By Darryl Eberhart, Editor of "Tackling the Tough Topics (TTT)" June 28, 2006 (Updated through: October 20, 2007) ( www.toughissues.org)
What I am about to tell you is "simply amazing!" A sizable portion of the "alternative media" tells us that "the Jews" (i.e., "the [Masonic-Zionist] Jews") RUN the New World Order, to include banking, the current U.S. administration, the U.S. Congress, Hollywood, and the mainstream media. Well, let's first just discuss Hollywood and the mainstream media. For if the Masonic-Zionist Jews do indeed CONTROL Hollywood and the mainstream media, then I am very confused. You may be asking: "Why are you confused?" I am glad you asked.
Dear reader, the greatest murderer of Jews over the past 1000 plus years has been the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. The ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH has also been the biggest murderer of independent Christian groups (e.g., the Albigensian and Waldensian Christians) - the biggest murderer of Protestants ( e.g., French Huguenots, Irish Protestants, and Bohemian Protestants) - and one of the biggest murderers of Orthodox Christians (e.g., the genocide carried out against Serb Orthodox Christians in ROMAN CATHOLIC-controlled Fascist Croatia in the 1940s). If the mainstream media and Hollywood are run by Masonic-Zionist Jews, then WHY aren't they exposing the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH'S extensive support of Fascist states that slaughtered Jews in Europe during World War II?
First, let's examine just a small portion of the well-documented history of ROMAN CATHOLIC mass murder of Jews. Please consider the following quotations:
"Jews were slaughtered by the thousands all across Europe as the [ROMAN] CATHOLIC Crusaders made their way to the 'Holy Land' to recover it from both Jews and Turks for the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH." - Dave Hunt ("A Cup of Trembling"; 1995; Page 159)
"One of history's most malevolent persons died on this day [September 16] in 1498. Tomas de Torquemada, as [ROMAN CATHOLIC] Inquisitor General of Spain, ordered more than 10,000 people to be burned at the stake because they didn't agree with his religious views. He used the Inquisition for religious and political reasons, believing punishment of [Ed. Note: so-called] 'heretics' and non-Christians - chiefly Jews and Muslims - was the only way to achieve political unity in Spain. Greatly feared and hated by millions, he persuaded [Spanish King] Ferdinand and [Queen] Isabella to rid Spain of Jews. More than a MILLION families were driven from Spain during that time. The country never recovered from the resulting decline." - Ron Hembree ("A Daily Joy"; Page 272)
".[ROMAN] CATHOLIC priest, [Monsignor] Fr. Jozef Tiso, ruler of Slovakia's Nazi puppet regime of 1939-45 sent that tiny country's Jewish population of 70,000 to the extermination camps in Poland." - Dave Hunt ("A Cup of Trembling"; 1995; Page 191)
"To a Jew, Hitler and [Italian Fascist dictator] Mussolini were 'Christians'. In fact, they were ROMAN CATHOLICS from birth, and in spite of
their horrendous crimes against humanity they were never excommunicated from their Church. The same was true of [Nazi SS Chief Heinrich] Himmler and many others in the Nazi hierarchy. Indeed, the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH has a long history of persecution, expulsion, and slaughter of Jews, to which Hitler referred in justifying the Holocaust." - Dave Hunt ("A Cup of Trembling"; 1995; Page 158)
Here is some of that historical record of ROMAN CATHOLIC slaughter of Jews:
(1) 1095 A.D. - Pope Urban II (pope: 1088-1099) proclaims the First Crusade. Here is what historian Will Durant has written concerning this PAPACY-instigated murder spree: "When in 1095, Pope Urban II proclaimed the First Crusade, some Christians [ i.e., ROMAN CATHOLICS] thought it desirable to kill the Jews in Europe before proceeding so far to fight Turks in Jerusalem. Godfrey of Bouillon, having accepted the leadership of the crusade, announced that he would avenge the blood of Jesus upon the Jews leaving not one of them alive; and his companions proclaimed their intention to kill all Jews who would not accept Christianity [Ed. Note: i.e., the ROMAN CATHOLIC version of it]."
(2) 1096 A.D. - ROMAN CATHOLIC Crusaders slaughter half the Jews of Worms, Germany on their way through that town.
(3) 1099 A.D. - ROMAN CATHOLIC Crusaders, sent on a "holy" mission by the pope of Rome [ i.e., Pope Urban II], make it to the walls of Jerusalem. Upon capturing the city, the Crusaders herd the Jews into the synagogue, and then set it on fire. These ROMAN CATHOLIC Crusaders butcher almost all of the city's inhabitants - men, women, and children - Jews, Moslems, and probably even a few Christians! (The ROMAN CATHOLIC Crusaders had earlier slaughtered the inhabitants of the city of Antioch [in southern Turkey] - men, women, and children - when they had captured it!)
(4) 1236 A.D. - ROMAN CATHOLIC Crusaders slaughter Jews in the Anjou and Poitou regions of western France. Historian Will Durant tells us: "[ROMAN CATHOLIC Crusaders] invaded the Jewish settlements of Anjou and Poitou. [These ROMAN CATHOLIC Crusaders] bade all Jews be baptized; when the Jews refused, the [ROMAN CATHOLIC] Crusaders trampled 3000 of them to death under their horses' hoofs."
(5) 1243 A.D. - All Jews in Belitz, Germany (near Berlin) are burned alive by ROMAN CATHOLICS. According to historian Will Durant, their alleged crime was that "some of them had defiled a consecrated host".
(6) 1298 A.D. - All Jews in Rottingen are burned to death by ROMAN CATHOLICS. According to historian Will Durant, their alleged crime was: "desecrating a sacramental wafer".
(7) 14th century (1300s) - The ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH blames the Jews for the
"Black Death" (probably the bubonic plague). Here is what author Dave Hunt has written in his book, "A Woman Rides the Beast" (1994), concerning this time in history: "From the time the popes ruled Rome, the Jews' plight was far more grievous than it had ever been at the hands of the pagan rulers. Pagans had blamed every disaster upon Christians. Now the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH blamed all on the Jews. Accused of causing the 'Black Death', Jews were rounded up and hanged, burned, and drowned by the thousands in revenge." (Page 267)
(8) 1481 A.D. - Kickoff of the "Spanish Inquisition". The hierarchy of the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH choreographs an orgy of torture and burning people alive - called the Inquisition. Though it is aimed initially and primarily at Jews and Moslems, the Inquisition also targets those Christians whose beliefs are not completely in line with the Roman Catholic Church's doctrines and practices. In the first two years (1481-1483), at least 2000 individuals are burned alive. Author Dave Hunt, in his book "A Woman Rides the Beast" (1994), states: "In Spain alone the number of condemned exceeded three MILLION, with about 300,000 burned at the stake [during the length of the Spanish Inquisition]." (Page 79; Hunt quoting from R.W. Thompson's book "The Papacy and the Civil Power")
(9) 1941-1945 A.D. - The Jewish holocaust occurs in Nazi-Fascist-controlled Europe. Up to six MILLION Jews are murdered and starved to death. ROMAN CATHOLIC involvement in this holocaust is extensive. Roman Catholic German Knight of Malta Franz von Papen is one of the top players involved in putting Adolf Hitler into power. The German ROMAN CATHOLIC Center Party's endorsement of, and unanimous vote for, the "Enabling Act" of March 1933 is crucial, giving Adolf Hitler the 2/3s majority he needs to assume dictatorial powers in Germany. JESUIT "father" Himmler (uncle to Heinrich Himmler) is a top officer in the Nazi SS (which is admittedly modeled after the JESUIT ORDER). A number of ROMAN CATHOLIC priests put on the black uniforms of the Nazi SS. The VATICAN signs Concordats with Nazi Germany and with Fascist Italy. ROMAN CATHOLICS are installed as puppet dictators in a number of Fascist countries. For example, in Slovakia, the JESUIT priest, Monsignor Tiso, is installed as dictator. Additionally, Roman Catholic Knights of Malta head up three powerful intelligence agencies during World War II (William Donovan heads the American OSS - which later becomes the CIA; German General Reinhard Gehlen heads Nazi Intelligence on the eastern front; and Russian Anton Turkul heads Soviet Intelligence, and uses Jesuit priests for his couriers). By using elements within the warring factions, the VATICAN is able to ensure the slaughter of large numbers of its favorite targets: Jews, Protestants (in northern Germany and in Prussia), and Orthodox Christians. At the end of the war, the VATICAN helps many Nazi and Fascist war criminals to escape via the "Vatican Ratlines", hiding them in convents and monasteries in Europe until they can safely escape to such countries as the USA, Argentina, etc.
