wrote in Die Schildgenossen, quote, when papal infallibility was defined in
the year 1870 at the First Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church was
anticipated on a higher level the historical decision which has now been
made on the political level, a decision for authority and against discussion,
for the pope and against the sovereignty of the council, for the Führer against the
parliament, unquote.
You see how papal infallibility played a role in the rise of the fascist regimes
and the Second World War?
It says, drawing upon years of study of secret documents in the Vatican archives,
its curator of some years, August Bernard Hassler noted, quote, both in Italy and in
Germany, the Roman Catholic Curia took the opportunity to secure from a dictatorial
regime what seemed impossible under parliamentary government, namely,
a concordat, unquote.
He then quotes German Catholic leader Ludwig Cas, quote, the authoritarian state
necessarily understood the basic principles of the authoritarian church
better than others had, unquote.
Indeed, they were partners who were made for each other.
Hitler received the following warm note of congratulations from Cardinal Michael
Fulhaber six months after he came to power, quote, what the old parliaments and
parties failed to achieve in 60 years, your broad state's visions has made a
reality of world history in six months.
This hand clasped with the papacy, the greatest moral force in the history of
the world, signifies a mighty deed full of immense blessing and an increase in German
prestige, east and west, in sight of the entire world, unquote.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist John Tolan points out that the leaders of the
Roman Catholic Church were eager to curry Hitler's favor.
After an audience with Pope Pius XI, even though Hitler had just outlawed the
Roman Catholic Party, its leader, Monsignor Ludwig Cas, in words obviously
intended to impress the Fuhrer, told the press, quote, Hitler knows how to
guide the ship.
Even before he became chancellor, I met him frequently and was greatly
impressed by his clear thinking, by his way of facing realities while
upholding his ideals, which are noble, unquote.
Tolan goes on to explain, quote, The Vatican was so appreciative of being
recognized as a full partner that it asked God to bless the Reich.
On a more practical level, it ordered German bishops to swear allegiance to the
National Socialist regime.
The new oath concluded with these significant words, quote, In the
performance of my spiritual office and in my solicitude for the welfare and the
interest of the German Reich, I will endeavor to avoid all detrimental acts
which might endanger it, unquote.
Dawn into the maelstrom.
When Hitler, over the objections of Mussolini, announced that Germany was
withdrawing from the League of Nations, a telegram came quickly from Catholic
Action, pledging its support.
Shrewdly, Adolf Hitler made his move subject to the vote of the people.
Then put pressure upon the people to back him.
The Catholic Church gave him its enthusiastic support and made it clear to
Catholics that they were to vote in favor of Hitler's decision.
Cardinal Fallhaber, with the approval of every bishop in Bavaria, declared that by
voting yes, Roman Catholics would, quote, profess anew their loyalty to
people and fatherland and their agreement with the far-sighted and forceful efforts
of the Fuhrer to spare the German people the terrors of war and the horrors of
Bolshevism to secure public order and create work for the unemployed,
unquote.
When Hitler moved his troops into Austria, after the usual promises that he wouldn't,
he was astonished at the enthusiasm of the crowds of Austrians, almost all Roman
Catholics, who greeted him.
After addressing a crowd of some 200,000 in the Heldenplatz, he led a parade past
the Winter Palace with Austrian generals joining on horseback.
Later, Cardinal Initzer greeted Hitler with, quote, the sign of the cross and
gave assurance that so long as the Roman Catholic Church retained its liberties,
Austrian Roman Catholics would become, quote, the truest sons of the Great Reich
into whose arms they had been brought back on this momentous day, close quotes.
Der Fuhrer shook the Cardinal's hand warmly and promised him everything.
On Hitler's birthday, on his 50th birthday, quote, special votive masses
were celebrated in every Roman Catholic Church to implore God's blessing upon
Fuhrer and people.
The Bishop of Mainz called upon Roman Catholics in his diocese to pray
specifically for the Fuhrer and Chancellor, the inspirer, enlarger,
and protector of the Reich.
Nor did the Pope fail to send his congratulations as well.
The Catholic press throughout Germany almost unanimously declared that Adolf
Hitler's narrow escape from 1939 attempt upon his life was the miraculous
protection of God.
Cardinal Fallhaber instructed that today-ems be sung in the Cathedral of
Munich, quote, to thank divine providence in the name of the Archdiocese for the
Fuhrer's fortunate escape, unquote.
