SIN’S WAR OF ATTRITION

“And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” Isa.2:4; Mic.4:3

     One thing the Bible teaches: When it comes to the Creator's lessons on faith and salvation, whether of promising peace or warnings of destruction, GOD always repeats Himself. As little children need constant repetition in their learning, so we need constant reminders of harms way vs. GOD’S way. And when we choose His way and remain under the shadow of his wings our "life is hid with Christ in God." Col.3:3. For this grand reward the saints pray: "How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings." "I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech. Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them. Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings, From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about." Ps.36:7; 17:6-9.

     All throughout history we see the long, brutal history of how war is the leading cause of destruction. Going all the way back to when Cain beat to death his little brother, Abel, it has always been the devil’s agenda to pit man against man. Thousands of years passed under this “mark” of aggression. But in the days of Israel, when the Hebrew family had to kill or be killed, GOD gave them prophecy that the day would come when all aggression would come to an end and everlasting peace would ensue, "and none shall make them afraid." Mic.4:4.

     Enter: Jesus Christ. His manner of non-aggression rebuked both the Jews and the Romans manner of living under this banner of continual violence. His call to heaven’s virtue set a whole new standard for men to live. And His message of salvation, based on this principle took off like wildfire. In the opening centuries of the Christian faith, both the unbelieving Romans and Jews fought tooth and nail against this “new covenant” of non-violence. But they could not stop the Presence of the Holy Spirit Who was leading men and women to stand for a level of love and virtue that rebuked the very core of sin’s authority. Sin and violence have always been partners. And this unholy union has continued unto this day.

     So, to corrupt Christ’s message calling for repentance from the violence of sin Satan created a new religion: an amalgamation of His sinful government with Christ’s sinless government. During the fourth century Catholicism rose to prominence through the Roman emperor Constantine. The cancer of sin now contaminated the power of the Gospel by uniting “the wine of violence” with “Jesus Christ, and him crucified” (Prov.4:17; I Cor.2:2). But the pure Gospel of our LORD uplifts a very simple truth: If the message of the non-violent Love demonstrated by His life, death, and resurrection can reach the heart, all of the threats of men will avail nothing.

     Jesus gave precious counsel on the standard of the “new covenant” whereby the Holy Spirit is received and maintained in the life. The fruits of the Holy Spirit will be seen as GOD promised: “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.” Eze.36;26. And Jesus gave the identifying marks of the Presence of the Holy Spirit: “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." "For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh." Matt.7:21;18-20; Lu.6:44,45.

     In utter denial of our Saviour's words and example of life a soul-threatening corruption of the Gospel took hold. Centuries of brutal men under the bulls of popes watered the Earth with the blood of men. For 1,260 years the pope would rule with an “iron” fist the nations of Europe (Dan.2:40). This was the time when the Apostolic Church of Christ had to hide in the wilderness regions to continue the “faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Ju.v.3): “And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.” Rev.12:6. GOD repeated this time prophecy assigned to papal Rome seven times (Dan. 7:25, 11:33, 12:7; Rev. 11:2, 12:6, 12:14, 13:5). "And they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of times." Dan.7:25. These 1,260 prophetic days equal 1,260 literal years as assigned by the LORD’s command (Nu.14:34; Eze.4:6): “I have appointed thee each day for a year.”

     The Bible teaches this period of 1,260 literal years, from Justinian’s decree went into effect, granting the pope supreme authority in 538 A.D. until Napoleon’s general, Berthier, carried the decree of France removing all papal authority in 1798, when he entered Rome, arrested the pope, and banishing him until his death (Rev.13:3). By civil license papal rule was given, and by civil license it was taken away. As was just said, the Bible gives seven prophecies of this 1,260 year time-period when the true Church of Christ should hide for its very existence. Jesus gave His church counsel on this, "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved. But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another." Matt.10:22,23.

