WEBVTT 00:07.270 --> 00:09.430 Hello and welcome to Z3 News. 00:09.550 --> 00:14.070 I'm James Bailey and today is Wednesday, May 27, 2020. 00:14.950 --> 00:21.290 Today I want to continue the discussion from yesterday in which I was sharing how 00:21.290 --> 00:27.050 Christians began to get hold of the Scriptures back in the days of John 00:27.050 --> 00:34.790 Wycliffe in the 1300s, and John Hus in the 1400s, and then Martin Luther in the 00:34.790 --> 00:40.970 1500s, as they began to get hold of the Scriptures and believe them and stand firm 00:40.970 --> 00:48.010 on them and confessing them, and began to understand that the Roman Catholic Church 00:48.010 --> 00:54.030 was contradicting the Scriptures in many areas, and they began to call them out on 00:54.030 --> 00:54.190 it. 00:54.830 --> 00:57.670 And as they did, they began to push back the darkness. 00:58.410 --> 01:04.230 And as I studied that topic, I was amazed to find that there was unanimous 01:04.230 --> 01:04.830 consensus. 01:04.830 --> 01:10.570 All the Christian leaders that I looked up, and there were many others besides the 01:10.570 --> 01:16.350 ones I shared yesterday, but they were all of one accord and one mind and all saying 01:16.350 --> 01:22.530 the same thing, and that is that the Roman Catholic Pope is of the spirit of Satan 01:22.530 --> 01:24.810 and of the spirit of Antichrist. 01:24.930 --> 01:30.350 And they were not trying to be politically correct at all, they just told it like it 01:30.350 --> 01:37.790 was, and as they did, they pushed back the darkness, and Protestantism advanced 01:37.790 --> 01:39.970 rapidly throughout the world. 01:40.450 --> 01:47.470 But today, I want to share how the Roman Catholic Church fought back against the 01:47.470 --> 01:48.150 Protestants. 01:48.970 --> 01:54.190 And after being exposed by these Christians, Rome had to take a different 01:54.190 --> 02:01.650 strategy going forward, because before that, they were able to just rely on brute 02:01.650 --> 02:07.610 force alone to extend their influence throughout the world, as they were 02:07.610 --> 02:12.470 requiring all heretics to come into submission to the Pope. 02:12.610 --> 02:17.190 And a heretic to them was just anybody who was not submitted to the Pope, 02:17.290 --> 02:23.450 so it didn't matter if you were a Muslim, or a pagan, or Jewish, or a Christian. 02:23.450 --> 02:26.430 If you weren't submitted to the Pope, you're a heretic. 02:27.230 --> 02:33.090 And so they launched the Crusades and the Inquisitions to extend their influence, 02:33.290 --> 02:37.590 and they enjoyed great success with that at the cost of many lives of these 02:37.590 --> 02:38.190 heretics. 02:39.250 --> 02:46.010 But when the Christians arose and exposed them, it was a real problem because they 02:46.010 --> 02:48.670 were exposing them as being fraud. 02:48.670 --> 02:54.270 I mean, they went right for the jugular vein in showing that Rome's claims to 02:54.270 --> 02:56.510 spiritual authority were unfounded. 02:57.370 --> 02:59.730 So that was a big problem for them. 03:00.070 --> 03:02.990 I mean, that was shining the spotlight on the darkness. 03:03.810 --> 03:06.390 And they didn't really have an answer for that. 03:06.470 --> 03:08.310 They couldn't explain from the Scriptures. 03:08.310 --> 03:14.230 And it presented another problem for them in that the strategy that they had used to 03:14.230 --> 03:20.510 grow their empire, grow their influence around the world, that strategy only 03:20.510 --> 03:26.910 reinforced what the Protestant leaders were accusing them of, of being very 03:26.910 --> 03:31.850 un-Christian in their behavior, and in their practices, and in their 03:31.850 --> 03:32.370 beliefs. 03:33.050 --> 03:38.830 And really, I find it remarkable that Rome didn't just pack it up at that point. 03:38.950 --> 03:40.230 I mean, the gig was up. 03:40.370 --> 03:43.210 It seemed like, what do you got left? 03:43.770 --> 03:49.150 You've been parading yourself around, calling yourself Father, the Vicar of 03:49.150 --> 03:55.930 Christ, claiming to be the authority on earth for the voice of God, but yet now 03:55.930 --> 03:58.890 you've been exposed that you don't even know what the Scriptures say. 03:58.890 --> 04:04.030 And no wonder people were flocking to Protestantism in droves. 