Welcome to the Preach the Word broadcast.
It gives us a great deal of pleasure to come to you with the preaching of the Word
and the truth and the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit as he operates through his
written Word.
We thank God today again that we have with us Dr. Alberto Rivera.
Thank you again.
You have been preaching through this part of the country in the Washington area.
That's correct.
In Winchester and our people are splendidly pleased with your testimony and
your message.
Thank you.
I've been blessed to be among yourself.
I've been blessed to visit your church and visit your people and visit the
Christians.
And I've been blessed above all in seeing so many Roman Catholics turning to the
gospel of Jesus Christ and to Christ himself as the Lord and Savior.
I've been blessed tremendously in this area, Silver Spring, Tacoma Park,
Washington, D.C., and many of the areas where the Lord has brought me,
even Winchester now as we've been going around Virginia.
Then I will say this, that I live in this area with a lot of sadness, not only joy.
That is a paradox in my heart right now because I have learned to love quickly.
I have learned to love you, to love the Christians and the brothers and sisters
that have prayed for us and support us and be so faithful to Christ and to his
teachings.
Yes.
It is mutual, likewise.
I would like to say something else.
I would like to invite our audience in order to be more informed, fully informed
of many of the areas between Catholicism and Christianity that they can write to me
personally.
They can even call me over the phone.
And they can even request videos and tapes and books that will give more information
on the different subjects that we are talking about during these different
programs.
I would like for them to have as much as you can have, and I'm sure that you will
be satisfied and blessed in getting to these different testimonies of so many
different converted Roman Catholic priests, converted Roman Catholic nuns and
monks and even bishops, Roman Catholic bishops.
Recently we have among our ministry two bishops that are being converted to the
gospel of Jesus Christ.
Yes.
We rejoice at these victories.
For those of you who were not with us in the first two broadcasts, Dr. Alberto
Rivera is a converted Jesuit priest from Rome to Jesus Christ.
He read himself, like Alexander Campbell and his father Thomas Campbell,
read himself just by reading the Bible into the light of New Testament
Christianity.
Today he is a born again New Testament Christian, has been immersed into Jesus
Christ for forgiveness of sins, and is a partaker of the communion with
God both in spirit and in the Lord's Supper, and today is just on fire for
Christ, blazing the trail for Jesus Christ.
And it is our privilege to be in the company and the companionship and to have
an ally such as Dr. Rivera on the front lines for Jesus Christ in this world
today.
Thank you.
Most grateful.
There is so much darkness.
Yes.
Now, we mentioned that the early church corrupted very quickly.
It was a miracle.
I will say this.
If you allow me, and I'm sure you will agree with me biblically, you are a very
biblical minded believer as an evangelist of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
you will understand that in my experience in the past as a Jesuit priest,
I always conceived that the Roman Catholic institution was the only church,
it was the church of Christ.
Then I was very disappointed when I discovered through the pages of the
scripture and through the teachings of the apostles that Rome and her teachings have
nothing to do, not with the church of Christ, not with the teachings of Christ,
not with the doctrines of the apostles.
Now, that was shocking.
That was devastating.
But nevertheless, it was fulfilling because finally it became my decision to
acknowledge Christ as my personal Savior and Lord and being obedient to his
teachings.
I began to be baptized as I was baptized by mercy.
My sins were forgiven.
My life was blessed with the presence of the Holy Spirit.
And I became now a preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Now, all the things that tell me already that the early church actually,
it developed.
But always I want to clear in the minds of Christians that were never Catholic
before.
Maybe they were born in Christian homes.
I want to clear for every Christian born in a Christian home that Catholicism,
Roman Catholicism, never was a Christian church.
That Catholicism came out from the Christian church, not as a church.
It came out as individuals, people, but not as a church.
I see.
Babylon.
That is.
Informed Babylon.
It became Babylon.
The individuals that among them you have many or I would say almost every so-called
early fathers because in the readings, in their readings, they were the
originators of most of the heresies and perversions of the gospel that Catholicism
embraced officially later in their councils.
Yes.
Do you see this prediction in 1 Timothy 4?
Yes.
You know, it's so clear that it almost sounds as if it's a graphic, word by word,
blow by blow description.
A very dramatic description.
That is correct.
Yes, sir.
Of what you're talking about.
Would you want to read that for us?
Yes.
1 Timothy, yes.
1 Timothy 4, 1 through 4.
This says, Now the spirit speak especially that in the later times some shall depart
from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils,
speaking lies and hypocrisy, having their consents seared with hot iron,
forbidden to marry, and commanding to abstain from meat which God has created to
be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Definitely.
It's Catholicism here.
Yes.
It's celibacy.
