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“And it was given to him to give life to the image of the beast, in order that also the image of the beast might speak, and should act, that whosoever should not worship the image of the beast, so that he might be killed.” Revelation 13:15. (Greek Translation)

 

A Theocratic Governing Philosophy Rooted in Roman Catholicism… Tim LaHaye’s novels from a decade ago dictate the plot behind the pre-emptive Strike on Iraq… A Former Editor of First Things reveals Rome’s Battle Plan to Take Over America… Theocons provide the Moral and Theological Roman Imprimatur for Republican Presidents… The Theocon/Vatican Axis… Ratzinger Backs Theocon Position…

 

Former Editor of First Things Warns of Rome’s Takeover of the US Government

 

It is as if Rome’s strategic and tactical battle plan for America’s takeover has just been captured.

 

Origins of Theocon Ideology

 

How the Lord’s Prophecy has Taken Place

 

“The Protestants of the United States will be foremost in stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of spiritualism; they will reach over the Abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power; and under the influence of this threefold union, this country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience.” GC 588

 

The Word of the Lord is being fulfilled to the very letter.

 

Protestantism: Private Wrestling With God and the Word

 

The nature of Protestantism may be seen in Martin Luther, pouring over Scripture, wrestling with God and the Word and his own soul, applying the Word of God to his own soul, then preaching that Word as millions espouse the Word in their own souls.

 

Rome: A Religion of Coercion in the Public Square

 

The nature of Rome may be seen in its focus on the Public Square. It was to the public square that the Inquisitors repaired. It is to the Public Square that the people, the masses are called to stand before the Inquisitors. It is to the people in the Public Square that decrees of the Inquisition are read. It is in the Public Square where people are required to denounce heretics. It is in the Public Square where the Auto-de-Fe is held, as heretics are burned for their faith in the presence of the King, Queen, the Archbishops, the Bishops, the Priests, the Orders, and the people, the public. In the Public Square, the Cathedral is erected. In the Public Square the symbols of Rome are erected-the Virgin Mary, the Cross. In the Public Square, the Eucharistic processions are held. Rome’s religion is the religion of the Public Square, where Church and State are joined together. 

 

Jesus’ Kingdom is Not of This World

 

Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world.” John 18: 36.

 

“[T] oday in the religious world there are multitudes who, as they believe, are working for the establishment of the kingdom of Christ as an earthy and temporal dominion.  They desire to make our Lord the ruler of the kingdoms of this world, the ruler in its courts and camps, its legislative halls, it palaces and market places.  They expect Him to rule through legal enactments, enforced by human authority.   Since Christ is not now here in person, they themselves will undertake to act in His stead, to execute the laws of the kingdom. The establishment of such a kingdom is what the Jews desired in the days of Christ. They would have received Jesus, had He been willing to establish a temporal dominion, to enforce what they regarded as the laws of God, and to make them the expositors of His will and the agents of His authority. However, He said, “My kingdom is not of this world.” John 18:36. He would not accept the earthy throne.” DA 509.  

 

The Founders of America: The Preconditions of Freedom

 

To break the power of Rome in the Public Square and the persecutions of centuries and centuries, the Founders of America saw as the precondition of religious freedom in a pluralistic society the requirement that piety be privatized, thus separating church and state, and creating spiritual space for every American to worship as he or she wishes, without state interference. “In return for this freedom. Believers are expected only to give up the ambition to political rule in the name of their faith-that is, the ambition to bring the whole of social life into conformity with their own inevitably partial and sectarian theological convictions. This is the literal bargain that secures social peace and freedom for all Americans.” Damon Linker, The Theocons, p. 224.

 

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand itself.”

-Thomas Jefferson

 

Separation of Church and State

 

This separation of Church and State, the principles of Protestantism and Republicanism, has established the preconditions for thriving religious life and an extraordinary degree of political stability.

 

‘Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other or his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.”  Thomas Jefferson, letter responding to a committee of the Danbury Baptist Association of Connecticut, January 1, 1802.

 

“It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late revolution. The freeman of America did not wait until usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much soon to forget it. Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish, with the same ease, any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects?”-James Madison, “Memorial and Remonstrance” of 1785 against the  proposal of the House of Delegates of Virginia to provide, through assessments, for teachers of the Christian religion. 

