Refuting
Islam
From a Roman
Catholic Point Of View by
Mary Elaine Murray
1). The Integrity of the Bible
2). The True Religion of Abraham
3). The
Islamic Versus The Christian Concept Of Monotheism
4). The
Divinity Of Jesus Christ
5). A
Crucified Saviour?
6). Why Catholicism And Not The Synagogue Is The True Religion
7).
Discernment Of Spirits
This is aimed at Christians who have been turning to
Islam in the wake of the collapse of authority and teaching after Vatican II, a
Church council which occurred in the early 1960s, and which much learned
Catholic opinion judges to be false and invalid. Some of these people are drawn
to Islam because it is more populous, and because they are trying to find there
the certitudes they no longer find in the modern Catholic Church. But before
they go over to Islam, if they look a little closer, they will find that, despite
the crucified appearances of the Church in these times, and the loss of faith,
en masse, that it is here that the truth is found, and were God is, there is the future! “Judge not according to appearances, but judge just judgment” (Jn. 7:
24). Abraham was not with the majority in his time, but the future was with
Abraham, because Abraham was with God, not with the majority. Many times
throughout history, the people of God seemed to be on the point of
annihilation, but like their crucified Lord who actually died, and all but one
of His Apostles and a few women abandoned Him, He went to entombment, and on
the third day He rose again from the dead, it has often been so for His Church.
The Church is of God, not of man. “And it
shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and
the fatness of his flesh shall grow lean. And it shall be as when one gathers
in the harvest that which remains, and his arms shall gather the ears of corn:
and it shall be as he that seeks ears in the Vale of Raphaim. And the fruit
thereof that shall be left upon it, shall be as one cluster of grapes, and as
the shaking of the olive tree, two or three berries in the top of a bough, or
four or five on the top of the tree, saith the Lord the God of Israel.” (Isaias
17: 4-6). People should be aware that “outside
the Catholic faith there is no salvation”, as the dogma of the Catholic
faith says. That is a dogma of the faith contained in Sacred Scripture and
declared “ex Cathedra” by the Popes.
“Abraham believed God
and it was reputed to him unto justice. Know ye therefore, that they who are of
faith, the same are the children of Abraham” (Gal. 3: 6, 7).”Therefore, it is
of faith, that according to grace the promise might be made firm to all seed;
not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of
Abraham.” (Rom. 4: 16).
The
reality of original sin, which Islam denies, is manifest in
the tendency to sin and evil in human nature, in the existence of war, famine,
in the need for man to earn his living “by the sweat of thy face,” (Genesis 3:
19) why the earth brings forth weeds and briars, in the multiplicity of
conceptions in woman, in the existence of illness, suffering and death, and in
the deadly danger of wild beasts. All of these things are the consequences of
original sin. If original sin did not exist, then most people would live
according to the law of God, and sin would not exist, nor would a justice
system with police, courts and jails be necessary, there would be no illness, suffering,
death, famine or war, or any of the other things that are consequences of
original sin, and man would be in perfect harmony with God and with nature. Animals
who are not made in the image and likeness of God and who do not have original
sin, live in accordance with the nature God gave them, and are not inclined to
evil, or to the violation of the natural law. The reality of original sin is
the fundamental tenet of the Bible, which is the word of God, therefore any
religion that denies it is by that fact false.
The Integrity Of The Bible: Muslims allege that
the Bible has been corrupted by the multiplication of so many “versions” that
the true original message has been lost. That is not true. The Bible quotes in
this article are from the Douay-Rheims Bible, referred to in the Church Decree
ahead. This Bible is the true original. It is true that the numerous
other “versions” of the Bible there are, are corruptions made by ignorant or
malicious men who laid profane hands on the work of God. But the truth has
perdured through it all. The Douay-Rheims Bible is the true and unadulterated
word of God. It is not true to say that the text has been corrupted by man, and
it is ridiculous to say that God was merely trifling with the Old Testament and
the New Testament to the extent that He allowed it to be corrupted and lost, as
Moslem teachers contend. Almighty God in His omnipotent providence saw to it
that His revelation was protected and handed down to us intact. It is evident
that Divine revelation is intact in the Douay-Rheims Bible and in the Tradition
of the pre-Vatican II Catholic Church, by the opposition of the mainstream and
the powerful of this world to it. Corruptions of Divine revelation always
pander to human reckoning and to the base instincts in man.
The
original Bible was preserved in Latin because Latin is a so-called
dead language. A dead language is one that does not change. That means that
Latin speakers at the time of Christ would be perfectly understood by people
speaking Latin anywhere in the world in the 21se century. It is precisely this
quality that enabled the Scriptures to be preserved intact and their meaning
properly understood. The Koran, on the other hand, is written in Arabic, which
is a living language. English is also a so-called living language. This means
that the language changes from age to age, and from country to country, making
the meanings of old texts easy to be lost. A present day American could hardly
understand an Englishman from 500 years ago. Living languages are also profane
languages because they are commonly used by the people. Latin as a dead
language is not commonly used by the people and so it is not profane, but it is
a sacred language used to preserve the true original meaning of the original
texts of the Scriptures, the ancient Liturgies, and the writings of the Fathers
of the Church.
Decree
Concerning The Canonical Scriptures, from The Council of Trent. "This Gospel, of old promised through the
prophets in the Holy Scriptures, Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
promulgated first with His own mouth, and then commanded it to be preached by
His Apostles to every creature (Matt. 28: 19), (Mk. 16: 15), as the source of
all saving truth and rules of conduct. It also clearly perceives that these
truths and rules are contained in the written books and in the unwritten
traditions, which, received by the Apostles from the mouth of Christ Himself,
or from the Apostles themselves, the Holy Ghost dictating, have come down to
us, transmitted as it were, from hand to hand. Following the example of the
orthodox fathers, it receives and venerates with a feeling of piety and
reverence, all the books both of the Old and New Testaments, since one God
is the author of both; also the traditions, whether they relate to faith or
to morals, as having been dictated either orally by Christ or by the Holy
Ghost, and preserved in the Catholic Church in unbroken succession… If anyone
does not accept as sacred and canonical the aforesaid books in their entirety…
as they have been accustomed to be read in the Catholic Church and as they are
contained in the Latin Vulgate Edition, and knowingly and knowingly and
deliberately rejects the aforesaid traditions, let him be anathema (that
means, accursed by God –ed.)… Moreover, the same holy council… ordains
and declares that the Old Latin Vulgate Edition which, in use for so many
hundred years, has been approved by the Church… and that no-one dare or presume
under any pretext whatsoever to reject it… Furthermore… it decrees that no-one
relying on his own judgment in matters of faith and morals… presume to
interpret them contrary to that sense which holy mother Church , to whom it
belongs to judge of their true sense and interpretation, has held… or even
contrary to the unanimous teaching of the Fathers…". (Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, “Decree
Concerning the Canonical Scriptures” 1546: P. 17, 1978 Printing, available from Tan Books: 1-800-437-5876).
