Prophecy - 52

Dan 11:36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
Dan 11:37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
Dan 11:38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
Dan 11:39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.


The lure of power. Possessing power is so enticing. With power comes a certain sense of protection, superiority, invincibility. How often do things begin with seemingly good intentions only to end up falling apart? Getting things in order, creating a system so that there isn't chaos is a perfectly good idea but when that order ends up with ONE person in charge, inevitably that power, that person is easily corrupted by the position. When Jesus came to earth and began His ministry years later what was one of the first things He did after facing temptation in the wilderness? He gathered His Apostles to Him. Note the plural! Jesus did NOT gather one man too Him, one Apostle. Could He have gathered one? Yes. Jesus could have taken on a single Apostle. Jesus could have trained one man to carry on His work after He was gone. Jesus could have trained that single man all the while allowing for many, many disciples- yes? How perfect it would have been to leave no doubt as to who was to lead, about how Jesus wanted things set up. That's not what Jesus did though. Jesus gathered twelve Apostles, twelve! Twelve to carry on, because even after Judas' betrayal and death, another was appointed to that place of the twelve. Twelve to be in a position to carry the gospel to the world as Jesus would have it go. Then we have Saul renamed Paul, who was chosen by God as well to carry on His message. God didn't ever want ONE man in charge of things, not ever! Jesus made this clear when He distinctly answered the Apostles question about which of them was the greatest. There was to be NO one Apostle placed above another! People have taken various verses of the Bible and claimed this is where this certain disciple was placed above another, but that would be so contradictory to all that Jesus previously taught and Jesus would not contradict Himself that way! Jesus was forever and always to be the HEAD of the body, and then from there on out there would be two shoulders, two arms, two hands, two legs, two feet…there would be MANY parts of the body that would contribute to carrying on His work. For man to set up their OWN plan is contrary to the Savior's wishes. Yet the papacy did just that, they created a system that eventually had a single MAN standing supreme, the voice of God on earth. So contrary this is to the word of God it's hard to believe that so many millions are caught up in this lie.


Was this the only lie of the papacy? Not by a long shot.


'Celibacy for priests is a discipline in the Latin Catholic Church, not a doctrine: in other words, a church regulation, but not an integral part of Church teaching. It is based upon the life of Christ and his celibate way of life. However the first pope, St. Peter, as well as many subsequent popes, bishops, and priests during the church's first 270 years were in fact married men, and often fathers. The practice of clerical continence, along with a prohibition of marriage by men once they were ordained a deacon, priest or bishop, is traceable from the time of the Council of Elvira. This law was reinforced in the Directa Decretal (385) and at the Council of Carthage in 390. The tradition of clerical continence developed into a practice of clerical celibacy (ordaining only unmarried men) from the 11th century onward among Latin Rite Catholics and became a formal part of canon law in 1917. This law of clerical celibacy does not apply to Eastern Catholics. Until recently, the Eastern Catholic bishops of North America would generally ordain only unmarried men, for fear that married priests would create scandal. Since Vatican II's call for the restoration of Eastern Catholic traditions, a number of bishops have returned to the traditional practice of ordaining married men to the presbyterate. Bishops are still celibate and normally chosen from the ranks of monks.'

'Because the rule of clerical celibacy is a law and not a doctrine, exceptions can be made, and it can, in principle, be changed at any time by the Pope. Nonetheless, both the present Pope, Benedict XVI, and his predecessor, spoke clearly of their understanding that the traditional practice is unlikely to change.'

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This TRADITIONAL practice is something that has been greatly perverted by the papacy. What the Word of God tells us is a good thing but not a necessity, they took and made it a necessity and thereby causing untold grief. But once again this is just another sign of the power they claim to have, a power greater than God's.


Another great lie perpetuated by the papacy is the changing of God's law. Changing the seventh day Sabbath to the first day of the week. The sheer audacity of any man to think they can change God's law is unbelievable, yet all the proof is there.


And what about Jesus' mother, Mary? There is NO where in our Bibles that tells us we are to worship her, that she was sinless herself, NO WHERE! Mary was given NO power whatsoever. Yet where does the papacy place Mary? Right up there to be worshipped!


'There is significant diversity in the Marian beliefs and devotional practices of major Christian traditions. The Catholic Church has a number of Marian dogmas, such as the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption. Catholics refer to her as Our Lady and venerate her as the Queen of Heaven and Mother of the Church; most Protestants do not share these beliefs.[8][9]'

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Queen of Heaven! Entirely UNBIBLICAL!


'The Immaculate Conception of Mary is the conception (the being conceived) of the Virgin Mary without, according to the Roman Catholic Church, any stain (in Latin, macula or labes, the second of these two synonymous words being the one used in the formal definition)[1] of original sin.[2] It is one of the four dogmatas in Roman Catholic Mariology. Under this aspect Mary is sometimes called the Immaculata (the Immaculate One), particularly in artistic contexts.[3]

The proclaimed Roman Catholic dogma states "that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin".[1] Being always free from original sin, she was from the start filled with the sanctifying grace that would normally come with baptism after birth.'

