Roman Catholicism Expert Shares What Pope Francis Is Really Up To!

Pope allows time out of Purgatory, follow his Twitter!

The latest Pope is offering for millions a chance to have their time burning in the fires of purgatory shortened... and all they have to do to acquire this indulgence is to follow his Twitter feed of the upcoming World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro!

http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/pope-francis-purgatory-twitter/2013/07/17/id/515476?promo_code=e3a9-.1&utm_source=Prophecy_News_Watch&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1#

UN chief hails Pope Francis as a global spiritual leader

UN chief hails Pope Francis as a global spiritual leader

The UN leader also commented on the pope's choice to name himself after St Francis of Assisi, saying this was "a powerful message for the many goals shared by the United Nations."

"It speaks loudly of his commitment to the poor, his acute sense of humility, his passion and compassion to improve the human condition," he said.

Interesting announcement made from one of the world's chief agencies for the spread of globalism.  I wonder how this jives with the militaries announcement yesterday that Evangelical Christians are the country's no. 1 enemy!  I guess the recognize the difference between Roman Catholics and Evangelical Christians.  The pieces continue to fall into place for the rise of the False Prophet.

1 John 4:5-6

⁵ They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. ⁶ We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Conclave 2013, the False Prophet, and the New Chrisitanity

So this Tuesday the Conclave begins to meet. Will this continue to work out the prophecy of St. Malachy, where Pope #112 (in line of the prophecy) is the final Pope, and the one who changes the face of Catholicism according to the end time beliefs of Muslims (which also appear to be being fulfilled)?

One element that we haven't heard or seen much of in the news is the "new Bible" that was discovered back around  2000. It appeared quickly in the news, but then we didn't hear much of it anymore. The Muslims have a belief that in the last days, when Imam Madhi comes, they will discover a parchment of Bible, where Jesus testifies to the prophet Muhammed as being the true prophet of God.  The article reports: "In one version of the gospel, he is said to have told a priest: ‘How shall the Messiah be called? Muhammad is his blessed name’."
The New Testament reveals that Jesus Christ does not return in power to the earth until the battle of Armageddon, which is the climax of the 3 and 1/2 year tyranny of the one-world ruler the Bible calls "the man of sin," who sets himself over everything that is called God, "displaying himself as being God" (2 Thess. 2:4).  Islam says that Jesus will come and testify to the Imam Madhi.  But born-again believers know that He does not return to earth except to reign for 1,000 years at the end of the antichrist's deception.  So is the next Pope, who claims to be the "vicar of Christ" (Jesus on earth), to be that fulfillment, and to testify to the coming Muslim Madhi? 

In the article linked above, Pope Benedict requested to see the "new Bible."  Will the next Pope come out with the confession that Jesus did indeed consider Muhammed the true Messiah?  And will this be the "deception" the Bible says the unbelievers will be given over to?  This brings new meaning to "the mark of the Beast," and what that will be (Rev. 13:16-17).

Revelation 13:11-12 ¹¹ Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke as a dragon. ¹² He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. And he makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.
Revelation 13:16-18 ¹⁶ And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, ¹⁷ and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name. ¹⁸ Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.

From One Antichrist to Another: Thoughts on The Papal Transition: Reformed Bapt. Fellowship

This was a great blog from Reformed Baptist Fellowship, on a pertinent topic! 
Distributed by Endview.

