WEBVTT 00:34.140 --> 00:35.900 Welcome to Inquisition Update. 00:36.220 --> 00:39.000 My name is Tom Friess, and I'll be your host for the next hour. 00:39.460 --> 00:41.960 You're listening to FirstAmendmentRadio .com. 00:42.080 --> 00:43.580 Thanks for tuning in, everybody. 00:44.100 --> 00:46.520 We'll get right to business this morning. 00:46.860 --> 00:51.940 We're reading and discussing the book, A Woman Rides the Beast, by Dave Hunt, 00:52.740 --> 00:55.620 in a chapter entitled, Blood of the Martyrs. 00:55.620 --> 01:02.020 And yesterday we concluded by reading about the Pilgrim Church, those early 01:02.020 --> 01:08.060 Christians who were not Roman Catholics, but who were relentlessly pursued and 01:08.060 --> 01:11.680 persecuted and executed by the Roman Catholic Church. 01:12.220 --> 01:16.420 We begin on the last full paragraph on page 254. 01:16.640 --> 01:22.960 It says, These non-Roman Catholic Christians had, out of conscience before 01:22.960 --> 01:27.700 God and in obedience to His word, separated themselves from what they 01:27.700 --> 01:34.900 sincerely called, even in that day, the Whore of Babylon, concerning the Roman 01:34.900 --> 01:35.640 Catholic Church. 01:36.480 --> 01:44.620 Now it says, Concerning them, Bishop Alvaro Palaio, an official of the Curia in 01:44.620 --> 01:45.780 Avignon. 01:46.820 --> 01:49.940 I've got some interference coming from somewhere. 01:50.100 --> 01:50.680 I'm not sure. 01:52.540 --> 01:55.160 It must be a hot mic at the studio or something. 01:55.800 --> 01:56.620 There, that's better. 01:56.620 --> 02:03.300 Now, concerning them, these early Christians, Bishop Alvaro Palaio, 02:03.480 --> 02:11.400 an official of the Curia in Avignon, wrote grudgingly, Considering the papal 02:11.400 --> 02:17.440 court has filled the whole church with simony, and the consequent corruption of 02:17.440 --> 02:21.900 religion, it is natural enough that heretics should call the church, 02:22.000 --> 02:24.920 that is the Roman Catholic Church, the Whore. 02:27.460 --> 02:32.720 It's an admission that they were correct in their assessment of the Roman Catholic 02:32.720 --> 02:33.040 Church. 02:33.040 --> 02:36.560 The Whore that rides a scarlet-colored beast, Revelation 17. 02:37.020 --> 02:39.520 That was known even by the earliest Christians. 02:40.900 --> 02:41.800 It says, E.H. 02:41.900 --> 02:47.520 Broadbent calls these Bible-believing Christians, the Pilgrim Church, 02:47.740 --> 02:49.040 in his book of that name. 02:49.720 --> 02:54.660 And now a lengthy quote from that book, it says, In the Alpine valleys of 02:54.660 --> 02:58.560 Piedmont, we're talking about the Albigensians, or rather, excuse me, 02:58.640 --> 03:05.580 the Waldenses, the Valdois, it says, In the Alpine valleys of Piedmont, 03:06.240 --> 03:12.820 there had been for centuries congregations of believers calling themselves brethren, 03:13.800 --> 03:18.720 who came later to be widely known as Waldenses, or Valdois. 03:19.320 --> 03:24.000 In the south of France, the congregation of believers who met apart from the Roman 03:24.000 --> 03:27.140 Catholic Church were numerous and increasing. 03:28.140 --> 03:35.140 They are often called Albigenses and had intimate connections with the brethren, 03:35.820 --> 03:41.140 whether called Waldenses, poor men of lions, Bogomils, or otherwise, 03:41.580 --> 03:45.960 in the surrounding countries where churches spread among the various peoples. 03:46.800 --> 03:52.000 In 1209 A.D., Pope Innocent III proclaimed a crusade against them. 03:53.340 --> 03:58.640 Indulgences such had been given to the Holy Land Crusaders, in other words, 03:59.200 --> 04:04.220 plenary forgiveness of all their sins if they would go on these crusades, 04:04.800 --> 04:10.800 were now offered to all who took part in the easier work of destroying the most 04:10.800 --> 04:12.680 fruitful provinces of France. 04:13.560 --> 04:21.260 This and the prospect of booty and license of every kind, that is, license to commit 04:21.260 --> 04:27.180 debaucheries even with the women and children of these early Christians, 04:27.560 --> 04:30.700 attracted hundreds of thousands of men. 04:31.500 --> 04:37.980 Under the providence of high clerical dignitaries, and led by Simon de Montfort, 04:38.480 --> 04:44.460 a military leader of great ability, the most beautiful and cultivated part of 04:44.460 --> 04:46.780 Europe at that time was ravaged. 04:47.700 --> 04:54.320 That's the history of the Roman Catholic Church, and no wonder they said it was the 04:54.320 --> 04:56.620 whore of Revelation chapter 17. 04:57.480 --> 05:03.400 Now continuing where we left off yesterday, these simple believers were 05:03.400 --> 05:08.980 burned at the stake or slain with the sword, and most of their records were 05:08.980 --> 05:13.200 destroyed when their towns and villages were razed by papal armies. 05:14.540 --> 05:19.080 Catholic apologists falsely accused them of heresies and abominable practices which 05:19.080 --> 05:19.880 they denied. 05:20.640 --> 05:25.640 The accounts we have of their trials reveal that they held beliefs very similar 05:25.640 --> 05:27.600 to evangelicals of today. 05:28.240 --> 05:34.320 Though some of the worst tales are told about the Cathari, one can only agree with 05:34.320 --> 05:36.640 their beliefs as described by Durant. 05:37.280 --> 05:43.380 Quote, they denied that the Roman Catholic Church was the Church of Jesus Christ. 05:43.760 --> 05:48.680 They declared that St. Peter had never come to Rome, had never founded the 05:48.680 --> 05:55.040 papacy, and that the popes were successors to the emperors, not to the apostles. 05:56.040 --> 06:02.020 They taught that Christ had no place to lay his head, but the pope lived in a 06:02.020 --> 06:02.580 palace. 06:03.740 --> 06:11.000 Christ was propertyless and penniless, but Christian, that is, Roman Catholic 06:11.000 --> 06:12.480 prelates were rich. 06:13.520 --> 06:18.680 Surely these lordly archbishops and bishops, these worldly priests, 06:18.860 --> 06:23.780 these fat monks, were the Pharisees of old returned to life. 06:23.780 --> 06:29.380 The Roman Catholic Church, they were sure, was the whore of Babylon. 06:30.260 --> 06:33.160 The clergy were a synagogue of Satan. 06:33.800 --> 06:36.080 The pope was antichrist. 06:36.780 --> 06:42.800 They denounced the preachers of crusades as murderers, laughed at indulgences and 06:42.800 --> 06:43.240 relics. 