NY Post: End of Catholicism? No, but a sign of the end

The NY Post story on the Francis X Cabrini church, closed in Massachusetts due to a court settlement in a sexual abuse scandal, would be a good read for most Christians. After losing an appeal to the Supreme Court, they held their last service. An 86-year-old member said, “We fought the good fight. We did all we could.” When it comes to their religious congregations, that’s more than most Americans can say.”

The Catholic Church spent $2 million on major New York lobbyists to block reform of the child sex law. (NY Daily News 5-30-16) The word “catholic” means universal. That is a broad category that can accommodate everyone. The point is that God loves everyone and we are all sinners, but he hates the sin (selfishness and abuse) that his Word defines. In His Sermon on the Mount, Christ said that the broad way leads to destruction. We must be willing to repent. God gives victory to those who seek help from him. Paying the weekly cure is weakness.

Most Americans fit the image of a church in Revelation 3 that is lukewarm to materialism. He thinks he is rich in many things and in need of nothing while Christ is outside, asking to enter. That He also represents “truth” suggests that we are missing something important.

#1. “Church” translates from the Greek word, eklesia, which means “called out.” Members who give their lives to Christ are called to be like salt and light: in the world but not of the world. If our focus is on what we can accumulate, we have lost our identity with Christ, who gave those things to make other people their own. priority.

#two. The judicial action reflects the opinion of a judge. A judgment is announced in Revelation 14 where the Greek word is krisis. The whole world is moving towards a crisis. We sing, “God Bless America” ​​but He cannot bless what He has cursed. We say, “In God We Trust.” but the upcoming events will test who we trust. If we don’t align with clear statements of His Word, it’s just talk and it doesn’t matter if a “supreme” court says it’s okay, what’s to come will show society’s confused systems are down, Revelation 18.

#3. The good news is that God can save people who turn to Him despite the destruction that surrounds them. This is seen in the fall of Jericho, a type of the fall of Babylon in Revelation 17, 18. Rahab was a harlot who lived in Jericho, but she risked her life to protect two Israelites and was rewarded for changing sides by sparing her. family and we find it in the genealogy of Christ, written Rachab in Matthew.

The Bible calls us out of Babylon, a metaphor for the confused systems of society. include

**Medical care. This is falsely called ‘health care; but the relationship is inverse. The more we take drugs, the worse our health becomes because the drugs don’t address the real cause, which in most cases is something we put in our mouths, maybe for years. The drug adds the risk of an adverse drug reaction, which is also a leading cause of illness and death. The Greek word is pharmakeia in Revelation 18 which deceives “all nations.” A simple plant-based diet, clean air (no tobacco), and water instead of alcohol, tea, or coffee, with rest, exercise, and prayer will help most people reverse their disease.

** Education. The higher the education, the higher the cost and college education is mostly useless with many subjects that are not necessary for life. All the math that most people need can be learned in elementary school, and we could learn the balance of reading, writing, and speaking in high school along with a good general science course. Why bother most young people with college courses in music, art, math, science, civics, or English literature? It would be better to focus on learning a practical trade where one can make a living. The Bible is full of lessons about life. One of my classmates became impoverished due to tuition and spent most of his life driving a taxi; another went to work at his father’s gas station.

** Government. The Bible depicts the nations of this world as vicious beasts of prey in Daniel 7, largely due to abuse by leaders. This author visited the offices of the US Senate with medical literature to show prescription drugs as a leading cause of illness and death until one senator said: You’re wasting your time, they own us, talking about donations of drugs for his re-election campaign. They are acting in their own selfish interest while refusing to retire on the same basis that we receive.

God gave Israel a law that was based on self-government and the US Constitution was excellent for the same reason that it minimized the need for Washington. The citizen was sovereign with some of his power vested in the state and some of the state power ceded to the federal government, but now that process has been reversed by thugs who don’t care about the Constitution despite their oath.

** Religion. Martin Luther would be in agony if he knew that the movement he started is ending as church leaders are eager to embrace Rome, not seeing her as the harlot of Revelation 17 and fornication with kings is the church’s involvement in the governments. The church wants laws like Laudato Si’ and Dies Domini (Sunday) with Parochiaid to help its institutions.

Benjamin Franklin wisely said: “When a religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not care to support it, its professors are forced to ask the help of the civil society”. power, it’s a sign, I’m afraid, that it’s bad.

Revelation 17 shows a harlot riding on the beast of the New World Order – the image of the beast of Revelation 13, an image or likeness of the Old World Order (papacy) and will involve false worship that will bring the wrath of God, chapter 14. .