(10) 1941-1945 A.D. - The "VATICAN'S holocaust" occurs in Croatia. Though primarily directed against Serb Orthodox Christians, much smaller numbers of Jews and gypsies are also targeted. This monstrous, barbaric, and savage religious genocide is planned, orchestrated, and conducted by ROMAN CATHOLIC clergymen - mainly FRANCISCAN monks, friars, and priests, along with several high-ranking JESUITS. Roman Catholic Croatian Fuehrer Ante Pavelic teams up with high-ranking ROMAN CATHOLIC prelates, such as JESUIT Monsignor Aloysius Stepinac (Archbishop of Zagreb) and JESUIT Monsignor Ivan Saric (Archbishop of Sarajevo), to use ROMAN CATHOLIC Ustashi military units to torture and butcher from 600,000 to 1 MILLION innocent Serb Orthodox Christian men, women, elderly, and children. This religious genocide includes the most brutal forms of torture, forced conversions, burning people alive, raping and murdering girls and women, impaling young children alive on stakes, gouging out the eyes of victims to make necklaces, starving children to death, burying victims alive, crucifying Orthodox priests to wooden doors, and some other atrocities that I do not feel should be written in an article. ROMAN CATHOLIC clergymen not only frequently advise the Roman Catholic Ustashi military units on how to torture and murder, but also actually participate in the savagery. A Franciscan monk, by name of "father" Miroslav Filipovic, serves as the cruel camp commandant at Jasenovac (one of the worst of the concentration camps).
NOTE: The above historical items were taken from my TTT newsletter entitled "Bloody Hands & Wicked Hearts" that is posted on www.toughissues.org.
The ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH has for many decades tried to "WHITEWASH" her involvement in agitating, inspiring, and actually orchestrating and leading, the persecution and slaughter of Jews throughout history, and especially her involvement in such atrocities during World War II. Please consider the following quote by author Dave Hunt, in which he analyzes the Roman Catholic Church's modern "condemnation" of "anti-Semitism" from the Vatican II Council:
"Nothing could be more hypocritical than this statement [by the Roman Catholic Church's Vatican II Council condemning "anti-Semitism"]. The [Roman Catholic] Church strongly condemns 'hatreds, persecutions, anti-Semitism', but only by others, not by herself. No mention is made of the fact that during the many centuries when the [ROMAN] CATHOLIC CHURCH held sway over society, ruling even kings and emperors, she was the inspirer and perpetrator of an anti-Jewish bias as bad as anything the world has ever seen." ("A Cup of Trembling"; 1995; Page 165)
Indeed, ROMAN CATHOLIC involvement in helping to foment World War II (WWII), and then supporting ROMAN CATHOLIC-controlled Fascist regimes in Europe during that time, has been well documented. Please carefully consider the following quotations that show ROMAN CATHOLIC involvement "to the maximum" in WWII - involvement that resulted in the deaths of MILLIONS of both Jews and Christians:
"The public is practically unaware of the overwhelming responsibility carried by the VATICAN and its JESUITS in the starting of two world wars - a situation which may be explained in part by the gigantic finances at the disposition of the VATICAN and its JESUITS, giving them power in so many spheres, especially since the last conflict." - Edmond Paris ("The Secret History of the Jesuits"; 1975; Page 9)
"The JESUITS, in control of [Adolf] Hitler's occultic and homosexual Third Reich installed puppet dictators throughout Europe. They were:
(1) Bavarian Germany and the Third Reich - [Adolf] Hitler [born-died:
1889-1945]
(2) Italy - [Benito] Mussolini [born-died: 1883-1945]
(3) 'Vichy' France - [Henri Philippe] Petain [born-died: 1856-1951]
(4) Spain - [Francisco] Franco [born-died: 1892-1975]
(5) Austria - Seyss-Inquart
(6) Poland - Frank
(7) Slovakia - [Jesuit] Priest [Monsignor] Tiso
(8) Croatia - [Ante] Pavelitch (Ed. Note: alternate spelling: Pavelic)
(9) Belgium - Degrelle.
All these ROMAN CATHOLIC, JESUIT-controlled, Jew-hating dictators were loyal to the greatest war criminal of all, Papal Caesar Pius XII and his master, JESUIT [Superior] General Wlodimir Ledochowski." - Eric Jon Phelps ("Vatican
Assassins"; 2001; Page 478)
"The [Nazi] Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but which puts into practice the high principles of the PAPACY." - Franz von Papen (German Roman Catholic Knight of Malta; January 14, 1934)
"The [ROMAN CATHOLIC] priests and the faithful must unhesitatingly uphold the great German state [i.e., Nazi Germany], and the Fuehrer [i.e., Adolf Hitler] whose struggle to set up [Nazi] Germany's power, honor and prosperity is in accord with the wishes of Providence [ i.e., the VATICAN]." - JESUIT Roman Catholic Cardinal Innitzer (Archbishop of Vienna, Austria)
"The declaration of [ROMAN CATHOLIC JESUIT] Monseigneur [Ed. Note: French spelling of "Monsignor"] Tiso, chief of the Slovakian state, stating his intention to build up Slovakia according to a Christian [sic] plan, has the full approval of the Holy See [ i.e., the PAPACY]." - Radio Vatican (June 1940)
"I have learnt most of all from the JESUIT ORDER. .So far, there has been nothing more imposing on earth than the hierarchical organization of the [ROMAN] CATHOLIC CHURCH. A good part of that organization I have transported direct to my own [Nazi] party. .The [ROMAN] CATHOLIC CHURCH must be held up as an example. I will tell you a secret. I am founding an order [Ed. Note: the Nazi SS]. In [Heinrich] Himmler [who would become head of the Nazi SS] I see our Ignatius de Loyola [Ed. Note: the founder of the Jesuit Order]." - Adolf Hitler (1889-1945; Roman Catholic Nazi leader of Germany from 1933-1945)
((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: This quotation of Hitler was taken from Edmond Paris' book "The Vatican Against Europe"; 1959; Pages 252, 256.))