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'Roman Catholic Mariology is theology concerned with the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ and developed by the Catholic Church. "The Blessed Virgin, because she is the Mother of God, is believed to hold a certain infinite dignity from the infinite good which is God."[1][2] Theologically, Roman Catholic Mariology deals with not only her life but also with veneration of her in daily life, prayer, hymns, art (where she has been a favorite topic), music, and architecture; in modern and ancient Christianity throughout the ages.[3][4][5]
The development of Roman Catholic Mariology is ongoing. It continues to be shaped not only by papal encyclicals but also by the interplay of forces ranging from sensus fidelium, to the writings of the saints, to the construction of major Marian churches at the sites of Marian apparitions. In some cases, sensus fidelium has influenced Marian papal decisions, providing Mariology with a "theology of the people" component that distinguishes it from other parts of formal theology.
In terms of popular following, membership in Roman Catholic Marian Movements and Societies has grown significantly in the 20th century. This has continued to be matched by support from the Holy See, with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) stating: "It is necessary to go back to Mary, if we want to return to the truth about Jesus Christ".[6] The ongoing development of Mariology continued in the 20th century, e.g. in his Angelus address in September 1985 Pope John Paul II coined the term The Alliance of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and in 1986 addressed the international conference on that topic held at Fátima, Portugal.[7][8][9]'


'Assumption of Mary


Mary was assumed into heaven with body and soul (de fide). Mary, the ever virgin, mother of God was free of original sin. The Immaculate Conception is one basis for the 1950 dogma. Another was the century old Church-wide veneration of the Virgin Mary as being assumed into heaven, which Pope Pius XII referred to in Deiparae Virginis Mariae and reported in Munificentissimus Deus.[52] Although the Assumption was only recently defined as dogma, accounts of the bodily assumption of Mary into heaven have circulated since at least the 5th century. The Catholic Church itself interprets chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation as referring to it. The earliest assumption narrative is the so-called Liber Requiei Mariae (The Book of Mary's Repose), a narrative which survives intact only in an Ethiopic translation. (Stephen J. Shoemaker, Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption] Oxford University Press, 2002, 2006). Probably composed by the 4th century, this early Christian apocryphal narrative may be as early as the 3rd century. Also quite early are the very different traditions of the "Six Books" Dormition narratives. The earliest versions of this apocryphon are preserved by several Syriac manuscripts of the 5th and 6th centuries, although the text itself probably belongs to the 4th century. Later apocrypha based on these earlier texts include the De Obitu S. Dominae, attributed to St. John, a work probably from around the turn of the 6th century that is a summary of the "Six Books" narrative. The story also appears in De Transitu Virginis, a late 5th century work ascribed to St. Melito of Sardis that presents a theologically redacted summary of the traditions in the Liber Requiei Mariae. The Transitus Mariae tells the story of the apostles being transported by white clouds to the death-bed of Mary, each from the town where he was preaching at the hour. The Decretum Gelasianum in the 490s declared some transitus Mariae literature as apocryphal.

An Armenian letter attributed to Dionysus the Areopagite also mentions the event, although this is a much later work, written sometime after the 6th century. Other saints also describe it, notably St Gregory of Tours, St John Damascene, and St Modestus of Jerusalem.

Theological debate about the Assumption continued until 1950 when, in the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, it was defined as definitive doctrine by Pope Pius XII:
We pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory."[53][54]
Since the 1870 solemn declaration of Papal Infallibility by Vatican I in 1870, this declaration by Pius XII has been the only ex cathedra use of Papal Infallibility. While Pope Pius XII deliberately left open the question of whether Mary died before her Assumption, the more common teaching of the early Fathers is that she did.[55][56]'



Lies!


'Mary as Mediatrix

Main article: Mediatrix

In Catholic teachings, Jesus Christ is the only mediator between God and man.[61] He alone reconciled through his death on the Cross creator and creation. But this does not exclude a secondary mediating role for Mary, preparatory, supportive, in the view of several prominent, but not all Catholics. The teaching that Mary intercedes for all believers and especially those who request her intercession through prayer has been held in the Church since early times, for example by Ephraim, the Syrian “after the mediater a mediatrix for the whole world [62] Intercession is something that may be done by all the heavenly saints, but Mary is seen as having the greatest intercessionary power. The earliest surviving recorded prayer to Mary is the Sub tuum praesidium, written in Greek.[63]

Mary has increasingly been seen as a principal dispenser of God's graces and Advocate for the people of God and is mentioned as such in several official Church documents. Pope Pius IX used the title in Ineffabilis Deus. In the first of his so called Rosary encyclicals, Supremi Apostolatus (1883), Pope Leo XIII calls Our Lady the guardian of our peace and the dispensatrix of heavenly graces. The following year, 1884, his encyclical Superiore Anno speaks of the prayers presented to God through her whom He has chosen to be the dispenser of all heavenly graces. Pope Pius X employed this title in Ad Diem Illud in 1904, Pope Benedict XV introduced it into the Marian liturgy when he created the Marian feast of The Mary, Mediatrix of all Graces in 1921, In his 1954 encyclical Ad caeli reginam, Pope Pius XII calls Mary the Mediatrix of peace.[64] The theological discussion ongoing, neither Pius XII nor his successors moved to a closure of this issue.'

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In several Marian teachings, such as the Immaculate Conception, the "theology of the people", the profound and century-old sense of the faithful took precedence over academic theology.[90] Identical arguments were made for the dogma of the Assumption by Pope Pius XII.[92] To some non-Catholics and even to some theologically oriented Catholics, like Karl Rahner, this sensus fidei has some problems.[93]

Nevertheless, popular Mariology has been a major driving force in the past 150 years. It led to the two infallible, ex cathedra dogmas: Immaculate Conception (1854) and Assumption (1950). Since the 1870 solemn declaration of Papal Infallibility by Vatican I, the 1950 declaration by Pius XII has been the first and only ex cathedra use of papal infallibility. Thus while the dogmatic definitions of the Assumption, took place only in the 20th century, the sensus fidelium was already being shaped in the Middle Ages, and by 1530, Antonio da Correggio had completed his contract for the elaborate scene of the Assumption in the Cathedral of Palermo.[94]'

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Such lies! Man's lies standing in place of God's truth! The papacy is rife with its lies against God's truth!


'In this sequence of events the nature of the medieval papacy is clearly seen. Excommunication of rulers, military campaigns enjoying papal support, rival popes reigning at the same time, the split between pope and emperor as a factor in European politics - all these become familiar themes of the Middle Ages.

