XII. How to understand the Closing
Events
Having an intellectual ascent of the Word of GOD is no evidence of a saving relationship with Jesus Christ.
Nor is superior intellect synonymous with superior godliness. This is readily seen by contrasting
the cold, calculating mind of Satan (with a minimum IQ of 3000) with that of a little five year old girl who has very little
experience and understanding in life but who prays every night at her bedside, “GOD Bless Mommy; GOD Bless Daddy; GOD
Bless my best friend; And GOD Bless my doggy; Thank you Jesus, Amen.” The little girl who looks to
Christ for friendship and trust is infinitely smarter than the one who has rejected Him, regardless of life’s experience
or intellectual scholarship. This is evidenced by the words of Jesus to His disciples, “Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall
not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” Matt.18:3.
The precious nature of “little children” is such that when they are shown the lessons of affection and
love, their hearts are drawn to its strength and virtue.
It
is precisely on this theme illustrating that great intellect is no indicator of godliness that Christ said to the religious
scholars of His day, “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures,
nor the power of God.” Matt.22:29. These
were men who boasted their vast knowledge of the Scriptures, and through this religious scholarship they commanded and received
the homage of men. And yet, Jesus declared of these men that they were Biblically illiterate.
How profound are the Savior’s Words, then and today. A man can know the Bible backwards and
forwards, but to be void of the lessons of faith and salvation GOD desires him to understand makes him spiritually illiterate,
and therefore deceived in his service to GOD. And all who are misled by his ignorance share the fate from
his ignorance.
1.
Are the prophecies of Revelation yet to come, or did they
begin in the first days of the Christian era?
Revelation 1:3 ____________
is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and ________ those things which are written therein: for
_____ ________ ____ ____ ________.
The prophetic
timeline of “The Revelation of Jesus Christ” began in the days of the Apostle John. And the prophecy covers
the entire history of Christ's Church: from it’s beginning to its ultimate fulfillment in the Earth made new.
The companion book to Revelation is the book of Daniel, which verifies the chronological history of Revelation.
Daniel outlines GOD’S prophecies of Earth’s final four kingdoms: from his day to the close of time (Daniel
2 & 7). And the fourth and final kingdom is Rome. There is no fifth kingdom.
Jesus Christ
came to declare His salvation to all men in the early days of Roman rule. And ever since the days of Jesus
Christ, all throughout the modern era Rome has influenced every nation under the sun, holding to this day the place of preeminence
in both religion and government. But hers is a bloodstained history. Her corruption and lust for power allowed for brutal
dictators, under the blessing and command of the pope to carry out the most heinous atrocities, while professing this as the
will of Jesus Christ. All of these ungodly deeds are chronicled in the books of Daniel and Revelation.
The GOD of heaven would not leave out such grotesque perversion of “His Only Begotten Son.”
And yet,
in our day the church leaders assure their congregations that the prophecies of Revelation do not include the centuries of
murder and persecution perpetrated by the Roman church. “The great antichrist of Bible prophecy is yet future,”
they say. And yet, the pope’s 1,260 year reign was prophesied seven times in Scripture (Dan. 7:25, 11:33, 12:7;
Rev. 11:2, 12:6, 12:14, 13:5) where an estimated fifty million men, women and children perished by the command of the pope
through Europe’s civil rulers. The heinous atrocity of the Spanish Inquisition, under the sanction and blessing
of the pope is declared by our church leaders as exempt of any prophetic inclusion in Scripture. Even the cold blooded
murder of 70,000 Protestant Christians in the St. Bartholomew Massacre in France, where Pope Gregory XIII, cardinals, and
ecclesiastical dignitaries held celebrations and a parade, with church bells ringing in victory from every steeple (Reference,
Henry White, The Massacre of St. Bartholomew, ch.14, par.34)! Today’s ministers assure
their congregations that the history of “Christian” tyranny has total exclusion from the Word of GOD!
Today’s theologians have
even removed the very foundation of the Protestant Reformation by disqualifying the work of the great reformers: Wycliffe,
Huss, Luther, Tyndale, Wesley, Zwingli, Calvin, Beza and Knox, who are today declared by the mass of theologians as deceived
in their concluding the pope of Rome as the Great Antichrist of Scripture with his self-appointed title, Vicarius felii Dei, whose title adds
up to 666 in each of the three Biblical languages of Hebrew, Greek and Latin.
