Chapter
3
NEWS 136
Time Magazine, Dec. 4, 2000, pp. 52ff.; Dec. 18; TV News
Where are you going, my
pretty maid ?
Just where, that is the question.
OF course, she is but a figure. There she
goes with her milk pail, off to the cows perhaps, or is it to a neighbour,
sick, whom she wishes to refresh ?
1) Take the
Arab, the Palestinian situation in Israel. Time on Dec. 4, 2000, speaks of a change in Palestinian tactics. The stone throwing youths or even children, who are to become martyrs (how
sadly if not savagely the Moslem way comes at times to resemble other absolutist
systems, like the Communist, where life of the individual can be a ploy or at
the very least, a part of a program that does not seem to incorporate the
particular reality of the detail called ONE PERSON!): they are no longer the way to blazon
the 'cause' across the face of the world ?
SO it would seem. Now there is this grand escalation, this witty invention of
method: now you can just go and shoot a settler. Is it to become the 'shoot a
settler' sport ?
Death is so very impactive. It can relieve the
desire to be in some place on earth. It can even help others to be less
desirous of being in some place, when their loved ones are killed, their
fathers are blasted, their sons lacerated. It is a very instructive process, a
method even of teaching ? You WANT something (like Jerusalem, or part of the
mini-State known as Israel amidst the luxuriating hectares and thousands of
square kilometres of the Moslem holdings in Africa and the Middle East, moving
right up into the domain of the former USSR), so you start a form of violence
against the people who have it, you know, kill a few, maim-a-man program, that
sort of thing, and then you put your kids into the business, and when a
reserved and provoked, taunted and defamed Israel tries to restore order and reduce
the murders of its citizens, you clamour to the TV and shout out your
oppression ?
Good ? Remarkable ? Would not Dr Goebbels of
Hitler's day, who also was not fond of Jews, have clapped you enthusiastically
on the shoulder, if he in his day had seen fit for you yourself to continue to
live so that your shoulder would be there to clap - would not he, I say, have
been proud of you ?
Yet this, it is not enough. But how obvious,
is it not ? It is necessary, surely, in the face of these clearly less-than-enthusiastic
Israelis, who ask questions such as this, 'They have lots of Moslem land, why do not need to have
even more of our tiny portion ?' - it
is necessary to do more. In the face of their obstinate refusal to lie down and
die, these Israelis, and so to make a will in the favour of the delightsome
people who love to kill and wound and maim and complain when those who are
PRACTISING violence, have to be rebuffed: yes of course, these whose religion is
so embracive of THIS world - like Communism and Romanism - they now elect to do
more.
What then is the Arab desire, at least as
reportedly being articulated by its leader ? The United Nations should step in
and stop the atrocities of people defending their tiny country, treacherously
reduced to far beneath the original contract from Britain with its mandate to
come, and now gone. There should be a reward for violence, and a dispossession
of more and more of Israel from the Jews.
Very clever ? Not, one should have thought,
if those to whom this disingenuous appeal is made, were all in a balanced,
judicious and unbiased frame of mind. How could you possibly dispossess the
scattered remnants of one of the most persecuted peoples on earth, whose
holocaust is even outrageously denied by some: how could you do this, in
the face of millions of deaths and billions of dollars of theft in the raunchy
old days of wild Europe under Hitler, and seek to take even more ?
Would the UN then like to add to outrage by
practising again the program, or pogrom of dispossession ? Would they admirably
see the purity and wonder of removing internationally (instead, as in the case
of Germany, merely nationally) more of what Israel has fought to regain,
seething against the Jew as in the imperial past, so leaving the Jews as a yet more minor enclave in the
Moslem masses' sprawling lands ? Would it like so to reduce it because of the
Islamic need for more land, despite its possessing or having large influence in territories pleasantly circling no small part
of the Mediterranean, from Syria past Egypt to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia,
reverse, go back, to Iraq, Iran, Armenia, and so on ? Do not my friend, forget Saudi Arabia ? One might at least question adding to the
disproportion, reducing the tenuous and almost throttled (literally) little
narrow-necked land of Israel,
in the interests of Moslem freedom to grab this crumb.
Surely most wily people might try it. Most
vacuous onlookers might transform themselves into arbitrating big brothers, and
do so; but for what vested interest ? Well, of course, there are the wells.
They well up, well, with wonders of oil, and there are MANY nations who want it
so much they might (and maybe formerly DID) fight to ensure the barrels keep on
coming, and might (and perhaps formerly DID) retire fast to leave for example
the Kurds, to get whatever gentle Saddam Hussein might see, in the interests of
justice of course, to do for them in the cold of the mountains, in the heat of
the moment, or otherwise. They might (and perhaps did) retire when ONE MORE DAY
might, in the Gulf War you may be thinking, in 1991, have sufficed to deliver
actual things called people, from actual events called terror, horror and
oppression. Children being involved in this sort of vivisection process, you
might still somehow not even feel the situation. You might - I say - you might
do this if you had a mind for it.
It is not to the mind of this writer.
But as the new wave of intelligence, if that
is the term, sets in, let us hear what Time says on Dec. 4 by way of summary of the
modalities ? of the situation as it develops, battle-wise, on the part of (dare
one, could one even be permitted to say) this international Palestinian-Moslem
aggressor movement, that sought to slay the Jews in 1947, and has continued in
fits and starts, ever since:
"Eight
weeks ago, the Palestinians began the latest protests with old-style
demonstrations. Then they started shooting at Israel towns. Now they are attacking
settlements. It's not at all clear what the next step will be, but every step
seems to get bloodier."