From One Antichrist to Another: Thoughts on The Papal Transition

In Reformed Baptist Fellowship on Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 10:12 pm

A Commentary by D. Scott Meadows, Pastor

Calvary Baptist Church (Reformed) of Exeter, New Hampshire

Joseph Ratzinger (a.k.a. His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI) just announced his resignation from the Papacy by the end of this month, February 2013. The process of selecting a successor has begun, with all of this garnering much attention in the news media. As a theologian and pastoral leader, my conscience constrains me to comment.
Years ago I was asked my opinion about the new Cardinal of Boston. I replied, “That’s like asking me about the new captain of a pirate ship. The whole enterprise is illegitimate.” I do not deny that these events may have momentous implications, but I strongly and solemnly protest the show of reverence and awe for such men and for this religious institution even from those who should know better.
A great champion of the biblical faith once wrote a magnificent book entitled, Christianity and Liberalism (1923). In it, J. Gresham Machen detonated an enduring and powerful blast against theological liberalism by asserting that it is not Christianity at all, but an alternative, a competing religion, and deeply anti-Christian.
The same is true of the Roman Catholic Church (RCC). Plainly it is not the Christianity of the New Testament’s apostles and early Christians, as those in agreement with them, and knowledgeable about Roman Catholicism, can discern and attest. At crucial points, the RCC has steadfastly opposed that faith once-for-all delivered to the saints. Historically, she has even slaughtered a great host of Christian believers unjustly branded as heretics. At least since the Council of Trent (1545-1563), the RCC has formally, meticulously, and vociferously repudiated the true, biblical Gospel of Jesus Christ, pronouncing curses upon any who dare to preach it. For example, the Council proclaimed,

CANON XII. If any one saith, that justifying faith is nothing else but confidence in the divine mercy which remits sins for Christ’s sake; or, that this confidence alone is that whereby we are justified: let him be anathema.[1]

That this remains the RCC’s position today is clear from the fact that it still appeals in its modern catechism (c. 2000) to Trent as an authoritative doctrinal statement and teaches in substance along the same very lines.

Justification is not only the remission of sins, but also the sanctification and renewal of the interior man (Council of Trent [1547]).[2]

Though it exceeds the scope of this commentary to vindicate the biblical doctrine of justification by faith alone apart from our works, let the reader remember this Scripture passage:

²⁰ Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. ²¹ But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; ²² Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: ²³ For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; ²⁴ Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus (Rom 3.20-24).

The important Reformed theologian Charles Hodge aptly said of this passage,

The righteousness of God which is revealed in the Gospel is to be attained by faith, not by works, not by birth, not by any external rite, not by union with any visible Church, but simply and only by believing on Christ, receiving and resting upon Him.[3]

Without a doubt the esteemed Mr. Hodge hereby consigned himself to eternal hell, if the pronouncements of the RCC are to be believed.
Today the RCC’s reputation among many Bible-believing Christians is considerably better than it was in the days of the Protestant Reformation. This change is unwarranted and dangerous. The RCC still represents the same anti-Christian apostasy that threw curses like firebrands and punished by literally burning alive and reducing to charred ash the bodies of sincere Christians eminent for their learning and piety. Her policy may have switched from mass murder to ecumenical seduction, but she still propagates infernal lies about the way of salvation. Paul’s ancient warning has applied to the RCC for many centuries now.

¹ 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; ² Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; ³ Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth (1 Tim 4.1-3).

The RCC has a legacy of ascetic abstention from marriage and meats, the very manifestations of damnable heresies so dangerous to the true church.
By the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Paul issued a divinely-sanctioned curse that now applies to the RCC:

⁸ But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. ⁹ As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed (Gal 1.8-9).

For about three hundred years, Protestants consistently recognized the profound spiritual threat the RCC poses to mankind. That there was near universal agreement about this appears from the strong consensus statements of the Reformed confessions. For example, the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith proclaims, as an instance of “the things most assuredly believed among us,”

The Lord Jesus Christ is the Head of the church, in whom, by the appointment of the Father, all power for the calling, institution, order or government of the church, is invested in a supreme and sovereign manner; neither can the Pope of Rome in any sense be head thereof, but is that antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalts himself in the church against Christ, and all that is called God; whom the Lord shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.[4]

