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Lights out for France. The French have chosen not to be so “racist”
and “Islamophobic” as to resist the jihad that is being waged against
them with ever greater ferocity. Europe as a whole, too, appears to be
poised to make the same choice, and vote itself out of existence. And
then it will be America’s turn.
“Victory for the young, pro-EU centrist will be greeted with relief
in key European capitals,” yes, and with grief among those who have
dared to cherish the hope that the West would make a last stand for
freedom. Instead, the French have voted overwhelmingly for the
proposition that to defend one’s nation and culture is “bigoted.” And so
decent French people will not defend these things, and all will be
well, and all manner of thing will be well, until the final jihadist
blade severs the last French non-bigot’s head from his neck.
“Emmanuel Macron wins French presidential election,” by Ruadhán Mac Cormaic, Irish Times, May 7, 2017:
Emmanuel Macron has been elected president of France,
according to projections, with the 39-year-old centrist winning 65.1 per
cent of the vote to defeat far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
The result is a remarkable triumph for Mr Macron, a former banker who
has never held elected office and is now set to become the country’s
youngest head of state since the creation of the modern French republic.
He will also be the first non-party president, and his ability to form a
stable government will hinge on the outcome of legislative elections
next month.
Mr Macron won 65.1 per cent, according to a projection announced by
France 2 television at 8pm French time (7pm Irish time) on Sunday, with
Ms Le Pen trailing on 34.9 per cent. Turnout was estimated at 74 per
cent, the lowest in the second round of a French presidential election
since 1969.
Victory for the young, pro-EU centrist will be greeted with relief in
key European capitals. Mr Macron, who served as economy minister under
president François Hollande from 2014- 2016, positioned himself as an
economic and social liberal, as an advocate of free trade and European
integration.
A shock win for Ms Le Pen would have upended French politics and
plunged the EU into a fresh crisis. On the campaign trail, the Front
National figurehead had pledged to close borders, withdraw France from
the euro zone and scrap trade treaties.
But even in defeat, the 48-year-old’s vote is projected to be about
twice what her party scored the last time it reached the presidential
second round, in 2002, illustrating the scale of voter disaffection with
mainstream politics in France.
Fusing the nativist, anti-immigrant policies with which her father,
Jean-Marie, established the Front National as a force in French
politics, with her own anti-globalisation and protectionist rhetoric, Ms
Le Pen significantly expanded the party’s base….
Pro-European centrist Emmanuel Macron resoundingly won
France’s landmark presidential election, first estimates showed Sunday,
heading off a fierce challenge from the far-right in a pivotal vote for
the future of the divided country and Europe. The victory
caps an extraordinary rise for the 39-year-old former investment
banker, who will become the country’s youngest-ever leader. He has
promised to heal a fractured and demoralised country after a vicious
campaign that has exposed deep economic and social divisions, as well as
tensions around identity and immigration. Initial estimates
showed Macron winning between 65.5 percent and 66.1 percent of ballots
ahead of Le Pen on between 33.9 percent and 34.5 percent.
Was The French Election Stolen?
Or Do They Just Love Being Cucks?
Published on May 7, 2017
Did
the French want to be domesticated, scared of freedom? They used to be
very strong, inventive people. They just voted in Macron, somewhere
along the way they just learned to roll over.
Macron Gives Victory Speech In Front Of
Illuminati Pyramid
Walks Out To European Union Anthem
Published on May 8, 2017
France has capitulated to globalist control by voting in Emmanuel Macron and rejecting the nationalist Marine Le Pen.
Macron Kneels To Globalist Masters
Macron Walks Out To EU National Anthem
Nigel Farage French Aren't Ready For FrExit
Published on May 8, 2017
Nigel Fare says he wasn't surprised to see that France wasn't ready to take back their country and embrace freedom once more.
another false teacher, Lance Wallnau. Wallnau has been thoroughly discredited
as a false prophet. A key player in the New Apostolic Reformation, he is a driving
Dr. Lance Wallnau has been described by People For The
American Way as the hidden architect behind the increasingly viral and
politically potent seven mountain template for cultural impact. From
forums at Harvard, to work with the United Nations, and training and
serving on Ken Blanchard’s board, Lance has taught and shaped the
contemporary worldview and strategy of leaders on a global level.