"The [ROMAN] CATHOLIC priests [in Fascist Croatia in the 1940s] changed their robes for the uniforms of the dreaded [ROMAN CATHOLIC] Ustashi [militia - and later the army] killer squads, and led the most barbaric, brutal raids upon those [Serb Orthodox Christian] people, and practiced satanic torture never before known in this century. We are not talking about 800 years ago. We are talking 1940." - Jack Chick ("Smokescreens"; 1983; Page 25)
"This [Ed. Note: her booklet "Ravening Wolves"] is the record of torture and murder committed in Europe in 1941-1945 by an army of [ROMAN] CATHOLIC Actionists known as the Ustashi, led by monks and priests, and even participated in by nuns." - Monica Farrell ("Ravening Wolves")
"Most of [Fascist] Croatia's [ROMAN] CATHOLIC clergy were fanatically behind [Croatian "supreme leader" Ante] Pavelic and his unbelievably evil regime. Medals were even given by Pavelic to nuns and priests, thus betraying the fact that many of them played active roles alongside the Ustashi military. FRANCISCAN monks in particular joined Ustashi battalions." - Dave Hunt ("A Woman Rides the Beast"; 1994; Page 301)
"[ROMAN] CATHOLIC religious orders gave total and continuous support to the [ROMAN CATHOLIC] Ustashi [militia - and later the army]. Before the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia (1941) their convents were hiding places for the Ustashi terrorists, [where they] concealed Ustashi presses, and were depositories of Ustashi subversive literature and even of hand grenades, guns and dynamite. The Ustashi carried out their [pre-World War II terrorist] activities screened by members of [ROMAN CATHOLIC] religious orders, male and female. Nuns prepared uniforms, emblems and medical equipment for Ustashi detachments." - Avro Manhattan ("The Vatican's Holocaust"; 1986; Page 99)
"Once [Croatian "supreme leader" Ante] Pavelic took power, [JESUIT] Archbishop [Aloysius] Stepinac issued a Pastoral Letter ordering the Croatian clergy to support the new Ustasha State. The involvement of [ROMAN] CATHOLIC clergy either in active participation or in blessing the Ustashi-run holocaust is well documented. One Franciscan monk, MiroslavFilipovic, headed the Jasenovac concentration camp for two years, during which time he directed the extermination of no less than 100,000 victims, mostly Serbian Orthodox. [JESUIT] Archbishop Stepinac headed the committee which was responsible for forcible 'conversions' to Roman Catholicism under threat of death - and was also the Supreme Military Apostolic Vicar of the Ustashi Army, which effected the slaughter of those who failed to convert [to Roman Catholicism]. [JESUIT Archbishop] Stepinac was known as the 'father-confessor' to the Ustashi, and continually bestowed the blessing of Holy Mother Church upon its members and actions." - Dave Hunt ("A Woman Rides the Beast"; 1994; Page 302)
"Estimates of the number of victims [of the VATICAN'S Holocaust in Croatia in the 1940s] exceed a MILLION. This is probably a realistic figure. Yugoslavia in its war crimes trials estimated that from 700,000 to 900,000 victims were 'tortured and put to death.[in] the two dozen concentration camps' within Croatia, and tens of thousands never reached the camps. Many were Jews, but most were Serbians of Orthodox faith who were give the choice of conversion to Roman Catholicism or death. Both in Yugoslavia and the Ukraine, ROMAN CATHOLIC priests, bishops, and cardinals, with the full knowledge of the VATICAN, participated in and gave their blessing to some of the bloodiest and most barbaric massacres of the war, aimed at giving ROMAN CATHOLICISM control of these regions." - Dave Hunt ("A Woman Rides the Beast"; 1994; Pages 303, 304)
"By a 'providential' synchronism, when [Italian dictator] Mussolini seized power in Italy thanks to don Sturzo, [who was a] JESUIT and chief of the CATHOLIC party, [then it was at that same time that] Monseigneur Seipel, a JESUIT, became chancellor of Austria. He held that position until 1929, with an interregnum of two years, and, during those decisive years, he led the Austrian interior politics on to the reactionary and clerical road; his successors followed him on that road which led to the absorption of that country into the German block. The bloody repression of working-class uprisings earned him [ i.e., JESUIT Seipel] the nickname 'Keine Milde Kardinal' - the 'Cardinal without mercy'." - Edmond Paris ("The Secret History of the Jesuits"; 1975; Page 139)
"It is believed that the Pope [ i.e., Pius XI] will offer these services to Signor [Benito] Mussolini through the JESUIT Father Pietro Tachi-Venturi, who is often consulted by Mussolini on important matters." (Daily Express,
2/9/1935) British United Press
"[Nazi SS Chief Heinrich] Himmler's CATHOLICISM was very important to him. He attended church regularly, took Communion, confessed, and prayed." G.S. Graber ("The History of the SS")
"Adolf Hitler himself was a ROMAN CATHOLIC. Hitler had been reared in a traditional [Roman] Catholic family. As a child and youngster little Adolf had regularly attended Mass, had served as an acolyte during Mass, had hoped to become a priest, and had attended school in a Benedictine monastery at Lambach, Austria. As an adult, Hitler remained a member in good standing in the ROMAN [CATHOLIC] CHURCH-STATE. At no time did officials of the [ROMAN CATHOLIC] CHURCH-STATE excommunicate him. When the German military plotted to assassinate Hitler in 1944, and the plot failed, the ROMAN [CATHOLIC] CHURCH-STATE in Germany offered a 'Te Deum' to thank God for the Fuehrer's escape." - John W. Robbins ("Ecclesiastical Megalomania"; 1999 and 2006; Page 167)
"The SS had been organized by [Heinrich] Himmler according to the principles of the JESUIT ORDER. The rules of service and spiritual exercises prescribed by Ignatius de Loyola [Ed. Note: the founder of the Jesuit Order] constituted a model which [Heinrich] Himmler strove carefully to copy. Absolute obedience was the supreme rule; every order had to be executed without comment." - Walter Shellenberg (Chief of the Nazi Sicherheitdienst)
((Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: ROMAN CATHOLIC priests put on the black uniforms of the Nazi SS, serving especially in the SS Central Security Service.))
