Revelation 13 and Papal Attitudes to Economic, Political, and Religious Liberty

good eveningeverybody it's a privilege to be withyou here this evening and uh to those ofyou watching online we give you a warmwelcome I'd like to thank thank myfriend brother Jonathan zurel for awonderfulpresentation and I realized um I kind offollowing the footsteps of zurl I cameas a kind of a refugee to America aswell in 2007 and uh America is a land offreedom and opportunity for those whocome to this land I think it's importantwe reflect on the fact that America Truhas this incredible Blessing about itand it comes from our founding documentsuh the Bill of Rights and theConstitution and behind from those whoput it put those incredible documentstogether so um I uh I amum I'm standingbefore you in a gray suit tonight nowthat may not sound like a lot to yousignificance of wearing a gray suit butI used to have um black spectacles Iused to have black hair and then I movedto Silver spectacles cuz my hair isturning silver and then somebody wroteto me recently said you know you need alighter suit cuz your hair is goinglighter so um I got a gray suit so I'mI'm steadily turning into the gray manum before your very eyes um with thepassage of time so um I'm going to besharing tonight on the political andeconomic philosophy of the papacy um Idid give a version of this two monthsago down in um huntel Alabama I I'veedited it slightly and added some thingsto it and but I think the message Ishare tonight is one that is importantfor for all of us because we are look weare on the verge of stupendous times andpeople who are aware of what ishappening in our world today realizethat the freedoms we have enjoyed so farin the west and in America and aroundthe world those freedoms cannot be takenfor granted and in fact there are manypeople in positions of authority whowould rather we not have the freedomsthat Roger Williams wrote about so uminvite you to Bow your heads with mewe'll ask for the Holy Spirit to blessour timetogether Heavenly Father as we sharethese moments together I pray that uhyour spirit uh will speak through me andfor me I pray you'll bring convictionand conversion aresh to every hearer ofthese words whether in this uh churchtonight or whether watching onlinefather I ask for forgiveness for my sinsand I ask for the outpouring of yourspirit in a beautiful way tonight in thename of Jesus I pray amen so uh forthose of you who are familiar with theBook of Revelation particularly chapters12-4we know that in the heart of Revelationin in particular chapter 13 there aretwo beasts there's the Sea Beast thepapacy and there's the land Beast whichidentifies as the United States ofAmerica in her end time role and inRevelation 13 God reveals that the finalcrisis the final division on planetEarth will not be between Republicansand Democrats or conservatives or laboror black or white or rich or poor itwill be between truth and error anderror that will be known to be error butit will be enforced as error becausetruth is unacceptable to the ways andthe people of this world and those whofollow Jesus Christ will facepersecution not because the world hatesthem but because the world hates JesusChrist and if they cannot get theirhands on Jesus Christ the world will getits hand on his followers and so if weare to be true to Jesus until the end oftime we know there is a rough ride aheadof us before the good news is that Jesuscomes and saves his own now uh inRevelation 13 we read that there isgoing to be Global F false worshipenforced by global economic mandatesthere will be social EXC exclusion uhthere will be persecution and ultimatelythe death penalty for those who arefaithful to God so I'm going to talkthis evening about the political andeconomic philosophy of the papacy thatis the first piece of Revelation 13 uhbecause it is the political and economicphilosophy of the papacy that is goingto be driving the second beast ofRevelation 13 which is the United Statesof of America so um our journey tonightwe're going to be looking at reformationand religious liberty picking up a biton what um brother zerle was sharing afew moments ago we then look at Catholiceconomic dog dogma and Doctrine and thenwe're going to look at Catholicpolitical thought and we're going to seehow it was recently applied in the last3 years and then we're going to come toour conclusions here this evening so ifwe focus first of all on the reformationand religious liberty so I think weforget today just how radic IAL theReformation truly was the resur theReformation resurrected the concept ofLiberty of conscience that had beentrampled on for over a thousand years upon that point by the Church of Rome nowby the time the Reformation comes alongin the early 1500s the Roman CatholicChurch was a cruel ecclesiasticalMonopoly enforced as all monopolies areby a system of command control andcoercion the Reformation emphasizedLiberty of conscience that is theLiberty to believe or not believe inRoman Catholic dogma the Liberty tobelong or not to belong to the RomanCatholic Church the Liberty tofinancially contribute or notfinancially contribute to the operatingcost of the Roman Catholic hierarchy theLiberty to live in harmony with the wordof God or with the dogmas of Fallen menand so um the Reformation was a profoundchange in human history and as Jonathanzurel said a few minutes ago of all theliberties we treasure in the UnitedStates particularly those in our Bill ofRightsit is the freedom of religion that comesfirst and foremost and it is no accidentthat religious liberty is the firstLiberty mentioned in the First Amendmentto the Bill of Rights which you see onthe screen there which says Congressshall make no law respecting anestablishment of religion or prohibitingthe free exercise thereof our Foundersthe framers of our constitution thewriters of the Bill of Rights understoodthat Liberty of conscience is thefoundational Liberty upon which theUnited States is built for all peoplepeople who come to this nation and wecome to this nation from around theworld I speak as an immigrant heretonight but what holds us together isthe is the acceptance of these truthsthat we are endowed with these rights byour creator that there is a Creator he'sgiven us these rights and the number oneresponsibility we have before God and toour fellow man is the free exercise ofour conscience to live in harmony withthe promptings of the Holy Spirit uponour hearts and in our lives and soLuther shifted in the Reformationshifted the th the source ofecclesiastical authority of theologicalauthority of social and politicalAuthority away from corrupt men to theword of God away from the changingUnwritten oral traditions of Rome to astable written permanent and infalliblescripture Luther discovered in thescriptures that salvation is not earnedby Sinners nor do we gain it bycooperating with God nor is it dispensedby a corrupt papal hierarchy but it isreceived through faith as a free giftdirectly from a loving heav hely fatherso our Salvation then and our Salvationtoday does not depend on the presence ofmonks or priests Cardinals or Bishops orpops nor does our Salvation dep dependon rituals or rights ceremoniessacraments oracular confession orPenance each person here tonight answersdirectly to God in the final judgmentwithout a prope a pope a priest a cardalor a pastor to answer for them or tointercede for them we must stand beforeGod in our own our own right we we wemust answer for every word and for everydeed we are moral beings accountable toour moral Creator each man isresponsible for his eternal damnation orsalvation therefore we are part of theradical Reformation the radicalReformation held that you and I have theright to read the word of God in our ownlanguage and that God will give yousufficient understanding for yoursalvation the radical Reformation doesnot say that the pastors must preachfrom the pulpit and everybody we mustlisten to what the pastors say theradical Reformation is that everybodyhave the rights of the Bible in theirlanguage and God will give yousufficient understanding for salvationbecause that is why the Bible is writtenthat we might be restored to us Eternalrelationship with God we may notunderstand everything in the word of Godthat is given for all of us but weexpect it's part of the radicalReformation the right to read the Biblein our own language that is a right thatwe should not take for granted I justreturned from Malaysia last Sabbath Iwas out in Malaysia which is a verystrict Muslim nation and I can tell youthe right to read the Bible is strictlyprescribed by the government there arestrict rules against evangelizing andleading Muslims to a faith of JesusChrist and there are very strictpenalties for this in many countriesaround the world today this is in manyways the most ban book not just inhistory but in the world today so we areHeirs of the radical Reformation Lutherdiscovered as Jonathan said earlier thatall Christians are priests that is thepriesthood of all believers and thatJesus Christ is our high priest hediscovered in the scripture there is nomediation by the Virgin Mary nor by theSaints or the priests and all people maycome directly to God In Prayer we allhave that right tonight to come beforeGod In Prayer in public or in privateProtestant principles Elevate theindividual and both the rights andresponsibilities of the individual theyemphasize industriousness