Where are you going, my pretty maid ? Why is there a gun in your lily-white hand, my dear
and delightful neighbour ?
Are you going to the international invasion
predicted these more than three millenia (cf. SMR
Appendix A), is it to this that you are going, my pretty maid ?
It is no place for so lovely a maid, my girl,
no place for her!
2) Where
are you going, my pretty Russia ?
The area about Israel and indeed within it in certain places, teems with
hostility, and brims with opportunity.
We come to another focus in the Middle East, which blends nicely to the East, through the Caucasus which are an index to the predicted invasion scenario for Israel (cf. SMR Appendix A,
and pp. 656ff., 516ff.). We have earlier traced
through the Scythians, the Caucasus and beyond, together with other surrounding nations
in the arena. Now we merely note a recent development in contemporary Russia, with its satellites which, with Moscow all but due North of Israel, lies in the direction of
flow specified in the prophecy, though it is not necessarily all involved as
such. It would, however, be entirely in keeping with the indications if it
were, or at least a good part of it.
Thus it is interesting to find that Putin,
who, without disputation, is a former KGB official, apparently with all that
sort of flair which would make him successful in East Germany, has been moving in his reconstruction of the Russian
IMAGE. He has adopted the
Hammer and Sickle illustration of
the power hungry and love vacuous days of the regime which slaughtered in a way
which would have been horrific for cows, using the sort of transport to Siberia likewise, which might have ruined the beasts. That of course was only
the beginning of the years of removing whatever it took to do whatever they
listed.
It did not work.
It was a campaign of hateful power in the
endorsement of powerful hate; it was odious, reprehensible and lifeless, dead
to humanity, alien to God, asking for the punishments such as those of World
War II, and beyond. In the litany of defilement, refined brutality and misery
of mind, it stands as a place where the volume is turned up to the full.
Visions of splendour and drab realities of torture, of mind as well as body,
make this amongst the most continuing exhibitions of devilishness one could
ever wish to behold, before the antichrist himself comes in person.
Putin's place as a KGB officer was not in the
days of Stalin. It was perhaps in a somewhat more restrained rule in mindless
propaganda, over the sea of the people. Nevertheless, he was working in the not
entirely delightful realms of the KGB. Is it possible that the glory days have
not left him ? Is it possible that the concept of GETTING IT DONE, is still
with him - and MAKING IT HAPPEN, with anything of that rambunctious
indifference to cost which has distinguished and substantially but far from
entirely, extinguished this dare-devil spirit which entered into Russia in 1917
?
Perhaps not. Perhaps it is merely that the
sunken atomic submarine of year 2000, would have revealed too much, and thus it
was that the rescue was not mounted with all speed; perhaps however it was that
it was humiliating, demeaning to Russia ? Who can tell why incredible delay
occurred ?
Perhaps the adoption, by Putin, of the hammer
and sickle as one of the OFFICIAL EMBLEMS for Russia now, the heavily financed Russia, recipient of aid to the tune of billions, perhaps it
is merely nostalgia for getting things
done ? Perhaps it is NOT nostalgia for the WAY they were done, and where it all
led !
In any case, the adoption has apparently
outraged many, for whom it stands for the whole unwholesome and unholy reign of
terror, which would appal, it would seem, many of the original Reign of Terror
in the French Revolution for its unhallowed inhumanity and heartlessness. It
has been adopted, this symbol of atrocity, inhumanity and gross abuse of power.
Then the double headed eagle, symbol of the
old Empire has been adopted likewise. What do these two official symbols, now
instated in the new Russia, signify ? A love of glory, of power, of status ? A
relative indifference to WHAT SORT of power and an emphasis on its FACT and
PRESENCE ? THIS WE HAVE DONE, these are symbols of our being able to MOVE!
Without wishing to endue such things with too
much significance, one cannot well endue them with none! To use the hammer
which smashed minds (using, anomalously, very often a combination of drugs and
viciousness), though not the mind of Solzhenitsyn and many like him; and the
sickle which reaped ruin, sending whole areas into famine, which has
responsibly been considered as very possibly intentional disciplinary and
disruptive force (SMR pp. 658-659),
and slicing off heads of people instead of grain: to use this is more than
tasteless. It is false glory and resembles the use of the SWASTIKA in Germany now. Imagine, now, if you will, the German government
MAKING THE SWASTIKA a CURRENT SYMBOL of the new Germany!
Enough said.
Hence, in addition to the fact that the area
surrounding the Caucasus in a broad scene, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and
that victim of Putin's strategy as likewise of Yeltsin's determination, a name
like a cancer sufferer's pain, Chechnya, together with not distant and well
placed for assault, Iran, Iraq, Syria and its north! is indicated as a likely
source of the invasion of Israel predicted these 2 and one half millenia, for the New
Covenant era, there is more. It is quite possible that Russia will either PERMIT or not interfere if the Muslim
south of her area so acts, or may even in some way be involved.
This is merely an indication of movement
which enhances the preliminaries in the scenario of the nations just mentioned.
