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

Extracted Verses and Quotes from the Sermon

Biblical Verses

Revelation 13

In Revelation 13 God reveals that the final crisis … will be between truth and error … and those who follow Jesus Christ will face persecution … there is going to be Global false worship enforced by global economic mandates … social exclusion … persecution and ultimately the death penalty for those who are faithful to God.

First Amendment to the Bill of Rights

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Romans 13:1

Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.

3 John 9-10

I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, spreading false charges against us, refusing to welcome the friends, and even preventing those who want to do so, and expelling them from the church.

Matthew 16:13-20

“Thou art Peter, and on this rock I will build my church,” says Jesus to Peter.

John 17

Jesus prayed for unity in the church.

Revelation 18:2-3

Come out of her, my people.

Daniel 2

There was a great statue, terrifying in appearance, representing every human kingdom from Babylon to the coming of Jesus. The holy ones of the most high shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever and ever.

Revelation 22

It is I, Jesus, who sent my angel to you with his testimony for the churches. I am the root and descendant of David, the Bright Morning Star. The Spirit and the bride say, “Come! Let everyone who hears say, ‘Come!’ Let everyone who is thirsty come! Let anyone who wishes take the Water of Life as a gift.”

Memorable Quotes

America is a land of freedom and opportunity … it comes from our founding documents, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution … religious liberty is the foundational liberty upon which the United States is built.

The Reformation resurrected the concept of liberty of conscience that had been trampled on for over a thousand years by the Church of Rome.

Salvation is not earned by sinners nor dispensed by a corrupt papal hierarchy but is received through faith as a free gift directly from a loving heavenly Father.

Each person answers directly to God in the final judgment without a pope, priest, cardinal, or pastor to intercede.

Private property is not part of eternal or natural laws but an invention of human reason and government; the common ownership of all goods is the natural law.

The Catholic Church claims the right to take your property regardless of the laws of the land in which you live.

The papacy argues the common good overrides all individual human rights.

The papacy claims ultimate authority in both the civil and spiritual sphere of every society on Earth; the Catholic Church is really the first totalitarian power in the West.

Religious liberty is only achieved for a society when the Roman Catholic Church has full authority in both temporal and spiritual affairs.

The pope himself is God on Earth; he has the right to set rulers up and to take them down.

The papacy during the last three years asserted its claim to unquestionable global authority and asserted that when it determines the common good, all individual human rights are gone forever.

Religious liberty is the most essential human liberty; it is the foundation of all other liberties.

We stand up for religious liberty so that all peoples may receive the gift of eternal life and respond to God’s last message of mercy.

No matter what governments or authorities do to us, we still have the right to answer God in faith and repentance and receive the gift of eternal life.

Other Quotations

Pope Leo XIII, 1891, Rerum Novarum

Man ought not to regard external goods as his own but as common. The distinction is made between private legal ownership of property and common public use.

Pope Pius XI, 1931

The papacy denounces the dictatorship of capitalism and particularly those who control credit and the flow of money.

Vatican II, 1965, Gaudium et Spes

It is the right of public authority to prevent anyone from misusing his private property to the detriment of the common good.

Pope Paul VI

All rights whatsoever, including those of property and of free commerce, are to be subordinated to the principle of the so-called common good.

Pope John Paul II, 1987, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis

Peoples excluded from the fair distribution of goods originally destined for all could ask themselves why not respond with violence to those who first treat us with violence.

Pope John Paul II, 1990, Centesimus Annus

Public authorities must make provision for overall planning with regard to the different kinds of work by which not only the economic life but also the cultural life of a given society is shaped.

Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, 1302

It is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff.

Thomas Aquinas

There are some unbelievers such as heretics and apostates who once accepted the faith; these are to be compelled even by physical force to carry out what they promised and to hold what they once accepted.

German Roman Catholic Bishops, 1933

Only if the individual sees himself as part of an organism which places the common good ahead of individual good will his life once again be marked by the humble obedience and joyous service that Christian faith demands.

Pope Leo XIII, 1885

Religious liberty or liberty of conscience is a false freedom.

Vatican II, Declaration on Religious Freedom

All men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or social groups and of any human power within due limits, and those limits are defined by the papacy.

Pope Paul VI, 1967

International collaboration on a worldwide scale requires institutions that will prepare, coordinate, and direct it until finally there is established an order of justice which is universally recognized.

Pope John Paul II, 1987

One world government is necessary because national governments are incapable of ensuring the universal common good; only the papacy has the right and ability to do that.

Author quoted: Ayn Rand, 1967

The Catholic Church has never given up the hope to reestablish the medieval union of church and state with a global state and a global theocracy as its ultimate goal.