Hearing the Truth Radio Welcome all who want to know the truth of God and the
Bible.
I'm Mike Ward with D.S.
Farris and the message today is the Counter-Reformation.
D.S., in a prior study, we've seen that the Jesuit Order developed the futurist
system of prophetic interpretation.
This was definitely one of the aspects of the Counter-Reformation.
I think it's imperative that we know more about the Jesuits and more about the
Counter-Reformation.
We should know more about this history.
This indispensable information will clarify Rome's intentions for the world.
As you well know, the Protestant Reformation was the most powerful
ideological force to ever come against Romanism.
The Protestants said the Bible, not tradition, is supreme.
The Protestants also said the Pope and his kingdom constitute the Antichrist.
With these two views alone, the papacy was destined for complete ruination.
The papacy felt the pressure of Protestantism.
We must ask, what was the Catholic Church's solution against Protestantism?
The Counter-Reformation, headed by the Jesuits, was that solution against the
Protestant Reformation.
The first part of the Counter-Reformation was the formal recognition of the Jesuits.
We must ask, what is the Jesuit Order?
The Jesuit Order is a society of men who dedicate themselves to the protection and
advancement of the Catholic Church.
The Jesuits have long been known to be the soldiers of the papacy.
The most potent force ever to come against Protestantism was and is the Jesuit Order.
Ignatius Loyola, or Don Inigo Lopez de Loyola, between 1491-1556, was the founder
of this society.
History shows that in 1537, Loyola and his companions developed the ambition to
protect the Catholic Church from all enemies.
In 1540, Pope Paul III issued a bull that, quote, directed those who enrolled in this
army to bear the standard of the cross, to wield the arms of God, to serve the
only Lord, and the Roman pontiff, his vicar on earth, end of quote,
says Wiley.
In the History of Protestantism, Volume 2, page 386.
In other words, in 1540, the Pope acknowledged the army of the Jesuits as a
society whose purpose would be to protect the Catholic Church.
Yes, now let's talk more about the purpose of this organization in the days of its
inception.
What was the purpose of Ignatius Loyola's new society?
The purpose of the Jesuit Order was to recapture all the ground lost to
Protestantism.
It was the studied aim of the Jesuits to become the masters of the world,
to bring all men into submission and subservience to the Roman Catholic Church.
From the beginning, the purpose of the Jesuit Order was to overthrow
Protestantism, and their ultimate goal was to become the masters of the world.
Dr. Froome gives an excellent summary of the worldwide Jesuit expansion.
He says, from 1540, then, the Counter-Reformation may be dated.
Within 50 years, the Jesuits had planted stations in Peru, Africa, the islands of
the East Indies, Hindustan, Japan, and China, and before long in the Canadian
forests and the American colonies.
Their members secured important chairs in universities.
They became counselors and confessors to monarchs, and were the most able of all
Catholic preachers.
By 1615, they had a membership of 13,000.
Thus, through the Jesuits, the Counter-Reformation, next to the
Protestant Reformation itself, became the most memorable movement in the
history of modern times.
And that comes from Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, Volume 2, page 464.
You want to talk about men of dedication.
The Jesuits achieved a lot of power.
Yes, and how did the Jesuits achieve such power?
A modern-day Jesuit, Malachi Martin, tells us, he says, There was no continent
Jesuits did not reach, no known language they did not speak and study, or in scores
of cases develop, no culture they did not penetrate, no branch of learning and
science they did not explore, no work in humanism and the arts and popular
education they did not undertake and do better than anyone else.
And this comes from the Jesuits.
The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church, page 27.
Now, having demonstrated that the first step of the Counter-Reformation was the
recognition of the Jesuit order, we can now move on to step 2.
The second step of the Counter-Reformation against Protestantism was the Council of
Trent.
What was the most important foundation of Protestantism?
The most important foundation of Protestantism was the Bible.
Dr. Froome tells us that the discussions in the Council of Trent focused on
Luther's positions.
What were Luther's positions?
1.
That Holy Scripture contains all things necessary to salvation, and that it is
sacrilege to place tradition on a level with the Scriptures.
2.
That certain books, accepted as canonical in the Latin Vulgate, are apocryphal and
not canonical.
3.
That the meaning of Scripture is plain, and can be understood without churchly
commentary, by aid of the Holy Spirit.
And this comes from Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, Volume 2, page 474.
Well, I completely agree with those three positions of Protestantism.
So do I, but the Catholic Church does not agree with those positions.
In the fourth session of the Council of Trent, the attitude of the papacy towards
the Word of God becomes apparent.
Dowling tells us, In this session, a decree was passed, which placed
tradition upon an equality with the Scriptures, declared the books of the
Apocrypha to be part of the Word of God, elevated the Latin translation of the
Scriptures, called the Vulgate, to an authority superior to that of the
inspired Hebrew and Greek originals, and enacted severe penal laws against the
liberty of the press.
And that comes from History of Romanism, page 479.
Note this clearly.
At the Council of Trent, tradition was placed on an equality with Scripture,
and the Apocrypha was considered canonical.
