Now, throughout this series we’ve been looking at how all of history has led toward a supernatural and prophetic denouement. Nothing was an accident. God’s will can be seen throughout. We’ve run the gamut from ETs & aliens & demons, through the secret societies to the prophetic scenarios unfolding today. We watch in real time the erection of the architecture of the Mark of the Beast technology and a One World Government.
“Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first.” (2Thessalonians 2:3)
Now this religious preparation for the “falling away,” has not been sudden. It has been centuries in the making. The decline gained momentum with the onset of Darwinism and Humanism that rejected Biblical truth. This thesis posited that all ‘truth’ comes through science alone. The tenets of this new philosophy directly contradicted biblical principle. It claimed for instance that the Bible, rather than being the inspired word of God, came instead from an ever-evolving human understanding of who God was. This meant of course that Scripture was not a reliable source of history. By that reasoning the Gospels themselves were not factual. The events of the Bible became merely myth, including the miracles of Jesus and especially the Resurrection. This thinking resulted by the 1990’s, in a church where even the clergy denied the essential, foundational truths of the Christian Faith. [Today it has fallen even farther, with the adoption, in many cases, of the LGBTQ+ agenda and the promotion of transgenderism and abortion, the murder of the unborn!] Here are some examples from the earlier research poll. Over half of Methodist and a full third of American Baptist clergy did not believe in the Resurrection.[i] The virgin birth of Christ was rejected by 60% of Methodists, 49% of Presbyterians and 44% of Episcopalians. Other essential doctrines are denied: – the atoning work of Jesus on the Cross, justification by faith, even the very notion of sin and Man’s sinful nature. If Scripture was just from human hands then everything was open to re-interpretation. By 1942 the forerunner of the National Council of Churches, was calling for a one “world government, international control of all armies and navies, a universal system of money, and a democratically controlled international bank.” Just the sort of world the book of Revelations tells us will be set up under the Antichrist in the last days.[ii] It brings to mind the warning of 2Timothy 3. In the “last days” mankind will become “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power.”
While some Protestant Churches have found the Bible to be less than inspired, and subsequently tolerated just about any denial of Scripture, Rome has taken a different tack, setting itself up as superior to the Bible. We’ve seen that, beginning about the 4th century, the Roman Catholic Church has taken on some of the trappings of the ancient pagan religions that had their origin in Babylon. Even modern Catholic writers admit, “…it is true, in a certain sense, that some Catholic rites and ceremonies are a reproduction of those pagan creeds”.[iii] Rome was able to do so because it set itself up as the sole interpreter of Scripture. Significantly, it also appealed to a body of Tradition for its authority. This Tradition was never clearly defined, but seemed to appear as needed over the centuries, often directly contradicting the teachings of the Bible. This unbiblical bent gave us such doctrines as praying to Mary and the Saints, the continual sacrifice for sins, – found in the Catholic Mass, ( and contradicting Heb.10:10), and salvation through the Church rather than through faith in Jesus alone. They did so because of unlimited belief in their own authority. Quoting now the Confessio Romano – Catholica, “We confess that the Pope has the power of altering Scriptures….according to his will…We confess that the Holy Scripture is a dead letter until explained.”[iv]
This is the arrogance that led to the establishment of that horror of horrors, the Inquisition. Isn’t it ironic that it was in the name of Christ that the Church set up a system of torture and fiery execution that killed so many across the course of several centuries. In Sainte Nazaire, 12,000 heretics were killed. Ten thousand were slaughtered at Toulouse, 20,000 at Beziers. In fact, the Vatican had its own contingent of traveling Papal torturers. When you read the accounts of the hysteria with which these Church sanctioned bloodbaths were conducted you find that they closely mimic demonic possession.[v] [vi]
So, here’s the rub: Many Protestant denominations now deny Biblical authority – while Rome claims it is Biblical authority. This is the state of much of the church today; – sliding into apostasy. The Christian Church is in an amazing state of disarray, with Scriptural basics so compromised, that even the existence of Absolute Truth is questioned. Then take the population at large, where over 70% of Americans do not even believe in the concept.[vii] 65% believe that morality is culturally determined, and to 57% of adults, right and wrong is determined by personal experience.[viii] Of course this new spirit of tolerance, was aided by and contributed to the great moral slide our culture experienced beginning in the 60’s. We were becoming a post-modern society, rejecting ‘absolute truth’ and adapting the values and some of the trappings of Eastern Mysticism. What it did, was to separate the American people from the foundation of Christian principles which had held society together. It got to the point where supposedly Christian churches began to teach such non-Christian doctrines as; God did not create the Universe, the Bible contains error and there is no hell or judgment. Interestingly, at about the same time the New Age writers began to lavish praise on the Ecumenical movement that sought to paper over differences between the denominations and even between world religions. Here was an attitude that harmonized with New Age thinking.
This questioning of the validity of Truth itself, has led most recently to the denial of self-evident truths upon which all society is based. We cannot now officially recognize that men and women are biologically different – [no matter what surgeries or hormones are taken] – and those differences are written in our genes. We must now, not only tolerate absurd fictions, but actually celebrate that Grand Canard. All of this bleeds forth, not just into the culture, but also into our religious understandings. We have one Archbishop of the Anglican Church advancing the notion that Jesus was bi-sexual. No real cogent argument is offered for this conclusion. It is just the spirit of the age that demands it.
So, enter at this point that phenomena called the Jesus Seminar, tearing down all that was known about the Bible. By rejecting what was true, they tore at the very foundations of the Christian faith. This position made them the oft-quoted darlings of the liberal media, eager to discredit those pesky Christians with their pesky system of God-given morality. The mainstream media then, took up the cause of rejecting and diminishing Biblical truth. Now that cultural infection is spreading to the churches and the culture at large. This is the promise of the New Age: They await a New Christ on the order of the great sages of the past. Those New Age authors know of what they speak. They see this movement as but a forerunner of the soon-coming, One World Religion.
[i] Jeffrey Hadden Poll, 1998, as reported in Religious Tolerance, Ontario, Canada
[ii] David Bay, News Update #1506, Cutting Edge Ministries
[iii] Sullivan & O’Leary, The Externals of the Catholic Church, Kennedy and Sons, 1951
[iv] Quoted from: Confessio Romano–Catholica in Hungaria Evangelicis publife prescripta et propostia, Articles IV, I, and XXI, taken from David Bay, Puppets of the Papacy, Cutting Edge Ministries
[v] Peter Tomkins, The Magic of Obelisks, Harper and Row, 1982, pg 58
[vi] David Bay, The True Face of the Roman Catholic Inquisition, Cutting Edge Ministries
[vii] Based on Barna Research Group poll taken in 1997, Religious Tolerance.Org, December 16, 2001
[viii] The End of Absolutes, Barna, May 25, 2016
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