04:04.670 --> 04:11.690 No wonder people were publicly proclaiming the Pope is of Satan and Antichrist, 04:11.790 --> 04:12.650 because he was. 04:13.390 --> 04:17.590 So it's really, you know, as I studied this topic, I was like, how in the world 04:17.590 --> 04:19.350 did they pull this off? 04:19.810 --> 04:25.550 I mean, how did they go from this position of literally having no answer? 04:25.550 --> 04:28.010 They could not explain the Scriptures. 04:28.270 --> 04:34.410 They were caught red-handed and exposed for the whole world to see. 04:34.850 --> 04:36.830 How is it that the gig is not up? 04:37.590 --> 04:44.070 You know, that we just move on and you guys take off your silly robes and set 04:44.070 --> 04:49.650 aside your silly titles and, you know, go get a job or something. 04:50.580 --> 04:58.810 But instead, what we see happened was in a relatively short time span, they 04:58.810 --> 05:03.530 completely turned the tables and they got back on top. 05:03.970 --> 05:06.670 And it's really a remarkable story. 05:06.830 --> 05:08.150 It's like, how in the world? 05:08.150 --> 05:15.510 And as I was digging into these events, and I'm talking specifically from about 05:15.510 --> 05:23.410 1517, the time of the start of the Reformation, to 1815. 05:24.230 --> 05:27.970 So you're talking approximately 300-year period. 05:29.010 --> 05:33.390 And during that time, you know, start of the period, Rome is on top of the 05:33.390 --> 05:35.570 world, ruling by brute force. 05:36.530 --> 05:41.950 Then they get pushed back, and then they turn the tables, and by the time you get 05:41.950 --> 05:46.690 to the year 1815, there they are, back on top of the world. 05:46.690 --> 05:53.290 But when you get to 1815, they have a new friend, the Rothschilds. 05:53.950 --> 06:01.970 And with their new buddy, they are in a position to totally dominate the world 06:01.970 --> 06:03.590 from that point forward. 06:03.750 --> 06:05.450 I mean, it took time. 06:05.530 --> 06:06.670 It didn't happen overnight. 06:07.210 --> 06:15.930 But by 1815, they had put themselves in position to rule the world from then on. 06:15.930 --> 06:19.730 And I was fascinated by that, and how that all happened. 06:19.890 --> 06:21.430 I wanted to see it for myself. 06:22.210 --> 06:27.290 I've heard people make claims, but I wanted to dig into it, and I did. 06:27.770 --> 06:34.650 And it took a lot of digging, but I was finally able to connect the dots so 06:34.650 --> 06:39.390 conclusively, and so excited when I was able to do that. 06:40.070 --> 06:44.370 And I will be sharing those details in upcoming programs. 06:44.370 --> 06:52.750 But even after I saw how Rome connected with the Rothschilds, and how that all 06:52.750 --> 06:56.850 came about, I still had a question in my mind. 06:58.090 --> 07:02.930 Because ultimately, it comes down to an issue of submission. 07:03.170 --> 07:07.630 You know, Rome requires submission. 07:08.010 --> 07:10.870 If you're not submitted to Rome, you're a heretic, right? 07:10.870 --> 07:21.290 So everybody that is part of this Roman kingdom must be in submission to the will 07:21.290 --> 07:23.250 of the Pope, the will of Rome. 07:23.850 --> 07:28.010 And that's the part that I was struggling with, is like, well, why would the 07:28.010 --> 07:30.030 Rothschilds need to submit to Rome? 07:30.070 --> 07:33.850 That doesn't make sense, especially, you know, with all the money they have. 07:34.050 --> 07:36.570 They can just thumb their nose at them, right? 07:37.110 --> 07:42.730 But then I realized, I was praying about it one morning, and this is the way it 07:42.730 --> 07:48.510 works with me a lot of times when I'm praying, is I just start getting an 07:48.510 --> 07:49.170 understanding. 07:50.010 --> 07:55.850 And it's not like I can say, I hear a voice, or there's a specific word given. 