06:43.240 --> 06:50.560 They called the churches, quote, dens of thieves, unquote, and Catholic 06:50.560 --> 06:56.060 priests seemed to them, quote, traitors, liars, and hypocrites, 06:56.720 --> 06:57.100 unquote. 06:59.040 --> 07:05.420 Now if this truly is the beliefs of the Albigensians, the Waldenses, the Valdois, 07:06.220 --> 07:08.040 then count me among them. 07:10.040 --> 07:18.740 And Rome went so far to destroy these people that they literally depopulated 07:18.740 --> 07:21.900 Italy and France in their pursuit. 07:24.620 --> 07:30.240 Nineteenth-century Roman Catholic author Dupin writes, quote, the pope, 07:30.500 --> 07:36.280 in this case Innocent III, and the prelates were of the opinion that it was 07:36.280 --> 07:42.840 lawful to make use of force to see whether those who were not reclaimed out of a 07:42.840 --> 07:48.320 sense of their salvation might be so by fear of punishment and even of temporal 07:48.320 --> 07:49.760 death, unquote. 07:50.700 --> 07:56.760 Almost everyone knows that crusades were organized of tens of thousands of knights 07:56.760 --> 08:00.400 and foot soldiers to retake Jerusalem from the Muslims. 08:01.320 --> 08:06.820 But very few have ever heard that similar crusades involving huge armies were fought 08:06.820 --> 08:12.180 against Christians who could not in good conscience submit to Rome. 08:13.180 --> 08:17.280 Yet such was the case, beginning with Pope Innocent III. 08:18.140 --> 08:23.520 A major crime of these Christians was believing in freedom of conscience and 08:23.520 --> 08:24.420 freedom of worship. 08:25.540 --> 08:31.500 Biblical concepts which the popes hated for such beliefs would put Rome out of 08:31.500 --> 08:31.960 business. 08:33.480 --> 08:38.500 Though no exact figures are available, the slaughter of these Christians by the 08:38.500 --> 08:43.300 popes probably ran into the millions during the thousand years before the 08:43.300 --> 08:44.360 Protestant Reformation. 08:44.360 --> 08:52.240 In the city of Béziers alone, about 60,000 men, women and children were wiped out in 08:52.240 --> 08:53.420 one crusade. 08:54.920 --> 08:58.860 Pope Innocent III considered the annihilation of these particular heretics, 08:59.020 --> 09:03.440 quote, the crowning achievement of his papacy, unquote. 09:05.060 --> 09:09.720 Broadbent, the historian, writes, quote, when the town of Béziers was 09:09.720 --> 09:15.100 summoned to surrender, the Catholic inhabitants joined with the dissenters in 09:15.100 --> 09:15.640 refusing. 09:16.540 --> 09:21.760 The town was taken, and of the tens of thousands who had taken refuge there, 09:22.200 --> 09:25.320 none were spared alive, unquote. 09:26.940 --> 09:35.480 So Rome even killed the Catholic defenders of these Bible-believing Christians. 09:37.480 --> 09:42.340 Now, in spite of periodic massacres, groups of independent Christians were 09:42.340 --> 09:46.040 growing in numbers long before Martin Luther was born. 09:47.200 --> 09:52.360 They would seemingly be wiped out in one area, only to be found in another. 09:53.580 --> 09:59.500 As Ulrich Zwingli would later state in 1522 in a letter to his brothers, 10:00.000 --> 10:05.800 who were fearful that he would be burned at the stake, quote, O my beloved 10:05.800 --> 10:10.840 brethren, the gospel derives from the blood of Christ this wondrous property, 10:11.540 --> 10:16.720 that the fiercest persecutions, far from arresting its progress, 10:17.640 --> 10:21.260 do but hasten its triumph, unquote. 10:22.600 --> 10:27.400 Rome could not allow independence from her iron grip. 10:28.400 --> 10:34.420 Thus the French Valdois incurred the wrath of Pope Innocent VIII, who reigned from 10:34.420 --> 10:42.420 1484 to 1492, quote, for daring to maintain their own religion in preference 10:42.420 --> 10:44.700 to that of Rome, unquote. 10:46.600 --> 10:51.580 In 1487, the Pope raised a crusade against them in which he promised, quote, 10:52.280 --> 10:58.120 the remission of all sins to anyone who should slay a heretic, unquote, 10:58.500 --> 11:03.900 and ordered any bishop removed who neglected to purge his diocese from 11:03.900 --> 11:04.500 heretics. 11:05.500 --> 11:11.480 No wonder these Christians thought of Popes as Antichrists, for what they 11:11.480 --> 11:17.160 suffered was far worse than Roman emperors meted out to the early Christians, 11:17.620 --> 11:22.600 and seemed so much like the persecution under Antichrist prophesied in Revelation 11:22.600 --> 11:23.680 chapter 13. 11:25.340 --> 11:32.700 In 1838, George Stanley Faber wrote an inquiry into the history and theology of 11:32.700 --> 11:35.120 the ancient Valdois and Albigensians. 11:35.400 --> 11:44.260 Nearly 200 years earlier, in 1648, Samuel Moreland had published his History 11:44.260 --> 11:49.120 of the Evangelical Churches in Piedmont, an area in France populated by the 11:49.120 --> 11:51.700 Albigensians and other so-called heretics. 11:51.700 --> 11:58.980 The investigation of both of these authors drew on a number of other good works going 11:58.980 --> 12:00.980 back into the 13th century. 12:02.200 --> 12:07.700 From written and public testimony at their trials, it is quite clear that the 12:07.700 --> 12:14.680 Valdois, the Albigensians, the Waldenses and other similar groups were heretics to 12:14.680 --> 12:16.040 Rome only. 12:16.960 --> 12:21.740 In fact, their beliefs were much like those of the Protestant Reformers of whom 12:21.740 --> 12:24.980 they were, in a sense, the forerunners. 12:26.240 --> 12:33.200 Martin Luther acknowledged his debt to them when he wrote, We are not the first 12:33.200 --> 12:39.120 to declare the papacy to be the kingdom of Antichrist, since for many years before us 12:39.120 --> 12:44.800 so many and such great men, whose number is large and whose memory is eternal, 12:45.420 --> 12:50.240 have undertaken to express the same thing so clearly and plainly. 12:53.920 --> 13:00.940 The papacy has been known as the Antichrist by God's true people since its 13:00.940 --> 13:01.880 very beginning. 13:03.320 --> 13:06.220 Now Dave Hunt is going to talk about the Mennonites. 13:07.220 --> 13:12.800 One of the worst heresies in Rome's eyes was to reject infant baptism. 13:13.620 --> 13:21.360 That ritual supposedly removed the stain of original sin, made the infant a child 13:21.360 --> 13:26.160 of God and a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and started the process of 13:26.160 --> 13:32.420 salvation, according to the Roman Catholic Church, a process which consisted in 13:32.420 --> 13:36.760 obeying Rome's ordinances and participating in her sacraments. 