Featured John R. Rice and the Antichrist

Dr. John R. Rice, a religious Baptist, asks,” Was Pope John Paul 1 a born-again Christian?”

Rice answers, “We can hope that he was, though we are not sure.”

Unlike Dr. Rice, several million Christians who lacked his affluence, influence, education and popularity knew why it was impossible for Pope John Paul 1 or any Pope for that matter to be a born-again Christian.

If it is possible for the dragon, Satan, to repent and follow Christ in humble obedience, then it is also possible for Satan’s vicar, the scarlet beast Antichrist, to repent, leaving the Synagogue of Satan to join the humble, lowly Church of Jesus Christ.

But it is not possible.

The gift of repentance has not been granted them.

God has said so thousands of years beforehand.

And He will not change His mind.

Satan will one day be cast into the Lake of Fire, as will the then reigning Pope of Rome upon Christ’s one-time only public, very loud, very glorious Return in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God.

The Popes of Rome know not God.

They worship Him neither in Spirit nor truth.

Rather, they blaspheme His name, His Son, His atonement, His Spirit, and His people.

Paul declares the Popes cursed for preaching a false Gospel.

For the Roman Catholic Gospel requires:

• faith in their Church, its anti-biblical traditions and teachings;

• faith in their Popes as infallible prophets when speaking on issues of faith and morals, and who, by the way, also possess the very keys of Heaven and Hell;

• faith in their breaden god whom they can conjure at will, calling it ‘Agnus Dei’, the Lamb of God;

• faith in the supererogatory merits and miracles of their saints;

• faith in their priests who are called ‘another Christ’;

• faith in their confessional absolutions, and, of course,

• faith in the Virgin Mary as well as her innumerable appearances worldwide throughout the centuries.

The Popes have authorized persecutions, Crusades and Inquisitions which have imprisoned, maimed, starved, tortured, burned and beheaded millions of innocent Christians.

Why?

Because born-again Christians refused to believe the Eucharist cracker of the Mass transubstantiated into the literal person of Jesus Christ which could then be offered to the Father as a propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead.

Yet the erudite Dr. Rice could not be sure as to the spiritual nature of Pope John Paul 1.

Of his replacement, Pope John 23, Dr. Rice has more assurance.

“But about Pope John 23, there is some sweet evidence of a forgiven heart, of a trusting soul, of one who personally knew the Lord Jesus and loved and trusted him.”



Lifted high on a throne, His Holiness Pope John 23 enjoys the praise and worship of a sea of faithful followers.

He sits amidst ostrich plumes dressed in kingly robes, wearing a golden two-horned miter while carrying a scepter of authority in what can only be described as a perverse pompous pagan procession.

Jesus answered and said unto Dr. Rice, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.

 

The growing list of famous and highly revered professing Christian leaders who embrace the Papacy can only be described as proof the mystery of iniquity doth already work….deceiving those whose names are not written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. (Rev. 13:8; Rev. 17:8)

Jerry Falwell: “Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II are the greatest men in my lifetime.” (National Catholic Register, May 9, 1982)

“Extremists who declare that the Papacy is anti-Christ, or who dehumanize others with emotive declarations of their own bigotry, are insensitive to others and lack the love of Christ.”(The March1985 issue of Falwell’s Fundamentalist Journal , page 14.)

“The Rev. Jerry Falwell says the Antichrist is probably alive today and is a male Jew. Mr. Falwell says he also believes that the second coming of Christ will probably happen within 10 years.” (NY Times, Jan. 16, 1999)

Pat Robertson on the passing of Pope John Paul II:”I am deeply grieved as a great man passes from this world to his much deserved eternal reward.” http://www.cbn.com/about/pressrelease_popejohnpaulII0504.aspx

Trinity Broadcasting Network acknowledges the greatness of Pope John Paul II:



Their bookstore carries numerous titles which promote the false Gospel of Roman Catholic Idolatry:

http://www.understandthetimes.org/paulcrouchletter.shtml

According to famous anti-Calvinist Futurist Teacher Dave Hunt, famous Arminian TV Futurist Promoter Jack Van Impe called the Pope a born-again Christian:

“…..But Jack is not speaking the truth when he supports Roman Catholicism. He uses the faults of some who oppose its false teaching in the wrong spirit to excuse himself from bringing correction in the right way. Unfortunately, instead of correcting Roman Catholics in order to rescue them from hell, he tells them they’re okay.

“He claims that the Catechism of the Catholic Church is mostly biblical. In fact, it is filled with the unbiblical teachings of Rome. Jack called the Pope a born-again Christian. He knows better, so how he can with good conscience so badly lead Catholics and others astray is a mystery. God knows his heart, but we must judge what he says.

