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Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ - it's great
to gather together for fellowship around God's unchanging Word.
Paul taught "Before the day of Christ can come there must first be an
apostasy from the Word, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of
perdition . . . faith in God's Word restrains his public revelation ahead of time.
His work is already going on, but he will not come himself until the restraining
power of the Holy Spirit is taken out of the way in the translation of Christ's
end-time Bride. Then will that wicked one be revealed to the world, whom the
Lord will consume with the Spirit of His mouth (Revelation 19:15), and
destroy with the Supernatural manifestation of the miraculous in His
'parousia' Coming [to Israel] (Revelation 11:3-13). "Even the beast, whose
'parousia' coming is after the working of Satan with great power and signs
and lying wonders, and with unlimited seduction to unrighteousness in them
that perish; because they received not the love of the Truth, that they might
be saved" (II Thessalonians 2:1-10).
The Third Seal with a glimpse at the Fifth and Sixth Vials, confirms that the
office of the man of sin, the son of perdition, is revealed to the end-time Bride
as that of the pope of Rome once he is incarnate of Satan. But that he will not
be recognized as such by the world until after the Holy Spirit has departed
from this earth in our translation and Satan is cast down and incarnate in the
false prophet.
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith, and whosoever will receive
the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life.
Everything presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible. . .
Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony
Hindu representative Ansshok Ansraj, described how already in the Far East
millions of Hindus are getting "positive vibrations" from visiting Marian shrines
without endangering their faith.
Monsignor Guerra pointed out that the very fact that Fatima is the name of a
Muslim and Mohammed's daughter, is indicative that the Shrine must be open
to the co-existence of various faiths and beliefs. According to the Monsignor:
"Therefore we must assume that it was the will of the Blessed Virgin Mary that
this comes about this way." Traditional Catholics opposed to the Congress
were described by the Monsignor as "old fashioned, narrow minded, fanatic
extremists and provocateurs."
For the first time in the 86-year history of Fatima all of the Pagan and
Christian delegates were invited to participate in the Ecumenical
celebrations. One of the principle speakers, the Jesuit theologian
Father Jacques Dupuis, was insistent that the religions of the world
must unite. "The religion of the future will be a general converging of
religions in a universal Christ that will satisfy all", he said.
The Belgium born theologian argued: "The other religious traditions in the
world are part of God's plan for humanity and the Holy Spirit is operating and
present in Buddhist, Hindu and other sacred writings of Christian and nonChristian faiths as well." In an impassioned plea he said: "The universality of
God's kingdom permits this, and this is nothing more than a diversified form
of sharing in the same mystery of salvation. In the end it is hoped that the
Christian will become a better Christian and each Hindu a better Hindu."
An official statement put out by the Congress called for a non-proselytising
approach by all religions. "No one religion can irradiate another," it said "or
strengthen itself by downplaying others, and an open dialogue is the way to
building bridges and tearing down walls of centuries of hate. What is needed
is that each religion be true to its faith integrally and treat each religion on the
same footing of equality with no inferior or superiority complexes." It
emphasized that the secret to peace amongst all religions is admitting that
contradictions exist between creeds but to concentrate on what unites them
as opposed to what separates them.
Delegates agreed that religious shrines, including Fatima, should be revamped
every 25 years to reflect modern day trends and beliefs. The Shrine of Fatima
is about to undergo a complete reconstruction with a new stadium-like basilica
being erected close by the existing one built in 1921. Full story: thenews.net
Comment: This illustrates Satan's 'parousia' coming now to incarnate the
man of sin (or unbelief) "with great power and signs and lying wonders,
(uniting all religions), and with unlimited seduction to unrighteousness in
them that perish; because they received not the love of the Truth (- God's
unchanging Word - John 17:17), that they might be saved." God is a
Separator (Amos 3:3; II Corinthians 6:14-18; Revelation 18:4).