"In the early days of May (1936), [German Knight of Malta Franz] von Papen entered into secret negotiations with Dr. Schussnigg (Austrian Chancellor) working on his weak point [ i.e., he was a devout Roman Catholic] and showed him how advantageous a reconciliation with [Nazi leader Adolf] Hitler would be as far as the VATICAN'S interests were concerned; the argument may seem odd, but Schussnigg was very devout, and von Papen was the POPE'S [German] chamberlain [ i.e., a high official in certain royal courts]. Not surprisingly, it was the [POPE'S] secret chamberlain [in Germany - i.e., Knight of Malta Franz von Papen] who led the whole affair, which ended, on the 11th of March 1938, with the resignation of the pious Schussnigg (pupil of the JESUITS), in favor of Seyss-Inquart, chief of the Austrian Nazis. The following day [March 12, 1938], the German troops entered Austria and the puppet government of Seyss-Inquart proclaimed the union of the country to the [Nazi German Third] Reich. The event was welcomed by an enthusiastic declaration of Vienna's archbishop, Cardinal Innitzer (a JESUIT)." - Edmond Paris ("The Secret History of the Jesuits"; 1975; Page 139)
"The German author Walter Hagen gives also this discreet information: 'The JESUITS' [Superior] General, Count Halke von Ledochowski, was ready to organize, on the common basis of anti-communism, some collaboration between the German Secret Service and the JESUIT ORDER.' As a result, within the SS Central Security Service, an organization was created, and most of its main posts were held by [ROMAN] CATHOLIC priests wearing the black uniform of the [Nazi] SS. The JESUIT [priest] 'father' Himmler [uncle of Heinrich Himmler] was one of its superior officers." - Edmond Paris ("The Secret History of the Jesuits"; 1975; Page 168)
".Kurt Heinrich Himmler [was] chief of the Gestapo [i.e., the secret police force of the German Nazi state], which meant he held in his hand the essential reins of power of the [Nazi] regime. Was it his personal merits which earned him such a high position? Did Hitler see in him a superior genius when he compared him [ i.e., Heinrich Himmler] to the creator of the Jesuit Order [i.e., Ignatius of Loyola]? It is certainly not what the testimonies of those who knew him imply, as they saw in him nothing more than mediocrity. Was that 'star' [of Heinrich Himmler] shining with a borrowed 'brightness'? Was it really Kurt Heinrich Himmler, the ostensible [ i.e., apparent] chief, who actually reigned over the Gestapo and the secret services? Who was sending millions of people, deported for political reasons, and Jews to their death? Was it the flat-faced nephew or [was it] the [JESUIT priest] uncle, the former Canon at the Court of Bavaria, one of [JESUIT Superior General] Ledochowski's favorites, a JESUIT 'father' and superior officer of the [Nazi] SS?" - Edmond Paris ("The Secret History of the Jesuits"; 1975; Page 168)
"When thousands of German anti-Nazis were tortured to death in Hitler's concentration camps, when the Polish intelligentsia was slaughtered, when hundreds of thousands of Russians died as the result of being treated as Slavic Untermenschen [subhumans], and when 6,000,000 human beings were murdered for being 'non-Aryan', [ROMAN] CATHOLIC CHURCH officials in Germany bolstered the [Nazi] regime perpetrating these crimes. The Pope in Rome [ i.e., Pius XII], the spiritual head and supreme moral teacher of the Roman Catholic Church, remained silent. In the face of these greatest of moral depravities which mankind has been forced to witness in recent centuries, the moral teachings of a Church [allegedly] dedicated to love and charity, could be heard in no other form but vague generalities." - Guenter Lewy ("The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany"; 1964; Page 341)
"[German] soldiers returning from the Eastern Front were telling horrible stories, how in occupied Russia Jewish civilians - men, women and children - were being lined up and machine-gunned by the thousands. In the spring of 1942 the leaflets of the 'White Rose', composed by a group of students and a professor of philosophy at the University of Munich, told of the murder of 300,000 Jews in Poland and asked why the German people remained so apathetic in the face of these revolting times?" - Guenter Lewy ("The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany"; 1964; Page 287)
"This concealment [of the truth concerning ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH cooperation with the Nazi regime] has been so bold and successful that in Germany.not a single [Roman Catholic] bishop had to resign his office [because of his cooperation with the Nazis during World War II]. Quite the contrary, Bishop Berning, who had served until the downfall of Hitler in Goering's Prussian State Council, in 1949 was given the honorary title of Archbishop. Herr [Franz] von Papen [who helped put Hitler into power and who negotiated the Concordat between the VATICAN and Nazi Germany in 1933] was made Papal Privy Chamberlain in 1959. Such rewards for men deeply involved with the Nazi regime represent a mockery of [the true] heroic figures.who died fighting Hitler." - Guenter Lewy ("The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany"; 1964; Page 321)
"Without the deadening hand of VATICAN control, resistance might have been multiplied across the country [ i.e., Nazi Germany during World War II] from the outset. And had [ROMAN] CATHOLIC officialdom, from the outset, not turned a blind eye to the expanding anti-Semitic propaganda and persecution, the terrible disaster that befell the Jews might never have occurred." - John Cornwell (Roman Catholic historian and journalist; "Hitler's Pope: The
Secret History of Pius XII"; 1999; Page 199)
"Practically every right-wing dictator of the period [i.e., in Europe during World War II] had been born and brought up a [ROMAN] CATHOLIC - notably Hitler, Franco, Petain, Mussolini, Pavelic, and Tiso (who was a CATHOLIC priest)." - John Cornwell ("Hitler's Pope"; 1999; Page 280)
"Fascism is the regime that corresponds most closely to the concepts of the CHURCH OF ROME." - Civilta Cattolica (House organ of the JESUITS)
Well, then, we seem to have a well-documented history that:
(1) The ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH has been slaughtering Jews from at least the time of the early Crusades.
(2) The ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH launched a "holy" INQUISITION that initially targeted many Jews in Spain.
(3) The ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH was heavily involved in supporting Nazi Germany and other Fascist regimes in Europe during World War II - at a time when up to 6 MILLION Jews were being exterminated by these ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH-supported murdering regimes!
Let us remember that much of the "alternative media" tells us that the "Masonic-Zionist Jews" are running the New World Order! Much of the "alternative media" also tells us that these Masonic-Zionist Jews are running Hollywood and the mainstream media. If these Masonic-Zionist Jews are really running Hollywood and the mainstream media, then why in blazes aren't CNN, Fox, ABC, NBC, and CBS telling us the whole story about ROMAN CATHOLIC heavy-duty involvement in fomenting World War II (WWII), helping to bring Hitler to power, filling key positions in the Nazi SS, supporting numerous Fascist regimes in Europe during WWII, orchestrating the "VATICAN'S Holocaust" in Croatia, and helping Fascist war criminals escape at the end of WWII via the VATICAN Ratlines? Why isn't Hollywood producing numerous movies to show us all these facts that tie the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH directly into brutal genocide against Jews and Christians in Europe during WWII? After all, we've seen from the numerous quotations in this article that the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH has been the greatest enemy the Jews have ever seen - especially in the past 1000 plus years! Again I must ask: "If the 'Masonic-Zionist Jews' are controlling the mainstream media and Hollywood in America, then why in blazes aren't they exposing this greatest enemy of the Jews, i.e., the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH? WHY? WHY? WHY?
