POPES DEFECTION

Does Pope Francis Have All the Markers of An Apocalyptic Figure? � By Jan Markell - https://harbingersdaily.com/does-pope-francis-have-all-the-markers-of-an-apocalyptic-figure/ I am cautious about �pinning the tail� on the Antichrist and the False Prophet. We cannot know ahead of time who these personalities are; however, Pope Francis comes closeto �filling the bill� on the False Prophet. Or he may be but a �type� of that man just like there are many �types� of the Antichrist throughout history. I think the devil has always had a candidate for the Antichrist waiting in the wings as he doesn�t knowwhen the final generation is. The False Prophet is described in Revelation 13:11-15. He is also referred to as the �second beast� (Revelation 16:13, 19:20, 20:10). Together with the Antichrist and Satan,who empowers both of them, the False Prophet is the third party in the unholy trinity. Pope Francis is revealing himself to be a blatant Marxist. He has also pulled back from issues Catholics have considered sacred. He apparently has replaced abortion with socialjustice and environmentalism. Most troubling, however, is his call for a �new world order� and that there be a global constitution, a global court and a one-world government. Scripture is clear that the Antichrist will be the head of a one-world government(Revelation 13). Even conservative Catholics are sounding a warning that Pope Francis�the first Jesuit Pope�may be the most troubling Pope ever. He is raising apocalyptic concerns and somein the eschatological community feel that he, indeed, has gotten the nod to be the False Prophet. Roger Oakland, a former Catholic, writes, �According to Bible prophecy, a one-world religion that will offer the promise of peace throughout the world is going to commenceprior to Christ�s return. To most, this global body will seem like a wonderful thing and very possibly will be a pseudo-Christianity (coming in the Name of Christ); however, contrary to how the masses will view it, it will actually help establish and set upthe Antichrist and his one-world government.� He continues, �In order for this to happen, all religions must come together in an ecumenical plan. Today, as part of this Satanic scheme, the evangelical/Protestant churchis being drawn seductively into the Roman Catholic Church, largely through what we call �the Jesuit agenda.� Incredibly, while the evidence is obvious to some, the majority of proclaiming Christians are not at all aware it is happening.� Oakland concludes, �So what should we expect if we are in the time when such a system unfolds? First, many who once were Protestant and Evangelical will become ecumenical.Second, all religions will unite in solidarity of purpose. Understanding the Jesuit agenda is essential if we are to understand how this worldwide deception will come about.� Francis, in 2014, sent a video message to Kenneth Copeland urging reconciliation between Catholics and Charismatics, a move cheered by Copeland�s audience. The video�s introductionwas delivered by a friend of Francis, Anglican Episcopal Bishop Tony Palmer, who told Copeland�s audience that �Catholic and Charismatic renewal is the hope of the Church.� Pope Francis is making a plea for the union of many faiths. He reportedly has said, �Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Jehovah, Allah. These are all names employed to describe an entitythat is distinctly the same across the world.� He opened the door to Muslim prayers at the Vatican. Can you say one-world religion? Pope Francis has spoken at the White House, Congress, and the U.N. pushing climate change and �sustainable development� which is again all about global government! One hasto wonder where he fits the gospel into his agenda. It doesn�t appear as though it does. One writer calls him a �wolf in Pope�s clothing.� Put it all together: Marxism, environmentalism, new world order, global government, sustainable development, the Jesuit agenda, unity of faiths, a global constitution, a globalcourt, a departure from Catholic traditions. We live in interesting times. And the hour is very late. --------------------------- Pope’s Defection – A Key End Times Signal – Terry James - https://terryjamesprophecyline.com/2024/02/19/popes-defection-a-key-end-times-signal/ Christendom is a word I view as designed by secularists of the world to encompass their misunderstood view of what comprises True Christianity. Under this misunderstanding,all who claim to be Christians are, according to this worldly definition, Christians. All fall under the term Christendom. There are many sects, faiths, and religious systems that the secularists include within their favored term to encapsulate, to one degree or the other, religious belief inand spiritual embrace of the figure called Jesus Christ. These are each and every one false. In my own view of what it means to be a Christian, there is but one system of faith. There is no other person, method, or anything else that can make a person a Christian.That Faith system, the Bible –God’s Word—tells us that Jesus Christ alone is the Savior of mankind. The person is a Christian who accepts without question what Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but by me” (John14:6). There is nothing that stands between God and the human being other than Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten (born in the flesh) Son. It is with this Truth from God’s Word –the Bible—that I must somewhat qualify, or perhaps explain, the title of this article. Pope’s defection – a key end times signal The Catholic system of belief –of which there are several versions—often is separated by those commentating on the Catholic faith as differing from mere Christianity. Thisis, presumably, because those devotees to that system consider their Catholic