This was important for Rome, because so much of their religion is based on
tradition and extra-biblical sources.
Now, in the following, Dowling cites the words of the Council of Trent.
He says, The Sacred, Holy, Ecumenical, and General Council of Trent lawfully
assembled in the Holy Spirit the three before-mentioned legates of the Apostolic
See presiding therein, having constantly in view the removal of error and the
preservation of the purity of the Gospel in the Church, which Gospel promised
before by the Prophets in the Sacred Scriptures was first orally published by
our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who afterwards commanded it to be preached
by His Apostles to every creature as the source of all saving truth and discipline.
And perceiving that this truth and discipline are contained, now watch this
closely, are contained both in written books and unwritten traditions.
And this is cited in History of Romanism, page 479.
Alright, D.S., what are the unwritten traditions of the Catholic Church?
I will let J.A.
Wiley answer your question.
He says, We may state that the traditions which the Church of Rome has thus placed
on a level with the Bible are the supposed sayings of Christ and the Apostles handed
down by tradition.
Of course no proof exists that such things were ever spoken by those to whom they are
imputed.
What?
They were never known or heard of till the monks of the Middle Ages gave them to the
world.
And this comes from the papacy, History, Dogmas, Genius and Prospects,
book 2, page 171.
In other words, there are supposed sayings of Christ and the Apostles that have been
handed down generation after generation.
And these so-called traditions have been kept intact by Rome.
Does the papacy really expect me to believe that supposed sayings of Christ
and the Apostles were really handed down to the monks of the earlier centuries?
This is even more ridiculous than using the extra-biblical books of junk like the
secrets of Enoch and Baruch.
In actuality, this operation reminds me a lot of the Jews in the day of Christ who
used the oral traditions of the Talmud.
We know that the Talmud was the supposed sayings of Moses, and this book oftentimes
replaced the teachings of the real Hebrew Bible.
This is exactly why in Matthew 15, 6-9, Jesus said, Thus you have made the
commandments of God of no effect by your tradition.
Hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying, These people draw near to me
with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
And in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.
That's exactly right.
Martin Chemnitz, between 1522-1586, also made that same connection.
For he tells us, The Talmudists embellished their fictions by pretending
that Moses on Mount Sinai received from God not only what he wrote, but also a
mystical and secret exposition of the law, which he neither wrote nor had written,
but handed down orally, and recommended that it be delivered to posterity from
hand to hand.
And they say that both are the word of God, to be received and respected with
equal reverence and devotion.
And if the Talmud had not been written beforehand, I would surely have thought
that the rabbis had taken this theory over from the papists, and had accommodated it
to their traditions.
For so great is the similarity that there can be no doubt that both the fictions of
the Talmudists and of the papists concerning traditions have one and the
same architect and maker, namely him who sows and mixes tares with the good seed.
And this comes from the examination of the Council of Trent, concerning Holy
Scripture, section 3, paragraph 5, page 67.
Wow, the papacy doesn't just borrow from paganism, they borrow the errors of all
religious systems.
Yes, I guarantee that those behind the Council of Trent never had any intention
of supporting God's holy word.
Their intentions were to exalt traditions far above the Bible.
Yes, that is the case.
It is important to realize that the Roman Church, though pretending to honor the
Scriptures and the Council, in reality was debasing the Scriptures and seeking every
way to discredit their meaning in the hope that they would be justified in the
condemnation of Protestantism.
It was simple destructive logic on the part of the papacy at the Council of
Trent.
Protestantism was basing their beliefs on the Scriptures, so the papacy had to
discredit the source.
Now, in addition to the papal system of unwritten traditions, which undermine the
Bible, the Council of Trent even went so far as to canonize the apocryphal books.
Why did the Council do this?
The papacy had to find a justification for teachings that contradict the canonical
Scriptures.
So they sought justification in the extra-biblical sources.
No wonder the Jesuits had no problem creating futurism from the Beliar myth of
the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs.
The Council of Trent justified their extra-biblical usage.
That is correct.
And now I will demonstrate a few more doctrines that were created from these
pseudo-books.
The sale of indulgences.
What are the sale of indulgences?
J.
A.
Wiley tells us in the following, Christ suffered more than was required for
the salvation of the elect.
Many of the saints and martyrs likewise have performed more good works than were
requisite for their own salvation.
And these, to which it is not uncommon to add the merits of the virgin, have been
all thrown into a common fund, which has been entrusted to the keeping of
the Church.
Of this treasury the Pope keeps the key, and whoever feels that his merits are not
enough to carry him to heaven, has only to apply at this ghostly depot,
where he may buy for a reasonable sum, whatever he needs to supplement his
deficiencies.
And this comes from the papacy, History, Dogmas, Genius and Prospects,
Book 2, pages 333 and 334.
Now for emphasis, what is the sale of indulgences?
Notice again the words of Wiley on page 334, where he says, In this market which
Rome has opened for the sale of spiritual wares, money is not less indispensable
than it is in the emporiums of earthly and perishable merchandise.