 

A Ruling Theocratic Philosophy

 

It is the work of the Roman Catholic Theocons to forge a “ruling theocratic philosophy” that will return Roman Catholicism to the Public Square, and restore coercive power to Rome by the destruction of Separation of Church and State. This is that story of how it has happened in America, once the land of the free, and home of the brave…

 

Rise of the Theocons

 

Damon Linker, one-time editor of First Things has taken pen in hand to warn the world that Rome is taking over the United States government in a blockbuster new book with a lengthy title and subtitle: The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege: For the past three decades, a few determined men have worked to inject their radical religious ideas into the nations’ politics. This is the story of how they succeeded. (New York: Doubleday, 2006).

 

Roman Catholic Radicals Lead the Theoconservative Movement That Now Sits At the Pinnacle of Political Power

 

Almost all of them Catholic radicals, joined by a few Jews and a Lutheran who converted to Catholicism, straight out of the Jesuit Marxist/pantheistic counter cultural revolution of the 1960s, would become revolutionary leaders of the theoconservative movement that would take over the Republican party and would set out to utterly reshape the culture, politics, and religion of the nation, attempting to offer a comprehensive ideology of Catholic Christianity to the people of America. One of these leaders set out to become a Christian Marx, offering America a comprehensive religious ideology – “a religiously informed public philosophy for the American experiment in ordered liberty.” [Richard John Neuhaus, The Catholic Moment: The Paradox of the Church in the Post-modern World  (New York: Harper & Row, 1987), 284] quoted in Linker, The Theocons, p. 65. 

 

Breathtaking Revisionism: The Theocons Revise American History, Claiming America for Catholicism

 

“In the early 1970s, the theocons proposed… to reveal the numerous ways in which the political system of the United States already presupposed and drew on Catholic-Christian assumptions.” Linker, 69. The theocons drew heavily on Jesuit John Courtney Murray, S.J., who insisted that “the United states was the Western nation that more than nay other had ‘faithfully carried the heritage of Catholic Christendom into the mid-twentieth century.’

 

“It was a breathtaking act of historical revisionism – one in which Catholicism was portrayed not as the enemy of modern liberalism but rather as its true source and indispensable foundation. Indeed, Murray maintained that from the country’s seventeenth-century origins, the American people had tacitly adhered to a Catholic-Christian consensus on moral matters. Linker, 71.

 

The New Catholic Mission: To Save America From Destruction

 

Since the mainline Protestant churches had ceased their appointed function to maintain America’s religious consensus, “the time had come for the Catholic Church to take on this responsibility – to accept the task of preserving and even reconstituting America’s theological essence.

 

Jesuit Murray Claims America Founded on Catholic Medieval Theory: Return to Catholic Roots or Be In Peril

 

“’The issue, Murray boldly claimed, was not whether Catholicism was compatible with democracy; it was whether American democracy could survive unless it reconstructed a public consensus around those ‘elementary affirmations’ upon which it was founded – affirmations whose roots Murray believed were not the original product of the Enlightenment and its American deist heirs, but of the Catholic medieval theory of man and society.’ Either the United States would return to its medieval Catholic roots or the very existence of its democratic order would be imperiled – those were America’s only option.” George Weigel, Catholicism and the Renewal of Democracy, 90, citing Murray, quoted in Linker, p. 72.

 

The Thesis of the Catholic Talk Show Hosts

 

In short, Rome has stepped into the vacuum where once Protestantism held strength, and is now rewriting American history, just as it did in Ireland when she claimed Patrick as her saint, now claiming America as her own enterprise. This is the thesis upon which the Roman Catholic talk shows function every day, educating tens of millions of Americans hour by hour. This is the thesis of the Roman Catholic education now – that the Constitution is a Catholic document, steeped in the writings of the Jesuit Cardinal Bellarmine (1542-1621).  This is the thesis upon which the White House, the majority in Congress, and half the Supreme Court is now functioning.

 

Jesuit Counter Reformation Now Triumphing in America

 

In essence, what we are seeing with the theocons, is the imposition of Jesuit Counter-Reformation concepts from the Jesuit Cardinal Bellarmine and the Futurism of the Jesuit Francisco Ribera applied from the highest levels of the White House and Congress, right down through to the man on the street through the Roman Catholic talk show hosts. The Catholic Counter Reformation, after centuries, is now finally triumphing in America over the dead Protestantism, which is no longer even knows what the Counter Reformation was.

 

Papal Social Encyclicals to Ground the Nation’s Consensus and Public Philosophy

 

The theocons proposed that the Roman Catholic social encyclicals, especially those of John Paul II’s pontificate, should ground the country’s foundational consensus and ultimately serve as an interdenominational ‘public philosophy capable of sustaining the American experiment into its third century.’” –Weigel, Catholicism and the Renewal of Democracy, 93, 94, in Linker, 73.