This in turn is in the era of the restoration of the Jews to Jerusalem, both a
portent and a pivot for the end and return of Christ (Luke 21:24), while wars
thunder on with a rapidity, multiciplicity, almost mindless ingenuity of cause
and indifference to effect, with rumours continual and ruin unspeakable, just
as this era had to do, to qualify (cf. SMR pp. 648ff.).
What however of the UN ? Would it impede an
invasion of Israel ? After all, let us be realistic not only the 1991
pan-Islam alliance to DEAL WITH Israel, but the year 2000 duplication of
belligerence by the Muslim powers, these things do not signify peace, or
irenic, amicable intention. The Arabs are to be supported. The festering wound
in the tiny heart of Israel is to be administered inflammatory drugs.
The UN however ? If the UN does what it did
to stop Nasser, it will make no difference! If it acts as it did in
1947 in removing Jerusalem prospectively from the Jews and giving them bits of
Palestine, then it may conceivably do MORE than merely not intervene to rescue
the 'normal Jewish victims'.
Where are you going my pretty Russian maid ?
Are you looking at power play with your symbols and your scheming ? are you
looking the other way, if the empire advances ?
3) There is more, much more movement as the divine agenda
realises itself, fully equipped to know in advance the sad manoeuvres and
freneticism of man.
Where are you going, my pretty Europe ?
We read in Time, Dec. 18, of feelings being balmed, of
understanding increasing as Europe is not really going to make its Rapid Reaction
Defence Force - or whatever other name it may come to use for its
FORCE, something to displace dear old North Atlantic Defence Organization,
which for so long has helped Europe. Yes it has aided it so far back from its so deep pit
dug in the 1939-1946 spree from Adolf (AND partners, let us not forget, he did
not do it alone, either nationally or personally).
Where is she going, this land of culture,
civilisation and ... past ? Where is she heading, who does not want to be so
(humiliatingly ? expensively ? needlessly ... now ?) dependent on the US ? After all, it is over a full 50 years since the
little slip was made, and it was surely no worse, if not indeed better than
either Stalin or Mao, in the deaths its caused. Is it not time to begin... to
have some shoulders for the arms, and some arms for the shoulders, so that the
hands might hold them ?
Now of course, not ALL of Europe
was so utterly intoxicated as were the (ruling sectors of the) Germans and
Italians (and poor Austria, taken over so conveniently, first). The axis was
not the whole works. The axle of the axis was powered not least by Darwin,
Hegel and Nietzsche, and the many poets and proponents of power, for some
purpose or other (ah yes! of course - the power to be first, to be prominent
and dominant and the very latest - chic, whatever - wave of an imaginary and
delusive evolutionary progress which progressed to the normal flames, including
some of their own at Auschwitz). Very witty this evolutionary program and
perhaps it was felt a suitable song, the cantata of the mere singeing of
6000000 Jews, and of course, a few others who got in the way!
Should not people who are not the best, the
first, the most powerful, get out of the way of those who are, or wish to
become so, so that they might do it less bloodily ? that might to some seem the
question in their evolving dynamics.
Give them some vestige of credit, if you can:
maybe they would not kill so much if you lay down and died! But of course,
you must not do that, for if you do not, they may have to do more before they
come even to find that it is THEY, ah they! who are the best, and most powerful,
the crescent of the flow of history and all that, so that THEY might be
crowned, like a modern Alexander the Great, in much power over many lands. How
sonorous is the sermon of power and grab-itis, for surely it deserves some
medical term for its iniquity, to cover its shame from the light of reality!
Oh and of course, a jihad will do too. That
is another one of the Hitleresque seeming scenarios, to DOMINATE and gain
SUBMISSION, and if not, DEAL with the resistance of those who DARE to defy or
deny your right (see Moslem, Indexes),
as we have found and shown can happen, from the Koran. Come to think of it,
this sounds especially like the Unam Sanctam mentality (cf. SMR
pp. 1035-1036, 1070). This was exhibited in
Rome in essence in the days of the 11th. century, Gregory
VII*1, and executed into form, in the days
of 14th. century, Pope Boniface VIII (loc.cit. - but as for Gregory the FIRST,
he condemned as a thing of ANTICHRIST, the Roman bishop's desire (or pope's -
same thing) even to be called the UNIVERSAL BISHOP.
How that ‘pope’ hated the papacy and its
entire spirit of self-elevation! And how rightly did he make his declaration to
condemn it! (Cf. SMR pp. 1042-1088H,
1032ff., 1056ff., 912ff..)
That arrogant mentality so justly condemned
by Gregory I, led on to this domineering and delinquent, indeed, in strict
verbal correctness, antichristian assertion of the necessity for salvation of
being SUBJECT to the pope (Matthew 23:8-10, Acts 4:11-12). That is another
NECESSARY SUBJECTION, constructed to be imposed by this particular one of the
three world conspiracies. It too led to the - what ? theft, prefer
expropriation ? so; but it led to the Inquisition which has NEVER been
condemned by Rome as a godless heritage of heresy*2,
but slapped on the wrist as able to include unnecessary suffering dealt out by
those interested in the impact of Truth (that was the word).
Truth ? What truth murders to ensure the
servility of its victims ? What truth thieves to secure the gain of its
coffers ? What truth of the Christ who was crucified but did NOT crucify, who
FORBAD His servants to fight on His behalf (John 18:36, Matthew 26:51-54) , who said that His kingdom was
not of this world (John 18:36):
what truth contradicts Christ and yet USES His very name while DOING IT! This
is as much in the service of truth as is the Mafia's engorging criminality in
the service of justice. It is a frank and indeed, rank contradiction of it.
