Truth Provided Broadcast of 8-17-2001
Greetings everyone. I would like to start right off by sharing an article I received back in 1994. I reported on this article some years back. However, I do believe it bears repeating. The headline of the article is as follows.
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Vatican
Condemns Literal Interpretation of the Bible
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This
article is taken from "The Star, 1994 Manila, Philippines"
VATICAN CITY, Italy - The Vatican criticized a literal interpretation of the Bible and said the fundamentalist approach to scripture was a kind of intellectual suicide. A Vatican document said fundamentalism refuses to admit that the inspired Word of God has been expressed in human language... by human authors possessed of limited capacities and resources.The 125-page document, "The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church," was written by the Pontifical Biblical Com-mission, a group of scholars who assist the Pope in the study of scripture. It noted that a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible had been gaining strength. The Vatican is increasingly concerned about the number of Catholics, especially in Latin America, who have abandoned the church for fast-growing fundamentalist sects. The fundamentalist approach is dangerous, for it is attractive to people who look to the Bible for ready answers to the problems of life, the document said. Fundamentalism actually invites people to a kind of intellectual suicide. A fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible began during the Reformation, when Protestants showed an increasing concern for fidelity to the literal meaning of scripture. The document said fundamentalism refused to admit that there was a human element in the transmission of the Word of God. One member of the commission, Jesuit Father Joseph Fitzmeyer, said fundamentalists failed to recognize that several years elapsed between the time Jesus spoke and the time when the gospels were written. There was no stenographer, no one with a tape recorder on that time, said Fitzmeyer.
http://www.techplus.com/bkjv1611/bd0156.htm
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Without
getting into too much detail, I would like to bring to your attention two comments
made by the Vatican here. I believe you will get my meaning by these two.
Comment (1) "The fundamentalist approach is dangerous, for it is attractive to people who look to the Bible for ready answers to the problems of life."
Here we see the Pope and his media experts stating to all the world at large that to look unto the ADMITTED inspired Word of God as a source for answers to the many problems of this life is DANGEROUS! Why is the leader of the Catholic faith looking unto the writings of His Creator as Words that cannot comfort, help, calm give love, peace, or spiritual relaxation? Why is it that this Pope and ALL the Popes look unto the Word that has blessed literally billions since its inspritation as something not worthy of our embrace? The Almighty who penned those very Words states plainly in 1 Corinthians 2:14, "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."
I recall many years ago when I was lost, I too saw the Bible as a Book I simply could not grasp. A Book unworthy of my attention. A Book that was impossible to believe, let alone understand. But then one day I heard that still small voice of Jesus my Saviour. One day His Word opened up to me and I realized that YES, there is a God, and He is capable of writing a Book that His own children can understand. It was a bonafide miracle! What was once a pack of unintelligible words, is now a source of peace and hope that goes beyond even the Words that He placed within, that describe peace and hope! Only those influenced by Antichrist himself can see no harm in preaching that the Word of a Creator God is DANGEROUS for those of us that peer within without the translations of Rome! Such a bold and blasphemous stance is one that states the Words penned by the Holy Spirit are Words that He Himself was unable to place upon the page for all of mankind to understand. Where does the Vatican suppose we seek refuge? Within ITS traditions perhaps?
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The
decree set forth in the year 1545 A.D. by the Council of Trent is as such...
"The doctrine withholds and declares that tradition is of equal authority
with the Bible." _____________________________________________
So, it appears that yes, the Vatican would have us grasp tradition as infallible! This has always been the case with the agents of Rome. They seek to control mankind by placing "holy" laws upon them geared to pull at their spiritual hearts. And as history declares, mankind will always be more apt to do that which he thinks is of God, over and above what he thinks is of man. So, the government of Rome counterfeits the holiness of a god. It appears the church of Rome seeks to stand as one EQUAL to God Himself. Is this not something revealed in the very Words of the Creator as something that HAS occurred in the past as well? Is this not the desires of one that WAS a resident of Heaven once before? Look, and see for yourselves as to WHO holds the desire to inhabit the throne of the Mighty Creator.
Isaiah 14:12-14, "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High."