privateproperty contract law and Liberty ofconscience now why is that so it issimply stated thus um if you are borninto the Catholic faith then you arethere is something called child baptismand there is no need in Catholic dogmafor you to be born again if you sin youpay money called an Indulgence andyou're allowed to remain in sin if yousin some more you may say a few HailMarys you pay some money to the churchbut there is no need for a Reformationof behavior and there is no need to beborn again as Protestants we do notpractice infant baptism we practiceBelievers baptismwhich is when you are old enough andintelligent enough and aware enough torealize I'm a sinner lost without aloving savior I turn to God in faith Iconfess my sins I receive by faith thegift of Christ's salvation offered me onCalvary and I am born again andtherefore when I Sin from that moment onif I sin uh the the the Cure isconfession and repentance and asking theHoly Spirit to give me victory over thatsin and so Catholic societies have noincentive to rise above the level of thebasist sin Protestant societiesencourage people to be born again and tolive the life of the spirit over thecenturies this is why Protestant Nationstend to prosper and Catholic Nationstend to sink into the dust we see it allaround the world todayempirically so America was built onthese Protestant principles asenunciated by people like Roger Williamsand this led to our Bill of Rights andour civil liberties today includingfreedom of speech freedom of the pressfree exercise of religion the privilegeagain freedom freedom against selfinmintion taking the fifth you might saythe independence of the jury fromjudicial dictation the right not to beimprisoned without cause this is thebasis of our social contract that isgovernment by consent of the governmentor as Abraham Lincoln put it after gburga government of the People by the peoplefor the people which I think we'reseeing less and less of thesedays but all of the our entire socialcontract is based upon these Protestantprinciples that we see there on thescreen so Protestants were thus freedfrom the cruel the bloodthirsty thevindictive the totalitarian oversight ofthe Roman Catholic church and theReformation principles enunciated byLuther and others like him erased theentire hierarchy of the Dark Ages thepolitical hierarchy the economichierarchy the ecclesiastical hierarchyand the social hierarchy it is hard forus to imagine the earthquake that theReformation represented in the MiddleAges across Europe so with thatbackground in mind let's look look atwhat the Catholic Church says abouteconomic Dogma well the Catholic churchand you're probably going to take it getit you're going to if you haven't pickedup by now um I'm not in favor of thedogma of the Catholic Church all rightum my mother is from Ireland and uh wehave seen at firsthand over thecenturies uh what happens when you havean unaccountable secretive authoritarianpolitical force like the Catholic Churchuh the the terror it brings to innocentpeople uh in in IR and even up until1970s we had workhouses where boys wereput to work under the supervision ofmonks we had the daughters of magdalinlaundries where young girls who maybehomeless or runaways or pregnant out ofwedlock were sent and they fac the mosthorrendous abuse all the way through the70s and 80s just a few years ago this isin my lifetime these scandals are veryreal uh coming I see this on on theIrish side of my family the Catholicchurch is an ancient institution builton blood lies corruption and forgdocuments such as the Donation ofConstantine or the decretals of Isadoras you will see in a few moments it isruled by an absolute Emperor it isstructured in a rigid hierarchy it isglobal in scope aristocratic in natureunaccountable 20 any population and noneof its officials are elected by thecommon people there is no Democraticprocess within the Catholic hierarchy itis no surprise therefore that the papacyhas repeatedly expressed its disdain forProtestant principles and both both forthe political and the economicexpressions of protestant Christianitythat is republicanism and capitalismboth are anathema to the Catholichierarchy over the centuries theCatholic church has repeatedly supportedanti- capitalist governments such asfeudalism and the trade gills of theDark Ages the Catholic Church of supportin the early 1930s and 40s fascism inItaly Spain Portugal Croatia and acrossLatin America the Catholic Churchsupported Nazi Germany they supportredistri utive welfare programs in thewest such as lyen B Johnson's GreatSociety and they support liberationtheology in Latin America and Africa andwhy is that the reason is that Catholiceconomic Dogma is driven by this guyhere St Thomas aquinus who lived in 1225through1274 so what did Thomas aquinus teachthat has such relevance for us today anduh this may sound like really boringstuff okay just hang with me becauseyou're going to see that a lot of thepolicies happening in America today aredirectly driven from Catholic economicdog dogma and it's going to affect youin a very profound way verysoon this is not some abstract Theorywe're talking about here tonight so foratomas aquinus there are four kinds oflaw there is eternal law that is God'splan for the universe and all itsinhabitants this includes gravity andthe scientific mathematical laws thatrule our universe then there is naturallaw that is the participation ofrational creatures in the Eternal law weare by Nature R social animals we talkto each other we live with with eachother we build communities and we buildsocieties and in so doing we do what isnatural forHumanity and these things are given usby God then you have positive lawpositive law those are the Customs thelaws and the regulations made by humangovernments who are attempting to applyEternal law and natural law toindividuals and to their society andfinally at the bottom of the pile youhave the decalogue The Ten Commandmentsthat's at the bottom of the pile forThomas aquinus now for St Thomas aquinusas the Catholics call him privateproperty is not part of the Eternal orthe natural laws but it is an inventionof human reason he argued that uhprivate property is a creation of andregulated not by this law here not bythis law here these are from God butprivate property is a creation ofgovernments down here now we woulddisagree with it because the Bible saysthe eighth commandment Thou shalt notsteal but as we can see in in in StThomas aquin's hierarchy of law The TenCommandments is at the very bottom aswe're going to see in a few moments theCatholic Church claims the right to setthat aside uh in favor of what theydetermine to be the common good butprivate property is is a feature of thislaw here this is where the thegovernment of America uh uh Outlawsthings like theft um at least by privateindividuals not by themselves so umthat's a joke by the way the um soaccording to Thomas aquinus um the theGod's intent is that everybody owns allthings in common that is natural orw uphere so the common ownership of goods iswhat where he placed property but herecognized that there is such a thing asprivate property but that's down thehierarchy of laws and that's a man-madeum concept but Thomas aquinus argued forthe common ownership of all Goods innatural law and we find that in theearly Church in Acts chapter 2 so forThomas ofus private property is amanifestation of positive law and it istherefore not an intrinsic right fromGod and it does not enjoy the ethicalstatus of the community of goods or thecommon goods which he argued as isManifest up in natural law here so thisis from God this is from man this fromGod must take priority over this downhere if God intented for the commonownership of all Goodsthen private property is only atemporary right that you may have todaybut it can be overridden at any momentby a government or a church seeking toimpose um common good the common good ofsociety the UN Universal destination ofall Goods as the Catholic Church callsit or the common ownership of allproperty so in for Thomas aquinus andfor Catholics today need is the moralCriterion for the rightful possession ofproperty neither possession nor creationnor production nor gift nor inheritancenor divine Commandments such as theeighth commandment grants anybody theright to own anything that anotherperson claims toneed I want you think aboutthat you do not have the absolute rightto own anything in Catholicdogma the goods of some are due to otherbecause of natural law if I need yourcar I have the moral right to take ityour private property is only a functionof governments down here and it is notpart of God's original plan for Humanitywhich is up here because the goods ofsome are due to others because ofnatural law there is no sin for anindividual to meet their personal needsby taking the property of another inCatholic thought there is no absolutemeasure of what need happens to be butan individual's need to take theproperty of another is left to thediscretion of the person in need or tothe public authorities the only personwho is not in a position to evaluate orjudge and the only person who has nomoral Authority to refuse the enforcedtaking of their property by another orby the authorities is the actual ownerof the property beingtaken the only exception to thisprinciple is the church itself has theright to acquire and possess propertyindefinitely canon law 1254 says theCatholic