How do we get different races of creatures

 I hate changing the subjecty in the middle of a sequence like the one about lying signs and wonders, but since Google messed up my blog I no longer have access to my other blogs in ofrder to keep things from iterfering from one another.   aND i JUST HAVE TO WRITE ABOUT THIS.

tHIS IS  A RESPONSE TO THE LATEST lET'S tALK cREATION EPISODE IN WHICH gARNER AND wOOD ANWER READER'S OR i SHOULD SAY LISTENERS' QUESTIONS, AND wOOD ANSWERS A QUETSION ABOUT HOW THE PEOPLEL ON nOAH'S ARK DIVERSIFIED INTO THE VARIOUS RACES AFTER THE fLOOD.  hE SAYS THEY REALLY DON'T KNOW, AND CLAIMS THERE REALL    Y  really isn't such a thing as race anyway, which drives me razy.

Race is just one of the terms for a variation in a species that forms a population unto itself.  You can also call it a population as many do, or a variation or some such.   The problem is just that it's become a politically charged confusion that causes all sorts of mental gyrations in the attempt to avoid the hot button.  

Call it a population if you prever, all it menasa is that some bportio of a gene pool gets isolated from the main population or other populations of the same species and interbreeds within its own group until a general change occurs in its appearance that sets it apart from the other populations of the same species.  That's all it is and it follows ordinary porinciplesa of genetic variation.    Ten lizards were set loose on an isoland with no other lizards and over thirty years they developed a different appearance as a whole populatioin from the populatio on the mainland from which they were origianlly taken.  That's the principle in action.   How do you get Chinese people who look different from Tibetan people who look different from Indian people who look different from Arab people who look different from European pewople etc etc etc.  Same pirinciple.  

ddAs for the people on the ark you just have to assume that each of tof the wibves of the three sons of Noah carried a genome that had all the variety in it to make a new population after  the people had exanded into new populations from the ark.   Noah himself may have had sufficient variation in his genome for that matter.  So would his sons then.   It's a simplew principle.  I'll come back and spell out my understanding of it later.

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Lying Signs and Wonders part three

 To be warning people about the biblical concept, lying signs and wonders, I can only expect Christians who are accepting of supernatural phenomena to take it seriously.  To others it can only sound preposterous, impossible.  I'm so at home in the supernatural realm I have to make an effort to remember my own state of disbelief before it all changed.  Now I have to fight ipatience with people who think miracles are impossible or even that levitation is impossible although I have trouble with that one myselfbecause I can't find even a supernatural explanation for it, except of course that God can do anything He wants.  Or maybe that demons lift people, but that doesn't seem to be the case in most of the examples I'vew been reading about.  If that were the case the perso woudln't need to be in a trance or his body rigid and incapable of feeling anything or his closthoing immobile and all that.  Whateve s goig on in those things I don't have a clue.

I believe they are real just because I have read of hundreds and even thousands of witness reports that asound quite credible.  Even with that I suppose the fact that I already believe in soe pretty outlandish things by many people's estimagtes probaobably plays a part in keeping me open to such things.

There is nothing more irritatio than those people who respond when you tell them about a supernatural experience instantaneously come up with a contrary explanatrion along the lines of mental delusion, hallucination or some such.     Okay I'll try to avoid hyperbole, maybe not MOST irritating.  Maybe a hair shirt would be more irritating.  I don'rt know.

Anyway, I did feel I needed to write abvout ghis as I was being led to the books I mention such as "They Flew" by Eire.  That came out of my reading Hunt's book, A Woman Rides the Beast", and in general pursuing more information about the Catholic Church.  Oh, H. Grattan Guinness' book, Romanism and the Reformation came before Hunt's book.  The Antichirst as a Pope has been one of my topics here since the beginning and I've strongly felt the Lord led me to it so I write about it from time to time.  It has bgiven me a perspective that makes me question the popular eschatologiy, Pre tribulatio rapture, which has also become a major theme here.   Enough of the scenario I hold at the moment is still future to remain Pre Trib, oddly, I just have a different view of the antichrist than the standard viewpoint, and I've also come to change my mind about the first six seals of the Book of Revelation, now seeing them as historically ongoing since the time of John's vision, and not part of the Seventieth Week of Daniel or last seven years before Jesus returns, known as the Tribulation.   I now also see the Roman beast of Revelation thirteen and the woman riding the beast of Revelation seventeen as ongoing since the popes gained power over the so called Holy Roman Empire, which is the revived Roman Empire rathern than some future revival, although it will have to come back to its former power at least for the very last act of the drama.