The price varies, being regulated by the same laws which govern the price of
earthly commodities.
To cover a crime of great magnitude, a larger amount of merit is of course
required.
And for that it is but reasonable that a larger sum should be given.
DS, do you realize how serious this is?
Absolutely.
The Roman Catholic Church made salvation and redemption a thing to be purchased
with money under the Pope's blessing.
And that's not all.
They've even went so far as to say that the righteousness of the saints,
the martyrs and the Virgin Mary can be transferred to a person for the purpose of
salvation.
Does this not say that Christ's blood is not good enough to save?
These workers of iniquity are actually teaching that we can only be saved so long
as we purchase with money the righteousness of other human beings and
not Christ.
Oh yeah, it's amazing the kind of salvific fiction that was created from these books
of junk, as you say, Mike.
Yeah, that's what they are.
Now here are some more examples.
According to 2 Maccabees 12, 44-46, we should pray for the dead.
We read in the following.
For if he were not expecting the fallen to rise again, it would have been useless and
foolish to pray for them in death.
But if he did this with a view to the splendid reward that awaits those who had
gone to rest in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought.
Thus he made atonement for the dead, that they might be freed from this sin.
According to Tobit 6, 7-9, we should make incantations.
We read in the following.
Afterward they traveled on together till they were near Midian.
The boy asked the angel this question.
Brother Azariah, what medical value is there in the fish's heart, liver,
and gall?
He answered.
As regards the fish's heart and liver, if you burn them so that smoke surrounds a
man or a woman who is afflicted by a demon or evil spirit, the affliction will leave
him completely, and no demons will ever return to him again.
And as for the gall, if you rub it on the eyes of a man who has cataracts,
blowing into his eyes right on the cataracts, his sight will be restored.
Let's try that.
D.S., what are incantations?
Incantations are a ritualistic form of reciting charms and spells, the purpose
being to gain some magical effect.
This is witchcraft stemming back to the mystical aspects of paganism.
In the papacy, the praying over the dead is accompanied with incantations.
So it is apparent why 2 Maccabees and Tobit would have been so important to the
Catholic Church during the Council of Trent.
Alright, what about the concept of purgatory?
Now I wouldn't be surprised if this idea also stemmed from the extra-biblical
sources.
Let's find out.
Wiley tells us that the papacy believes in four levels of the afterlife.
He tells us in the following.
Papists have mapped out the other world into four grand divisions.
The lowest is Hell, the region of the damned.
There are the ever-burning fires.
There are Lutherans and all other Protestant heretics.
And in fine, there are all who have died beyond the pale of the Roman Catholic
Church.
The next region in order is Purgatory.
Immediately above Purgatory is Limbus Patrum, where the souls of the saints who
died before our Savior's time were confined till released by Him and carried
with Him to Heaven at His ascension.
The last and remaining region is Limbus Infantum.
To this receptacle, the souls of children dying unbaptized are consigned,
it being a subtle point among the doctors of the Roman Church that such as die
unbaptized are excluded from Heaven.
And this comes from the Papacy, History, Dogmas, Genius and Prospects,
Book 2, page 374.
Now in the same source on pages 347 and 348, Wiley explains the concept of
Purgatory.
He tells us, It is filled with the same fires, and is the scene of the same
torments as the region immediately beneath it, but with this important difference,
that those consigned to it remain here only for a while.
It is the doctrine of the Church of Rome that no one enters Heaven immediately on
his departure.
A short purgation amid the fires of Purgatory is indispensable in the case of
all, unless perhaps of those who are protected by a very special and most
plenary indulgence.
In other words, Purgatory is one of the four places that the souls of men go after
death.
Can we find such doctrine in the canonical scriptures?
Not at all.
It is likely that the papal doctrine of four grand divisions is an elaboration
from the Ethiopian Enoch, chapter 22, verses 1-7.
In the Ethiopian Enoch, chapter 22, we read the following, And thence I went
to another place, and he showed me in the west another great and high mountain of
hard rock.
And there was in it four hollow places, deep and wide, and very smooth.
How smooth are the hollow places, and deep and dark to look at!
Then Raphael answered one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me,
These hollow places have been created for this very purpose, that the spirits of the
souls of the dead should assemble therein, yea, that all the souls of the children of
men should assemble here.
And these places have been made to receive them until the day of their judgment,
until their appointed period, till the great judgment comes upon them.
Note this clearly, all these different doctrines, indulgences, praying for the
dead, incantations, purgatory, all these doctrines play a major part in
the papal worship.
Because these doctrines cannot be found from Genesis to Revelation, the Catholic
Church sought to canonize the books with these doctrines.
Thus, the papacy has a justification to continue those things which are not in
harmony with God.
This is so retarded.
I mean, so much of the worthless theology in the Christian world stems from these
extra-biblical sources.
It seems people would rather read junk than God's holy word.
DS, I can guarantee you that if someone wrote some stupid work, and named it the
Epistle of Hot Dog, describing the sanctity of hot dogs, and then buried it
in the ground, eventually someone from Rome would unearth it and declare it
Canonical Scripture.