Let me tell you "WHY" this isn't happening: It is because the "Masonic-Zionist Jews" are NOT "in charge". Oh, yes, they hold some mid-level "management positions" within the New World Order (to include some positions inside Hollywood and America's mainstream media), and even a couple high-level "management positions". However, they are NOT the "top player" in the New World Order. The real "controllers" (who operate "in the shadows" and "behind the scenes") are the "secret societies", such as the JESUIT ORDER, its Knights of Malta, and the top levels of JESUIT-controlled Freemasonry. (They direct and "steer" the mid-level managers.) Some folks in the "alternative media" love to point out that the Jewish B'nai B'rith is a Masonic organization, and it indeed is. But, WHO runs Freemasonry? Please consider the following quotes:
".If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top, head Mason of the World, you will discover that the dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesus [i.e., the BLACK POPE - the Superior General of the JESUIT ORDER] are one and the same person." - James Parton (American historian)
"This inner and invisible Freemasonry is international in extent, and it is within the Inner Circle that the JESUITS conceal themselves, work, and mastermind the projects that suit their goals." - John Daniel ("The Grand Design Exposed"; 1999; Page 170)
"Without exception, every chief actor in the French Revolution [of 1789-1799] was either JESUIT-educated, a [ROMAN] CATHOLIC prelate, or a member of the Illuminati Order [Ed. Note: a JESUIT front organization] where within the Jacobin Club they would come together to conspire and carry out the 'Great Work' - which in the open system of the Jacobins was the reflection of the complete hidden system of the Illuminati - and in back of the Illuminati were the hidden JESUIT 'masters'." - John Daniel ("The Grand Design Exposed"; 1999; Pages 212, 213)
"There are other secret and semi-secret organizations such as the International Bankers, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberger Group, [the] Club of Rome, the Trilateral Commission, the New Age Movement, the Illuminati, and Freemasonry, who are all deeply involved in global politics, and who actively promote the uniting of the people of our planet under a New World Order. However.these all are but mere 'front' organizations, behind which the true source of power [i.e., the JESUIT ORDER] hides, and uses [them] to distribute and channel its designs. And, as in any conspiracy, secrecy and shifting attention and blame away from itself is paramount to its success." - John Daniel ("The Grand Design Exposed"; 1999; Page 9)
I highly recommend that you read John Daniel's book "The Grand Design Exposed". His 411-page paperback book makes a compelling case that the ROMAN CATHOLIC JESUIT ORDER took over the top levels of British and French Freemasonry. To order his book for $20 postpaid, please make check or postal money order payable to "American Sentry Books", and mail it to: American Sentry Books // P.O. Box 14 // Crawley, WV 24931.
Well, someone may now ask: "Didn't the mainstream media expose some of the horrible pedophilia in the Roman Catholic Church?" Yes, they did - but how could they not help but do so, since so much information was leaking out about it through numerous sources (such as many local newspapers)? They simply reported what was necessary to show that they were aware of the problem, and so that they would not lose total credibility with the American people!
NO, the "Masonic-Zionist Jews" do NOT control Hollywood or the mainstream media in America. They do NOT control international banking (although there are some wealthy Jews involved), the international intelligence community, or the New World Order itself! The JESUIT ORDER (which controls the Vatican, the wealthy and powerful Knights of Malta, and the top levels of Freemasonry) is the TOP PLAYER on the world's geopolitical-financial-religio us "chessboard"!
The following famous men warned us about the JESUIT ORDER:
".They [i.e., the JESUITS] are a secret society, a sort of Masonic order with super added features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous. They are not merely priests, or priests of one religious creed; they are merchants, and lawyers, and editors, and men of any profession, having no outward badge (in this country [ i.e., the USA]) by which to be recognized; they are about in all your society. They [i.e., the JESUITS] are educated men, prepared, and sworn to start at any moment, and in any direction, and for any service, commanded by the general of their order [ i.e., the Jesuit Superior General, the "Black Pope"], bound to NO family, community, or country, by the ordinary ties which bind men; and sold for life to the cause of the ROMAN PONTIFF." -Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872; American inventor of the telegraph)
"My history of the JESUITS is not eloquently written, but it is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration [i.e., the Jesuits' reinstatement as a religious order by Pope Pius VII in 1814] is indeed a step toward darkness, cruelty, perfidy, despotism, [and] death. .I do not like the appearance of the JESUITS. If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth and in hell, it is this Society of Loyola's [ i.e., the Jesuits, the "Company"]." (1816; from a letter to Thomas Jefferson) John Adams (1735-1826; 2nd President of the United States)
"[The JESUITS] are the deadly enemies of civil and religious liberty." - R.W. Thompson (Ex-Secretary, American Navy)
"It is my opinion that if the liberties of this country - the United States of America - are destroyed, it will be by the subtlety of the ROMAN CATHOLIC JESUIT priests, for they are the most crafty, dangerous enemies to civil and religious liberty. They have instigated most of the wars of Europe." -Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834; French statesman and general)
NOTES added on October 20, 2007:
(1) I originally wrote this article on June 28, 2006. I finished this second update early this morning on Oct. 20, 2007. Nothing much has changed with that large section of the so-called "alternative media" that likes to blame "the Jews" for two world wars - and for allegedly running the "New World Order". They continue to ignore "tons" of historical evidence that clearly shows that the Vatican-Papacy-Jesuit-Knights of Malta cabal was the fomenter of those two world wars - and is the "Number One Player" on the New World Order "chessboard".
(2) Please do some research about this wealthy and powerful Vatican-Papacy-Jesuit-Knights of Malta cabal. At the end of a number of my writings posted on www.toughissues.org you will find quite a large number of recommended "informational tools", such as DVDs, audiotapes, and books. Please obtain as many as you can afford, and then share them with others. And here are some other websites that contain important information about the Vatican-Papacy-Jesuit-Knights of Malta cabal (I will try to list as many as I can remember - some of them have articles that deal with this cabal, and others have "broadcast/podcast interviews" of folks who have written about this cabal - and some of them recommend other resources for further research on this wealthy and powerful cabal):
(1) www.ctwilcox.com (Canadian actor and author C.T. Wilcox's website; I highly recommend that you purchase a copy of his 345-page paperback book
"The Transformation of the Republic".)
(2) www.arcticbeacon.com (Broadcast host Greg Szymanski's website)
(3) www.gordoncomstock.com (Podcast host "Gordon Comstock's" website)
(4) www.vyzygoth.com (Broadcast host "Vyzygoth's" website)
(5) www.vaticanassassins.org (Author Eric Jon Phelps' website; I recommend
that you purchase a copy of his CD-ROM "Vatican Assassins".)
(6) www.vaticandesignexposed.com (Author John Daniel's website; I recommend
that you purchase a copy of his 411-page paperback book "The Grand Design
Exposed".)
(7) www.bereanbeacon.org (Author Richard Bennett's website; I recommend that
you purchase a copy of his 58-minute color DVD "The Inquisition".)
(8) www.amazingdiscoveries.org (Seventh Day Adventist website; I recommend
that you purchase copies of Professor Walter J. Veith's DVDs that deal with
the Jesuit Order, secret societies, and Papal Rome.)
(9) www.chick.com (Chick Publications website; I recommend that you buy the
book "The Secret History of the Jesuits" by Edmond Paris, and the book
"Smokescreens" by Jack Chick, from them.)
(10) www.whitehorsemedia.com (Steve Wohlberg's website; I recommend that you
buy his book "End Time DELUSIONS".)
NOTE: The above websites are NOT listed in any particular order - and my inclusion of each of them does NOT mean that I agree necessarily with
EVERYTHING that may be posted on that particular website. If I have forgotten to list a good website of which I am aware that deals with the
Vatican-Papacy-Jesuit-Knights of Malta cabal - or if I do not personally know of a particularly good website that deals with this cabal and thus
failed to list it - then please FORGIVE me! And please do make good use of all the above-listed websites while they are STILL there. Powerful people want desperately to totally CONTROL the Internet, and they will no doubt SOON move to do so!
Lastly, I would like you to consider this following Bible verse - and a request from me:
"Who will rise up for me against the evildoers, or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?" (Psalm 94:16)
REQUEST: Please print off copies of this article and give them to others. The truth about WHO is really running America MUST be told to the American people! If you received this article via E-Mail, then please forward the main text (from "BEGIN TEXT" to "END TEXT") on to others. THANKS!