The cumulative effect, centuries later, is a papacy of great wealth, vast power, considerable corruption and much reduced spiritual authority. Eventually these characteristics provoke the Reformation. But in the meantime the papacy has its period of greatest power, presiding over Europe's feuding factions and charging handsomely for the service. '


'The familiar image of a Renaissance pope begins a little later, with the election of Sixtus IV in 1471. His patronage of the arts is evident in the Sistine chapel and the Sistine choir, both named after him. But his lavish patronage goes hand in hand with a very worldly conduct of the Vatican's affairs. '


'In 1503, his first year in office, Julius launches the great scheme to rebuild St Peter's. In 1509 the pope invites Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and persuades Raphael to decorate three rooms in the Vatican. Christian Rome's greatest glories have been conceived within a space of six years.'


'In April 1506 Julius II and his architect, Bramante, are ready to lay the foundation stone of the new St Peter's. A commemorative medal is struck with the classical inscription Templi Petri Instauracio (Renewal of the Temple of Peter), showing a view of a great domed basilica with a classical portico.

In spirit - though not in detail - this design is similar to the church which is eventually completed in 1590, by which time Raphael and Michelangelo and several others have succeeded Bramante as official architect for the scheme.

Meanwhile the need for funds for the vast new project, together with the unscrupulous manner in which Renaissance popes are willing to raise them, provokes the great central crisis of Europe in the 16th century - the Reformation. '


'Germany provides a context in which materialism within the Roman Catholic church is offensively evident. Some of the principalities, which together make up the Holy Roman empire, are ruled by unscrupulous prelates living in the style of Renaissance princes. Foremost among them is Albert, archbishop of Mainz and one of the seven imperial electors.

By the age of twenty-four Albert holds a bishopric and a second archbishopric in addition to Mainz. Such plurality is against canon law. But the pope, Leo X, agrees to overlook the irregularity in return for a large donation to the building costs of the new St Peter's.

Both pope and archbishop are men of the world (the pope is a Medici). Leo makes it possible for Albert to recover his costs by granting him the concession for the sale of indulgences towards the building of St Peter's. Half the money for each indulgence is go to Rome; the other half will help to pay off Albert's debts (he has borrowed the money for the original donation from the Fuggers of Augsburg).

This secret arrangement might distress the faithful if they knew of it. But more immediately shocking to some is the behaviour of the friar Johann Tetzel, whom Albert employs to sell the indulgences.

Tetzel is a showman. When preaching to gullible crowds in German towns he goes far beyond the official doctrine of indulgences. He promises the immediate release of loved ones from the pain of Purgatory as soon as a purchase is made. He even has a catchy jingle to make the point: 'As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, The soul from Purgatory springs.' '


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True apostasy!


For more on this read this article- 'The Vatican Billions - Two Thousand Years of Wealth Accumulation From Caesar to the Space Age.' http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vatican/vatican_billions.htm


Dan 11:36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
Dan 11:37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
Dan 11:38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
Dan 11:39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.


This outlines the Papacy perfectly. Prophecy meets history in a perfect fit.


Anyone today who doesn't recognize the fact that the Papacy has a unique power all its own is totally deceived. There is so much we are given for our own edification and so much that people would have us totally ignore. If we don't bother ourselves with all this nonsense and just leave well enough alone the better for everyone concerned, right? Just follow what man tells us and ignore completely what God says. How many people are truly WATCHING today? We are told to watch and pray, but how many are really, really watching and praying? Watching means a whole lot more than simply existing. Watching means a lot more than letting someone else tell us what we are seeing. For us to be watching means we are actively looking, we are active. We need to watch in all things. If history has unfolded prophecy before our eyes how can we close our eyes to it and pretend it's all false? How? Yet millions do this, millions and millions would much rather close their eyes and be lulled with soothing words of the greatest deception. It is my prayer that we are not among those who would rather be told smooth things- easy to accept. It is my prayer that we are among those who choose to delve deep for the truth hearing hard sayings but knowing them for being the real unadulterated truth! Being Christ's means traveling that NARROW path that few will find. If we discover ourselves upon a broad path where everything is going along nicely and we have millions of people with us- then we truly have to ask ourselves if we are upon that narrow path Jesus spoke of.


By His GRACE always!!!!! In His love! May His kingdom come! May HIS will be done always!


In His forgiveness, in His righteousness!


Amen.

Prophecy - 51

Dan 11:36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
Dan 11:37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.


The Papacy did according to its will.
The Papacy exalted itself.
The Papacy magnified itself above every god.
The Papacy spoke marvelous things against the God of gods.
The Papacy prospered.
The Papacy did not regard the One True God- the God of those first Christians.
The Papacy makes the desire of women of no regard.
The Papacy recognizes no other god but itself.
The Papacy magnifies itself above ALL.


Do we have any doubt at all whatsoever what power this is speaking of? Remember this--


Dan 8:9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.
Dan 8:10 And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
Dan 8:11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.


Dan 8:24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
Dan 8:25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.


We've studied this already, remember? This power was the Papacy beyond any doubt! And the Papacy would exist in some form or another until when? Until the very end of time, until that Stone destroys all earthly kingdoms ushering in His heavenly kingdom. So until the very end of this prophecy, from here until the end we will be discussing the Papacy along with other powers, other interactions the Papacy would be involved with, other powers in play as this Papal power - the false religion- continues onwards just as our God told us it would.


Now let's take a little bit and look at some of the outrageous- scripture perverted beliefs and rites of this little horn power, this power that places itself above all.


Papal Supremacy - Please read this all through - and make note that it brings us right up to our day!

'Papal supremacy refers to the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church that the pope, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ and as pastor of the entire Christian Church, has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered:[1] that, in brief, "the Pope enjoys, by divine institution, supreme, full, immediate, and universal power in the care of souls."'


'Urban II's launching in 1095 of the Crusades, which, in an attempt to liberate the Holy Land from Muslim domination, marshaled under papal leadership the aggressive energies of the European nobility.