Yeah, and what's sad is people would believe it was from divine origin so long
as Rome said it came from the Church Fathers.
So let us emphasize, as we look at the second step of the Counter-Reformation,
that the Council of Trent made war on the Bible.
Dalling says,
And that comes from the History of Romanism, page 486.
Not only was the Latin Vulgate elevated to unwarranted exaltation, the apocryphal
writings were placed in this Bible as well.
The Council of Trent declared,
And this is cited in the History of Romanism, page 485.
Note this clearly.
Accursed by who?
By the Catholic Church?
Anyone who does not accept as Scripture the intermingled books of Bull is accursed
by the Catholic Church.
I suppose that they think that the Lord binds their decisions and obeys their
orders as well.
T.S., it's apparent that the leaders of the Council of Trent were not concerned
with reforming themselves, but rather their main concern was creating a
Counter-Reformation against Protestantism and the Bible that Protestants use.
Exactly, Mike, and the objectives of Trent are summarized by Dr. Froome in the
following.
Scripture is made subservient to tradition through insistence that it be understood
only in the light of the tradition of the Church, specifically the unanimous
teaching of the Fathers.
The Latin Vulgate was declared the one authentic version, with the intermingled
apocryphal books as Canonical.
The Scriptures were declared not capable of being understood in and of themselves.
Justification by faith, as it was proclaimed by Luther, was condemned.
And no books of religion were to be printed without examination and approval
by the Church.
This comes from Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, Volume 2, page 475.
According to the Council of Trent, no one is allowed to think for himself,
and of course now they don't.
In essence, this Council declared that all men be automatons to papal Rome's
understanding of the Scriptures through the lenses of the Apocrypha, the unwritten
traditions of junk, and the Church Fathers.
That's right, and we should ask, what is the danger of the Council of Trent
for us as Christians today?
Dowling says, in this Council, her doctrines became permanently fixed,
and in its decrees, all her anti-scriptural inventions were embodied.
And that comes from the History of Romanism, page 540.
Froome tells us, the Council of Trent, beginning in 1545 under Paul III,
and ending in 1563 under Pius IV, crystallized its actions into decrees that
became the permanent law of the Catholic Church.
And that comes from Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, Volume 2, page 471.
What is the danger of the Council of Trent for us today?
Its actions and decrees became the permanent law of the Catholic Church.
Which means, the permanent law of Catholicism is that the Bible is still
considered a forbidden book.
And people ultimately have no right to think outside of Rome's control.
Now, I know that many people in America, who are accustomed to the easy life,
have no conception that if Rome had absolute power over this country,
things would change quickly.
Too many today don't study history, and they don't understand the dangers of
Romanism.
But if you, and I'll say this to the audience, if you stick around on these
shows, eventually we are going to cover the present dangers of Romanism.
We are going to spend a considerable amount of time dealing with the present
dangers of Romanism.
And that's coming on future studies.
Now, let's move back to the issue.
Who are the champions of the Council of Trent?
The very council that forms the basis of Catholic belief today?
Who are the champions for taking liberty of conscience away from the world?
Durant tells us the following.
When at last the Church dared to call that general council to which all Europe had so
long looked for, the quieting of its theological strife and the healing of its
religious wounds, it was to a handful of Jesuits, to their learning, loyalty,
discretion, resourcefulness, and eloquence that the Popes entrusted the defense of
their own challenged authority and the undiminished preservation of their ancient
faith.
The unequaled erudition of the Jesuits soon gave them paramount influence in the
debates, and their unbending orthodoxy guided the council to declare war against
Reformation ideas rather than seek conciliation or unity.
And that comes from the Reformation, pages 916 and 928.
The Jesuits were the strong arm of the Council of Trent.
They were the champions for the abolishment of people's right to think for
themselves.
Very true.
And now, what are we stuck with?
People who don't think for themselves.
Yes, and the Jesuits were also the champions, as we are going to see,
of much more.
Now, the third part of the Counter-Reformation was the development of
counter-prophetic interpretations.
We are going to hold off on this step until further into this study.
For now, we will discuss the fourth and fifth step of the Counter-Reformation,
which was the index and the persecutions that followed.
In 1559, Paul IV published the First Papal Index, in which 48 editions of the Bible
were declared heretical, and 61 printers and publishers were banned from producing
any more Bibles.
Durant tells us, In Rome, Bologna, Naples, Milan, Florence, and Venice,
thousands of books were burned.
Ten thousand in Venice in a single day.
And that comes from the Reformation, page 924.
Let us raise the question.
Who was the main weapon against the Scriptures and the Protestants?
The Jesuits were that weapon.
We learn this truth from G.B.
Nicolini, who tells us, Through his, meaning Carapha, through his exertions and
those of Loyola, an edict appeared on the 21st of July, 1542, appointing six
cardinals, commissioners of the Holy See, and general inquisitors, with power to
delegate their authority to any person they pleased.