13:37.720 --> 13:42.680 Those who managed to find a copy of the Bible, which Rome did her best to keep 13:42.680 --> 13:47.020 from the people, discovered that it contradicted Rome's doctrines. 13:48.160 --> 13:52.940 Salvation came not through baptism, but by faith in Christ. 13:54.300 --> 13:59.100 Baptism was for those who believed in Him as their personal Savior. 14:00.200 --> 14:03.320 No infant was capable of such understanding and faith. 14:04.260 --> 14:09.700 Those who believed the gospel they found in the Bible wanted to be baptized as 14:09.700 --> 14:10.380 believers. 14:11.620 --> 14:17.940 The Dutch Roman Catholic priest Menno Simons relates his own confusion before he 14:17.940 --> 14:18.920 became a Christian. 14:19.760 --> 14:30.600 On March 20, 1531, a certain tailor by the name of Siegfried Schneider was executed 14:30.600 --> 14:36.520 in Leewarden for the strange reason that he had been baptized a second time. 14:37.580 --> 14:43.520 Quote, it sounded strange to my ears, said Menno, that a second baptism was 14:43.520 --> 14:44.200 spoken of. 14:45.520 --> 14:51.360 It continues with a quote, it says, It seems still more strange that Menno 14:51.360 --> 14:58.180 learned that Frerichs was a pious, God-fearing man who did not believe the 14:58.180 --> 15:06.680 scriptures taught that infants should be baptized, but rather that baptism should 15:06.680 --> 15:10.820 be administered only to adults upon confession of a personal faith. 15:11.180 --> 15:11.660 Unquote. 15:13.240 --> 15:17.000 Many of the growing numbers of Protestants, such as Lutherans, 15:17.160 --> 15:23.200 continued to baptize infants and do so today, one of several elements of Roman 15:23.200 --> 15:27.700 Catholicism from which many Reformers were unable to shake free. 15:29.040 --> 15:34.120 Thus Protestants too began to persecute and in some cases even to execute those 15:34.120 --> 15:36.840 who had been baptized a second time. 15:37.640 --> 15:42.060 These so-called heretics came to be known as Anabaptists. 15:42.960 --> 15:47.620 The Catholic Inquisition in Holland, where most of the Anabaptists were, 15:47.620 --> 15:55.460 burned tens of thousands at the stake for espousing the baptism of adults who had 15:55.460 --> 15:57.660 come to personal faith in Christ. 15:58.920 --> 16:10.880 Those who gave the heretics help or shelter shared their fate. 16:11.630 --> 16:16.240 The largest group of Anabaptists followed the teachings of Menno Simons and became 16:16.240 --> 16:17.540 known as Mennonites. 16:18.300 --> 16:23.960 Menno writes, quote, About 1539, a very pious and God-fearing man, 16:24.440 --> 16:34.640 Tyard Renders, was apprehended in the place where I sojourned for the reason 16:34.640 --> 16:40.800 that he had received me, a homeless man, out of compassion and love, into his 16:40.800 --> 16:42.460 house, although in secret. 16:45.060 --> 16:50.660 Although in secret he was, after a free confession of his faith in Christ alone, 16:51.820 --> 16:57.600 broken on the wheel and executed as a valiant soldier of Christ, according to 16:57.600 --> 17:02.860 the example of his Lord, although he had the testimony even of his enemies, 17:03.280 --> 17:06.240 that he was an unblameable and pious man. 17:06.760 --> 17:07.240 Unquote. 17:08.620 --> 17:15.120 The stories of martyrs who, because they placed their faith in Christ alone and 17:15.120 --> 17:21.360 were devoted to him alone, were tortured and slain, many in the flames, 17:22.060 --> 17:26.180 present a picture when its pathos and tragedy is almost unbelievable. 17:27.280 --> 17:32.280 We learn both of the terror they faced bravely at the hands of those who claimed 17:32.280 --> 17:38.260 to be serving Christ and of their faith from letters they wrote while awaiting 17:38.260 --> 17:38.980 execution. 17:40.200 --> 17:46.940 Consider this brief excerpt from a letter that Hans van Munstorp wrote to his wife 17:46.940 --> 17:49.420 when they were both in prison in Antwerp. 17:49.420 --> 17:50.120 Quote. 17:50.980 --> 17:55.320 An affectionate greeting to you, my beloved wife, whom I love from the 17:55.320 --> 18:01.260 heart and must now forsake the truth for which we must count all things lost and 18:01.260 --> 18:02.720 love him above all. 18:03.440 --> 18:07.920 My mind is still unwaveringly fixed and adhered to the eternal truth. 18:08.620 --> 18:13.580 I hope by the grace of the Lord that this is also the purpose of your mind, 18:13.960 --> 18:16.260 which I would be rejoiced to hear. 18:17.100 --> 18:23.340 I herewith exhort you, my beloved lamb, with the apostle, quote. 18:23.920 --> 18:30.080 As you have received Jesus Christ, the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built 18:30.080 --> 18:36.240 up in him and established in the faith and suffer yourself not to be moved from your 18:36.240 --> 18:36.820 purpose. 18:37.220 --> 18:37.780 Unquote. 18:38.640 --> 18:47.580 On September 19, 1573, after her husband's death and after she had in prison given 18:47.580 --> 18:53.740 birth, Janneken Munstorp wrote a farewell letter to her baby daughter. 18:54.680 --> 19:00.300 It was a lengthy exhortation to live for Christ, filled with scripture references 19:00.300 --> 19:05.160 and teaching from God's word to guide her child as she grew up. 19:05.860 --> 19:11.220 This brief excerpt from that letter reveals a young mother's and martyr's love 19:11.220 --> 19:11.900 and faith. 19:12.560 --> 19:12.920 Quote. 19:14.080 --> 19:19.000 The true love of God and wisdom of the Father strengthen you in virtue, 19:19.160 --> 19:20.040 my dear child. 19:20.560 --> 19:26.440 I commend you to the Almighty, great and terrible God, who only is wise, 19:26.760 --> 19:30.260 that he will keep you and let you grow up in his fear. 19:30.980 --> 19:36.460 You who are yet so young and whom I must leave here in this wicked, evil, 19:36.680 --> 19:37.720 perverse world. 19:38.820 --> 19:44.580 Since you are here deprived of father and mother, I will commend you to the Lord. 19:45.400 --> 19:48.340 Let him do with you according to his holy will. 19:49.540 --> 19:53.780 My dear lamb, I am imprisoned, can help you in no other way. 19:54.480 --> 19:57.200 I had to leave your father for the Lord's sake. 19:57.800 --> 20:01.040 We were apprehended and they took him from me. 20:01.400 --> 20:07.560 And now I have borne you under my heart with great sorrow for nine months and 20:07.560 --> 20:10.360 given birth to you here in prison in great pain. 20:10.860 --> 20:12.520 They have taken you from me. 20:13.400 --> 20:17.260 Since I am now delivered up to death and must leave you here alone. 