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THE WALDENSES, THEIR ‘SABBATIC’ NAMES, AND THE PAPACY

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THE WALDENSES, THEIR ‘SABBATIC’ NAMES, AND THE PAPACY

David Benedict, M.A., says:
‘Robinson gives an account of some of the Waldenses of the Alps, who were called SABATI, SABBATATI, INSABBATATI, but more frequently INSABBATATI. One says they were so named from the Hebrew word Sabbath, because they kept the Saturday for the Lord’s day. Another says they were so called because they rejected all the festivals.’- ‘General History of the Baptist Denomination,’ Vol. II, p. 413: 1813.

Dr. J.L. Mosheim says: ‘PASSAGINIANS (Waldenses) had the utmost AVERSION to the dominion and discipline of the Church of Rome ….and celebrated the Jewish Sabbath.’ – ‘Ecclesiastical History.’ (2-vol. edition), Cen. 2, Part 2, Chap. 5, Sec. 14, Vol. 1, p. 333. New York: Harper & Bros., 1871.

“The papal author Bonacursus, wrote against the ‘PASAGINI’[ Waldenses/Albigenses] ‘Not a few but many know what are the ERRORS of those who are called Pasagini [what errors?]. First, they teach that we should obey the law of Moses according for the letter—-the Sabbath and circumcision, and the legal precepts still being in force….Furthermore to INCREASE their error, they condemn and reject all the church Fathers, and whole Roman Church.’ – Quoted in ‘History of the Sabbath,’ J. N. Andrews, pp. 547, 548. 1912

It must be pointed out here that papal author Bonocorsus clearly calls his church as the Church OF ROME, not the church OF CHRIST. In his own mouth and by his scholarly pen he testifies, whether he was aware or not, that the Church of Rome or the Romish church, the Roman Catholic Church, is, and of Rome, not is and of Christ! It was Rome, at the behest of the Jewish people, in essence the union of church and state, the religious and the civil powers, who crucified the Lord of the Sabbath! God bless, NMF

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ARIUS AND THE PROPHESIED ROLE OF ARIANISM TO THE RISE OF THE PAPACY

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ARIUS AND THE PROPHESIED ROLE OF ARIANISM TO THE RISE OF THE PAPACY

“Usurped powers increases like an avalanche.” – Merle D’ Aunbigne (church historian).

Regarding the early “influencea clustering around the bishop of Rome…everything tending toward his speedy elevation to the spiritual dominance of Christendom [in the erstwhile Roman Empire], Uriah Smith says in his book Daniel and the Revelation, pp. 120-122:

“But the FOURTH century was destined to witness an OBSTACLE thrown across of this ambitious dream [of the bishop of Rome then]. The prophecy had declared that the power represented by the little horn would ‘subdue three kings.’ In the rise and development of ARIANISM early in the fourth century and the CHALLENGE it presented to papal supremacy, we find the CAUSES leading up to the plucking up of three of the KiNGDOMS of Western Rome by the papal power.”

Who was Arius? “Arius, parish priest of the ancient and influential CHURCH OF ALEXANDRIA. promulgated his doctrine to the world, occasioning so fierce a controversy in the Christian church that a general council was called at Nicaea, by the emperor Constantine in A.D. 325, to consider and rule upon its teaching.

“Arius maintained ‘that the Son was totally and essentially distinct from the Father; that He was the first and noblest of those beings whom the Father had created out of nothing, the instrument by whose subordinate operation the Almighty Father formed the universe, and therefore inferior to the Father, both in nature and dignity.’ This opinion was condemned by the council, which decreed that Christ was of one and the same substance with the Father. Hereupon Arius was BANISHED to Illyria, and his followers were compelled to assent to the CREED composed at that occasion.” -Uriah Smith, ‘Daniel and the Revelation, pp. 120, 121. Southern Publishing Asso., 1994, 1972.

Ask yourselves these questions:

  1. Does the Bible require that the Christian must have a “creed” such as Nicene Creed? If Yes, what and where is it found?
  2. Do you know with a certainty what the nature of Jesus Christ is, before and after the incarnation? Can you present the Scripture evidences? If not, we might not really know Him whom we call “Jesus our Lord and Savior.”
  3. What religions, churches or denominations teach the same or variant versions of Arianism—that Christ is the first of created beings, that He is inferior essentially and substantially for the Father, etc.?
    May your research be blest, NMF
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MEANS THE PAPACY USE TO DESTROY ARIAN ENEMIES

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MEANS THE PAPACY USE TO DESTROY ARIAN ENEMIES

Neither deceit nor force are pathways to true freedom and liberty.

