FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
TRACING THE BLOODY TRACKS FOLLOWING AFTER THE ‘LITTLE HORN’
“I beheld, and the same (little) horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them”….”and shall wear out the saints of the Most High.” Dan. 7: 21, 25, K.J.V.
“The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. VIII was printed in 1910, which bears the sanction of the Catholic authorities, and their ‘censor,’ so that here is up-to-date authority showing that the Roman church sanctions persecution. The Roman church here acknowledges that, WHEN SHE IS IN POWER, she forced the CIVIL government to BURN those she termed ‘heretics, and the government officials who FAILED to execute her [the church’s] laws, because ‘heretics’ by that neglect, Ans SUFFERED [the same] punishment of ‘heretics.’ Professor Alfred Baudillart, a Roman Catholic scholar in France, who is now [as of 1943] a Catholic Cardinal, says:
‘The Catholic Church is a respecter of conscience and of liberty……She has, and LOUDLY PROCLAIMS THAT SHE HAS, a ‘HORROR OF BLOOD.’ Nevertheless when confronted by heresy she DOES NOT CONTENT HERSELF WITH PERSUASION; arguments of an intellectual and moral order appear to her INSUFFICIENT, and she has recourse to FORCE, to corporal punishment, to TORTURE. She creates TRIBUNALS like those of the Inquisition, she calls the LAWS OF THE STATE to her aid, if necessary she encourages a CRUSADE, or a religious war and all her ‘HORROR OF BLOOD’ practically culminates into urging the SECULA POWER [‘the kings of the earth’] to shed it, which proceeding is MORE ODIOUS—BECAUSE IT IS LESS FRANK—THEN SHEDDING IT HERSELF.
Especially did she act thus in the sixteenth century [the Dark Ages] with regard to PROTESTANTS. Not content to REFORM MORALLY, to preach by example, to convert people by eloquent and holy missionaries, she LIT (set afire) in Italy, in the Lowlands (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg), and above all in Spain the FUNERAL PILES OF THE INQUISITION.
“In France under Francis I and Henry II, in England under Mary Tudor, she tortured the heretics, whilst both in France and Germany during the second half of the sixteenth century and the first half of the SEVENTEENTH century if she did not actually begin, at any rate she encouraged and actively aided, the RELIGIOUS WARS. No one here will deny that we here have a GREAT SCANDAL to our contemporaries…..Indeed, even among our friends and our brothers we find those who dare not look at this problem IN THE FACE. They ask permission from the CHURCH to IGNORE or even DENY all those acts and institutions [such as the Inquisition] in the past, which have made orthodoxy compulsory.’ – ‘The Catholic Church, the Renaissance, and Protestantism,’ pp. 182-184. London: 1908. This book bears the sanction of the Roman Catholic authorities, and their ‘censor.’”— Christian Edwardson, ‘Facts of Faith,’ pp. 64, 65. Southern Publishing Asso., Nashville, TN 8, 1943.
It was on Friday that Jesus was crucified by the CHURCH (Jews) and the STATE (Rome) combined!! That was the type. We are facing the antitypical FRIDAY of end-time prophecy! It is preparation day and preparation time!
Have a sanctifying Sabbath starting sunset tonight. NMF