The Westminster Confession of Faith (1646, Presbyterian) and the Savoy Declaration (1658, Congregational), say the same thing. In some of my other writings, I have produced a long list of quotations from Protestant church leaders over the last four centuries who evince sympathy with this strong opposition to and utter repudiation of the RCC as a true church.[5]
Now godly men today may debate whether the Papacy is to be so certainly identified as “that antichrist” specifically foretold by the Holy Spirit through Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2. Personally, I am not grieved by dissent on this particular point. Yet people of discernment, in my judgment, cannot doubt that the Papacy is at least an antichrist.
That contemptuous term “antichrist” contains a prefix capable of being correctly understood in two ways. A modern dictionary says “anti” conveys a sense of antagonism and opposition,[6] and with this we are all familiar. Some may not realize, however, that the Greek prefix can also mean “instead of.” The towering Protestant scholar Francis Turretin (1623-1687) wrote an extensive treatise in Latin, arranged under 23 topics and 4 appendixes, to prove the thesis that the Papacy is the Antichrist foretold in Scripture. Of the word itself, he wrote,

The term Antichrist implies two meanings: (1) That he is an Enemy and Rival of Christ; (2) That he is His Vicar. The definition of the prefix anti, indeed, introduces both, which, when used in conjunction with a noun, means, on the one hand, before, and on the other hand, against. It can also mean in place of, and, indeed, a substitute. . . . In this regard, the Antichrist certainly presents himself as the great adversary of Christ, in so far as he makes himself equal to Christ as a rival, while professing to hold the place of Christ on earth, as His Vicar.[7]

The RCC insists that the Pope is Christ’s “Vicar” (“from Latin vicarius substitute”[8]). Here is evidence from their recent catechism:

For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, and as pastor of the entire Church has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered.[9]

Few Christians seem to be aware of the blasphemously honorific titles and divine prerogatives which the RCC has boasted for their Pope, including “Supreme Pontiff”[10] (i.e., Bridge, Mediator between God and man; cf. 1 Tim 2.5), “Lord and God,”[11] and these idolatrous assertions:

Since the Pope is God, therefore he cannot either be bound or loosed by men.[12]

From this it appears that the Pope is above Scripture, councils, princes, and all powers upon earth, upon the account of his divinity.[13]

Because he presents himself as Christ’s representative, any particular Pope represents a much greater threat of seduction to professing Christians than, for example, the Dalai Lama, the chief lama of the dominant Tibetan Buddhist order, since he makes no pretense of being a Christian.
So, it seems we are on the verge of a transition from one Pope to another, and therefore, from one antichrist to another. Am I to be blamed if I show no preference for any of Satan’s minions? God helping me, I will not recant, even before the threat of martyrdom. I am praying for the complete demise of this Satanic kingdom. Let all Christ’s loyal followers rally with me! In our generation more than ever, fearless protest may distinguish those of sound understanding and deep conviction from the naïve and cowardly. May the Lord come quickly and destroy His Enemy (2 Thess 2.8). Amen.

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[1] Schaff, P. (1890), The Creeds of Christendom, II.113.

[2] Catechism of the Catholic Church (2000), #1989.

[3] Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, in loc.

[4] 1689 LBCF XXVI.4.

[5] When Protestants Protested (2005), my introductory work; The Papal Antichrist—A Call to Recognition and Opposition (2006), a more complete treatment. Online at http://ibrnb.com/articles2/?p=15 and http://ibrnb.com/articles2/?p=38.

[6] Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Sixth Edition (2007), in loc.

[7] Francis Turretin’s Seventh Disputation, Whether It Can Be Proven that the Pope of Rome Is the Antichrist.

[8] SOED, in loc.

[9] CCC, #882.

[10] CCC, #837.

[11] Primary source: Decretales Gregorii IX., Tit. 7, cited by J. A. Wylie in The Papacy Is the Antichrist (1888), p. 45.

[12] Primary source: Vide Text. Decret., dist. xcvi. cap. 7, cited by Henry Wilkinson in Puritan Sermons 1659-1689, VI.1.