 

Evangelicals and Catholics Together: An Enormous Theocon Triumph

 

The “Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission for the Third Millennium” document, signed March 29, 1994, was an enormous triumph for the theocons, bringing ‘the intellectual heft of Catholicism together with the zealous religiosity of the evangelicals.” Linker, 84, 85. It provided a vision of America’s religious and political future – a “future in which upholding theological orthodoxy and moral traditionalism overrode doctrinal disagreements, a future in which the most orthodox and traditionalist Christians set the public tone and policy agenda for the nation.” Linker, 86. 

 

Theocons Construct the Image of the Beast, A Replica of Papal Power for the World

 

The religio-political construct designed to create a religio-political ruling philosophy in the United State, developed by these theoconservatives’ ideologues, is easily recognized by the student of Bible prophecy to be the ideological foundations of the formation of the image of the beast, foretold in Revelation 13, a power that would be a replica, or image of the papacy, a power that would require submission of every person on pain of death (Revelation 13:15), a power that would impose the Mark of the Beast (Revelation 13:16-18).

 

 

 

Marxist Template With Roman Catholic Theological Imagination Fused With Evangelical Fervor

 

However, out of the depths of the vortex of Satanic power unleashed by the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit that makes war against the two witnesses of the Old and New Testaments (Revelation 11:7), recognized to be Jesuitical communism, which under the Jesuit front organization of the Illuminati launched by French Revolution, the principles of which were later elaborated in the writings of Karl Marx in 1848, has emerged the organizational template for world revolution which has now been synthesized with the agenda and theological imagination of Roman Catholicism and the fervor of evangelicalism to form a religio-political power that has taken over the nation that was once Protestant, once was Bible believing.  

 

Marching Toward Totalitarianism and Probation’s Close

 

Extremely dangerous forces have now been unleashed in America. So dangerous are these forces that they will result in a totalitarian society the likes of which the world and the universe has never seen. The theoconservative movement has constructed a ruling theological ideology that is an image of papal power. The Bible declares, “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”  Revelation 13:15.

 

A Ruling Theological Ideology

 

Brilliant minds, worked upon mightily in the 1960s by the demonic influences of Jesuit Marxist revolutionary fervor, a power identified in the Bible as “the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit,” the power of the Jesuitical communism unleashed in the French Revolution revealed in Revelation 11, then aligned themselves in the 1970s with various elements of the roman Catholic ultraconservative movement which, in 1955 set out to take over America, have steadily, persistently, sought to construct a “ruling theological ideology’ to impose upon America.

 

Erasing Protestant Memory, Substituting a False Catholic Memory

 

With the Jesuit countercultural revolution of the 1960s, America’s Protestant memory was erased. This is always a primary effect when Jesuitical communism is applied to a nation. Now in the place of Protestantism a Roman Catholic false “memory” is being imposed – a “memory” that is teaching the people that it was Rome and her principles = based on Cardinal Ballarmine and others, instead of Protestantism and the principles of the Word of God, that founded the nation called America, and created the Constitution. 

 

Theocons Concept That American Ideals and Institutions Derive From Catholic Principles and Assumptions

 

Two of the most prominent Theocons – Neuhaus and George Weigel decided to ground their theoconservative movement in concepts derived from Roman Catholicism – and to claim that what they advocated was not the imposition of an alien religious ideology onto an otherwise secular nation but rather the recognition that American ideals and institutions ultimately derive from and depend on Catholic-Christian principles and assumptions.  The theoconservative revolution in American life would be a recovery operation, not an act of innovation…. This is a historical fantasy…” –Damon Linker, The Theocons: Secular American Under Siege, p. 210.

 

There is virtually no one left who understands the truth that it was Protestantism that founded this nation as a Protestant nation. A massive cloud of books and media has arisen to rewrite the history and interpretation of American history, casting it in the mold of Rome. The public voice of Protestantism was effectively silenced forty years ago when the Jesuits took over the culture of the nation in the sixties, and today the last vestige of a tattered Enlightenment philosophy is fighting a rear guard action as the power unleashed by the Jesuits in culture in the sixties has collapsed the Enlightenment, preparing the way for Rome’s takeover.

 

A Protestant Government

 

The Lord through His servant, declares that ours was originally a Protestant government: “If, in our land of boasted freedom, a Protestant government should sacrifice every principle which enters into the Constitution, and propagate papal falsehood and delusion, well may we plead, “It is time for thee, Lord, to work, for they have made void thy law.” RH 12-18-88

 

Soon Almost No One Will Know America’s Protestant Heritage

 

Soon almost no one will know the truth of America’s founding as a Protestant nation. Soon almost no one will remember that it was Protestantism that gave the Bill of Rights. Protestantism has been erased from having a voice in the public square, and Rome’s voice is increasingly heard in the vacuum created by Jesuitical Marxism’s ideology.