An examination of Bible history describes in precise detail how so much of what we are facing today goes back to the very
beginning of mankind. As the Bible describes Cain and Abel as representatives of the two branches of mankind:
one unrighteous and the other righteous, so the newly formed Church of Jesus Christ gave birth to two children: one unrighteous
and the other righteous. This is illustrated in the book of Revelation by symbolizing the history of the
church as the history of two women: one faithful, and the other unfaithful, while both claim fidelity to Jesus Christ in wedlock.
These two women of Bible prophecy have their parentage in two schools of theology of the third century: the school of Antioch,
which upheld the grammatical, historical interpretation of the Scriptures, (having no association with pagan philosophy or
mystical modes of thought); and, the other: the school of Alexandria, which conceived an unholy union between the sinful traditions
of pagan idolatry with the purity of the Christian faith, thereby corrupting the call of GOD to every man to repent from sin. Alexandrian
theology of truth and error was adopted by the church of Rome.
Of the righteous church it is written, “I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman”
(Jer.6:2). This woman is the bride of Christ whose patience and perseverance will be rewarded when “the
bridegroom cometh” (Matt.25:6). But of the adulterous church the Bible says, “And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden
cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY,
BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the
saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus." Revelation 17:4-6.
This prophecy refers to the age of religious tyranny exercised by the Holy Roman Empire against all who opposed the pope’s
supremacy. History is littered with the record of atrocities against Christ’s faithful church. Most of this
history has been surgically removed, libraries burned to the ground, histories secretly removed from universities. The
“Christian” saboteurs under the auspices of Rome have effectively deleted two thousand years of church history
from Bible prophecy. The covert activity and sabotage against the true Gospel and its history by the Bible illiterate
priests and their underlings will only come to light in the great judgment. And the saddest part: this sinful version
of Christianity will never come to an end until it is too late for them to repent (Dan.2:35; Matt.26:64) and Christ comes
in the clouds of glory.
If the Cold War
between Communism and Capitalism produced extensive espionage, murder and diversionary tactics to secure the supremacy, how
much more would espionage be employed to the destruction of souls. Even though it is Satan, “which deceiveth the
whole world,” the means of his success is through disobedient men in positions of authority, in government, law, science,
even in the leadership of the church: “for such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into
the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light”
(II Cor.11:13,14).
2. Where does Scripture verify
the Holy Roman Empire in
prophecy?
Daniel 2:31-34 Thou, 0 king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image,
whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold,
his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, [v.33] His legs of iron, his feet _______ ____
_______ and _______ ____ _______. Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image
upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
Daniel 2:37-45 Thou, 0 king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given
thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the
fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold [Babylon].
And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee [Mede and Persian Empire], and another third kingdom of brass
[Greece, under Alexander the Great], which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom [Rome] shall be strong
as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break
in pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom
shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, for as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave
one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. And in the days of these kings [Rome] shall the God of heaven set up
a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces
and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. (v.45) Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of
the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great
God hath made known to the king _______ _______ _______ ____ _______ _____________: and the
dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, was shown the history of the
kingdoms of earth to the close of time. The student of history will see that GOD'S Word was true, for four ruling kingdoms
can be traced through the history of western civilization (those associated with the family of Abraham). Simply
review the kingdoms of Bible prophecy: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, & Rome (pagan and papal eras). Because "iron"
represents Rome (1st phase of Roman dominion), her 2nd phase, "part of iron, and part
of clay," is the offspring of Pagan Rome, which is Papal Rome or The Holy Roman Empire. Papal
Rome is discussed in these other passages of New Testament prophecy: II Th.2:3-10; I Tim.4:1-3; Dan.11:31-39; 7:25; 8:25;
Rev.12:6; 13:1-10; 17. Therefore, it becomes instantly obvious that the focus of the book of Revelation deals specifically
with the fourth and final kingdom of earth’s present history: Rome. The 1260 prophetic day/literal year prophecy
specified in Dan. 7:25, 11:33, 12:7; & Rev. 11:2, 12:6, 12:14, 13:5 was fulfilled: from the year that Justinian's
decree went into effect (538 AD), granting the pope of Rome supreme rule over the church with the civil authority to persecute
all “heretics,” to the year 1798 when General Berthier of France entered Rome with a decree removing papal authority
and took the pope captive and threw him in prison until his death, “that the Scripture might be fulfilled,” “And
I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death: and his deadly wound was healed [when Mussolini restored the civil authority
of the pope in 1929]: and all the world wondered after the beast” (Rev. 13:3).
