As part of the new ecumenical/interfaith movement started just after Vatican II, there has been a call for the "departed daughters" of the church (Protestant churches and faiths) to return "home" under the leadership of the Catholic Church. The Pope has been working feverishly behind the scenes to unite all "Christians" together without regard for doctrine under a document called "Amoris Laetitia" or "the Joy of Love"), and devised a "Catholics and Protestants Together" unity statement. This statement says that those of both Catholic and Protestant faiths should no longer try to "convert" each other, and that even Southern Baptists and Evangelicals should unite with Catholics due to having similar ideals and goals. The crowning achievement was a joint declaration of justification by faith. Interfaithism's real goal is to unite the world's two largest religions, Christianity and Islam, which make up 56% of the world's religious population. And the pieces are quickly falling into place:
- In 1986 there was held a World Day of Prayer
- In 1993 there was a Parliament of World's Religions
- New Catholic Catechism includes a plan of salvation that includes Muslims
- The UN supports interfaithism, so naturally, there exists a United Nations of religion, called the United Religions Initiative http://www.uri.org/. This was developed under California Episcopal Bishop William Swing in 1993, after an invitation by the United Nations to host a large interfaith service in San Francisco, marking the 50th anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter. Swing asked himself, "If the nations of the world are working together for peace through the UN, then where are the world’s religions?" This UN based interfaith Charter was completed in 2000.
- In May 1999, Pope John Paul II declared Muslims and Christians worship same God.
- In September 2000 at the UN in NYC, the first Millennium Peace Summit was held as the first UN interfaith religious meeting of the new millennium. The launching of the World Council of Religious Leaders took place in Bangkok on June 2002, at Buddhamonthon and at UNESCAP.
- In 2000 the International Advisory Council of Religious Leaders (IACRL) was created
- September 2000 the UN Millennium Summit for Development Goals to establish world government met for first time.
- In 2002 the Pope called for a world Day of Prayer in response to the 9/11 event.
- Tony Blair (of all people) started the Face to Faith project aimed at young people, as well as also the Faith Foundation.
- Remember when Obama bowed to the Saudi King? Well, in May 1999, Pope John Paul II was at the Vatican with a delegation composed of the Shi'ite imam of the Khadum mosque, the Sunni president of the council of administration of the Iraqi Islamic Bank, and a representative of the Iraqi ministry of religion. At the end of the audience, the Pope bowed to the Koran, presented to him by the delegation, and he kissed it as a sign of "respect."
An interesting side note to all of this:
At the beginning of this modern interfaithism movement, there emerged a man by
the name of Tony Palmer. While Tony himself was not Catholic, he was a charismatic
young bishop in the Communion
of Evangelical Episcopal Churches, a group that is inspired by the "middle
way" of classical Anglicanism that considers itself part of the Convergence Movement, as part of
the Ark Community—a
charismatic, evangelical, episcopal group that works closely with the Vatican—that
basically challenges the attendees to work toward reconciliation since "Luther’s protest," concluding that we’re all preaching the same Gospel now.
During his work on paving the way for Catholic "New Communities" (which they say are highly evangelistic), he became friends with one Jorge Mario Bergoglio who became a mentor and "spiritual father" to Palmer. Their friendship continued to grow, with Bergoglio becoming none other than Pope Francis! They continued working closely together and spent time together on the many occasions when Palmer visited the Vatican. On one of his visits, Palmer whipped out his iPhone to actually record the Pope expounding
about the "separation" between the religions of the world, and how he longed for a way to one day bring them all together. Ironically, Kenneth Copeland Ministries (KCM), the charismatic Word of Faith church, had sponsored Palmer's ecumenical
ministry for a long time. Palmer even worked for KCM for 3 years, claiming Copeland
as another of his three spiritual mentors, but Copeland had the honor of being Palmer's “sole partner” in his outreach
ministry to Catholics. Naturally, when Palmer shared his iPhone message with
Kenneth Copeland, who was so moved, Palmer arranged for an audience with the Pope for Copeland. At this time, Copeland vowed to become an integral part
of the interfaith movement the Pope espoused, bringing Copeland's followers (which number in the 100's of thousands) into the fold, helping to unite the Word of
Faith with the Catholic
church.
But then suddenly (or…coincidentally?)
Tony Palmer died in a motorcycle accident July 20, 2014.
Of course, none of us know or understand why these things happen, but my own thoughts are this: God will glorify through any situation. Conversely, satan will use any opportunity to advance his dark goals, his MO being: using people to advance his plans, then casting them aside when their role is over, to spend an eternity in hell! I have no doubt that Tony Palmer was a good person, a wonderful husband and father, and a much-loved human being. And while I do not know his heart, I did notice this: he stated that he was an "evangelical" Anglican, acknowledging the POPE as his "spiritual father," and even says "glory to the father" at the end of his prayer. One can only assume he was not referring to the Father in Heaven, but to the Pope as the "holy father." I am sure Mr. Palmer was incredibly sincere in his beliefs. However, one can be sincere, yet be sincerely wrong. We have to remember what Christ himself says in Matthew 7:21-23 : "Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness’…"
The two websites below show
just how twisted and corrupted the word of the Lord has become because of--and
in the name of--"religion." They also show just how incredibly palatable
satan will make his one-world religion in order to deceive the whole
world:
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