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We're reading and discussing the book, A Woman Rides the Beast, by Dave Hunt,
in a chapter entitled, Blood of the Martyrs.
And yesterday we concluded by reading about the Pilgrim Church, those early
Christians who were not Roman Catholics, but who were relentlessly pursued and
persecuted and executed by the Roman Catholic Church.
We begin on the last full paragraph on page 254.
It says, These non-Roman Catholic Christians had, out of conscience before
God and in obedience to His word, separated themselves from what they
sincerely called, even in that day, the Whore of Babylon, concerning the Roman
Catholic Church.
Now it says, Concerning them, Bishop Alvaro Palaio, an official of the Curia in
Avignon.
I've got some interference coming from somewhere.
I'm not sure.
It must be a hot mic at the studio or something.
There, that's better.
Now, concerning them, these early Christians, Bishop Alvaro Palaio,
an official of the Curia in Avignon, wrote grudgingly, Considering the papal
court has filled the whole church with simony, and the consequent corruption of
religion, it is natural enough that heretics should call the church,
that is the Roman Catholic Church, the Whore.
It's an admission that they were correct in their assessment of the Roman Catholic
Church.
The Whore that rides a scarlet-colored beast, Revelation 17.
That was known even by the earliest Christians.
It says, E.H.
Broadbent calls these Bible-believing Christians, the Pilgrim Church,
in his book of that name.
And now a lengthy quote from that book, it says, In the Alpine valleys of
Piedmont, we're talking about the Albigensians, or rather, excuse me,
the Waldenses, the Valdois, it says, In the Alpine valleys of Piedmont,
there had been for centuries congregations of believers calling themselves brethren,
who came later to be widely known as Waldenses, or Valdois.
In the south of France, the congregation of believers who met apart from the Roman
Catholic Church were numerous and increasing.
They are often called Albigenses and had intimate connections with the brethren,
whether called Waldenses, poor men of lions, Bogomils, or otherwise,
in the surrounding countries where churches spread among the various peoples.
In 1209 A.D., Pope Innocent III proclaimed a crusade against them.
Indulgences such had been given to the Holy Land Crusaders, in other words,
plenary forgiveness of all their sins if they would go on these crusades,
were now offered to all who took part in the easier work of destroying the most
fruitful provinces of France.
This and the prospect of booty and license of every kind, that is, license to commit
debaucheries even with the women and children of these early Christians,
attracted hundreds of thousands of men.
Under the providence of high clerical dignitaries, and led by Simon de Montfort,
a military leader of great ability, the most beautiful and cultivated part of
Europe at that time was ravaged.
That's the history of the Roman Catholic Church, and no wonder they said it was the
whore of Revelation chapter 17.
Now continuing where we left off yesterday, these simple believers were
burned at the stake or slain with the sword, and most of their records were
destroyed when their towns and villages were razed by papal armies.
Catholic apologists falsely accused them of heresies and abominable practices which
they denied.
The accounts we have of their trials reveal that they held beliefs very similar
to evangelicals of today.
Though some of the worst tales are told about the Cathari, one can only agree with
their beliefs as described by Durant.
Quote, they denied that the Roman Catholic Church was the Church of Jesus Christ.
They declared that St. Peter had never come to Rome, had never founded the
papacy, and that the popes were successors to the emperors, not to the apostles.
They taught that Christ had no place to lay his head, but the pope lived in a
palace.
Christ was propertyless and penniless, but Christian, that is, Roman Catholic
prelates were rich.
Surely these lordly archbishops and bishops, these worldly priests,
these fat monks, were the Pharisees of old returned to life.
The Roman Catholic Church, they were sure, was the whore of Babylon.
The clergy were a synagogue of Satan.
The pope was antichrist.
They denounced the preachers of crusades as murderers, laughed at indulgences and
relics.
They called the churches, quote, dens of thieves, unquote, and Catholic
priests seemed to them, quote, traitors, liars, and hypocrites,
unquote.
Now if this truly is the beliefs of the Albigensians, the Waldenses, the Valdois,
then count me among them.
And Rome went so far to destroy these people that they literally depopulated
Italy and France in their pursuit.