church has the innate right toacquire retain administer and alienatetemporal Goods in pursuit of its properends independently of civil power sothat says that the Catholic Churchclaims the right to take your propertyregardless of the laws of the land whereyou happen to live the canon law 1260also says the church has an innate rightto require from the Christian faithfulwhatever is necessary for the endsproper to it that is for the ends of thechurch so the church has the intrinsicright to take your property whether youwish it or not regardless of the laws ofthe land in which you happen to live nowbecause of this the Catholic church hassupported anti- private propertymovements for the last Thousand Yearswhether they be fascists like the na ILiberation theologians in South Americasocialists and social welfare programsacross the West today now T aquinusteachings on private property havebecome Dogma in Catholicism and they arenow referred to as the common good orthe universal destination of all Goodsthe common good or the universaldestination of all goods and we've allheard the phrase I imagine the commongood yes we've heard of the phrase thecommon good we're going to see thiscoming up again later on this evening itwas used in the last three years by thepapacy the common good and as we see thepapacy argues that the common good whichthey alone have the right to determineoverrides all individual humanrights so um the most significant Papand cyclical on this topic is rum narumor on the condition of the workingclasses issued by Pope Leo the 13th in1891 now and uh he Allied himself inthis inle with the proletariat and withMarxistideology uh for centuries the papes hadupheld the medieval aristocracy andpolitical oppression but now the MiddleAges with the feudal system were beingreplaced by the Reformation leading toprotestantism and its accompanyingeconomic system which is capitalism thepapes he found a new ally to helpdestroy capitalism and protestantism andto reverse the Reformation that isMarxist ideology the pope wrote this andthis is Dogma so this this if we areCatholic we must un unquestioninglyaccept this as truth from God the popewrites this to own Goods privately as wesaw above is a right natural to man andto exercise this right especially inlife and Society is not only lawful butalso clearly necessary but if thequestion be asked how ought man to usehis possessions the church replieswithout hesitation as to this point manought not to regard external Goods ashis own but as what but as common so ifyou own Goods in in private you must usethem for the common good Leo the 13thmakes a distinction here between privatelegal ownership of property and commonpublic use now that's the underpinningpolitical and economic theory behind20th century fascism such as thedictates of Adolf Hitler CommunistStates they argue with socialistideology that the state must own themeans of production in the capital andall capital is owned by the state andyou have no right to any capital and uhin um fascism the ideology as expressedby the papacy here is that you can ownall the capital yourself as members ofthat Society but it must all be used ina way that the state determines for thecommon good and capitalism says thateverybody should have a share inownership of the capital of that societyand everybody can invest it as they seefit so you don't diminish or increasethe amount of capital in societycommunism says the state owns it all andthey use it for their purposes fascismsays you can own some property but thestate determines how it must be used andcapitalism says you can own your owncapital and your own property and use asyou see as you see fit that's theessential difference between those threepolitical and economic systems now Leothe 13th um essentially provides anunderpinning theory for Adolf Hitler andthe fascists of the 20th century umfascism is a form of Socialism thatretains the fiction of private ownershipbut not its substance because thegovernment still determines the use ofprivate property 40 years later Pope Pasthe 11th issued this in cyclical I can'tpronounce it Latin or Italian very wellI imagine it's Quadris ano I imaginethis is on the 40th anniversary of ramnovarum issued in1931 and in this encyclical the papacydenounced this the dictatorship ofcapitalism and in particular those whocontrol credit and the flow of money nowin this encyclical by Pope Pas the 11thand it's interesting this is in1931 the papacy um uh denounces theinterest The Taking of interest onloans now in Europe for centuries thepapacy had said Catholics should not beengaged in the banking industry becauseit's sinful to take interest and so theJewish Community moved into the bankingindustry so in the papacy in 1931 issuesan encyclical condemning um usury in TheTaking of interest in the banking SEseor across Europe um it's not hard tosee how that plays into Nazi ideology in1930s Germany because it lends itself toanti-Semitism because the JewishCommunity was very um strong within thebanking sector of Europe the very timethat the pope issued this in cyclicalafter World War II we come to Vatican 2which was a major um a major Conferenceof the church it lasted a number ofyears um in the early1960s and they concluded this in G metbin 1965that means something and hope in Latin Iforget what Gan means but anyway this iswhat they said he said they said it isthe right of Public Authority to preventanyone from misusing his privateproperty to the detriment of the commongood that means the government has theright to determine how you use yourprivateproperty but they didn't use the phrasepublic they didn't use the phrasegovernment no as they use the phrasePublicAuthority there's reasons words havemeaning words have meaning thesignificance of words can run forgenerations and centuries without peoplerealizing where those words have comefrom we heard that earlier this morningwith brother brother zirkle'spresentation on some of the teachings ofFrancis Bacon and Edward cook and umRoger Moore rer Moore no Roger Williamsyeah not Roger Moore the the James Bondactor yes the name is Bond James Bondshaken and not stirred well I'm not surethose words will run for centuries tocome myself so anyway in this particularum in this particular statement from thethe Catholic Church um the the we theCatholic Church establishes um that thecommon good is a fiction of RomanCatholic ideology that allows the publicauthorities to do whatever they pleasewith your private property this isclearly in clear this is in directcontradiction to your right to ownprivate property as given us by God inthe eth Commandment after Vatican 2 wehave Pope Paul v 6 and he stated thisthis is a very interesting statementthat applies to us today he says allrightswhatsoever including those of propertyand of free Commerce are to besubordinated to this principle that isthe principle of the so-called commongood so in Catholic ideology your rightto worship according to your conscienceyour right to speak according to yourconscience your right to teach or preachor right or publish your right toworship freely Your Right to Life areall subordinate to the principle of theuniversal destination of goods or thecommon good which is determined by theCatholichierarchy I want you to think about thisfor a minute you have no human rights ifyou accept Catholicdogma you're allowed to have certainrights today but only if the CatholicChurch says that that coheres with thecommon good but if we determine that thecommon good is something else whateverrights you have today you may think youhave today then those need to bescrapped or setaside it is no surprise why people fledfrom Catholic countries to Protestantcountries over the centuries John PaulII picked up on this and he went furthervery famous charismatic Pope in Europehe was a Polish gentleman lived throughthe um the Polish resistance movementagainst communism and he issued anencyclical um called Sol solicitud therace socialist1987 and this is what he said there hesays peoples excluded from the fairdistribu of the good originally destinedfor all could ask themselves why notrespond with violence to those who firsttreat us withviolence what do you think aboutthat it's not the first time that thepapacy has given a back an open door forviolence on the streets for theredistribution of goods from those whohave to those who have not this isn'tjust you know the the attacks they sayin the 1630s 1640s the Lan Wars with theKing of Spain and the the Holy RomanEmpire was attacking say that Loland onmodern day Holland and Denmark andBelgium no this principle has beenapplied in Modern Times by CatholicBishops in different countries aroundthe world to say that if there's riotingfor instance in Brazil then the riersand the lutters have a right to takewhat they take because they need it andthose who own the property such as thesh the shop owners they have no right tostop the looters from taking theirproperty because people loot based onneed and so In this passage here here umthe papacy aligned itself with those whoyou and I might think are are erodingSociety by destroying the principle offree of private property according toJohn Paul in thisencyclical um he he justifies socialistrevolutions common theft mob violenceand looting and aggressive Wars um ifthey are dealt if they are engaged in umto distribute more fairly as peoplethink the goods of planet Earth he goeson to issue