All ranks of citizens, without exception, were subject to these inquisitors.
Suspected persons were immediately imprisoned, the guilty punished with
death, and their property confiscated.
No book could be printed or sold without the authority of the inquisitor.
This terrible tribunal, in the hands of the relentless and unforgiving Carapha,
spread desolation and dismay throughout Italy.
As sacerdotal ferocity then called to its aid the might of the secular arm,
and thus became all-powerful, death assumed a new and more terrible aspect.
And he who should invent instruments of torture to dislocate the limbs of the
victims, with the most exquisite and excruciating pains possible, would be
rewarded.
Throughout Italy, as in various parts of Europe, you might have seen, whilst the
infernal flames of the pile were ascending, the sinister and diabolical
smile of the Jesuits, who were aiming at the increase of their order, under the
shade of this all-mastering power.
And this comes from History of the Jesuits, their origin, progress,
doctrines, and designs.
Pages 60-62.
So the Jesuits became the power behind the Inquisition, which resulted in the death
of hundreds of thousands of people.
That is correct.
And notice the words of Durant.
When Carapha himself became Paul IV, the institution was set in full motion,
and under his superhuman rigor, the Inquisition acquired such a reputation
that from no other judgment seat on earth were more horrible and fearful sentences
to be expected.
And that comes from the Reformation, page 925.
Who was the strong arm of Paul IV?
The Jesuits were the strong arm.
And the work of the Jesuits did not end with Paul IV.
It must be realized that the Inquisition reached great heights under the work of
the Jesuits.
The slaughter of St. Bartholomew was one of, if not the worst slaughters in
Protestant history.
Between 50,000 to 70,000 Protestants were killed.
Who was behind this diabolical work?
R.
W.
Thompson tells us.
After the admission of the Jesuits into Paris to bring about the terrible massacre
of St. Bartholomew, an event so closely allied with others, of which they were the
undoubted authors, that one must close his eyes not to see the evidence which points
to their agency in that infamous transaction.
And this comes from the footprints of the Jesuits, page 113.
It's without question that the Counter-Reformation was based on the
destruction of Protestantism.
DS, if the Inquisition was responsible for the deaths of thousands and thousands of
Protestants, and if the Jesuits were the ones behind the Inquisition, then there's
no doubt that the Jesuits are clearly the greatest enemy of Protestantism.
That was exactly the view of Nicolini.
It was he who said, I cannot too much impress upon the minds of my readers that
the Jesuits, by their very calling, by the very essence of their institution,
are bound to seek by every means, right or wrong, the destruction of
Protestantism.
This is the condition of their existence, the duty they must fulfill, or cease to be
Jesuits.
They must be considered as the bitterest enemies of the Protestant faith.
And this comes from History of the Jesuits, Preface, pages 3 and 4.
Okay, up to this point you've emphasized that the Counter-Reformation had five
steps, and they are, one, the formal recognition of the Order of the Jesuits,
two, the actions and decree of the Council of Trent, three, the Catholic
counter-system of prophetic interpretations, four, the establishment
of the Index, five, the worldwide spread of persecution.
And I believe that out of all five of these steps, the first and third steps
have been the most destructive.
The Jesuit Order itself makes things a reality for Rome.
If the Jesuits had never come into being, Rome would have withered away,
and next to the existence of Jesuitism, the Jesuit prophetic system have blinded
the minds of Protestantism, so that Romanism can conquer all opposition.
Do you agree?
Oh, I completely agree.
The existence of the Jesuits and their counter-prophetic systems are the most
insidious means of destroying the truth.
The killing of Protestants in the Inquisitions only confirmed to the
Protestants that papal Rome is the Antichrist.
The Jesuits realized that killing should be done through pawns, and they came to
the conclusion that the best way to destroy an idea was with another idea.
Of course, you are referring to the counter-system of prophetic
interpretations.
In the study of Futurism, you elaborated how the Jesuits created Futurism from the
writings of certain church fathers, and of course, how these church fathers
borrowed ideas from extra-biblical writings.
Yes, and in light of our present study today, do you now realize why the Council
of Trent was so important to papal Rome in order to create counter-prophetic systems?
Yep, the Council of Trent justified extra-biblical writings and emphasized
that truth be understood through the church fathers.
The Beliar myth comes from the extra-biblical writings, and certain
church fathers layered this myth on top of the true Bible.
When the Jesuits created their counter-prophetic system, it was okay to
endorse these myths because the Council of Trent declared the extra-biblical writings
to be canonical.
That is absolutely factual.
And I emphasize to the audience that if they want to know the depths of the third
step of the Counter-Reformation, they need to go to our study on Futurism.
In that study, we demonstrate that Futurism is a Jesuit-constructed,
pseudo-pigraphal-based system that was invented to destroy the Protestant
interpretation of prophecy.
Futurism really does not have genuine biblical roots.
Its roots are extra-biblical writings and mythology.
Right.
And in the study of Futurism, the audience can find out the details about how
Futurism was created and from what mythology it came from.
