Plus the next post, which was a continuation of that post I linked to, does mention the RCC by name in the context of talking about the supposedly 'false doctrine' of the Trinity. So the entire context, was about the Catholic church, where your bible came from, yet supposedly being the false church, the church of the antichrist, the "Whore of Babylon", in other words.
The RCC is the mother church, formed over 300 years after the death of Christ, in circumstances ripe for the foretold and developing apostasy, it’s descent into the most evil behavior is clearly visible in history, stepping completely outside of the guidelines that Jesus set, they gained power over even the kings of the earth. Power, as we know, corrupts.
What Jesus said to the Pharisees applies equally to the religious leaders of Christendom, founded not by Jesus Christ but by imposters who claimed to represent him.
2 Peter 2:2-3 is Peter’s warning about this very thing.....Judaism would find its equal in Christendom...all spawned by the “mother” church....
“2 However, there also came to be false prophets among the people, as there will also be false teachers among you. These will quietly bring in destructive sects, and they will even disown the owner who bought them, bringing speedy destruction upon themselves. 2 Furthermore, many will follow their brazen conduct, and because of them the way of the truth will be spoken of abusively. 3 Also, they will greedily exploit you with counterfeit words. But their judgment, decided long ago, is not moving slowly, and their destruction is not sleeping.”
There will be an accounting. Their teachings have not changed, even though their more abhorrent behavior finally did.
Have you ever read, or are familiar with The Two Babylons book, or references thereto in anything you have been taught, or heard from others? I used to be part of a group quite similar to the JWs in their own right, who likewise were anti-Trinitarian. That was a well-known book amongst us. Have you never heard of it, or something like that?
Yes and we understand why his writings were discredited.....still the evidence of the truth he exposed is undeniable IMO.
All I'm saying in all of this is this. I used to believe that stuff too that I was taught, but eventually it gnawed at me how that we considered them so lost and spiritually blind, yet 98% of what we believed was brought to us by them! That never made sense to me.
Actually 98% of what they teach is absolute lies. If you have studied the Bible you will clearly see that what happened to the Pharisees was repeated by an apostate church, drunk with its own power and demonstrated in its anti-Christian conduct.
For many centuries it was the only “Christianity”, just as Judaism was the only religion of the Jews in Jesus’ day. (With a few offshoots) But the church also took a very dim view of any who disagreed and showed them what it meant to say anything against the church....certain death following torture to procure a “confession” was the result. The Jews were guilty of the same conduct when they persecuted Jesus and his disciples and orchestrated the murder of their own Messiah.
Burning humans alive was the reflection of the “god” that Catholicism worshipped, whom they taught burned souls alive eternally in a fiery hell. That was not the God of Abraham or Jesus Christ.
I would think, they gave us what we have today, and somehow all of that was just for us and our "restored church" God gave us the early 1900s, very similar to those other religious sects of that time, including our cousins the JWs? There was a lot of that going around back then, and that's where they all came from. Each, with the real truth that the fallen apostate RCC church had thrown out, now restored for the Last Days. Very similar. I eventually saw the man behind that curtain.
It was time for the reawakening that Daniel had spoken about for the “time of the end”....a “cleansing, whitening and refining” was foretold (Daniel 12:4, 9-10) because Christ was due to return as he promised, and a small group of men from different denominations of Christianity were preparing, all driven by the same strong desire....to clean up their worship so as to be ready when Christ’s “presence” was manifested...not in a supernatural display, but discerned only by world events, all occurring within one specific period of time as a prelude to the final judgment. (Matthew 24:3-14) Only then would the reality of Christ’s presence be obvious. The “time of the end” would be a time of judgment and separation....with every human alive at that time having opportunity to respond to the global preaching that Jesus said he would support. (Matthew 24:14; Matthew 28:19-20)
You have probably heard all of this, but where does that put you now? Where do you see yourself in this scenario?
The systems of the world, getting swept up in them, letting them corrupt what is other good and well-meaning organizations is not limited to the RCC. It is all systems, regardless of what they believe in. If you are so inclined as to read and research further on that within you own organization, I think that should bring things into a more balanced and fair perspective.
We are fully aware of what is taking place in the world and in the religious systems that draw people for various reasons...but also very mindful of the fact that wearing a label saves no one. If we know how to do what is right and yet we don’t do it, how is that judged by God?...religion or no religion.
It is our individual response to “the good news of the Kingdom” that is the divider between the saved and the disobedient. As much as we might think that God should cut people some slack, we are all telling him who we are every day of our lives. If we accept and practise what God condemns, then how can we qualify for citizenship in his Kingdom? According to the Scriptures, the one thing that God requires of his people is obedience. We don’t get to dictate to the Creator....he has absolute authority to dictate to us. If we defy him, what do we think might happen? Doesn’t the Bible tell us very clearly how unwise that is? How many Bible examples do we need?
But specifically about the RCC and the Whore of Babylon. Rome is directly identified in Revelation as that Whore. It sits upon 7 hills, which is referring to Rome itself. So, these later anti-Catholic protestants have all historically identified that Whore as the RCC. I'm a little surprised that you might not be familiar with all of this.
“Babylon the great” is so much bigger than Rome....it is a global empire set up by the devil to entrap those who want to practice religion ”their way”.....he caters to every taste and mimics the things that attract people such as false miracles and showy entertainment types of worship......but corruption is always lurking somewhere. It gives people a false sense of security and leads them away from the true God into worship that is opposed to him. That is truly sad, but we are all judged the same way, by the same criteria.
Church of one or church of many.....makes no difference if it’s not the one appointed by Jesus Christ. He is leading the “wheat” in this “time of the end” and they will be so different to the “weeds” that the majority of those who identify as “Christians” would not recognise them as such. But the Jews did not recognise Jesus and his apostles as genuinely Jewish either.....he was so disparaged, especially by the religious leaders, that they were able to orchestrate putting that innocent man to death. The Jews, firmly convinced of his guilt, even cursed themselves and their children with his blood. ( Matthew 27:24-25)
Jesus foretold that his true disciples would be on the receiving end of the same kind of hostility. (John 15:18-21)
That is what my studies of the Bible have revealed to me.....