Now, God, being God, knowing everything that would happen, he wanted to warn the
congregation, the church, as to what would happen.
And the dangers coming, yes.
Now, there are people who feel like that if you're a preacher, you ought not
disturb people.
You ought not to upset the apple cart.
You ought not to delve into things that make people uncomfortable, especially
talking about a religion that at one time was Christian, fell away, that are
actually teaching doctrines of devils, are seducing spirits, and that they're
liars, they're hypocrites, and their conscience, not only can they lie,
but they don't even have a feeling because their conscience were, as it were,
sealed with a hot iron.
Now, I will even say this much.
The people that were among the Christians, you know, pausing as Christians,
because actually that is what happened today in reverse direction.
And reverse direction in these last days is happening already.
There are people inside the church, inside the Christian church, pausing as
Christian without never have, never, never have any personal experience of
redemption through Jesus Christ.
That means that today we are confronting almost the same situation.
I walk into many places as I walk out of the Roman Catholic institution,
and I found out myself, as a matter of fact, even before I became a Christian,
being a Jesuit priest, I walk into many churches, there are so-called Christian
churches, and I walk into, and they will embrace me as a brother in Christ,
being a Jesuit priest.
Now that is how confusing the situation is between religion and Christianity.
And the Bible is very clear in this matter.
It sets a difference between Christianity and religion.
Now, when you expose Babylon, and expose this false religion, what you are really
doing is shedding light upon Jerusalem, instead of Rome.
You are bringing people back, this is what we use the word restoration, trying to
restore what the early church did.
Now, if people feel this is not a valid ministry, brothers and sisters,
if you feel that this is too, perhaps, this man has hate in his heart,
or that he is a belligerent person, or that he is using religion as a whipping
post, I want you to remember what it says here, in verse 6.
If you put the brethren in remembrance of these things, you shall be a good minister
of Jesus Christ.
Now, no one in the Roman church can stand in judgment and say no one tried to warn
us.
No one cared enough about us to alarm us as to the darkness.
For instance, the mass, you mentioned the mass.
It said that one of the things that Babylon would do, would be to change and
corrupt the original fellowship of the Christians.
Now, we look at the Lord's Supper, drinking the grape juice, which is fruit
of the vine, not brandy or gin or vodka, and simple unleavened bread to remember.
It's the only thing Jesus asked us to do, to remember Him.
The only thing He said.
In my memory.
In his memory.
And that, in the hand of Jesus, was a beautiful ceremony.
But the mass is different.
For instance, let me briefly state what the meaning of the mass is.
According to Catholic dogma, not according to your opinion or someone else's opinion,
not even of the liberal Catholic mind, but according to Catholic dogma,
the mass is the repetition of the sacrifice of the person of Jesus Christ.
The repetition.
The Council of Trent makes this doctrine, this teaching, a dogma.
That the mass is the repetition.
What that means is, by the time that the priest offers the horse and the altar,
that horse, that wine, no longer is bread and wine.
It is the flesh, the deity, the soul, and the blood of Jesus Christ.
Now, that is contrary, totally, totally, fully contrary.
I will say this much.
As I was convicted of the Holy Spirit, reading the Scripture in chapter 6 of the
Gospel of John, where Roman Catholicism tried to enforce and persuade people to
believe that Jesus was referring to eat His flesh and His blood and drink His
blood in a literal way, I will do this.
John Knox, the founder of the Presbyterian, once said, the mass is a
blasphemy.
And he was a priest.
He was a priest converted to the Gospel.
And he said, the mass is a blasphemy.
When I came out from the Roman Catholic abomination of the mass, when Christ set
me free from that abomination, then I became convicted that the mass is
not only a blasphemy, it is the greatest blasphemy against Christ, His sacrifice.
You see, as I was convicted, I was brought to the book of Hebrews.
Let me show you where the Holy Spirit brought me to the conviction.
As I read in Hebrews, you can, chapter 9 of Hebrews...
Verse 28.
That is correct.
This is what we see.
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many.
Only once.
Do you know how many times the mass has been performed right today?
Right now.
As we are talking right now, as people are witnessing us and watching us here,
the mass, the Roman Catholic mass, has been performed 168,000.
168,000 masses all over the world in 24 hours around the clock.
So the crucifixion is not done.
The resurrection is not yet.
You see, this is a defeat for the gospel.
It's a defeat if you were to accept that.
Because it's a defeat for Christianity.
It's a defeat for the church.
Because they keep sacrificing the person.
And that's why Christ is still on the cross.
The crosses show him still hanging there.
It's not an empty cross.
He's still on that cross.
He's still on that.
The priest is still sacrificing him every day.
In light of the fact that he died once.
