THE ORDER OF THE JESUITS - End time

THE ORDER OF THE JESUITS

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The Catholic Church has been making stronger and more blatant moves at getting this world ready for that "Great Day of the Lord". But who exactly is their "Lord"? It is paramount for the Christian today to be able to clearly discern the many ways the Devil is using to prepare an unsuspecting world to accept the Mark of the Beast. In order to have a full understanding of the Papacy's modern movements and decisions, we MUST understand the role of The Jesuit Order and how the Papacy has been utilizing The Jesuit Order to covertly incorporate their schemes for many years.

Constitution of the Jesuits: "Let whoever desires to fight under the sacred banner of the Cross, and to serve only God and the Roman pontiff, His vicar on earth, after a solemn vow of perpetual chastity,- let him keep in mind that he is part of a society, instituted for the purpose of perfecting souls in life and in Christian doctrine, for the propagation of the faith .... Let all members know, and let it be not only at the beginning of their profession, but let them think over it daily as long as they live, that the society as a whole, and each of them, owes obedience to our most holy lord, the pope, and the other Roman pontiffs, his successors, and to fight with faithful obedience for God."

Why was the Jesuit Order created?

The Jesuit Order, or The Society of Jesus, also called "Jesuits" today, was founded by a man named Ignatius of Loyola, born in 1491. He maintained a military career as a Spanish knight until he was severely wounded at the Battle of Pamplona in 1521. While he was in recovery, he supposedly went through some sort of "spiritual conversion". He then combined his military experience with his newfound religious conversion to decide that his religion needed "an army". Thus, he created The Society of Jesus under the banner of Roman Catholicism. With several of his companions he formed the Jesuit Order in 1534 and it was officially commissioned and sanctioned by Pope Paul III in 1540. Ignatius was also commissioned by the Pope to reorganize the "Bank of Rome" in 1540. In its early stages, just after they were reorganizing the Bank of Rome, they began ruthlessly taking over Education. Taking over the schools and the colleges would allow them access to change teachings.

The primary purpose of the newly-created Jesuit Order was to serve as the Pope's deterant to the Protestant Reformation, which revealed the Roman Catholic Church as antichrist and the pope as that "man of sin" spoken of by the Apostle Paul. Their plan was to bring the entire world back to the Roman Catholic Church.

"I do declare from my heart, without mental reservation, that the Pope is Christ's Vicar General and ... He hath power to depose Heretical Kings, Princes, States ... that they may safely be destroyed. Therefore, to the utmost of my power I will defend this doctrine ... I do further declare the doctrine of the Church of England, of the Calvanists [sic], the Huguenots, and other Protestants to be damnable and those to be damned who will not forsake the same. I do further declare that I will help, assist, and advise all or any of His Holiness agents in any place wherever I shall be; and to do my utmost to extirpate [exterminate] the heretical

Protestant doctrine, and to destroy all their pretended power." (The Jesuit Oath, as taken from Political and Economic Handbook by Thomas Edward Watson in 1916, p. 437)

The Jesuit Order would become the Papacy's Counter-Reformation. The Reformation, started by reformed Catholics such as Martin Luther, began as a wave of truth in the 1500's, calling out and exposing the abominable heresies of the Catholic Church. It was mostly through the Papacy's selling of "indulgences", or certificates of pardon, that the Reformation was flamed to life. Luther was outraged when members of the university were handing him these "requests for pardon of sin". He quickly told them that unless they actually repent of their sins, coming before the Throne of Grace for forgiveness, they would unfortunately perish in those sins. He began teaching people that the grace of God cannot be purchased, that God's grace is a FREE GIFT. His opposition to Catholic doctrines began riling up the entire Catholic Order against him.

This should be a lesson to us as well: When the Holy Spirit reveals great truth to us and calls us to spread the word to others, the enemy will stir up the powers of this world against us. We must rely on God in these situations and not on our own wisdom.

The Jesuits' Banking Scheme

The reorganized Bank of Rome began branching out and opening various offices in Europe. Some of the banks they opened up: Venice (1587) The Wisselbank in Amsterdam (1609) Hamburg (1619) Nuremberg (1621) Rotterdam (1635) Bank of England (1694).

The Bank of England, having its model after the Bank of Rome and created by the Jesuits, actually became the world's first Central Bank. This central bank began the process of issuing "notes", charging interest on the entire capital they loaned to the English Parliament. This began a recurring debt for England, as there would be no way for them to fully repay their lenders, thus putting the power of the country of England into the hands of the Jesuits, who controlled the Central Bank.

Friends, it is for this very reason - the usury of the central bank in England - that the American Colonists sought freedom from England, and the reason for the Revolutionary War!

"That is simple. In the Colonies, we issue our own paper money. It is called 'Colonial Scrip.' We issue it in proper proportion to make the goods and pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner, creating ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power and we have no interest to pay to no one." (Ben Franklin speaking about the use of Colonial Scrip)

"The Colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament, which has caused in the Colonies hatred of England and the Revolutionary War." (Ben Franklin speaking about the real cause of the Revolutionary War - banking control)

"The refusal of King George III to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution." (Ben Franklin on the corruption of the Bank of England)

The central banking system that exists in our world today is merely the same central banking system modeled after the original Bank of Rome, and the Jesuits control it, as they always have.

The Jesuits' Influence on Modern Christianity

So many Christians today do not know where many of the most commonly accepted beliefs even came from, or why they were developed. Throughout the dark ages, the Papacy resorted to very open and obvious brutal and cruel tactics of attempting to fully wipe out all Biblebelieving "heretics". The development of the Protestant Reformation proved to the Papacy that these tactics would not suffice any longer, but would only more strongly affirm what the Reformers were illustrating - that the Catholic Church system IS the harlot church, the true Antichrist.