Nineteenth-century Roman Catholic author Dupin writes, quote, the pope,
in this case Innocent III, and the prelates were of the opinion that it was
lawful to make use of force to see whether those who were not reclaimed out of a
sense of their salvation might be so by fear of punishment and even of temporal
death, unquote.
Almost everyone knows that crusades were organized of tens of thousands of knights
and foot soldiers to retake Jerusalem from the Muslims.
But very few have ever heard that similar crusades involving huge armies were fought
against Christians who could not in good conscience submit to Rome.
Yet such was the case, beginning with Pope Innocent III.
A major crime of these Christians was believing in freedom of conscience and
freedom of worship.
Biblical concepts which the popes hated for such beliefs would put Rome out of
business.
Though no exact figures are available, the slaughter of these Christians by the
popes probably ran into the millions during the thousand years before the
Protestant Reformation.
In the city of Béziers alone, about 60,000 men, women and children were wiped out in
one crusade.
Pope Innocent III considered the annihilation of these particular heretics,
quote, the crowning achievement of his papacy, unquote.
Broadbent, the historian, writes, quote, when the town of Béziers was
summoned to surrender, the Catholic inhabitants joined with the dissenters in
refusing.
The town was taken, and of the tens of thousands who had taken refuge there,
none were spared alive, unquote.
So Rome even killed the Catholic defenders of these Bible-believing Christians.
Now, in spite of periodic massacres, groups of independent Christians were
growing in numbers long before Martin Luther was born.
They would seemingly be wiped out in one area, only to be found in another.
As Ulrich Zwingli would later state in 1522 in a letter to his brothers,
who were fearful that he would be burned at the stake, quote, O my beloved
brethren, the gospel derives from the blood of Christ this wondrous property,
that the fiercest persecutions, far from arresting its progress,
do but hasten its triumph, unquote.
Rome could not allow independence from her iron grip.
Thus the French Valdois incurred the wrath of Pope Innocent VIII, who reigned from
1484 to 1492, quote, for daring to maintain their own religion in preference
to that of Rome, unquote.
In 1487, the Pope raised a crusade against them in which he promised, quote,
the remission of all sins to anyone who should slay a heretic, unquote,
and ordered any bishop removed who neglected to purge his diocese from
heretics.
No wonder these Christians thought of Popes as Antichrists, for what they
suffered was far worse than Roman emperors meted out to the early Christians,
and seemed so much like the persecution under Antichrist prophesied in Revelation
chapter 13.
In 1838, George Stanley Faber wrote an inquiry into the history and theology of
the ancient Valdois and Albigensians.
Nearly 200 years earlier, in 1648, Samuel Moreland had published his History
of the Evangelical Churches in Piedmont, an area in France populated by the
Albigensians and other so-called heretics.
The investigation of both of these authors drew on a number of other good works going
back into the 13th century.
From written and public testimony at their trials, it is quite clear that the
Valdois, the Albigensians, the Waldenses and other similar groups were heretics to
Rome only.
In fact, their beliefs were much like those of the Protestant Reformers of whom
they were, in a sense, the forerunners.
Martin Luther acknowledged his debt to them when he wrote, We are not the first
to declare the papacy to be the kingdom of Antichrist, since for many years before us
so many and such great men, whose number is large and whose memory is eternal,
have undertaken to express the same thing so clearly and plainly.
The papacy has been known as the Antichrist by God's true people since its
very beginning.
Now Dave Hunt is going to talk about the Mennonites.
One of the worst heresies in Rome's eyes was to reject infant baptism.
That ritual supposedly removed the stain of original sin, made the infant a child
of God and a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and started the process of
salvation, according to the Roman Catholic Church, a process which consisted in
obeying Rome's ordinances and participating in her sacraments.
Those who managed to find a copy of the Bible, which Rome did her best to keep
from the people, discovered that it contradicted Rome's doctrines.
Salvation came not through baptism, but by faith in Christ.
Baptism was for those who believed in Him as their personal Savior.
No infant was capable of such understanding and faith.
Those who believed the gospel they found in the Bible wanted to be baptized as
believers.
The Dutch Roman Catholic priest Menno Simons relates his own confusion before he
became a Christian.
On March 20, 1531, a certain tailor by the name of Siegfried Schneider was executed
in Leewarden for the strange reason that he had been baptized a second time.