Hence NO apology has ever been made by Rome for the contradiction of Christ by
those who were in the service of the lie, that idolatrous place given the Pope,
Mary and Mass (loc. cit., SMR), and in particular for the murder, mutilation,
torture, incitation to distress, mental invasion and calumnies practiced
against the servants of Christ, who rejected these idols and would rather die
than worship them, or even appear to do so. Hence John 16:2 is fulfilled.
Yes, the Romanist, Nazi, the Communist, the
Muslim conspiracies have prospered in this world not a little, though in
Israel, 1948-2000, as in World War II and in Russia in 1990-1991, they
have of course all failed. Now we re-visit in Israel, this outpost of the Muslim working, the
Palestinians, many the children of those who fled before the advancing Muslim
armies, in order to enjoy victory on their triumph, but did not return upon
their defeat. It was inconvenient for many, that the defeated aggressors were
not able to cast the Jews into the sea (bathing in water was to become an
improvement on bathing in their own blood under Hitler, perhaps then ?). It
certainly would not be easy to return and say, Oh well, our side did not
make it, but let us now live in trust and amity, until next time.
That, now, it is not to say this: that the
Jews CANNOT live peaceably with Palestinians, but that it is somewhat - shall
we say, aggravating the situation when your request is couched in the language
of stones, bullets and grim-faced murderers who exclaim with distaste if their
target repulse them, or if Israel should seek to limit their marauding murders.
But Europe ? Will it re-arm ? Of course. It is nice to have your arms back, for your shoulders.
Oh yes, in Europe the last two wars (and do not forget that little
excursion, known as the Franco-Prussian in the 1870's) have indeed been on the
large side, and have caused some trouble, and yet, it is over 50 years, and a
guy needs his arms.
Anyway, it is NOT, we learn, to mean that Europe
is to split or subvert NATO. That is STILL useful for the defence of ALL of Europe.
But you see, a guy might want to send a few troops, like 100,000 (NOT, don't
you see at all, 200,000) here or there to do his job, and stop aggressors being
so outright aggressive as some of them seem inclined to be. A few hundred
aeroplanes, too, these are like sauce for the chicken: they go together.
Now this is not to scorn Europe.
Far from it. It is to question the direction of these winds, it is to ask of the
young lady, this question: Where
are you going, my pretty maid ?
After all, however, it is
BIBLICAL that EUROPE is to be the MEDIUM in which the Beast proliferates, and
now that Europe is talking freely of an expansion to say, 30 nations, it is
apparent we can even consider this relative to the 51 US States and, well,
compare! The European States are rather large, in fact COUNTRIES, not all
large, to be sure, but not nothings by any means. This is then in full
conformity to the form of things to come, BIBLICALLY PREDICTED. There is this
neat little Army, together naturally, with a few hundred aeroplanes which are
also being called for in this Rapid Reaction Defence Force now authorised. So
that is going along quite nicely towards the assigned culmination of the
scenario in the Bible (as noted in SMR Chs. 8-9). It is all coming together
like hands that clap.
4) But there is another maid.
Where are you going my pretty Britain ?
You see, England UNDOUBTEDLY was part of the Roman Empire, and quite notable in its contribution of
civilisation, and various other things like RULE. Caesar, we recall, did his veni,
vidi, vinci, came saw and conquered. SInce the BIBLE PREDICTS that this Roman Empire, partly strong, partly broken as it is and as we have
traced before (cf. SMR pp.886ff., 902) is to be the base for the
antichrist, the beast, the socio-economic-politico-military oppressor to take
the WORLD (not merely much of Europe as last time, or Russia, or
China as now) in its ideological grasp and control, then Britain has to be part
of it NOW, when the evil messiah comes, who is to be the devil's go at it. (See
devil's messiah, IndexSMR.)
The devil ? He is always inclined to be a copier, and what can you expect, for
God is INFINITELY more wise and able than he, so that the gentle art of
copying, which some nations did COMMERCIALLY before the last war, is now to
come in the spiritual realm, par excellence. However, this is one excellence
which does not excel.
Hence now that we learn from the Internet
that the HOUSE OF LORDS is to consider whether it really would, in the light,
you see, of modern developments and approaches and all that sort of thing, old
chap, be tasteful, nice, apt, appropriate ? choose your own word from the
verbal cafeteria, to DO something.
Any particular sort of
thing did you have in mind ? one
asks.
Let us try to imagine the
sort of answer that might come.
Oh
yes, but of course. You see, we are thinking of getting away from all this
NON-Roman Catholic Sovereign stuff. Out of date, don't you know! You can't have
that sort of thing now. We are becoming a part of Europe and it is rather strong on all that. I mean, after
World War II there were no less than TEN European nations who had Roman
Catholic leaders. If you cannot beat them, join them; or at any rate, there is
simply no NEED, now, to keep them out of the seat of power in Britain.
Yes,
one might make reply to this admittedly imaginary conversation, but one not
ill-adapted to the tone of the report of the formulation of the thing:
Yes, but Romanism is one
of the three major international conspiracies which OPENLY and in various ways,
make it clear that ONE aim is that the world should enjoy the realities of
their rule, and will GET it in various ways and under various heads or
circumstances. The world is in the eye, in Communism (explicitly), Romanism
(explicitly from Pope Gregory VII in the Middle Ages) and in Islam which as we
have shown from the Koran, has an obligation to remove all who do not worship
Allah and do not conform to the conditions of co-existence, from time to time.