20:17.940 --> 20:23.560 I must, through these lines, cause you to remember that when you have attained your 20:23.560 --> 20:31.400 understanding, you endeavor to fear God and examine why, for whose name we both 20:31.400 --> 20:34.600 died, and be not ashamed of us. 20:36.020 --> 20:41.340 It is the way which the prophets and the apostles went and the narrow way which 20:41.340 --> 20:50.400 leads into eternal life." Perhaps the greatest tragedy is that these martyrs 20:50.400 --> 20:51.420 have been forgotten. 20:52.820 --> 20:59.360 Or worse yet, their faithfulness to Christ in torture and death is being mocked today 20:59.360 --> 21:07.400 by evangelical leaders who say that the truths for which they gave their lives are 21:07.400 --> 21:08.580 no longer important. 21:09.580 --> 21:15.480 They died to bring the gospel to lost souls because Rome's gospel was sending 21:15.480 --> 21:17.380 multitudes to eternal judgment. 21:18.020 --> 21:23.800 But even though Rome's gospel has not changed, many evangelical leaders today 21:23.800 --> 21:26.940 are saying that Catholics who follow Rome are saved. 21:26.940 --> 21:31.980 And they are now looking upon the Roman Catholic Church, a church that burned 21:31.980 --> 21:37.740 people at the stake for giving out the scriptures, as a partner in evangelizing 21:37.740 --> 21:38.980 the world for Christ. 21:40.000 --> 21:46.420 The martyrs must weep in heaven, not for themselves, but for the lost. 21:47.540 --> 21:52.060 If Christ allows them to know of this uncaring betrayal of the faith for which 21:52.060 --> 21:52.720 they died. 21:53.510 --> 21:56.220 What about the Inquisition today? 21:57.760 --> 22:03.240 The medieval Inquisition had flourished for centuries when Pope Paul III in 1542 22:03.240 --> 22:11.240 gave it permanent status as the first of Rome's sacred congregations, the Holy 22:11.240 --> 22:14.100 Catholic and Apostolic Inquisition. 22:15.120 --> 22:21.460 Known more recently as the Holy Office, its name was changed in 1967 to the 22:21.460 --> 22:25.100 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, otherwise known as the CDF. 22:26.580 --> 22:31.980 Quite appropriate, inasmuch as the public burnings were known as Actos de Fe, 22:32.260 --> 22:34.200 or Acts of Faith. 22:35.060 --> 22:40.640 The persecution, torture, and killing of heretics has never been repudiated by the 22:40.640 --> 22:45.080 Roman Catholic Church, and has continued into modern times, as we shall see. 22:46.580 --> 22:48.860 Rome is faced with a clear choice. 22:49.980 --> 22:55.100 Either her zealous torture and slaughter of so many innocent victims is something 22:55.100 --> 22:59.320 to be proud of, or it is something to be ashamed of. 23:00.080 --> 23:04.780 Of course, Rome will neither repent of its sins nor give up its claim to 23:04.780 --> 23:05.640 infallibility. 23:06.780 --> 23:11.420 Therefore, it is not surprising that the office of the Inquisition still occupies 23:11.420 --> 23:18.260 the palace of the Inquisition adjacent to the Vatican, though under a new name, 23:18.880 --> 23:21.540 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. 23:22.540 --> 23:27.280 Its current Grand Inquisitor, upon the time of the writing of this book at least, 23:28.240 --> 23:33.120 who reports directly to the Pope, is the former Archbishop of Munich, 23:33.880 --> 23:40.640 Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, whom time has called, quote, the world's most powerful 23:40.640 --> 23:45.860 Cardinal and the Catholic Church's chief enforcer of dogma, unquote. 23:46.860 --> 24:02.840 That enforcement may be brutally direct or dealt with a glove hand through another 24:02.840 --> 24:08.760 person, as was the case in late 1993 in the muzzling of Fr. 24:08.940 --> 24:13.480 Joseph Breen by Nashville's Bishop Edward Kamiak. 24:13.480 --> 24:18.940 In a letter to the nation's bishops, Breen, pointing to the vast differences 24:18.940 --> 24:24.880 what is said in Rome and what actually happens, pleaded for optional celibacy. 24:25.760 --> 24:29.720 He was forced to sign a pledge that he would not speak to the media and not 24:29.720 --> 24:31.980 criticize what bishops do. 24:33.240 --> 24:38.480 We'll continue discussing the Inquisition on Inquisition Update right after these 24:38.480 --> 24:38.960 messages. 24:38.960 --> 24:45.820 Hear it first on firstamendmentradio.com and firstamendmentradio.net 25:31.120 --> 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break, you're listening to the second half hour of Inquisition Update on 27:14.790 --> 27:15.850 First Amendment Radio. 27:16.370 --> 27:20.870 If you wish to support Inquisition Update, please do so by supporting First Amendment 27:20.870 --> 27:22.690 Radio, who sponsors the program. 27:23.910 --> 27:29.090 Now, Dave Hunt is telling us about the Inquisition, the Holy Office, as it was 27:29.090 --> 27:33.790 once known, now known as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 27:33.930 --> 27:34.730 the CDF. 27:34.730 --> 27:39.650 At the time of the writing of this book, was headed up by Cardinal Ratzinger, 27:39.910 --> 27:41.990 who later became Pope Benedict XVI. 27:44.130 --> 27:49.050 Talking about this institution, this bloody, this most bloody and heinous, 27:49.270 --> 27:57.190 I will call it what it is, a satanic institution, still in existence today. 27:57.930 --> 28:03.410 And Dave Hunt says, in his lack of understanding, as much as he understood, 28:04.530 --> 28:05.530 he makes an error. 28:05.710 --> 28:12.790 And he says, while it no longer immolates its victims, the Congregation still 28:12.790 --> 28:18.110 attempts to maintain the Vatican's cult-like control over the thinking of its 28:18.110 --> 28:20.170 clergy and the church members. 28:21.890 --> 28:28.910 Dave Hunt tells us that Rome no longer immolates, burns her victims. 28:30.510 --> 28:36.130 But Dave Hunt fails to understand what form the Inquisition exists today. 28:37.130 --> 28:45.110 It exists in the form of the United States military, that does indeed immolate its 28:45.110 --> 28:45.710 victims. 