“No Bible-believing person could ever call the Catechism of the Catholic Church even 20 percent biblical! Instead of rescuing Catholics with the truth, Jack is encouraging them with flattery on their way to the Lake of Fire, robbing multitudes of salvation in Christ!” (Jan. 14, 2013 https://www.facebook.com/TheRealDaveHunt/posts/10152438329040175)

NB: Mr. Hunt passed on April 5, 2013 and is now no longer an anti-Calvinist Futurist after taking a personal meeting with the Lord and His myriads of martyrs.

 

Let’s examine what Scripture says:

Without holiness no man shall see the Lord

Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ

But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

All the religious leaders named in my many posts who either claim the Popes to be great men of God, born again of the Spirit of God, or claim, in their judgment, the Pope exhibits the sweet evidence of Christ in his life and, as such, stands a blessed chance of having been born again.

These religious men have no understanding of what it means ‘to be born again.’

The necessity of the new spiritual birth is due to the total depravity -- the all-encompassing sinful nature -- of our first fleshly birth.

Nothing in us is left sinless.

Holiness can only come through the effectual work of the Holy Spirit.

To insinuate holiness in the leader of Mystery Babylon, the Church of Rome, the apostate church predicted in 2 Thess. 2 and 1 Tim. 4 (who fell away from the true faith it once held), is to insinuate:

(1) The grace of God is not able to effectually sanctify, through belief in the truth, the very man who claims to be the Vicar of Christ and yet remains willfully opposed to eternal truth at every turn.

(2) The Spirit of God is not able to make a new creation out of the Vicar of Christ, leaving him in his original sinful, idolatrous state.

(3) God is a liar when He says what is impossible with man is possible with God.

(4) God is a liar when He says sanctification and belief in the truth go irresistibly hand in hand.

(5) God is a liar when he says His calling is to holiness.

(5) Idolatry – spiritual fornication – is not unclean or unholy.

(6) Worshiping other gods is not unclean or unholy.

(7) Usurping the offices of Christ is not unclean or unholy.

1st Conclusion: If those things be true, then we might as well burn our Bibles and declare private opinion to be the standard of our faith and conduct.

2nd Conclusion: But these things are not true. Therefore, the Popes of Rome never had the Spirit and grace of God, though they are called 'His Holiness' and 'Holy Father.'

3rd Conclusion: The fact that the religious leaders named in my previous posts either do not understand or believe what it really means to be born of the Spirit – i.e. to be led out of the unclean and into that which is holy -- is proof that they, themselves, have not the Spirit and grace of God.

For if they had the Spirit and grace of God, that Spirit of truth would have infallibly and powerfully revealed these essential truths to these most respected religious leaders who claim God’s calling to the ministry.

But, alas, He did not.

These men have a form of godliness, but deny the power thereof.......

........the power to cleanse and make holy.

For those whom He calls He actually and powerfully sanctifies by His Spirit through belief in the truth.

RE: Your initial question…..The power and grace of God is absolutely effectual in opening the blind eyes and deaf ears of those Elect in the Church of Rome.

Christ is the good Shepherd who leads His people out of apostasy into the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Remember, we are not talking about side issues.

We are discussing what it actually means to be born again of the Spirit of the living God.

We are talking about God’s plan, purpose, and power to save.

Sanctification is an ongoing process.

The new or young believer is not held to the same rigorous standard as are those religious leaders who are lifted up, having millions of followers believing their every word or judgment.

The Bottom Line: In eternity when God chose to love a sinner, He also determined to save that same sinner from his sinful uncleanness.

And God always accomplishes His purposes……..which why He is God and there is no other.

declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose (ESV)

 

Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,

40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

42 Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:

43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

 

Fasten your seatbelt, you're in for a very bumpy ride, Mr. Wannabe Outta Here. :thumbs:

 

Amen and Amen!

 

So true. What the secret Rapture Futurists neglect to grasp is the fact that according to their doctrine there is no reason for them to scour current events or postulate future events which include their mysterious unknowable Antichrist because they will not be here on earth to identify him or warn others that he is come.

They and they alone will escape great tribulation.
They and they alone need not fight the good fight.
They and they alone need not be Christian soldiers.
For when the going gets tough, they will be going........far away from the fight.

 

Do I discern a prophecy has just been uttered?

Goodness, gracious. I knew not there was a Charismatic hiding under Baptist wool.

But before I believe you the Lord has set up a few ground rules:

1. You must have other witnesses who agree to the truth of the prophecy.
2. The prophecy must come to pass.

So I ask, who on this Board will step forward in agreement that the world will be united by an Islamic extremist terrorist?

Perhaps the good 'Reverend'?