But there is one particular issue that I want to discuss today.
How did the Counter-Reformation ever succeed in infusing the Futurist system
into Protestantism?
The Counter-Reformation, with its Futurist system of prophetic interpretation,
has successfully caused the subversion of much of Protestantism in both Europe and
America.
And how did this happen?
Through the Jesuits.
Many Evangelicals are now teaching Catholic doctrine.
This is the reason Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council between 1962-1965
focused on Ecumenism and called the Evangelicals separate brethren.
It was legal for the papacy to come to this conclusion about much of the
Protestant world because much of the Protestant churches gave up the prophetic
views of the Protestant Reformation.
And they accepted the prophetic doctrines of the Counter-Reformation.
I see.
Well, is it true that the subversion of Protestantism really began to take form in
Britain during the 19th century?
Yes.
History has recorded that in the 1830s, Samuel Raffi Maitland, James H.
Todd, William Berg, and John Henry Newman and others of the Anglican Church were
behind a great wave of Jesuit Futurism that swept through England.
Dr. Froome explains this situation in the following.
He says, But now for the first time, Catholic Futurism, initially projected by
Ribera about 1585, began to obtain a foothold and then gain momentum among
Protestants in Britain.
Thus the same concept that sought to break the force of the Reformation view of the
Papal Antichrist, by assuming a future infidel Antichrist, was again invoked to
weaken the force of the great Evangelical Advent and Prophetic Awakening.
Protestant expositors, some leaning toward Romans, some prompted by rationalistic
concepts, joined hands in the attempt, perhaps unwittingly, to promote the Jesuit
position.
This, moreover, came to be tied inseparably with the Oxford Tractarian
movement of the Anglican Church, wherein 90 tracts were scattered by the
hundreds of thousands to favor Rome and to disprove the Protestant concept of
Antichrist.
And that comes from Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, Volume 3, pages 655 and 656.
Maitland and his companions are the progenitors of the great Oxford Futurist
movement.
Maitland made war on Historicism by putting out a 72-page pamphlet supporting
Futurism.
This pamphlet eventually transformed into 90 tracts that filled English
Protestantism in the thousands.
We should ask the question, who inspired the Oxford Tractarian movement?
Dispensationalists will tell us that the leaders of this movement came to believe
in Dispensational Futurism because they loved the Lord and decided to study their
Bibles.
Well, this is absolute garbage.
I can guarantee that the Oxford movement was a Jesuit project in which the
Counter-Reformation was being implemented into Protestantism for a long-term
purpose.
The Oxford movement definitely was a Jesuit project.
I completely agree with Michael Day Semlin, where he emphasizes that
Tractarianism is the continuance of the Counter-Reformation.
He tells us in the following, the Reformed faith of Anglicans and Free Churchmen had
been eroded over the centuries by the Counter-Reformation and particularly in
the 19th century after the 1833 launch of the Oxford movement in the Anglican Church
by John Henry Newman and the other Tractarians.
And this comes from All Roads Lead to Rome, the Ecumenical Movement,
page 20.
Seems to never be any end to this issue.
The Hermetic Church Fathers are always used to authenticate Catholicism.
Yes, but when we know the ideological sources behind these Church Fathers,
it becomes very easy to expose this elaborate game.
The Jesuits personally deceived the Anglican clergy by taking them back to the
early Church Fathers.
Without a clear understanding of the extra-biblical background in the writings
of the Church Fathers, this is very deceptive.
Oh yes, very deceptive.
The Jesuits took the scheme of Ribera and Bellarmine of going back to the early
Fathers and personally deceived the Anglican clergy.
The whole Anglican Tractarian movement not only adopted Jesuit theology from Trent,
but they also had Jesuits to personally assist them in their conversion.
The fact of the matter is clear.
The whole Oxford movement with its birth of modern-day dispensational futurism was,
from its inception, a movement going back to Rome.
Well, it appears that modern-day dispensational futurism, when it first
came into being, was a movement going back to Rome.
That is exactly the case.
For example, John Henry Newman, like Maitland, was one of the main people
in the Tractarian movement and he held one of the highest positions in Anglicanism.
Did he stay in Anglicanism?
No, he did not.
He converted to Catholicism.
In fact, many Anglicans converted to Catholicism.
A.J.
Scott explains this situation.
He says, Professors Pusey, Newman, Palmer, Keble, and Hook of the University
of Oxford initiated the state of matters through their ogling with Catholicism,
which afterwards got the name Puseyism.
But Vice-Chancellor Newman led the way to the complete passing over to Rome,
and in a short time, no fewer than 867 men of great consideration followed his
example, among whom were some very wealthy peers, with 243 who had hitherto been
Protestant clergymen.
And this comes from the Jesuits, a complete history of their open and
secret proceedings from the foundation of the Order to the present time,
page 720.
Why did Newman, along with many of the Anglican clergy, convert to Catholicism?
They converted because the Jesuits undoubtedly deceived them into thinking
that the Catholic Church, in its prophetic position, resembles the Church closest to
Christ.