28:46.750 --> 28:56.670 Fiery weapons, launched from God knows where, immolates Rome's victims. 28:59.550 --> 29:05.510 He continues now, he says, for example, on June 9th, 1993, Ratzinger published, 29:05.690 --> 29:10.990 quote, Instructions in Promoting the Doctrine of the Faith, unquote. 29:11.930 --> 29:17.890 The document demands that, quote, Prior permission is required for what is 29:17.890 --> 29:22.450 written by clerics and members of religious institutions for newspapers, 29:23.370 --> 29:29.650 magazines, or periodicals, which are accustomed to attack openly the Catholic 29:29.650 --> 29:31.550 religion or good morals. 29:32.350 --> 29:37.490 The instruction also warns Catholic publishing houses to conform to church 29:37.490 --> 29:38.150 law. 29:38.150 --> 29:44.590 And bishops are obliged to prevent the sale and display in their churches of 29:44.590 --> 29:51.370 publications on religion and morals that lack Roman Catholic Church approval, 29:51.690 --> 29:52.130 unquote. 29:52.730 --> 29:57.150 It is the index of forbidden books all over again. 29:57.850 --> 29:58.850 Rome never changes. 30:00.030 --> 30:07.600 And if she were able, she could stop the publication of books. 30:09.680 --> 30:10.960 Like the Bible. 30:12.440 --> 30:16.560 And I look to that day to come in this country, believe it or not. 30:18.140 --> 30:26.560 One thing is certain, she has flooded the market with false gospels, perverted 30:26.560 --> 30:35.600 translations of the Bible, ecumenical versions of the Bible, which reduce Christ 30:35.600 --> 30:40.260 and his blood to nothing but tokens. 30:42.300 --> 30:45.600 And this country is going to reap the whirlwind. 30:48.560 --> 30:54.740 Now, monumental hypocrisy is the subtitle for this portion and final portion of this 30:54.740 --> 30:55.200 chapter. 30:56.100 --> 31:01.060 Dave Hunt says the Roman Catholic Church has been the greatest persecutor of both 31:01.060 --> 31:04.740 Jews and Christians the world has ever seen. 31:05.540 --> 31:10.580 And has martyred far more Christians than even pagan Rome or Islam. 31:11.800 --> 31:15.400 She has been exceeded only by Mao and Stalin. 31:16.300 --> 31:19.300 But they hardly claim to be acting in Christ's name. 31:20.320 --> 31:27.280 Catholic Rome has no rival among religious institutions in qualifying as the woman 31:27.280 --> 31:31.920 who is, quote, drunk with the blood of the saints and the martyrs of Jesus, 31:32.360 --> 31:32.900 unquote. 31:34.600 --> 31:40.580 Yet Pope John Paul II, in his recent treatise Veritas Splendor, has the 31:40.580 --> 31:46.880 audacity to speak of Catholic saints, quote, who bore witness to and defended 31:46.880 --> 31:50.700 moral truth even to the point of enduring martyrdom, unquote. 31:52.060 --> 31:58.020 What of the millions whom his church massacred because their moral conscience 31:58.020 --> 32:02.120 and understanding of God's word did not coincide with Rome's? 32:03.320 --> 32:08.180 The silence from the Vatican concerning its infamous and innumerable crimes 32:08.180 --> 32:11.220 against God and humanity is deafening. 32:11.220 --> 32:17.900 Even worse is the hypocrisy that allows this murderous woman, the Roman Catholic 32:17.900 --> 32:24.540 Church, to pose as the great teacher and exemplar of obedience to Christ. 32:25.640 --> 32:30.760 Quote, blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, 32:31.340 --> 32:35.500 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, Matthew chapter 5, verse 10. 32:35.500 --> 32:43.080 Thus John Paul II began today's October 10, 1993, solemn mass in honor of the 32:43.080 --> 32:49.760 beatification of 11 Roman Catholic martyrs of the Spanish Civil War and two Italian 32:49.760 --> 32:51.580 religious, unquote. 32:53.120 --> 32:57.380 So reported the influential Catholic magazine Inside the Vatican. 32:58.020 --> 33:05.100 As always, while Catholic martyrs are lauded, there's no admission of and no 33:05.100 --> 33:12.600 apology for the millions, and I will use the term hundreds of millions of 33:12.600 --> 33:17.740 Christians and Jews who have been martyred by the Roman Catholic Church. 33:18.480 --> 33:21.340 The hypocrisy is monumental. 33:22.680 --> 33:28.640 Without a doubt, the Roman Catholic Church is the bloodiest institution on the 33:28.640 --> 33:28.980 planet. 33:28.980 --> 33:36.300 It'll go down in history as the bloodiest institution on the planet, and I fear, 33:37.300 --> 33:45.480 if history is any indication, she will return to her bloody ways right here in 33:45.480 --> 33:50.580 the United States of America, and probably before my life is over. 33:53.100 --> 33:59.720 We already have the example of Waco, which I am absolutely convinced, 34:00.680 --> 34:04.360 absolutely convinced, Rome had everything to do with that. 34:05.560 --> 34:11.740 And it was just a shot over the bow of any so-called religious organization in this 34:11.740 --> 34:18.460 country that departed from the orthodox, ecumenical, mainstream Christian point of 34:18.460 --> 34:19.420 view in this country. 34:20.440 --> 34:25.120 Dare anyone tell the truth about Rome in this country today? 34:27.100 --> 34:32.960 Now, chapter 18 is entitled, Background to the Holocaust, and it begins, as always, 34:33.040 --> 34:34.040 with a couple of quotes. 34:34.200 --> 34:42.120 This one from an article in Kehrersblatt, an organ of the Bavarian Association of 34:42.120 --> 34:48.400 Diocesan Priests honoring Hitler on his 50th birthday, April 20th, 1939. 34:48.400 --> 34:56.920 Quote, God's holy providence has provided that in a decisive hour, Hitler be 34:56.920 --> 35:00.540 entrusted with the leadership of the German people. 35:01.920 --> 35:09.820 And another quote from so-called father, Franjo Kralik, in a Zagreb newspaper, 35:10.340 --> 35:12.860 a Roman Catholic newspaper in 1941. 35:13.200 --> 35:19.140 Quote, the Nazi movement for freeing the world from the Jews is a movement for the 35:19.140 --> 35:21.080 renaissance of human dignity. 35:22.060 --> 35:26.300 The all-wise and almighty God is behind this movement. 35:27.260 --> 35:27.820 Unquote. 35:29.140 --> 35:31.640 Now, some background to the Holocaust. 35:32.820 --> 35:38.720 The approval of Hitler by Catholic prelates, and their statements about 35:38.720 --> 35:42.660 freeing the world from the Jews, seems shocking. 35:43.640 --> 35:48.160 Yet, they only reflect Catholicism's historic treatment of the Jews. 35:49.380 --> 35:54.620 Hitler justified his quote-unquote final solution by pointing out that the Roman 35:54.620 --> 35:57.920 Catholic Church had oppressed and killed Jews for centuries. 