another encyclical calledthe ecological crisis a commonresponsibility and um I believe thatit's the environment that's going to beused to as the justification for Sundaylaws at the end of time we find that inthe book great controversy where Satanwill be causing natural disasters in theworld and then he will be simultaneouslyblaming the Commandment kers of God forhonoring the Sabbath and incurring God'sWrath and causing the governments tocome down on those commandment Keepersuh because um they're incurring thewrath of God in these natural disastersthat Satan is simultaneously causing weread about that in the book greatcontroversy um but in this particular umencyclical here this is what Pope JohnPaul II wrote he said public authoritiesmust make provision for overall planningwith regard to the different kinds ofwork by which not only the economic lifebut also the cultural life of a givenSociety is shaped so the papacy is notjust claiming the right to determineyour way of Salvation they're not justclaiming the rights uh that that outsideof um extra ecclesium non salous nonsalus that is outside the church thereis no salvation the papacy does not justclaim the right to be the only way toGod but they also claim the right todetermine the common good for all ofhumanity and they also claim the rightthat that Public Authority in notice hedoes not use the word civil governmentshe's talking about public authoritieshere by which he actually means thepapacy the public authorities have theright to determine and to plan and toshape not just the economic life of agiven Societybut also the cultural life of a givenSociety this is what John Pauli wasteaching in his encyclical called theecological crisis a commonresponsibility according to him theEarth belongs to everybody it istherefore our common Heritage andtherefore any un all government orGlobal action to save our commonHeritage or the common good willoverride our individual rights exactlyas John as Paul I 6 said just afterVatican 2 this Catholic dogma will bethe Bas bis for Sunday laws for theoverriding of Liberty of conscience andfreedom of religion because yourindividual right to worship according toyour conscience and according to theword of God on the seventh day of theweek on the Sabbath must be subordinatedto the common good of saving planetEarth as defined by the Catholicchurch since rum narum on the conditionof the working class is that in cyclicalin in1891 we haven't got to that slide thatI'll come back here various encyclicalsfrom the papacy have created a plethoraof new rights that governments arecalled upon to preserve to protect anddefend all in the name of the commongood and the universal destination ofall Goods now this is significant as thecreation of and the appeal to upholdmore and more human rights um is togenerate more and more moral Argumentsfor enlarging the size scope and powerof government the more the governmentcreates human rights the more thegovernment has to uphold and enforcethose rights if the government sayseverybody has the right to healthcarefree at the point of delivery in thenation as we say in Britain thegovernment therefore has created a rightand and the go people expect that thegovernment must provide Health Care toeverybody free of charge at the point ofdelivery across the entire nation if thegovernment says everybody has a right toK through 12 education the governmentmust therefore provide that K through2education and so the more governments umum provide under the promptings of theCatholic Church so-called human rightsor civil rights all that does is itincreases the scope scope for the powerof government withinSociety now the Paradox about this is isthe more regulated the society the lessmoral the individuals within itbecome why because you reduce the scopefor moral accountability and moraldecision-making to give an example themost violent place in America today isprobably a high securityprison every moment of the day isregulated and because every moment ofthe day is regulated the men becomeanimalsthe more regulated the society is theless opportunity you and I have to bemoralbeings to to deal with each otheraccording to the word of God rather thanthe dictates of government and thereforewe our moral capacity to act shrinks andwe are reduced to becoming mereanimals this is the problem with theever expansion of human rights in asociety or uh civil rights you reducethe scope for moral responsibility insociety as the number of of RomanCatholic rights multiplies in Catholicdogma and are promoted acrossgovernments today the larger thosegovernments become and the smaller thesphere for personal economic and moralFreedom becomes John Paul II stated thatgovernments must make provision here foroverall planning with regard to thedifferent kinds of work by which notonly the economic life but also thecultural life of a given Society isshaped that's as en cyclical of 1981called laborum ex Ascend now this leadsto the ultimate goal of the CatholicChurch which is a a completely regulatedeconomy whereby the Catholic church inUnion with the state determines alleconomic activity and with it who isauthorized to buy and sell this isexactly the scenario we read about inRevelation 13 from verses 12 onwards inwhich the USA and Roman Catholic Churchcan combine to regulate all economicactivity globally to uphold RomanCatholic Authority and Roman Catholicfalse worship and so these are some ofthe things we're seeing today such asyou've heard of these phrases I'm surein the news the greatreset you will own nothing and you'll behappy vaccination mandates are necessaryfor the common good they actually saidit's for the common good we'll see thatlater tonight and they overrideindividual freedom of conscience becausethe common good overrides yourindividual rights stakeholder capitalismversus shareholder capitalism that'swhat we have with the ESG indexenvironmental social and governmentindices and people like Black Rock andVanguard who are forcing certainideologies on American corporationsbecause they're the major shareholdersCentral Bank digital currencies are ameans of global control that we've neverseen before the who pandemicpreparedness treaty which is beingnegotiated as we speak it will transferto the who the right to determine apandemic at any moment in time it alsogives in the current draft the right ofthe who to reallocate economic resourcesand activity in any given Nation to meetthe common good of preventing futurepandemics this is totalitarian powerbeing given to an unelected umtransnational body the upcoming GlobalHealth verification system otherwiseknown as vaccine passports which isbeing rolled out it is being based onthe the the European Union vaccinepassports uh restrictions on which willbring restrictions on freedom ofmovement 15minute cities maybe you'veheard of those that are coming aroundthe world today ultra low ultra lowemission zones in London and other partsof the UK right now and in laato Sea inMay 2015 Pope Francis issued anencyclical and he said that Humanity hasa moral obligation to preserve ourcommon home via S Sunday sacredness andthat encyclical was not in addressaddress to the Catholic faithful it wasaddressed to all ofhumanity he presume the rights toaddress every human being on planetEarth not just the Catholic faithful andso these are some of the things thatwe're seeing in our world happeningtoday none of these will expand orretain your personal freedoms every oneof them will restrict your freedoms in avery severeway 15-minute cities in Britain there'spolitical turmoil now because thegovernor of London is is imposing thisules called ultral Low Mission Zonewhere if you get in your car and driveto work if you live in London um you'regoing to be taxed very highly for everymile and then you're going to bepenalized after so many miles and peopleare saying I can't drive to church Ican't drive to the supermarket I can'tdrive my kids to school I can't get towork how are we supposed to get aroundand this is in the name of preservingthe envirment environment and so thereare political um turmoil in Britain nowover the the imposition of things likeultra low emission zones and politiciansin Europe are no longer talking aboutNet Zero that is a government thecountry has Net Zero carbon emissionsthey now talking about absolute zeroemissions absolute zero emissions meanthere's no life quiteliterally so you know this is what thepoliticians are talking about so this isthis is some of the economic dogma ofthe Catholic Church um are you feelingencouragedtonight my wife says I have uniqueability to make people feel reallydepressed so I I hope you're suitablydeess depressed at this point now allright we've just had the urve now we'regoing to come into something a bit moreserious Roman Catholic political thoughtuh the good news is that as Adventistswe know the end of the story and thegood news is that Jesus is coming againand when he comes again as in the Statueof Daniel 2 that statue when Danielfirst sees that statue he says theappearance he says of the King was wasterrifying that is every human Kingdomfrom Babylon all the way through to thecoming of Jesus isterrifying every Empire is builtultimately on blood and the subjugationof some group one group or another uhbut is when Jesus comes again that allthese Earthly Empires are swept away andno trace of them remains we say Amen tothat amen so as Adventists we know theend