Yes, there is a "god" in the Vatican. It is a lesser god that is seeking the souls of loved ones for purposes other than what they were created for. TO BURN! Is this "god" capable of speaking through the man it controls? Is this "god" capable of shouting blasphemous proclamations that a man is "god on Earth?" Is this "god" in the Vatican totally in control of the men that stand there season after season and lifetime after lifetime? Can this god in the Vatican speak such hellish and blasphemous waste as John 10:33 speaks of? Count on it! The Popes of the Vatican in unison with Antichrist have been preaching error for centuries. And to top it off, they have DOCUMENTED their blasphemous dogma for any and all who care to research. The following quotes are taken from actual Catholic documents of the Vatican.
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"Christ
entrusted His office to the chief pontiff;... but all power in heaven and in
earth has been given to Christ;... therefore the chief pontiff, who is His vicar,
will have this power." -Corpus Juris chapter. 1 column 29, translated from
a gloss on the words Porro Subesse Romano Pontiff
"We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty" ...Pope Leo XIII (13th)
"All the names which are attributed to Christ in Scripture, inplying His supremacy over the church, are also attributed to the Pope." -Bellamin, "On the Authority of Councils," book 2, Chapter 17.
"For thou art the shepherd, thou art the physician, thou art the director, thou art the husbandman, finally thou art another God on earth." Labbe and Cossart's "History of the Councils." Vol. XIV (15), col. 109
The title "Lord God the Pope" can be found within a gloss of Extravagantes of Pope John XXII (22) title 14, chapter 4, Declaramus.
In an Antwerp edition of the Extravagantes, the words, "Dominum Deum Nostrum Papam" (Our Lord
God the Pope) can be found in column 153. In a Paris edition, they are found in column 140.
"Hence the Pope is crowned with a triple crown, as king of Heaven and earth, and purgatory." Prompta Bibliotheca," Feraris, Vol. 6 p. 26, art. "Papa."
Roman Catholic Canon Law stipulates through Pope
Innocent III that the Roman pontiff is "the vicegerent upon earth, not
a mere man, but of a very God;" and in a gloss on the passage it is explained
that this is because he is the vicegerent of Christ, who is "very God and
very man." Decretales Domini Gregorii translatione Episcoporum, (on the
transference of Bishops), title 7, chapter 3; Corpus Juris Canonice (2nd Leipzig
ed., 1881), col. 99; (Paris, 1612), tom. 2, Devretales, col. 205
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DOCUMENTED
for all the world to see and STILL there are over a BILLION Catholics
unaware of such quotes as these! TELL THEM! Tell your loved ones of this Antichrist
standing as a sheep in wolfs clothing. Tell them that there is absolute Biblical
evidence of his existence as prophecy so accurately describes it. I am convinced
that most Catholics are unaware that their Pope believes he is a god! Please
notice that these are not "fly by night" quotes from the Hollywood
tabloids people. These are actual authenticated Vatican documents! For a man
to stand before all the world proclaiming that he himself is "god on earth"
is utter and graphic evidence that Lucifer now fallen and named Satan has embodied
the souls of all those that stand as Pope, as well as all those that would further
this work of Antichrist. It is no wonder they see the Word of God as DANGEROUS!
For it EXPOSES THEM and their "god" with childlike ease. And to them,
that is indeed dangerous to their cause. So they belittle and speak against
the Word of God so as to steer you away from it! But even if the enemy was successful
in closing all the eyes of the people. He cannot shut up the mouths of those
sent by Jesus! Fact is people, those of us that keep the Commandments of God
and have the Testimony of Jesus are very dangerous as well to the Vatican. How
so?
(a) We keep the Commandments of God Scripturally proving that Satan has lied concerning their abolishment at Calvary.
(b) We have the Testimony of Jesus which is actually the Spirit of Prophecy. (See Revelation 19:10) How is this dangerous? We are told IN ADVANCE what the Devil is up to in the Word of God, and we share it with all those that have ears to hear. Then the Devil does exactly as the Word of God reveals, and that proves the prophecy authentic and the Lord God is glorified! And the Devil stands easily EXPOSED! That's why they call the Scriptures DANGEROUS!
Now on to ...
Comment (2) "Jesuit Father Joseph Fitzmeyer, said fundamentalists failed to recognize that several years elapsed between the time Jesus spoke and the time when the gospels were written. There was no stenographer, no one with a tape recorder on that time, said Fitzmeyer."
