DEMOCRACY IN ACTION

“Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.” Eccl.9:18

     The history of democracy has been shown to be a failure in every nation who adopted its philosophy. From the days of Noah to the rejection of Jesus Christ, the judgment of man has proven to be against the godly, the just, the courteous, and the wise. And history is littered with ungodly rulers who have always misled the voters. And so it is today.

     If any democratic nation stands against the Bible they are unfit to lead. And the same may be said of our religious leaders. Great men who founded America boldly proclaimed this moral fact: “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”—George Washington. “The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty… Students’ perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.”—Thomas Jefferson. “That book is the rock on which our Republic rests.”—Andrew Jackson. “Hold fast to the Bible… To the influence of this book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and this we must look as our guide in the future.”

     The wisdom-led founders of American liberty established a bulwark against religious tyranny that no nation in history has ever matched or ever will match in our sinful world. But there have been antagonists who historically have despised our nation’s liberties. At the heart of this antagonism is the traditional doctrines of the papacy that has exalted itself above "the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus." (II Tim.3:15): "The church is above the Bible."—The Catholic Record, Sept.1, 1923

     Even as our forefathers were laying the foundation of our constitutional freedoms Pope Gregory XVI had this to say of the rise of America: “A filthy sewer filled with heretical vomit.” People have no concept of the arrogant ignorance that both Catholicism and today’s Protestantism promotes and how this ignorance (although shrouded behind a façade of intellect and piety) threatens the salvation of all people under their guidance. Bible prophecy declares the most dangerous men to be today’s religious leaders for they poison the minds of men with principles that GOD abhors because these Unbiblical “doctrines of men” lead to the darkness of death not to the Light of life (Col.2:22; Matt.8:12) simply because the acceptance of sin is indoctrinated in the culture of the church.

     War after war after war, all for the supremacy, Rome to this day has set out to destroy every vestige of Protestantism through her secret police, the Jesuit Order. Everything from the Catholic led Spanish Armada sent to destroy Protestant England to Pope Pius IX condemning President Abraham Lincoln and America’s constitutional freedoms, Rome has chosen the evil over the righteous. Said the highly venerated Pope Pius IX in his Encyclical Letter of August 15, 1854, “The absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty of conscience are a most pestilential error, a pest of all others most to be dreaded in a state.” Even though modern popes have come in amiably like lambs, the mouth may speak what the heart never knows, for nothing has changed since the dark ages concerning the foundational teachings of the Roman Church, which includes the doctrine that the pope is Christ's vicegerent and therefore, head of the church.

     If the people were not contaminated with a sinful nature, all decisions would naturally lead to a virtuous outcome. But the history of man on the Earth does not bear this out. And we need to see its application today in light of the prophecies assigned to our generation and the churches disobedience to Christ, even concerning the end-time prophecies.

     Scripture provides sixteen guidelines of Bible prophecy. In obeying this criteria we can determine if one who claims the prophetic gift is heaven-led or Satan-led. And if any of these guidelines are disobeyed by the prophet or the church, false expectations will then take hold, and thus give Satan the advantage to deceive these souls to both their temporal and eternal ruin. This is proven in the history of Israel, Judah and Judaea, whose orthodoxy remains to this day.

     Let it be known that all of prophecy is closely knit with either obedience or disobedience to the Ten Commandments of Jesus Christ (Jn.8:58). To obey brings the blessings of GOD. To disobey opens the door for the enemy to rule; and his will is never for the benefit of man. The fall of every kingdom through history is predicated on its loyalty to GOD'S Standard of Holiness, from Egypt and Babylon to Nazi Germany and America's teetering condition today. "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people." Prov.14:34.

     The sixteen guidelines of Bible prophecy provide us with the knowledge of the boundaries to know if what is being taught today as the sure future for every Christian believer is trustworthy. One example: “If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.” Deut.13:1-5.

     In these words of the LORD are seen a severe warning, not only for the safety of the church but for those prophets and leaders who take upon themselves the authority to lead the spiritual lives of others. Just know that all deception, without exception is a stepping stone to sin, “and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” Ja.1:15. This is precisely why every professing Christian must be as the Bereans of Thessalonica, “in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” (Acts 17:11). Hence, the severe warning of the LORD against all who dare to tamper with His Holy Word: “Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.”

     The Word of GOD is our only sure foundation, just as it was for our LORD Jesus Christ! This is why all of the modern translations are dangerous because these so-called scholars have unanimously denied the only manuscripts that historically can be traced back to the Apostles themselves, and have chosen instead, corrupt manuscripts ordained of unconverted men who live in open sin. And we need to identify the spirit behind these men and just what they are imposing over the congregations today as Bible obedient.

     A series of beliefs for the near future has been presented before the churches of the world. From “the secret rapture" and “the seven year tribulation" to “Russia and China invading the Middle East.” In our previous study we reviewed the simple verses denying the nation state of Israel as having any preeminence over any people living today.—And especially the faithful men, women, and children who follow Jesus Christ (Rom.9:6-8; Gal.3:9). As a result, the “majority view” of whole Christian world bows in obeisance to the Jews and the Roman church. And yet, when you read the LORD’S criteria for salvation it is readily seen that the Jews and Romans would eagerly “crucify Christ afresh” if He were to come again, for He would rebuke their sins today just as He rebuked their sins nearly 2000 years ago.

     Let it be understood that men will never give up their sins! They will never humble themselves to repent and receive the pardon that Christ has offered to every man, from Adam to the last. And we need to get a handle on the cause and effect of these prophetic expectations ruling the churches today.