of the story and if you ever readlike a crime who done it I always readthe last chapterfirst do you because I then want to readthrough the book picking up the cluesthat e PUO or Agatha Christie's herofinds as they go through and even whenyou know who did it you still can'tfigure out how do they figure it outthere's always extraneous informationthat you as the reader are never privyto so let's come to Roman Catholicpolitical thought so the Catholic Churchtraces its Heritage back to uh theMatthew 16113-20 um Thou Art Peter and on this rockI will build my church says Jesus toPeter and they they claim that God gaveauthority to Peter and to his successorsto rule the Ecclesia the Church of Godfrom Matthew 16 13-2 on now there is noevidence whatsoever in the scripture orin the early church for the RomanCatholic Church tracing its lineage onAuthority back to the Apostle Peter abetter source for the Catholic church isfound uh in in the book of 1 John andthird John the Apostle John States in 1John Chapter 2 and chapter 4 thatAntichrist was already at work duringthe apostolic era so Antichrist is notan individual it is a system a system ofthought and the word Antichrist anti-means in the place of so you might saythat anything that comes um anythingthat is in your life in the place ofChrist as the means of your salvation isa form of antichrist an expression ofantichrist but there there is also asystem of antichrist that was already atwork back in the time of the Apostles inthe 80 80s and '90s AD and John writesabout a guy called diot trophies in 3john: 9 and 10 his a small epistle Edjust before Jude and Revelation and hesays this he says I've written somethingto the church but D di tropes who likesto put himself first does notacknowledge our Authority so if I come Iwill call attention to what he's doingin spreading false charges against usthat is against the Apostles and notcontent with those charges he refuses towelcome the friends and even preventsthose who want to do so and expels themfrom the church now the friends he'sreferring to are traveling missionariesand evangelists who are traveling aroundthat part of the ancient Middle East andhe's refusing to accept travelingmissionaries and traveling Apostles andtraveling Church Planters so here inthis passage here we find a singleChurch leader rejecting the authority ofthe apostles who insists on solerulership an ambitious andanti-christian church leader who lovedto have preeminence who attacks otherChristians with malicious words and whoexpelled Christians from the church thisis the prototypical pope we find it allthe way back in 3rd john: 9 and 10 nowthe growth of the papacy is the historyof the Triumph of power hungry Bishopsof Rome over their ecclesiastical andpolitical opponents a process that tookcenturies and it transformed theoriginal Presbyterian congregations ofRome into a global Empire ruled by asingle absolute ruler so the preser apresbyter in Greek are the elders and sooriginally the churches were governed byElders in New Testament times and thenan Overseer in a city was called anepiscopos that's where you get theEpiscopalian Church from you have thePresbyterian Church then you have theEpiscopalian Church the Presbyterianschurches are those governed by Eldersthe episcopalians are governed byBishops such as the the Anglican churchand um eventually emerged into a globalEmpire ruled by a single absolute rulernow this process was based on forgeriesand lies the most famous of which wasthis document here known as the Donationof Constantine which was a forgery nowfor over 700 years the allegedlyinfallible Roman Catholic Popes assertedtheir Authority was based on thisdocument here until it was proven in the1500s that it was a forgery now theDonation of Constantine was allegedly agift from the emperor Constantine to thebishop of Rome in ad 330 when he movedthe capital from Rome across to modayinan Istanbul then known asConstantinople and as Constantine movedfrom Rome to uh Constantinople heallegedly transfered Supreme civil andreligious power over the Western RomanEmpire um to the bishop of Rome a mancalled Sylvester giving him the LanPalace of Rome today the right to wearred and purple Imperial robes and acrown of author Authority known as a mthis was then proven to be a forgery inthe 1500s but it had been used as thebasis for Roman Catholic political andeconomic and civil Supremacy in WesternEurope for almost 7 or 800 years uh theRoman Catholic actually 1200 years therethe Roman Catholic Church then affirmedtheir interpretation of Romans 13:1 nowRomans 13:1 says let every soul besubject to the governing authorities forthere is no Authority except from Godand the authorities that exist areappointed by God now for Catholics andfor Catholic theologians this passagedenies the possibility of any form ofdemocratic ecclesiastical or civilAuthority outside of the Roman Catholichierarchy political power does notrequire the consent to the people inCatholic ideology but it flows from Goddown to the pope via the Roman Catholichierarchy to you living in your H andyour job is to pay pray and Obey that'sit as membersthat's their interpretation of thispassage here in 1075 Pope Gregory iithI'm not sure if this is a um I don'tthink they've taken pictures back in1075 but I think this is probably aProtestant rendition of Pope Gregoryiithum maybe it was his mother-in-law wrotethat I don'tknow but no he didn't have amother-in-law did he that's one of thebenefits of being a pope I guess soanyway he wrote what is known as thedictator's papy on the authority of thePope and he summarized the the thetheory of papal absolute Authority thushe argued this that the Roman CatholicChurch was founded by God Alone that theRoman Catholic pontiff alone is rightlyto be called Universal that the popealone can depose or reinstate Bishops orthe episcopo that his legot that is hispersonal representative even if of alower grade takes precedence in acouncil of Bishops and may render asentence of deposition against them thatfor him alone it is lawful to enact newlaws according to the needs of the timethat the pope alone may use ImperialInsignia he goes on to argue that thepope is the only one whose feet are tobe kissed by all princes that his Banealone is to be recited in the churchesthat his title is unique in the worldthat he may depose Emperors so hisabsolute political power that nosentence of his may be retracted byanyone that he alone of all can retractit like the laws of the mes and Persianswhich cannot be changed that he himselfmay be judged by nobody that the RomanCatholic church has never Ed nor ever bythe witness of scripture shall ER forall eternity that's an incredible claimand that the pope May absolve subjectsof unjust men from their falty and nowin the ancient in the Middle Ages theyhad a feudal system where if I was apeasant in Baran Springs I would pledgeallegiance to the Knight of VillageChurch let's say and the Knight ofVillage Church would pledge allegianceto the Earl of beran County and the Earlof beran County would pledge allegianceto the Duke of Michigan and the Duke ofMichigan would pledge allegiance to thethe king in Washington all right and inyour Pledge of Allegiance you guaranteedto return taxes and also to fight for acertain number of days for your Le Lordas it was called and your Le Lord had acorresponding responsibility to protectyou if you were attacked so it was asocial contract that worked all up anddown society and what this right of thePope says claims he says that he maydissolve those Oaths of Allegiancebetween the the the the dukee the of themanner and between the peasant betweenthe Juke and the Earl so he can dissolveSociety at a given given moment's noticeand he may actually Place newAristocrats new Nobles in power who aregoing to be loyal to him so the theprope is essentially claiming theauthority not just over scripture on theonly interpretation of scripture thepope is claiming the authority to remakeCivil Society at any moment and this isa universal right that the papacyclaims this is um pap Dogma this appliestoday the papacy today according to thisencyclical has the right to dissolve anygovernment onEarth and to impose newGovernors we don't hear about this rightvery much but it's in theirDogmanow we come on to Bernard ofclor andum he wrote he lived in 1090 to1153 he asserted thatum his authority flowed through one manalone through the pope he argued thatwhen Jesus told Peter in Gethsemane toput up thy sword into thyScabbard and the disciples said lookhere are two swords and Jesus replied itis enough Bernard of Clore interpretedthat passage to mean that Christ wasgiving the Roman Catholic Church twoswords that is material civil Authorityon Earth and religious Authority onEarth and if the people did not acceptthe teachings of the of the priest thenthe teachings of the priest could beenforced by the sword of the magistrateand this became known as the doctrine oftwo swords that the priest would strikewith the sword of the word and then ifnecessary under the command of thepriest the soldier would strike with thesword of Steel this is known as thedoctrine of two swords inent III whowrote at the height of papal power in1198 to 1216 he wrote this of theauthority of the Pope he writes Peteralone assumed the plenitude of poweryou see then who is this servant setover the household truly the Vicor ofJesus Christ successor of Peter anointedof