Having failed to condemn Germany's liquidation of Poland, the Pope did not
neglect to send his special personal congratulations to Hitler for his
miraculous survival of the assassination attempt.
Even when Hitler's evil had been fully revealed, the Roman Catholic Church
continued to support him.
When German troops launched their offensive against the Soviet Union,
the Pope again, quote, made it clear that he backed the Nazi fight against
Bolshevism, describing it as high-minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of
Christian culture, unquote.
A number of German bishops predictably openly supported the attack.
One called it a European crusade, a mission similar to that of the Teutonic
Knights.
The Pope exhorted all Roman Catholics to fight for, quote, a victory that would
allow Europe to breathe freely again, and will promise all nations a new future,
close quotes.
We could go on and on with page after page of documentation.
However, this should be enough to establish the fact that from the Pope and
the bishops right on down to Roman Catholics kept a kinship with Adolf Hitler
and backed him, even after his ruthless expansionist ambitions and crimes against
humanity were well known.
Unholy alliance?
Spiritual fornication?
There can be no doubt.
What about today's continued alliances with the kings of the earth?
The cover of Time magazine on February 24th, 1992, carried the pictures of former
President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II together with this startling caption.
Holy alliance.
How Reagan and the Pope conspired to assist Poland's solidarity movement and
hasten the demise of communism.
The lead story told how Reagan, quote, had believed fervently in both the
benefits and the practical applications of Washington's relationship with the
Vatican.
One of his earliest goals, as President Ronald Reagan says, was to recognize the
Vatican as a state and make them an ally, unquote.
And allies they became in one of the most amazing exploits in history.
It brought down the Berlin Wall, ended the Cold War, and completely
unraveled Soviet communism.
It was a story of intrigue and cooperation between the CIA and the apparently even
more effective agents of the Vatican.
Reagan and John Paul II, both survivors of assassination attempts, shared,
quote, a unity of spiritual view and unity of vision on the Soviet Empire that right
or correctness would ultimately prevail in the divine plan, unquote.
We'll return with the reading of the book, A Woman Rides a Beast, by Dave Hunt.
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Why Did We Go?
Another Unholy Alliance Between the United States Government and the Vatican to
Overthrow a Legitimate Government and to Make That Nation Roman Catholic.
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Now, continuing where we left off before the break, it says, A five-part strategy
emerged during the first half of 1982.
We're still talking about the Reagan administration and its unholy alliance
with the Vatican against the Soviet Union.
A five-part strategy emerged during the first half of 1982, quote, that was aimed
at bringing about the collapse of the Soviet economy, fraying the ties that
bound the Soviet Union to its client states in the Warsaw Pact, and forcing
reform inside the Soviet Empire, unquote.
In the outworking of the plan, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig,
a Knight of Malta, acknowledged that, quote, the Vatican's information was
absolutely better and quicker than ours in every respect.
The Vatican liaison to the White House, Archbishop Pio Laghi, kept reminding
American officials, quote, Listen to the Holy Father.
We have 2,000 years of experience of this, unquote.
That the Pope played a key role, both Reagan and later Gorbachev frankly
admitted.
A major newspaper article coming out three weeks after the Times story reported,
quote, Pope John Paul II played a major political role in the collapse of
Communism in Eastern Europe, said Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet
Union.
Gorbachev predicted that the Pope will continue to play, will continue to play,
quote, a great political role, unquote, in the current, quote,
very delicate transition, unquote, taking place in Europe.
The events in Eastern Europe, quote, might not have been possible without the
presence of this Pope, without the great role, including the political role,
which he knew how to play on the world scene, said Gorbachev.
Close all quotes.
At this point, we will leave it to the reader to consider the Vatican's
motivation in such heavy political intervention.
The fact remains that such a role in the world scene, with its unholy alliances,
political intrigues, and earthly goals would be anathema to Jesus Christ and his
true bride.
The Vatican has long been involved in clandestine activities and self-serving
partnerships with many nations.
According to the Knights of Columbus magazine, quote, the history of diplomatic
ties between the United States and the Holy See goes back nearly 200 years,
unquote.
Why, that's nearly back to the Revolutionary War, isn't it?
