What I am about to share reminds me something a brother in the faith told me many years ago that while he was in Jerusalem he was harassed and threatened with arrest for reading Isaiah 53 out-loud on the street one day. As we know, not only is Isaiah 53 still in the Jewish version of their very own Bible, that entire chapter clearly confirms that Jesus Christ really is the Messiah in amazing prophetic detail that they cannot deny and that is why it’s illegal to read that chapter in any Jewish city to this day.
It appears this type of persecution is growing as expected. And just so you know, I did a Newsletter on the Bible being tagged “Hate Literature” back in September of 2003 when Canadian leaders declared the Bible a “hate crime” with a jail term of up to 5 years behind bars when Scripture is shared with homosexuals, polygamists and even pedophiles no less. I also did a Newsletter titled “hating the Christian” that became an actual page on my website due to the number of attacks on Christians growing in number the last few years. On that page I show how the powers that be were able to mix racial crimes with religious crimes, even though the numbers for each category were nowhere near the same. They did this to add political importance to religious differences so as to make preaching Christian truth a hate crime. This was done simply because Biblical truth is about to cause many people to discover why the mark of the beast is a religious law. And now, we see this happening in the U.K…
- https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/11/28/uk-govt-prosecutors-argue-parts-bible-no-longer-appropriate-modern-society/
- https://dailysceptic.org/2022/11/26/crown-prosecution-service-say-it-is-no-longer-appropriate-to-quote-some-passages-from-the-bible-in-public/
- https://www.newsletter.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/fears-raised-about-freedom-of-expression-as-prosecutors-say-it-is-no-longer-appropriate-to-quote-parts-of-the-bible-in-public-3932439
All I can say to those obedient Christians in that or any country on earth that are dealing with this expected persecution; we are to stand firm in Christ and trust the Lord with the courage and faith to declare the same thing the apostle Peter did 2000 years ago when they tried to stop him and the other apostles from preaching the Word of God openly in the streets. In Acts 5:29 it says that “..Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.”
I know this may be a silly question as most, if not all of my subscribers already know the answer to this question; but who do you think is behind this anti-Christian hatred of God’s Word that is spreading all over the world? Here are just a few of many quotes from the Vatican in Rome…
“Do you allow your flock to read the Bible at all?” said a writer in the Contemporary Review to a friend of his, a parish priest. “No, sir, I do not; you forget that I am a physician, not a poisoner of souls.” –Contemporary Review April, 1894, p. 576.
The decree set forth in the year 1229 A.D. by the Council of Valencia literally places the Bible on the Index of forbidden books wherein it is declared that, “it is forbidden for laymen (common man) to read the Old and New Testaments. – We forbid them most severely to have the above books in the popular vernacular.” “The lords of the districts shall carefully seek out the heretics in dwellings, hovels, and forests, and even their underground retreats shall be entirely wiped out.“ Council Tolosanum, Pope Gregory IX, Anno. Chr. 1229
“Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies… pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.” The encyclical Quanta Cura Issued by Pope Pius IX, December 6, 1866
And no, the Vatican hasn’t changed at all for those of us that understand both historic record, prophetic truths and modern day Vatican politics, not too many years ago they declared this to all the world;
“The Vatican criticized a literal interpretation of the Bible and said the fundamentalist approach to scripture was a kind of intellectual suicide. …It noted that a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible had been gaining strength. The Vatican is increasingly concerned about the number of Catholics, especially in Latin America, who have abandoned the church for fast-growing fundamentalist sects. The fundamentalist approach is dangerous, for it is attractive to people who look to the Bible for ready answers to the problems of life, the document said.” -VATICAN CITY, Italy -(The Star, 1994 Manila, Philippines)
By the way, the Vatican term fundamentalist, is nothing more than a derogatory way of trying to make conservative or Protestant Christians that trust the Bible above the doctrines and traditions of the Popes, look bad for trusting Christ over Popes, prelates and so-called learned men.
In another recent article we see that the AP reported that…
“A new Vatican document on how to interpret the Bible condemns the fundamentalist approach of word-for-word literalism as distorting, dangerous and possibly leading to racism.” -Vatican City (Associated Press) -March 19,1994.
You know that that reminds me of? Back in the year 2000 “A group of religious leaders in Chicago… urged Southern Baptists to cancel plans to send missionaries into their city this coming summer because seeking to convert others “could contribute to a climate conducive to hate crimes.” -The Seattle Times Company (art. “WHO DECLARED OPEN SEASON ON PUBLIC RELIGIOUS SPEECH?”)
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