God a god of pharaoh set between Godand man lower than God but higher thanman who judges all and is judged by noone so according to innocent III thepope is a form of demigod hoveringsomewhere between God and man and itmakes sense therefore that the popeintercedes for Humanity and he says thatthe Saints can intercede for Humanityand the virgin Mary can intercede forfallen Humanity because the pope ishimself between God and man he is lowerthan God but he is higher than manwriting to the Archbishop of Rena whichis a city in Northern Italy in um 1198innocent wrote this he saidecclesiastical Liberty is nowhere caredfor better than where the Roman Churchhas full power in both temporal andspiritual Affairs so the meaning ofreligious liberty in Roman Catholicthought is that religious liberty isonly achieved for a society when theRoman Catholic church has full Authorityin both the religious and the CivilAffairs of Any Givensociety and that is why in our Bill ofRights freedom of religion is our numberone right mentioned in the Bill ofRights it's an utter rejection ofCatholicdogma we will not be ruled by a pope wewill not be ruled by the dogmas ofcorrupt child abusingpriests we will be governed by the wordof God and what the Holy Spirit convictsus of but that means you and I have aresponsibility to read and feed upon theword of God to know what it says and toput it into practice we don't justcelebrate freedom from papal dog dogmaand tyranny we also have aresponsibility then to read this forourselves and to understand it'ssufficient for our Salvation so it's notjust freedom from we have freedomto and we have to we have we areresponsible for God for the use of thefreedoms that we have today bonafos VIIwent on to expound on papal Authorityagain in the Middle Ages he wrote thisconsequently and this the encyclicalUnum sanctum is is is an astonishingdocument to claim claim to absolute umpapal authority over all human societyconsequently we declare State Define andpronounce that it is altogethernecessary to Salvation to every humancreature to be subject to the Romanpontiff it's an astonishing claimyes and based on the teachings of St uhAugustine Augustine argues in theparable where Jesus sends his servantsout to invite people to the weddingFeast of his son and uh some versionssay go and invite them to come but thatGreek word can also be uh translated ascompel them to come so because nosalvation is possible outside theCatholic church and Jesus says to hisservants in the parable go out andcompel them to enter that wasAugustine's interpretation of thatparable of Jesus therefore the church isjustified in compelling you to enter thechurch by torture and Force ifnecessary because by the ritual ofburning you at the stake we are going topurify your soul and fit you for heavenabove you may not want to join thechurch but because you're you only haveeternal life in the church the churchhas a moral obligation to force you intothe church you following the logic andeven if we have to kill you in theprocess it's for your owngood that is why we talk about the purifification of the Soul when you wereburnt at the stake you didn't have thisin America but we had it inEngland the purification of theSoul this um encyclical from bonafos VIIis an astonishing claim to full civiland religious Authority by the papacyhis argument for the subordination ofCivil Authorities to the papacy wasbased on the need to maintain Unitywithin the Catholic Church rememberJesus prayed for Unity in the church inJohn 17and if Jesus prayed for Unity the onlyway to achieve Unity for Humanity is ifall civil governments are subject to theauthority of the of thepapacy therefore to question theauthority of the church leadership willcause ecclesiastical Division and itharms the church mission and leads tothe loss of souls around the worldtherefore you are under a form of moralblackmail so you must accept theauthority of the church and you mustunquestion accept their dogmas becauseif you don't accept their Authority yougoing to cause division in the churchand Jesus prec prayed precisely thatthere would not be division in thechurch the Catholic church is not theonly church in history to use thisargument we used it in January22 in the condemnation of my preachingwhere to question the authority of thechurch is to cause worldwide disunityit's the same argument it's papalideology being mainlined into ourbloodstream in Catholic thinkingecclesiastical unity in humanitysalvation is the foundation forpolitical unity and political Unity isonly possible through through submissionto papal Authority when the RomanCatholic Church when when Reformationhappened the Roman Catholic hierarchyused this Dogma to restoreecclesiastical and political Unity byforce of arms and this will happen againin the final crisis as we see inRevelation 13 now the Catholic churchasserts that its teaching office is notrestricted to spiritual moral matters in1931 Pope P 11th in this encyclical thatwe've already covered stated this hesays we lay down the principles longsince clear established by Leo the 13ththat it is our right and duty to dealauthoritatively with social and economicproblems who'sright not the Civil government's rightthe papacy's right this is papal Dogmathis is coming from God himself youcannot question this the papacy claimsultimate Authority in both the C andspiritual sphere of every society onEarth thus the Catholic church is reallythe first totalitarian power in the westand she is the mother of 20th centurytotalitarianism and the tens of millionsof people who died under communist orfascist dictat the papacy insists onUnity Conformity from everyone dentersare to be corrected and if persistentlyobedient disobedient they are to bekilled Thomas aquinus put it this waythere are some unbelievers such as theGentiles and the Hebrews who have neveraccepted the Christian faiththese should in no way be forced tobelieve appropriateForce may be used by the faithful toprevent them from interfering with thefaith through blasphemy or evilinducements or open persecution this isthe Christian reason that Christiansoften make war on unbelievers not toforce them to believe but to preventthem from interfering with the Christianfaith however there are otherunbelievers such as Heretics and allapostates who once accepted and professthe faith these are to be compelled evenby physical Force to carry out what theypromised and to hold what they onceaccepted that is Catholic Doctrine andthe supremacy of the papacy now thePractical consequences of this politicalideology the papacy is that slavery isaccepted by the papacy not just wasslavery accepted by the papacy slavy wasopenly practiced by the C papacy forcenturies in Europe um it is Aristotlewrote this he says it is thus clear thatjust as by some are by Nature free Ithink we've lost our screen thereAristotle wrote it is where where is ithere um I've lost my spot it is thusclear that just as some are by Naturefree so others are by Nature slaves andfor those latter the condition ofslavery is both beneficial and just thatis Aristotle's view on on his bookPolitics on slavery now that view ofslavery was accepted by Thomas aquinusand promoted by the popes so the popesgranted the kings of Portugal and Spainthis right here they granted them theright to quote full and free permissionto invade search out capture and capturethe sarens and pagans and any otherunbelievers and enemies of Christwherever they may be as well as TheirKingdoms duchies counties principalitiesand other property to reduce theirpersons intowhat Perpetual slavery Perpetual slaverythis was the right the Catholic Churchgave to the kings of Portugal and Spainin the 13th 14th and 15th centuries inPractical terms this attitude towardsthe enslavement of non-catholicsthat the Roman Catholic church had notheological objection to the institutionof slavery in Hitler's concentrationcamps nor to the enslavement of Africansin the Deep South who were eitherProtestant or were from Africantraditional religions as a consequenceof its political ideology the CatholicChurch enthusiastically supported theNazis and Adolf Hitler P the 11th wasthe first head of state to recognizeHitler's government in 1933 then hesigned a treaty with Hitler guaranteeingthe Loyalty of German Roman Catholics tothe to Hitler's regime German RomanCatholics joined Hitler's armies on massand at the height of his power inSeptember 1942 Hitler ruled the largestRoman Catholic population in planetEarth Roman Catholics made great Nazisbecause they were used to unquestioningobedience to bloodthirsty andtotalitarian rulers in the 1933 folderpastoral letter from the German RomanCatholic Bishops actually encouragedGerman Roman Catholics to support theNazi regime this was issued in 1933 andit reads s only if the individual seeshimself as part of an organism whichplaces the what common good ahead ofindividual good will his life once againbe marked by The Humble obedience andjoyous service that Christian faithdemands and so when it comes toreligious liberty the Roman Catholicchurch has always denied this along withits opposition to freedom of thoughtfreedom of speech freedom of Educationfreedom of the press and so forth Leothe 13th argued in 1885 that religiousliberty or Liberty of conscience is afalse Freedom he outright D he outrightdenounce Liberty of conscience one ofthe reasons for denouncing Liberty ofconscience was it