Quote, it sounded strange to my ears, said Menno, that a second baptism was
spoken of.
It continues with a quote, it says, It seems still more strange that Menno
learned that Frerichs was a pious, God-fearing man who did not believe the
scriptures taught that infants should be baptized, but rather that baptism should
be administered only to adults upon confession of a personal faith.
Unquote.
Many of the growing numbers of Protestants, such as Lutherans,
continued to baptize infants and do so today, one of several elements of Roman
Catholicism from which many Reformers were unable to shake free.
Thus Protestants too began to persecute and in some cases even to execute those
who had been baptized a second time.
These so-called heretics came to be known as Anabaptists.
The Catholic Inquisition in Holland, where most of the Anabaptists were,
burned tens of thousands at the stake for espousing the baptism of adults who had
come to personal faith in Christ.
Those who gave the heretics help or shelter shared their fate.
The largest group of Anabaptists followed the teachings of Menno Simons and became
known as Mennonites.
Menno writes, quote, About 1539, a very pious and God-fearing man,
Tyard Renders, was apprehended in the place where I sojourned for the reason
that he had received me, a homeless man, out of compassion and love, into his
house, although in secret.
Although in secret he was, after a free confession of his faith in Christ alone,
broken on the wheel and executed as a valiant soldier of Christ, according to
the example of his Lord, although he had the testimony even of his enemies,
that he was an unblameable and pious man.
Unquote.
The stories of martyrs who, because they placed their faith in Christ alone and
were devoted to him alone, were tortured and slain, many in the flames,
present a picture when its pathos and tragedy is almost unbelievable.
We learn both of the terror they faced bravely at the hands of those who claimed
to be serving Christ and of their faith from letters they wrote while awaiting
execution.
Consider this brief excerpt from a letter that Hans van Munstorp wrote to his wife
when they were both in prison in Antwerp.
Quote.
An affectionate greeting to you, my beloved wife, whom I love from the
heart and must now forsake the truth for which we must count all things lost and
love him above all.
My mind is still unwaveringly fixed and adhered to the eternal truth.
I hope by the grace of the Lord that this is also the purpose of your mind,
which I would be rejoiced to hear.
I herewith exhort you, my beloved lamb, with the apostle, quote.
As you have received Jesus Christ, the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built
up in him and established in the faith and suffer yourself not to be moved from your
purpose.
Unquote.
On September 19, 1573, after her husband's death and after she had in prison given
birth, Janneken Munstorp wrote a farewell letter to her baby daughter.
It was a lengthy exhortation to live for Christ, filled with scripture references
and teaching from God's word to guide her child as she grew up.
This brief excerpt from that letter reveals a young mother's and martyr's love
and faith.
Quote.
The true love of God and wisdom of the Father strengthen you in virtue,
my dear child.
I commend you to the Almighty, great and terrible God, who only is wise,
that he will keep you and let you grow up in his fear.
You who are yet so young and whom I must leave here in this wicked, evil,
perverse world.
Since you are here deprived of father and mother, I will commend you to the Lord.
Let him do with you according to his holy will.
My dear lamb, I am imprisoned, can help you in no other way.
I had to leave your father for the Lord's sake.
We were apprehended and they took him from me.
And now I have borne you under my heart with great sorrow for nine months and
given birth to you here in prison in great pain.
They have taken you from me.
Since I am now delivered up to death and must leave you here alone.
I must, through these lines, cause you to remember that when you have attained your
understanding, you endeavor to fear God and examine why, for whose name we both
died, and be not ashamed of us.
It is the way which the prophets and the apostles went and the narrow way which
leads into eternal life." Perhaps the greatest tragedy is that these martyrs
have been forgotten.
Or worse yet, their faithfulness to Christ in torture and death is being mocked today
by evangelical leaders who say that the truths for which they gave their lives are
no longer important.
They died to bring the gospel to lost souls because Rome's gospel was sending
multitudes to eternal judgment.
But even though Rome's gospel has not changed, many evangelical leaders today
are saying that Catholics who follow Rome are saved.
And they are now looking upon the Roman Catholic Church, a church that burned
people at the stake for giving out the scriptures, as a partner in evangelizing
the world for Christ.