07:56.330 --> 07:58.670 It's just understanding starts coming to me. 07:58.670 --> 08:04.350 I know it's just God communicating to me, because He'll give me the understanding 08:04.350 --> 08:09.190 that I need for a specific thing that I'm dealing with at that exact time. 08:09.850 --> 08:13.290 And it unlocks the answer, you know? 08:13.610 --> 08:15.790 It's such a huge help. 08:15.930 --> 08:20.270 And once I got that, it all started, I was like, oh, wow, wow, wow. 08:20.270 --> 08:30.190 And I started understanding that Rome has always had a second strategy. 08:30.430 --> 08:32.570 They're not just about brute force. 08:33.050 --> 08:38.890 There is a second strategy, and it is found from the beginning to the end. 08:39.090 --> 08:43.150 And actually, when I say the beginning, I'm talking about the beginning, 08:43.410 --> 08:46.710 not just the beginning of Rome, but the beginning of creation. 08:47.530 --> 08:51.390 And so, what I'm talking about now is bigger than Rome. 08:51.490 --> 08:53.870 We're talking about Satan's kingdom. 08:54.570 --> 09:00.090 And this is just the way Satan's kingdom has always operated and will continue to 09:00.090 --> 09:01.630 operate until the end. 09:02.190 --> 09:06.290 All along the way, he's had two fronts to his attack. 09:06.590 --> 09:11.610 And the one is brute force, but the other is deception. 09:12.770 --> 09:18.390 And I got so excited when I saw this connection, because I found it from the 09:18.390 --> 09:19.590 beginning to the end. 09:19.850 --> 09:25.450 It has always been this way, and it's always going to be this way until the end. 09:26.090 --> 09:30.650 And so, if you go all the way back to the Garden of Eden, we see deception. 09:31.330 --> 09:35.530 You know, God had told Adam and Eve they could not eat from the Tree of Knowledge, 09:36.130 --> 09:37.810 and the knowledge of good and evil. 09:37.810 --> 09:42.610 And he had warned Adam that the day that you eat of it, you will surely die. 09:43.290 --> 09:47.910 But then the serpent comes, and he says to the woman, you will not surely die. 09:48.530 --> 09:52.690 For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will 09:52.690 --> 09:55.690 be like God, knowing good and evil. 09:56.910 --> 10:02.370 And so, that encounter in the Garden was the first time we see this other strategy, 10:02.590 --> 10:04.630 this deception strategy used. 10:04.630 --> 10:10.670 And the bait that he gave her was, you will be like God. 10:11.350 --> 10:14.790 And so, the trade-off was, I'll give you knowledge. 10:15.230 --> 10:17.170 I'll give you forbidden knowledge. 10:17.870 --> 10:23.650 I'll give you forbidden understanding and wisdom, and it will make you like God. 10:23.990 --> 10:25.490 And so, that's the enticement. 10:26.210 --> 10:32.630 And so, that same storyline has repeated throughout history, and continues all the 10:32.630 --> 10:33.310 way to the end. 10:33.310 --> 10:40.770 And I saw it illustrated in the Roman virgin goddess of warfare and wisdom, 10:41.570 --> 10:43.450 whose name was Minerva. 10:44.010 --> 10:45.810 The Greeks called her Athena. 10:46.590 --> 10:52.650 But as you can see in this little figure of her, she's decked out for warfare. 10:52.990 --> 10:59.650 She has on her helmet, her shield, her sword, her spear, her breastplate, 10:59.750 --> 11:00.630 her shin guards. 11:00.630 --> 11:04.590 So, she's ready for war, but yet she's accompanied by the owl. 11:05.450 --> 11:11.470 And the owl represents that forbidden knowledge, that forbidden wisdom, 11:12.030 --> 11:14.690 that corrupted knowledge and wisdom. 11:15.310 --> 11:17.930 And what it is, see, she's the virgin goddess. 11:18.490 --> 11:20.670 So, she represents virtue. 11:21.210 --> 11:25.230 And the way she has the virtue is through those two strategies. 11:25.230 --> 11:33.610 And what it's saying is that by her might and her force, and by her corrupted 11:33.610 --> 11:36.250 knowledge, she achieves virtue. 