FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
THE ‘LITTLE HORN’ GETS THE OSTROGOTH ARIAN ‘HORN’ TO DESTROY HIS FELLOW HERULI ARIAN ‘HORN’
As the trite but always relevant saying goes, “United we stand, divided we fall.’ The enemy of all truth knows this truism all too well. Hence, his diabolical mind devised an all-too-successful scheme and strategy out of it and weaponized it, known as: “Divide and conquer.”
“Nearly all the wars which the northern barbarians carried on in Italy…..were occasioned by the pontiffs [popes]; and the hordes, with which Italy was inundated, the generally called in by them [the pontiffs].- ‘History of Florence,’ p.13. Universal Classics Library, 1901.
“The historian Villari says THEODORIC at the head of the OSTROGOTHIC hordes entered Italy in the autumn of 488, backed by the authority of the emperor and the [Roman] Church. Because of the discord that had now broken out between Odovacar [king of the Heruli kingdom] and the Pope had weakened the former and consequently made him less formidable, after two disastrous battles he retreated toward the city of Rome for safety from the Ostrogoths, but ‘the gates of Rome were shut in his face, and the inhabitants of Italy began to show him marked hostility; partly on account of his recent conflict with the [Roman] Church, partly from the increased deeds of spoliation ….
“The [Roman] Church HAD TAKEN ADVANTAGE of all these causes of this DISCONTENT in order to excite the populace against him; and before long it was openly said that the CLERGY had organized a GENERAL CONSPIRACY against him somewhat, it would seem, in the style of the Sicilian Vespers.’ – ‘The Barbarian Invasion of Italy,’ 1880, Vol. I, pp. 153-156.
“John Henry Cardinal Newman, D.D., says: ‘Odovacar was sinking before Theodoric [his fellow Arian] and the Pope was CHANGING one Arian master for another.’ – ‘An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine,’ Part II, p. 320. London. 1878.
“Villari continues: ‘On the 5th of March, 493, Theodoric entered Ravenna in triumph, all the CLERGY coming forth to meet him, chanting Psalms, and with the Archbishop at the head of the procession.’ -‘The Barbarian Invasion of Italy.’ Vol. 1, p. 158.
“Ten days later Odoacer (Odovacar) was murdered in cold blood.” – Edwardson, ‘Facts of Faith,’ Southern Publishing, 1943, pp. 38, 39.
Satan, “the father of lies and murderer from the beginning,’ used ‘subtility’ and craftiness to deceive Eve in Eden. His main agency on earth, the Papacy, has ever used the same strategy in her growth and development as clearly revealed in the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation. “Knowledge is power.” “To be forewarned is to be forearmed.” God bless all, NMF