We are now living in the closing moments of the last great
kingdom of Bible prophecy. None can claim a greater influence; none can claim a superior financial status; none have
been associated with greater demonstrations of the miraculous; and none can claim a greater abuse of life with her long history
of first-degree murder. Several passages of prophecy declare that the subversive religion of Catholicism and Apostate Protestantism
will neither repent nor let go of their controlling authority over the people. In summation, The Roman Catholic Church is earth's ruling religion whose sole purpose is to
perpetuate sin forever!
3. How do we know the fate
of destruction awaits the
Vatican when Jesus Christ returns in the clouds of glory?
Daniel 2:35 Then was _____
_______, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer
threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that ____ _________ ______ ____________ _____
________: and the stone [Christ] that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
4. Are miracles the standard by which to trust the leading
hand of GOD as so many declare this to be so?
II Corinthians 11:13-15 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers,
transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for __________ himself is _________________ into ____
_________ ____ ___________. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers
of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
II Thessalonians 2:9 Even him [the great dictator of the Christian church], whose coming is after the working of Satan with _____ _____________ and _________ and ___________
_______________.
Deuteronomy
13:1-4 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee ____ __________ or ____
___________, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after _________
_______, which thou hast not known, and let us __________ ________; 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.
5. How dangerous to one’s salvation can demonstrations of
miracles be?
John 5:2-4 Now
there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having
five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
(v.4) For an _________ _______ _________ at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever
then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of _________________ ____________ ____
______.
This healing ministry was in competition with Christ’s healing ministry, and led people away from the Savior.
Each time the “angel” (a demon) “troubled the water,” a frenzy took place. Those who were stronger
would trample over the weak to be the first in the water. The devil would then reward the winner of the cruel competition
with the temporary healing of “whatsoever disease he had” while all the others were left
to perish on the banks, waiting for a deliverance that would never come. Jesus, on the other hand was not partial in
His love or a respecter of man: He would never bless one to the neglect of another, “and great multitudes followed him,
and he healed them all.” Matt.12:15. When Jesus stood
at the pool on the Sabbath day He desired to heal them all, but the Jews always worked against Him. So
Jesus could only heal one; and his was the most severe affliction (v.6).
Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an _________ _______ ____________, preach
_____ ________ __________ unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
The Apostle Paul warned of demons capabilities to impersonate himself or the other Apostles as well as present themselves
as glorious beings with amazing powers and knowledge: all designed to harden men in their sin and thus secure their eternal
death.
6. What determines the church's
obedience or disobedience
to the Gospel of Christ?
Isaiah 8:20 To ______ ______ and to ______ ___________________:
if they __________ _____ according to this word, it is because _________ ____ ____ __________ in them.
Matthew 19:17 But if thou wilt enter into life _______ _____ ______________________.
John 14:15 If ye love Me, _______
____ _____________________.
7. Has the Christian Church honored His commandments?
I Peter 4:18 And if the righteous ___________ ____
_________ where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
In the context of
this passage the Apostle Peter is referring to those whose names are on the church books. The word “scarcely”
is safely defined as less than five percent. This translates to the “hard saying” that over
ninety-five percent of all professing Christians will stand condemned before Jesus Christ, and will find themselves standing
side by side with the most wicked of men. And although their sins are far less severe, they are no less
disqualifying of the Presence of the Holy Spirit whose power alone resurrects the believer “in Christ” to everlasting
life. Paul clarified this essential doctrine of salvation: “And if Christ be in you,
the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also
quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh,
to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds
of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” Rom.8:10-14.
The heart of this issue always
rests in the theme of GOD’S call to every man, “Repent.” Repent from what? “Sin.” What
is sin? “Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.” I Jn.3:4.
