September 24, 2015:
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COMMENT: Compare the following article with this statement found in Great Controversy, Page 234, and Paragraph 2. Throughout Christendom, Protestantism was menaced by formidable foes. The first triumphs of the Reformation past, Rome summoned new forces, hoping to accomplish its destruction. At this time, the order of the Jesuits was created, the most cruel, unscrupulous, and powerful of all the champions of popery. Cut off from every earthly tie and human interest, dead to the claims of natural affection, reason and conscience wholly silenced, they knew no rule, no tie, but that of their order, and no duty but to extend its power. The gospel of Christ had enabled its adherents to meet danger and endure suffering, undismayed by cold, hunger, toil, and poverty, to uphold the banner of truth in face of the rack, the dungeon, and the stake. To combat these forces, Jesuitism inspired its followers with a fanaticism that enabled them to endure like dangers, and to oppose to the power of truth all the weapons of deception. There was no crime too great for them to commit, no deception too base for them to practice, no disguise too difficult for them to assume. Vowed to perpetual poverty and humility, it was their studied aim to secure wealth and power, to be devoted to the overthrow of Protestantism, and the re-establishment of the papal supremacy. {GC88 234.2} |
A Fiat is worth a thousand words as Pope Francis opts for humble ride
Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome
Tuesday 22 September 2015 17.49 EDT
The pontiff made his first journey on US soil in a modest family car sending out a message of humility and possibly a foretaste of his environmental message
Pope Francis waves as he is driven away in a Fiat 500 model after arriving in the United States at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington on Tuesday.
There were no public words from Pope Francis when the 78-year-old landed on American soil for the first time. But his car, a modest black Fiat 500L, said it all.
His choice to stick to an understated classic in a country where big cars rule the road and in a city that favours idling Suburban SUVs seemed to be giving Francis’s first meaningful message to his American hosts: that he is a humble man, and one who tries to avoid the trappings of his elected office as Bishop of Rome.
To see such an important foreign dignitary driving off in a Fiat was so unusual that CNN anchor Jake Tapper speculated on live television that there “must be” some “bells and whistles” of which the public was not aware. As if the Fiat had just been passed on to the pope from James Bond.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/22/fiat-pope-francis-car-washington
Evangelicals Are Wondering If Pope Francis Could Be the Antichrist
July 31, 2015
By Richard Haynes
| COMMENT: Not all evangelicals feel this way however, as is stated in the article following this one. |
The Drudge Report recently posted the picture at the top of this article with a link to a Charisma News article that read: POPE FRANCIS ANTICHRIST? Underneath this link were the words, “Stand on Islam, capitalism, New World Order fuel chatter…”
The connected article, written by Charisma’s senior editor, Jennifer LeClaire, asks if Pope Francis could be the final pope before Christ returns, and ponders whether the pontiff could be the Antichrist or the False Prophet?
With asking these questions, LeClaire links to another article containing the below video from the Jim Bakker show (yes, that Jim), and writes this:
Here’s what we know: More than 50 years ago, a Jesuit priest predicted the resignation of Pope Benedict—to the day—and now Tom Horn, who worked with Cris Putnam to unveil a 900-year-old prophecy buried in the library at the Vatican that describes a series of 112 popes, and others are looking at his research. “Was he divinely inspired? Was he demonically inspired?” Horn asks. “Because we know demons know things about times and dispensations, too.”
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http://www.patheos.com/blogs/brotherrichard/2015/07/evangelicals-are-wondering-if-pope-francis-could-be-the-antichrist/
Pope Francis' deep ties to evangelicals
Jamie Manson
Jul. 8, 2015
When the World Meeting of Families announced its roster of speakers for its September meeting in Philadelphia, some were surprised to see Rick Warren's name among the invitees.
Warren is one of the leading Christian evangelical voices in the United States, and the World Meeting of Families, which is sponsored by the Holy See's Pontifical Council for the Family, is the world's largest Catholic gathering of families.