THESE are religions of THIS WORLD in all
or part of their orbit, ambit, ambition, aspiration, declaration, intimation.
Hence those who are of this 'faith', or any of these faiths, have a higher
loyalty on which (by the words of their books) their very life depends. (Cf. Errors in Religion, in each case.)
What then ?
· The
religion of Communism MUST have a drift to its invasion of all
places in the interests of a roller-coaster god who just happens to program
everything out without paper or pen, but by some law or other, which is so
scientific that it does not happen unless you make it do so, and of course, a
guy can't do everything, so that it usually does not happen, and in any case,
it was very hard to formulate, especially when it was anti-verified so much.
· That
of Islam requires submission to the Allah god, and in various
ways, we learn, people must be made to realise that he is god and there is no
other, and he is not interested in people bypassing him when he gets suitably
involved.
· The
religion of Rome wants all priests and princes to bow to the
pope, who has RIGHT, we learn, to this obeisance, and considers to this fateful
hour, that it is still his DUE. He is willing to share when others learn that
HE IS HEAD, God Almighty on earth. That, it is an interesting post for a
created sinner when God is uncreated (increate) and sinless; but this is the
term used in the New York Catechism. Words do have meaning, even when the
assertions they make are logically meaningless.
Accordingly, the HOUSE OF LORDS in
its thoughts of undoing the deliverance from the multiple and spiritual,
mercenary, murderous and invasive atrocities of Rome, exporting its Inquisition
and doctrine and blasphemies as if the world depended on them, its bread and
re-made Mary and papacy as (in turn):
1) object of utter worship
2) only Saviour of sinners and
3) rightful ruler of clergy and
princes,
is
thus considering the abrogation of British sovereignty over the nation.
Two cannot be first. These, they are two earthly
powers in this respect, each claiming authority to rule land. The spiritual
pretensions in no way remove the territorial aspirations which are so amply
documented as noted above.
Nevertheless the FLOW of things is strong.
Abrogate, abdicate, become RC if you are sovereign, whatever. So does hypnosis
blind the unwary, as so often before, like a bird facing the snake. Alas the
'necessity' is far other than imagined.
Thus one can readily see what appears necessary,
in quite another light. HOW otherwise could Europe
really regain its place as the Empire to be the site for the antichrist. Britain is MOST important, and if a literally CENTRAL place
for the prince of this world who is to come (as Christ declared in John 14:30), then certainly a most SIGNIFICANT one. It must go,
from its independence. It must come, to its place in the scheme of things. It
is moving fast. Already and for MANY years as we saw in A Question of
Gifts Section VI, Canterbury with its archbishop has been looking for
Rome with its pope, to have the primacy among churches.
Tragic ? of course. Incredible failure to
learn and to note the implacable refusal of Rome to depart from its former ways and claims ? (cf. SMR
pp. 1056-1073). Naturally.
However, what is dead floats with the stream. Is England then in this condition ? Time will surely tell,
concerning the leadership from this situation.
- This little political addition, this geographical increment, why,
it is merely making territorially more apt the gift already so dear to the
heart of the Church of England. You have heard of it surely ?
- That is the church whose PRIMATE or chief archbishop
in Australia has made it clear that really, old
chap, you CAN come to God without Christ. It is TIME (is it not
interesting how it is always time for these things, as if chronology
removed logic, fact and faith in one side-swipe, communist style): it is
time, says he, for us to realise, that you CAN'T have all this sort of
singularity, Christ and all that, ruling when the world is actually going
into a different mode, these days.
Christ is just one of the pantheon, it seems; or
if more, not enough more to make other and contrary 'faiths' to be viewed as decisively
inferior, or inoperative when it comes to that salvation which brings a person
from the exclusion to the inclusion, from condemnation to approbation, from
categorical rejection to exquisite and assured inclusion in the counsel,
comradeship and pardon of God. In rejecting this claim of Jesus Christ as
recorded in John 14:6*3, the new Primate
transforms himself from merely being Primate of a (once) Protestant Church,
into being Primate of some new religion which has yet to receive its name.
It has NOTHING whatsoever, objectively, to do
with the Biblical faith, except this, that it is its entire rejection; for
Christ, only, always, and none else as the way to the Father is the beginning,
middle and end of salvation.
That is the sort of thing, then, that Peter
meant when he said this:
- "NOR IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER, FOR THERE
IS NO OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN BY WHICH WE MUST BE
SAVED" (Acts 4:12).
-
No, on reflection, you may
say, it could not have been, for it is the flattest of contradictions. True,
but THAT is precisely what is predicted, and is in this as in so much else
parallel and noted in earlier volumes, fulfilled!
These words are clear, in Acts 4.
MEN have NO OTHER NAME. MEN MUST be saved. Under
HEAVEN, MEN have no other way. The "NAME" is that of "Jesus
Christ of Nazareth" (Acts 4:10),
the sinless Saviour, Creator in the form of flesh (I Peter 2:22ff., Colossians
1:15ff., Jehovah Himself - John 8:58, Exodus 3:14).