undermines the unityof the church the church says X but theHoly Spirit convicts you ofwhy what do we accept what the churchsays or what the Holy Spirit convictsyouof therefore an authoritarian Churchhierarchy like the papacy cannot acceptindividual liberty of consciencebecause if the Holy Spirit speaksdirectly to the believer that would kindof undermine what the church is sayingto you do you follow this so in anauthoritarian and a totalitarian systemlike the Catholic hierarchy religiousliberty is something to be denounced itis not something to betreasured he he argued that a well-spentlife is the only passport to heaven andso to ensure that your life is wellspent governments must therefore denyreligious freedomthis is the argument of Pope Leo the13th Vatican 2 went on to declareconcerning religious liberty thisVatican Council declares that the humanperson has a right to Religious Freedomthat sounds good but the devil is in thedetail this Freedom means that all menare to be immune from coercion on thepart of individuals or of social groupsand of any human power within duelimits and those limits are defined bythe papacy because the papacy is not aan individual or a social group it isgiven by God remember the pope is lowerthan God and he's higher than man sohe's not included in this statement fromVatican 2 so this declaration does notuphold religious liberty within duelimits means you are free to believe thedogmas of the Catholic church andnothing else Vatican 2 only upholdsreligious liberty from interference fromHuman entities such as a localgovernment May attack you but the papacyis not included in this list of actorsfor the PO hope is God on Earth inessence whenever the papy speaks ofreligious liberty it does not speak infavor of your religious liberty orLiberty of conscience but it speaks infavor of its own authoritarian powerover your conscience and the goal ofRoman Catholic political ideology is aOne World Government Paul I 6 explainedthis in 1967 in another encyclical hesays this International collaboration ona worldwide scale requires institutionsthat will prepare coordinate and directit until finally there is EST establishan order of Justice which is universallyrecognized who does not see thenecessity of thus establishingprogressively a world Authority capableof acting effectively in thejurisdictional and political sectors nowduring the co pandemic there was a guycalled CLA Schwab came to the four youremember you know CLA Schwab Worldeconomic forum and he wrote a couple ofbooks on covid-19 in the great receptand he openly uses this kind of languagehis basic argument is this thegovernment of Britain can take care ofthe British problems and the governmentof France can take care of the Frenchproblems and the governments of theNetherlands can take care of the Dutchproblems but who's going to take care ofour commonproblems so governments can deal withlocal issues but certain issues affectall of humanity such as a pandemic orglobal climate change as they say thereis and therefore that requires a globalauthority to manage all of societies andto override every individualgovernment that's what they're arethat's what CLA Schwab is arguing for inthe great reset the language he uses andif you haven't read his book on covid-19in the great reset please readit these are this is the thinking that'sdriving our political Elites around ourworld today this globalist agenda ispushing to a one world government or aone world Authority that can bring insolutions that affect all of humanity toproblems that are beond the reach ofindividual governments tosolve so this is the goal of RomanCatholic political the theory Pope JohnPaul argued further for thishe links it to the environment he arguedfor a one world government in thisparticular encyclical in 1987 he arguedfor one world government for thefollowing reasons number one the moralorder demands it number two to managethe environment these days you might sayto fight climate change number three tocontrol multinationalcorporations number four to endInternational Free Trade number five totransfer wealth from Rich to poorNations number six to Foster developmentand peaceand number seven and this is the finalcompelling reason because the papacyargues that National governments areincapable of ensuring the universalcommon good only they have the right andthe ability to dothat so the next time you drived by aCatholic Church need to think about thisstuff and there are dear souls in thoseCatholic churches who love the Lord andthe message of Jesus to them inRevelation 18: 2 and 3 has come out ofher my people they're still his peopleand God has a concern for people who aretrapped in this system of Oppression andtyranny he wants them to be in hiskingdom of Grace andlove we saw this these ideology in thelast fewyears I've just picked up threedimensions of papal ideology and howthey apped in the last three years thefirst claim is the papacy tounquestionable civil religious andeconomicAuthority the pesy I've given a quotethere from Pope bonafos who declaresState Define and pronounce that it isaltogether necessary to salvation forevery human creature to be subject tothe pontiff and as the other popesargued that to question the authority ofthe papacy is to cause division withinthe body of Christ the papacy claimedAuthority during the pandemic you maynot have read their statements but theywere highlyinfluential the next thing the papacyclaimed was the right to determine theuniversal common good as it related tocertainmandates and we see that in progressiopopular and progress1967 that all rights whatsoeverincluding those of property and of freeCommerce are to be subordinated to thisprinciple that is the principle of thecommon good in December 2020 thecongregation for the doctrine of Faithwhich is the papal version of the brriin the GC they kind of defend Doctrinefor the papacy they wrote a statementcalled note on morality of using someanti-id 19 vaccines it's availableonline it's a public document and theysaid there quote the morality ofvaccination depends not only on the dutyto protect one Health but also on theduty to pursue the what the common goodwhich the papacy has already determinedand then Pope Francis himself issued astatement in August 21 at Vatican Citywhich said vaccination is a simple butprofound way of promoting the commongood and caring for each otherespecially the most vulnerable I pray toGod that everyone May contribute theirown small grain of sand their own smallgesture of love so here's the pope usingonce again the phrase the common goodthe papacy has has determined the commongood they alone have the right todetermine the common good and the commongood overrides your individualconscience because the common goodoverrides all human rights and this wasmade explicit um in New York by TheCourier they issued a statement the babyhas the right to deny Liberty ofconscience or religious liberty um uhfor objections by individuals to vaccinemandates so the papacy has the right tooverride your Liberty of conscience andthis is what the papacy said via thecuria of that's the like the Secretariatum of the arch dases of New York he saidPope Francis has made it clear that itis morally acceptable to take any of thevaccines and said we have the moralresponsibility to get vaccinatedvaccinated C and Doan has said the samethere is no basis for a priest to issuea religious exemption to thevaccine so thepapacy during the last three yearsasserted its claim to unquestionableGlobalAuthority asserted its right todetermine the common good for all ofhumanity and essentially asserted thatwhen the papacy determines the commongood all your individual human rightsare are goneforever they can determine what is inyour good and you're just going to havetoobey that is what the papacy did in thelast threeyears and without going into any greatdetail they weren't the onlyecclesiastical authority to make thosedeterminations happened in Jewishcommunities happened in Orthodoxcommunities and it happened happenacross many Protestant denominations aswell what we find in thepandemic is we talk about Protestantsyou know they they take the the wine ofBabylon the doctrines ofRome but the number one doctrine of Romeis the right of Rome to determine thecommongood and pretty much every Protestantdenomination went along withthat and once you accept that theCatholic church has the right todetermine the common good whichoverrides all other rights and rules andlaws then you accept that if the papacysays it's in the common good to worshipon Sunday not Sabbath you must acceptthat aswell there are implications foraccepting the papal right to determinethe common good we need to think Beyondtoday's new cycle and to think andrealize that words have meaning wordshaveconsequences innocent looking decisionstoday can have profoundly terribleconsequences down the line I'm not justI'm talking here about know that this Hhappened to almost every majorProtestantdenomination and Orthodox groups andJewishgroups we need to think very carefullybefore we start assuming and using inour own language Concepts that relate tothe common good or the good of allpeople overriding individual consciencebecause once you go down thatpath then you know you're essentially nodifferent to what happened in NaziGermany the common good means that wecan destroy for you if we want to sowhat do we say in conclusiontonight religious liberty is