The
True Religion Of Abraham: The revelation of God continued from the
beginning with Adam and Noah, through Abraham, through Moses and the Prophets
and concluded with Jesus Christ. The continuity of the revelation of God was with
Abraham’s son Isaac, from whom the Jews are descended, not Ismael, from whom
the Arabs are descended. This is proven by the historical reality of the
revelation that continued through the lineage of Isaac, which concluded forever
with Jesus Christ. Islam did not come to the descendants of Ismael, that is, to
the Arabs, until 500 years after Jesus Christ. The gap therefore between Ismael
and Muhammad was one of 2,500 years! Whereas, the revelation from Abraham
through Isaac which concluded with Jesus Christ is uninterrupted and complete.
Ismael was the son of Abraham from whom the Moslems
claim their descent. Agar was the mother of Ismael. Agar was the bondwoman of
Abraham and Sara. Sara was the wife of Abraham.”The son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac. Abraham
took this grievously for his son. And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous
to thee for the boy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee,
hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called”. (Gen. 21: 10-12).
But God also said: “I will make the
son also of the bondwoman a great nation, because he is thy seed” (Ibid. 13). This
revelation and election was confirmed in Jacob the son of Isaac: (Gen. 28:
13,14). “To Abraham were the promises
made and to his seed. He saith not, And to his seeds, as of many: but as of
one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. Now this I say, that the Testament which
was confirmed by God, the law which was made after four hundred and thirty
years does not disannul, to make the promise of no effect”. (Gal. 3: 16,17).
The
revelation made to Muhammad is not in continuity with the revelation begun with
Abraham and continued with Isaac and his son Jacob down to Moses and concluded
with Jesus Christ. How could mutually antagonistic creeds or kingdoms be so?
Satan doesn’t cast out Satan, similarly, Heaven doesn’t cast out Heaven, as
Moslems have always put Christians to the sword who refused to give up their
religion to become Moslems. The inhabitants of Heaven are recognized by the
harmony there is between them: “By this
shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.”
(Jn. 13: 35). The Kingdom of God is one religion, as God Himself is One.
Mutually antagonistic kingdoms cannot all be of Heaven. Only one religion can
be true. “The spirits of the Prophets are
subject to the Prophets. For God is not a God of dissention, but of peace.” (1
Cor. 14: 32,33).
The authority of the revelation given to Moses is
self evident and indisputable, as is that of Jesus Christ. Like Moses, Jesus
Christ also had His detractors, but the Jews who played the role of Core
regarding Jesus Christ are silenced by an examination of the facts. St. Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Doctor of the Church,
and said to be that little Jewish child whom Jesus held up to his disciples
(Matt. 18: 1) as the model of childlike simplicity that they should learn from,
said that the doctrine of Jesus Christ was the doctrine of the Prophets whom
the unfaithful and rebellious among the Jews also persecuted and put to death: “The Prophets, those men so very near to
God, lived in conformity with Jesus Christ. This, too, was the reason why they
were persecuted, inspired as they were by His grace to bring full conviction to
an unbelieving world that there is one God, who manifested Himself through
Jesus Christ, His Son…” (St. Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Magnesians: 8,
P. 71, Ancient Christian Writers, The Newman Bookshop, Maryland, 1946). As
the prophet Isaias said: “Thus saith the
Lord the king of Israel, and His redeemer the Lord of Hosts: I am the
first, and I am the last, and besides Me there is no God.” (Is. 44: 6). St.
Ignatius of Antioch also said: We must,
therefore, prove ourselves His disciples and learn to live like Christians.
Assuredly, whoever is called by a name other than this, is not of God.” (Ibid.
10, P. 72). This is like what St. Peter said: “Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name
under Heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4: 12).
Furthermore,
Muhammad was not a Hebrew. The Hebrews were chosen by God as a race to whom He
entrusted the entirety of His revelation and to be the heralds of the advent of
the Messiah, Jesus Christ: “In Thee and
thy seed all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed.” (Genesis 28: 14). The
revelation and the Messiah were not meant for the Jews exclusively, but the
Jews were the visible and organized body God chose to receive His word and His
Messiah, and to herald them to all the peoples of the world. This is what Jesus
Christ meant when He said that : ”salvation
is of the Jews” (Jn. 4: 22). That is, not of the Synagogue after Christ,
but of the revelation of God given to them and concluded by Jesus Christ, the
Messiah (Jn. 4: 26) Who is of the line of the Hebrew Kings of Juda, as the
prophetic blessing of Juda says: “The
scepter shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till He
is come that is to be sent, and He shall be the expectation of nations. Tying
His foal to the vineyard, and His donkey, O my son to the vine. He shall wash
His robe in wine, and His garment in the blood of the grape. His eyes are more
beautiful than wine, and His teeth whiter than milk” (Gen. 49: 10-12). “The expectation of nations”, that is, the
fulfillment of Gods promise to Abraham that in Him: “in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because
thou hast obeyed My voice” (Gen. 22: 18). ). ”Therefore, it is of faith, that according to grace
the promise might be made firm to all seed; not to that only which is of the
law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham.” (Rom. 4: 16).
Jesus Christ was the son of God and descended from a
line of Divinely instituted Kings. He was miraculously conceived without bodily
union by the power of God, and born of a sinless virgin who had the unique
distinction of herself being born exempt from Original sin in view of the
singular privilege for which God had chosen her. Jesus Christ remained a virgin
all His life, shedding no blood but His own for the salvation of the world.
Muhammad, on the other hand was a simple Arab tribesman who had 12 wives, one
of them was a girl aged 9 years old, although he did not consummate the
marriage until she was 15. Jesus Christ by His Divine authority abolished
divorce and polygamy. That makes the Mahammud an adulterer on 12 counts! The
true prophets of God were always obedient to the law of God: “The spirits of the prophets are subject to
the prophets. For God is not the God of dissention, but of peace.” (1
Corinthians 14: 32,33).
Muhammad’s first conquests were acts of piracy
making ample use of the sword. Jesus Christ was the last in that Hebrew line by
which God concluded His revelation as it is written: “For such apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into
the apostles of Christ. And no wonder: for Satan himself transforms himself
into an angel of light.” (2 Cor. 13,14).