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I hope that the above information proves helpful. Again, the American people MUST be told WHO really is the TOP PLAYER on the geopolitical and financial scene today!
Psalm 94:16, Ephesians 5:11, and Ezekiel 22:30
In Christ,
Darryl Eberhart
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
Tuesday, 09 October 2007
Present Day Evangelism
by Arthur W. Pink
Most of the so-called evangelism of our day is a grief to genuine Christians, for they feel that it lacks any scriptural warrant, that it is dishonoring unto God, and that it is filling the churches with empty professors. They are shocked that so much frothy superficiality, fleshly excitement and worldly allurement should be associated with the holy name of the Lord Jesus Christ. They deplore the cheapening of the Gospel, the beguiling of unwary souls, and the carnalizing and commercializing of what is to them ineffably sacred. It requires little spiritual discernment to perceive that the evangelistic activities of Christendom during the last century have steadily deteriorated from bad to worse, yet few appear to realize the root from which this evil has sprung. It will now be our endeavor to expose the same. Its aim was wrong, and therefore its fruit faulty.
The grand design of God, from which He never has and never will swerve, is to glorify Himself-to make manifest before His creatures what an infinitely glorious Being He is. That is the great aim and end He has in all that He does and says. For that He suffered sin to enter the world. For that He willed His beloved Son to become incarnate, render perfect obedience to the divine law, suffer and die. For that He is now taking out of the world a people for Himself, a people which shall eternally show forth His praises. For that everything is ordered by His providential dealings. Unto that everything on earth is now being directed, and shall actually affect the same. Nothing other than that is what regulates God in all His actings: "For of Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen" (Rom. 11:36).
That grand and basic truth is written right across the Scriptures with the plainness of a sunbeam, and he who sees it not is blind. All things are appointed by God to that one end. His saving of sinners is not an end in itself, for God would have been no loser had every one of them eternally perished. No, His saving of sinners is but a means unto an end- "to the praise of the glory of His grace" (Eph. 1:6). Now from that fundamental fact, it necessarily follows that we should make the same our aim and end: that God may be magnified by "What-soever ye do, do all to the glory of God" (I Cor. 10:3 1). In like manner, it also follows that such must be the preacher's aim, and that everything must be subordinated thereto, for everything else is of secondary importance and value. But, is it so? Take the latest slogan of the religious world, "Youth for Christ." Well, what is wrong with that? Its emphasis! Why not "Christ for Youth?"
If the evangelist fails to make the glory of God his paramount and constant aim, he is certain to go wrong, and all his efforts will be more or less a beating of the air. When he makes an end of anything less than that, he is sure to fall into error, for he no longer gives God His proper place. Once we fix on ends of our own, we are ready to adopt means of our own. It was at this very point evangelism failed two or three generations ago, and from that point it has farther and farther departed. Evangelism made "the winning of souls" its goal, its summum bonum, and everything else was made to serve and pay tribute to the same. Though the glory of God was not actually denied, yet it was lost sight of, crowded out, and made secondary. Further, let it be remembered that God is honored in exact proportion as the preacher cleaves to His Word, and faithfully proclaims "all His counsel," and not merely those portions which appeal to him.
To say nothing here about those cheap-jack evangelists who aim no higher than rushing people into making a formal profession of faith in order that the membership of the churches may be swelled, take those who are inspired by a genuine compassion and deep concern for the perishing, who earnestly long and zealously endeavor to deliver souls from the wrath to come, yet unless they be much on their guard, they too will inevitably err. Unless they steadily view conversion in the way God does -as the way in which He is to be glorified- they will quickly begin to compromise in the means they employ. The feverish urge of modern evangelism is not how to promote the glory of the triune Jehovah, but how to multiply conversions. The whole current of evangelical activity during the past fifty years has taken that direction. Losing sight of God's end, the churches have devised means of their own.
Bent on attaining a certain desired object, the energy of the flesh has been given free rein; and supposing that the object was right, evangelists have concluded that nothing could be wrong which contributed unto the securing of that end; and since their efforts appear to be eminently successful, only too many churches silently acquiesced, telling themselves "the end justified the means." Instead of examining the plans proposed and the methods adopted by the light of Scripture, they were tacitly accepted on the ground of expediency. The evangelist was esteemed not for the soundness of his message, but by the visible "results" he secured. He was valued, not according to how far his preaching honored God, but by how many souls were supposedly converted under it.
Once a man makes the conversion of sinners his prime design and all-consuming end, he is exceedingly apt to adopt a wrong course. Instead of striving to preach the Truth in all its purity, he will tone it down so as to make it more palatable to the unregenerate. Impelled by a single force, moving in one fixed direction, his object is to make conversion easy, and therefore favorite passages (like John 3:16) are dwelt upon incessantly, while others are ignored or pared away. It inevitably reacts upon his own theology, and various verses in the Word are shunned, if not repudiated. What place will he give in his thought to such declarations as: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?" (Jer. 13:23); "No man can come unto Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him" (John 6:44); "Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you" (John 15:14)?
He will be sorely tempted to modify the truth of God's sovereign election, of Christ's particular redemption, of the imperative necessity for the supernatural operations of the Holy Spirit.
In twentieth-century evangelism, there has been a woeful ignoring of the solemn truth of the total depravity of man. There has been a complete underrating of the desperate case and condition of the sinner. Very few indeed have faced the unpalatable fact that every man is thoroughly corrupt by nature, that he is completely unaware of his own wretchedness, blind and helpless, dead in trespasses and sins. Because such is his case, because his heart is filled with enmity against God, it follows that no man can be saved without the special and immediate intervention of God. According to our view here, so will it be elsewhere. To qualify and modify the truth of man's total depravity will inevitably lead to the diluting of collateral truths. The teaching of Holy Writ on this point is unmistakable: man's plight is such that his salvation is impossible unless God puts forth His mighty power. No stirring of the emotions by anecdotes, no regaling of the senses by music, no oratory of the preacher, no persuasive appeals, are of the slightest avail.
In connection with the old creation, God did all without any assistants. But in the far more stupendous work of the new creation, it is intimated by the Armenian evangelism of our day that He needs the sinners co-operation. Really, it comes to this -God is represented as helping man to save himself. the sinner must begin the work by becoming willing, and then God will complete the business. Whereas, none but the Spirit can make him willing in the day of His power (Psa. I 10: 3). He alone can produce godly sorrow for sin, and saving faith in the Gospel. He alone can make us not love ourselves first and foremost, and bring us into subjection to the Lordship of Christ. Instead of seeking the aid of outside evangelists, let the churches get on their faces before God, confess their sins, seek His glory, and cry for His miracle-working operations. "Not by might (of the preacher), nor by power (of the sinner's will), but by my Spirit, saith the Lord."
It is generally recognized that spirituality is at a low ebb in Christendom, and not a few perceive that sound doctrine is rapidly on the wane, yet many of the Lord's people take comfort from supposing that the Gospel is still being widely preached and that large numbers are being saved thereby. Alas, their optimistic supposition is ill-founded and sandily grounded. If the "message" now being delivered in Mission Halls be examined, if the "tracts" which are being scattered among the unchurched masses be scrutinized, if the "open air" speakers be carefully listened to, if the "sermons" or "addresses" of a "soul-winning campaign" be analyzed; in short, if modern "evangelism" be weighed in the balances of Holy Writ, it will be found wanting, lacking that which is vital to genuine conversion, lacking what is essential if sinners are to be shown their need of a Savior, lacking that which will produce the transfigured lives of new creatures in Christ Jesus.