Sincew the lying signs and wonders are accepted by ERoman Catholicism as from God, that is the deception people need to be warned against because it lends credibility to the false Church and leads people awawy from slsalvation in Christ.   

Lying SIgns and Wonders, continued

 I wondered whether levitation was obe of the siddhis, or powers experienced in Hindu medidations, or Buddhist, so I searched on some relevant terms at You Tube and found out that yes indeed, levitation ois one of the siddhis.  So is the ability to make the body extremely small or extermeley large.  Levitation is the result of making the body weightless, and it is also said to be possible to make the body extremely heavy.  All these were listed as siddhis on one website, or You tube video I whould say.    Their method seems to be mainly mediation or strengthening the power of the mind over the body, mind over matter, and they may or may not be specifically seeking the siddhis.  Sometimes they occur inadvertently, depending on the type of spiritual practice, and are then rejected as irelevant to the quest, but in some disciplines they are actively sought.  

In the Catholic monastic context they were not sought at all but occurred apparently as a result of the extreme ascetic practices which suppressed the body, but also they were a respond se to emotional triggers as the person contemplated some adored religious object, such as the feast day of the virgin marry or the meaning of the Mass and so on.    In any case they were alsoways inacdvertent in that context, not soughtj.  

Both the Hindu and the Catholic contexts serve to corroborate Watchman Nee's understanding of them as latent powers of the soul once acive in Adam and Eve but rendered inaccessible as a result of their disobedience of God in eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  He says that these powers are sought in many of the pagan religions such as Hinduinsm and Buddhism, where some individuals are found to psossess the necessary abilities to bring them to expression.  Not everyone has this ability, but those who have it become the religious sages of their time.  

In Christianity they occur wherever concentrated practices  can bring them out.  The asceticism of the monasteries is one, but I also think of the Russian Starets who repeats over and over the line, Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a sinner, and in one particular accountj of this developed clairvoyance in particular as I recall, I'm not sure about other powers.

The atemempted scientific study of these things in the early tewentieth century, by J B Rhine and others, wasn't very successful, although Watchman Nee, writing ib that same time period seems to think they were successful.   As I recall there were a few blips in the sutdies as it were where it seemed there was some kind of power manifesting, some psychic power, telepathy and that sort of thing, but it never ewent very far.  I didn't read a lot about all that although I was interested in it for a while, so I don't know how they perpursuied their evidence beyond setting up testing for its appearance, but it seems they never hit on the idea of training the mind to control th body or suppressing the body through ascdetic practices.  Those seem to be the key to the manifestation to these things in a person who icis temperamentally suited to them.  

There is quite a bit of information aouabout the yogic practices that bring out such things on You Tube.  

In all these cases the pwoers are considered to be manifestatios of the divine, spiritual powers.  The only source of a conterary point of view that I know of comes rom Watchman Nee's book, the Latent POwers of the Soul.  For fallen humanity in this fallen world, all there is is midn and body, or soul and body, but Christians receive the quickening of another faculty, the spiritual faculty lost at the Fall of Adam and Eve, with the indewelling of the Holy Spirit, and thus have the only rue spiritual power humniytuy is capable of.  Only the born again can be truly spiritual.  All these other powers are just soul powers, mind and emotion, exercised in such as way as to e taken for spiritual.  The soul is considered to be mind, emotion and will, in schristian thinking about these things.  God is not accessible through these faculties or pexperiences, even if refined greatly by medigations as mentioned above.  God is only knowable through the psirit and in ono other way.  He may vebe inferred, and is by much of humanity, but not experienced by any means at all available to fallen man.  Only by believeing that Christ died for our sins on the cross and devoting ourselves to living for Him are we born again and begin to have the power to communicate with God.