 

Three Unclean Spirits Lead to Armageddon

 

“And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

 

“For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God almighty…

 

“And he gathered them together into a place in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.”  Revelation 16: 13,14, 16.

 

A vacuum now exists where once the mighty power of Protestantism, founded on the Word, held sway. Spinning ferociously into that vacuum are the forces led by the three unclean spirits of Revelation 16:13 that come out of the mouth of the dragon (spiritualism which includes Jesuitical communism or Marxism), the mouth of the beast (Rome) and the mouth of the false prophet (apostate Protestantism which teaches salvation in sin [as did all the false Old Testament prophets such as Hannaniah in the book of Jeremiah], and Islam, which rests upon the false prophet Muhammad [a religion launched by Rome) that will lead the world to Armageddon. The whirlwind is coming…and coming fast.   

 

Out of the Mouths

 

The fact that the unclean spirits emerge out of the mouths of these powers is significant. It is their ideology, their teaching, and their words that devils use to lead the world to Armageddon.

 

Rome Rides to Power on the Revolutionary Fervor of Jesuitical Communism, or Marxism

 

The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition; and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they beheld the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.” Revelation 17:8.

 

Furthermore, the beast (Rome) comes back to power riding on the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit-Jesuitical communism, the same power described in Revelation 11:7, which launched the French Revolution.  Theoconservative ideology takes the thinking of the beast power and drives it with the revolutionary fervor of Jesuitical Marxism, the power of the bottomless pit.

 

Cousins: Neocons and Theocons, Working Together to Fulfill Revelation 13

 

The work of the ideology of the neocons, the neoconservatives, is to project American power over the entire world. The template of their ideology is the Peloponnesian War-the struggle between the democracy of Athens and the militaristic state of Sparta. While the neoconservatives have as their work the projection of American power over all the world in fulfillment of Revelation 13, their cousins, the theoconservatives work is to erect the image of the Roman hierarchy over the domain carved out by their cousins the neocons. The neocons had their Marxist birth as Trotskyites, theocons in the Jesuitical counter Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. Both neocons and theocons then merged their Marxist fervor of global revolution with right-wing conservative ideology. Both ideologies have now a ruling place in our nation.

 

 

 

 

 

Engaging the Issues of the Day

 

‘There are those now living, in studying the prophecies of Daniel and John, received great light from God as they passed over the ground where special prophecies were in process of fulfillment in their order. They bore the message of time to the people. The truth shone out clearly as the sun at noonday. Historical events, showing direct fulfillment of prophecy, were set before the people, and the prophecy was seen to be a figurative delineation of events leading down to the close of this earth’s history. The scenes connected with the working of the man of sin are the last features plainly revealed in this earth’s history. The people now have a special message to give to the world, the third angel’s message. Those who, in their experience, have passed over the ground, and acted a part in the proclamation of the first, second, and third angels’ messages, are not so liable to be led into false paths as those who have not had an experimental knowledge of the people of God…” 2 SM 102.

 

In every generation God has sent His servants to rebuke sin, both in the world and in the church. However, the people desire smooth things spoken to them, and the pure, unvarnished truth is not acceptable.  Many reformers, in entering upon their work, determined to exercise great prudence in attacking the sins of the church and the nation. They hoped, by the example of a pure Christian life, to lead the people back to the doctrines of the Bible. However, the Spirit of God came upon them as it came upon Elijah, moving him to rebuke the sins of a wicked king and an apostate people; they could not refrain from preaching the plain utterances of the Bible—doctrines which they had been reluctant to present. They were impelled to zealously declare the truth and the danger that threatened souls. The words that the Lord gave them they uttered, fearless of consequences, and the people were compelled to hear the warning.” GC 606.

 

Engaging the Spiritual Condition of the World and the Church   

 

The Old Testament prophets engaged the spiritual condition of their day in power. John the Baptist, the mightiest man of Israel until the showing of the Christ, sought to bring the nation to repentance. However, God could not bring Israel to the place where He alone had their undivided attention, to where they would listen to Him alone, trust in Him alone, walk with Him alone. Instead of humility and obedience, Jesus found pride and rebellion. “He came to His own, and His own received Him not.” John 1:11.