The martyrs must weep in heaven, not for themselves, but for the lost.
If Christ allows them to know of this uncaring betrayal of the faith for which
they died.
What about the Inquisition today?
The medieval Inquisition had flourished for centuries when Pope Paul III in 1542
gave it permanent status as the first of Rome's sacred congregations, the Holy
Catholic and Apostolic Inquisition.
Known more recently as the Holy Office, its name was changed in 1967 to the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, otherwise known as the CDF.
Quite appropriate, inasmuch as the public burnings were known as Actos de Fe,
or Acts of Faith.
The persecution, torture, and killing of heretics has never been repudiated by the
Roman Catholic Church, and has continued into modern times, as we shall see.
Rome is faced with a clear choice.
Either her zealous torture and slaughter of so many innocent victims is something
to be proud of, or it is something to be ashamed of.
Of course, Rome will neither repent of its sins nor give up its claim to
infallibility.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the office of the Inquisition still occupies
the palace of the Inquisition adjacent to the Vatican, though under a new name,
the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Its current Grand Inquisitor, upon the time of the writing of this book at least,
who reports directly to the Pope, is the former Archbishop of Munich,
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, whom time has called, quote, the world's most powerful
Cardinal and the Catholic Church's chief enforcer of dogma, unquote.
That enforcement may be brutally direct or dealt with a glove hand through another
person, as was the case in late 1993 in the muzzling of Fr.
Joseph Breen by Nashville's Bishop Edward Kamiak.
In a letter to the nation's bishops, Breen, pointing to the vast differences
what is said in Rome and what actually happens, pleaded for optional celibacy.
He was forced to sign a pledge that he would not speak to the media and not
criticize what bishops do.
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Now, Dave Hunt is telling us about the Inquisition, the Holy Office, as it was
once known, now known as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,
the CDF.
At the time of the writing of this book, was headed up by Cardinal Ratzinger,
who later became Pope Benedict XVI.
Talking about this institution, this bloody, this most bloody and heinous,
I will call it what it is, a satanic institution, still in existence today.
And Dave Hunt says, in his lack of understanding, as much as he understood,
he makes an error.
And he says, while it no longer immolates its victims, the Congregation still
attempts to maintain the Vatican's cult-like control over the thinking of its
clergy and the church members.
Dave Hunt tells us that Rome no longer immolates, burns her victims.
But Dave Hunt fails to understand what form the Inquisition exists today.
It exists in the form of the United States military, that does indeed immolate its
victims.
Fiery weapons, launched from God knows where, immolates Rome's victims.
He continues now, he says, for example, on June 9th, 1993, Ratzinger published,
quote, Instructions in Promoting the Doctrine of the Faith, unquote.
The document demands that, quote, Prior permission is required for what is
written by clerics and members of religious institutions for newspapers,
magazines, or periodicals, which are accustomed to attack openly the Catholic
religion or good morals.
The instruction also warns Catholic publishing houses to conform to church
law.
And bishops are obliged to prevent the sale and display in their churches of
publications on religion and morals that lack Roman Catholic Church approval,
unquote.
It is the index of forbidden books all over again.
Rome never changes.
And if she were able, she could stop the publication of books.
Like the Bible.
And I look to that day to come in this country, believe it or not.
One thing is certain, she has flooded the market with false gospels, perverted
translations of the Bible, ecumenical versions of the Bible, which reduce Christ
and his blood to nothing but tokens.
And this country is going to reap the whirlwind.
Now, monumental hypocrisy is the subtitle for this portion and final portion of this
chapter.
Dave Hunt says the Roman Catholic Church has been the greatest persecutor of both
Jews and Christians the world has ever seen.
And has martyred far more Christians than even pagan Rome or Islam.
She has been exceeded only by Mao and Stalin.
But they hardly claim to be acting in Christ's name.
Catholic Rome has no rival among religious institutions in qualifying as the woman
who is, quote, drunk with the blood of the saints and the martyrs of Jesus,
unquote.
Yet Pope John Paul II, in his recent treatise Veritas Splendor, has the
audacity to speak of Catholic saints, quote, who bore witness to and defended
moral truth even to the point of enduring martyrdom, unquote.