Thaiss is what makes the souls powers, the siddhis, lying wsigns and wonders.  They are not necessarily brought about by demionic influence although that may bget involvwed in them under some circumstances, and certainly as Nee points out Satan is very interested in finding wAYS TO GET PEOPLE TO EXPRESS THESE POWERS BECAUSE THEY CAN BE TURNED TO WORSHIPING HIM IN VARIOUS WAYS, WHICH IS HIS NEVERENDING QUEST, TO DISPLACE gOD IN HUMAN WORSHIP.  tURNING cATHOLICS TO mARY INSTEAD OF cHRIST IS CERTAINLY ONE WAY THIS OCCURS.  hE'S ALREADY SUCCEEDED IN GETTING THE cATHOLIC cHURCH TO OFFICIALIZE A LONG LIST OF FALSE DOCTRINES THAT REPLACE gOD AND cHRIST WITH DSOULISH AND DEMONIC SUBSTITUTES.

tHE ONLY SAFE HAVEN FROM ALL THIS IS BELIEF IN cHRIST'S DEATH ON THE CROSS TO PAY FOR OUR SINS AGAINST gOD'S LAW, MAKIBG US BORN AGAIN AND FIT FOR ETERNAL LIFE.  oTHERWISE EPOPEOPLE ACAN ONLY BE EDECEIVED by these things.

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_ eware of lying signs and wonders which will increase in the end times

The pre-tib people are wrong about the antichrist, the Roman Church is going to be the main player in the last days drama, and Catholics should learn about their church and leave as soon as possible.  As I've been familiarizing myself with the scripture and historical information related to these things, my opinions have only gbeen getting stronger.  

DaveHunt's book, A Woman Risdes the Bast, is the best source I know of for an overview of the antichrist nature of the Roman Catholic Church, and his view of how it all comes together in the end is pretty much the same as my own, although he doesn't think the final antichrist is to be a ppe and I still do.  If some other candidate emerges who takes on the title that adds up to 666 as the popes do, I would accept his view of it, but that number is what makes the determination for me.    He also seems to put the revived Roman empire into the future while I put it back with the claim of the bishop of rROme to be the universal bishop over all the other bishops and the whole church, taking on the title Pope, which occurred in stages but most definitely in the year 607.  Throughout the MIddle Ages the Popes were growing as a line of Caesars unto themselves and taking on powers that subdued kings.  And they makde martyres of milions, tens of millions, of true Christians who remained outside that Roman Church..  They were a monster then and although the Reformation set them back quite a bit for the last few centuries, I expecct them to recover and be the final evil empire for the last seven years of planet yearth.

Lately I've been listening to a book about levitationi as performed by monastic in the late middle ages, as investigated by Carlos M. N. Eire, as it is one of the main miracles used to determine the qualification of the person for Catholic style sainthood and was common in the stories of many of them.   hey Flew, A History of the impossible, is the title of the book.  The stories, or many of them, seem credible, people going in to ecstasies mostly triggered by some religious object of adoration, actually fising off the ground from inches in some castes to the height of tall trees in others.  The author doesn't arrive at any way of explaining the physics infovolved in this, and I certainly can't, but it does seem to have happened fairly frequently in some cases.

I remember back in the eseventies hearing from a couple of friends who were  seriously into Transcendental Medidation, that they were learning how to levitate.  I  don't know if they succeeded or not but that's the only other time I ever heard of leviation beging a phenomenon associated with religion.  Or with anything for that matter.

Since levitation was must one of a number of other "miracles" some of the Catholic saint candidates experienced, things like clairvoyance, telephathy, teleportation, bilocation or being in two places at once, and I'm familiar with those phenomena from outther  sources, I class them all as what Watchman Nee called Soul Power, rather than spiritual powers.  That is, people who do not have the Holy Spirit, people who are not born again, can do these things and mistake them for something spiritual whereas something truly spiritual would require a perso to be born again.   These phenomena are also what I believe the charismatics istake for spiritual gifts, and in those cases ythey may in fact be born again but acting in the flesh rather than in the spirit.