Scripture is being fulfilled in our sight, if only we have eyes to see. Revelation
13:13-14, "America, the image to the Roman beast does great wonders, like
making atomic fire come down from heaven on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, And
deceives them that dwell on the earth by means of those miracles which he is
empowered to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the
earth, that they (the masses through the mob rule of sham democracy being
forced by the 'hidden hand' that controls all democracies) should make an
image to the Rome, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he
had authority to give life to the image of the beast, (a union of Protestants
and all religions) that the image of the beast should demand and cause that
as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed"
(William Branham, The Mark of the Beast, 22:160).
Jesuit priest, the late Malachi Martin said, "I think that from the very start
John Paul II for whatever reasons, has sought after one thing and one thing
only. The formation of what now appears to be in his mind, a universal
assemblage of Catholics at the core; grouped with them the Protestant
denominations, sects and churches; grouped around them believing Jews,
believing Muslims, believing Hindus, believing Buddhists. And that would be a
universal religious assembly that could have a powerful dynamic kick in
civilization and in solving the problems of men and women today. That is the
only thing you can really say this man has sought heart and soul and body
with all his travelling. When he went to churches all over the world, member
churches of the Catholic Church in all the countries, he was bolstering the
reputation of the papacy and he was speaking Catholic dogma, Catholic belief,
Catholic morals. But in reality he was reaching out to everybody. He wanted to
make friends with everybody" (Windswept House).
Pope John Paul II was laying the groundwork to form an image to the Roman
beast.
"Uncle Sam wants you, your sister, and your girl friend or wife." The obligation
of every US citizen, and every other person residing in the United States,
between the ages of 18 and 26 will be to perform a two-year period of
national service. On November 6 and 7 the Associated Press reported that
"85,000 Army and Marine combat forces. . . 43,000 National Guard and
Reserve troops. . . and hundreds of Air Force and Navy Reserve specialists will
be dispatched to Iraq next year. . . Additionally, in a measure known in the
military as 'stop-loss,' both active and reserve Army soldiers designated for
deployment will be prohibited from leaving the service beginning 90 days
before they go to 90 days after they return. . . Full story:
newswithviews.com
the mid-nineteenth century. The Third Seal covers the Sardis (1520-1750)
and Philadelphia Church Ages (1750-1906).
During the Dark Ages under the Second Seal, simony, the sale of bishoprics
and even the office of Pope to the highest bidder, had flourished, and the
Roman Universal church had devised unscriptural doctrines such as the
primacy of the Roman pope, his temporal power, purgatory, his ability to remit
sins upon payment, novenas, and indulgences for future, uncommitted sins a kind of "get out of hell free pass," to the intent that this earthbound
"church" might increase her temporal power and wealth.
Revelation 13:1-4, "I saw a wild untamable beast rising out of the sea (or
multitudes of people - Daniel 7:3; Revelation 17:15), having seven heads and
ten horns, (this was the Roman Universal church united with the Roman State
- Revelation 17:3,12,16), and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads
(the deified emperors and the last pope were) blasphemous names. And the
beast which I saw was like a leopard (the symbol of the Greek Empire), and
his feet were as of a bear (signifying the empire of Medo-Persia), and his
mouth as a lion's mouth (signifying the Babylonian empire): and the Dragon
[Satan] gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority. (The false
prophet was now crowned king of heaven, earth and purgatory and the nature
of his rule incorporates all of the attributes of the previous three Gentile world
empires). And I saw one of his heads (Imperial Rome) as if wounded to
death; and his deadly wound was healed (when Imperial Rome began its
transformation to Papal Rome at the First Nicea Council): and the whole earth
wondered after the wild, untamable beast. And they worshipped the Dragon
because he gave authority to the beast: and they worshipped the wild beast,
saying, Who is like the beast? who is able to war with him?"
The antichrist spirit was firmly ensconced in Rome where under the
first two Seals he consolidated his spiritual and political power. Here,
under the Third Seal, he is taking control over demon power by
persuading the congregations of his Universal church to maintain
Catholic dogmas in face of indisputable Scriptural correction brought
by the Reformers. To reject the vindicated Word of God is the unforgivable
sin, and a repudiation of the Holy Spirit, with the certain removal of one's
name from the Book of Life. For the Word is the Holy Spirit in a form we can
receive by faith. To reject the Holy Spirit by rejecting the revealed Word of
God (as when a woman cuts her hair - I Corinthians 11:1-16) is to open
oneself to the headship and possession of demons. Small wonder Jesus calls
Rome, "the home of demons, and the prison of every foul spirit, and a cage of
every unclean and hateful bird" (Revelation 18:2).
