Catholic church history

Idolatry is forbidden yet millions of catholics bow down and worship the pope. The first and second commandments of God are "You shall have no other gods before me" and “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below and You shall not bow down to them or worship them."

300 AD Roman Catholic church instituted prayers for the dead. The time to make the right choice is before you die. Once you're dead it's too late to save your soul.

375 AD Worship of saints and angels. Even the apostle John, when he bowed down to the angel in Revelation 22:9 the angel told him he must not do that, that he was a fellow servant with him.

431 AD Worship of Mary as Mother of God begins.

593 AD Doctrine of purgatory introduced. I guess this is how they explained praying for the dead. Nowhere is this spoken of in the bible.

709 AD Kissing the Pope's foot came in - now if that isn't a case of idolatry I don't know what is.

440 AD Celibacy became a law for priests of the Catholic church. God created woman because He saw Adam alone in the garden and said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

1079 AD Celibacy of priesthood enforced by Popes Hildebrand and Boniface. Maybe if they didn't have the strict law of celibacy and lived as God originally created man, woman to be a helper for man, there wouldn't be all the problems of sexual abuse in the church.

1220 AD The adoration of the wafer (host). The Pope holds a Monstrance or Ostensorium which is used to display a round wafer of bread, called the host, which is used in what is called the Mass. Interestingly a picture of a Monstrance in the Vatican's museum shows the letters SFS in Hebrew and Greek represent the numbers 666. The bible says this is the sign of the devil. Does it not make you wonder about the connection? The Pope sometimes holds up the sunburst monstrance with the host encased for the congregation to adore and venerate. Virtually any time the monstrance, a pagan sun symbol, is viewed by the congregation, they kneel in submission. A Catholic cannot walk past this sun symbol without acknowledging it by kneeling and or making the sign of the cross with their hands.

1229 AD The bible was now forbidden to laymen. In 2004 Costa Rica children were punished by the Catholic church if they were caught reading a bible.

1997 AD Recommendations to proclaim Mary as co-Redemptrix of Humanity, making her co-redeemer with her Son, Jesus Christ. I can only imagine Mary crying out from heaven saying NO!

Did I mention that in 438AD it was decreed to be unlawful to disagree with the beliefs of the Catholic Church.

And you don't want me to get started on the Inquisition. Reading Fox's Book of Martyrs has left me utterly speechless at the unbelievable, indescribable, horrific attrocities executed against the Protestants by the Catholic Church. Yet the Protestants joyfully went through torture and died knowing the truth that they would be raised to life with Christ.

In Revelation 21:8 God said the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars —they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” The Catholics seem to worship everyone, the pope, Mary, saints, angels.

From everything I have learned about Catholicism I am afraid for the millions of Catholics who will die in their unbelief and idolatry and be consigned to hell for all eternity.

Are you ready for His coming?

Though warned that a flood was coming people lived as though they were flood proof. Then God brought the flood and except for eight people He destroyed by water everyone and everything that lived on the face of the earth. Now people are living as though they are fire proof. There will be fire and brimstone when He returns. Why do people not believe that He will again destroy the wicked and the unbelievers. People are living in unbelief that because He is a merciful, gracious, compassionate, loving God that He will forgive everyone. Only those with faith in and a relationship with Jesus Christ as the risen Lord, Son of the Most High God will survive His coming.

Joy

Joy doesn't have anything to do with happy circumstances; it has to do with looking into the face of God and knowing He's all you'll ever need. Stormie O'Martian

Jesus was speaking to the church, to those who overcome

Jesus said...

To the one that overcomes I will grant the right to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

The one who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.

To the one who overcomes He will give some of the hidden manna and a white stone with a new name written on it.

To the one who overcomes and who keeps His works until the end, to him He will give authority over the nations.

The one who overcomes will be clothed thus in white garmets and He will never blot his name out of the book of life.

To the one who overcomes He will make a pillar in the temple of His God.

To the one who overcomes He says He will grant him to sit with Him on His throne.

Jesus was speaking to the church 2000+ years ago and is still speaking to the church today. Will you overcome? Jesus says we will have tribulation but He tells us what we will have if we overcome. He says he who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. Are you listening?

God is not a warm fuzzy god who will allow sin and wickedness to enter heaven. He is holy and just. He can not and will not allow unrepentant sinners and unbelievers into His eternal kingdom. He has sent prophets throughout millenia to warn us about what is to come. His final revelation is a prophetic message to the church, a warning that Jesus will return, and I believe soon, maybe even in my lifetime, and that we all need to be ready. Are you ready?

Beatitudes of Revelation

Most people know the Beatitudes from the sermon on the mount. How many of us know the seven beatitudes of Revelation. One friend once said she had never read the book of Revelation because she was afraid to. Sure end times events can be scary but what's scarier still is to not know your bible and what to expect so you can't be led astray. Throughout history there has always been false prophets and Revelation tells us there is one who is part of the unholy trinity, satan, the antichrist and the false prophet. For millenia people have been led astray by false teaching. The only way to not be led astray is to know the truth. If you don't read what God's word says to us in Revelation how will you discern the truth from the lies spoken by the false prophet. No matter what you think you know and believe now, if you succumb to the teaching of the false prophet you are doomed for eternity. Revelation is not scary if you are a believer in and follower of Jesus Christ.