The Papacy determined whom they wished to be the king of various lands by the crowning by Pope Leo III of Charlemagne, first of the Carolingian emperors, rather than a man proclaiming himself king.'

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'Rome's role as arbiter

This passage in Irenaeus [from Against Heresies 3:4:1] illuminates the meaning of his remarks about the Church of Rome: if there are disputes in a local church, that church should have recourse to the Roman Church, for there is contained the Tradition which is preserved by all the churches. Rome's vocation [in the pre-Nicene period] consisted in playing the part of arbiter, settling contentious issues by witnessing to the truth or falsity of whatever doctrine was put before them. Rome was truly the centre where all converged if they wanted their doctrine to be accepted by the conscience of the Church. They could not count upon success except on one condition -- that the Church of Rome had received their doctrine -- and refusal from Rome predetermined the attitude the other churches would adopt. There are numerous cases of this recourse to Rome…'

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'First Vatican Council

The doctrine of papal primacy was further developed in 1870 at the First Vatican Council where ultramontanism achieved victory over conciliarism with the pronouncement of papal infallibility (the ability of the pope to define dogmas free from error ex cathedra) and of papal supremacy, i.e., supreme, full, immediate, and universal ordinary jurisdiction of the Pope.

The most substantial body of defined doctrine on the subject is found in Pastor aeternus, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ of Vatican Council I. This document declares that “in the disposition of God the Roman church holds the preeminence of ordinary power over all the other churches.” This council also affirmed the dogma of papal infallibility, deciding that the “infallibility” of the Christian community extended to the pope himself, at least when speaking on matters of faith.

Vatican I defined a twofold Primacy of Peter — one in papal teaching on faith and morals (the charism of infallibility), and the other a primacy of jurisdiction involving government and discipline of the Church — submission to both being necessary to Catholic faith and salvation.[27]
Vatican I rejected the ideas that papal decrees have "no force or value unless confirmed by an order of the secular power" and that the pope’s decisions can be appealed to an ecumenical council "as to an authority higher than the Roman Pontiff."

Paul Collins argues that "(the doctrine of papal primacy as formulated by the First Vatican Council) has led to the exercise of untrammelled papal power and has become a major stumbling block in ecumenical relationships with the Orthodox (who consider the definition to be heresy) and Protestants."[28]
Forced to break off prematurely by secular political developments in 1870, Vatican I left behind it a somewhat unbalanced ecclesiology. "In theology the question of papal primacy was so much in the foreground that the Church appeared essentially as a centrally directed institution which one was dogged in defending but which only encountered one externally," [29]

Second Vatican Council

At the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) the debate on papal primacy and authority re-emerged[citation needed], and in the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium, the Roman Catholic Church's teaching on the authority of the Pope, bishops and councils was further elaborated. Vatican II sought to correct the unbalanced ecclesiology left behind by Vatican I. The result is the body of teaching about the papacy and episcopacy contained in the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium.

Vatican II reaffirmed everything Vatican I taught about papal primacy and infallibility, but it added important points about bishops. Bishops, it says, are not "vicars of the Roman Pontiff." Rather, in governing their local churches they are "vicars and legates of Christ".[30] Together, they form a body, a "college," whose head is the pope. This episcopal college is responsible for the well-being of the Universal Church. Here in a nutshell are the basic elements of the Council’s much-discussed communio ecclesiology, which affirms the importance of local churches and the doctrine of collegiality.

In a key passage about collegiality, Vatican II teaches: "The order of bishops is the successor to the college of the apostles in their role as teachers and pastors, and in it the apostolic college is perpetuated. Together with their head, the Supreme Pontiff, and never apart from him, they have supreme and full authority over the Universal Church; but this power cannot be exercised without the agreement of the Roman Pontiff".[31] Much of the present discussion of papal primacy is concerned with exploring the implications of this passage.

21st century

Relation with other Christian denominations

In the document Responses to some questions regarding certain aspects of the doctrine on the Church of 29 June 2007 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith reiterated that, in the view of the Roman Catholic Church, the Christian communities born out of the Protestant Reformation and which lack apostolic succession in the sacrament of orders are not "Churches" in the proper sense. The Eastern Christian Church that are not in communion with Rome, such as the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy and the Assyrian Church of the East, are Churches in the proper sense and sister Churches of the Catholic particular Churches, but since communion with the Roman Pontiff is one of the internal constitutive principles of a particular Church, they lack something in their condition, while on the other hand the existing division means that the fullness of universality that is proper to the Church governed by the successor of St Peter and the bishops in communion with him is not now realised in history.'

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Is this, or is this not proof that the papacy- that the pontiff- has placed himself as supreme- above all other men, as ONE holding supreme religious power upon earth? It is proof. This man has exalted himself above all. Yet, this isn't a single man, it is a power that transcends a single person; a power that continues, passed down from one man to the next over the ages- this is the papacy, the papal power, the little horn. Just because all do not bow to this papal power does not mean for a single second that the papal power does not believe in his supremacy. Those who do NOT believe are to them those that are lost, those who are in need of enlightenment and conversion to what they call the one true church, the Roman Catholic church.


We can't close our eyes to these truths! We can't claim modern enlightenment. We can't claim intellectual superiority. We cannot hide from the truth or else we will be blind and those blind to God's truths will be lost eternally.


By the grace of God may we continue to delve deeply into the truth and always seek to do so.


More tomorrow by my Savior's grace!


All through His love, all through His righteousness, His mercy!


Amen.

Prophecy -50

Yesterday we discussed the dark ages a bit, we talked about the horrific dark period in our earth's history where under the guise of Christianity Papal Rome exerted such authority that putting to death those who opposed them, torturing those who were contrary to their beliefs, was something common and widespread.