It is in no captious spirit that we write, seeking to make a man an offender for a word. It is not that we are looking for perfection, and complain because we cannot find it; nor that we criticize others because they are not doing things as we think they should be done. No, it is a matter far more serious than that. The "evangelism" of the day is not only superficial to the last degree, but it is radically defective. It is utterly lacking a foundation on which to base an appeal for sinners to come to Christ. There is not only a lamentable lack of proportion (the mercy of God being made far more prominent than His holiness, His love than His wrath), but there is a fatal omission of that which God has given for the purpose of imparting a knowledge of sin. There is not only a reprehensible introducing of "bright singing," humorous witticisms and entertaining anecdotes, but there is a studied omission of dark background upon which alone the Gospel can effectively shine forth.
But serious indeed as is the above indictment, it is only half of it - the negative side, that which is lacking. Worse still is that which is being retailed by the cheap-jack evangelists of the day. The positive content of their message is nothing but a throwing of dust in the eyes of the sinner. His soul is put to sleep by the devil's opiate, ministered in a most unsuspecting form. Those who really receive the "message" which is now being given out from most of the "orthodox" pulpits and platforms today, are being fatally deceived. It is a way which ~seemeth right unto a man, but unless God sovereignly intervenes by a miracle of grace, all who follow it will surely find that the ends thereof are the ways of death. Tens of thousands who confidently imagine that they are bound for heaven will get a terrible disillusionment when they awake in hell!
What Is The Gospel?
Is the Gospel a message of glad tidings from heaven to make God-defying rebels at ease in their wickedness? Is it given for the purpose of assuring the pleasure crazy young people that, providing they only "believe," there is nothing for them to fear in the future? One would certainly think so from the way in which the Gospel is presented, or rather perverted, by most of the "evangelists," and the more so when we look at the lives of their "converts." Surely those with any degree of spiritual discernment must perceive that to assure such that God loves them and His Son died for them, and that a full pardon for all their sins (past, present and future) can be obtained by simply "accepting Christ as their personal Savior" is but a casting of pearls before swine.
The gospel is not a thing apart. It is not something independent of the prior revelation of God's Law. It is not an announcement that God has relaxed His justice or lowered His standard of holiness. So far from that, when Scripturally expounded, the Gospel presents the clearest demonstration and the climacteric proof of the inexorableness of God's justice and of His infinite abhorrence of sin. But for Scripturally expounding the Gospel, beardless youths and business men who devote their spare time to "evangelistic effort" are quite unqualified. Alas, that the pride of the flesh suffers so many incompetent ones to rush in where those much wiser fear to tread. It is this multiplying of novices that is largely responsible for the woeful situation now confronting us, and because the "Churches" and "assemblies" are so largely filled with their "converts" explains why they are so unspiritual and worldly.
No, my reader, the Gospel is very, very far from making light of sin. The Gospel shows us how unsparingly God deals with sin. It reveals to us the terrible sword of His justice smiting His beloved Son in order that atonement might be made for the transgressions of His people. So far from the Gospel setting aside the law, it exhibits the Savior enduring the curse of it.
No doubt some readers are ready to object to our "harsh" and "sarcastic" statements above by asking: "When the question was put, "What must I do to be saved?" (Acts 16:31), did not an inspired apostle expressly say, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved?" Can we err, then, if we tell sinners the same thing today? Have we not divine warrant for so doing? True, those words are found in Holy Writ, and because they are, many superficial and untrained people conclude that they are justified in repeating them to all and sundry. But let it be pointed out that Acts 16:31 was not addressed to a promiscuous multitude, but to a particular individual, which at once intimates that it is not a message to be indiscriminately sounded forth, but rather, a special word to those whose characters correspond to the one to whom it was first spoken.
Verses of Scripture must not be wrenched from their setting, but weighed, interpreted, and applied in accord with their context; and that calls for prayerful consideration, careful meditation, and prolonged study: and it is failure at this point which accounts for these shoddy and worthless "messages" of this rush-ahead age. Look at the context of Acts 16:3 1, and what do we find? What was the occasion, and to whom was it that the apostle and his companion said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ?" A seven-fold answer is there furnished, which supplies a striking and complete delineation of the character of those to whom we are warranted in giving this truly evangelistic word. As we briefly name these seven details, let the reader carefully ponder them.
First, the man to whom these words were spoken had just witnessed the miracle-working power of God. "And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed" (Acts 16:26). Second, in consequence thereof the man was deeply stirred, even to the point of self-despair: "He drew out his sword and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled" (v.27). Third, he felt the need of illumination: "Then he called for a light" ~(v.29). Fourth. his self- complacency was utterly shattered, for he "came trembling" (v.29). Fifth, he took his proper place before God -in the dust- for "he fell down before Paul and Silas" (v. 29). Sixth, he showed respect and consideration for God's servants, for he "brought them out" (v. 30). Seventh, then, with a deep concern for his soul, he asked, "What must I do to be saved?"
Here then, is something definite for our guidance, if we are willing to be guided. It was no giddy, careless, unconcerned person who was exhorted to "simply" believe; but instead, one who gave clear evidence that a mighty work of God had already been wrought within him. He was an awakened soul (v.27). In his case there was no need to press upon him his lost condition, for he obviously felt it; nor were the apostles required to urge upon him the duty of repentance, for his entire demeanor betokened his contrition. But to apply the words spoken to him unto those who are totally blind to their depraved state and completely dead toward God, would be more foolish than placing a bottle of smelling salts to the nose of one just dragged unconscious from the water. Let the critic of this article read through Acts and see if he can find a single instance of the apostles addressing a promiscuous audience or a company of idolatrous heathen and "simply telling them" to believe in Christ!
"By The Law Is The Knowledge Of Sin"
Just as the world was not ready for the New Testament before it received the Old, just as the Jews were not prepared for the ministry of Christ until John the Baptist had gone before Him with his clamant call to repentance, so the unsaved are in no condition today for the Gospel till the law be applied to their hearts, for "by the law is the knowledge of sin" (Rom. 3:20). It is a waste of time to sow seed on ground which has never been plowed or spaded! To present the vicarious sacrifice of Christ to those whose dominant passion is to take their fill of sin, is to give that which is holy unto the dogs. What the unconverted need to hear about is the character of Him with whom they have to do, His claims upon them, His righteous demands, and the infinite enormity of disregarding Him and going their own way!
The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day "evangelist." He announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the
Should the reader exclaim, "I was not conscious of the heinousness of sin nor bowed down with a sense of my guilt when Christ saved me." Then we unhesitating reply ~Either you have never been saved at all. or you were not saved as early as you supposed. True, as the Christian grows in grace, he has a clearer realization of what sin is -rebellion against God- and a deeper hatred of and sorrow for it: but to think that one may be saved by Christ whose conscience has never been smitten by the Spirit and whose heart has not been made contrite before God, is to imagine something which has no existence in the realm of fact. They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick" (Matt. 9:12). The only ones who really seek relief from the great Physician are they that are sick of sin who long to be delivered from its God-dishonoring works and its soul-defiling pollutions.