Nee's concern is that nnonspiritual phenomena can be mistaken for spiritual, as coming from God, when they are arctually produced by the soul rather than the spirit, and that certainly does seem to be the case witht eh Catholic acceptance of such things as from God in their taking it as evidence for the santiliness of their special class of holy people.  Other wise they consider that it might be a deception of the devil, and Nee also says that the devil is likely to be involved in these things because it is in his interest to further any deception that is attributed to God when it has other sources.  Accortding to Nee the devil doesn't need to be the author of these phenomena, they are powers of the human soul that were active in Adam and Eve before the Fall but becaume inaccessible afterward.  Now theycan sometimes, and in some people, be brought out by practices that suppress or weaken the body, or on the other hand the strengthen the soul's ability to control the body, which allows these powers to be released from a sort of imprisonmentn in the flesh.  This certainly fits with the fact that a severe scedeticism was practicsed by many of the "saints" who levitated and exprienced other sould powers such as clairvonyance and telepaty and bilocationdifd idoesn't always mention whether a particular levitator practised such ascetic deprivations , such as sevree fastings to the point of emaciation,  wearing a hari shirt that irritates the skin, wrapping a chain around the body tightly and wearing it at all times, sleeping on hard surfaces and so on.  Suhch things should indeed weaken the body.  It is hard to impagine how anyone ever tolerated them but apparently it was a common practice in the monasteries.    Anyway, that fits with what Nee says is one way the soul powers can be released.   The body seems to become an inert thing, impervious to pain or sensation of any sort suduring an ecstasy, it stiffens in whatever posterur it was in when the levitation or ecstasy started and can't be moved until the experience is at an end.  Oddly, garments also stay in place and can't be moved either during these events, and any objects in the hands also are immobilized there for the duration, even a frying pan with eggs in it that Teresa of Avila was cooking when she suddenly launched into the air.  

These things are so abundanctly witnessed that it would stretch my credulity to have to auppose they are nothing but mass hallucinations or something like that.  Surely they are real although of course impossible to explain.  The task of the Catholic officials charged with deterining the canonicity of each case is to come to a conclusion abou t wherhether they come from God or the devil, or are some kind of fraud.  Some frauds were discovered but it is mainly the character of the person under scrutiny that is the determiner of whether the miracles, as they are caslled, were of God or the deil.  If the person was judged to be truly humble and holy then eventually their levitations and other miracles were accepted as from God.  

There are plenty of reasons other than Watchman Nee's explanation of soul power, certainly from a Protesta t point of view, a biblical point of view that is, because often these people would take off flying when adoring the so called Virgin Mary or celebrating her feast days such as the day commemorating her supposed immaculate conception, which of course never happened, or assumption into heaven, which also didn't happen.  These things are a complete violation of the biblical accounts and in fact are blasphemies as they usurp the characteristics of Christ.  Celebration of the Mass, which is also a blasphemy, is another occasion that triggered a levitation for some of these people.   And many of these saints  as described in Eire's book were living in the time right after the Reformation, after the Council of trent hasd compiled a list of hundreds of curses against all the Protestant doctrines, all the doctrines of salation.  No Catholic would dare believe any of them and that being the case  none of them could have been saved and if they weren't saved they n they weren't born again, did not have the Holy Spirit, or the quickened human spiritual faculty thgat had been lost  at the Fall, and cthrefore none of their supposed miracles could have been from God.  

BBut Satan would like us all to think so and it is a very compelling deception.   

This poit  was intentedded to expose such a deception because it is a hard one to identify and even with this sort of knowledge  wouldn't always be easy to detect.    These things deceived many in the MIddle Ages and are very likely to be among the Lying Signs and QWonders we are warned to bewarde of in these last days.

