The Greatest Exposure is Happening at this Time – Part 4

Now I’ll move on to something else I learned as I was doing a study on Revelation with the deceased Chuck Missler. It was very informative but mind blowing at times. I had a hard time keeping up with Mr. Missler. He was a brilliant man and is way over my head, but with the scroll back button, a lot of note taking and reading what he wanted you to read while doing this study, I got quite a lot out of it. The main thing that stuck with me was so mind boggling because I never ever heard anything like this before about the Catholic religion. I’m not a Catholic, nor did I ever have any desire to be, but it’s a very prominent religion that has a heck of a lot of money attached to it, plus quite a lot of scandal as well.

Where scandal is concerned – the sexual sins of priests – is no wonder. Who would ever have enforced a rule that men can’t marry? Even Bishops married in the Old Testament. Paul says in 1Corinthians 7:9, “But if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.”  That’s the Bible’s way to not sin outside of marriage. 

Celibacy in the priesthood started to be pushed as early as 325 A.D., again in 1070 and enforced in 1123 and 1139. This was never something they got from the Bible. This was something they were using to show people how devout priests were. Yet, the Bible states that if you don’t have the gift of self-control, get married. It’s no wonder priests turned to homosexuality, prostitution and many other forms of sexual gratification over the years. We are human and sexual temptation by God’s arch enemy, Satan, is one of his most devious ways to corrupting people. But that’s man’s overblown arrogance for you - to think that he can control the most prominent desire put into human beings.

But that’s only the tip of the iceberg where Catholicism is concerned. It’s worse than I ever dreamed. Here goes:

The “Holy Roman Empire” lasted 1000 years until Napoleon brought it to an end in 1806.

The Isidorian Decretals:  Nicholas I (858-867) was the first Pope to wear a crown. It was about this time (857) that a book appeared, “The Isidorian Decretals,” which claimed to be letters and decrees of Bishops and Councils of the 2^nd and 3rd centuries. (Centuries later they were discovered to be deliberate forgeries.) They were designed to exalt the power of the Pope, stamping the Papacy with the authority of antiquity, antedating the Pope’s temporal power by five centuries. They are regarded as the most colossal literary fraud in history.

Up to 869 all Ecumenical Councils had been held in or near Constantinople, and in the Greek language. Nicholas undertook to interfere in the affairs of the Eastern Church. He excommunicated Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople, who in turn excommunicated him. The claims of the Roman Church became unbearable and the East finally separated itself. The breach became wider through the centuries. The brutal treatment of Constantinople by the armies of Pope Innocent II during the Crusades, and the creation of the dogma of Papal Infallibility in 1870 deepened the chasm even more.

9th century:  Eastern Church separated itself from the West (Rome). The East:  Primitive Christianity plus Greek and Oriental paganism.  The West:  Primitive Christianity plus Greek and Roman paganism.

The Rule of the Harlots (904-963)

The 200 years between Nicholas I and Gregory VII (870-1050) are called the “midnight of the Dark Ages.” Bribery, corruption, immorality, and bloodshed mark this blackest chapter of the church. Sergius III (904-911) had a mistress, Marozia. She, her mother Theodora, and her sisters filled the Papal chair with paramours (a lover, especially one in a relationship with a married person) and bastard sons and turned the Papal den into a den of robbers. This is called in history “the Rule of the Harlots” (904-963).

John X (914-928) was brought from Ravena to Rome and made Pope by Theodora for her more convenient gratification. He was smothered to death by Marozia, who then in succession raised to the Papacy Leo VI (928 929), Stephen VII (929-931), and John XI (931-936), her own illegitimate son. 

Another of her sons appointed the four following Popes: Leo VII (936-939), Stephen VIII (939 942), Martin III (942-946), and Agapetus II (946-955). John XII (955-963), a grandson of Marozia, was guilty of almost every crime; he violated virgins and widows, lived with his father’s mistress, made the Papal Palace a brothel, and was killed while in the act of adultery by the woman’s enraged husband.

The Descent Continues (1012-1047)

Benedict VIII (1012 -1024) and John XIX (1024-1033) bought the Office of the Pope with open bribery. Benedict IX (1022-045) was made Pope as a boy 12 years old, through a money bargain with the powerful families that ruled Rome. He committed murders and adulteries in broad daylight, robbed pilgrims on the graves of martyrs, (a hideous criminal) and the people drove him out of Rome. Some call him the worst of all the Popes.

There were three rival Popes in 1045 - 1046:  Benedict IX. Gregory VI, and Sylvester III. Rome swarmed with hired assassins.  Clement II (1046-1047) was appointed Pope by Emperor Henry III of Germany “because no Roman clergyman could be found who was free of the pollution of simony (the buying or selling of a church office or ecclesiastical advancement) and fornication.”

Golden Age of Papal Power (1049-1294)

The cry for reform was answered by Hildebrand who led the Papacy into its Golden Age (1049-1294). He controlled five successive administrations prior to his own: Leo IX (1049-1054); Victor II (1055-1057); Stephen IX (1057-1058); Nicolas II (1059 1061); and Alexander II (1061-1073). He became Gregory VII (1073-1085) and undertook a major reform, especially simony. Practically all bishops and priests purchased their offices from the kings and this brought him in conflict with King Henry IV, Emperor of Germany. Devastating wars followed and Italy was devastated by the opposing armies. Gregory was eventually driven from Rome and died in exile. But he had succeeded in making the Papacy independent of Imperial power.

Innocent III (1198-1216) (Don’t let the name fool you)

Innocent III (1198-1216) was the most powerful of all the Popes. He claimed to be “Vicar of Christ,” “Vicar of God,” “Supreme Sovereign over the Church and the World.” “All things on earth and in heaven and in hell are subject to the Vicar of Christ.” The kings of Germany, France, England, and practically all the monarchs in Europe obeyed his will, including the Byzantine Empire. Never in history has any one man exerted more power. He ordered two crusades; decreed transubstantiation, confirmed auricular confession, declared papal infallibility, condemned the Magna Carta, forbade the reading of the Bible in the vernacular, instituted the Inquisition, ordered the extermination of heretics, etc. More blood was shed under his direction and that of his immediate successors than in any other period of church history (except in the Papacy’s effort to crush the Reformation in the 16th and 17th centuries).

I’m going to stop here for now.  All this is going to be difficult to swallow, but more is coming. I personally, can’t see why anyone would want to be joined to this religion, knowing where it came from and how it progressed into what it is today, still corrupt, covering up crimes, sexual perversions and now Pope Francis saying, “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?” And yet he’s worried about homosexuality within the priesthood. Me thinks this guy is screwed up! Doesn’t know which way to go and is a double minded man and is unstable in all his ways (James 1:8).