Inasmuch then, as Christ's salvation is a salvation from sin -from the love of it, from its dominion, from its guilt and penalty- then it necessarily follows that the first great task and the chief work of the evangelist is to preach upon SIN: to define what sin (as distinct from crime) really is, to show wherein its infinite enormity consists, to trace out its manifold workings in the heart, to indicate that nothing less than eternal punishment is its desert. Ah, and preaching upon sin -not merely uttering a few platitudes concerning it, but devoting sermon after sermon to explaining what sin is in the sight of God- will not make him popular nor draw the crowds, will it? No, it will not, and knowing this, those who love the praise of men more than the approbation of God, and who value their salary above immortal souls, trim their sales accordingly. "But such preaching will drive the people away!" We answer, far better drive the people away by faithful preaching, than to drive the Holy Spirit away by unfaithfully pandering to the flesh!
The terms of Christ's salvation are erroneously stated by the present-day evangelist. With very rare exceptions he tells his hearers that salvation is by grace and is received as a free gift, that Christ has done everything for the sinner, and that nothing remains but for him to "believe," to trust in the infinite merits of His blood. And so widely does this conception now prevail in "Orthodox" circles, so frequently has it been dinned in their ears, so deeply has it taken root in their minds, that for one to now challenge it and denounce it as being so inadequate and one-sided as to be deceptive and erroneous, is for him to instantly court the stigma of being a heretic, and to be charged with dishonoring the finished work of Christ by inculcating salvation by works. Yet. notwithstanding, the writer is quite prepared to run that risk.
Salvation is by grace, by grace alone, for a fallen creature cannot possibly do anything to merit God's approval or earn His favor. Nevertheless, divine grace is not exercised at the expense of holiness, for it never compromises with sin. It is also true that salvation is a free gift, but an empty hand must receive it, and not a hand which still tightly grasps the world! But it is not true that "Christ has done everything for the sinner." He did not fill His belly with the husks which the swine eat and find them unable to satisfy. He has not turned His back on the far country, arisen, gone to the Father, and acknowledged his sin those are acts which the sinner himself must perform. True, he will not be saved for the performance of them, any more than the prodigal could receive the Father's kiss and ring while he remained at a guilty distance from him!
Something more than "believing" is necessary to salvation. A heart that is steeled in rebellion against God cannot savingly believe, it must first be broken. it is written: "Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish" (Luke 13:3). Repentance is just as essential as faith, yea, the latter cannot be without the former: "Ye ... repented not afterward, that ye might believe" (Matt. 21:32). The order is clearly enough laid down by Christ: "Repent ye, and believe the gospel" (Mark 1: 15). Repentance is a heart-repudiation of sin. Repentance is a heart-determination to forsake sin. And where there is true repentance, grace is free to act, for the requirements of holiness are conserved when sin is renounced. Thus, it is the duty of the evangelist to cry, "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy on him" (Isa. 55:7). His task is to call on his hearers to lay down the weapons of their warfare against God, and then to sue for mercy through Christ.
The way of salvation is falsely defined. In most instances the modern "evangelist" assures his congregation that all any sinner has to do in order to escape hell and make sure of heaven is to "receive Christ as his personal Savior." But such teaching is utterly misleading. No one can receive Christ as his Savior while he rejects Him as Lord! It is true, the preacher adds, that the one who accepts Christ should also surrender to Him as Lord, but he at once spoils it by asserting that though the convert fails to do so. nevertheless heaven is sure to him. That is one of the devil's lies! Only those who are spiritually blind would declare that Christ will save any who despise His authority and refuse His yoke: why, my reader, that would not be grace, but a disgrace charging Christ with placing a premium on lawlessness!
It is in His office of Lord that Christ maintains God's honor, subserves His government, enforces His Law; and if the reader will turn to those passages (Luke 1: 46-47; Acts 5:3 1; 2 Peter 1: 1 1; 2:20; 3: 1) where the two titles occur, he will find that the order is always "Lord and Savior," and not "Savior and Lord." Therefore, those who have not bowed to Christ's sceptre and enthroned Him in their hearts and lives, and yet imagine they are trusting in Him as their Savior, are deceived, and unless God disillusions them, they will go down to the everlasting burnings with a lie in their right hand (Isa. 44:20). Christ is "the Author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him" (Heb. 5:9), but the attitude of those who submit not to His Lordship is "We will not have this Man to rule over us" (Luke 19:14). Pause then, my reader, and honestly face the question: Am I subject to His will? Am I sincerely endeavoring to keep His commandments?
Alas, alas, God's "way of salvation" is almost entirely unknown today, the nature of Christ's salvation is almost universally misunderstood, and the terms of His salvation misrepresented on every hand. The "Gospel" which is now being proclaimed is, in nine cases out of every ten, but a perversion of the Truth, and tens of thousands, assured they are bound for heaven, are now hastening to hell as fast as time can take them. Things are far, far worse in Christendom than even the "pessimist" and the "alarmist" suppose. We are not a prophet, nor shall we indulge in any speculation of what the Biblical prophecy forecasts. Wiser men than the writer have often made fools of themselves by so doing. We are frank to say that we know not what God is about to do. Religious conditions were much worse, even in
What must the people of God do in view of the existing situation? Eph. 5:11 supplies the divine answer: "Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them;" and everything opposed to the light of the Word is "darkness." It is the bounden duty of every Christian to have no dealings with the "evangelistic" monstrosity of the day, to withhold all moral and financial support of the same, to attend none of their meetings, to circulate none of their tracts. Those preachers who tell sinners that they may be saved without forsaking their idols, without repenting, without surrendering to the Lordship of Christ, are as erroneous and dangerous as others who insist that salvation is by works, and that heaven must be earned by our own efforts.
Heaven 'not for Christians only'
Marelize Barnard, Die Burger
Cape Town - Heaven is not only for Christians, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has warned.
Tutu was the guest speaker at the Alliance of Civilizations awards ceremony, presented by the Spanish embassy in conjunction with the University of the Western Cape and the University of Cape Town on Monday.
"Most of us think God is a Christian, but if you think that God is going to tell the Dalai Lama 'you're a good person, but sorry you're not a Christian' then (I say) rubbish.
"We've conveniently forgotten that Christians burnt witches at the stake. It wasn't pagans responsible for the Nazi genocide - it was Christians," Tutu said.
He said it had also been claimed that apartheid was supported by the scriptures and the symbol of the Ku Klux Klan was a cross.
Tutu sounded a warning against a simplistic classification of good and bad.
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Cape Town - Heaven is not only for Christians, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has warned.
Tutu was the guest speaker at the Alliance of Civilizations awards ceremony, presented by the Spanish embassy in conjunction with the University of the Western Cape and the University of Cape Town on Monday.
"Most of us think God is a Christian, but if you think that God is going to tell the Dalai Lama 'you're a good person, but sorry you're not a Christian' then (I say) rubbish.
"We've conveniently forgotten that Christians burnt witches at the stake. It wasn't pagans responsible for the Nazi genocide - it was Christians," Tutu said.
He said it had also been claimed that apartheid was supported by the scriptures and the symbol of the Ku Klux Klan was a cross.
Tutu sounded a warning against a simplistic classification of good and bad.
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