God's judgment Romanism

 Of course I wish I were wrong.  I don't want America to go down forever under the judgment of God.  I want Trump's agenda of rescuing us to our former greatness to successd.  QWell, it looks like it is succeedeing very nicely.  I wish I could believe it will hold and truly bring us back to our former prosperity and strength for good, and yes our goodness.  I would love to be wrong when I say I just don't see how it can hold because we are under God's judgment and nothig is being done to deal with that.  Getting right with God is what is needed, and all the reasongable solutions to our problems such as illegal immigration, sleeper cells of our enemies, fraud against the taxpayer and so much more, just down't do anythig about our need to get right with God.  In fact it may just be undoing the destructive conditions that are part of Go'd judgment against us.  That's what I'm afreaid of, and try as I might I can't see it holding as long as the nation continues to ignore or deny that we are out of favor with God .  We can't win against God but that is unfortunately what it looks to me like we are doing.  Trying to do.    Godf would restore us very speedily to our former greatness and then some if we set our minds to confessing and repending of the sins of the nation and setting ourselves to try to undo them.  Confession and heartfelt rependatance would go a long way alone I think, but turning it back is going to be necessariy to get back into favor with God and I don't see any will to make that happene.  In fact I'm pretty sure that anyone reading what I'm writing here is perplexed at least by it, can't believe it, may even be angry at the thgouth of it, becaue we are so used to thinking of God as on our side.  A good God would n't be trying to destroy us.    Well, He did just that to the ancient Jewish nation, and to many other nations as well that had violated His laws, as reported in the Bible.  There's no reason to think He wouldn't continue that pattern with America now, along with all the other nations of the earth today as well but American especially because we started out as a nation comitted to Him and that makes us more responsible than other nations.

Well, I've said that many times alreaydy.  Again wish I were wrong, but he most likely scenario is that we are going to bo under just as Europe has, and all this is going to lead to the final judgment of planet earth, known as the Great Tribulation in the Book of Revelation, just before Christ returns.  

And that recognition always leads me back to Rome, the Roman Churchg which is false Christianity, which is clearly foreshadowed i b iblical prophecy to bye the vicious persecuting world power of the Antichrist riegn in those last seven years of the planet.

I recently mentioned gthe book here, Romanism and the Reformation by H. Grattan Guinness which analyzes how he sees it all playing out, and I just finished listening to another book on the same general subject, A Woman Rides the Beast by Dave Hunt, ritten in the nineteeies over ahundred years after Guinness' book, and so probably easier for a lot of people to read.  His end times scenario is different from Guinness' snf ZI figgrt gtom noyh og  I differ from  both of them on some points.  

Dave Hunt accepts the Reformers' view of the papcy as the Antichrist system but he doesn't thiink a pope is going to be the final Antichrist of the last seven years  He thinks the Antichrist must be a single person and not part of a line of successive occupants of an office as the popes are.  He thinks the ANtichrist will be like the emperor Constantine who held all the titles of the head of the Roman religions as all the emperors did, including one he added designating himself the vicar of CHrist, which is where Hunt says that papal title oritinanted.  

If Constantitne did hold that title in the Latin form Vicarivs Filii Dei, which I've shown many times here is the carrier of the infamous number 66 through the addition of its embedded Roman numerals, the I can see how another emperor type like him who took that same title to himself, could be the Antichrist rather than the Pope I've been confinced will hold that polisition.     It's possible but I'm still taking the position that he will be a Pope, who already possess that number in his title.  It could be either but Hunt's reasoning is faulty here because the emperors or Caesars were no less part of a successio of office holders than the Popes are, one Caesar folling another just as the Popes follow each other, and of course each one Caesar or Pope is also a single persons with his own characteristics.  The Popes are just aping the Caesars, and presiding over their own version of the Roman Empire which came into eistence after Pagan Rome falell.  Those who hold to an end times scenario along the lines of Dave Hunt's just skip over that vast period of the Middle Ages when the Popes persecuted torured and murdered true Christains in the illions, which is what the final Antichrist is eprophesided to do.  They keep expecing a Revivced Roman Empire to show up at the last minute, but in reality it apepeared ont eh sceine in the year 607 when the Bishop of Rome became Universal Bishop and from that point on began to usurp the roles of the Caesars and the roles of Chirst and GodHimself and rule over kings  and over a Europe now duggbbed the Holy Roman Empire.   Which voltaire said was neither holy , nor roman nor an empire.  But   that's what the revived roman epre was and is.    Yes Europe is also coming todgether as a politcal version of it and that's all goig to work together in the end, but the Roman CHurch is going to be the head of it all.  Wait and see.  If we're all around then.  when it starts to show its true final shape.