35:59.200 --> 36:03.620 How amazing that those who claimed to be the followers of Christ and successors of 36:03.620 --> 36:09.460 Peter could quote, persecute the race from which Peter and Jesus sprang. 36:09.720 --> 36:10.300 Unquote. 36:11.080 --> 36:12.340 Yet, they did it. 36:12.600 --> 36:14.620 And they did it in the name of Christ. 36:15.160 --> 36:16.780 And felt justified thereby. 36:17.360 --> 36:20.580 And I will insert, they still feel justified thereby. 36:23.020 --> 36:27.860 Roman Catholics were taught they had replaced the Jews as God's chosen people. 36:27.980 --> 36:29.580 There's your replacement theology. 36:30.920 --> 36:36.160 A Roman Catholic Church now teaches its people that they have replaced the Jews as 36:36.160 --> 36:37.420 God's chosen people. 36:38.300 --> 36:40.500 Look, who are God's chosen people? 36:41.200 --> 36:42.960 Those whom God chooses. 36:44.400 --> 36:45.020 The elect. 36:46.140 --> 36:48.520 They are Jew and Gentile alike. 36:50.040 --> 36:54.200 But Rome has deceived the whole world as to who are the chosen of God. 36:55.700 --> 36:59.560 It says the land of Israel promised by God to the descendants of Abraham, 36:59.860 --> 37:03.360 Isaac, and Jacob now belong to Christian Rome. 37:04.740 --> 37:06.980 Now belong to the Roman Catholic Church. 37:07.080 --> 37:11.140 That's what their claim was based on their replacement theology. 37:12.200 --> 37:15.260 That Jerusalem now belongs to the Roman Catholic Church. 37:15.360 --> 37:19.500 And now you understand why the Roman Catholic Church led crusade after crusade 37:19.500 --> 37:21.100 to capture Jerusalem. 37:21.100 --> 37:27.480 Which God denied up until 1948. 37:32.650 --> 37:36.690 She became the new Zion. 37:37.630 --> 37:39.390 The eternal city. 37:40.250 --> 37:41.770 The holy city. 37:43.090 --> 37:46.470 Titles which God had given to Jerusalem alone. 37:47.870 --> 37:53.690 Papal armies fought to expand the quote-unquote kingdom of God, unquote. 37:54.570 --> 37:59.650 As a 19th century historian reminds us, quote, the territory under the immediate 37:59.650 --> 38:05.230 dominion of the Pope was enlarged whenever war or treaty could increase it. 38:05.730 --> 38:11.210 And the inhabitants had to pay the utmost taxes they could bear, unquote. 38:13.250 --> 38:18.290 The great reproach upon Christ is the subtitle of this next portion. 38:18.430 --> 38:25.630 He says, those who called themselves vicars of Christ, the Popes, have brought 38:25.630 --> 38:29.830 great reproach upon the name of Christ by their treatment of the Jews. 38:30.750 --> 38:35.250 The latter mistakenly equate Roman Catholicism with Christianity. 38:36.250 --> 38:40.790 The Jews who were persecuted through the centuries by the Roman Catholic Church 38:40.790 --> 38:45.610 didn't realize that there were millions of Christians outside that church. 38:46.550 --> 38:51.790 Christians who did not persecute God's chosen people and were themselves 38:51.790 --> 38:57.990 persecuted and killed by the Roman Catholic Church in far greater numbers 38:57.990 --> 38:59.470 than were the Jews. 39:00.430 --> 39:03.370 That is an utterly true statement. 39:04.570 --> 39:11.530 It says, consider the following indictment of quote, unquote, Christianity from a 39:11.530 --> 39:14.450 scholarly rabbinical treatise on the Holocaust. 39:15.390 --> 39:21.910 Note that Roman Catholicism is critiqued, yet evangelical Christianity, which the 39:21.910 --> 39:25.390 author and his Jewish readers may not even know exists. 39:27.290 --> 39:32.430 This is from the chapter entitled, quote, The Christian Role in the 39:32.430 --> 39:33.590 Holocaust, unquote. 39:34.290 --> 39:36.790 See, this is a critical part of this. 39:38.690 --> 39:47.210 Jews understand that they've been treated, persecuted, slaughtered, imprisoned, 39:47.510 --> 39:55.490 enslaved, immolated by the Roman Catholic Church, and it calls to Christian church. 39:55.870 --> 40:00.790 And they have absolutely no idea that you and I exist. 40:01.470 --> 40:04.690 We're just lumped right in with the Roman Catholic Church. 40:04.690 --> 40:12.870 To them, we're just as guilty of the slain martyrs of the Jews as is the Popes of 40:12.870 --> 40:13.190 Rome. 40:15.450 --> 40:18.950 And nobody offers to straighten out the Jews. 40:19.130 --> 40:20.810 I'm not an enemy of the Jews. 40:20.810 --> 40:28.650 I'm a compassionate representative of Christ, hoping and praying and doing all I 40:28.650 --> 40:36.090 could, doing all I can, to show the Jews that Jesus was their Messiah, that he 40:36.090 --> 40:37.570 still is their Messiah. 40:38.950 --> 40:45.930 But Rome persecuted the Jews, and they've left us to bear the blame for her. 40:47.570 --> 40:50.990 Now, he says, quote, this is from a Jewish rabbi. 40:54.090 --> 40:59.070 He says, without Christianity, and you have to know that he's referring 40:59.070 --> 41:03.290 to all of Christianity, led by the Roman Catholic Church. 41:04.130 --> 41:08.930 He says, without Christianity, the success of Nazism would not have been 41:08.930 --> 41:09.570 possible. 41:10.390 --> 41:15.210 Were it not for the fact that dozens of generations in Europe had been imbued with 41:15.210 --> 41:21.730 religious hatred, the growth of racist hatred towards Jewry in modern times could 41:21.730 --> 41:22.930 not have taken place. 41:24.150 --> 41:28.890 So, all anti-Semitism is blameable upon Christianity. 41:30.570 --> 41:31.250 Total. 41:32.190 --> 41:35.010 When it came from the Roman Catholic Church only. 41:37.270 --> 41:42.290 He says, furthermore, all through the Holocaust, the Vatican refrained from 41:42.290 --> 41:50.010 protesting the murder, and by and large, stood aside, rescuing only a tiny few. 41:51.490 --> 41:56.110 To this day, the Vatican refuses scholars full access to the documents of the 41:56.110 --> 41:56.430 period. 41:57.230 --> 42:01.670 It has been established, however, that the Vatican was among the first in 42:01.670 --> 42:06.810 the world to know about the genocide, and it did nothing to publicize the 42:06.810 --> 42:07.390 information. 42:09.230 --> 42:16.510 It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Pope's inaction indicated tacit 42:16.510 --> 42:17.370 approval. 