11:36.630 --> 11:39.850 She actually becomes like God. 11:40.170 --> 11:45.030 In other words, it's a way to make yourself like God without having to 11:45.030 --> 11:51.930 actually humble yourself before God and come to Him on the terms that He set. 11:52.330 --> 11:54.110 We can just make ourself like God. 11:54.110 --> 12:00.570 We can basically just exalt ourselves to the highest place by doing it our way. 12:02.870 --> 12:09.110 But the more I thought about this two-fold strategy, the more I started seeing it in 12:09.110 --> 12:12.910 things that I studied in the past, but just hadn't connected them together. 12:13.350 --> 12:18.650 For example, this illustration shows the Pope's coat of arms. 12:18.650 --> 12:24.310 And you can see there's two keys there, the gold key and the silver key. 12:24.810 --> 12:30.210 And these keys is what gives him, is what he claims gives him the authority 12:30.210 --> 12:32.730 to unlock two realms. 12:33.410 --> 12:38.430 The one being the temporal realm and the other being the spiritual realm. 12:38.810 --> 12:44.390 And the temporal realm represents all the governments of the world. 12:44.390 --> 12:50.490 And this is his claim that he has authority to rule over all the governments 12:50.490 --> 12:51.130 of the world. 12:51.590 --> 13:00.810 And doing so requires the use of force to bring those other peoples into submission 13:00.810 --> 13:01.950 to him. 13:03.090 --> 13:06.170 And so that key gives him the right to do so. 13:06.410 --> 13:12.710 The other key gives him the right to bring us into submission with spiritual power. 13:12.710 --> 13:20.390 In other words, the right to infiltrate our head and our heart for the purpose of 13:20.390 --> 13:24.050 deceiving us into submitting to his authority. 13:24.670 --> 13:30.610 So we've bought into some lies that he's given us, but he believes he has that 13:30.610 --> 13:34.410 right to rule over us in those two realms. 13:35.410 --> 13:42.510 And then I remembered too that in the book of Revelation chapter 13, we're given a 13:42.510 --> 13:44.170 description of two beasts. 13:44.750 --> 13:48.870 And the first beast makes war against the saints. 13:49.370 --> 13:53.350 And so there you have the strategy of brute force. 13:54.010 --> 14:00.370 But the second beast deceives the whole world by the signs that he performs. 14:00.370 --> 14:07.950 And he raises up this one who bears a resemblance to the beast, all for the 14:07.950 --> 14:09.270 purpose of deceiving. 14:10.070 --> 14:13.570 So again, there's that two-fold strategy. 14:14.670 --> 14:21.290 And so now let's go back and look at the condition that Rome was in at the time 14:21.290 --> 14:27.270 that the Protestants began boldly exposing them for what they were. 14:28.130 --> 14:29.610 Rome had an answer. 14:29.950 --> 14:33.150 They already had an answer en route. 14:33.650 --> 14:36.270 And it was this strategy of the owl. 14:36.830 --> 14:42.430 And I was just amazed by what I saw because this strategy, it was called 14:42.430 --> 14:44.190 Renaissance Humanism. 14:44.770 --> 14:45.690 That's what it was called. 14:45.910 --> 14:52.870 But it was released right on time as if, almost like they knew the timing of this 14:52.870 --> 14:56.790 Protestant Reformation that it was coming, that they had to get this in place. 14:56.790 --> 15:06.370 And so it was about a hundred years before the time of Martin Luther that Rome had 15:06.370 --> 15:10.330 what they called the Great Revival of classical letters. 15:10.610 --> 15:16.470 So it's not the kind of revival that Christians are used to when we talk about 15:16.470 --> 15:16.990 revival. 15:17.310 --> 15:20.150 But it was a revival of classical letters. 15:20.370 --> 15:22.870 So I guess that's how they do revival. 15:22.870 --> 15:29.750 But it was a time where they would go back to the writings of authors from ancient 15:29.750 --> 15:31.710 Rome and ancient Greece. 15:32.330 --> 15:41.090 And the whole idea was that if you would dedicate yourself to education and study 15:41.090 --> 15:49.110 of these ancient classic writings, that you would attain such knowledge and 15:49.110 --> 15:56.570 such understanding and such wisdom that you would actually acquire a high level of 15:56.570 --> 15:56.970 virtue. 