During his ride on the red horse Satan killed all who refused to
receive the mark of the beast: his Trinity doctrine with false baptism
in three Titles. This almost extinguished the Light of the Gospel because the
faith (or understanding of God's Word by the Holy Spirit) was in the hearts of
the martyred saints, and went to the grave with them. The resultant spiritual
ignorance produced what historians call the Dark Ages.
Under the Third Seal Satan's horse (or power) is colored black
because his strategy is to perpetuate the spiritual ignorance of Roman
dogma and papal servitude so savagely established under those long
dark years of the Thyatira Church Age. He has a pair of balances in his
hand, and Christ, the Voice from the throne of God in heaven, declares the
meaning of this symbol which John records under further symbols.
Mimicking Satan and the outrageous behavior of his earthly church at this
time, Christ cried out, "A measure (choenix - about two to three pints, or one
day's provision) of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a
penny." But, He warned, "See that you hurt not the oil and the wine".
Wheat and barley are the staff of natural life. Those better-off ate wheat while
common folk ate barley since it was only a third the price of wheat. These
grains type the Word of God and prayer which sustain the Spiritual Life of
believers. Rome withheld the Word of God, and even though many of her
priests were illiterate, lay people were forbidden to read the Bible. Until the
advent of the printing press only the very wealthy could afford to own a Bible,
at which time Rome was charging for prayer - novenas, masses for the dead,
or candles to burn before an image of the virgin Mary or some other dead
person.
In the natural, oil lamps provided light in darkness whereas in the Spiritual,
"oil" signifies the Holy Spirit which illuminates God's Word so we can walk in
its beautiful Light despite the spiritual Darkness that envelops the world
(Leviticus 8:12; 4:12-14; Matthew 25:3-4). The alcoholic spirit in "wine"
which stimulates and makes the heart merry, types the Holy Spirit which,
when It brings Life to the letter of God's Word, rejoices the soul with the
stimulation of revelation.
It is the Voice of Christ that warns Satan away from His elected
whose souls were being quickened by the "oil and the wine"
ministered by His inspired servants such as Martin Luther, Wesley,
Knox and Whitefield, in the Protestant reformation of the Roman
Catholic system of worship.
The Message of Martin Luther, the angel to the Sardis Church Age, taught
justification is by grace through faith alone, whereas Rome still teaches
contrary to Scripture, that justification is by personal works. Luther supported
all of his teachings from the Bible which he translated into the vernacular and
published on the newly invented printing press so that every man could
personally "receive the word with all readiness of mind, then search the
Scriptures daily, whether those things were so," and "study to show himself
approved of God by rightly dividing the Word of Truth." This revelation
showed the Roman church to be full of spiritual Darkness that could be felt,
and like the plague of natural darkness in Egypt when there was light in the
land of Goshen, under the Third Seal and Fifth Vial there was Spiritual Light in
the camps of the Protestant saints, while those serving the Vatican, like
Pharaoh and the magicians in his kingdom, "gnawed their tongues in rage" at
the frustration of their hopes and the overthrow of their kingdom. Men in
mental or bodily anguish bite their lips and their tongues.
Rome had planned revenge, at first through ecclesiastical courts and armed
conflict, but she was defeated by the Light of God's Word which exposed her
corruption. And later, through the Counter Reformation, which arose from the
Jesuit-inspired Oxford Movement (1833) and was a major effort to reunite the
Church of England with the Roman Catholic church (and ultimately, to unite all
denominations and all religions into one world religion as is taking now place
under direction of the Vatican, World Council of Churches, UN and other
"Jewish" instruments of influence, particularly World War III for which they
are now uniting the non-Christian Judaeo-Christians to 'tame' Islam). Rome
was unable to effect its revenge back then because the elect of God in the
Protestant camps could not be deceived on the revealed Word of God. Hence
their frenzy. (Today, since Vatican II, and under the general apostasy at end
of the Fourth Seal, Rome will have her way).