During that time not all of God's people were wiped out. Throughout history God has kept at least a small group of those He can call His true followers, from harm's way. While many who followed the truth in Christ sincerely were brought to horrific ends- among them the Apostles themselves- God could not allow all of His followers to be destroyed.


Dan 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he (((the Roman power))))* corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
Dan 11:33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
Dan 11:34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
Dan 11:35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.


Among those who kept a vigil over the truth were the Waldeneses-


'In 1179, some Waldensians went to Rome, where Pope Alexander III forbade explanation or critical interpretation (exegesis) without authorization from the local clergy.[5] They disobeyed and began to preach according to their own understanding of the scriptures.
Waldensians were divided by three types of activity: Sandaliati, who received sacred orders and were to prove the heresiarchs wrong; Doctores, who instructed and trained missionaries; and Novellani, who preached to the general population.[6] They were also called Insabbatati, Sabati, Inzabbatati for keeping the Sabbath and/or rejecting all religious festivals.[7] They were also sometimes called Sabotiers, which some sources state was due to the unusual type of sabot they used as footwear.[8]

Seen by the Roman Catholic Church as unorthodox, they were formally declared heretics by Pope Lucius III in 1184 at the Synod of Verona, and by the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215.[5] In 1211, more than 80 were burned as heretics at Strasbourg, beginning several centuries of persecution that nearly destroyed the movement.[9] Part of their legacy is recognized as works of the writer Henri Arnaud. The Waldensian Church of Italy has survived to the present day.[10]'

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Protesting the Catholic rule, protesting the Papal dictates that were against God's teaching even came from some in their own ranks.


In the 800's--

'As bishop of Turin, Claudius found that men were often directed to go on pilgrimage to Rome for penance and that worshippers were accustomed to venerate Christ and the saints by bowing before images and relics. Claudius, coming from an educated background, was not greatly exposed to such provincial modes of worship.[9] He made attacks on the use of images, relics, and crosses, he opposed pilgrimages to obtain absolution, and he had little regard for the authority of the pope due to his belief that all bishops were equal.[3]

Claudius was a heretic in the view of Dungal and Jonas of Orléans, who later wrote to refute some of his teachings at the request of the emperor.[3] The last recorded act of Claudius is in a charter of the monastery of St Peter at Novalesa in May 827.[1] He was dead by the time Dungal finished his Responsa contra peruersas Claudii Taurinensis episcopi sententias late in 827, so it is presumable that he died that year.[1]'

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The rejection of the decree to worship images--


'[14] Dupin, Eccles. Hist., cent. 9. The worship of images was decreed by the second Council of Nice; but that decree
was rejected by France, Spain, Germany, and the diocese of Milan. The worship of images was moreover condemned
by the Council of Frankfort, 794. Claude, in his letter to Theodemir, says: – "Appointed bishop by Louis, I came to
Turin. I found all the churches full of the filth of abominations and images... If Christians venerate the images of saints,
they have not abandoned idols, but only changed their names." (Mag. Bib., tome 4, part 2, p. 149.)'


http://www.whitehorsemedia.com/docs/THE_HISTORY_OF_PROTESTANTISM_01.pdf


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As the Papal church introduced it's various perversions always there were those who opposed these abominations. There were those who allowed themselves to be called heretics rather than worship idols, there were those who were outspoken against the transubstantiation of the eucharist-


'Berengar of Tours (c. 999–January 6, 1088) was a French 11th century Christian theologian and Archdeacon of Angers, a scholar whose leadership of the cathedral school at Chartres set an example of intellectual inquiry through the revived tools of dialectic that was soon followed at cathedral schools of Laon and Paris, and who disputed with the Church leadership over the doctrine of transubstantiation in the Eucharist.'

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Those who were against the change and perversion of the Sabbath to Sunday.


Read this--


'Early church

According to Bauckham, the post-apostolic church contained diverse practices as regards Sabbath.[1] "In the first centuries the true (seventh day) Sabbath had been kept by all Christians. They were zealous for the honor of God, and, believing that His law is immutable, they zealously guarded the sacredness of its precepts".[2] "That the attention of the people might be called to the Sunday, it was made a festival in honor of the resurrection of Christ. Religious services were held upon it; yet it was regarded as a day of recreation, the Sabbath being still sacredly observed."[2]


Widespread seventh-day Sabbath observance by Gentile Christians prevailed in the 3rd and 4th centuries.


In the 4th century, Socrates Scholasticus Church History book 5 states:[3]
For although almost all churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries on the sabbath of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition, have ceased to do this.


On the seventh of March, A.D. 321, the Roman Emperor Constantine issued a decree making Sunday a day of rest from labor stating:

All judges and city people and the craftsmen shall rest upon the venerable day of the sun. Country people, however, may freely attend to the cultivation of the fields, because it frequently happens that no other days are better adapted for planting the grain in the furrows or the vines in trenches. So that the advantage given by heavenly providence may not for the occasion of a short time perish.
— Joseph Cullen Ayer, A Source Book for Ancient Church History [4]

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All along the huge broad path of corruption there exists a much smaller, much narrower path of truth. Along those two paths people walk and have walked since sin entered the world. Right now YOU are on one of those paths. Right now I AM on one of those paths. Every single human being exist on one path or the other. There is a path of truth and a path of lies. Unfortunately for a lot of people Satan has prettied up the path of lies to make it look almost exactly how one might imagine the path of truth. Only those who sincerely desire the truth of God no matter the cost- will receive that truth. Those who would rather believe lies will be allowed to do so. No one is force onto the path of Truth.


By the grace of God may we continue to study HIS truth. We have these prophecies and we have history and the two go together. This is the 50th study focusing on prophecy studying the Book of Daniel, and we still have a long way to go. I'm not going to stop, this has been an amazing blessing for me and I hope any others who are reading this study are also being blessed.


All glory goes to God, all praise, all honor to our amazing heavenly High Priest, our King, our Savior!