What of the millions whom his church massacred because their moral conscience
and understanding of God's word did not coincide with Rome's?
The silence from the Vatican concerning its infamous and innumerable crimes
against God and humanity is deafening.
Even worse is the hypocrisy that allows this murderous woman, the Roman Catholic
Church, to pose as the great teacher and exemplar of obedience to Christ.
Quote, blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, Matthew chapter 5, verse 10.
Thus John Paul II began today's October 10, 1993, solemn mass in honor of the
beatification of 11 Roman Catholic martyrs of the Spanish Civil War and two Italian
religious, unquote.
So reported the influential Catholic magazine Inside the Vatican.
As always, while Catholic martyrs are lauded, there's no admission of and no
apology for the millions, and I will use the term hundreds of millions of
Christians and Jews who have been martyred by the Roman Catholic Church.
The hypocrisy is monumental.
Without a doubt, the Roman Catholic Church is the bloodiest institution on the
planet.
It'll go down in history as the bloodiest institution on the planet, and I fear,
if history is any indication, she will return to her bloody ways right here in
the United States of America, and probably before my life is over.
We already have the example of Waco, which I am absolutely convinced,
absolutely convinced, Rome had everything to do with that.
And it was just a shot over the bow of any so-called religious organization in this
country that departed from the orthodox, ecumenical, mainstream Christian point of
view in this country.
Dare anyone tell the truth about Rome in this country today?
Now, chapter 18 is entitled, Background to the Holocaust, and it begins, as always,
with a couple of quotes.
This one from an article in Kehrersblatt, an organ of the Bavarian Association of
Diocesan Priests honoring Hitler on his 50th birthday, April 20th, 1939.
Quote, God's holy providence has provided that in a decisive hour, Hitler be
entrusted with the leadership of the German people.
And another quote from so-called father, Franjo Kralik, in a Zagreb newspaper,
a Roman Catholic newspaper in 1941.
Quote, the Nazi movement for freeing the world from the Jews is a movement for the
renaissance of human dignity.
The all-wise and almighty God is behind this movement.
Unquote.
Now, some background to the Holocaust.
The approval of Hitler by Catholic prelates, and their statements about
freeing the world from the Jews, seems shocking.
Yet, they only reflect Catholicism's historic treatment of the Jews.
Hitler justified his quote-unquote final solution by pointing out that the Roman
Catholic Church had oppressed and killed Jews for centuries.
How amazing that those who claimed to be the followers of Christ and successors of
Peter could quote, persecute the race from which Peter and Jesus sprang.
Unquote.
Yet, they did it.
And they did it in the name of Christ.
And felt justified thereby.
And I will insert, they still feel justified thereby.
Roman Catholics were taught they had replaced the Jews as God's chosen people.
There's your replacement theology.
A Roman Catholic Church now teaches its people that they have replaced the Jews as
God's chosen people.
Look, who are God's chosen people?
Those whom God chooses.
The elect.
They are Jew and Gentile alike.
But Rome has deceived the whole world as to who are the chosen of God.
It says the land of Israel promised by God to the descendants of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob now belong to Christian Rome.
Now belong to the Roman Catholic Church.
That's what their claim was based on their replacement theology.
That Jerusalem now belongs to the Roman Catholic Church.
And now you understand why the Roman Catholic Church led crusade after crusade
to capture Jerusalem.
Which God denied up until 1948.
She became the new Zion.
The eternal city.
The holy city.
Titles which God had given to Jerusalem alone.
Papal armies fought to expand the quote-unquote kingdom of God, unquote.
As a 19th century historian reminds us, quote, the territory under the immediate
dominion of the Pope was enlarged whenever war or treaty could increase it.
And the inhabitants had to pay the utmost taxes they could bear, unquote.
The great reproach upon Christ is the subtitle of this next portion.
He says, those who called themselves vicars of Christ, the Popes, have brought
great reproach upon the name of Christ by their treatment of the Jews.
The latter mistakenly equate Roman Catholicism with Christianity.
The Jews who were persecuted through the centuries by the Roman Catholic Church
didn't realize that there were millions of Christians outside that church.
Christians who did not persecute God's chosen people and were themselves
persecuted and killed by the Roman Catholic Church in far greater numbers
than were the Jews.