Jesus Christ said that He was the fulfillment of the
Law and the Prophets: “Do not think that
I am come to destroy the Law and the Prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to
fulfill” (Matt. 5: 17). The word “fulfillment” is another word for
conclusion, because when something is fulfilled there is nothing more to be
added. This was testified to by God
Himself, because in fulfillment of the prophecies of Jesus Christ (Luke 19:
41-44 & 21: 20-24) Jerusalem and the Judea, the Temple of Jerusalem, the
line of David and the Levitical Priesthood and the whole line of Aaron were
wiped out between 70-135 A.D., by the Roman armies who invaded Judea,
confirming the abolition of the Old Testament and its line of priests and
kings. The priests and kings of the Old Testament, and of the New Testament,
that is, the Catholic priests and kings were divinely instituted, and therefore
they were the vessels of Divine authority. Islam has no priesthood, and was
never foretold by the Prophets. Abraham and Melchisedech (by whom Abraham
received the blessing of the Most High God: Gen. 14: 18-20) were priests. That
is, men who offered sacrifices to the Most High. The priesthood of Melchisedech
spoken of in Psalm 109 and in Gen. 14: 18, is the priesthood of Jesus Christ.
“Take heed that you be not seduced; for many
will come in My name, saying, I am he; and the time is at hand: go ye not after
them”. (Luke 21: 8). ”I am the way,
and the truth, and the life, no man comes to the Father, but by Me.” (Jn. 14:
6).
The
Islamic Versus the Christian Concept Of Monotheism:
It is clear that
the Christian revelation is in continuity with that given to Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob, carried on by the calling of Moses, and on down to Jesus Christ.
Therefore, the concept of monotheism that is what Abraham believed as revealed
by God is the doctrine of the Trinity, as quoted earlier: “Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and His redeemer the Lord of
Hosts: I am the first, I am the last, and besides Me there is no God.” (Isaias
44: 6). In the Book of Exodus God told Moses His name. He said it was “Adonai” (Ex. 6: 3). Adonai is plural.
It means “Lords.” In The Book of Genesis it says: “Let Us make man to Our image and likeness.” (Gen. 1: 26). “Down Hebrew history Elohim the Father is
justice, Jehova the Son is mercy. Acting with the Holy Spirit, called the
Shekina – these three Persons of the Trinity… They are often called in the
original Hebrew Adon or Adonai, ‘Lord’ or ‘Lords’... Jesus is the Greek form of
the Hebrew Josue, or Joshua, meaning ‘Jah saves’, or ‘Jehova saves,’ or ‘The
God of mercy saves.’ The name was first borne by Josue, that leader who
succeeded Moses, and led the Hebrews into the Promised Palestine. Moses only
saw it from afar, led them in sight of it, did not enter, and died on Nebo, for
the law of Moses brought the Hebrews only in sight of the Church. Jesus or
Joshue them into Palestine, as the one he foretold, Jesus Christ led mankind
into the Church. Christ is the Greek for Messiah ‘The Anointed.’. Therefore
Jesus Christ means, ‘The Anointed God of Mercy Will Save.” (How Christ Said The
First Mass, P. 41, by Fr. J.L. Meagher, D.D., President of the Christian Press
Association Publishing Company, 1906). From Tan Books.
“Whosoever will
be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic faith.
Which faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall
perish everlastingly. And the Catholic Faith is this, that we worship one God
in Trinity and Trinity in unity. Neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing
the Substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and
another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, and of the Son and of
the Holy Ghost is all One, the glory equal and the Majesty co-eternal… The
Father eternal, the Son eternal and the Holy Ghost Eternal and yet they are not
Three Eternals but one Eternal. As also there are not Three Uncreated, nor
Three Incomprehensibles, but One Uncreated and One Incomprehensible… So the
Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not
three Gods but One God...” (The Athanasian Creed).
It is taken as a given by Moslems that the Koran
concept of monotheism which excludes more than one person in God is a purer
monotheism, and therefore a purer revelation. The concept of monotheism that
comes from the Koran rests on the credibility of Muhammad who is said to have
suddenly received his revelation two thousand years after Abraham, and 500
years after Jesus Christ. That’s a big and unlikely gap, and inconsistent with
the written record! The Devil is one person too, as every other creature is, and
he would be as at home with an erroneous concept of monotheism, as with the
polytheist religions of Paganism. The doctrine of the Trinity is the true
original and the traditional doctrine of the one true God of Abraham. The
declaimations in the Koran against the doctrine of the Trinity are therefore
blasphemy, which would rule out the idea that the revelation of Muhammad could
be in continuity with the revelation of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
This revelation rules out any further revelation after Jesus Christ: “But though we, or an angel from Heaven preach
a gospel to you besides the one we have preached to you, let him be anathema”.
(Gal. 1: 8). “Whosoever revolts, and continues not in the doctrine of Christ,
hath not God” (2 Jn. 1: 9). “He that
believeth not the Son, shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on
him.” (Jn. 3: 36).
The revelation given to Jacob, Moses and the
Prophets and fulfilled by Jesus Christ was accompanied by miracles every step
of the way. Miracles are works of God contrary to the laws of nature and
possibility, such as when the Red Sea parted suddenly allowing the whole people
of Israel to cross it dryshod, but suddenly deluging the Egyptians who were
pursuing them. Or when Jesus walked on water, in the middle of a stormy sea, to save His apostles
ship from sinking, and pulled Peter, a man larger and heavier than He, out of
the waves, and calmed the sea at His word (Matt. 14: 24-33). Or when He fed
5,000 families with five loaves and two fishes leaving twelve baskets full of
leftovers (Matt. 14: 21) - a miracle He worked more than once. A miracle is
proof of the Divine. Jesus worked so many miracles, the Apostle St. John says
that many more books would be needed to describe them all, but only so much as
were sufficient to prove the Divine origin of Jesus and His New Covenant were
recorded in Sacred Scripture (Jn. 21: 25). Islam has no such proofs of Heavenly
origin.
Islam teaches reverence for the Prophets of the Hebrews,
which is the same as if to say that it regards these revelations as true.
However it is clear that the Hebrew revelation taught the Trinity of God
implicitly in the Old Testament, and explicitly in the New Testament. An
implicit affirmation is a stronger affirmation than an explicit affirmation
because it says that the thing affirmed implicitly is taken for granted as true.
