THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ASSAULT FROM WITHIN, Chapter 5 of 7 of

How Secret Societies Control The Rise And Fall Of Religions,

(The Religious Beast From The Earth, Rev. 13:11-18. )

With evangelists Glen & Renette Vermeulen, courtesy of Now Unbanned Publications C.C.

 

THE TWISTING OF FACT AND SCRIPTURE: 

If one ministers to Muslims, for example, it is necessary to know that these unbelievers and other religionists attack the authority and authenticity of the Word.  Interpreting the Bible verse-by-verse, they find many so-called ‘contradictions,’ which supposedly ‘discredit’ New Testament Scriptures entirely, (especially the epistles of Paul,) as the Word of God.  Many Christians also view Scripture non-contextual and on a verse-by-verse basis, avoiding some discrepancies.  For instance, Mark wrote that ONE possessed man came to Jesus in the country of the Gadarenes, while Matthew states there were TWO.  Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John also differ over events during the crucifixion, on the morning of the resurrection, and so on.  But these are not deliberate, destructive heresies, and can therefore be interpreted in the words of Paul, ‘We have this treasure [the knowledge of God’s truth, the full context of Scripture, God’s entire Word, the Gospel of Christ] in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.’  - 2 Cor. 4:7.

Fact remains, contrary to Satan’s iron-fisted methods of control, the God of the Bible, especially during the New Testament dispensation of grace, does not override the free will of His children, (1 Cor. 14:32.)  The Word which God breathed into the writers of the Bible was indeed perfect, even though it flowed from weak, imperfect, ‘earthen vessels’ onto paper. 

The deliberate dissemination of false doctrines, however, is another matter.  Still, the many attempts to erase the contextual truth of God’s Word from the Scriptures were of no avail, because Jesus declared that ‘heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.’  The Lord did however warn in Mt. 15:6;9, ‘You have made the commandment of God of no effect [powerless, nullifying the Word] by your tradition…  In vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ 

The willful twisting; misinterpretation, omission, false translation, and abuse of Holy Spirit-inspired Scripture are grim but growing realities.  The many twisted translations of the Bible, and countless non-contextual interpretations and false doctrines testify to this fact.  Someone summarized our responsibility to ‘test and prove EVERYTHING to see whether it is of God,’ when he said, ‘Searching Scripture is not a matter of knowledge, but of life!’  And so Paul and Silas found ‘more fair-minded [people in the synagogue at Berea than among the disciples in Thessalonica,] in that they received the Word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.’  – 1 Ths. 5:21; Jn. 30:5; 1 Jn. 4:1-2; 2 Cr. 13:5; 1 Cr. 14:29. 

 

THE ‘PERFECT CHURCH:’ 

God’s inspired Word and will for the body of Christ are indeed carved in stone! 

Nevertheless, the greatest threat to the spiritual safety and growth of the newborn body of Christ, established by the Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, was NOT the physical assault of the bloodthirsty, Judaist harlot, but a dreadful danger that lurked deep within the innermost mind of the ecclesia.  Contrary to what many churches teach, the full context of Scripture shows that a huge lack of knowledge concerning the Person of the Holy Spirit with His indwelling power and gifts, as well as failure to live an obedient, Godly lifestyle in the leading of the Sprit, were rife among early disciple-followers of ‘The Way:’ Acts 24:14; Hos. 4:6; Mt. 22:29; Eph. 4:18; 2 Tim. 2:25; Jn. 8:31-32. 

Rejecting the chronological order of events in the Book of Acts, as well as important guidelines and admonitions in the Gospels and epistles, charismatic and Pentecostal churches in particular, view the book of Acts verse-by-verse as God’s direct, infallible Word and perfect blueprint for the New Testament ‘church.’ 

Without testing these events according to the full context of Scripture, they see the incredible signs which followed the early believers as God’s affirmation of the ‘sinless perfection’ of the early ‘church.’ – 1 Ths. 5:21; 2 Cor. 13:5. 

On the Day of Pentecost Jesus’ disciple-followers were made perfect on a spiritual level, (2 Cor. 5:17.)  However, the battle for their minds or souls had only just begun, (2 Cor. 10:3-5.)  It soon became a fierce, ongoing fight, which will only end when ‘the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout…’ – 1 Ths. 4:16. 

Until that day the words of Peter, written 35 years after Pentecost, will continually ring true, ‘Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking…  [things that are] hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures…  Beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked.  But grow [continually] in the grace and knowledge of our Lord…’ – 2 Pt. 3:15-18. 

Peter’s serious admonition echoes the Words of Jesus in Jn. 8:31-32, ‘If you abide in MY [full, contextual] Word, you are My disciples indeed.  And [then] you shall KNOW the truth, and the truth shall set you free!’ 

 

THE ‘INFALLIBLE APOSTLES:’ 

Most denominations revere Jesus’ first disciples as ‘infallible apostles,’ because, (as we will prove during the course of our study,) nearly two thousand years of Catholic and Protestant teaching had transformed them into ‘perfect apostles’ and ‘all-knowing, sinless, deified saints.’  The truth might seem like blasphemy to some, but since the day of the fall in the Garden of Eden, the Lord Jesus Christ was the only perfect, sinless human being Who ever roamed the earth.  The so-called ‘infallible apostles’ too, had to experience the rebirth; followed by a process of sanctification through personal growth in knowledge and in truth: Rom. 12:1-2; Jam. 1:21-22. 