That is an utterly true statement.
It says, consider the following indictment of quote, unquote, Christianity from a
scholarly rabbinical treatise on the Holocaust.
Note that Roman Catholicism is critiqued, yet evangelical Christianity, which the
author and his Jewish readers may not even know exists.
This is from the chapter entitled, quote, The Christian Role in the
Holocaust, unquote.
See, this is a critical part of this.
Jews understand that they've been treated, persecuted, slaughtered, imprisoned,
enslaved, immolated by the Roman Catholic Church, and it calls to Christian church.
And they have absolutely no idea that you and I exist.
We're just lumped right in with the Roman Catholic Church.
To them, we're just as guilty of the slain martyrs of the Jews as is the Popes of
Rome.
And nobody offers to straighten out the Jews.
I'm not an enemy of the Jews.
I'm a compassionate representative of Christ, hoping and praying and doing all I
could, doing all I can, to show the Jews that Jesus was their Messiah, that he
still is their Messiah.
But Rome persecuted the Jews, and they've left us to bear the blame for her.
Now, he says, quote, this is from a Jewish rabbi.
He says, without Christianity, and you have to know that he's referring
to all of Christianity, led by the Roman Catholic Church.
He says, without Christianity, the success of Nazism would not have been
possible.
Were it not for the fact that dozens of generations in Europe had been imbued with
religious hatred, the growth of racist hatred towards Jewry in modern times could
not have taken place.
So, all anti-Semitism is blameable upon Christianity.
Total.
When it came from the Roman Catholic Church only.
He says, furthermore, all through the Holocaust, the Vatican refrained from
protesting the murder, and by and large, stood aside, rescuing only a tiny few.
To this day, the Vatican refuses scholars full access to the documents of the
period.
It has been established, however, that the Vatican was among the first in
the world to know about the genocide, and it did nothing to publicize the
information.
It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Pope's inaction indicated tacit
approval.
Even when the Church engaged in isolated rescue activities, the motive seemed to
have been to bring the rescued Jews into the bosom of Christianity.
Thousands of Jewish children were taken into monasteries, and after the war,
many were not returned to their people and faith, even after relatives pleaded for
their release.
With unparalleled cynicism, many Christians still see the Holocaust as a
heavenly punishment for the Jews and their failure to accept Christianity.
The rabbi continues to analyze quote-unquote Christianity as he sees it.
All he knows is Roman Catholicism, remember?
In his attempt to understand the reason for its moral failure in relation to the
Holocaust, his observations and arguments are devastating.
Yet he doesn't know that there are millions of true Christians who would
agree with his critique of the false religion of Rome.
One would think he had never heard of the Protestant Reformation and Protestants who
don't have monks and whose ministers marry.
Quote, the priests of Christianity, now you must know he's talking about Roman
Catholicism, are forbidden to marry, and monks, living lives of
self-affliction, isolate themselves from human society.
The religion is not one which can easily be put into practice.
The notion that it can be leads to incomparable hypocrisy.
Over the years, Christianity, or rather Roman Catholicism, gave rise to a number
of mystic cults, some of which distinguished themselves by their affinity
for the lowest forms of moral abomination.
The Christian, the Roman Catholic process of penance also led to the commission of
grave crimes.
When automatic atonement is offered to those who confess before a priest,
the temptation to sin is greatly increased.
While murder, robbery, and rape were all but unheard of within medieval Jewish
communities, these acts were commonplace within devout Roman Catholic Europe.
The spiritual salvation promised by Christianity found no concrete expression.
Unquote.
That's how the Jews view Christianity.
And you and I are just lumped right in with the reputation that the Roman
Catholic Church has given the name Christianity, when it is not Christianity
at all.
And those who continue to refer to Roman Catholicism as Christianity, spit in the
face of the one they say they, in whom they believe and trust,
and depend on for salvation.
Now, subtitled, Anti-Semitism at Work, Dave Hunt writes, the rabbi's critique of
Catholicism is right on the mark.
The tragedy is that he thinks he is dealing with Christianity.
From the time the popes ruled Rome, the Jews' plight in the name of Jesus
Christ the Jew was far more grievous than it had ever been in the hands of pagan
rulers.