The
Divinity Of Jesus Christ: The contention that Jesus never
claimed to be the only begotten Son of God is false. This dogma of the Catholic
Faith, like the Catholic faith itself, is from the beginning. It was not
invented at the Council of Nicea in the 4th century. “Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say to
you, before Abraham was made, I Am”. (Jn. 8: 58). When the Devil tried to
turn Jesus Christ aside from His mission:
“If Thou be the Son of God cast Thyself down, for it is written: ‘That He hath
given His angels charge over thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up,
lest perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone’. Jesus said to him, it is
written again: ‘Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God’. (Matt. 4: 6,7). The
incarnation of the Divinity was foretold by the prophets of the Old Testament,
and was expected by the Jews of the time of Jesus who looked for the Messiah: “Again, the high priest asked Him, and said
to Him: Art Thou the Christ the Son of the blessed God? And Jesus said to him,
I am”. (Mark 14: 61,62).
“This is our
God, and there shall be no other accounted of in comparison with Him. He found
out all the way of knowledge, and gave it to Jacob His servant, and to Israel
His beloved. Afterwards He was seen on earth, and conversed with men” (Baruch
3: 36-38). “Shall not I that make others to bring forth children, Myself bring
forth, saith the Lord? Shall I that give generation to others, be barren, saith
the Lord thy God?” (Isaias 66: 9). In Sacred Scripture, which
together with Sacred Tradition, is what Christianity is based on, Jesus
declares Himself to be God incarnate, and He worked precedented and
unprecedented miracles, to prove it, as the Bible enumerates for all to see, and
led an unblemished life. Therefore, when Islamic sources say that Jesus never
claimed to be the incarnation of the Divinity, they are simply wrong, and if
they are wrong, then their religion is wrong.
The incarnation of the Deity in no way compromises
the incomprehensible God who created man to His Own image and likeness. God is
infinitely perfect as He shows Himself to be, not according to our conceptions,
but according to His: “For My thoughts
are not your thoughts: not your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the
heavens are exalted above the earth, so are My ways exalted above your ways,
and My thoughts above your thoughts.” (Isaias 55: 8,9). To say that God
could not take a human nature on Himself places a limit to what strategy God
could use to destroy death and sin on its own ground, and to redeem the human
race. “He delights to be with the
children of men” (Prov. 8: 31). Therefore, it pleased Him to become like as
we are in all things except sin (Hebrews 4: 15), that He could help those who
were tempted and teach us by His words and by His example. No man can see God
and live. By becoming incarnate He gave us a form in which we could behold Him,
even leaving us His photograph in the Holy Shroud of Turin. That He would want
to do this, is foreshadowed by the incident in the Old Testament wherein he
tried to accommodate Moses request to see Him, when He did so by letting Moses
see the back of Him (Exodus 33: 13-23).
God is infinitely perfect, and His works have this
character, that the more one meditates them and considers every aspect to them,
the more perfect they are seen to be, with no shadow of iniquity. The
incarnation of Jesus Christ, the only begotten son of God, has this quality. The
only limit there is to the infinite and omnipotent God is that He cannot sin or
commit iniquity, and that there is no such darkness in Him. The incarnation of
Jesus Christ took place without sexual relations, but by the power of the Holy
Spirit, perhaps much the same way that God breathed life into the face of Adam
after forming him out of the slime of the earth (Genesis 2: 7), and as He later
breathed life into the rib of Adam when He decided that Adam should have a
companion, and that there should be females to propagate the human kind in a
natural way. Jesus Christ was born of a virgin without compromise to His
mothers virginity, and He Himself remained all His life a virgin.
A
Crucified Savior? Human reckoning imagines a savior to be
a great warrior striding to victory through rivers of enemy blood, enriching
himself and his people with the spoils of the vanquished. This is how victories
are often obtained, but God needs not our goods, including human battles, to
prevail and conquer. In the Old Testament God showed His people that He Himself
would overthrow the enemy if they but kept His Law and justifications. But if
they would not, they would be given up to war, and spoil and to every evil. “Justice exalts a nation: but sin makes
nations miserable” (Proverbs 14: 34); War, famine, and captivity are a
punishment for sin. The triumphs of a savior who delivers in battle will be
short lived if the people are sinners, because God will send them more wars and
other evils to punish their sins. People who wantonly disregard the Laws and
justifications of God do not deserve victory and all those other rewards of
well doing. Therefore, the savior that delivers from sin, is the Saviour that
cuts off the consequences of sin, that is, war and captivity, from the roots,
and is a savior indeed. “And you have
said: The way of the Lord is not right. Hear ye, therefore O House of Israel:
Is it My way that is not right, and are not rather your ways perverse?”
(Ezechiel 18: 25).
So how does that explain the fact that the invading
enemy, who may be very corrupt and idolaters themselves, have such riches and power,
if they are even worse sinners? The answer to that is “For whom the Lord loveth, He chastiseth; and He scourges every son
whom He receives. Persevere under discipline. God deals with you as with His
sons; for what son is there, whom the father does not correct? But if you be
without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards,
and not sons” (Heb. 12: 6-8). As Scripture also says of Pharao, the enemy
of Gods people, and all his power in his time: “For this purpose have I raised thee, that I may show My power in thee,
that My name may be declared throughout all the earth.” (Rom. 9: 17). And
as the prophet Daniel said: “Till the
living know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men; and He gives it to
whomsoever it shall please Him, and He will appoint the basest man over it…
Whereas He commanded, that the stump of the roots thereof, that is, of the
tree, should be left: thy kingdom shall remain to thee after thou shalt have
known that power is from Heaven.” (Dan. 4: 14, 23). The prophet Daniel said
this to King Nabuchdonosor, the king of Babylon, the heathen kingdom which God
raised up to punish the Jews for their sins and infidelity to God.
The Divine requirement of sacrifice, particularly of
blood sacrifice, goes back past Abraham. The story of Cain and Abel turned on
the acceptability of Abel’s sacrifice, and the unacceptability of Cain’s
sacrifice. Without blood there is no remission of sins. In the Old Testament
there was the Levitical priesthood sacrificing lambs and heifers for the
remission of sins and to propitiate God. The New Covenant brought the greater
sacrifice of the Son of God once, to redeem all who would be saved until the
end of time, putting an end to the many sacrifices of select beasts that
characterized the Old Covenant. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the New Testament,
is the unbloody renewal of the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary. The theology of
the new Vatican II rite differs from this, and it was only brought about since
the 1960s. The holy sacrifice of the Mass keeps the incense of the perfect
sacrifice ascending before God, to draw down God’s mercy on the world and on
those who wish to be shriven from their sins. The sacrifice of the spotless and
unblemished only begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ, gave the temporary efficacy
the sacrifices of lambs and heifers had under the Old Covenant until the advent
of the redeeming sacrifice of the Saviour. The sacrifice of beasts under the
Old Covenant had only a pedagogical and token value. The sacrifice of Christ
redeeming from sin would conquer Hell and break its power forever. It was the
power of sin and therefore of Hell that held the entire world in its thrall
before Christ: “That through death, He
might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the Devil.”