And it's strange, Dr. Ribeiro.
The thing that I marvel about is that, you know, I've been a New Testament
student for years.
And it seems like... I was making a beeline for Hebrews 9, 28 while you were
talking.
To substantiate what you said.
And here you beat me to it.
You were thinking in the same wavelength.
I really believe if we could destroy the denominational barriers and tear down the
sheepfolds that divide all of these people.
We could flow together so well as one people in Christ.
There would be such unity.
And what is written.
If we just go by what is written in the Bible.
But, you know, the Protestants have their creeds just as much as the Catholics do.
They have added and taken away.
They have added to the Bible.
You mentioned the crucifixion.
He says in Hebrews 6, verse 6.
Yes.
If they fall away, they renew to them again.
It's impossible to renew them again to repentance.
Seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh.
Not even two times, only once.
Yes.
Right.
Only once.
I will say this much.
I have a book here, Brother Darin, that was written on the very people and
the life of the very people that refused to partake of the Mass.
They were put to death.
For refusing to take of the Mass?
For refusing to take the Mass.
Yes.
They were put to death on the edicts of several Popes throughout the ages.
How many people do you think the Albigensies, the Waldensies, the Hugonots,
the... in Europe...
How many millions do you believe have been put to death?
Actually, more than 68... 67 to 68 millions that were put to death,
a total, during more than 800 years of inquisition by the Roman Catholic
institution.
800 years?
Yes, 800 years.
Well, that doesn't mean the inquisition ceased.
The inquisition never ceased.
The inquisition, you can see that I show you this book, a memorial of the English
martyrs in Spain, in England, in Europe, all over.
But then, at the same side, you have a 20th century testimony of a priest that
was murdered, as I said before, in a program before.
Well, haven't they changed the name of the inquisition to the Holy Office?
To the Holy Office, that is correct.
Well, the Holy Office still is responsible for what the inquisition did.
It's just that the inquisition carried such a bad connotation that people didn't
want to use that term anymore.
Yes, well, the change has been now, the Holy Office, what used to be the Holy
Office, the office of the inquisition, the general inquisitor for all over the
world, that office now is changed to the name, still the same office in the
Vatican, but the name has changed to the Office for the Preservation of the
Catholic Faith.
Yes, right.
That is the Holy Office, yes.
Now, you mentioned Babylon.
Of course, John was amazed when he, it says that he left the church in the
wilderness where she fled, and the dragon opened his mouth in a flood, which no
doubt was false doctrine, the flood that came out to swallow her up.
Yes, the drunkenness that even the angels speak, yes, to get people drunk.
And so the church was lost.
But when John came back into the wilderness in Revelation, it said he
wandered.
In chapter 17, I saw the woman drunken with the blood of saints, with the blood
of martyrs.
Martyrs.
86 million of them.
68.
68 million of Jesus.
And when I saw her, I wandered.
Yes.
It says in the King James Version with great admiration, but in the Greek,
it was astonishment.
Yes.
That the church that was so beautiful, now has been corrupted into such an ugly
prostitute.
Well, I will say, not the church of Christ, not the church of Christ,
but the religion.
Would you think it was the Judaizers?
Yes, that is correct.
Did the Judaizers have anything to do with this corruption?
That is correct, because many of the Jews, they infiltrated the church in the early
days.
You can see that by reading the book of Acts, chapter 15 already.
And then we have throughout history, that even the Roman Empire has used Jews
as spies.
There is plenty.
Josephus is one of the historians that bring about documentation on the fact that
the Roman emperors and the senators, they were using Jews to infiltrate the
church.
Mostly as Christians.
They developed and paved the way for Roman Catholicism to come up later.
Now, that is what I see here.
Along with this, I would like to quote you this.
I have a very dramatic experience not too long ago in California.
I was called by an Indian lady in Carmel, the city of Carmel in California.
It is North California, the city of Carmel.
If you see your geography, you will find there is one of the Roman Catholic
missions there in Carmel, right in the city of Carmel.
It was one of the oldest Roman Catholic missions established by a monk called Fr.
Junipero Serra.
Now, Junipero Serra established most of the Roman Catholic missions in California.
And when this Indian lady called me, she said, are you familiar?
You must be familiar with Junipero Serra.
I said, yes, of course.
I was a Jesuit priest, and I was able to be acquainted with his files and records
in the Vatican.
As I went through then, because that was part of my mission, to know all this data,
especially in the United States.
And she said, I need your help, because I understand that you now are a
Christian.
Now, she knew there was a difference now.
She read Alberto, the first part of my testimony.
And the Indian are what they call the Indians that are in that north part of the
north of California.
And they have still the descendants of that particular tribe.