Name ? The nomenclature is not sedate,
complex or wreathed, entwined in confusion or profusion. It is one - JESUS
CHRIST OF NAZARETH. Anyone who has that name and is the famed one of
Nazareth, whose works attested Him (John 14:12), could claim it, but only ONE COULD USE IT AS HIS OWN,
being empowered and incarnate. Become Mary’s babe, be circumcised the 8th day,
have the men from the East come to worship you, the shepherds, Simeon, Anna and
turn the water into a beverage incomparable, raise the dead, heal the sick, be
born around B.C. 4 (SMR pp. 886ff.),
and you are in line. You are one.
Who however is this YOU ? (Cf. SMR pp. 98-99). It is HE, the Lord, and NONE is
like Him in heaven or on earth (Psalm 89:6). It is CHRIST OR NOTHING. Nothing
is no good, for you see, you MUST be saved. Hence such a statement as this
attributed to the archbishop in news report, simply Biblically defined,
is exposed as antichristian, a treacherous defilement of Christ. It is in the
same category as the blasphemy of the pope, who would use that name as
altogether necessary for salvation, when ONLY CHRIST IS THIS. It is dramatic,
emphatic, and traumatic to pretenders.
But you may ask, Cannot surely a man reject
Christ if he wants to, and ignore the declarations of the Saviour ? Of course,
it is just that when a man is STATEDLY Christian, and Primate of the Church of
England, which has been propounding the precise opposite for a few hundreds of
years, such a statement as that reported of him is a contradiction of the
alleged Lord as exhibited in the Bible. It is a reconstruction.
It is not however for the heart of man to
construct the Christ of God, but for history to reveal Him, none to be able
rationally to reject Him, the word of God to delineate Him, His power to attest
Him, His predictions to show His ongoing control just as His Spirit is able to
bring into effect the word of His truth to His people (cf. II Peter 1:3ff.,
Ephesians 3:16, 1:17ff.). It is the LORD'S CHRIST (Luke 2:26) who showed the
love of His Father by being sent, His own by coming, the power of deity by
rising bodily from the grave. Any other christ can make his own way. THIS ONE
has already made a way FOR US. (Cf. SMR pp. 864-877, Appendix
C, Ch. 6, Repent or Perish Ch. 2,
Barbs, Arrows and
Balms 6,
and 7.)
But what is to be made of such a statement of
unbelief as attributed to the Primate in Press report ?
If he were authorised to make such a statement by the church, then a church
it is no more, since it is alien from the pivotal precision of the word of God
in the most vital area of salvation. It is a reconstruction. It is rather like
the President of the U.S.A. declaring that actually he is a subject of Russia.
If he were not so authorised: then for the church to tolerate such an expression
without review, reproof and if no repentance were forthcoming, then rejection,
would have the same effect. Treachery
can be individual, of the family, of the nation, or of the body using the name
‘church’. The principle is one.
Biblically there is no other
way, nor do its words, when followed, permit another assessment (Titus
3:10, Romans 16:17ff., II John and see The Kingdom of Heaven ... Ch. 7). The
movements of the Lutheran Church, conspicuous because of its former relationship to
Romanism, have also been noted in this precise context, as those of the
multiplying modern sects (Stepping Out for Christ Ch. 4, with further
ecumenical aspects considered in Ch. 1 cf. SMR pp. 699ff., Tender Times for Timely
Truths Chs. 7, 8.)
This, to the point of our concern,
Christian Apologetics, is explaining one thing with another.
- The predicted falling away (which implies you were
unfallen beforehand) of much of the church in II Thessalonians 2,
- with the forecast of many false teachers arising
FROM YOUR OWN MIDST (in II Peter 2:1ff.), in the last days: this
- in concert with the prediction of many false
prophets and false christs in Matthew 24:24,
- sited chronologically in the historical pattern
situation noted in Answers to Questions
Ch. 5:
it is overall
merely being enacted as programmed Biblically 2000 years ago.
In this Biblical prophetic context, the
movement to Rome is simply part of the reunification process which is
apt for the false prophet and the beast, who seize power as we have often seen,
leaving Rome out of it. First, however, the religion of
Rome is most convenient as a source of composition, albeit
falsely to the Bible! But what of that, for the Beast! All the better to see
you with, my dear!
Meantime, we note the direction in this
Anglican development, so typical of New Age more broadly and other trends noted
in SMR Ch. 9.
In this, Christ becomes just one of the
pantheon; and the New Age, in name if not in religion, is being appealed to as
period in which a christ is being annealed, in this reported Anglican approach.
And what is it, then, which can be so made, but one to be fashioned for the
times of misfit, to rule amongst the unruliness of misrule, and to populate the
imaginations expressly wanting something to fit the times, rather than MAKE
THEM - and for that matter, to replace the Christ who Himself as creator of
all, as the word of God, has time itself as one of His dependencies. Flowers of
fashion fade, indeed the very glory of man for his own part, we find
from the word of God, joins the grass; but the word of God endures forever (I
Peter 1:24).
This, to the point, then, of our
concern - Christian Apologetics - is explaining one thing with another. The
predicted falling away (which implies you were unfallen beforehand) of much of
the church in II Thessalonians 2, in concert with the prediction of many false
prophets and teachers, II Peter 2:1, and false christs in Matthew 24:24
which are sited chronologically in the pattern situation noted in Answers
to Questions Ch. 5, is merely being enacted
as programmed Biblically 2000 years ago. In this, the movement to Rome is
simply part of the reunification process which is apt for the false prophet and
the beast, who seize power as we have often seen in studying Revelation 17
(e.g. SMR p. 949), leaving Rome out
of it. Meanwhile, she is on the Beast's back, before parting company after the
manner of fallen riders, as we have often seen in studying this scripture.
