My heart goes out to those in the Roman Catholic Church (RCC). This probably stems back to my younger years, growing
up in a small Midwest town where many of my friends were
Catholic, with a good chunk of the town having lots of Catholic families. Many were the "typical" Catholic families of 10+ kids, with each parent coming from families of 10+ siblings, etc. (insert Monty Python joke here) There was one predominant Catholic entity in town, and everyone
who was anyone (and Catholic). I remember how envious I
was whenever a "holy day" rolled around (no school for them!) or when there
was a mere inch of snow on the ground because that would mean no buses would run, so no school for the Catholic kids on those days either.
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!
And let's not forget this cuddly piece of sculpture that sits on the Vatican grounds. For awhile, the only two entities that had this particular sculpture were the Vatican and...the UN. Both of these entities will have a major role to play during the Tribulation: one as the global one-world government; and the other, the one-world religion in which everyone will be forced to worship:
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???