The article pictures the then American ambassador to the Vatican, Thomas Malady
and his wife Margaret, with the Pope, and quoted Malady as saying, quote,
Pope John Paul II is at the high point of respect as a world leader.
Our government is cooperating as one government to another government,
the government of the Holy See.
It is a great honor for me to be there, representing our government to the Holy
See at this significant time in world history, unquote.
Apparently, Christ, whose kingdom at the beginning, at the beginning at least,
was not of this world.
Jesus must have changed his mind.
He who commissioned disciples to call converts out of the world to heavenly
citizenship with his gospel of redemptive grace, has apparently decided to work with
the nations of this world to create a paradise down here.
The Knights of Columbus article went on to exalt the fact that, quote, Diplomatic
relations between the United States and the Holy See began in the 18th century,
when the Papal States, before their absorption by Italy, agreed to open
several Mediterranean ports to U.S.
shipping.
In 1797, John B.
Satori, an Italian, was named U.S.
Consul.
In 1847, a request of President James K.
Polk, the United States Senate established a diplomatic post in the Papal States,
until 1867, when anti-Catholic elements in the United States...
You mean there were anti-Catholic elements in this country?
They succeeded in getting the diplomatic mission eliminated.
Why?
Because it's unconstitutional!
It's unconstitutional for our government to establish religion, to have diplomatic
ties with a religion.
But you wouldn't hear a protest about an alliance, an unholy alliance, a diabolical
alliance between the government of the United States and a church in Rome.
Today, post-Vatican Council 2, continuing with the quote, it says,
His informal relations resumed in 1939, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
a 33rd degree Freemason, appointed Myron C.
Taylor as his quote, unquote, personal envoy to the Holy See.
In 1981, President Ronald Reagan named William A.
Wilson, a Roman Catholic, to the post.
Wilson served until 1984, when the Vatican and the United States began full
diplomatic relations, and Wilson was made the first U.S.
ambassador to the Holy See.
There's your spiritual fornication in the United States of America.
That whore that rides and controls the bloody beast, her most cherished partner
in fornication today is the United States government.
And that spells nothing but doom for this country.
Consider the following from a recent brochure advertising, quote, the Catholic
event of the year, unquote.
Quote, Pope Leo XIII compared the proper relation between church and state to,
quote, the union of the soul and the body in man, unquote.
Imagine a nation without a soul.
As recent events have confirmed with frightening clarity, America today is such
a nation.
America was discovered by a Roman Catholic, Christopher Columbus,
who claimed for her, excuse me, who claimed her for Christ the King,
that is the Pope.
If America is to be rediscovered and claimed for our King, if she is to find
her missing soul, it is Catholics who must act and act now, he said.
Rome has not changed.
Her ambitions remain very much of this world.
Of course, it is in the name of Christ that she wants to establish her,
quote, reign over the kings of the earth, unquote.
It is, quote, for the good of mankind and the glory of Christ, unquote.
As she perceives it, that the Roman Catholic Church ceaselessly and
efficaciously seeks for the return of all humanity and all its goods, unquote.
Return of all humanity and all its goods back under her control.
And Vatican Council, too, couldn't be clearer on this point.
The greatest betrayal of the body of Christ in this country was Vatican
Council, too.
That concludes, and I'm getting some noise from the station.
I don't know if there's an open mic or not, but we'll continue as best we can
until that interference is cleared up.
But we've concluded chapter 15.
We'll go on now to chapter 16.
It's entitled Dominion over Kings, continuing on the same subject of the
spiritual fornication with the kings of the earth.
It begins, as usual, with some quotes.
This one from a diabolical pope, Pope Nicholas I, who reigned from 858 to
867 BC.
He says, quote, Fear, then, our wrath and the thunder of our vengeance.
For Jesus Christ has appointed us, the popes, with his own mouth,
absolute judges of all men.
And kings themselves are submitted to our authority, unquote.
Here, a quote from Padua Provost and Professor Carerio, dated 1626 AD.
The Italians are exalted above all nations by the special grace of God, who gives
them, in the pope, a spiritual monarch, who has put down from their thrones great
kings and yet mightier emperors, and set others in their place,
to whom the greatest kingdoms have long paid tribute, as they do to no other,
and who dispenses such riches in his courtiers that no king or emperor has ever
had so much to give, unquote.
