Papal Function seeking Global Power

Koot van wyk (DLitt et Phil; ThD)

Visiting Professor

Department of Liberal Arts Education

Kuyngpook National University

Sangju Campus

South Korea

Conjoint lecturer of Avondale College

Australia

One of the key things we learn about the 2014 August visiting pope Francis to Korea is that he is a “good” man. Seventh-day Adventists spells out like Carlos A. Steger in the Sabbathschool quarterly 2014 page 56: “Love was the element in which Christ moved and walked and worked. He came to embrace the world in the arms of His love . . .We are to follow the example set by Christ, and make Him our pattern, until we shall have the same love for others as He has manifested for us” Ellen G. White, Our Father Cares, p. 27. “Jesus was sensitive to the needs of people, and He truly cared about them”. Said someone on TV about pope Francis, “ he is a 100% imitation of Christ”. The doctrine of the imitation of Christ is deeply rooted in Christianity and especially in the Seventh-day Adventist Theology.

But, let us ask this thorny question: What makes a good Adventist different than a good pope? He seems so nice and gentle and kind and friendly and good, why do Seventh-day Adventists constantly point at his role as the 666?

Let us give brief remarks here.

First of all, the pope in his function is the Vicarius filii Dei and another term you often here more these days is Vicarius Christi. It means “substitute of the son of God” or “substitute of Christ” on earth. In the Middle Ages they use to say he is king on earth as Christ is king in heaven.

A good Adventist and a good pope’s way of salvation differs:

A good Adventist is saved by directly speaking through God the Holy Spirit to God Christ and Who in turn plead on the sinner’s behalf at God the Father. Not so for the pope and all those who revere him.

The papal salvation engine is very complex. You can only be saved by the clerical function, pope Francis or any of the priests. At various times indicated in the diagram, online on the Vatican site http://www.vatican.va there are sermons, homilies, other resources telling us exactly how he view himself and Mary and the clerics and the ordinary believers of his church.

A believer is saved when he hands him/her the piece of bread that in their superstitious thinking which is non-biblical has indeed become the body of Christ and the wine the blood of Christ. Only a priest or the pope can give this and if you eat that bread you are saved. But no other way. If mass is refused to you, you are doomed to hell and a heretic.

Another avenue is that the pope can ask Mary to pray for the believer to “intercede” at Christ on believers’ behalf. This superstitious creation of the Substitute of the Holy Spirit is widely promoted by popes in their prayers, speeches or homilies in the last lines of their text. It is totally unbiblical and in fact for a human to take over the vicarius filii dei role of the Holy Spirit is constituting blasphemy of the highest kind. This is the abomination of desolation that the Bible said would come. No human can take the place of the divine. No human can intercede on human behalf. Ezechiel 18 says salvation is an individual matter. 

The diagram above illustrate salvation of the Bible on the left compared to salvation by Catholics view on the right. 

One really has to go into history to understand what is happening today.

Constantine the Great in 317 minted a coin displaying himself with his hair full of flames of the sun. He was a sun-worshipper and he was the one who decreed the replacement of Saturday = Sabbath for worship as it is in the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, and he substituted it with Sunday worship, the day of the Sun, his god.

On this coin Constantine’s name can be see: IMP = Emperor; Constantinus. Then PF and then AUG for Augustus. This particular coin was minted in Triers since you see the letters PT at the bottom of the backside. In his left hand he holds the globe. He is a world leader and proud of it. He conquered the world. Above him are the words: Soli invictus comiti meaning: “The unconquerable Sun is my companion”. Solar worship. One can see the cross of the Christian + sign and the pagan god * next to each other. Holding the globe in his hand, chanting to his sungod, he wish to say that Christian and pagans are united in him as the ruler of the world. Mixed global power. 

(Source: see online site for this coin)

Justinian I came to power and he and his wife Theodora were villains. He was portrayed on his coins as a soldier and he was very proud of it riding a horse. One can see in the coin him on his horse. 

(Source: online freely available)

In the year 12 of Justinian (see ANNO = year) on the coin and XII meaning 12, which was exactly 538 CE, Justinian I ordered his empire not to mint him any longer as a soldier, since his dealings with the church has made him now more a theologian than a soldier. The Holy Roman Empire started in 538 with this action. Daniel 7:25 and John in Revelation 12 was correct to see 538 as the start of the 1260 years.

(Source: online freely available)

In the next diagram we see that two years after this coin event of Justinian I in 538, namely in 540 Gregory the Great was born and he became a monk. It was difficult years that he had to endure until 590 when the pope died. The Jesuit Antichrist Scholar Vincent P. Micelli listed wars, famines, droughts, schisms, doctrinal problems, organizational problems, discipline problems, earthquakes, plaques (Vincent P. Micelli, The Antichrist [New York: Roman Catholic Books, 1981], 76-82). When the pope died, he ran into a forest and hide but they found him and brought him back. He wrote Moralia of Job which is filled with eschatology since in 593 he preached that it is “the end of times”. 

Gregory the Great developed a “lust for power in the church” and the two faces of the painting of Gregory the Great are indicating those two sides of his life. He gained for the catholic church large property of over 1600 km in three countries and the yearly income was $1500 000, says the online Catholic Encyclopaedia. 

(Source: indianapublicmedia.org)

For 1260 years the Catholic Church was the dominating political institution of the world of the Middle Ages. All affairs were dominated by their decisions, actions, plans, visions, scope, alliances, loyalties, diplomatic tasks, taxes, land-appropriation and legal affairs. In 1798 the pope received a deadly blow as institution when the secular power of Napoleon’s General arrested him. In the following article published by Adventist Today in Fall of 2013, I indicated a surprising discovery of evidence of the pope’s deadly wound: The Naked Pope. Never in the history of mankind until now, is there any picture, photo of a naked pope. Here is one and it was by the artist of Napoleon who arrested the pope and brought him to France. Nakedness in the Bible is a form of disgrace and punishment. The pope wrote that the Antichrist attacked him. 

Then recently the German magazine Der Spiegel came out with this front page cover: the pope holding a globe in his hand, similar to Constantine, with a cross in the middle, the communistic symbol on the left and the Islam symbol on the right. The papacy desires a powerplay which unites Socialism/Communism; Christianity and Islam. Many are saying that his trip to South Korea is overtures to this powerplay. It remains to be seen what the results are going to be. Revelation 13:12-18 outlines to us the role that the second beast or the USA is going to play in a supportive manner to help the image [not clear what or who it will be]  forcing the world to pay loyalty to the first beast or the Holy Roman Empire, who "deadly wound [1798 supra] has been healed."

(see online Der Spiegel archives for the exact information)