42:18.310 --> 42:24.870 Even when the Church engaged in isolated rescue activities, the motive seemed to 42:24.870 --> 42:29.850 have been to bring the rescued Jews into the bosom of Christianity. 42:31.450 --> 42:37.010 Thousands of Jewish children were taken into monasteries, and after the war, 42:37.190 --> 42:43.670 many were not returned to their people and faith, even after relatives pleaded for 42:43.670 --> 42:45.570 their release. 42:46.570 --> 42:52.130 With unparalleled cynicism, many Christians still see the Holocaust as a 42:52.130 --> 42:57.690 heavenly punishment for the Jews and their failure to accept Christianity. 43:00.490 --> 43:07.350 The rabbi continues to analyze quote-unquote Christianity as he sees it. 43:08.050 --> 43:10.790 All he knows is Roman Catholicism, remember? 43:11.930 --> 43:17.170 In his attempt to understand the reason for its moral failure in relation to the 43:17.170 --> 43:21.490 Holocaust, his observations and arguments are devastating. 43:21.490 --> 43:27.330 Yet he doesn't know that there are millions of true Christians who would 43:27.330 --> 43:31.270 agree with his critique of the false religion of Rome. 43:32.310 --> 43:38.350 One would think he had never heard of the Protestant Reformation and Protestants who 43:38.350 --> 43:42.850 don't have monks and whose ministers marry. 43:43.850 --> 43:50.210 Quote, the priests of Christianity, now you must know he's talking about Roman 43:50.210 --> 43:56.730 Catholicism, are forbidden to marry, and monks, living lives of 43:56.730 --> 44:01.130 self-affliction, isolate themselves from human society. 44:02.130 --> 44:06.910 The religion is not one which can easily be put into practice. 44:07.990 --> 44:12.230 The notion that it can be leads to incomparable hypocrisy. 44:13.510 --> 44:20.010 Over the years, Christianity, or rather Roman Catholicism, gave rise to a number 44:20.010 --> 44:25.410 of mystic cults, some of which distinguished themselves by their affinity 44:25.410 --> 44:28.970 for the lowest forms of moral abomination. 44:28.970 --> 44:36.470 The Christian, the Roman Catholic process of penance also led to the commission of 44:36.470 --> 44:37.390 grave crimes. 44:38.830 --> 44:43.430 When automatic atonement is offered to those who confess before a priest, 44:44.050 --> 44:47.310 the temptation to sin is greatly increased. 44:48.290 --> 44:53.870 While murder, robbery, and rape were all but unheard of within medieval Jewish 44:53.870 --> 44:59.910 communities, these acts were commonplace within devout Roman Catholic Europe. 45:01.230 --> 45:06.530 The spiritual salvation promised by Christianity found no concrete expression. 45:07.050 --> 45:07.550 Unquote. 45:09.450 --> 45:14.630 That's how the Jews view Christianity. 45:15.530 --> 45:20.630 And you and I are just lumped right in with the reputation that the Roman 45:20.630 --> 45:25.950 Catholic Church has given the name Christianity, when it is not Christianity 45:25.950 --> 45:26.890 at all. 45:28.810 --> 45:35.930 And those who continue to refer to Roman Catholicism as Christianity, spit in the 45:35.930 --> 45:40.150 face of the one they say they, in whom they believe and trust, 45:40.710 --> 45:42.390 and depend on for salvation. 45:45.010 --> 45:52.190 Now, subtitled, Anti-Semitism at Work, Dave Hunt writes, the rabbi's critique of 45:52.190 --> 45:54.170 Catholicism is right on the mark. 45:54.950 --> 45:58.710 The tragedy is that he thinks he is dealing with Christianity. 45:59.790 --> 46:05.650 From the time the popes ruled Rome, the Jews' plight in the name of Jesus 46:05.650 --> 46:13.150 Christ the Jew was far more grievous than it had ever been in the hands of pagan 46:13.150 --> 46:13.730 rulers. 46:15.170 --> 46:18.050 Pagans had blamed every disaster upon Christians. 46:18.490 --> 46:22.590 Now the Roman Catholic Church blamed all on the Jews. 46:23.650 --> 46:31.150 Accused of causing the Black Death, Jews were rounded up and hanged, 46:31.510 --> 46:34.590 burned, and drowned by the thousands in revenge. 46:36.110 --> 46:40.750 A rare pope now and then sought to ameliorate the Jews' situation. 46:41.510 --> 46:46.990 Gregory I, quote, forbade the compulsory conversion of Jews and maintained their 46:46.990 --> 46:50.750 rights of Roman citizenship in lands under his rule. 46:50.750 --> 46:55.770 To the Bishop of Naples, he wrote, quote, do not allow the Jews to be 46:55.770 --> 46:59.110 molested in the performance of their religious services, unquote. 47:00.370 --> 47:06.670 Alexander III was, quote, friendly to Jews and employed one to manage his finances, 47:07.270 --> 47:07.710 unquote. 47:08.150 --> 47:09.170 Now imagine that. 47:09.990 --> 47:13.410 The Jews still manage the finances of the Vatican. 47:13.630 --> 47:18.430 They are called the Rothschilds, the guardians of the papal treasure. 47:19.670 --> 47:25.030 Pope Innocent III, quote, led the Fourth Lateran Council in his demand for a Jewish 47:25.030 --> 47:30.590 badge and laid down the principle that all Jews were doomed to perpetual servitude 47:30.590 --> 47:33.910 because they had crucified Christ, unquote. 47:34.990 --> 47:41.070 Yet, quote, he reiterated papal injunctions against forcible conversions 47:41.070 --> 47:47.330 and added, quote, no Christian shall do the Jews any personal injury or deprive 47:47.330 --> 47:49.490 them of their possessions, close quotes. 47:50.530 --> 47:57.810 Yet he massacred tens of thousands of Christians, this so-called pious pope. 47:58.810 --> 48:05.790 Pope Gregory IX, though the founder of the Inquisition, quote, exempted the Jews from 48:05.790 --> 48:11.990 its operation or jurisdiction except when they tried to Judaize Christians or 48:11.990 --> 48:17.550 attacked Christianity or reverted to Judaism after conversion to Christianity. 48:18.390 --> 48:23.390 In 1235, he issued a bull denouncing mob violence against the Jews. 48:24.690 --> 48:30.610 Innocent IV repudiated the legend of the ritual murder of Christians, of Christian 48:30.610 --> 48:32.010 children by Jews. 48:32.870 --> 48:37.750 And in spite of the above, the general picture was one of persecution of Jews by 48:37.750 --> 48:38.450 the church. 48:39.570 --> 48:43.790 Numerous councils and papal bulls dealt with this issue as the following will 48:43.790 --> 48:50.250 illustrate, quote, The Council of Vienna in 1311 forbade all intercourse between 48:50.250 --> 48:51.570 Christians and Jews. 48:52.670 --> 48:58.350 The Council of Zamora, 1313 AD, ruled that they must be kept in strict 48:58.350 --> 49:00.110 subjection and servitude. 