Monday, August 3, 2020

The Pope and the WCC Coming Together

I'd sort of known one of my great-nephews was doing some videos at You Tube on Christian subjects, but I'm not in touch with him and don't really know much about his point of view.  My brother sent me a link to this one and the first few minutes of it are right in line with some of my own recent blogs so I thought I'd post it here.

Maybe I'll get to talk to him about these things eventually and see how far we may agree or disagree.  It looks like he's into doing a lot of research which is good since I'm not up to doing much research  myself with my bad eyes, and in this case he's discovered that the apostate World Council of Churches and Pope Francis are teaming up in interesting ways. 

The RCC alone could be the basis for the final One World Religion but it's got to be able to pull in all the other religions for the Grand Finale of the Tribulation period.  The Popes have been working on this for years, making all kinds of concessions to all the world's religions.  Pulling in apostate Protestantism must bring them close to filling up their collection.

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Added Later:  Oh I'm really enjoying this as I keep listening.  C Jay notes that the UN Secretary General is a Jesuit, as is Pope Francis, and that tghey seem to be operating in synch for peace among nations, which is exactly what the first horse of the Apocalypse represents, peace on earth, of course the peace that isn't a real peace.  And Jay goes on to identify the Jesuits as the "CounterReformation Arm of the RCC" which they are. 

 The Jesuits have been notorious for their efforts to undermine and topple Protestant nations over the centuries since the Reformation and if you look deeply enough you can often find them at the very root of many political uprisings.  It was a Jesuit who invented the term "Social Justice" for instance,  one Luigi Tapparelli.  I wouldn't be at all surprised to find them firmly ensconsed at the base of all the Marxist destruction we are seeing in America right now, but just getting across that it IS Marxist has been a big enough project for the moment.    It turns out there has been Jesuit influence behind many historic bad guys such as Marx himself, and Stalin and others.  Chris Pinto has looked into this and I should check out his recent messages.   I don't know if my greatnephie puts any of this in the context of the Last Days scenario I've been pursuing but maybe that can be my contribution to his thinking.   

Back to his very interesting video.

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Still later:  Great stuff Jay.  You've done your homework.  You're doing a great job of showing how the Vatican is already working hard to put together the One World Religion that must be in place during the period of the Great Tribulation, which you may not be studying yet so I'll just point that out to you.  I think it is very close.  The Rapture comes first and then the Tribulation over which the Antichrist reigns both politically and spiritually.  Which history shows they already did in the Middle Ages, which the Reformation took away from them.  They've been waiting all this time to reinstate the power they had then, only now over the entire world, not just Europe.   Separation of church and state by the way is a uniquely American concept which was a reaction to exactly what the RCC did in Europe.

Fascinating to hear that Francis has an agreement with China that gives the RCC power over all the other religions.  So very jesuitical of him, or maybe just papal.  According to the current understanding of end times biblical prophecy which I've come to accept, the first act of the false Messiah/ Antichrist will be to make a covenant with Israel for seven years, terms unspecified in scripture.  This comes from the Book of Daniel which is foundational to much that is to unfold during the Tribulation which is spelled out in Revelation 6 to 18.  Some may think the idea pretty far-fetched that Francis could be the final Antichrist, but the more I know the more sure I am of it, and your information gives a lot of support to the idea.

I'd quibble with your remark about Trump but I'll keep it brief:  I don't like his schmoozing with the dictators either, especially since he was schmoozing the Chinese when he should have been defending Hong Kong against them.  But I give him the benefit of the doubt that he thinks you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar as it were, and he thinks it better to treat people as friends for the purpose of getting their cooperation.    You could argue whether that is a good strategy or whether it is working, but don't suspect him of  bad motives.  Trump is a businessman and a sort of chess player.   He might lose the game, but it may not be quite the same game you seem to think he's playing.

More Convinced that women not covering our heads in church is a great offense to God

Keep thinking about 1 Corinthians 11 where Paul argues for women to cover our heads in church.  Along with the foisting of bogus Greek manuscripts on the Church this seems to me to be another terrible trick designed to undermine the moral and spiritual strength of God's people.   The one essay that had the most influence may have been the work of a godly man, but it was a deception nevertheless.  (I argue all this at some length in my blog Hidden Glory).

There is not one word of what Paul said in that passage to justify the idea that he was referring to a merely cultural practice of any of the different cultures represented in the Church at Corinth.  That has to be read into the passage.  It is not there.  Paul argues from Creation and from Nature and from Apostolic authority, and even from the presence of angels in the churches, and maybe even from common sense;  he says not one word to justify interpreting his meaning to be that it's just a cultural practice and therefore we don't have to take it to have anything to do with covering the head.  Some of those ancient cultures had such a practice but we don't, therefore we don't have to.  Very odd idea since the head is the entire focus of his teaching, both the necessity of covering the woman's head and of uncovering the man's.  As I say in a recent post below, we do require men to take off their hats in church based on this passage, so it makes no sense to interpret the instruction for women to have to do with anything but the head just as it does for men

I've speculated that this could be a reason God has not given us revival over the last sixty or so years.  Since it is a fundamental principle given by God that we are violating, and not the trivial thing some try to make of it, this is a very likely speculation.

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Later:  Speculating again.  Wondering how much the weakening of the headship principle in the churches by abandoning the head covering might even have contributed to the rampant moral breakdown in the culture.   Feminism, Sexual Freedom, easy Divorce, Cohabitation without marriage, Gay Rights, the LGBTQ movement, the legalization of pornography and so on.  All the Liberation of Sin movements of the Sixties.    The Church, after all, is supposed to be one of the bulwarks against moral corruption in the culture.  We've been falling down on the job for some time now, and of course there must be many causes, but this could be a big one.   Then of course what seems to have been an epidemic of sexual sin in the churches.  The natural weakness of the flesh of fallen humanity is enough of course, but this does seem to suggest a greater weakness than that, like the little Dutch boy took his finger out of the hole in the dike back there somewhere. 

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