Wallnau, a regular appearance on the Elijah list, a website dedicated
to prophetic prattle for those with the disinclination to heed the
warnings of Scripture against such foolishness, claims he “has a word
from the Lord for you,” regarding what the Lord is “doing to reclaim the
inheritance in your life and restore it to you, that which the enemy
has sought to take.” Claiming that Donald Trump’s presidency is “walking
us through the Cyrus prophecy of Isaiah 45 even as we speak,” he
discloses how the Lord “spoke to” his “friend” Cindy Jacobs, another
well known false prophet, and divulged to her that the “death angel” had
recently passed over the United States during the recent Passover.
He then goes on to interpret signs of the times in fanciful ways
showing himself to be nothing more than a skirt chaser of the generation
that Jesus speaks of in Matthew 16:4,
An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed.
Interestingly enough, his list of followers continues to grow. It
never ceases to amaze that people will eat this stuff up, yet are left
wanting when it comes to a clear understanding of the Gospel, Christ’s
sacrifice and atonement, and his righteousness that is imputed to those
who would simply repent of their sin and believe on Him. These false
teachers continue to creep in drawing people away from the truth of the
gospel and into an ignis fatuus of chimerical chicanery and endless
musing that has them, as stated in 2 Timothy 3:7, “always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.”
God has revealed the purpose of his church, and it isn’t to predict
the future, reclaim the culture, or to chase pipe dreams from charlatans
that claim to have some kind of esoteric knowledge they received
outside of Scripture. No, it’s to go out into the world and make
disciples and to teach them to obey all of Jesus’ commands found in
Scripture. (Matthew 28:19-20)
The secret things belong to the LORD
our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our
children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. –Deuteronomy 29:29
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What do you get when you mix error with truth? We all know the
answer. We’ve heard the analogy of the water glass of pure truth to
which has been added a few drops of doctrinal poison. No informed
person would drink it. But, what do you get when you mix unorthodox, unbiblical “Christian” behavior with outright apostate doctrine and tradition?
Well, you might just get a drool bib emblazoned with the crest of
“The Holy See.” We’ll find out later this month if such party favors
are passed out since the usurper of Christ on the apostate throne by the
Tiber has plans to celebrate Pentecost with a charismatic flair.
According to the Catholic webzine CruxNow,
“Pope Francis has invited thousands of Catholic charismatics and
members of Pentecostal and Evangelical churches to Rome to celebrate
Pentecost and mark the 50th anniversary of what became the Catholic
Charismatic Renewal.”
The actual 50th anniversary of Catholic charismania was back in February 2017. (See more about it HERE)
It was half a century ago that participants at a Catholic retreat at
Duquesne University of Pittsburgh claimed to have experienced the
“baptism of the Holy Spirit.” Just as with the evangelical movement –
it having started at the turn of the 19th century (See more HERE) – the movement rapidly gained traction among Roman Catholics.
According to the official website for the movement, International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services
(ICCRS), the expanse of the movement reaches over 200 countries and
claims some 120 million adherents. Barely a decade passed from the
inception of the movement in the 1967 college gathering until Pope John
II, in 1979, affirmed its authenticity as a movement of God, saying, “I
am convinced that this movement is a sign of the Spirit’s action . . . a
very important component in the total renewal of the Church.” (SOURCE) The movement’s agency, ICCRS, would be officially recognized “by the Holy See” in 1993. (SOURCE)
Ruins of Circus Maximus
“The pope will lead a prayer vigil June 3, the eve of
Pentecost, at Rome’s Circus Maximus, an open field that was the site of
an ancient Roman stadium used for chariot races. Participants will join
the pope the next morning for Pentecost Mass in St. Peter’s Square.” (SOURCE)
Not content to merely blaspheme God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit by
its diabolical, anti-Gospel teachings from its gilded basilica-bound
throne, Rome’s 2017 Pentecost celebration will find Francis and the
church also blaspheming on the very ground where some two millennia ago
authentic believers were slaughtered for their faith in the genuine
Gospel. This year Circus Maximus will be ground zero for a different
sort of “circus” – one in which Rome celebrates its “birthday” as “the”
church.
The website Catholic.Org, in an article presuming to explain the Pentecost celebration to Catholics, says the following:
“Happy birthday to the Catholic Church! Happy birthday to you, who are the body of the Church!
We’re all familiar with our own birthdays, and we celebrate them
because they mark the day of the year in which we entered into this
life. But did you know you have a second birthday?
Because you are part of the body of the Church, Pentecost is the
Church’s birthday, and yours as well. And like any birthday, it’s a
cause for celebration.