     When one reads about the Reformers' “historicist view” of Bible prophecy (how the entire history of the Christian church is included in the books of Daniel and Revelation), and how today’s Christian leaders have successfully led the whole Christian world to abandon this foundation, and instead believe their futurist views of prophecy, (placing all prophetic events in the future, all centering on the Christ-denying nation state of Israel for the battle of Armageddon, this has effectively disqualified every accusation ever made against the pope of Rome. In fact, every scholar of the Reformation, from John Wycliffe to Martin Luther, from Desiderius Erasmus to John Wesley, (men whose lives stood in constant jeopardy for standing against the “holy roman empire”), is now viewed as having inferior understanding to today’s “new and improved” views of prophecy. But what is truly taking place is the fulfillment of the prophecy: “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron” “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” “For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.” I Tim.4:1,2; II Tim.4:3,4; Rev.16:14.

     Religious history tells the pathetic story of how all the wars of Europe, from the dark ages through the reformation reflected to one degree or another the cruel rule of the church over the lives of men, and how prophecy declares that the wars of our generation are spawned from this same power centered in Rome as verified in Daniel 2 & 7 where Rome is the final power to rule the Earth until Christ comes.

     From this history it is seen that the counterreformation carried out by the Jesuit Order (whose sole purpose is to lead the world to bow before the pope and accept his sinful rule) is responsible for all of today's dominant views of Bible prophecy centering on Israel (and not sin against GOD'S Holy Law). But how can this be when the threat of sin is the whole issue that got man into this predicament in the first place and forced “the Son of God” to come and die in the most abhorrent form of death: “the second death:” where your life comes to an end forever: never again to know the love of the Father, to live, to share, to laugh, or dance in joy. This was the death that Christ faced for every man. But as the Bible says: death can only hold sin (Eze.18:4; Rom.6:23). But Christ had no sin! Therefore the grave had to set Him free! And this includes you and me!

     No, these prophetic views that Protestants claim as their own and to be Bible obedient are in fact disobedient to Scripture. History proves, as we will see, that their source is from the counterreformation priesthood of the Jesuits whose secret agenda is to bring the whole world to “worship the beast and his image.” "Let these sayings sink down into your ears:" Rome is Satan’s right arm of power on the Earth.

     History proves how tens of millions of Bible illiterate Christians are being played the fool to believe the Jesuit fabrications of "the future Antichrist" and "the seven-year tribulation," which are being pawned off today as Protestant doctrine. This theology first appeared way back in the year 1575, being conceived by the Jesuit, Francisco Ribera. He invented this "Future Antichrist/Seven-year Tribulation" doctrine to counter the Reformers unanimous view that the pope of Rome is the great Antichrist of the end times. And when the Rothschild bank took over Rome's finances in 1823, by the year 1900 it is said, Rome effectively owned 50% of the world's wealth. Here’s the key to their leverage over the church: Now they had all the money they needed to fulfill the prophecies of their own devising and could mold the world's wars to lead the world to where we are today.

     At the core of their corrupt prophetic scenario is Daniel 9:27 that today is declared to represent the coming Antichrist. Daniel 9:27 belongs to Jesus Christ! Not Antichrist! The prophecy of the Holy Bible proving through simple arithmetic the legitimacy of Jesus Christ is the crowning prophecy of the Holy Bible. It also describes how the Savior’s years of public ministry were cut short to a mere three and a half years as Daniel 9:27 confirms: “And He [Jesus Christ] shall confirm the covenant [GOD'S gift of salvation] with many [the Jewish nation] for one week [the last seven years of the 490 year prophecy]; And in the midst of the week [just three and a half years into His ministry of reconciliation (27-31 A.D.)] He [Jesus Christ] shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease” [only Christ could bring an end to the sacrificial system (introduced with Adam and Eve) that pointed to the death of the Son of GOD].

     This tangible evidence establishes faith in Jesus Christ as “the Saviour of all men” (I Tim.4:10) for these are the only verses of the entire Bible revealing to the whole world through simple arithmetic (in which a little child can understand) of the exact year (the year 31 A.D.) that GOD Himself would bear the punishment for the sins of mankind as the Sinner’s Great Substitute. And this finest verse in all of Scripture has been slandered by the Jewish and Roman luciferians who care nothing for Christ or His glory but only their lust for power and sin. In seminaries all around the world they deny the glory due to Jesus Christ in Daniel 9:27 and insist on the fabricated future antichrist whose doctrine was initiated by the Jesuit Order.

     You're free to believe as you choose. All of us have the liberty to follow our convictions in life. But I believe that nearly the whole Christian world has taken their eyes off the plain “Thus saith the LORD” and placed their trust in men whose determination is to perpetuate sin forever. The controversy between Christ and Satan has always been about sin. And it will always be about sin. For this was the purpose of Jesus Christ: to save us FROM sin, not IN sin. For the Holy Spirit can have no place in the soul where sin is seated on the throne of one’s heart. The sinful heart must be voluntarily relinquished that Jesus Christ may take up residence in the citadel of our souls and give His commands from the fountain of our thoughts. This is why the Apostles opened their epistles with words of their subservience to GOD and Jesus Christ: “Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ;” “James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ;” “Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ;” “Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ.” “Rom.1:1; Ja.1:1;II Pet.1:1; Ju.1.

     In summation: There is only One Who is fit and able to rule: only One in Whom we are safe to place our soul’s salvation. But neither the atheists nor the ruling religions of the world will obey His clear Word calling for repentance from sin! It is confession before our Father in heaven (not a Catholic priest) that is commanded to receive the fullness of His Presence, His faith, His patience, and His power through the Holy Ghost to abstain from sin in the life, and thus forfeit His salvation to eternal life. Catholics by and large are some of the most godly men and women on Earth. But because their church has abandoned them to the darkness of their ignorance, this makes them vulnerable as the closing events unfold.

“Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.” Isa.66:1,2.