The Apostle Peter specifically warned every professing Christian of the danger of sin that they not “blaspheme against
the Holy Ghost:” “For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they
have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.” II Pet.2:21. These very words of the Apostle Peter condemn the very existence of the Roman Catholic Church. But their love affair with pagan tradition and rituals overrules obedience to GOD. The
pride and complacency has surrendered the will to accept a life of sin. They demand to be saved in
sin instead of from sin. This works against the first fruit of believing the Gospel, which is
repentance. Example: If a man, after abusing his wife, apologizes, then moments later abuses her again, of what value
was his apology? This illustrates what is so common among church leaders and members: a shallow repentance, where a
general lack of remorse prevents the needed reform to understand the detestable nature of sin and separate from its moldering
influence. Without meeting the Bible’s conditions of salvation this opens the floodgates for fraudulent
doctrine to bear sway over the church. And this is where we find ourselves today, inundated with doctrines outside of
safe, Bible guidelines.
Matthew 7:21-23 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. Many will say to me in that
day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful
works? [v.23] And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that ________ ____________.
“Iniquity” is selfishness. And the exercise
of selfishness is the expression of sin. Christ can have no companionship with those who have determined to live in
sin while leading others by their example. Herein lies the great danger for multitudes of Christians who refuse to harness
truth on their own and develop their personal discipline of obedience to the lessons where GOD desires their success.
And where failure occurs GOD leads them to go over the same lesson again until victory is achieved. We rest in His power
in and through us to bring us the victory, although it never feels like a victory as Paul said, “O wretched
man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the
mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.” Rom.7:24,25. These words are never to be used
to contradict Paul’s warning: “Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid!” Rom.6:1.
“The law of sin” refers to our fallen nature that we struggle against, not the right to commit sin against GOD.
Luke 22:24-26 And there was also a strife among them [the
disciples], which of them should be accounted the greatest. And He [Jesus] said unto them, The
kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. ______
____ _________ ______ ____ ____: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and
he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
This is Christ's explicit command that no disciple of His
is to lord authority over their fellow man. Our forefathers honored this principle by giving it preeminence in the First
Amendment to the United States Constitution, which simply reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Our forefathers understood the ethical logic of Jesus
Christ when He spoke those magnificent words to His disciples on the night of The Last Supper.
All who claim to follow Jesus Christ are to regard religious tyranny as a sin. Fact: every freedom held as sacred by
us as Americans has its origin in the Gospel of Jesus Christ: everything from freedom of speech to freedom of worship.
And these freedoms can only be insured through man’s freewill choice to honor the Ten
Commandments. Not eight [as Catholicism]. Not nine [as Protestantism]. But Ten [as Adventism].
The relationship of GOD’S
Ten Commandment Law to the United States Constitution is simple: On the one table of stone Christ 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 lies 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. 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 Christ this is an unholy union because
it was the union of church and state that led to His own torture and crucifixion.
Paul uplifted the dignity of GOD’S
gift of a freewill when he said, “Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.” II Cor.9:7. Despite the
liberty of conscience GOD has given to every man, (which our forefathers gave to every American in the U.S. Constitution),
our freedom has been and will always be considered anathema to despots cloaked in the garb of Christianity:
"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."—Pope Pius IX, Encyclical
Letter, August 15, 1854.
To this day the existence of our nation's freedoms are condemned by the traditions of Rome. While not openly condemning
America’s religious liberty, Pope John Paul II, in his 1998 Encyclical Letter, Dies Domini,
stated for Catholics to “strive to ensure that civil legislation respects their duty to keep Sunday
holy.” This “duty” is to the pope, not Jesus Christ! Imposing Sunday sacredness is in
violation of Christ’s explicit command to rest in faith on the Sabbath day. Historically, Sunday
sacredness has always been the capstone of heathen gods, whether of Baal, Tammuz, Mithra, Attis, etc.
In order for Satan's deception to succeed, the defiance of the 4th Commandment must
not be viewed as a sin but a blessing to people: that Sunday is a day of peace and rest. But the fact remains that our
religious leaders view Sunday sacredness (the world’s oldest tradition of pagan idolatry) as vital to human survival. This is evident in America’s Emergency Powers Act, which imposes a national Sunday Law
on the American people should our country be threatened with national ruin, in the false belief that GOD will protect our
land. In summation: The church must overthrow the Constitution of the United States of America to gain
an absolute authority that Christ never ordained and commanded should never exist!