Knowlede of Islam might have helped stave off what we see building up against America these days, which has already pretty much destroyed Europe, but knowledge of Islam is a rare thing, and knowledge of the roman Church which used to be very big in the history of America, up until the early part of the etwentieth century, would have helped us remain the Protestant nation we started out to be, which is the whole reason for our prosperity and success in the world, and our goodness, but most people know nothing about Romanism, Catholics certainly don't believe such things about their church because all they know is it scomfortint presence in their own lives, at least for those who still enjoy it as their mother church, and Protestants have completely lost touch with the evils of Romanism and why it should have been a matter of urgent priority to protect the nations from its inroads.  Too late now I fear.  The so ccalled Protestant churches are far from Protestant.  hey re betrayers of teh Reofrmewrs and all the martyrs of Rome that brought about the Protestant Reofrmation.  

Somee books should be loudly recommended to the average citiczen and I think Dave Hunt's book is one of them.  The ignorance I found in the discussion of religion by Douglas Murray and tom Holland on the podcast 385 title Does God Exist, shouldn't exist if the truth had been kept in view.  But it was lost.  Maybe now they should read something to show them at no, Romanism is NOT Christianity, it is at best Christianitzed paganism, but it is paganism and the Inquisition is not Christian as they believe it to be.  As most people uforutnatley believe it to be.    Tom Holland came up with some ;prettuy wacko idea about how Christianity just keeps turning against its various manifestations as denouncing them as idolatries, and now even atheistm is using evangelical logic to do the same to the religion as a whole.    Yiki  Yikes.    Yeah, Murray, HOlland, read Dave Hunt's book or something on the same subject.  Pleasae.

They who hate you ... Islam, Romanism Marxism etc

There is one glaring problem with our American provision of religious freedom, and that is that there are religions with a totalitarian bent who benefit from it and if they get power through it would abolish it altogether in favor of their own religious ideology which they would then impose on everybody else even backing it up with murdering the so called infidel or heretic.  Marxistm is opf the masame mindlset although not self identified as a religion, but I'm thinking of Islam i particular along with Marxism which together are discussed frequently by Mark Levin as the great threats to America , and ethe West in general.  And they are.  Although individuals should of course have freedom of conscience to bewlieve whatever they believe about God, or almost anything else, allowing such totalitarian tyrannies to have power of a political sort is a suicidal istake.   Europe is as good as deaD ALREADY BECAUSE OF THEIR SUICIDAL ACTIONS ALONG THESE LINES FOR DECADES NOW, AND aMERICA IS UNFORTUNATELY COMING UP FASTS BEHIND THEM IN THE RACE FOR BIGEST suicidal delusional of all time.

Thisd is all true and I'm not giving up on my interpretaiton of these thigs as God's judgment on America, just wanting to make it clear that I know how all this is playing out and why we are so easily focuses d on this aspect of the situatiob instead of on the supernatural aspect of it.  This isn't really the reason, people don't think readily about God's role in our daily affairs, certainly not unbelievers and not eaeven believings most of the time.  That goes for me too.  Coming to realize that I'd lost track of my understanding that we are under judgment was a wrenching experience because I'd been thinking so exlusivley along the lines of how we have to do something about these threats to our security.  But if those threats are part of God's judgmetn on the nation that changes the direction of how we are to deal with it.   And unfortunately although I know we can't succeed beyond some small and perhaps temporary relief by pursuing the aven;ue of throwing out illeal aliens and find ing ways to defang our enemies, if God is behind the destruction being sdone to the country, as it has already beeen done to Europe, the we can't roill back any of this until we deal with the underlying causise, which is our violations of His Law.  Lost of them, some of which I've spelled out here.  Few of which sound to me like anything the country is likely to try to turn back, we like them too much, even the conservatives.  I think some of them could be rejected by the churches, a lot better than we're doing already, but the nation as a whole isn't very likely to care much about divorce and gay rights and gay marriage.  Some of course do but even though it's understood as against God's law I dn't hear anyone talking about how it's briging down God's rwrath on the nation.  I suppose that MIGHT change some minds, if we could get that idea entrenched in our eunderstanding, that the nation is going to go under if we don't do something about how we're beein drowinging in sins of all kinds and even legalizing some of them.     Yes, if we COULD push back some of these sins yes, I think we'd soon find that the threat of Marxism and Islam would recede as threats, yes I really do.  Maybe because we'd have more aof a will to deal with them, or maybe because people on that dsinde of the fence now would experience a great awakening to ractitional ity, or maybe just mysteriously they would facde into the background and stop being a threat, just ecause we'd be getting back into God's favor.  UYes I believe that, but I don't have much hope of persuading anyone else of it.  Either others alreayd ssee it this way or they dont' and few are open to persudasion.    I'd like to be wrong.