As I arrived to El Carmel City, we met, and they said, what we need from
you is to help us to stop the Pope from coming here.
I said, how I can do that?
How I can stop the Pope from coming here?
They said, you can.
If you help us, we can stop him.
And I said, what do you want from me?
All what I can give to you is the Gospel.
All what I can offer you is Christ.
Forget about stopping the Pope from coming here.
You come to the knowledge of Christ as your personal Lord and Savior,
you will be free from the Pope, and you will have nothing to do no longer
with the Pope.
They said, but we need something.
We need him not to come here, because he is a curse.
He brings curses to our people.
The Indians, now the Indians after 500 years of Roman Catholic teaching,
are still not sure yet of whom Catholic religion is, what Catholic religion is all
about.
They tell me that their people were massacred by Junipero Serra.
Over 10,000 Indian children, mothers and fathers, were massacred.
And she brought me to the pavement of the parking lot of the mission, of the Roman
Catholic parish.
In that big parking lot, she said, there are my ancestors buried in one tomb.
They were massacred in one morning.
They all were massacred because they refused to accept Catholic teaching.
That happened 500 years ago.
Why still the people, Catholic people, are being so deprived of trusting solely,
solely in the Holy Scripture?
Why?
Yes.
Do you think that Satan has brought a great delusion?
It says in 1 Thessalonians, actually it's a 2 Thessalonian letter.
Yes.
You know, the question is why?
Well, you take the man of sin in 2 Thessalonians.
Chapter 2.
Yes, Chapter 2.
Yes.
What it says here is that the day will come, there will be a falling away in
verse 3.
That's correct.
The son of perdition who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called
God.
He said in verse 5, remember you, not that when I was with you I told you
these things.
But he says here that in verse 11, verse 10, it says that with all
deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish.
In them that perish.
Because they receive not the love of the truth.
The love of the truth, not just the truth.
The love of the truth.
Love and truth are indivisible.
Exactly.
Love rejoices, not in iniquity, but in the truth.
In the truth.
And God gave them a great delusion that they should believe a lie.
Yes.
That's what you and I are up against.
Yes.
A great delusion.
Yes.
Not only that, but Babylon is the mother of even Protestants.
Protestants still love their mother.
I'm amazed that Protestants, most of them...
They are going back.
They are going back to the mother.
This is your ecumenical today.
What on earth is going to happen to you and others like you and myself,
if that ever comes to pass?
They all go back to the mother.
Well...
Are we going to have another European Middle Ages?
Inquisition?
Well, it will be an inquisition.
It's prophesied.
But nevertheless, I believe this.
The Christians are not to fear.
The Christians, the believers, are not to fear.
Because even the Israelites, they were even, until the 10th plague, they were
preserved and protected under the blood of the Lamb.
Yes.
Isn't that beautiful?
And under the blood of Jesus Christ, you can be protected too.
Every Christian can be protected.
Every person that comes to Christ.
That is marvelous.
That is gracious.
Even in the plagues of Deuteronomy and in the book of Psalms, it said that these
plagues will not touch you.
Yes.
They will not come near to us.
The plagues of Egypt will not come near to you.
Not even AIDS.
Not AIDS, no.
Not even AIDS.
You know, when you speak of the persecution you get, I understood some of
that in my latest writing on the book.
On AIDS.
Yes.
And the curse of AIDS.
A wonderful message.
A prophetical message that you brought in that book.
Yes.
I thank you for that.
Yes.
Because...
And that put me to believe that we are so close in this revelation.
Because a year before, I was speaking about the prophetical meaning of AIDS when
I now read your book on AIDS.
So you were led to ascertain that God forewarned plagues of the AIDS nature...
Yes.
...upon a godless country.
Yes.
By reading your scripture and then the book just confirmed...
...mainly to punish the homosexuals and the lesbians.
Because if we read before in 1 Timothy chapter 4 as you read about forbidden to
marry, celibacy has been one of the greatest, most powerful nests of getting
this plague at work.
It's amazing.
Absolutely amazing.
I know we have a battle.
We invite you to join with us.
Now, Christ said, I'll draw men.
This is not for those that are not... did not have the manhood.
He said, I'll draw men.
Yes.
God wants men to act like men and women to act like women.
And we invite you and solicit you for prayers for Dr. Rivera.
A tremendous battle, the conflict that we have.
And we're going to go to heaven and rest from our labors.
Yes.
But you know, you have to labor in order to rest from them.
Amen.
And we pray for Dr. Rivera as he labors in the truth.
Out on the front lines, let's join with him.
And let's pray that God will give us the victory in this day and age and eternally
in the world to come.
See you next week on the Preach the Word broadcast.
Amen.