The movement of Puseyism, or Tractarianism, was, from its inception,
the scheme of the Jesuits to transform Protestantism back into Catholicism
through subtleties.
Very factually, does Walter Walsh say, much of that in the early history of
Tractarianism was kept a profound secret?
And concerning the leaders of Tractarianism, Walter Walsh continues,
And the lives of these men are now to be read their most confidential
communications, one with the other, in which their love of Popish doctrines
and their desire for corporate reunion with Rome appear in the clearest possible
light.
And this comes from the Secret History of the Oxford Movement, page 184.
It's clear that the purpose of the Tractarian Movement was to gradually
subvert Protestantism until Protestantism as a whole becomes very similar to the
Papacy.
And what was the doctrine of this scheme?
Jesuit Futurism was the doctrine of Tractarianism, which was on its way to
becoming Dispensational Futurism.
Now, prior to the Oxford Movement, a prophetic conference began about 1830 in
Dublin, Ireland, known as Powerscourt Conference.
Nelson Darby was the leader of this conference.
He was purely Dispensational at the beginning of the conference.
He did not have a set prophetic methodology.
But this was soon to change as he was influenced by Edward Irving, who had
accepted the Futurist system of the Jesuits.
Interestingly, Irving already had a form of Dispensationalism prior to his dealing
with Darby.
So Irving already had a form of Dispensational Futurism prior to his
entrance into Powerscourt.
During the duration of Powerscourt Conference, Dispensational Futurism was
being developed into its more modern form.
And let's not forget the work of Maitland, Todd, and Berg, who were developing 90
tracts supporting Futurism.
Is it true that Irving created a Pentecostal Church?
Yes, in 1832, during Powerscourt, he founded the Church called the Holy
Catholic Apostolic Church, also known as the Church of the Irvingites.
This could have been the very prototype of the Dispensational Pentecostal Churches of
today.
It is important to realize that at the Powerscourt Conference, under Darby and
the Plymouth Brethren, Irving's Futurism was confirmed not only by the
Jesuit-inspired tracts of Maitland, but a so-called manifestation of the Holy
Spirit through a so-called gift of tongues took place.
Between the years 1830 through 1832, a 15-year-old Scottish girl by the name of
Margaret MacDonald allegedly spoke in tongues and received revelation that
confirmed the Futurist system.
So, DS, you mean to tell me that somebody speaking in tongues authenticated the
works of the Jesuits, as though someone speaking in tongues over Dispensational
Futurism sanctifies it?
It is apparent that the whole situation with Futurism, from the days of the Beliar
extra-biblical writings up to the Oxford Movement, is an ever-increasing ritual of
stupidity.
Isn't that the most ridiculous thing you ever heard?
Not the most ridiculous.
I'm sure you have more.
Oh, but let me tell you about the cherry that goes on the Dispensational Futurist
pie.
MacDonald had a vision that Christ would come secretly and take his church out of
the world.
Samuel P. Treglas, who participated in the Powerscourt Conference, tells us the
following.
This is the doctrine of the secret coming of Christ, which many now preach as if it
were the acknowledged truth of God.
Not only is this doctrine of the coming of Christ not taught in the word of God,
but if, in what has been previously said, there is any point of truth, then this
whole system stands in distinct contradiction to what the scriptures
reveal.
When the theory of the secret coming of Christ was first brought forward about the
year 1832, it was adopted with eagerness, it suited certain preconceived opinions,
and was accepted by some as that which harmonized contradictory thoughts.
I am not aware that there was any definite teaching that there should be a secret
rapture of the church at a secret coming until this was given forth as an utterance
in Mr. Irving's church, from what was then received as being the voice of the Spirit.
But whether anyone ever asserted such a thing or not, it was from that supposed
revelation that the modern doctrine and the modern phraseology respecting it
arose.
It came not from the Holy Scripture, but from that which falsely pretended to
be the Spirit of God.
And this comes from the hope of Christ's second coming, pages 31 and 32.
In 1832 the cherry was placed on top of the dispensational futurist pie.
This is the year that the concept of the two-faced second coming of Christ was
born.
And this year the following idea was put into effect.
Christ's second coming will be divided into two parts.
The first part will be a secret rapture of the church before the seven-year
tribulation.
The second part will be the glorious return of Christ with the church back to
the earth after the seven years.
Thus the secret rapture concept was made to justify the futurist system.
And people believe this nonsense.
Oh yes.
Yes, a good chunk of the evangelical world believes all this.
They believe in the secret rapture.
They believe in the dispensational futurism.
Ultimately they've been subverted by the Jesuits.
The counter-reformation has been very successful.
Now, before we move on to other issues, can you explain in brevity how futurism
has become successful in America?
George M.
Marston explains this issue.
This new form of pre-millennial teaching imported from England, first spread in
America through prophecy conferences where the Bible was studied intently.
Summer conferences, a newly popular form of vacation in the age of the trains,
were particularly effective.
Most importantly, Dwight L.