First, however, she is most convenient as a
source of composition, albeit falsely to the Bible! All the better to see you
with, my dear! So may predators become prey. (Cf. Revelation 17:1-6, 15-17, SMR
pp. 946ff., 955ff., 1056ff.).
Thus the Church of England is not making a very
great statement of outrage at the suggestion that Rome can now come back. After all, Rome has apologised for UNNECESSARY force used by people
who were SERVING the TRUTH. Alas, since none of them was serving the
truth who used force for Christ, as noted above, but serving rebellion against
His directions, this apology*2
covers nothing actual. It is void. What is needed is apology for all murder,
all confiscation of property of martyrs, all leaving of orphans without visible
means of support, all defilement of the Gospel of Christ, all works and words
and Bulls and mandates to kill from an array of Popes, the entire concept of
the Inquisition plus force, whether in the hundreds of years of its bull-ring
type operation in Spain, or its work in Germany, Italy, England or elsewhere,
against Jews or others. It cannot come, for if it did, Roman infallibility
would go; and to be sure it is long gone in its scriptural contradictions, but
this would be to end the claim. Then Rome is no more.
It would seem in view of the present pope's
efforts, that it would rather die than give that up, this provocative
postulate, this invasive polemic, this antichristian assertion of superiority,
condemned as we saw above, by one of the Popes himself (Gregory I) as
antichristian! In fact, that is to come: Rome is literally to burn, or at least the religiously
involved sector of it as in Revelation 17-18 (cf. SMR pp. 949). That is the other option. It is
the one which is PREDICTED to happen.
Meanwhile, then
THIS PRETTY MAID in the House
of Lords of all places, is going where
she wants to go, with her pail of milk, milk for Rome.
CONCLUSION
Thus we are seeing Israel grow MUCH nearer to the confrontation
which the Bible PREDICTS, from a multi-national invasion force, as the
provocations and disputations and exhortations and appeals to the UN and so
one, go on. The UN has for over half a century been proudly dismissive of Israel's historic existence, compromised it as
we have seen in It Bubbles, It Howls... He Calls,
and these developments are coming to the appeal which,
- by the UN directly
- or the nations indirectly, scattered, Islam style
like a prison fence about Israel,
- or whatever other cluster or group,
are to invade.
Europe, the centre for the promised
antichrist, is coming into a more independent posture, much better fitted for
the PREDICTED work of rule, to be performed IN IT, by the one who will USE IT.
This is nothing
to do with being anti-Arab, or anti-Italian, or anti-European. It is nothing to
do with races. It is a matter, rather, as with Hitler, of what various peoples
(and at that, only the RULING SECTOR IN THEM) are going to do to other people,
who assuredly (as with much of Europe UNDER Hitler but not willingly) are to do such things. It is to
be done (as with Hitler) by stealth and then by strength. It is to happen by
devious deceit, and then by declared force. But it is to happen, and the
preliminaries are now pulsing, whether in the
Palestinian pawn situation, the catspaw as it appears is its line
of service to many interested parties,
in the unsettlement and
incitation to attack Israel,
in Europe and its armed power arising, or
in England with its growing submissiveness to
Rome, that fast-setting cement which helps the nations to that unity to be
exploited in his day, by the antichrist, or his prior and preliminary power
blocs, as he comes to buck off the harlot (cf. SMR pp. 946-956, 744-745, 1060), to use Biblical language, and
rule without her, alone.
It always seems such a service
that Rome is performing in INSISTING on primacy and authority and direction in
the 'churches' who are willing to co-operate (and in Biblical terminology,
since her name is harlot in Revelation, in a spiritual sense,
spiritually to copulate, Psalm 106:28-39*3); it is such a help to
have the thing so convenient for the antichrist, the beast head, or organ of
expression. He it is who is to take over the harem of infidelity, and turn it
to his own use. It is rather like a Sergeant in the army, who with strong voice
and vigorous countenance, has all the troops come to arms, come to attention,
come to quietness, become still, BEFORE the OFFICER arrives. The Sergeant is
Rome; and the Officer is the antichrist.
Rome will be burnt as noted in Revelation;
and so, in the end, will the antichrist. That is the way it goes, whether for
the FALSE PROPHET or the BEAST. Rubbish is like that in the end. That is a sure
way of completing its evacuation.
The DIVINE AGENDA is hastening
on; but it is time to realise, that despite these dreadful pathologies, they are
pitiable people who are invaded by these ideological viruses. They need Christ
no less than any other. It is not a question of resisting power blocs with
power blocs, evil with evil. Resist not evil, was the word of Christ, put down
your sword, His directive. It is no use trying to imitate the world, and its
three major international conspiracies, EVEN IF THEY ARE MAKING IT EASY by
example, for the antichrist to take over, and hasten their demise. It is
necessary to warn the people in it, and seek to help Arab or Jew, Italian or
Britisher to escape from the wrath to come. It is surely coming.
Where are you GOING, MY PRETTY MAID ?
Why not to pick flowers, not to pick flowers, my good sir.