May we be blessed to continue this study tomorrow learning more and more of God's love, of God's truth.


Amen.

Prophecy 49

Dan 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he (((the Roman power))))* corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
Dan 11:33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
Dan 11:34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
Dan 11:35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.


*The HE is the Roman power. We really need to remember these are powers at play here political, religious powers.


We've already talked about God's covenant, but here it is mentioned again. God's covenant with His people is His truth. When any are against the truth they are against God's covenant. The Roman power -pagan/papal holds little with God's whole truth and no matter how many lies are mingled with truth, a single lie corrupts the truth. God would only have the entire truth, never having anything to do with a single lie, not even lies we might call harmless and tout them as white lies.


When paganism introduced it's rituals and merged them with Christianity they brought with them man's laws breaking God's laws. Man substituting God's truth for the beliefs of false gods. Sunday- the day of the Sun. Sunday a day for worshipping the sun.


Sól also was called Sunna, Sunne, and Frau Sunne, from which are derived the words, sun and Sunday.

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The English noun Sunday derived sometime before 1250 from sunedai, which itself developed from Old English (before 700) Sunnandæg (literally meaning "sun's day"), which is cognate to other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian sunnandei, Old Saxon sunnundag, Middle Dutch sonnendach (modern Dutch zondag), Old High German sunnun tag (modern German Sonntag), and Old Norse sunnudagr (Danish and Norwegian søndag, and Swedish söndag). The Germanic term is a Germanic interpretation of Latin dies solis ("day of the sun"), which is a translation of the Greek heméra helíou.[2] The p-Celtic Welsh language also translates the Latin "day of the sun" as dydd Sul.

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The day of the sun-- the very god so many pagans worship, not God, but the sun god, the sun. Worshipping the sun, not worshipping God.


With sun worshipping introduced to Christianity, a compromise was made towards the pagans drawing them into a whole new religion, but it was NOT God's truth, it was NOT God's religion, but rather a false, corrupted religion put up in its place. The covenant was broken once more. Wickedness was done against the covenant.


Now we need to realize something here-- Daniel was given over and over prophecies that all led up to when? The time of the end. All of the prophecies pointed towards that very first prophecy- that statue whose destruction would come at the very end as God's new world is ushered in.


This prophecy in Daniel 11 leads up to that end as well.


We've gone through quite a bit of history but this next bit takes in a long span. Just as the Dark Ages of our history are known for being- just that- Dark times.


'Dark Ages (historiography), the concept of a supposed period of intellectual darkness that occurred in Europe following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
the European Middle Ages (5th to 15th centuries AD)'

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Dark Ages" is a historical periodization emphasizing the cultural and economic deterioration that supposedly occurred in Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire.[1][2] The label employs traditional light-versus-darkness imagery to contrast the "darkness" of the period with earlier and later periods of "light". The period was characterized by a paucity of historical and other written records for much of the period, rendering it obscure to historians. The term "Dark Age" itself derives from the Latin saeculum obscurum, originally applied by Caesar Baronius in 1602 to a tumultuous period in the 10th and 11th century.[3]
Originally, the term characterized the bulk of the Middle Ages, or roughly the 6th to 13th centuries, as a period of intellectual darkness between the extinguishing of the "light of Rome" after the end of Late Antiquity, and the rise of the Italian Renaissance in the 14th century.[4] This definition is still found in popular usage,[1][2][5] but increased recognition of the accomplishments of the Middle Ages since the 19th century has led to the label being restricted in application. Since the 20th century, it is frequently applied only to the earlier part of the era, the Early Middle Ages (c. 5th–10th century).[6][7] However, many modern scholars who study the era tend to avoid the term altogether for its negative connotations, finding it misleading and inaccurate for any part of the Middle Ages.[8][9]
The concept of a Dark Age originated with the Italian scholar Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) in the 1330s, and was originally intended as a sweeping criticism of the character of Late Latin literature.[4][10] Petrarch regarded the post-Roman centuries as "dark" compared to the light of classical antiquity. Later historians expanded the term to refer to the transitional period between Roman times and the High Middle Ages (c. 11th–13th century), including not only the lack of Latin literature, but also a lack of contemporary written history, general demographic decline, limited building activity and material cultural achievements in general. Later historians and writers picked up the concept, and popular culture has further expanded on it as a vehicle to depict the Middle Ages as a time of backwardness, extending its pejorative use and expanding its scope.[11]

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Reading this we can see where a label given and accepted, a label taught in history- modern history for a long, long time- is being altered. People want to strip away those words Dark Ages, but they hold true. There was a long period of time for a lot of intellectual as well as religious darkness. You know as well as I know that knowledge was stunted for a long, long time as opposed to the enlightenment we have found ourselves in since the late 1700's on right into the 1800's, and of course 1900's and today we are so incredible farther ahead in just a few hundred years it's hard to comprehend how people lived in such an intellectual void. You have to stop and think that our modes of transportation remained virtually unchanged for thousands and thousands of years only to go from horses to cars, to planes, to rockets, to shuttles. We're talking thousands of years of the same thing only to be changed phenomenally in just a few hundred years. No matter what contemporary people wish to say, wish to change to better suit them, FACTS speak for themselves.


From the 6th to the 15th centuries… 900 years the world was coming caught up in a period of time unlike any other. The Roman Empire fell and in its place NO other world empire came up but things broke apart never to be joined again. Our world today still has those results of that time when the empire was shattered. There was only a gradual rise up out of those 'dark ages', it wasn't instantaneous, just as little is. We have to stop here though and look at the 'dark ages' for a bit. Reread this--


Dan 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he (((the Roman power))))* corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
Dan 11:33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
Dan 11:34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.
Dan 11:35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.


God's people would -


Fall by the sword.
Fall by flame.
Fall by captivity.
Fall by spoil.


For how long? Many days.


Falling, tried, purged.