Modern technology has now blessed this Jesuit with a way to belittle the Creator that allowed the "Knowledge to increase" exactly as prophecy stated in Daniel 12 would happen in these last days. He belittles the Almighty by stating that men were without tape recorders and stenographers that he deems as "necessary" to get every utterance of our Lord and His Apostles recorded. This Jesuit is openly stating that God Himself MESSED UP! The Almighty Creator picked the WRONG time to have His Son Jesus visit us, preach unto us, die for us, and resurrect for us. This faithless Jesuit preaches it should have been at a time when MAN'S TECHNOLOGY would have been more apt to RECORD all that the Creator would speak! Such arrogance!! Such a graphic lack of faith in the Holy Spirit is evident here! Can you see this? He is saying plainly that the Holy Spirit is incapable of bringing to remembrance all that was spoken in those days! Well, one verse "comes to mind" here... (no pun intended)
John 14:26, "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."
Jesus is stating FACT here! For Jesus spoke for a little over three years of all the truth we need, not to mention all the truth that was spoken in the Old Testament. And knowing that we have a limited brain, He blesses us with His Holy Spirit that brings "ALL things to our remembrance WHATSOEVER He has said unto us." Again, the Vatican is stating that JESUS HAS LIED! For the Vatican is saying that the men the Holy Spirit was "inspiring" were NOT capable of remembering what Jesus Himself said they WOULD definitely remember in the first place. StRaNgE isn't it? Want to see something equally as strange in this same article by the Vatican? Notice this, they stated in the article that, "the inspired Word of God has been expressed in human language... by human authors possessed of limited capacities and resources"
Did you catch that? They called the Word of God the "the *INSPIRED* Word of God ... by human authors possessed of LIMITED capacities and resources" They are stating, in CoNfUsIoN I might add, that the inspired Word of the CREATOR is not going to be written or recorded properly because the human beings He CREATED were incapable, "or" were CREATED incapable of doing as He CREATED them to do in the first place! PLUS... this Jesuit states they also had "LIMITED RESOURCES." Do you know what the Roman Church is going for here? They are looking to convince us "IN THE turn of the century" with all our bells and whistles that those folks in the time the Bible was penned were WITHOUT the creature comforts, computers, tape recorders, TV's, airplanes, cameras, cars, laser beams, nuclear fusion, open heart surgery, world wide web, satellites, space shuttles, cars, radios, scanners, printers, etc etc etc that we see now as absolute necessities! The Vatican is shouting very boldly to all that will listen, "GOD....YOU MESSED UP! YOU SHOULD HAVE ARRIVED IN OUR DAY!! WE WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO "PROVE" YOU WERE WHO YOU SAY YOU ARE WITH OUR TECHNOLOGY!"
Well... guess what folks...
Matthew 7:26-27, "And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it."
The Vatican is shouting in thunderous tones that we must put faith in ourselves and our inventions over and above all that is God Almighty. We must place our faith in our ability to PROVE what it is we see! We must put our faith in our technology! The Pope as he drives in his bullet proof PopeMobile stands as a bold icon shouting unto all that God cannot save him, only the technology of mankind can save him! He is actually shouting that only the technology of man can save mankind! Only the technology of man can help man with all his problems of everyday life NOT your Bibles! That's dangerous! Only the technology of man can give you inner peace! The Vatican is preaching that you and I cannot know for sure that Jesus said what He said simply because our technology was not available at that time to prove He said it. And he is proclaiming that there is a "possibility" that the Holy Spirit messed up when He picked certain men to pen His Words. He is stating the Creator did not have the "necessary" tape recorders and stenographers needed to make sure His Holy Words would be recorded accurately. The Pope is shouting loud here people! He is shouting to all that you must build your house upon the technology of man and man alone! Trust only what your technology can authenticate! Well guess what folks! It works! This message of hell is working upon every heart that allows it on planet Earth! Across the globe we see almost every man woman and child relying on their "technology" to handle their problems in life! Almost everyone trusts the inventions of medicine and computers over and above the Almighty and His miracles. When was the last time you heard of someone going FIRST to the Lord in a sticky situation? Why is it always the praying begins AFTER they see that "we" "mankind" cannot fix the problem? Is He only a God of foxholes that we worship? Is He only present when we are up against the wall? The devil has been busy indeed. He has taught literally billions to embrace only what the computer chips embedded within man's technology can verify, authenticate, or reveal! Well...do you realize what computer chips are made out of my friends? Silicon! Do you know what silicon actually is? Its base element?