The word Pentecost is Greek and it means “50th day.” Fifty days after
Easter Sunday, we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the
Apostles and their followers, and the beginning of their Earthly
ministry to make disciples of all nations.
Pentecost is also a Jewish holiday, which the Jews use to celebrate
the end of Passover. Jews celebrate the gift of the law to Moses at Mt.
Sinai on this day. But we, as Catholics celebrate the birth of our Church.” (Emphasis Added)
On June 29, 2007, Pope Benedict approved a statement affirming the
exclusivity of the Roman Catholic Church as “the church of Christ.” It
came in response to an officially submitted question seeking pontifical
clarification:
“What is the meaning of the affirmation [From the Second Vatican
Council] that the Church of Christ subsists in the [Roman] Catholic
Church?”
The answer was:
“Christ “established here on earth” only one Church and
instituted it as a “visible and spiritual community”, that from its
beginning and throughout the centuries has always existed and will
always exist, and in which alone are found all the elements that Christ
himself instituted. “This one Church of Christ, which we confess in the
Creed as one, holy, catholic and apostolic […]. This Church, constituted
and organised in this world as a society, subsists in the [Roman]
Catholic Church, governed by the successor of Peter and the Bishops in
communion with him”. (SOURCE)
Though Rome claims to be “this one Church of Christ,” bolstered by its historic maxim, Extra ecclesiam nulla salus, –meaning
“Outside the church there is no salvation” – such a claim is built on
the erroneous assumption that the church is defined by apostolic
succession, rather than, as Paul wrote, “built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone” (Ephesians 2:20).
The “foundation” and “cornerstone” about which Paul wrote are constituted in the Word of God. The Christian faith, as Jude 3
confirms, has been delivered once for all. No progressive transfer of
authority is needed for our faith. God’s Word suffices. That Word is to
be preached (2 Timothy 4:2) and its sound doctrine taught (Titus 2:1).
Scripture hints nowhere of a post-first-century apostolic chain of
authority as the identifying hallmark of the church. There is, rather,
the singular, complete, and sufficient authority of the Word of God.
Christ reminds us that His disciples are identified by abiding in His
Word, (John 8:31) not by abiding in an institution claiming apostolic succession.
Unlike Rome, the true church has Christ as its head (Colossians 1:18)
and exhibits three key features: the preaching and teaching of sound
doctrine from Scripture, the administration of the Lord’s Supper and
baptism as Christ-commanded ordinances, and the Biblical practice of
church discipline.
“The basic task of the church is to teach sound doctrine.” John MacArthur
However, an interesting – and thoroughly unbiblical – caveat exists
in Rome’s teaching regarding its “outside of the church there is no
salvation” axiom. Consider the following through the lens of Gospel
truth:
“This affirmation is not aimed at those who,
through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church: Those
who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or
his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and,
moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it
through the dictates of their conscience—those too may achieve eternal
salvation. (CCC 847)” (SOURCE)
So, according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC),
salvation is actually possible apart from Jesus and the Gospel. If one
is sincere enough and “try in their actions to do his will,” they too
“may achieve eternal salvation.” This distinctly conflicts with the
words of Scripture, however.
“This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the
builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no
one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by
which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:11-12)
Couple Luke’s words from Acts with Paul’s to the Galatians:
“yet we know that a person
is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ,
so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by
faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law
no one will be justified.” Galatians 2:16
Rome denies the exclusivity of Christ’s Gospel, apprehended by faith
alone. Sola fide – justification by faith alone – remains a doctrine
condemned by Rome. (See HERE for a good resource on this.)
Despite its claims, Rome is not “the” church of Christ. In fact, Rome
is not even “A” church of Christ. Roman Catholicism is not
Christianity, beslimed though it is with the elegant appearance of
religious provenance, a works-rich history of gospel-absent social
justice charity, and a touted lineage that elevates its man-made
traditions alongside God’s Word in authority. To adhere to the tenets
of Roman Catholic teaching is to remain as Christ said, “condemned
already.” (John 3:18) (For why we don’t consider Roman Catholics Christians, see HERE.)