(Hebrews 2: 14). That explains why God chose out one people to fashion them
to receive the long promised Savior. The sacrifice of Christ would also open
the gates of Heaven so that the just who died before Christ in the Old
Testament could enter Heaven. The sin of Adam had shut the gates of Heaven even
against the just. Until then, they waited in a place of rest called Limbo.
“For if the
blood of goats and oxen, and the ashes of a heifer being sprinkled, sanctify
such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh: How much more shall the
blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered Himself unspotted unto God,
cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God? And therefore He
is the mediator of the New Testament: that by means of His death, for the
redemption of those transgressions, which are under the former testament, they
that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where there
is a testament, the death of the testator must of necessity come in. For a
testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is as yet of no
strength, whilst the testator lives. Whereupon neither was the first indeed
dedicated without blood. For when every commandment had been read by Moses to
all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet
wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying:
This is the blood of the Testament, which God hath enjoined unto you… And almost
all things, according to the law, are cleansed with blood: and without the
shedding of blood there is no remission.” (Hebrews 9: 13-22).
The sacrifice of Christ, not only involved the
sacrifice of the Divine and perfect man unblemished by any sin or iniquity. It
involved the sacrifice of justice. The justice of a man perfectly patient under
every suffering and every affront, even the most intense and unbearable. “The patient man is better than a valiant:
and he that rules his spirit, than he that takes cities.” (Proverbs 16: 32).
“Wisdom is better than strength, and a wise man is better than a strong man.”
(Wisd. 6: 1). But moreover it involved the sacrifice of a perfect and
sinless man perfectly obedient and submitted to God and united to Him in
spirit. “He humbled Himself, becoming
obedient unto death, even to the death of the Cross. For which cause God also
exalted Him, and has given Him a name which is above all names.” (Phillipians
2: 8,9). Jesus Christ, the patient man, the man obedient to God unto death,
outdid the valiant man in offering Himself, a sacrifice acceptable to God, and
of obtaining the good difficult to attain:
“Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and
the King of glory shall enter in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord who is
strong and mighty: the Lord mighty in battle.” (Psalm 23: 7,8).
The prophet Isaias prophecied of Jesus Christ: “He shall be exalted, and extolled, and
shall be exceedingly high. As many as have been astonished at thee, so shall
His visage be inglorious among men. He shall sprinkle many nations, kings shall
shut their mouth at Him: for they to whom it was not told of Him, have seen:
and they that heard not, have beheld.
Who hath
believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? And He shall
grow up as a tender plant before Him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground:
there is no beauty in Him, nor comeliness: and we have seen Him, and there was
no sightlines that we should be desirous of Him: Despised, and the most abject
of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and His look were, as
it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed Him not. Surely He hath borne our infirmities and
carried our sorrows: and we have thought Him as it were a leper, and as one
struck by God and afflicted. But He was wounded for our iniquities, he was
bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and by His
bruises we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath
turned aside into His own way: and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us
all. He was offered because it was His own will, and He opened not His mouth:
He shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, ands shall be as dumb as a lamb
before His shearer, and He shall not open His mouth. He was taken away from
distress, and from judgment: who shall declare His generation? Because He is
cut off out of the land of the living: for the wickedness of My people have I
struck Him. And He shall give the ungodly for His burial, and the rich for His
death: because
He hath done no iniquity, neither was there deceit in His mouth. And the Lord was pleased to bruise Him
in infirmity: if He shall lay down His life for sin, he shall see a long lived
seed, and the will of the Lord shall be prosperous in His hand. Because His
soul hath labored, He shall see and be filled: by His knowledge shall this My
just servant justify many, and He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I
distribute to Him very many, and He shall divide the spoils of the strong,
because He hath delivered His soul unto death, and was reputed with the wicked:
and He hath borne the sins of many, and hath prayed for the transgressors.”
(Isaias 52: 13-15 & 53).
This passage clearly predicts, not only the manner
of life of Jesus Christ, the persecution He was subjected to by the Pharisees,
as well as His crucifixion – a redeeming sacrifice, but also His resurrection
from the dead, because after foretelling His death, it says: “Therefore will I distribute to Him very
many, and He shall divide the spoils of the strong, because He hath delivered
His soul unto death…” (Ibid.). In other words, what good are spoils to a
dead man? This passage therefore speaks of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from
the dead, and a kingdom that is in this world but not of it.
Why
Catholicism And Not The Synagogue Is The True Religion: “There
was a man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and made a hedge round about
it, and dug in it a press, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen; and
went into a strange country. And when the time of the fruits drew near, He sent
His servants to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits thereof. And the
husbandmen laying hands on His servants, beat one, and killed another, and
stoned another. Again, He sent other servants more than the former; and they
did to them in like manner. And at last He sent to them His Son, saying: They will
reverence my Son. But the husbandmen seeing the Son, said among themselves:
This is the heir: come, let us kill Him, and we shall have the inheritance. And
taking Him, they cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed Him. When
therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he do to those
husbandmen? They say to Him: He will bring those evil men to an evil end; and
will let out His vineyard to other husbandmen, that shall render Him the fruit
in due season. Jesus said to them: Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The
stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
By the Lord this has been done; and it is wonderful in our eyes’. (Psalm 117:
22). Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of Heaven shall be taken from
you, and shall be given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof. And whoever
shall fall on this stone, shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it
shall grind him to powder. And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard
His parables, they knew that He spoke of them” (Matt. 21: 33-45).
These words were ratified by God in the events that
followed, not only in the faithful fulfillment of the prophecies made by Jesus
Christ, but also in the tangible manifestation of the transfer of the kingdom
of God by events such as the power of exorcism. Before Christ, the Jewish
priests had the power of exorcism, but after Jesus Christ they did not: “Now some of the Jewish exorcists who went
about, attempted to invoke over them that had evil spirits, the name of the
Lord Jesus, saying: I conjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches. And there were
certain men, seven sons of Sceva, a Jew, a chief priest that did this. But the
wicked spirit, answering, said to them: Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who
are you? And the man in whom the wicked spirit was, leaping on them, and
mastering them both, prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that
house naked and wounded” (Acts 19: 13-16). That the Jewish exorcists
invoked in the name of Jesus is a testimony to the fact that His divinity was
understood by those men, and also to the unprecedented power displayed by Jesus
over evil spirits.