     Enter: the United States of America. America’s founders well understood the history of papal rule. 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.” For the most part, people today have no concept of the arrogant ignorance that the papacy exercised throughout its brutal history. Even today, both Catholicism and Protestantism promotes such ignorance to the Gospel's guidelines that they actually threaten the salvation of all people under their guidance because the ruling doctrines of the church slander the character of Jesus Christ and promote sin against GOD’S Holy Law. Although shrouded behind a façade of scholarship and piety, this religious system that allows for violence works to "grieve" the Holy Spirit from the soul and thus condemns the unrepentant (Isa.59:2; Eph.4:30; Rom.8:11). Bible prophecy declares the most dangerous men in today's generation to be our 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 (Matt.8:12; Col.2:22).

     Years ago, during the opening years of America's struggles for liberty from both civil and religious tyranny, Thomas Jefferson wrote John Adams, “Like you I fear the resurrection of the Jesuits.” In this sinister scheme of men playacting Christ’s service, Bible prophecy is not only proven but it cannot be mistaken. In Daniel 2 & 7; and Revelation 13 & 17 the chronology identifying the final kingdoms of Earth declare that Rome will rule until Christ comes to crush this regime masquerading in virtue while living in open sin and perpetuating its rule over every Christian. 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 the Jesuit plots to kill Henry VIII and attempt to kill King James I along with his protestant parliament (through the Jesuit, Henry Garnet, and his hired mercenary, Guy Fawkes), it is readily seen that there is no crime too base for these men to carry out. Even during the American Civil War, Pope Pius IX wrote a letter to Jeff Davis condemning President Abraham Lincoln and America’s union. Lincoln knew of this letter. And from its directive, there were "a thousand daggers" pointed at President Lincoln. The proof is found in the pope's own words. Said this 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.”

     Here we are in our generation. When President Kennedy was elected he sought to restore America's financial liberty from the banks headed up by the Rothschild bank of Rome. And when urged to support Catholic rule in Vietnam he determined not to send American boys to die, having known first hand the violence of war in World War II. But right after these luciferians put a bullet in John Kennedy's head on national TV, America immediately went to war in Vietnam. During the Vietnam War the Navy Seals had a nickname for the CIA: “Christians In Action.” (Never forget the origins of the amalgamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with Satan’s campaign of continued violence.)

     But the noble intentions of our nation’s founders gave men a fighting chance to stay the hand of tyranny as found in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. And men had to fight and die for its establishment. In this, Solomon said, “there is a time for war.” American liberty faced the same ultimatum as ancient Israel: kill or be killed.

     At the height of the reformation, in the midst of this grave threat from religious hypocrites America was born. Our nation’s founders were very wise in their design for constitutional law, for it has a close and intimate relationship with the liberties set forth by Jesus Christ. The relationship of GOD’S Ten Commandment Law to the United States Constitution is simple: On the one table of stone GOD Himself engraved the first four Commandments: these address your personal relationship with GOD, and no one has the right to impose on you how your relationship is carried out. This allows the wide variety of religions to carry out their chosen convictions. But on the second table of stone are engraved the last six Commandments. In these lie the perfect rule of government to order our daily lives. Our forefathers understood that honoring the last six would guaranty the mutual safety of every American citizen. The obvious lesson of history reveals that these are the ones that when violated have caused every tragedy to befall the human race throughout time. And the study of religious history reveals that whenever the first four Commandments are violated this always leads to the violation of the last six. This has ever been the danger of uniting church with state. In the eyes of Jesus Christ this is an unholy union, for the union of church and state led to His own torture and crucifixion.

     But what America today calls freedom, is in fact imperialism. And all imperialism is condemned by Jesus Christ. And for Christians to be drawn in to this illusion of patriotism to GOD and country need to read the Saviour's words on the threat of this regime. On the night of the last supper, after giving the communion bread and wine (grape juice), Jesus had to dissuade His disciples from this thinking: "And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. BUT YE SHALL NOT BE SO [emphasis supplied]: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth. Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel." Lu.22:24-30.

     In closing, the last display of this adulterous affair between the the spirit of violence and the Gospel of Christ is on the horizon of our day. The evidence for its "revival" is all there. The union of today’s apostate church and our atheistic government is prophesied to come to pass. And it is this unholy union that leads to the battle of Armageddon. Although the mettle of every Christian will be severely tried in the fires of affliction, Jesus reminds us who will be the Victor in the end: “These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.” “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.” Rev.17:14; 3:21.