SAND!
Now I ask you... Can you see the resemblance between the hearts and minds that trusted the Tower of Babel and the hearts and minds that trust today's technology? The Word of God reveals the Tower of Babel was their tower of technology, and it was never finished. In fact it was stopped cold in its tracks reeking havoc on all the world! Is our tower of technology about to stop cold in its tracks as well? Only time will tell.
At this time I would like to share a few more quotes from the leaders within the Catholic church in regards to their feelings towards the Word of God. I share this in the hopes of enriching the seeking hearts still trapped within the grasp of Rome. I pray that those of the Elect still within this church investigate, and verify all that I share here as well as on the ministry website, which I will give the address to at the end of this message.
"The Bible does not pretend to be a formulary of belief, as in a creed or catechism. There is nowhere in the New Testament a clear, methodical statement of the teaching of Christ" -Question Box, p. 66
"The very nature of the Bible ought to prove to any thinking man the impossibility of its being the one safe method to find out what the Savior taught." Ibid., p. 67
...It was well for Luther that he did not come into the world until a century after the immortal invention of Guttenberg. A hundred years earlier his idea of directing two hundred and fifty million men to read the Bible would have been received with shouts of laughter, and would inevitably have caused his removal from the pulpit of Wittenburg to a hospital for the insane." -The Faith of Our Fathers, p. 69; see also The Faith of Millions, p. 152
"Again it has ever been practically impossible for men, generally, to find out Christ from the Bible only." -Question Box, p. 70
"...The Bible nowhere implies that it is the only source of faith." -Ibid., p. 77
"The Scriptures indeed is a divine book but it is a dead letter, which has to be explained, and cannot exercise the action which the preacher can obtain." -Our Priesthood, p. 155
"...A dead and speechless book." -Question Box, p. 67
"The simple fact is that the Bible, like all dead letters, calls for a living interpreter." -The Faith of Millions, p. 155
"The Bible was not intended to be a textbook of Christian religion." -Catholic Facts, p. 50
The Catholic church declares the Bible is not a textbook for the Christian religion? In closing, I would like to share with you absolute Rock hard evidence exposing these Catholic quotes as error filled and not of the Christian God. For it is written in the Bible of that Christian God that...
All necessary things which Jesus did - Acts 1:1-2, "The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:"
Certainty of His action and teaching - Luke 1:3-4, "It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed."
Life in the name of Jesus - John 20:30-31, "And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name."
Instructions to salvation - 2 Timothy 3:15, "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus."
Commands of the Lord - 1 Corinthians 14:37, "If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord."
The proper conduct - 1 Timothy 3:14-15, "These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth."
Every good work - 2 Timothy 3:16-17, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works."
Instructs how to have protection against sin - 1 John 2:1, "My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:"
An assurance of eternal life - 1 John 5:13, "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God."
Standard by which teachers are tested - Acts 17:11, "These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so."
Standard which we cannot go beyond - 1 Corinthians 4:6, "And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another."
Blessings from God - Revelation 1:3, "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand."
Joy that is complete - 1 John 1:3-4, "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full."
Hebrews - 4:12 "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
If you would like further information in regards to the truth contained in prophecy concerning the Church of Rome. Feel free to visit my website at WWW.RemnantofGod.org (repeat) (spell) You will find at present over 1600 pages of documented historic facts linked directly with the prophetic Scriptures in regards to Antichrist. All the prophecies, great and small, that have ever been uttered in the Word of God in regards to the Antichrist have been proven fulfilled by the actions, desires, teachings, historic events, and futurevents if the Church of Rome.
If you would like, you can also contact this ministry directly by by mailing to Presents of God ministry, POP Box 70, Cissna Park, IL. 60924 Thank you for listening. I pray the Lord has cut your heart with the Truth that opens eyes.
And always remeber. Truth is truth!