“Religion and government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together.” – ‘Writings of James Madison,’ Vol. III. p. 373.

Christian Edwardson wrote: “In order to give the reader a better understanding of the MEANS used by the Papacy these three Arian kingdoms, we shall quote from Thomas Hodgkin a few brief statements. He states that THEODORIC, the Ostrogothic king, ‘endeavored to have ‘a close league of mutual defense formed between the four great Arian and Teutonic monarchies, the Visigothic, the Burgundian, the Ostrogothic, and the Vandal.’ But ‘diplomatists were wanting [who could act] as their skillful and eloquent representatives, traveling like Epiphanius from court to court, and bringing the Barbarian sovereigns to understand each other, to sink their petty grievances, and to work together harmoniously for one common end.

Precisely these men [the skillful diplomats] were the CATHOLIC PRELATES of the Mediterranean lands to whom it was all-important that NO such Arian league should be formed….All over the Roman world there was a serried array of Catholic bishops and presbyters, taking their orders FROM A SINGLE CENTER, ROME, feeling the interest of each one to be the interest of all. In lively and constant intercourse with one another, quick to discover, quick to disclose the SLIGHTEST WEAK place in the organization of the new heretical kingdoms [of Arians]. Of all this there was NOT A SLIGHTEST TRACE on the other side [the Arians]. The Arian bishops…..stood APART from one another in STUPID AND IGNORANT ISOLATION.’- ‘Italy and Her Invaders,’ Thomas Hodgkin, (8-vol. ed.) Vol. III, Book 4, pp, 381-383. Oxford. 1889.

“The SAME principle was clearly stated by the Catholic Bishop Avitus, when the Arian king Gundomad appealed to him not to allow the Catholic king CLOVIS [of the Franks] to overrun his country. Avitus answered: ‘If Gundobad would reconcile himself to the [Catholic] Church, the Church would guarantee his safety from the attacks of Clovis.’- Ibid, p 384.”- Facts of Faith, pp. 45, 46.

Take note of Clovis, king of the Franks [later called France]. The year he converted to Catholicism marks the starting date of a specific time prophecy in Daniel that has already been fulfilled within the longest time prophecy of the 2300 days of Daniel 8:14.

Even as Friday is preparation day for each weekly Sabbath so is this short stretch of probation our preparation time for “the day of God”—-the day of final reckoning and visitation! Have a sanctifying Sabbath! NMF

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APOSTASY: PREPARED THE WAY OF THE PAPACY FIRST, THEN THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST

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APOSTASY: PREPARED THE WAY FOF THE PAPACY FIRST, THEN THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST

“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come [Christ’s second advent], except there come a falling away [apostasy] first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.” 2 Thess. 2:3, KJV.

“When the early church became corrupted by departing  from the simplicity of the gospel and accepting heathen rites and customs  [as we have been tracking in church and secular history] she LOST the Spirit and power of God; and in order to CONTROL the consciences of the people, she sought the support of the secular power. The result was the PAPACY, a CHURCH that CONTRoLLED the power of the STATE and employed it to further her own ends, especially the PUNISHMENT OF ‘HERESY.’

“Whenever [and wherever] the church has obtained secular power, she had employed it to punish DISSENT from HER doctrines. PROTESTANT CHURCHES [whether Evangelical, Pentecostal, or Apostolic, etc.] that have followed in the steps of Rome in forming alliance with WORLDLY POWERS have manifested a similar desire to RESTRICT LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE. An example of this is given in the the long-continued persecution of dissenters in the CHURCH OF ENGLAND. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, THOUSANDS of nonconformist ministers were forced to FLEE from their churches, and many, both of pastors and people, were subjected to FINE, IMPRISONMENT, TORTURE, AND MARTYRDOM.

“It was apostasy that led the EARLY CHURCH to seek the aid of civil government, and this prepared for the development of the Papacy—-THE BEAST. Said Paul [2 Thess. 2:3 quoted]. So apostasy IN THE CHURCH will prepare the way for the IMAGE TO THE BEAST.

“Satan will work with all power and deceivableness of unrighteousness.’ 2 Thess. 2:9,10. His working is plainly revealed by the RAPIDLY increasing darkness, the MULTITUDINOUS errors, heresies, and delusions in these last days. Not only is Satan leading the WORLD captive, but his DECEPTIONS are leavening the PROFESSED CHURCHES of our Lord Jesus Christ. The GREAT APOSTASY [in these professed Christian churches] will develop into DARKNESS DEEP AS MIDNIGHT. To God’s [faithful and true] people it will be a night of trial, a night of weeping, a night of persecution for the TRUTH’S SAKE. But out of that night of darkness God’s LIGHT will shine!” – E. G. White, Maranatha, p. 165.