And lastly, a quote from the historian Ignaz von Dolinger, quote, It is the
office of the papacy to tread underfoot kings and emperors, unquote.
Now, Dave Hunt writes, The last identifying characteristic that John was
given concerning the woman astride the beast was that she was a city,
quote, which reigneth over the kings of the earth, unquote.
Revelation 17, 18.
Could there be a city that actually reigns over the governments of the world?
History bears witness that there was indeed such a city, and only one.
That city was, of course, Rome, after its bishops began to call themselves
popes, and claiming to be the successors of the Caesars, they took upon themselves
the imperial powers of worldwide sovereignty.
Consider, for example, the arrogant imperialism of Pope Alexander III,
who reigned from 1159 to 1181, declaring that, quote, the power of the
popes is superior to that of princes, unquote.
Alexander excommunicated Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany and
Italy.
Attempting to chastise the pope, Frederick's forces were defeated by the
pope's army.
The chastened emperor came to Venice to beg forgiveness and absolution,
promising to, quote, submit always to the Roman Catholic Church, unquote.
Imagine, a church ruling the world by military might.
Fortunatus Ulmus, a Roman Catholic historian, enthusiastically described the
scene.
Quote, when the emperor arrived in the presence of the pope, he laid aside his
imperial mantle and knelt on both knees with his breast on the earth.
Alexander advanced and placed his foot on his neck, while the cardinals thundered
forth in loud tones, quote, thou shalt tread upon the cockatrice and crush the
lion and the dragon, unquote.
The next day, Frederick Barbarossa kissed the feet of Alexander and on foot led his
horse by the bridle as he returned from solemn mass to the pontifical palace.
The papacy had now risen to a height of grandeur and power which it had never
reached before.
The sword of Peter had conquered the sword of Caesar, unquote.
As a swordsman, Peter had been signally inept.
Aiming to cut off a head, he had instead severed an ear.
Christ rebuked his erring disciple, healing the ear, and then allowed the
armed band to lead him captive on his way to the cross.
The early church knew full well that Christians did not wield the sword nor the
spear in defense of Christ.
His kingdom, which is not of this world, must first be established in the hearts of
those who believe in him as Savior, who died for their sins.
These true disciples follow in his path of rejection, suffering, and death.
How then did those who called themselves vicars of Christ reach such a worldly
pinnacle whereby they could command emperors, defeat their armies with the
sword, and place a foot upon the neck of a vanquished sovereign?
The path to earthly glory.
To earthly glory.
Some years after Constantine had moved the imperial headquarters to the east,
the Roman Empire in the west broke up.
The vacuum created by the absence of a central authority in Rome was filled by
the Roman Catholic Church, the only Roman institution capable of doing so.
The Roman Catholic Church played the major role in education and charity.
Gradually, however, the popes took over the civil government of Rome and its
surroundings, and then by fraud, as we have seen, they added the large
territories of the papal states to their dominion.
As their ambitions grew, the new Roman pontiffs took upon themselves the titles
and much of the flavor and function of emperor.
The popes, some of whom were exceptionally capable military leaders, had armies and
navies at their command to extend and to hold their territories.
They wielded, however, a greater power than the force of arms.
The keys of heaven were theirs.
Temporal rulers were compelled, no matter how unwillingly, to bow the knee
to the popes.
Only the quote-unquote heretics, the true Christians, doubted that the
church determined who entered heaven and could bar its gates to any who opposed
her.
The most powerful civil rulers trembled when threatened with excommunication,
for it was almost universally believed that outside the Roman Catholic Church
there was no salvation.
Historian Walter James writes, quote, The papacy controlled the gateway
to heaven, which all the faithful, including their rulers, hoped earnestly to
enter.
Few in those days doubted the truth of this, and it gave the popes a moral
authority which has never been wielded since.
Unquote.
The fraudulent donation of Constantine mentioned earlier was followed by a
veritable library of forged documents.
It was these false decretals that traced papal authority back to the early popes of
Rome and through them to Peter.
Even Thomas Aquinas, the Roman Catholic Church's greatest theologian, was deceived
by these fraudulent assertions into believing that, quote, there's no
difference between Christ and the pope.
Unquote.
So blinded was Thomas Aquinas by the pomp and the power of the popes that he,
quote, made the fathers say that in fact the rulers of the world obey the pope as
though he were Christ.
Unquote.
