I attended a Christmas midnight mass once with a friend. I saw so many hard-partying school classmates I was astonished. One of them said, "You go to confession once a week, and then you're good to go for the rest!" As a Catholic "outsider," I found many of their rituals and traditions odd and downright creepy. The babbling prayers said by rote but not from the heart; the genuflecting; the up-down-kneeling-sitting-standing ritual throughout mass; the "transubstantiation" of the bread and wine; the incense; the indecipherable Latin; and the Pope's weird hat. But I was mostly troubled by their praying to Mary rather than Jesus, calling her "mother of God," making her co-redeemer with Christ, and saying that she was an eternal virgin, all lies. Turns out, I was troubled for good reason.
When I was saved back in the 1990s and the scales fell from my eyes as well as my brain, the disturbing truth about Catholicism started seeping in. But it wasn't until I started watching Christian television, listening to Christian radio, and reading many Christian books, that things came more into focus. And when the Internet came along, the Truth really did set me free. Fast forward to today, and the prophetic era we're now living in continues to put together pieces in the ongoing end times puzzle...but the overall picture is becoming darker and more evil the closer we get to completion.
During the infantile stages of Christ's Church--the years following the resurrection of Jesus and the death of his disciples--Satan's influence corrupted the teachings of Christ, and out of this corruption the Roman Catholic church (RCC) was born. By bastardizing and changing the very word of God to fit their own purposes (including changing the 10 Commandments), the Catholic church grew to become a bloated, flagrantly wealthy, violent, domineering, and powerful religious entity, anchored by its own power, and not the pure and freeing word of Jesus Christ. During the aptly named "dark ages," they ruled with an iron fist, with a "turn or burn" (at the stake) edict if one didn't follow the Pope or do the bidding of the Vatican's evil military arm, the Jesuits (and their ungodly oath). Over the centuries, many paid the ultimate price for their "defiance."
During this time, the RCC sought to ban reading of the Bible altogether, so that people would be solely dependent on the RCC for their spiritual needs. Naturally, the church took every advantage of their poor downtrodden followers, becoming as wealthy and blatantly ostentatious as Donald Trump! (lol...however, Trump is not a religion) After centuries of slogging through these "dark ages," one man—Martin Luther—decided he'd had enough, and nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the local Catholic church, sparking a religious revolution that persists to this day. Christ's Church was reborn in a sense, breaking free of the darkness of Catholicism to become Protestantism, as they were protesting against the Catholic church (the RCC spin). From this event, God's true word and teachings were reborn, printed (thanks Gutenberg!), distributed to all people to read for themselves, just as God originally intended, and what the Vatican tried to squelch in its adherents (again, the RCC spin). To this day, the majority of Catholics still do not read their Bible, choosing instead to look to traditions and the Pope for spiritual direction. But THIS is what the blood of Christ's saints and martyrs has paid for with their blood and their lives! But this, this and this are what many of the RCC "faithful" continue to do, even though Christ came so that these strange traditions need no longer be practiced. Christ paid the price ONCE FOR ALL conquering sin and death by proclaiming: "IT IS FINISHED!"
The steel-jawed grip Catholicism has on its followers is alarming. Its teachings hold devotees in fear and subjugation, rather than joy and freedom. That grip is a "hard nut to crack," and because it tends to be generational, its roots entwine themselves into the psyche of its adherents, leading them to spiritual death as well as physical death and an eternity in hell. In essence, dying twice. Yet Christ said, in Him, we live twice and die only once! Who wouldn't want that? When I think of how many billions of souls have been lost to this demonic religion, it makes me weep. Of the religious leaders of his day, Christ said: "You *snakes! You brood of *vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?" Horrifyingly, the Bible even says that hell itself had to be enlarged in order to accommodate all the souls entering it due to the consequences of poor life choices and being led astray by false religion! Hell was not meant for mankind! 😰
As we are on the cusp of the
one-world religion, with the Pope as the
False Prophet, here are a few pictures of various Vatican buildings showing satanic symbolism throughout the city-state. These first pictures are of the Pope Paul VI Audience Hall. The
demonic influence on the architecture for this structure is so obvious, it's impossible to "unsee."
Notice how the exterior of the building looks like the head of a *snake, wider
at one end, narrower at the other, with two "eyes" on either side:
Inside, it's worse. Looking from the stage, it's easy to see the serpentine architecture. How do they not see it?! The "scales" on the ceiling; the two "eye" windows; the "fangs;" and the aisle "tongue." It even seems to emanate a pale green color. This is not a coincidence, people. And this is not photoshopped, though the color may have been tweaked. Rev. 13:11: "And I beheld
another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and
he spake as a dragon." More or less, a snake in sheep's clothing, putting on a kind, friendly face, but in reality, it's anything but.
Between its fangs sits a giant demonic sculpture directly behind where
the Pope presides in the Audience Hall. This sculpture is apparently supposed to represent Christ rising from a nuclear blast. It is called La Resurrezione by sculptor Pericle Fazzini. Only a religion not rooted in the Bible, such as Catholicism, could misappropriate the most beautiful, meaningful, hopeful, and joyful event in all of human history with such a dark, hellish, forboding representation as this:
The left side of the figure's head looks not so much like hair, but more like the head of a serpent or reptile, which to me, shows the dichotomous nature of the church. Interestingly, the Left typically represents Liberal doctrine (which breeds utopianism, socialism, communism, anarchy, etc.) which tends to be disruptive and disorderly, not allowing for rules, peace, or following authority. The socialist leanings of the Pope and Catholicism push ecumenism and interfaithism, a precursor to the one-world religious system. The left side of the head may also represent the "lizard brain" theory, prevalent in psychology. As well, God himself may have put in his 2 cents worth about how He feels about the Pope and the Vatican here and here, once again God indeed has a sense of humor!
It certainly does give one pause as to why on earth a religious organization that professes to follow Christ would even entertain the idea of putting these symbols and sculptures anywhere near its properties? Even a child could see that these are indeed not symbols of peace, love or hope. In fact, they represent evil in a very "in your
face" kind of way. No more hiding for them. It seems with the end time getting nearer, they don't care who sees, and yet We, the Sheeple, are still completely in the dark. They continually feed us all types of predictive programming, bombarding and saturating us with this
occult symbolism, so that we become numb to it. Jaded. Just like in the days of Noah. Every man doing what he thinks is right in his own mind. So when
things are truly revealed--when the rain starts, when the hailstones fall--we won't know what hit us. We'll be caught unaware, and all we'll be able to muster is a bored "whatever" as we stare down at our smart phones while waiting in line to receive the Mark of the Beast.
And could this be a sign? Rev. 9:17 - The Sixth Trumpet: Now the horses and riders in my
vision looked like this: The riders had breastplates the colors of fire,
sapphire, and brimstone. That's red, blue and yellow. Hmm, look familiar???