Other tangible events that proved the transfer of
the Spirit of God from the Synagogue to the Church, was the holy presence of
God in the Temple. The dwelling of God in the Temple of Jerusalem was called by
the Hebrews: The Shekina. This was what Christians refer to as the Holy Spirit,
or the Holy Ghost. When Jesus Christ died: “He
left the Holy of Holies as a mighty wind saying: ‘Let Us go hence.’ He rested
on the Western walls of the Temple, according to Jewish writers… the Shekina
took up His abode on the summit of Mount Olivet, for three and a half years,
day and night they heard His voice in pleading words: ‘Come back to Me, O My
people, O come back to Me!’ The Presence never spoke again (Shemoth, R. 2 Ed.
Warsh. 7b 12)”. (How Christ Said The First Mass, P. 44, by Fr. J.L. Meagher,
D.D., President of the Christian Press Association Publishing Company, 1906),
from Tan Books, Ph. 1-800-467-5876. On Pentecost He descended on the Apostles
and the Blessed Virgin Mother of Jesus Christ, that is, on the Church founded
by Jesus Christ, the Catholic Church. This was the transference of the Kingdom
of God from the Synagogue to the Church:
“And when the days of Pentecost
were accomplished, they were all together in one place: And suddenly there came
a sound from Heaven, as of a might wind coming, and it filled the whole house
where they were sitting. And there appeared to them parted tongues as it were
of fire, and it sat upon every one of them: And they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost, and they began to speak in diverse tongues, according as the Holy
Ghost gave them to speak… Jews also, and proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians: we
have heard them speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.” (Acts 2:
1-11). This all happened in fulfillment of the words of Jesus to His
Apostles when He told them that the Spirit of God would be taken from the
Synagogue and given to them, as the quote from Matt. 21: 33-45 above shows: “It is expedient to you that I go: for if I
go not, the Paraclete will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
And when He is come, He will convince the world of sin, and of justice, and of
judgment. Of sin, because they believed not in Me. And of justice: because I go
to the Father; and you shall see Me no longer. And of judgment: because the
prince of this world is already judged. I have yet many things to say to you:
but you cannot bear them now. But when He, The Spirit of Truth is come, He will
teach you all truth… He shall glorify Me; because He shall receive of Mine, and
shall show it to you. All things whatsoever the Father hath, are Mine.
Therefore I said, that He shall receive of mine, and show it to you”. (Jn.15:
7-15).
“By the death of our Redeemer”, says Pope Pius XII in his encyclical “Mystici
Corporis”, “the New Testament
took the place of the Old Law which had been abolished; then the Law of Christ
together with its mysteries, enactments, institutions, and sacred rites was
ratified for the whole world in the blood of Jesus Christ... was there effected
a transfer from the Law to the Gospel, from the Synagogue to the Church, from
many sacrifices to one Victim, that, as Our Lord expired, that mystical veil
which shut off the innermost part of the Temple and its sacred secret was rent
violently from top to bottom. On the
Cross then the Old Law died, soon to be buried and a bearer of death”
(Ibid. 29,30).
The
Vatican II establishment denies this truth which the Church has always taught
and which is taught in Sacred Scripture. This only shows Vatican II to be a
false Council and its ministers to be heretics severed from the Church and
therefore invalid. It is a Divinely revealed dogma that: “Only those are to be included as members of the Church who have been
baptized and profess the true faith… For not every sin, however grave it may
be, is such as of its own nature to sever a man from the Body of the Church, as
does schism or heresy or apostasy.” (Pope Pius XII in Mystici corporis, 22,
23). Pope Leo XIII said in his encyclical Satis Cognitum: “The faith of the Apostles is the true faith.” (32).
“And when an
unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walks through dry places seeking rest,
and finds none. Then he says, I will return to my own house from whence I came
out. And coming he finds it empty, swept, and garnished. Then he goes, and
takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in
and dwell there: and the last state of that man is made worse than the
first. So shall it be also to this
wicked generation.” (Matt. 12: 43-45). The Synagogue
was abolished by God in favor of the Catholic Church founded by Jesus Christ,
the fulfillment of the law and the prophets. Therefore they who maintain the
Synagogue, do so in defiance of God. That is why the Apocalypse says: “The Synagogue of Satan, who say they are
Jews, and are not, but do lie.” (Apoc. 3: 9). This truth comes into bolder
relief by the fact that after 70 A.D. the Synagogue went into Babylon, and got
corrupted to the point of deviating almost completely from the Old Testament.
The contention that the Church has done the same is not true. As Pope Leo XIII
said in his Review Of Our Pontificate
it is to the conspiracy of Freemasonry and the Synagogue against the Church,
especially by infiltration, that all the troubles that the Church has
experienced since the Middle Ages can be traced. This is also what is at the
root of the clerical sex scandals. But in spite of it all, the body of teaching
handed down from the Apostles, valid priests and holy priests, and devout
followers of Christ still perdure. The Church is “The Mystical Body of Christ”,
as the encyclical by that name by Pope Pius XII says, it does not depend on the
possession of buildings.
It is manifest that the Synagogue is a withered
branch cut off from the Kingdom of God by the following facts: To begin with,
the majority of the modern Synagogue are not Semitic either genetically or
spiritually, as they claim and insist they are by calling everyone who
contradicts them “Antisemetic”. Genetically: towards the end of the first
millenia, a Southern Russian tribe called the Khazari converted to the
Synagogue, and in time they came to dominate it, which is why modern Jews look
like Europeans and speak Yiddish, which is Khazari written in Hebrew. These
Jews are called Ashkenazi’s. Abraham was an Iraqi, therefore, the real Jews who
are Hebrews, are brown people not unlike the Arabs. The members of the
Synagogue who are descended from the Hebrews are the Sephardim. They are a
minority in the world wide Synagogue. They are Semites racially. Spiritually: a
Semite spiritually is one who is of the religion of the God of Sem, as the
blessing of God on Sem goes: “Blessed be
the Lord God of Sem.” (Genesis 9: 26). That is, the blessing did not say:
Blessed be Sem and his descendants, but “blessed be the God of Sem,” showing
clearly that the blessing is on the true religion of the God of Sem, not necessarily
on the genetic descendants. This too is manifest if one considers that the
Moabites, the Edomites, the Samaritans and the Ten Lost Tribes were racial descendants
of Sem who did not share in or lost the blessing of the religion of Sem.