On the contrary, Christ had nothing to do with the rulers of this world and far from
obeying him, quote, the princes of this world crucified the Lord of Glory.
See 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 8.
Yet the Roman Catholic heresy stuck and became the central principle of the popes
in fulfilling John's vision by literally ruling over the kings of the earth.
Now what was the papal dominion over England and Ireland?
During the Middle Ages, the awesome power which the popes wielded over the kings of
the earth continued to grow.
Gregory VI, who reigned from 1054 to 1056, had declared that the pope commanded blind
obedience to his every word, even from sovereigns.
Alexander II, who reigned from 1061 to 1073, with the counsel of the great
Hildebrand, the late Gregory VII, issued a decree declaring Harold the
lawful king of England a usurper and excommunicated his followers.
The pope declared that William, Duke of Normandy, was the lawful claimant
to the English crown.
With the pope's blessing, William the Conqueror killed Harold in battle,
took England, and was crowned in London on Christmas Day 1066.
William accepted the crown, quote, in the name of the Holy See of Rome,
unquote.
It was another triumph for the papacy and greatly increased Roman Catholic influence
in England.
Freeman, in the Norman Conquest, elaborates on the arrangement,
quote, William was authorized by the pope to go forth as an avenger of heaven.
He was required to teach the English people due obedience to Christ's vicar.
And what the papacy never forgets, quote, to secure a more punctual payment
of the temporal dues of his apostle, unquote.
In 1155 AD, Pope Adrian IV gave the crown of Ireland to the king of England.
Thus, by his authority as vicar of Christ, he subjugated Ireland to English rule and
consigned Ireland's, quote, peaceful and Christian people to the merciless
cruelties of Henry II, upon the ground that it was a portion of the, quote,
unquote, patrimony of St. Peter in the Holy Roman Church, close quotes.
Subsequent popes affirmed this decree.
So long as England remained Roman Catholic, the arrangement was tolerable.
But when England turned Protestant, its continued control of Catholic Ireland
and Protestant persecution of Catholics planted the seeds of a problem that
continues to this day.
While Roman Catholic Ireland has many legitimate grievances too complex to
relate here, she needs to remember that it was, after all, the Roman Catholic popes
who gave Ireland to England in the first place.
In fact, the popes were to blame for many of England's trials and tribulations as
well.
The Roman pontiffs treated, quote, its kings as their vassals, and its people
as having no rights of any value whatsoever when they came in conflict with
the demands of the papacy.
The Catholic clergy, as the pope's emissaries, ran England, disregarding the
laws of the land as though the popes were the sovereigns of the country.
Civil courts had no jurisdiction over the priests.
Thompson elaborates on this point.
He says, quote, It would be impossible to enumerate the outrages and the enormities
practiced in England during this gloomy period by kings and popes who considered
the assertion of any single popular right as a crime which God had appointed them to
punish.
More than a hundred murders were committed by ecclesiastics during the reign of Henry
II in which the parties were not even punished.
The clergy had absolute power over their own body, and no appeal was allowed for
their decisions.
A layman forfeited his life by the crime of murder, but an ecclesiastic went
unpunished.
This was called one of the immunities of the clergy.
When the king tried to change the law to deal with the clergy, the pope refused his
sanction and denounced it as, quote, prejudicial to the church and destructive
of her privileges, unquote.
Yes, that's right.
The vicar of Christ demands by divine right to be able to take your life,
even through the use of his ecclesiastics.
And they're not subject to any law but the pope's.
Looking back from today's perspective, such overt papal dominion over sovereign
seems inconceivable, but it was in fact the norm of that day.
The pope's literally ruled the entire known world for centuries, exactly as
John's vision foretold.
And I know it's going to be hard for those who are not familiar with history and not
familiar with the Vatican and particularly the Jesuits' influence in Washington,
D.C., to comprehend that the pope is no less powerful over the kings of the earth
today, particularly the government of the United States as he ever was throughout
history.
But that is the truth.
And the same persecutions that the pope's launched against God's true people in the
dark ages with her unholy alliances with the kings of the earth to do their bidding
for them is going to be experienced right here in what once was known as Protestant
America.
See how important history is?
See how important the Bible is?
You can't understand the Bible unless you have history to show the fulfillment of
Bible prophecy.
We have to unite the Bible and history to comprehend what's going on in our face
today.
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