15:57.970 --> 16:05.710 So this Renaissance Humanism rose up just in time for the Protestant Reformation. 16:06.330 --> 16:07.510 And it's pretty remarkable. 16:08.050 --> 16:12.290 And not only that, but it rose up through the Catholic Church. 16:12.710 --> 16:18.450 I mean, it was literally the popes and high officials within the Catholic Church 16:18.450 --> 16:24.850 that were leading the promotion of this revival of the classical letters. 16:24.850 --> 16:31.650 And there was a series of popes, especially during the 1400s and into the 16:31.650 --> 16:33.070 early 1500s. 16:33.330 --> 16:34.970 And it was all throughout Italy. 16:35.610 --> 16:40.270 And it just dovetailed right into what was called the Age of Enlightenment. 16:40.830 --> 16:43.590 And it was also known as the Age of Reason. 16:44.570 --> 16:49.450 And so this was Rome's answer to the Protestant Reformation. 16:50.330 --> 16:55.690 And on the surface, it doesn't sound like a fair match. 16:55.750 --> 17:02.210 It sounds like the Protestants should have made short work of it and just won the 17:02.210 --> 17:02.650 victory. 17:02.650 --> 17:11.190 But not so fast, because these humanistic ideas really appealed to people because it 17:11.190 --> 17:16.490 gave them a way to elevate their life to a high level. 17:16.750 --> 17:24.050 At least they believed that they could, without having to truly humble themselves 17:24.050 --> 17:25.010 before God. 17:25.770 --> 17:27.210 And it really caught on. 17:27.290 --> 17:31.550 It had great appeal to people because we all want to do it our way. 17:31.550 --> 17:33.810 We want to think that we can do it. 17:33.910 --> 17:41.150 We don't want to have to put our trust in anyone else, including God, to believe 17:41.150 --> 17:44.250 that He's going to do it when we could just do it ourselves. 17:44.310 --> 17:46.190 We'd rather be in control, you know. 17:46.650 --> 17:51.530 And we have this natural aversion to being out of control. 17:52.190 --> 17:56.830 You know, to truly surrender our life into God's hands. 17:56.830 --> 18:02.610 You know, we make ourselves so vulnerable, and we don't like being in that position. 18:03.290 --> 18:09.890 But yet, God wants us to trust Him and to not put our trust in our own 18:09.890 --> 18:10.590 understanding. 18:11.830 --> 18:18.470 And so, these ideas that Rome promoted, they came right through the Vatican, 18:18.910 --> 18:23.270 right through the papacy, and spread throughout the countries of the world. 18:23.270 --> 18:31.650 I mean, it's really remarkable to me that this two-pronged strategy both came right 18:31.650 --> 18:32.430 through Rome. 18:33.430 --> 18:39.570 And just like they had great success with their first strategy of brute force, 18:39.830 --> 18:43.830 they also had great success with this one. 18:44.830 --> 18:52.890 And the real key to turning the tables for Rome in their favor was a man named 18:52.890 --> 18:54.390 Ignatius Loyola. 18:54.810 --> 19:01.210 And he was born at that same time that these humanistic ideas were taking root. 19:01.210 --> 19:08.310 He was born in 1491, and he was like the embodiment of those ideas. 19:08.910 --> 19:14.110 Kind of in the same way that Jesus was the embodiment of the Word of God. 19:14.390 --> 19:17.130 The Word of God became flesh and dwelt among us. 19:17.850 --> 19:20.270 This man was like just the opposite. 19:20.870 --> 19:24.430 He was the embodiment of, I'm going to do it my way. 19:25.290 --> 19:30.390 But he became the founder of the Jesuits, the Society of Jesus. 19:31.150 --> 19:34.970 And so, in tomorrow's program, I'm going to be sharing more about 19:34.970 --> 19:42.550 Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuits and the key role that they played in turning the 19:42.550 --> 19:49.530 situation around so that Rome was able to get right back up on top again. 19:50.310 --> 19:51.870 And so, I'm going to stop there. 19:52.350 --> 19:56.570 So, thanks for joining me today, and I hope to be back again soon with 19:56.570 --> 19:57.430 another program. 19:57.430 --> 19:59.310 Until then, so long.