the mostessential human Liberty it is the F ofall other Liberties in the United Statestoday during the Reformation thefoundational principle of religiousliberty freed us from the authority of abloodthirsty autocratic totalitarianRoman Church state union and he gave usthe gift of protestantism protestantismin turn has given us our human and civilrights for all people sitting in thisroom and for all who are watching onlinewithout protestantism and religiousliberty from Roman Catholic spiritualdictatorship we would never have ourBill of Rights today due to her economicdogma and the teachings of Thomasaquinus on private property beingprovisionally acceptable only inpositive rather than Divine or naturallaw due to her teaching on such as theconcepts of the common good andUniversal destination of all Goods theCatholic church is implacably opposed toprivate property free enterprise uh theum private ownership of of goodsyourselves in capitalism instead theCatholic dogma supports Marxismsocialism liberation theology thewelfare state and ultimately as we seein Revelation 13 a form of fascism whichpreserves the right to private propertybut all goods are to be managed for thecommon good as determined by the statedue to her political thought uh that isChrist's misinterpreted teachings toPeter and Matthew 16 and the doctrine oftwo swords um from Bernard of Clore andforgeries such as the Donation ofConstantine the papacy asserts eventoday that has the right to supremeauthority over every society on planetEarth for the pope himself is God onEarth he has the right to set rulers upand to take them down Daniel said inDaniel 2 that God has the right to raiserulers up and set them down the pesyclaims the right to set rulers up and totake them down and to order all ofHumanity's economic political social andreligious Affairs for some allegedcommon good as determined by the papacyiron Rand 1967 wrote this the CatholicChurch who not an Adventist she said thehe said the Catholic church has nevergiven up the hope to reestablish themedieval Union of church and state witha global State and a global theocracy asits ultimate goal that's a non-adventistwriting that so as per Revelation 13 andverse three the papacy is a globalinstitution that is recovering from thedeadly wound of1798 as per Revelation 13: 11-18 thepesy will once again gain glor power VIits Union with an apostate protestantismand the United States and it will imposea global regime of coercion moreSinister than anything seen in humanhistory so those who accept theauthority of the Antichrist RomanCatholic power will receive the mark ofthe beast either on their foreheadsbecause they believe it or in theirhands because they are forced to do itsome will be convinced of the newworship mandates and some will accept itbecause of coercion and loss of job justas we saw in the last 3 years but thosewho wish to live under God's Authorityrather than the authority of the man ofRome will receive the Seal of God whichis the indwelling of the holy spirit intheir lives and is expressed through anew heart that Delights to do the willof God that Delights to keep theCommandments of God that asks God towrite his commandment and the law oflove into our hearts including thefourth Commandment and firmly rejectsthe end time Global Union of papacy andUnited States and is for this reasonthat we uphold religious liberty becauseas long as religious liberty existspeople can choose for God the ThreeAngelsmessages make sense only in the contextof religiousliberty fear God and give glory to himdo not receive the mark of the beastthey all presuppose that people haveLiberty ofconscience therefore we work forreligious religious liberty and Libertyof conscience of All Peoples so that allpeoples May respond to God's lastmessage of Mercy religious liberty isnot just for Adventists it is for allpeoples on planet Earth in order thatall people might receive the gift ofeternal life some of the last words ofJesus in scripture Revelation chap22 says it is I jesus who sent my angelto you with his testimony for thechurches I am the root and thedescendant of Dave with the BrightMorning Star the spirits and the bridesay come let everyone who hears say comelet everyone who is thirsty come letanyone who wishes to take the Water ofLife as a gift isn't that beautiful thatthe end of time no matter what thegovernment may say to you no matter whatmandates may come your way no matterwhat the the the Civil Authorities nomatter what your mayor no matter whatyour doctor no matter what your employermay say to you you still retain theright to answer God in faith and inRepentance and receive the gift ofeternal life no matter what they do tous we still have that right andtherefore as Adventists we stand up forthat right for all people because aslong as people retain the freedom ofconscience to respond to the gospel ofgrace than they can respond up until theclose ofprobation so we stand up for and wespeak up for and we work for and weLobby for religious liberty for allpeople as I said before when Danieldescribed the the dream that God gaveNebuchadnezzar of the nations of theEarth from Babylon through to the comingof Jesus he says you were looking ohKing and low or behold there was a greatstatue the Statue was huge itsBrilliance extraordinary it was standingbefore you and its appearance wasfrightening I put in parenthesis thereyou can translate that as terrible orDreadful that's a commentary on everyhuman Nation from Babylon to the comingof Jesus but the good news of Danielwhen when Daniel asks the the angel toexplain the parallel vision of Daniel 7Daniel wants to know about the fourthBeast that that you know has teeth ofiron and it tramples on all the nationsand is dripping in Blood and so forthbut the angel with a message from Godhas another perspective the angelssummary of Daniel 7 vision is this asfor these great beasts four great beastsFour Kings shall rise out of the Earthbut and this is the good news the holyones of the most high shall receive thekingdom and possess the kingdom foreverand just in case you missed it foreverand ever so we may worry about thebeasts of this world but God wants us toknow that the saints of God shallreceive an eternal inheritance that'swhat God wants us to heartonight blessed are those who in Ureunto the end blessed are those who willendure whatever this world throws atthem for they shall receive a crown ofeternal life the most this world can dois lock you up or take your life but itcannot give you eternallife and so we do not live in fear ofthose who take life we live in fear ofthe one who can take us out of eternallife and only he has the gift of eternallife so you can choose you this day whoyou willserve as God said to ancient Israel theLord is not willing that any shouldperish turn Israel and live says God tohis ancient people and God says to ustonightturn and live receive by faith the giftof Grace offered us on Calvary offeredyou on Calvary no matter what the beastsof this world may say or do to you youwill receive the gift of eternal lifethe gospel is truly wonderful wonderfulnews and we stand up for religiousliberty in order that every nation tribelanguage and people may not only he hearthe gospel but they may receive it andrespond in faith so that before that seaof glass there will be as many of God'schildren present as possible let's bowour heads and close with a word ofprayer HeavenlyFather we know we're in for a rough ridebut Lord I Thank you that throughprophecy we know the end of thestory I thank you Fatherthat in these ideologies that floataround ourworld whether it be the Islam of the theMiddle East or the Hinduism of India theBuddhism of Southeast Asia the MarxismofEurope the atheism of our modern secularworld I thank you Father that you inJesus Christ have the answer to thedeepest questions of all humanbeings I pray Lord that through theministry of thiscongregation father through the ministryof those watchingonline through our lives through ourwitness through the sharing of our faiththat a multitude of people will come toa saving faith in JesusChrist father give us the grace toaccept when people use their freedom ofconscience not to accept thegospel but father give us thepersistence never to give up intercedingbefore them before your throne ofgrace father give us the grace to acceptpeople into our fellowship who maybecome from very violent anti-christianbackgrounds may we accept them asbrothers and sisters may we have thegrace to overlook their past may we havehave the faith to look into theirfuture so father wherever we are as acongregation wherever we are asindividuals I pray that this preciousgift of religious liberty given us inthe Garden of Eden we will treasure itwe will share it it will shine throughus and that through the sharing ofLiberty of conscience many Souls will bewon for your Eternal Kingdom thank youFather for working through us thank youfor working for us thank you for workingsometimes despite us and thank youFather that you will bring to completionthe good work that you've begun in eachone of us thank you Father for thesemercies dismiss us now with yourblessing as we return tomorrow fatherfor a spiritual Feast may your angelsguard us on the road May our hearts andMinds be open to the reshaping of yourspirit and May in all that is said anddone the love of Christ be heard loudand clear in the name of Jesus we praytonight amen[Music]