NOTES
*1
Some years after his notorious deposition
of King Henry IV, Pope Gregory VII wrote an infamous letter, approaching the
domain of incredulity, in
which he presents his desire to have princes, and then as to superiors,
priests, ALL subject to HIS OWN JUDGMENT, in surely the most flamboyant
contradiction of the will and word of the Saviour in whose name He presumed to
act, that it would be possible to conceive.
This letter was to the Bishop
of Metz, 1081. In it the sky is not the limit, but the authority of the heavens
on earth, the Pope unhappily confusing his office, as self-inflicting idolater,
with that of Christ, as the One to be worshipped as Lord, who said this: "Do not be called Master, for One
is your Master, the Christ, and you are all brethren," Matthew 23:8. What does this mean
? ONE person alone among men is to be called Master, one man alone: He ? Pope ?
No. Priest ? No. Presbyterian Minister ? No. Church Council ? No. One person or
legal person, any kind of person is not another. Who then is the one ?
Who accordingly is the person to
be called Master, the authoritarian, highly respected Lord to bind such
matters, Rabbi ?
Who then is He ? It is Christ. But
what, the interested enquirer might persist, what then is the nature of
the people who are not Christ, in this domain ? They are ALL BRETHREN.
In what way do they resemble
Christ in this ? he
might persist yet again. Not in any way at all, for He ONLY is Master. In what
way do they who are not Christ, but Christ's, resemble each other ? Massively,
for, Christ declares,
they are all brothers,
the father being another than they entirely (Matthew 23:9), as Christ indicates
(that is, ONE is the Father spiritually, namely God, so that NO ONE ELSE may
receive this spiritual title). The household of faith has NOT a dragon's multiple
head: the Head is CHRIST ONLY. That is Christ's teaching, to which He even adds
this: "Why do you
call Me, Lord, Lord and not do the things that I say!" (Luke 6:46). As to elders, as Peter
advises, they are NOT to act as lords, far less of course claim such authority.
They are helpers of your joy (I Peter 5:1-3, II Corinthians 1:24, 8:23), examples to the flock. We do not,
said Paul the apostle,
"have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy."
What DID have dominion was, as it is, the
word of God because it is God's and HE IS LORD!
(I Corinthians 2:9-13, II Timothy 3:16, Matthew
5:17ff.). Those who are not God, do not have this place.
Thus Rome established in increasing formality
over time, the stature of God for itself, arrogating and perpetuating,
proceeds till the burning predicted for such stage-craft in the theatre of time
(as in Revelation 17-18 see above), clearly a conflagration prepared for what
has become a false fabrication of a church from near the end of the first millenium.
Before that it was actively on the way, of course; and the situations which led
to these devilries and the latter murders, were being developed assiduously.
She has been misdirected, and her
‘fornication’ or treaties, compacts and accords with the "kings of the
earth", as in the Holy
Roman Empire, Napoleon,
Hitler, Mussolini, have made her disloyal to the One for whom this was not
relevant in His mission of salvation. This world is not a thing to love or to
seek to get for ANYONE (James 4:4, John 18:36).
Christ did not claim it, would not have His servants fight for it, even on His
behalf, but He will rule it when it is JUDGED (Psalm 2).
When He came the first time, He did not come
to judge but to save (John 3:16ff.), and His servants who serve Him, are not in
an alternate program. As to what is, it is not His.
That there would be those, however, who even
in His name would do such things is part of the scenario, the libretto for the
opera of evil being sung so lustily in this world (John 16:2, 14:30, Revelation 13:11,
Matthew 24:24, II Thessalonians 2).
This is all in the DIVINE AGENDA.
It is even now as if the secretary, puzzled,
scratched her head, were quietly advised by the Chairman that yes, this was the
way it should go, and it would soon be over, but that in the meantime, the
meeting must progress. There is no duress but sin, no sign so malevolent as
Satan, in this evil concupiscence of and for this world; but the externals, the
signs and their squalor sing, like a misplaced bathroom baritone, sitting on
the concert platform in his bath-robe, raising the roof.
*2
Cf. The Frantic Millenium and the
Peace of Faith Ch. 6.
*3 "I am the way, the truth and the
life; no man comes to the Father except by Me."
*4
The impact of this sentence and its illustration
of the fact that fornication or adultery is taken in the most daring sense (for
us men), to designate spiritual decline, is such that it is reproduced below
from the New King James translation of the Bible.
They
joined themselves also to Baal of Peor,
And ate sacrifices made to the
dead.
29
Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And the plague broke out among
them.
30
Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,
And the plague was stopped.
31 And
that was accounted to him for righteousness
To all generations forevermore.
32
They angered Him also at the waters of strife,
So that it went ill with Moses on
account of them;
33 Because they rebelled against
His Spirit,
So that he spoke rashly with his
lips.
34They
did not destroy the peoples,
Concerning whom the LORD had
commanded them,
35 But they mingled with the
Gentiles
And learned their works;
36 They served their idols,
Which became a snare to them.
37
They even sacrificed their sons
And their daughters to demons,
38 And shed innocent blood,
The blood of their sons and
daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols
of Canaan;
And the land was polluted with
blood.
39
Thus they were defiled by their own works,
And played the harlot by their own
deeds.
40
Therefore the wrath of the LORD was kindled against His people,
So that He abhorred His own
inheritance.