Moody had sympathies with the broad outlines of dispensationalism and had his
closest lieutenants, dispensationalist leaders such as Reuben A.
Torrey, James M.
Gray, C.I.
Schofield, William J.
Erdman, A.C.
Dixon, and A.J.
Gordon.
These men were activists, evangelists, who promoted a host of Bible conferences
and other missionary and evangelistic efforts.
They also gave the dispensationalist movement institutional preeminence by
assuming leadership of the new Bible institutes, such as the Moody Bible
Institute, 1886, the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, 1907, and the Philadelphia
College of the Bible, 1914.
The network of related institutes that soon sprang up became the nucleus for much
of the important fundamentalist movement of the 20th century.
And this comes from Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism,
page 40.
Now, out of the people that were just cited as important individuals for
continuing the work of Tractarianism in America, Cyrus Ingersoll Schofield becomes
very important in our analysis.
Between 1859 through 1874, Darby visited America several times.
During this time frame, he managed to inspire Cyrus Ingersoll Schofield.
Schofield made Dispensationalism popular.
Cyrus Schofield was one of the most important figureheads in shaping the
Southern Baptist Church.
And he changed the face of Protestantism in America.
Schofield, after studying with Darby, took Dispensational Futurism and polished
it up even more.
He took out what appeared to be incongruities in the theology.
He then bound this new theology into a Bible called the Schofield Reference
Bible.
Much of Protestantism today has accepted this new theology as being the Word of
God.
And I can guarantee you that the Schofield Reference Bible allowed Dispensational
Futurism to spread throughout America like wildfire.
He has too far many evangelicals today don't realize who was behind the work of
Maitland, Todd, Berg, and the whole Tractarian movement.
The reason that Futurism made its way to Irving and Darby, and later Schofield,
is because it flourished in the Anglican Church.
And the reason Futurism flourished in Anglicanism is for the simple reason that
the Jesuits were personally behind this work.
Today we have a so-called authentication of Jesuit Futurism through the Worldwide
Tongues Movement.
This was prototyped in the Irvingite Church with its Pentecostal authentication
of the private revelation of McDonald, the secret rapture.
From one side down the other, the Jesuits are the architects of modern-day
Dispensational Futurism and its new baptism of Neo-Pentecostalism.
D.S., the General of the Jesuit Order is said to be the most powerful man on Earth.
Yes, and Queensborough reveals this power in the following...
The General has usually stood towards the Pope much as a powerful grand feudatory of
the Middle Ages did towards a weak titular Lord Paramount, or perhaps as the captain
of a splendid host of free champions did towards a potentate with whom he chose to
take temporary and precarious service.
And the shrewd Roman populace have long shown their recognition of this fact by
styling these two great personages severally, the White Pope and the Black
Pope.
In truth, the society has never, from the very first, obeyed the Pope
whenever its will and his happen to run counter to each other.
And that comes from Occult Theocracy, Volume 1, page 311.
Cusack tells us...
In Roman Catholic circles, it is well known that the Black Pope is the term used
for the General of the Jesuits.
As the Pope is always robed in white, and the General in black, the contrast is
obvious.
But those Romanists who do not greatly love the Jesuits, and their number is not
limited, use the term as indicating that the Black Pope rules the White Pope.
And that comes from The Black Pope, A History of the Jesuits, page 14.
Note this clearly...
The Jesuit Malachi Martin agrees that the Jesuit General has great power even in
modern times.
We read...
By this early spring of 1981, for example, John Paul had already felt the effect,
firsthand, of the enormous power that had accursed over centuries to the Father
General of the Society of Jesus.
So great is that power in Rome, and in the world at large, and so widely
is it recognized that whoever holds the office of Jesuit General also holds the
unofficial title of the Black Pope.
And that comes from the Jesuits, page 80.
DS, who carries out the serious espionage of the Jesuit order?
I will answer that question through the following statements from Queenborough.
We read...
There are novices, scholastics, temporal coadjutors, professed of the
three vows, and professed of the four vows.
And that comes from Occult Theocracy, page 308.
Queenborough also emphasizes...
The fourth vow is one of special allegiance to the Pope, promising to go in
obedience to him for missionary purposes, whensoever and whithersoever he may order,
a pledge seriously qualified in practice.
And that comes from Occult Theocracy, page 309.
Now, I would like to draw your attention to the extreme oath of the fourth vow.
This gives us an idea of how serious the Jesuit order is in their purpose.
And I'm going to read the extreme oath of the fourth vow in part.
I, and there's a blank here for the name that goes in.
I, blank, now in the presence of Almighty God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Blessed
Michael the Archangel, Blessed St. John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles,
St. Peter and St. Paul, and all the saints and sacred hosts of heaven, and to you,
my ghostly Father, the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, founded by St.
Ignatius Loyola, in the pontificate of Paul III, and continue to the present,
due by the womb of the Virgin, the Matrix of God, and the Holy Spirit.
I, and the rod of Jesus Christ, declare and swear that His Holiness the
Pope is Christ's Vice-Regent, and is the true and holy head of the Catholic Church.