But as often happens all this somehow led me back to the theme IU've often followed in my blog, the Anichrist Roman Church.   I've recently been listening to the book Romanism and the Reformation by H. Grattan Guinness, written in the late nineteenth century, in which he lays out a lot of detail about the evils embdfied in that so called CHurch.  Mark Lewvin has a book out On Power, but the Roman Church is maybe the biggest power mad institttuion i the world and he has noi clue whatever to that fact.  Islam is up front about their totalitarian viewsa but you have to know about the written doctrines of the Roman CHurch to learn the same about them.  And when you do you may discover how similar their views are to Islam's.  NBodoy has a right to believe anyting other than what they decree, or the papacy decreed, on pain of death when enecessary.  That's what the INquisition was all about.    Guinness qjuotes a long passage from some Romanist docyument or other that puts the Pope at the head of everything in the world, the ruler of everybody in the rowrold and certainly all the lesser rules of the world such as kings and queens and         Presidents and whatever.  He rules them all according to their written decrees.  It's kind of amazing to hear it all spelled out i such glroriouwly arrogant detail.  

They aren't acting on it these days because they lost their power at the Reformation and have to wait until they get it back.  Which they are going to if I understand the porophey cy of the end days rightly.  In fact as the USA sinks beneheath God's hand of judgment the less power their only real opposition has and if we don't straighten out we'll be part of the reason they recover their power and rise again to rworld domoiinance such as they had in teh Middle Ages, only this time it will be over the entire planewt.    Guinness can be awfully tedious and repetititous but he nevertheless covers the facts that reveal the true nature of the Roman pagan immitatio of Christianity.   At one point he reports that Pope Leo 13jhe  rote a condemnation of the United States Constitution, Declaration of Independnece and Bill of rights as congrary to the true attitude towatrd God that a suppoedsedly Christain nation should express.  If they were in power in the US, and hey, it could end up there, say godbye to our freedoms.  Say hello to the rack and the iron maiden and other interesting tortures of their own invention as I understand it.    Islam almost seems merciful by comparison in their methods of blowing people up and beheading them.   even throwing them off buildings.  At least it's all quickj.  Turture is long and drawn out and extracts as much pain as it's possibl to engender in the victim.   

I dn't know if Poes pick their namesakes by their character or achievements but I've had the idea that may be part of it.  Leo the fourteenth has already dared to act like he has a right to tell Ameriia what doto do about our immigration situation, being usjust as Marixst as all the others on that dside of the issue, nand he took as his namesake Leo the thirteenth who condemned the US constitution.  Maybe there's a theme there and we should pay attention to other ways he's going to assert his supposed right to tell us what to do.  

Almost forgot to mention that near the beginning of the book about Romanism by Guinness he describes how they managed to manipulate their way into power over the kings of Europe.  By shutting down the churches in all the European nations in their role as ecclesiastical power, scaring the citizens of those countries into rebelling abaoistns their rulers which roforced the rules to do whatever the Poe wanted.    Interesting study in negagtive power, to invoke Mark Levin's discussions of that subject.

Oh how we need God to save us from all this, but that means we need to change a lot of things this country has beeinen doing for decades.  