Paul, one of the ecclesia’s spiritually mature, serving ‘elderly,’ [mistranslated as ruling ‘elders,'] wrote in 1 Cor. 3:3, ‘I could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as carnal, as to [newborn] babes in Christ.  I fed you with milk, [the first things which form the foundation of the Gospel,] for until now you were not able to receive solid food, for you are still carnal…’ 

What Paul meant was that all of us, (elderly or so-called ’elders’ included,) have to continually ‘grow in knowledge and in grace… to become DOERS of the Word.’  For instance, in Rom. 7:7-25, Paul, writing in the first person, shares his personal struggle with the desires of the flesh in order to encourage and teach the ecclesia, the ’called out assembly,’ by example. 

Paul knew that a lack of growth in a newborn baby spells certain death for the individual, while impeded growth will mean disfigurement of the body and mind. 

Therefore the writer of Heb. 6:1-6 commanded, ‘Leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let US [all of us] go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection…  and of eternal judgment…  For it is impossible… if they fall away [through their lack of growth] to renew them again to repentance…’ 

 

THE FIERCE SPIRITUAL ONSLAUGHT: 

Despite the dual beast’s boundless binge on blood and torture during the first century A.D., it still lost thousands upon thousands of souls to the Kingdom of Light. 

On the immense mental battlefield of the soul, however, not even a lack of knowledge was enough to slay or stay the sincere disciples of Christ. 

So the religious harlot stepped forward to engage the followers in a different kind of war, waged, not only on a physical level, but also on the unseen paranormal plane.  She summoned masters of deception to her side, who deployed a multitude of secret agents to infiltrate the assemblies of Christ and to poison the minds of unwitting believers with lies, deceit, and false religious practices. 

Trojan horse ‘brethren:’ 

Paul wrote in Gal. 2:4, [Ritual circumcision and hypocrisy had entered the newborn ecclesia.] ‘And this occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in, who came by STEALTH to spy out our liberty, which we have in Christ, that they might bring us into bondage.’  In Trojan-horse style, by stealth and deceit, just as modern Masonic societies still operate, a secret Jewish Brotherhood had infiltrated the newborn ecclesia to attack her from the inside, deceiving even Barnabas and Peter!  - [Gal. 2:11-21.] 

Their handiest and mightiest tools were the toxic distortion of Scripture and the deluding counterfeits for the ministrations of the Holy Spirit, which caused soul-consuming legalism and spiritual confusion. 

By blending vital elements of the Old- and New dispensations, these secret agents of destruction misinterpreted Law and Grace, cursedness and blessing; robbing believers of their freedom and blessing in Christ, ‘making utensils of them.’ 

As a result, Paul cried out in Gal. 3, ‘O foolish Galatians!  Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth…  Having begun in the Spirit, [accepting Jesus’ salvation and blessing through the rebirth,] are you now being made perfect by the flesh?  – [Certain physical ordinances of the ritual law.] 

‘For as many are of the works of the law are under the [entire] curse [of the law, Deut. 28.]  For it is written, cursed is everyone who does not continue in ALL things which are written in the… law, to do them…  Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having BECOME a curse for us… that the blessing of Abraham, [the entire state of blessedness, Deut 28,] might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus…’

Gal. 2:21, ‘I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness [and blessing] comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.’ 

False, legalistic obedience to the Old Testament, ritual Law cannot buy salvation, redemption, or blessing – yet even modern Christians are supposedly ‘cursed’ by ‘robbing’ God of Old Testament tithes, which pertains to the old temple-dispensation that was completely annulled by Christ.  [Read Heb. chapters 8-10 in context with NT Scripture.  Also see L. Ray Smith’s ‘Tithing is Unscriptural Under The New Covenant,’ and ‘The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse,’ Johnson.] 

 

GOD’S DEFENSE: 

Jesus, in His infinite wisdom, had warned beforehand, ‘Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the [false religious] gate and broad is the [religious] way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.  Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, [to lead unsuspecting souls on the broad way of religion,] but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.  You will know them by their [continual bad] fruits…’ - Mt. 7:14-29. 

Paul did not receive ‘superior revelation:’ 

As mentioned, the contextual Gospel of Christ as we aught to know and live it, came through the epistles of Paul – some 23 years after Pentecost, (Gal. 2:15-3:1; 3:2-21!)  However, Paul did not receive ‘superior revelation.’  God simply used Paul to explain ‘The Way more perfectly,’ accurately, clearly - and according to the chronology, or context, of events, (Acts 18:25-26.)  Thus, the ministry of Paul centered on apologetics – the defense of the Gospel.  God had called and equipped Paul and the other servant-‘elderly’ to guard His blood-bought ecclesia; to defend the truth of the Gospel, and to discern and expose false teachers, idolatrous doctrines, and sinful pagan practices among members of the ecclesia: Phil. 1:17; Eph. 5:10-11. 

‘Judge’ ALL things: 

The S.F. Bible explains, ‘The Gospel came to the [disciples] not only in word, but also in power, suggesting A BALANCED MIX of intellectual argument, the Spirit’s power, (gifts or signs,) and deep personal response.’  - Mark. 16:16-18, 1 Cor. 14:22. 

As a result, Paul taught the disciples in 1 Cor. 2:15, ‘He who is spiritual, [the sincerely born again believer who has begun to experience the transformation of his mind, and who is able to discern the perfect will of God, (Rom. 12:1-2,)] JUDGES ALL things…’ 

So, we have to judge the writings of Paul and the other ‘elderly’ as well, (e.g., view them in context and in relation to the rest of Scripture,) as the humble Paul would never have been so self-conceited as to believe that all his teachings would be ‘infallible,’ (Jam. 3:2; 1 Jn. 1:8-10.)  As a result, he continued in 1 Ths. 5:21, ‘TEST ALL THINGS, [all Spiritual manifestations, teaching, preaching, (even his own,)] and [reject what is false, while holding] fast what is good…’

Jesus Christ is the Creator God

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