The religious code book of the Synagogue A.D. is the
Talmud. The Talmud is put above the Torah by the Synagogue authorities. The
Torah is the Old Testament which has been heavily tampered with by the Rabbi’s
who think that Gods should serve them rather than that they should serve God. Neither
can this be the religion of the God of Sem. It should be noted too that Rabbi’s
are only teachers, whereas the rights to govern and teach in God’s name was
only given to the priests of the line of Aaron, and to the kingly line of
David, both of which were wiped out during the sieges of 70 A.D. and 135 A.D.
This is another sign that God abolished the Old Covenant in favor of the New
Covenant in the blood of Jesus Christ. There was no Talmud until after the time
of Christ. The Talmud has been described as a code negating the law of God. The
“Kol Nidre”, the law of revocation of oaths in advance, is one example of this.
According to this law, members of the Synagogue are absolved from keeping any
oaths they take in the following year. It is not the tradition of Moses, as
even rank and file Jews are led to believe. God would not contradict Himself
and nullify His revelation which He enjoined most solemnly under pain of death:
“They are cursed who decline from Thy
Commandments.” (Psalm 118: 21). This revelation and Sacred Tradition is
found fully only in the Catholic Church after Christ. Only the Catholic faith
of the Apostles is the true religion of Sem, and thus the inheritor of the
blessings of Sem.
As if the Talmud were not a new
religion enough to sever a people from the true religion of the true God, the
Kabbalah is another major religious code book of the Synagogue: “The Talmud codified the bureaucratic side
of Judaism, the Kaballah conveyed the mysticism of black magic… The Kaballah is
considered advanced Judaism for the few… a whole world of mysticism and mystery
that was concealed from the general public… The occult is extolled in the
Kaballah…” this “links not to the
wisdom of the God of Israel, but to the gnosis of the magicians of pagan Egypt…
This ‘psychic journey’ is called by Kenneth Grant the ‘Nightside of Eden,’ the
negative side of the Lurianic ‘Tree of Life’ and it requires of the initiate,
the full embrace of the demonic.” (Blood On The Altar, Ch. 7, P. 84-86, by
Craig Heimbichner). All the witches, magicians and occultists regard the
Kaballah as their tome, but they hate the Bible which comes from God.
“Thus saith the
Lord God: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of nations, and the
countries round about her. And she hath despised My judgments, so as to be more
wicked than the Gentiles… Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have
surpassed the Gentiles that are round about you, and have not walked in My
Commandments, and have not kept My judgments… Therefore as I live, saith the
Lord God: Because thou hast violated My sanctuary with all thy offences, and
with all thy abominations: I will break thee in pieces, and My eye will not
spare, and I will not have any pity.” (Ezechiel 5: 5-11). They
are no longer punished by God because they are no longer His people. “For whom the Lord loveth, He chastiseth.”
(Prov. 3: 12).
Discernment Of Spirits: “Dearly
beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God:
because many false prophets are gone out into the world. By this is the spirit
of God known. Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the
flesh, is of God: And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: and
this is Antichrist.” (1 John 4: 1-3).
One compelling proof that the kingdom of God is with
the Church and not with the Synagogue or Islam is the spirit of these
respective entities, and how they obtain and hold power. “The scepter of Thy kingdom is the scepter of uprightness”. (Psalm 44:
7): “The works of God are perfect, and all His ways are judgments: God is
faithful and without any iniquity”. (Deuteronomy 32: 4): Islam conquers by
the sword, and the Synagogue conquers by deceit, conspiracy and the control of
money. “They have reigned, but not by Me:
they have been princes, and I knew not:” (Osee 8: 4). But Christianity came
to power in the 4th century and held it until the 19th century
against all odds, without money, or conspiracies or armies or without any of
the means kingdoms usually need to gain and hold power, but only on the
strength of truth and good example, and by the manifest power of God.
“If you be the children of Abraham, do the
works of Abraham… If God were your father you would indeed love Me… You are of
your father the Devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in truth… for he is a liar and
the father thereof”. (Jn. 8: 39-44). “The
Jews who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us,
and please not God, and are adversaries
to all men; Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles, that they might be saved,
to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to the
end.” (1 Thessalonians 2: 14-16).
Historian Nesta Webster describes the difference
between modern Machiavellian methods common since the rise of the Jews to world
power, with the methods of the English still under the influence of
Christianity. That influence was a waning influence, but nevertheless it tells
a story. When Mrs. Webster speaks of “Germans” in her text, she is referring to
Ashkenazi Jews whose rise to power was out of Germany from the time of Illuminati
founder Adam Weishaupt, who merged his organization with Freemasonry in 1782,
and the emergence of the Jewish banking house of Rothschild, which got control
of world finance and put it at the disposal of Jewish imperialism. “The dream of world domination has haunted
the imagination of many races from the time of Alexander the Great to Napoleon
I, but nowhere has the plan been carried out by the Machiavellian methods which
have characterized the Prussian foreign policy and diplomacy from the days of
Fredrick the Great onwards. It is not Prussian militarism that constitutes the
crime of modern Germany. Militarism in the sense of courage, patriotism,
discipline, and devotion to duty is a splendid thing. But the spirit of
Pan-Germanism differs from the British conception of patriotism in that it
over-rides the rights of all other people and seeks to establish its domination
over the whole world. Under German domination every German would be free and
every other human being a slave. England, whilst seeking conquests, has, on the
other has always allowed the inhabitants of the conquered territories to
develop along their own lines and has made use of legislation largely to
protect them from each other. The preference of the native of India for an
English judge to one of his own race is evidence of this fact. But it is
further the abandonment of all principle, the acceptance of the doctrine that
everything is allowable – lying, treachery, calumny, and bad faith – in order
to achieve its end, that has placed Germany outside the comity of nations…
making black appear white by glorifying the most ignoble of actions, of making
white appear black by holding up all honorable traditions to contempt and
ridicule, in a word perversion – has been reduced to a system by the secret
directors of world revolution… it was not until world revolution was taken over
by the faction described by Bakunin as ‘The German Jew Company’ that it
reassumed its Machiavellian character and gradually became the formidable
organization that it is today”. (Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, Ch.
14, P. 353-355, by Nesta Webster). From Omni CBC Books, Ph: 661-274-2240.