Revelation 16:10-11, "The fifth angel poured out his Vial upon the throne of
the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their
tongues for pain, and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains
and their sores, and repented not of their deeds".
Martin Luther's ministry under the Third Seal was God's rebuke to
Rome. And under the Fifth Vial it was too late for them to repent of
their works, and they blaspheme the God of heaven. The blasphemy is
directed no longer simply against the Name, or revelation, but against the
God of heaven, the primeval revelation of God. God in His universal revelation
- hence, against all that is Divine. Thus they pass from their unbelief to
demonic belief in which they do recognize God as the author of their plagues
and sores, but recognize Him only consciously to blaspheme Him.
The throne of the beast in Vatican City, Rome, is the principal system
upon which the power of the antichristian life of the people rests.
Rome rules from behind the scenes in every nation. What other 'front'
organization but the Roman Catholic church, and who else but the pope, could
qualify as the antichrist with authority to offer peace through one world
government, granting hegemony to Satan and his sinister group? Under
manipulated circumstances this proposition is sure to be accepted, even
implored by earth's inhabitants, stressed beyond sanity by the chaos now
beginning to be stirred by Satan's dupes the likes of Bush, Blair and Howard.
Rome's pope is the only plausible candidate for the antichrist, "the man of sin,
the son of perdition;" his qualifications are tailored for the vocation. Already
fully a third of the earth's inhabitants lovingly, willingly, and loyally regard him
as vicar over heaven, earth (and purgatory).
Rome's religion, apart from the fact it is blasphemous and false, is of
no value whatever to the 'hidden hand' save inasmuch as it has a
strong base of billions. Mass power is its sole value. The same might be
said of Protestantism, Judaism and all the other isms on an inferior scale, and
which all come with Rome since they are certain to side with the beast system
at the appropriate time. Unsettling the unthinking mind of the programmed
mass, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, retiring Prime Minister of Malaysia, made this
point when he stated the obvious: "a few million" Jews rule the world by
controlling the strongest nations. He might have added that by various means
they also control the strongest religions.
John Wesley was the angel to the Philadelphian Church Age which was also
under the Third Seal. His Message added sanctification to Luther's Message of
justification by grace through faith and it stressed the necessity for
experientially living a holy life. The Sixth Vial that was poured out to
distinguish the false believers from the "saved" non-elect at the close of his
Church Age "dried up the water of the great river Euphrates; that the way of
the kings of the East might be prepared" (Revelation 16:12).
In the natural, the great river Euphrates was the Eastern boundary of
the Roman Empire at its most expansive form (in about AD117). In
the Spiritual it represents the most easterly influence of the Holy
Spirit: the border of Christendom beyond which people are held in
cults and pagan religions. In a previous teaching we said, "In the Sixth
Vial, the protection of what little Holy Spirit existed in Rome's creeds and the
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The demonic Darkness perpetuated and increased by Satan, whose spur drove
the Black horse under the Third Seal, should be obvious to us all in that
despite almost 500 years of teaching and preaching by the Reformers of the
Roman Catholic system of worship there are more Roman Catholics today
under the Fourth Seal than at any time in history. People having forsaken the
Word of God and the common sense of thinking, no longer "prove all things,
hold fast that which is good" but rest in the comfort of a second-hand religion,
the welfare state and puerile entertainments. And instead of praying from the
heart, "say a prayer" (Matthew 6:7).
The demonic Darkness of the Third Seal perpetuated and multiplied, produces
the three Woes of Fascism, Nazism and Communism under the Fourth Seal
"for the Lord visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third
and fourth generation of them that hate Him." Unrecognized by the world,
Christ has "come as a thief," and the "kings of the earth" are now blindly
gathering the whole world to Armageddon in the Name of the Lord Jesus
Christ, with the object of creating a dumbed-down new Dark Age of serfdom.
Once again there is "a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst
of water, but of hearing the Words of the Lord" (Amos 8:11). nl299.htm
Homework: Please read Overview - The Third Seal by William Branham.
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