Brutal extinguishment would not work. More subtle tactics were needed. The prophecies unveiled in the book of Daniel fully confirm the Papacy as the Biblical Antichrist. The Papacy needed to divert attention AWAY from them, to cause a curious world to look in many different directions, just not on them! This is where the Jesuits would come in handy.

A MAJOR problem for the Papacy was the 1260-year identification time period in scripture, the "time, times, and dividing of a time" which denotes the time of the Papacy's iron grip on the world. A new "interpretation" of this 1260-year time period would need to be invented, AND a new Antichrist figure would also need to go along with the story as well.

Futurism

This brings us to Francisco Ribera (1537-1591) - a Jesuit leader in the area of Theology, who began writing a long expose or commentary, a few years before he died, on the events in the book of Revelation. His documentary, In Sacrum Beati Ioannis Apostoli, & Evangelistiae Apocalypsin Commentarij, was published about a year before he died. In his work, he explained that the first few chapters of Revelation actually referred to old Pagan Rome, and that the rest of Revelation described events circulating around a "literal" three and a half year period in the future where a charismatic Antichrist figure would be revealed who would:

- Persecute and kill the Christian saints during an oddly separated 70th week of Daniel's 70week prophecy

- Rebuild an actual third Temple in Jerusalem

- Deny the deity of Jesus Christ and claim to be the Messiah himself

- Place himself in this newly restored Jewish Temple, claiming to be God

- Kill an actual Two Witnesses of God in the city of Jerusalem

- Force the entire world to worship him

Ribera's account of the events in Revelation successfully take the focus off of the Catholic Church, pointing toward the future, being a literal three and a half years at the very end. How

very convenient for the Papacy. This interpretation would fully suspend ALL prophecies occurring in the middle ages.

There was also Manuel De Lacunza (1731-1801), a Jesuit priest who resided in Chile. Around the year 1791, he put together a manuscript called La Venida del Mesias en Gloria y Magestad ("The Coming of the Messiah in Glory and Majesty"), where he took on the pen name of Juan Josafa (Rabbi) Ben-Ezra. Using the typical Jesuit tactic of trickery and deceit, Lacunza used a Jewish name and title to completely hide the fact that he was a Catholic Jesuit priest, thus creating much more acceptance from Protestantism - who still slightly had a bad taste for the Papacy at the time. In his work, Lacunza (Ben-Ezra) showed his advocacy for Futurism, proposing that the Antichrist was still to come in the future.

Edward Irving (1792-1834) was a Scottish Presbyterian who was very important in the movement of the propagation of Futurism. This man was also the primary forerunner of both the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, two very prominent and popular movements in modern Christianity today. Irving accepted the future one-man Antichrist theory and decided he would take the interpretation to NEW heights. After a member, Margaret McDonald, of his very large congregation told him that she received "visions" of end time believers being "raptured" just before the time of the Antichrist, Irving began promoting the Futurist interpretation attached with a new twist of a "Secret Rapture". Whether or not Irving's acceptance of the Rapture theory was directly due to McDonald's supposed vision is up for some debate. The fact is that shortly after McDonald sharing these visions with Irving, Irving began teaching a new Secret Rapture doctrine.

Through the work of Jesuits and Jesuit-influenced Protestants, Futurism has become the most commonly accepted theme of theory in relation to the Antichrist for modern Christianity.

Preterism

On top of Futurism, the Jesuits created an additional theory that would assist in taking the world's eyes off of Satan's entity, the Papacy. Working in parallel was another interpretation, Preterism. This theory was proposed by a Spanish Jesuit named Luis De Alcazar (15541613). In his commentary titled Investigation of the Hidden Sense of the Apocalypse, he insisted that the ENTIRE book of Revelation pertained to pagan Rome and approximately the first six centuries of the Christian movement. Here is a brief overview of Alcazar's teachings in relation to the Antichrist:

- Rev chapters 1-11 relates to the rejection of the Jewish people and the Romans' destruction of Jerusalem.

- Roman paganism was supposedly "the harlot" and was overthrown in Rev chapters 12-19. Also, the true church in these accounts is supposedly the Roman Catholic Church.

- Rev 20 would hold the account that Caesar Nero (54-68 AD) would be the Antichrist and that he was judged.

- Rev 21 and 22 shows the glory of the Roman Catholic Church, that God establishes them as His church on earth.

The Papacy really has to love the Preterist theory even more than they do the Futurist theory, as it gives them even more glory and takes even more focus off of them.

With these popular theories, the REAL Antichrist has dominated and overcome modern Christianity. They are either looking to the past or to the future, when the Antichrist has been here all along!

What does scripture say in relation to a future or past Antichrist?

1 John 4:2,3 .."By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world."

2 Thessalonians 2:5-7 .."Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way."

Both John and Paul say that the Antichrist, the mystery of lawlessness, was ALREADY at work and beginning in their time. What about the temple of God being supposedly rebuilt in the end? Does that stand up to scripture?

2 Thessalonians 2:3,4 .."Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God."

Well, what is "the temple of God" today?

1 Corinthians 3:16,17 .."Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are."

Additionally, what about a supposed "Secret" rapture of the saints? Does scripture say that Jesus returns silently and secretly?

Matthew 24:30,31 .."Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."

Matthew 24:23-26 .."Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'There!' do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand. Therefore if they say to you, 'Look, He is in the desert!' do not go out; or 'Look, He is in the inner rooms!' do not believe it. For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be."

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