Catholicism, on the other hand, teaches that the
Kingdom of Jesus Christ is not of this world, and that its adherents ought not
to seek the things of this earth, but eternal and Heavenly things. “What does it profit a man if he gain the
whole world and suffers the loss of his own soul” (Matt. 16: 26). It
teaches that one may not do wrong for any reason, no matter what the gains of
wrongdoing may be, nor what the losses of right-doing may be. It teaches that
strength comes from Heaven (Machabees 3: 19), and that if God is pleased with
His people, that political power will fall into their laps unlooked for. “Seek ye therefore first the Kingdom of God,
and His justice, and all these things shall be added unto you”. (Matt. 6: 33).
“Woe
to him that builds a town with blood, and prepares a city by iniquity.”
(Habacuc 2: 12). This is how Christianity came to power. Nations became
Catholic by the preaching of monks and priests, without the sword. Although the
sword was sometimes necessary in defense, but it was by the word and the power
of God alone that the nations became Christian: through St. Patrick in Ireland,
St. Augustine in England, France became Catholic because King Clovis married a
servant girl who was impressive for her Christian virtue, and also through the
labors of bishops such as St. Denis, St. Remy, St. Martin of Tours, St. Germain
of Auxerre, and others. Germany became Catholic through the labors of St.
Boniface. Russia and the Balkans were converted by Saints Cyril and Methodius,
and on and on… Saintly monks and Bishops preached the
Gospel to every nation, establishing schools, churches, monasteries and
charitable institutions to look after people. This is where public education,
universities, the arts, hotels, hospitals, and social services began. “Their achievements, indeed, were after the
pattern of the Apostles themselves; they ruled through consciences, taught
through letters and worked miracles through their holiness. Preached by such
men, the truth had full course, so that whole regions passed quickly over to
their side.” (The Western Fathers: The Life of St. Germanus, written by
Constantius, a priest and a contemporary of his, c. 480, P. 297, from Sheed
& Ward Publishers, 1954).
“Wheresoever
they went in without bow and arrow, and without shield and sword, their God
fought for them and they overcame. And there was no-one that triumphed over
this people, but when they departed from the worship of the Lord their God. But
as often as beside their own God, they worshipped any other, they were given to
spoil, and to the sword, and to reproach. And as often as they were penitent
for having revolted from the worship of their God, the God of Heaven gave them
power to resist. So they overthrew the king of the Chanaanites, and of the
Jesubites, and of the Pherezites, and of the Hethites, and of the Hevites, and
of the Amorrhites, and all the mighty ones in Hesebon, and they possessed their
lands and their cities. And as long as
they sinned not in the sight of their God it was well with them, for their God
hates iniquity… Now therefore, my Lord, search if there be any iniquity of
theirs in the sight of their God: let us go up to them, because their God will
surely deliver them to thee, and they shall be brought under the yoke of thy
power: But if there be no offense of this people in the sight of their God, we
cannot resist them, because their God will defend them: and we shall be a
reproach to the whole earth”. (Judith 5: 16-25).
Another
discernment of spirits proof is that the occult (that is, Devil
worshippers) is against Christianity, but it is not against Islam. It is
against traditional Catholicism in particular. The Luciferian New World Order
crushes Christianity and fosters Islam. Author of “Seven Lies About Catholic
History”, Diane Moczar, Ph. D., makes the point in her book showing the double
standard Catholicism is held up to, as opposed to other religions such as
Islam. She cites the obscure and few facts that are known about Islam’s early
history, which are accepted without question or criticism: “and little of its later history - so full of violent conquest and
slaughter, mass slavery of the conquered, and radical discrimination against
women and non-Muslims.” (Seven Lies About Catholic History, Ch. 8, P. 167, by
Diane Moczar, Ph.D.), from Tan Books.
Certain of the higher rites of Freemasonry are
Islamic in characteristics. In my other blog: “The Catholic Church and The New World Order”, I have shown that
Freemasonry is not the “Sesame Street” for grown-ups it shows itself to be to
the world. That is why all of Freemasonry was condemned by the true Popes of
the Catholic Church before 1958, particularly by Pope Leo XIII in his famous
encyclical: “On Freemasonry” (Humanum
Genus, 1884). The changes that were wrought in Freemasonry since then, are
only cosmetic and practical, not substantial. An example of Islamic influence
in Freemasonry is found in the Shriners characteristic red hat, the Fez, which
originates from the massacre of the Christian population of the town of Fez by
Moslems, whose hats were originally white, but they dipped them in the blood of
the slain Christians and wore them triumphantly. The Shriners: “The Ancient
Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine” are high ranking Freemasons.
The war of America in the Middle East at the present
time is not a war against Islam. The objective of it is to subjugate the Arab
world and to get control of their resources and to make the Rabbinic state in
Palestine safe. There is no plan to eradicate Islam as there is a plan by the
Jewish/ Masonic New World Order to wipe out genuine Christianity gradually, by
infiltration, by fostering moral corruption, by corrupting the doctrine, by
causing scandals to be given maximum publicity, and by circumscribing it with
legislation, because Satan doesn’t cast out Satan (Matt. 12: 26-28). Satan only
casts out God, and God casts out Satan. Jesus Christ said that Satan was “the prince of this world” (Jn, 12: 31),
because most people are sinners, and few are they who obey God and keep His
Commandments.
The appeal of Islam, therefore, is through the
sword, and because it allows men to have multiple sex partners. Whereas, with
Christianity, that is, Catholicism, divorce and remarriage, fornication,
adultery and rape are as much sins for men as they are for women. The
Protestant permissiveness of adultery and fornication for men, is one example
of how Protestantism is a dilution and corruption of Christianity and not a
reform. Catholicism from the beginning, that is traditional Catholicism, admits
of no such double standards. The Jews also practice and believe double
standards from the Talmud. The God of the Bible, the one true God, said that
His law was binding on all.
Therefore, if Islam does not have the marks of truth
and justice and continuity with the line of Abraham through the Hebrew prophets
down to Jesus Christ, and if the New Testament makes it very clear that Jesus
Christ is the fulfillment of the law and the prophets and that there will be no
revelation after the death of the last Apostle, then it is clear that it was
not an angel from Heaven that Muhammad was communicating with when he received
Islam, but a Devil.
“But though we,
or an angel from Heaven preach a gospel to you besides the one we have preached
to you, let him be anathema”. (Gal. 1: 8).
“Whosoever
revolts, and continues not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God” (2 Jn. 1:
9).
“He that
believeth not the Son, shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on
him.” (Jn. 3: 36).
