April 6, 2005
By Bill Wilson, KIN senior correspondent
Koenig's International News
WASH—Apr 6—KIN—The media coverage of the death of Pope John Paul II will be seen on television by over two billion people, nearly 1/3 of the world’s population, positioning the deceptive doctrine of the Catholic Church as true “Christianity” and ushering in the end-time church that may well give rise to the anti-Christ and the false prophet as prophesied in the Bible.
By virtue of the false doctrine of the Catholic Church and its promotion as “the” Christian Church, the next pope shall sit in the seat of a false prophet and may be uniquely positioned to become either the false prophet or the anti-Christ as the world enters into the end-times. For example, the basic tenet of Christianity is salvation by grace through Jesus Christ. The famous Bible verse known the world over is John 3:16 in which Jesus said, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believe in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” And Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
The Catholic Doctrine does not deny salvation through Christ, but promotes other ways to salvation such as prayers through the Virgin Mary, mother of the Christ, and by absolution of sins by priests. The Catholic Catechism, which is the doctrine and statement of faith of the Catholic Church, states that “Only priests who have received the faculty of absolving from the authority of the Church can forgive sins in the name of Christ.” And Mary, the mother of Christ, is the “the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race." Further the new Catechism, which was endorsed by Pope John Paul II on October 11, 1992, seems to deify the blessed mother in several places. One of them says, “Mary is the perfect Orans (pray-er), a figure of the Church. When we pray to her, we are adhering with her to the plan of the Father, who sends his Son to save all men. Like the beloved disciple we welcome Jesus' mother into our homes, for she has become the mother of all the living. We can pray with and to her. The prayer of the Church is sustained by the prayer of Mary and united with it in hope.”
“Roman Catholic dogma is at great odds with the Scripture. And it does not take a Priest to see it. The Bible’s central teachings are simple and clear,” said Hal Lindsey, Christian author and commentator. “I know that many Catholics have come to true faith in Jesus Christ as Savior, in spite of the teaching of their Church. But let us never loose sight of the fact that there is great error in the central dogma of the Church…An error powerful enough to blind someone to the simplicity of simple faith in Christ as our only atonement for sin.”
The Roman Catholic doctrine promoting many ways to heaven with Christ being one of them plays well with other religions such as Unitarians, Buddhists, Hindus, and even some of the more liberal Christian denominations. Islam and Judaism would believe in one God, but neither believes that Jesus Christ is the only way to eternal life. And the Catholic Church under Pope John Paul II has made great inroads in promoting ecumenicalism between the various religions, especially Islam.
In January 2002, John Paul II hosted a worldwide Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi, Italy where testimonies were offered by representatives from the Orthodox Churches, the Anglican Communion, the Churches originated by the Reformation, Hinduism, the traditional African religions, Buddhism, Hebraism and the Islamic world. Prior to this, a similar meeting occurred at Assisi in 1986, in which 160 representatives of the world's religions were gathered at the behest of the Vatican. Lesser known but similar events occurred at Kyoto in 1987; Rome in 1988; Warsaw in 1989; Bari in 1990; Malta in 1991. These events were the first in the history of the Catholic Church that other religions were asked to pray alongside Catholic leadership for a single world concern, placing the pagan and false gods on equal footing with God the Father and Jesus Christ.
Theologically, the Catholic Church taking the lead to pray for peace by inviting hundreds of representatives from other religions to participate could be a type and shadow of the one world religion as prophesied in Revelation and Daniel. Indeed, the anti-Christ initially will rise to power as a peace broker between Israel and the rest of the world as prophesied in Daniel 9:27, “Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week (7 years); but in the middle of the week (3 1⁄2 years) he shall bring and end to sacrifice and offering.” Revelation 13:7-8 says, “And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue and nation. All who dwell on earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
Politically, the Catholic Church is also actively pursuing grounds of peaceful agreement with faiths other than Christianity. Pope John Paul II has consistently supported the Palestinian movement at Israel’s expense, bringing favorable responses from leaders of Islam. In February 2000, the Pope met with terrorist leader Yasser Arafat which resulted in an agreement between the Vatican and the Palestinian Liberation Organization. The Vatican agreed that Jerusalem's holy sites should be shared equally by Christianity, Judaism, and Islam; it called on Israel to give up its land to pre-1967 borders; and it declared “that an equitable solution for the issue of Jerusalem, based on international resolutions, is fundamental for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, and that unilateral decisions and actions altering the specific character and status of Jerusalem are morally and legally unacceptable."
These acts were not lost on Islamic terrorist organizations, which in a rare display of human decency, commemorated the Pope upon his death. Hamas officially mourned the Pope as a “great man of peace.” Palestinian Authority President Mohmaud Abbas and Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei said the Pope supported the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital city.
All this said to underscore the point that no modern church rivals the political power, the ecumenical base or the vast membership of the Roman Catholic Church which promotes a false Christianity and ostensibly stands in the stead of Jesus Christ. The Pope is called the Vicar of Christ. Vicar is defined as “one serving as a substitute.” Jesus said in Matthew 24:5, “For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.” The Catholic Church, its doctrine, its Pope and its politics certainly bear a watchful eye as the world marches toward the end-times.
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Sources:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/712755/posts
http://www.cephasministry.com/catholic_program_for_interfaith_meeting_of_pope_paul.html
http://www.cephasministry.com/vatican_plo.html
http://www.cephasministry.com/israel_agreement_with_PLO.html
http://www.watch.org/showart.php3?idx=66703&rtn=/index.html&showsubj=1&mcat=1