The time of test is rapidly approaching! “Quit ye like men and be strong” “in the Lord and in the power of His might.” Bless all, NMF 

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THE PROPHESIED ‘FALLING AWAY’ OF THE CHURCH AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PAPACY

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THE PROPHESIED ‘FALLING AWAY’ OF THE CHURCH AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PAPACY

“The terrible nature of these sensual gratifications of this pagan festivals, in which the leaders of the Church now allowed to members to indulge, a person can hardly imagine TILL the sickening facts are spread before one’s eyes by Livy in (Hist. lib. xxxix, chap. 9-17). The learned Englishman, F.A.S, in his ‘Second Annals,’ Vol. 3, on the ‘Gentile Nations,’ pp. 487-489, says that this ‘most revolting and abandoned villainy’ was so general, that when the Roman Senate has to proceed against its worst features, ‘Rome was almost deserted, so many persons, feeling themselves implicated in the proceedings, sought safety in flight.’

“[Edwarson writes]: ‘A church that will take in members, WITHOUT CONVERSION, and then allow them to CONTINUE in the most putrid corruption, must have LOST all respect for MORALITY (not to say CHRISTIANITY), and cannot be in possession of divine power of the Gospel: which CHANGES the hearts and lives of people.(Rom. 1:16; 2 Cor. 5:17.)

“The apostle Paul had foretold this ‘falling away’ of the Church. (Acts 20: 28-30; 2 Thess. 2:1-7.) And it was during this fallen condition that the Church CHANGED its weekly rest day from the Sabbath to the Sunday.

“Dr. N. Summerbell says: ‘The Roman Church had totally apostatized….It reversed the Fourth Commandment by doing away with the Sabbath of God’s word, and instituting Sunday as a holiday.’- ‘The Christian Church,’ p. 415. Cincinnati: 1873. (From “Facts of Faith, C. Edwardson, pp. 104, 105.

Only “truth as it is in Jesus” can truly “set us free” from the power is sin and the darkness of error and ignorance: this is the true liberty and victory in Christ abiding in the soul!
Bless all, NMF

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BEHOLD THE SUN NOT THE CLOUDS, THE ROSES NOT THE THORNS.

March 26, 2020
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BEHOLD THE SUN NOT THE CLOUDS, THE ROSES NOT THE THORNS. 

  “But unto you that fear My name, shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings.” Mal. 4:2. “We also have the prophetic word made sure, which you would do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the Morning Star arises in your hearts.” 2 Pet.1:19, NKJV.

The counterfeits Sun of righteousness is the “son of perdition,” the “man of sin”(2 Thess. 2:3)—symbols of Satan whose vicegerent on earth is the Antichrist, the papacy— who has a lot to do with what is taking the world by storm in this current covid-19 crisis, in case you don’t know or lost sight of in the manufactures excitement, panic, confusion and fear-mongering. It has been said that “Back of the clouds the sun is always shining.”  That is, behind and far higher than the dark, foreboding, glowering storm clouds is the steady bright sun, always shining, never dark. By nature, we tend to absorb what we gaze at and then bounce it off or reflect it on others as either a “savor of life unto life or death unto death”(2 Cor.2:15,16).

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America and the Papacy in Prophecy and in the News Today

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tour the Sistine Chapel following their meeting with His Holiness Pope Francis, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, in Vatican City. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks) Source: Wikipedia

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America and the Papacy in Prophecy and in the News Today

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   “The spirit of liberty went with the Bible. Wherever the gospel was received, the minds of the people were awakened. They began to cast off the shackles that held them bond-slaves of ignorance, vice, and superstition.  They began to think and act as men.”- E. G. White, “The Bible and the French Revolution,” Great Controversy (1911 ed.), p. 277.

Lest the remnant people of the last days, clearly identified in Revelation 12: 17 and Rev. 14: 12 become caught–up, side-tracked, or misled by deft deflections in all the crush of head-line –grabbing news,—

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Lest Christianity Forget ‘The Blackest in the Black Catalogue of Crime’

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Lest Christianity Forget ‘The Blackest in the Black Catalogue of Crime’

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“Not Enoch, who was translated to heaven, not Elijah, who ascended in a chariot of fire, was greater or more honored than John the Baptist, who perished alone in a dungeon.”

-E.G. White, “Death & Imprisonment of John” chapter, Desire of Ages, p. 225.

Jesus gave His disciples the brightest hopes and the greatest promises, including eternal life and a seat with Him in

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