Warren will join Cardinal Sean O'Malley in offering a shared keynote address titled "The Joy of the Gospel of Life."
Nearly two and a half years into his pontificate, Francis continues embrace evangelicals, particularly those from the United States. In March 2014, he welcomed the Green family, the "Oklahoma billionaires whose company, Hobby Lobby, took their challenge to Obama's contraception mandate to the Supreme Court last week."
Francis continued to welcome U.S.-based evangelicals later that month. On June 24, 2014, in a meeting that RNS said "leaned particularly toward charismatic Christianity," the pope met with "Anthony Palmer, a bishop and international ecumenical officer with the independent Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches; Geoff Tunnicliffe, the outgoing head of the Worldwide Evangelical Alliance; and John and Carol Arnott of Catch the Fire Toronto, which grew out of a Pentecostal revival 20 years ago."
If you think these meetings took place during large audiences, think again. The RNS story includes a photo of Pope Francis giving a high-five to Texas televangelist James Robison as they share a meal, while fellow Texas televangelist Kenneth Copeland was photographed praying over the pope.
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http://ncronline.org/blogs/grace-margins/pope-francis-deep-ties-evangelicals
Ben Carson: Money pouring in after Muslim comments
Updated 10:10 AM ET,
Wed September 23, 2015
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Perhaps I need to repeat this comment. Mr. Carson seems to have overlooked this piece of the United States Constitution. Article Six of the United States Constitution The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. |
Washington (CNN) Ben Carson said Wednesday he's pulling in lots of money amid all the backlash he's received for remarks he made regarding Muslims in politics.
The retired neurosurgeon said he raised $1 million within 24 hours following the CNN debate on Sept. 16, and that donations have poured in after remarks he made over the weekend about Islam and the presidency.
"The money has been coming in so fast, it's hard to even keep up with it," he said Wednesday morning on Fox News, when asked about whether his comments had affected his donations. "I remember the day of the last debate, within 24 hours we raised $1 million. And it's coming in at least at that rate if not quite a bit faster."
CNN will not be able to verify fundraising totals with the Federal Election Commission until after the quarter ends Sept 30.
Carson said Wednesday that he has continued to receive support since saying that he would not support a Muslim in the White House.
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http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/23/politics/ben-carson-fundraising-muslim-comments-fox-and-friends/index.html
Pope visits once-persecuted evangelicals at Waldensian church on trip to Turin, northern Italy
Published June 22, 2015
Associated Press
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COMMENT: In reference to the Waldenses, J.A. Wylie, in “The History of Protestantism” volume 2 page 435 says the following about Pope Innocent’s action against them: The first step of the Pope was to issue a bull, denouncing as heretical those whom he delivered over to slaughter. This bull, after the manner of all such documents, was expressed in terms as sanctimonious. It brings no charge against these men, as lawless, idle, dishonest, or disorderly; their fault was that they did not worship as Innocent worshipped, and that they practiced a "simulated sanctity," which had the effect of seducing the sheep of the true fold, therefore he orders " that malicious and abominable sect of malignants," if they " refuse to abjure, to be crushed like venomous snakes." |
TURIN, Italy – Pope Francis has become the first pope to visit a Waldensian evangelical church, whose members were persecuted by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages.
Francis entered the Waldensian temple in Turin on Monday on the second day of his visit to the land of his ancestors in northern Italy.
The Waldensian church was founded in the 12th century by Peter Waldo, a wealthy merchant from Lyon, France, who gave up his belongings to preach a Gospel of simplicity and poverty that condemned papal excesses. He was excommunicated and his followers persecuted by Rome.
The Waldensians today claim 45,000 followers, mostly in Italy, Argentina and Uruguay.
The Argentine Jesuit has continued his strong friendships with leaders of Protestant and evangelical churches that he developed as the archbishop of Buenos Aires.