What happened during this time for God's true people? They were horrifically oppressed for all that Christianity was now accepted in the mainstream. The false religious force under the guise of being truly Christ's persecuted those who truly were Christ's.


Who hasn't heard of the persecution of any who defied the papal rule?


The Roman Catholic history is rife with its stifling, oppressive control over people. Having people put to death- horrible deaths, torturous deaths all in the name of God. These people were FAR from being Christ-like. Christ would NEVER have approved of any of this, not one bit and yet these people called themselves God's, these people called themselves Christians, these people today still call themselves God's only true church yet they still hold to many, many perverted rites not Biblical at all. These rituals are gross atrocities yet so few can see them for what they really, truly are. People are blind because they do NOT want to see.


Darkness enveloped the world as God predicted it would.


May God please help us to understand His truths. There is much more to understand and we cannot of our own selves comprehend anything.


More tomorrow by God's grace.


In His amazing love!


Amen!

All Glory to Our Creator

Psa 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.


The heavens declare the glory of God.


When we read of amazing celestial occurrences how can we NOT acknowledge the glory of God, the Creator of all things?


Some scientists and self-obsessed people who believe only in their own imaginings and supposed superiority like to take these wonders and try to use them as proof God doesn't exist, that God did not create all things. They whittle away at things, breaking them down until they believe they can be creators themselves. They go to great lengths to make advancements in science that give them the sense of being able to create things, when in truth all the things they are manipulating- every atom, every neutron, every particle they have anything to do with at all- are all from God. They did not, they COULD NOT have come from nothing! Everyone knows that NOTHING can only produce NOTHING. You can't take absolutely nothing and have something, it's impossible. People talk about big bangs, but don't stop to ask themselves where the bangs came from, assuming they just exist without any question. Their belief in things just scientifically occurring is ludicrous but they refuse to understand that, they refuse to reduce everything to the NOTHING that would have to exist and leave it at nothing. They introduce that first something and as soon as they do that- as soon as they say something has come from nothing then they have to explain where that something came from because it could not come from nothing. No, they never take it back far enough, instead they just make it older and older and older. Trillion, zillions of years old and such. Yet for something to exist it had to be created by someone, by something. God who is from everlasting to everlasting, God who always has been and always will be, God the Creator of ALL things is the something that without question exists first and it is GOD who has created every single thing in existence. From all the things He has provided for us we create things we love to declare we've created, when in truth we only take the things God has provided and we manipulate them. Without God providing those things we would have nothing to manipulate. I could make a wonderful cake, but I couldn't do it without every single ingredient that goes into creating that cake. Those ingredients taken back to their primary state of existence were not created by man. The seed planted in the ground was NOT created by man- even if it's been manipulated by man's tampering.
These are all facts, irrefutable facts.


So yes, when I read of an amazing celestial occurrence I can't help but acknowledge the glory of God IN that occurrence. DNA building blocks found in meteorites is all from God! That news points me towards God, not away from Him. God is the Creator of that meteorite, God is the Creator of that DNA.


Psa 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Psa 19:2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Psa 19:3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Psa 19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
Psa 19:5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
Psa 19:6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.


PRAISE GOD OUR WONDERFUL CREATOR!!! In Him is all life, its beginning and its end!


All GLORY to our God, our King, our Creator now and forever!


Amen.

Hating God

Pro 8:36 …. all they that hate me love death.


Pro 5:11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Pro 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof


Eze 33:11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?


Hate.


We see so much hate in our world, so much that it's downright sickening to read of it day in and day out. People might not agree, believing that their actions aren't of hate, but those actions speak loudly of hate even if the words don't.


People hating God is nothing new. Throughout the Bible there are people that hate God and truthfully, all those who hate God truly do love death. Without a love for God there is no true life. What we are living now is no where near the life intended for us.


We do so hate instruction though, don't we? We despise reproof and yet it is instruction and reproof which are the very things that reveal our need of God. And our pride often gets in the way of admitting any need we might have. We commit wicked acts, sinfilled acts because of our pride, because of our self love, our self absorption, our need to be masters of our own limited existence. Truly we cannot change so much about us that we often go overboard trying to control and change the things we can. Trying to feel superior we choose paths that don't always lead us to God. When we go astray we are reproved, we're chastised, we're given instruction and we need to listen, to follow, to turn from our evil ways- and all ways that aren't God's are evil, though so many would have people believe otherwise. We live in a world of compromises and it is no wonder at all whatsoever that so few will be truly God's when our Savior returns.


Joh 15:21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
Joh 15:22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
Joh 15:23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
Joh 15:24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Joh 15:25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.


Hating God without a cause.


Psa 69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.


What cause do people have for hating those that love them? Does that love make them aware of their own failings and they'd rather lash out against that love than face the realization they are not perfect, they are not all that they wish they could be? You see it all the time- people giving love to others only to be rewarded with hatred. Kindness rewarded with wickedness. People hate God maybe because His existence holds them up to a higher standard which they can never achieve and rather than admit their dependence upon God they want to rebel against Him instead. Admitting that you cannot save yourself, admitting that you did not will yourself into existence- or that mankind did not do that at some point, admitting that we are creatures isn't something people want to do. Becoming a servant is NOT something people automatically aspire to. Finding love in serving is not something typical but rather atypical. Forever the people serving wish to be in a place where they can instead be served, and this is part of the wickedness of selfishness, of self-love.


Yes, people hate God and His Son without cause. God and His Son are of a love we can only hope and pray one day to achieve through their mercy and sacrifice, their righteousness- not ours. As long as we refuse to submit to love, as love as we refuse to admit our dependence, our actions will continue to be of those who are selfish, evil, and wicked- even if we never become wicked and evil in the way mankind today gives those labels. As long as we refuse to submit and continue to despise instruction and being reproved, we are lending our voices to the many of millions who hate God without cause.