49:01.070 --> 49:09.150 The Council of Basel of 1431-33 renewed canonical decrees forbidding Christians to 49:09.150 --> 49:14.230 associate with Jews and instructed secular authorities to confine the Jews in 49:14.230 --> 49:19.750 separate quarters, compel them to wear a distinguishing badge, and ensure their 49:19.750 --> 49:22.530 attendance at sermons aimed to convert them. 49:23.290 --> 49:29.930 Pope Eugenius IV, who reigned from 1431-1447, added that Jews should be 49:29.930 --> 49:34.670 ineligible for any public office, could not inherit property from 49:34.670 --> 49:40.490 Christians, must build no more synagogues, and must stay in their homes behind closed 49:40.490 --> 49:42.370 doors and windows in Passion Week. 49:43.390 --> 49:46.570 A wise provision against Christian violence. 49:47.570 --> 49:53.670 In a latter bull, Eugenius ordered that any Italian Jew found reading Talmudic 49:53.670 --> 49:57.190 literature should suffer confiscation of his property. 49:58.190 --> 50:06.290 Pope Nicholas V commissioned St. John of Capistrano, 1447, to see to it that every 50:06.290 --> 50:12.010 clause of this repressive legislation should be enforced, and authorized him to 50:12.010 --> 50:16.550 seize the property of any Jewish physician who treated a Christian. 50:18.270 --> 50:23.910 More than 100 anti-Semitic documents were published by the Roman Catholic Church 50:23.910 --> 50:25.990 between the 6th and 20th centuries. 50:27.190 --> 50:29.930 Anti-Semitism became official church doctrine. 50:31.070 --> 50:37.230 The rationale was that quote-unquote Christ crucifiers had no rights in God's 50:37.230 --> 50:37.950 Holy Kingdom. 50:38.470 --> 50:43.370 The land of Israel no longer belonged to the Jews, but to Christians, that is 50:43.370 --> 50:49.150 Catholics, and the Church, that is the Roman Catholic Church, had to wrestle the 50:49.150 --> 50:52.430 land from the possessions of both Arabs and Jews. 50:53.210 --> 50:56.010 Who do you think has possession of Israel today? 50:57.190 --> 50:58.930 The Roman Catholic Church. 51:00.550 --> 51:04.630 The Roman Catholic Church has no comprehension of Bible prophecies 51:04.630 --> 51:10.550 concerning the return of Jews to Israel, and of the Messiah returning to reign from 51:10.550 --> 51:12.050 the throne of his father David. 51:13.290 --> 51:15.870 Rome calls itself the New Jerusalem. 51:16.710 --> 51:21.350 Old Jerusalem and the Jews are no longer part of God's plan according to Rome. 51:21.350 --> 51:27.650 In 1862, La Sevilta Cattolica, the semi-official voice of the Vatican, 51:28.210 --> 51:36.670 echoed a belief held for centuries by declaring, quote, As the Jews were 51:36.670 --> 51:43.310 formerly God's people, so are the Roman Catholics under the New Covenant, 51:43.950 --> 51:44.410 unquote. 51:45.410 --> 51:51.730 It was only natural that such teaching would nurture and sustain anti-Semitism. 51:52.870 --> 51:59.990 And Dave Hunt has just given you a full explanation of why the Jews have been 51:59.990 --> 52:04.550 persecuted in the world, because Rome was in the world. 52:07.860 --> 52:14.960 We need to remember what our Apostle told us about the Jews. 52:14.960 --> 52:21.360 He said he would surrender his own salvation if it would give salvation to 52:21.360 --> 52:22.460 his Jewish brethren. 52:23.680 --> 52:30.280 He said, post not against the branches, that God had pruned them from the vine for 52:30.280 --> 52:35.220 our benefit, that they were only temporarily blinded so that the gospel 52:35.220 --> 52:41.080 would come to the Gentiles, but that God could graft them in again. 52:42.260 --> 52:50.380 We're to pray for the Jews, not submit them to Roman torture. 52:51.720 --> 52:53.540 See you next time. 53:11.660 --> 53:17.020 And you'll receive an MP3 CD weekly 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55:01.560 --> 55:07.260 Visit crosstheborder.org, c-r-o-s-s, crosstheborder.org, to get your print, 55:07.380 --> 55:12.580 e-pub, or pdf version of Nicholas Arthur's new book titled, When the Third Temple is 55:12.580 --> 55:12.920 Built. 55:13.300 --> 55:14.880 That's crosstheborder.org. 55:15.320 --> 55:18.960 When it comes to prophecy today, much of the Evangelical Christian world 55:18.960 --> 55:23.560 has their eyes on Israel, waiting and watching to see when the Third Temple will 55:23.560 --> 55:24.360 begin to be built. 55:24.360 --> 55:26.160 The plans are drawn. 55:26.280 --> 55:27.600 The Jewish people are eager. 55:28.220 --> 55:31.920 Most Evangelical Christians today believe that the rapture will happen before the 55:31.920 --> 55:32.900 Third Temple is built. 55:33.160 --> 55:34.860 Hi, I'm Michael Eugene. 55:35.420 --> 55:38.040 I was taught that Daniel's 70th week was in the future. 55:38.660 --> 55:40.340 Is that really what the Bible teaches? 55:40.960 --> 55:43.900 Have we searched the scriptures and found this to be true? 55:44.600 --> 55:48.240 Why is it so important for a re-established Israel to build a Third 55:48.240 --> 55:49.080 Temple in Jerusalem? 55:49.080 --> 55:54.320 Is it necessary to build a temple on the same location already occupied by the Dome 55:54.320 --> 55:54.800 of the Rock? 55:55.420 --> 55:59.360 Is it necessary for sacrifices to take place in the temple on Temple Mount? 55:59.900 --> 56:03.160 Is there really a rapture followed by seven years of tribulation? 56:03.980 --> 56:05.440 What is the New Testament Temple? 56:06.320 --> 56:08.400 Can we identify history and prophecy? 56:09.460 --> 56:12.180 Who is the first beast in Revelation chapter 13? 56:12.860 --> 56:15.400 Who are the seven kings in Revelation 17? 56:15.400 --> 56:19.760 I have asked all these questions and I have found Nicholas Arthur's new book, 56:20.340 --> 56:24.600 When the Third Temple is Built, answers all these questions and more using 56:24.600 --> 56:26.200 scripture to interpret scripture. 56:26.880 --> 56:30.320 The Bible says that no prophecy of scripture is of any private 56:30.320 --> 56:30.600 interpretation. 56:31.880 --> 56:34.760 Nicholas shows us in his new book, When the Third Temple is Built, 56:35.180 --> 56:39.400 how the Bible interprets prophecy and not man's private interpretation. 56:40.400 --> 56:49.520 Visit crosstheborder.org to get your print, e-pub, or PDF version of Nicholas 56:49.520 --> 56:52.760 Arthur's new book titled, When the Third Temple is Built. 56:53.120 --> 56:54.800 That's crosstheborder.org.