[13] Primary source: Canon law set forth by Gregory XIII in 1591 A.D., also cited by Wilkinson.

Letter to Catholics

*This post is taken from a letter written to some Catholic relatives of mine.

I wanted to tell you about some interesting prophecies involving the Catholic church that seem to be playing out. There was a Irish Catholic, St. Malachy, who had a vision of the last 112 popes. For each pope, he gave a latin phrase describing the Pope or their order. It seems that this prophecy has played out for every Pope, including the current Pope, Benedictine XVI, "the glory of the olive". As I"m sure you know, the olive branch is the emblem of the Benedictine order. Well, Benedictine is number 111 in the prophecy. The next pope, according to the prophecy, is to be the last pope, but also, the Bible's false prophet!

This is not Protestant bias against Catholics. Many Catholic theologians also hold this belief. Go to  Prophecy of the Popes to check this out, or Raiders News Update. The final pope is to be Petrus Romano, Peter the Roman. There's been a book written by two end-times scholars, maybe you've heard of it, but it details the prophecy and the scenearios around it, and accurately depicted the scandal that is going on within the Vatican.


Also, some things you may not be aware of, in my conversation with most Catholics, most are not aware of what the Vatican teaches; that Mary is sinless, and is the co-redeemer of humanity, along with Jesus.   The Bible teaches that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Rom 3:23).  And that "there is no other name by which we must be saved, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."  Acts. 4:12).  Jesus himself said "I am the way, the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father, except through me" (Jn. 14:6).  And the apostle Paul taught 5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed to at the proper time.



The Vatican also teaches that salvation is only obtained through observation of the sacraments in the RCC, whereas Ephesians 2:8-9 teaches that it is by grace alone through faith alone, it is the gift of God, not of works... The apostle Paul wrote to the Galatians: 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! 9 As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!


The Roman Catholic Church is preaching a DIFFERENT GOSPEL. I capped that to emphasize this to you. As the Vatican pushes ahead for a global religion (one-world empire? Daniel 7:19), the Pope recently stated that the Protesetant church is wrong, and the only true church is the Catholic church.


What Protestants proclaim is not ourselves, but God's word as the only reliable, infallible revelation to mankind for his salvation, according to the gospel written in the pages of the holy Bible. That Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins, as our propitiation (atonement sacrifice) to bring us to God. That when we repent of our sins, and confess Jesus Christ as our savior and Lord, God will save us (Rom. 10:9,10).

Paul says again, "We know that no one will be justified by the law (i.e. works)"

We 16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in[a] Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified. Gal. 2:16


I hope this is helpful to you. Scripture says that whoever does not believe the truth of the gospel will be given over to the delusion so that they will beleive the lie (2 Thess. 2:9-12). There are many delusions upon the earth right now, aliens, ufos, evolution, mystic spirituality, spirit guides, etc. And the rapture of the church is near. Those left afterwards will believe the delusion, and it will be very hard for all left behind who will be saved.

I pray you will flee the Catholic church, it doesn't matter your heritage, flee that church and embrace the true gospel, and meet with true believers in the faith and obey God's word.

The False Prophet IS HERE?

  I don't know if you know of St. Malachy's prophecy of the popes, it was of 112 popes, down to the last pope. This prophecy has been right on for every pope, and our current one is next to last. Many theologians, both protestant and Catholic, think this next one is the false prophet Prophecy of the Popes.   I listened to an Internet radio interview last night, and they think they know who it is. There are two individuals within the Roman Church which are candidates, though one seems to fit better. The radio interview is at www.blogtalkradio.com/omegaman. You can also go to http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/ to find out more info.  THE MAN IS HERE!
This is also going to be the year the aliens, UFOs, ascended masters make contact with the earth.  The papacy has been making way for the acceptance of extra-terrestrials and their version of salvation.  Will the Anti-Christ, the Maitreya, the world teacher be an Ascended Master or all-wise Master from Space sent to aid humanity in its quest for divinity?