Pagans had blamed every disaster upon Christians.
Now the Roman Catholic Church blamed all on the Jews.
Accused of causing the Black Death, Jews were rounded up and hanged,
burned, and drowned by the thousands in revenge.
A rare pope now and then sought to ameliorate the Jews' situation.
Gregory I, quote, forbade the compulsory conversion of Jews and maintained their
rights of Roman citizenship in lands under his rule.
To the Bishop of Naples, he wrote, quote, do not allow the Jews to be
molested in the performance of their religious services, unquote.
Alexander III was, quote, friendly to Jews and employed one to manage his finances,
unquote.
Now imagine that.
The Jews still manage the finances of the Vatican.
They are called the Rothschilds, the guardians of the papal treasure.
Pope Innocent III, quote, led the Fourth Lateran Council in his demand for a Jewish
badge and laid down the principle that all Jews were doomed to perpetual servitude
because they had crucified Christ, unquote.
Yet, quote, he reiterated papal injunctions against forcible conversions
and added, quote, no Christian shall do the Jews any personal injury or deprive
them of their possessions, close quotes.
Yet he massacred tens of thousands of Christians, this so-called pious pope.
Pope Gregory IX, though the founder of the Inquisition, quote, exempted the Jews from
its operation or jurisdiction except when they tried to Judaize Christians or
attacked Christianity or reverted to Judaism after conversion to Christianity.
In 1235, he issued a bull denouncing mob violence against the Jews.
Innocent IV repudiated the legend of the ritual murder of Christians, of Christian
children by Jews.
And in spite of the above, the general picture was one of persecution of Jews by
the church.
Numerous councils and papal bulls dealt with this issue as the following will
illustrate, quote, The Council of Vienna in 1311 forbade all intercourse between
Christians and Jews.
The Council of Zamora, 1313 AD, ruled that they must be kept in strict
subjection and servitude.
The Council of Basel of 1431-33 renewed canonical decrees forbidding Christians to
associate with Jews and instructed secular authorities to confine the Jews in
separate quarters, compel them to wear a distinguishing badge, and ensure their
attendance at sermons aimed to convert them.
Pope Eugenius IV, who reigned from 1431-1447, added that Jews should be
ineligible for any public office, could not inherit property from
Christians, must build no more synagogues, and must stay in their homes behind closed
doors and windows in Passion Week.
A wise provision against Christian violence.
In a latter bull, Eugenius ordered that any Italian Jew found reading Talmudic
literature should suffer confiscation of his property.
Pope Nicholas V commissioned St. John of Capistrano, 1447, to see to it that every
clause of this repressive legislation should be enforced, and authorized him to
seize the property of any Jewish physician who treated a Christian.
More than 100 anti-Semitic documents were published by the Roman Catholic Church
between the 6th and 20th centuries.
Anti-Semitism became official church doctrine.
The rationale was that quote-unquote Christ crucifiers had no rights in God's
Holy Kingdom.
The land of Israel no longer belonged to the Jews, but to Christians, that is
Catholics, and the Church, that is the Roman Catholic Church, had to wrestle the
land from the possessions of both Arabs and Jews.
Who do you think has possession of Israel today?
The Roman Catholic Church.
The Roman Catholic Church has no comprehension of Bible prophecies
concerning the return of Jews to Israel, and of the Messiah returning to reign from
the throne of his father David.
Rome calls itself the New Jerusalem.
Old Jerusalem and the Jews are no longer part of God's plan according to Rome.
In 1862, La Sevilta Cattolica, the semi-official voice of the Vatican,
echoed a belief held for centuries by declaring, quote, As the Jews were
formerly God's people, so are the Roman Catholics under the New Covenant,
unquote.
It was only natural that such teaching would nurture and sustain anti-Semitism.
And Dave Hunt has just given you a full explanation of why the Jews have been
persecuted in the world, because Rome was in the world.
We need to remember what our Apostle told us about the Jews.
He said he would surrender his own salvation if it would give salvation to
his Jewish brethren.
He said, post not against the branches, that God had pruned them from the vine for
our benefit, that they were only temporarily blinded so that the gospel
would come to the Gentiles, but that God could graft them in again.
We're to pray for the Jews, not submit them to Roman torture.
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