By the grace of our Savior may we NOT be found among those who hate God! May we accept instruction and being reproved. May we seek to submit to our Creator, to our Redeemer for it is only in full submission to love- the love that comes from God, the love that IS God that we can love and live eternally- not loving death as those who hate God do.


In His name, in Him always!!!


Amen.

Prophecy - 48

Our last prophecy study left off with the realization of the gradual, insidious merging of pure Christianity with Paganism through the political realm of an emperor. The emperor merged pagan customs with religious, by taking religious events never meant to be made into festivals. In fact the Bible had many, many events take place that were NEVER turned into events for yearly recognition. Most of the events the Bible had pointed towards our Savior. When our Savior came He did not institute a bunch of new events. He did not tell us to create holy days in His name and in those events put a lot of pagan rituals. Yet today that is what we have. We've been given a legacy of pagan rituals draped in a covering of religion and told this is good.


As this perversion of Christianity was underway we spoke before of a rising little horn power- remember? Before that power three other horns would fall and we proved in history how that happened. Now as we have been brought up to this point again we should notice a bit more detail on that situation.


The Roman Empire was falling apart slowly but surely.


Clovis (c. 466–511) (Ch-)Leuthwig (Ludwig, Louis) was the first King of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes under one ruler. He was also the first Catholic King to rule over Gaul (France).


The small church in which he was baptized is now named Saint-Remi, and a statue of him being baptized by Saint Remigius can be seen there. Clovis and his wife Clotilde are buried in the St. Genevieve church (St. Pierre) in Paris.


An important part of Clovis' legacy is that he reduced the power of the Romans in 486 by beating the Roman ruler Syagrius in the battle of Soissons.[2]


Clovis was converted to Catholicism, as opposed to the Arian Christianity common among the Goths who ruled most of Gaul at the time, at the instigation of his wife, Clotilde, a Burgundian Gothic princess who was a Catholic in spite of the Arianism which surrounded her at court. He was baptized in a small church which was on or near the site of the Cathedral of Rheims, where most future French kings would be crowned.


This act was of immense importance in the subsequent history of Western and Central Europe in general, for Clovis expanded his dominion over almost all of the old Roman province of Gaul (roughly modern France). He is considered the founder of the Merovingian dynasty which ruled the Franks for the next two centuries.

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Note how relevant the fact Clovis converted to Catholicism is to history, as opposed to the fighting Christian faction opposed to Catholic beliefs- Arian Christianity.

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Clovis had previously married the Christian Burgundian princess Clotilde (later canonized as St. Clotilde), and, according to Gregory of Tours, as a result of his victory at Tolbiac (traditionally set in 496), he converted to her Catholic faith. Conversion to Trinitarian Christianity set Clovis apart from the other Germanic kings of his time, such as those of the Visigoths and the Vandals, who had converted from pagan beliefs to Arian Christianity. It also ensured him of the support of the Catholic Gallo-Roman aristocracy in his later campaign against the Visigoths, which drove them from southern Gaul (507). According to legend, it was only by invoking the God of his Christian wife, Clotilde, that he defeated his enemy. Clotilde was almost certainly instrumental in Clovis' conversion to Catholic faith.

Clovis was baptised at Rheims on Christmas 496, 498 or 506 by Saint Remigius.[5] The conversion of Clovis to Catholic Christianity, the religion of the majority of his subjects, strengthened the bonds between his Roman subjects, led by their Catholic bishops, and their Germanic conquerors. Nevertheless, Bernard Bachrach has argued that this conversion from his Frankish paganism alienated many of the other Frankish sub-kings and weakened his military position over the next few years. William Daly, in order more directly to assess Clovis's allegedly barbaric and pagan origins,[6] was obliged to ignore the bishop Saint Gregory of Tours and base his account on the scant earlier sources, a sixth-century "vita" of Saint Genevieve and letters to or concerning Clovis from bishops and Theodoric.

In the "interpretatio romana", Gregory of Tours gave the Germanic gods that Clovis abandoned the names of roughly equivalent Roman gods, such as Jupiter and Mercury.[7] Taken literally, such usage would suggest a strong affinity of early Frankish rulers for the prestige of Roman culture, which they may have embraced as allies and federates of the Empire during the previous century.[citation needed]

Though he fought a battle at Dijon in the year 500, Clovis did not successfully subdue the Burgundian kingdom. It appears that he somehow gained the support of the Arvernians in the following years, for they assisted him in his defeat of the Visigothic kingdom of Toulouse in the Battle of Vouillé (507) which eliminated Visigothic power in Gaul and confined the Visigoths to Hispania and Septimania; the battle added most of Aquitaine to Clovis's kingdom.[4] He then established Paris as his capital,[4] and established an abbey dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul on the south bank of the Seine. Later it was renamed Sainte-Geneviève Abbey, in honor of the patron saint of Paris.[8]

According to Gregory of Tours, following the Battle of Vouillé, the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I, granted Clovis the title of consul. Since Clovis's name does not appear in the consular lists, it is likely he was granted a suffect consulship.

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To say ARMS shall stand on his part- the part of the pagan/Christian perverted rulership- would hold true. The Papacy used it's influence to gain arms to fight on its behalf defeating what they considered to be false Christians- the Arians. To be sure the sanctuary of strength was grossly polluted by all the politics, all the paganism that infiltrated into Christianity. There is NO doubt here that this has all happened as predicted, no doubt at all!


As the Papacy was rising up becoming stronger and stronger it replaced MANY truths with falsehoods, keeping just enough truth in them to make them appear to be of God.


Dan 11:31 And arms shall stand on his part,
and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength,
and shall take away the daily sacrifice,
and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.


More tomorrow on this because I really need to study more of this myself, much more deeply. By the grace and mercy of our God, all through HIS love, HIS righteousness, because I have no righteousness of my own, none.


Please Lord, help us to understand, help us have open eyes, open hearts.


In His amazing love always!


Amen.