Church as the only True Church to the exclusion of others that left as part of the Reformation and since have divided into multiple factions of Protestantism. Catholicism says there are layers of mediators between God and mankind, i.e., one must confess to a priest, who might take the confession to the Mother of God (Mary), who,again, presumably might take the confession to the Son (Jesus) Who then, presumably takes the confession and obtains the forgiveness necessary from God the Father. At least, this is my –a neophyte in comprehension of the Catholic system— cursory understandingof how the Catholic system of mediation works. I cannot even begin to accept this for many reasons, but to name just one reason, I offer this Truth from God’s Holy Word. “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim 2:5). Now, I write all of the above in order to try to explain how the Catholic pope –Pope Francis—has “defected” and why this “defection” is a key end times signal. My belief in Christ alone for salvation precludes my counting the pope as within Christianity, but rather under the Christendom umbrella posited by the secularists, as I’vetried to show above. So, when I say that Pope Francis has “defected,” I don’t mean that he has, in my view, defected from the True Christian Faith. In my view, because of the Catholic Church’s declaration that there are a number of mediators between God and Man (as just one reason in this regard), this pope –or any otherpope—can’t defect from a faith system under which they’ve never been. This said, this pope, Pope Francis, has defected from that faith system –Catholicism—which has in common with True Christianity the belief that God finds homosexuality tobe an egregious sin of an abominable sort. This agreement between the True Christian Faith and the Catholic faith does point starkly to the defection that this pope champions. The following helps make understandable the end times apostasy at this late hour of the Church Age (Age of Grace). Pope Francis is now accusing opponents of priestly gay-couple blessings of being hypocrites when, in fact, his blessing of homosexual relations and calling it good is hypocrisy.According to Francis, all the holy popes, bishops, and saints of Church history were hypocrites because they denied blessings to gay couples and barred them from the Church. In a recent interview, Francis expressed his strongest words thus far concerning his decision to bless homosexual couples. He told NBC: “Nobody gets scandalized if I give my blessings to a businessman who perhaps *exploits people, and this is a very grave sin. But they get scandalized if I give them to a homosexual,Pope Francis, via ‘Credere.’ This is Hypocrisy.” This is a highly inappropriate comparison and reflects an obstinate attempt to continue his blessing of homosexual unions. His argument holds no water. Comparing a businessmanto a homosexual makes as much sense as comparing a carpenter to a rapist. A carpenter, by definition, is a responsible working man, whereas a homosexual, by definition, is a sex offender on the path to perdition. Businessmen generally are responsible peopleworking to support their families, unlike homosexuals whose criminal lives “cry to heaven for vengeance.” If a businessman comes to a priest for a blessing, it means he truly wants this blessing for his soul and for success in his work, so the priest should bless him. And whilehe might commit some sins or faults in his work, that’s not a reason to deny him a blessing. “A just man shall fall seven times” (Proverbs 24:16) and then rises. Whereas, if a homosexual couple comes to a priest for a blessing, it’s because they want their shameful relationship blessed. Were it otherwise, they wouldn’t dare to approachthe priest ‘holding hands’ together. They want their gay union blessed, so Francis blesses it because he is a gay sympathizer. He is blessing their homosexual aspirations, not their souls, thereby working their eternal ruin, and then he calls it “good.” Thatis hypocrisy! Source: Francis: Opponentsof Clerical Gay Couple Blessings are ‘Hypocrites,’ by David Martin, Canada Free Press, February 8, 2024] My writing of late has been on the likeness of our present time to being like that of Lot’s day in Sodom. This pope and his declarations –the latest being on the matter ofsodomy and his opposition to his Catholic faith system, highlight, I think, just how near is that moment when Jesus foretold He will next be “revealed” and God’s judgment would fall on a Sodom and Gomorrah-like people. There are today pronounced instances of falling away within major denominations from the True Faith found in God’s Holy Word. Homosexuality is at the heart of much of thisdefection. This “defection” by this pope from his own false system also smacks of Paul’s forewarning found in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 about the falling away (the apostasy) that will occur just before Antichrist comes onto the scene following the Raptureof the True Church –all born-again believers. “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition” (2 Thes 2:3). Despite God’s dire forewarning about those who fall under what He calls the abomination of homosexuality, He desires to forgive and bring into His family all who repent andbelieve in His Son, Jesus Christ, for salvation. And I must say here that those who are Catholics who believe in Jesus Christ alone for the salvation of their souls are “in Christ” forever. But they are saved in spite of, not because of, their Catholicism.God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. Here is how to receive God’s Forgiveness and be part of God’s Heavenly Family forever. “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heartman believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).