 

490 Years of Probationary Time

 

Strange indeed is the perversity of rebellion. Israel of old flattered herself that she was the chosen of God, the ones for whom the great miracles of the Old Testament times had been worked. She became so self-centered, so proud, that God gave her 490 years of probation-the seventy weeks of Bible prophecy recorded in Daniel 9: 24-27. When the long-hoped for messiah came, Israel was so self-satisfied as a nation, so fixated upon themselves, that they saw in Him no beauty that they should desire him (Isaiah 53:2), they despised and rejected Him, their only hope. Their self-will, their demonic control, was more precious to them than the Messiah Himself, God in human flesh, and His gracious teachings from heaven.

 

And so, it is today. There is a time of probation allotted to men-to individuals, to cities (Matthew 11: 21-24), and to nations (Daniel 5: 18-28). The time of Israel’s probation finally ran out at the end of the seventy weeks of Bible prophecy in AD34 with the stoning of Stephen (Acts 7). Israel was given 490 years to straighten up-“Seventy weeks are determined (cut off) upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.” Daniel 9:24.

 

Stephen Delivered God’s Riv, or Covenant Lawsuit

 

Instead of welcoming God in human flesh, instead of laying aside all else to pay attention to Him, learn from Him, and obey Him, thus bringing in everlasting righteousness, they murdered him on the cross-the most cruel form of death known by the Romans. “Crucify Him, Crucify Him,” the mob cried. And probation ran out at the end of the seventy weeks in AD 34, where Stephen, a preaching deacon, was stoned to death for delivering God’s riv, it is called in Hebrew, God’s covenant lawsuit, to them.

 

If We Do Not Engage the Issues of the Day We Will Never Give the Loud Cry

 

If we do not engage the issues of our day, just as did Elijah, John the Baptist, the prophets, and Jesus, we will never know what has hit us when everything comes unglued and Rome’s sudden shock hits the nation and the church. Moreover, we most certainly will never give the Loud Cry or Second and Third Angels’ Messages.

 

God Has Raised Up Men to Accurately Delineate the Formation of the Image of the Beast

 

God, in His mercy, has raised up men who are now portraying mightily the danger that threatens the nation and the world, detailing for us exactly how the “ruling religio-political ideology” that constructs the image of the beast began, developed, and took power. It behooves us to pay attention to Bible prophecy and its historical fulfillment, just as it did William Miller, A. T. Jones, and all the early founders of God’s remnant last-day movement. They studied, they searched history, and they went and found the most obscure and yet essential historical fulfillment of the delineation of Bible prophecy. We can do no less today.

 

The Players in Theocon Ideology

 

What are the forces involved in the construction of this ruling religio-political ideology?

 

Marxism: Developed by the Jesuits in Paraguay from 1600-1750 amongst the Guarani Indians, based on Plato’s Republic, the leopard Greek elements of papal power (Revelation 13:2), under the Jesuit front organization of the Illuminati, were unleashed in the French Revolution. The story is told in Revelation 11 and the Great Controversy, pages 265-288. This is the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit to make war on the two witnesses-the Bible and the Holy Spirit that work through the 144,000 servants of God. Revelation 11:3-14.

 

The worldwide dissemination of the teachings of the French Revolution will result in the same globally in a reign of terror around the globe. Ed. 228. This power already slaughtered one hundred million souls in the Twentieth Century. For documentation read The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Courtois, Werth, Panne, Paczkowski, Bartosek, and Margolin, tr. Jonathan Murphy and mark Kramer. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999). All these authors are French, Poles, or Czechs. Not one American apparent among them. Is communism dead? Hardly, when there are over 10,000 Marxist professors in over 400 universities in America.

 

Roman Catholicism: This is the seat of Satan’s power on the earth. “This compromise between paganism and Christianity resulted in the development of “the man of sin” foretold in prophecy as opposing and exalting himself above God.  That gigantic system of false religion is a masterpiece of Satan’s power – a monument of his efforts to seat himself upon the throne to rule the earth according to his will.” GC 50. This is the power that the testimony of Jesus in Revelation 17:6 describes as “drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.” Conservative historians of the 19th century place the slaughter by this power at one hundred million. Now Rome is roaring back to power.

 

The theocons draw on Jesuit theology-such as John Courtney Murray, S.J. and Jesuit Cardinal Bellarmine, and Papal Social Encyclicals to fit into the Marxist template of global revolution.

 

The Evangelicals: The theological ideology of the theocons-a synthesis, or weaving together, of the thinking and ideology of these two most dangerous powers on earth, has been adopted by the evangelicals, and espoused by a political party that now rules all three branches of government. The most serious portent now faces the nation and the world. It will culminate in the global imposition of the mark of the beast. Revelation 13: 16-18. 



   
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