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Later:  Just want to add that I don't agree completely with Guinness' end times scenario.  I already held a great deal of it before I read his book, about htthe historical fulfillment of the Antichrist, against the popular eschatology that believes the Antichrist is to be a single person who will be revealed only just as the end times final period of secen years starts to unfoled.    I think the Antichrist is the Pope and had been the Pope and releavled to be the Pope since the fall of the Roman Enmpire ehwhich allowed the Roman Church to rise in its place over Europe, and that the final Anitchirst of those last eseven years will be whatever Pope is in office at that time.  We already know who he is, what will be different is that he will have reclaimed the worldwide power of the Roman Church that was lost at the Reformation, will reinstate the Inquisition, probably have Islam somehow or other working with him, and murder the true Christians just as they've always done.    I haven't yet worked out how much of the standard or currely popular system I agree or disagree with beyond this.  Except that I think the first six seals have also beein fulfilled thorughtout history arenad are not part of the final seven weeks of years of the seventieth week os Daniel.  They don't have the character of wrath for one thing, they are the wsort of miseries that have happened throughout history, and the sixth seal sounds to me like an announcmenet that it is only at that time that the wrath of God will begin, and the kinds of events that occur in the eventh seal are definitely wrath, completely different kinds of things from the events of the first six seals.     Guinness thinks those six seals dcover only the period up to the beginning of the papal roman Empire.  I don't see much real support for that idea, they are the wosort of events, wars, famines, pstilences that occur throughout history, and he thinks that some of the events in the seventh seal prefigure the Protestant Reformation and I definitely don't see that at all.  But I haven't yet come to any clear conclusions about some of those events myself, I'm just hoping that maybe God will show me something that will give me some clearity about it all.  I have no clear idea of when the Raputre will occur for instance.  Guinenss doesn't mention the rapture at all but that's no surprise.    Anyway, I sisn't want to leave the prophetic elemtns concerning the Antichrist to be ignored.  Guineness does a great job of bringing out a lot of the earlier prophetic meangs from the Book of Daniel though.

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am are ideologicL e world.  In my list of the paganisms of Romanism in my previous post I managed to leave out the Inquisition.  That blot on history is attributed to Christianity by the world which doens't know any better.  They think Romanism is Christanity.  Well so do way too many of today's Protestant churches who have lost touch with their history so I guess th world has an excuse for getting it wrong.  The Inquisition killed some fifty million true Christians along with many Jews and other people groups.  They don't like atheists either.  But none of this is going on now and there is a delusion that it's all ended.  The fact is that it's never been repudiated and if Rome ever gains power again, as it will at the very end, the Inquisition will be revivd in far worse form that in it was during the Middle Ages.  When they have the power that's what they do and in that they are ideological sister to Islam.

The Pope even now has a place at the top of world politics and the last time I remember him being called outwas by an Irish preacher who stood up in the European parliament and denounced him as Antichrist.  That was Pope John Paul I believe, one of the more populatr Popes.     Leo is already acting like king of the world when he chides America for our immigration policies.  He of course want s to be sure that the Catholics among them are given their rightful spiritual sustenance.  He could turn out to be the final Antichrist.  Wait and see.

Murray and Holland on the Uncommon Knowledge podcast regard the Inquisition as one of the blots on Christianity that detract from its appeal to meaning seekers in our day.  That and the religious wars after the Reformation restored the original Christian theology that the Roman Church had interrupted.  The world doesn't have much sense of who the bad guys and good guys are in those wars and doesn't relaly care.  Unfortunately they may well side with the bad guys if it comes down to tiit.  

Muray would like to see something of the benefits at least of the Christian foundations of the West restored but he doesn't think actual belief is likely to be much of a part of it in our tie and he's probably right about that.   The liberal notion of rights, which are contrary to the biblical moral law in many cases,k  is much too popular with too many people to be given up although that is exactly what must be iven up if the West is to be saved from God's judgment which is what we are all suffering now and it's only goig to get worldse.  

But I keep thinking that so much has been lost that could be regained on the elvel of simple information about the teachings and history of Christianity without preacheing it at least for starters.  I became a believer simply by reading books about religion.  I didn't even really understand the gospel itself until after I was mostly persuaded to Christianity.  that came later for me but it's different for everyone.   I just recognized that it was true.  I knowq that's the hard part for someone like Murray and many  people these days but there's really not much holding that idea together if you spend some time thinking about it.   

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