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Study for the Month of March 2013 (Page 3)

“When Pope Benedict announced that he was going to resign on Feb. 28, 2013, it sent shock waves around the world. Being the first Pope to leave the papal throne—alive—in 600 years, two billion followers of the Roman Catholic Church are in a state of disbelief.
“Although Pope Benedict became the lightning rod of criticism against members of the clergy for ‘crimes against children,’ he had steadily weathered the maelstrom of controversy the engulfed Christendom’s seat of power, the Vatican.

“Indeed, as soon as Pope Benedict announced his resignation, the enemies of the Catholic Church laid siege on the Vatican. Yes, it was time to strike while the iron was hot. And strike they did, hitting the Pope when he was vulnerable!
“An obscure organization called International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) issued a media release on its website, saying that Pope Benedict resigned because he had found out that an unnamed European government was going to issue an ‘arrest warrant’ against him one he had vacated the papacy. He would then be charged of crimes against humanity and criminal conspiracy.

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“Another official said: ‘While this was not the main consideration [really?], it certainly is a corollary, a natural result’
“After he resigns, Benedict will no longer be the sovereign monarch of the State of the Vatican City, which is surrounded by Rome, but will retain Vatican citizenship and residency.

“LATERAN PACTS
“That would continue to provide him immunity under the provisions of the Lateran Pacts while he is in the Vatican and even if he jaunts into Italy as a Vatican citizen.

“The 1929 Lateran Pacts between Italy and the Holy See, which established Vatican City as a sovereign state, said Vatican City would be ‘invariably and in every event considered as neutral and inviolable territory.’

“There have been repeated calls for Benedict’s arrest over sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
“When Benedict went to Britain in 2010, British author and atheist campaigner Richard Dawkins asked authorities to arrest the pope to face questions over the Church’s child abuse scandal. Dawkins and the late British-American journalist Christopher Hitchens commissioned lawyers to explore ways of taking legal action against the pope. Their efforts came to nothing because the pope was a head of state and so enjoyed diplomatic immunity.

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Study for the Month of March 2013

The Papacy Series-Part II

Nathaniel Fajardo
Whole Gospel Ministries
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VARIOUS REASONS OFFERED FOR POPE BENEDICT’S SUDDEN RESIGNATION

Source: GlobalBalita, Feb. 14, 2013 issue, published Feb. 14, 2013 in Politics & Government by Perry Diaz at http://globalbalita.com/2013/02. Posted on Feb. 13, 2013 by ITCCS (International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State). Issued Feb. 13, 2013 12:00 am GMT by Brussels Central Office

“Pope Benedict Resigned to Avoid Arrest. . .’

“Diplomatic Note issued to Vatican just prior to his resignation.” “New Pope and Catholic clergy face indictment and arrest as ‘Easter Reclamation’ Plan continues.’” “A Global Media Release and Statement from the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State.”

“Brussels:

“The historically unprecedented resignation of Joseph Ratzinger as Pope this week was compelled by an upcoming action by a European government to issue and warrant of arrest against Ratzinger and a public lien against Vatican property and assets by Easter.

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Study for the Month of February 2013 (Continued)

The burden is on media that has the duty to rake up tightly kept secrets of government. The state will never make them public even if there is a law that requires it to be.

Media is considered as classical adversary of the State precisely because it cannot be conned into cooperating with the government. [really?]

Therefore, law or no law, media should find a way of getting the information denied or hidden from the public. If the principal objective of the Catholic Church, in fact of all Christian churches, is to promote spiritual well being, it should not meddle in the affairs of the state, if only to comply with the Constitutional provision that the Church and the State are separate.

The danger is if the government and the Church come to terms because freedom of information is automatically lost. Both will protect each other.

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The Papacy Series- Part I

Nathaniel Fajardo
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First, What is the Papacy? – Many mistake the person of the pope as the Papacy itself, which pope, Protestants in the past have identified as either “the man of sin,” the antichrist,” or “the beast” of prophecy. More accurately, the Papacy, according to Webster’s Dictionary, Student Edition, 1976, refers to four things, namely “(1) the position or authority of the pope (2) the period during which the pope rules (3) the line of succession of popes (4) the government of the Roman Catholic Church, headed by the pope.”

The First Catholic U.S. President. – Thus, when one specific pope (or specific American President) is singled out by using unproven prophetic calculations as the one who brings about the long-anticipated U. S. –initiated National Sunday Law that shortly becomes globally enacted and enforced by all churches and governments (Revelation 13: 1-18), difficulties are encountered which clearly expose this faulty prophetic interpretation. For instance, when John F. Kennedy was elected as the 35th U.S. president, the youngest to be elected to office at the age of 43, the first Roman Catholic U.S. president, certain quarters in the Adventist community and others thought he was going to be the one to initiate the Sunday law while in office.

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Study for the Month January 2013 (Continued)

5. “To seal up the vision.” – Events that transpired within these 490 years, would t “seal,” or establish the entire vision of the 2,300 day-years.

6. “To anoint the most holy.”- During this time Christ would be anointed of the Holy Spirit, identifying Him as the promised Messiah after being baptized by John the Baptist. This has to be the primary application of the prophecy. It is also true that in the type, when the time came to begin the service in the earthly sanctuary, the entire sanctuary was anointed (Exo. 40:9); and when Christ entered the heavenly sanctuary to perform the work of which the earthly service was a type, the heavenly sanctuary was anointed before He began His ministry in the first apartment. Note: The heavenly sanctuary is also spoken of as the “most holy” in order to distinguish it from the earthly.

Wonderful changes were wrought in the history of the early church during the 490 years. After the angel had enumerated the events to take place during that period, he told Daniel where to locate it in the history of the world, by announcing the date of the beginning of the period:

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Study for the Month January 2013

A Quick Summary of the

Wonderful Prophecies of Daniel 8 & 9

From Nathaniel M. Fajardo

Whole Gospel Ministries

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Extracted from “The Cross and Its Shadow” by Stephen. Haskell, pp. 188-197

Opening Statement

See Rev. 14: 6; Acts 17:31. The Day of Judgment is a definite period of time set apart in which to perform this specific work. Note: “God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose, and for every work,” Eccl. 3:17. The world and the churches were not left in darkness or ignorance in regard to the time and the nature of the closing work of judgment of which the literal Day of Atonement and its service in the Jewish economy of the Old Covenant, involving the cleansing of the sanctuary was its type. Through the prophet Daniel God foretold when that event would take place.

In chapter eight of the book of Daniel, we read that in the last days of the Babylonian kingdom the prophet was given a prophetic view of the history of the world and nations from that time until the end of all earthly kingdoms, that is, those that directly impact the experience of His people and truth.

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