Given Rome’s lack of Scripture-centric focus and its jettisoning of
the genuine Gospel, it is little wonder then that Francis is the
ecumenical zealot that he is. Which, of course, is why he’s celebrating
Pentecost by inviting “charismatics and members of Pentecostals and
Evangelical churches to Rome” for the gospel denying, doctrine-void
Circus Maximus soiree. For Rome, it matters little what you believe,
so long as you’re sincere and just want to do good. The true church of
Christ looks nothing like Rome. It is primarily the temporal steward of
God’s Gospel, with the primary function of teaching sound doctrine to
the previously dead in trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1) who have been saved by grace (Ephesians 2:8-9). Sincerity doesn’t save you and goods works don’t justify you.
An important point must be made, though, about Rome’s eager embrace
of charismania within its fold. Charismania is a growing movement
among evangelicals and Catholics. But charismania is not a legitimate,
Scripture-verified phenomenon. Within the broad umbrella of
evangelicalism, charismania is most often coupled with the heretical
prosperity gospel. Within the Roman Catholic, the charismatic
phenomenon is attached to an apostate church with “another gospel.” (Galatians 1:8-9)
It is this dual appeal – one to the apostate Roman Catholic cult of
Mary and one to those who would consider themselves Gospel-affixed
evangelicals – that is glaring evidence of the charismatic movement’s
illegitimacy. Were charismatic gifts an authentic work of the Holy
Spirit, we can be sure that He would clearly and firmly align them with
sound, Biblical doctrine, not with the well-known theological, gospel,
and orthopraxic errors of Rome. But, since charismania leaps across all
doctrinal and gospel boundaries, it’s disregard for Scripture is
abundantly evident. And it is this characteristic of charismania (among
others) that notably invalidates its claims to genuinely be a move of
God. If charismania were authentic, you would not see it’s presence in
both places for God’s kingdom is not divided. (Mark 3:24)
Writing of Rome’s 2016 Pentecost celebration, one American Dominican
priest noted on his church’s website the following blasphemous comment
about Pope Francis.
“Using Pope Francis as a guide who, along with the Holy
Spirit, continues to breathe life into the Church, we must open our
personal lives to the surprise breadth and depth of the Spirit. Inhaling
the intoxicating joy of the Holy Spirit, we can harness the energy of
love in a world of indifference and violence.” (Source)
While this comment is flush with error, hinting at Rome’s “another
gospel” of good works and repentance-absent message of “God loves you,”
it is the blasphemous elevation of Francis alongside the Holy Spirit
that demands the same warning Christ gave to His first-century
disciples:
How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”Then
they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of
bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Matthew 11:11-12
For many today, the “leaven” being hurled by Rome is being coveted by
those misled with an errant, unbiblical charismatic yearning. By
adding the powerful emotional appeal and presumed spirituality of
charismania, Rome is seeking to create a perfect storm of deception that
is nothing less than seeking to destroy “the faith once for all
delivered to the saints.” (Jude 1:3)
We must contend for the Truth, stand firmly on Gospel exclusivity, and
abide by the apostle’s command about those who would, “by smooth talk
and flattery … deceive the hearts of the naive” (Romans 16:18) … we must “avoid them.” (Romans 16:17)
Rome will be greasing the wheels of anti-Scriptural ecumenism with
the slimy accelerant of doctrine-crippling charismania. But what Rome
celebrates isn’t driven by the Word, by the Gospel, or by the knowledge
of Jesus our Savior. (2 Peter 3:18).
What will be served is merely a toxic religious cocktail mixing
apostasy with error. No one who knows should ever want to consume that.
For more on the errors of charismania, see HERE. We also recommend the exceptional Strange Fire conference found HERE.
For sound resources on sharing the true Gospel with the deceived
trapped within Roman Catholicism, please consider Mike Gendron’s
excellent ministry, Proclaiming The Gospel.
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The Catholic Church is punishing U.S. priests for speaking the truth about Islam and jihad
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Many bishops protected priests who were child molesters for years,
transferring them from parish to parish and allowing them to prey upon
new children rather than turning them over to police. In the Catholic
Church today, protecting the image of Islam appears to be job one: you
can be a cleric who speaks out against the Church’s official positions
(such as those on contraception and female priests) and in many quarters
of the Church you’ll be hailed as a hero. But the highly dubious
proposition that Islam is a religion of peace has become a kind of
superdogma that the U.S. bishops enforce with a stringency (and even
ruthlessness) that they never display regarding actual Church teaching.
You can reject every element of the Nicene Creed and everything the
Church teaches, and still the U.S. Catholic Bishops will consider you a
Catholic in good standing. But if you believe that Islam is not a
religion of peace, you have no place in the U.S. Catholic Church.
I myself have been canceled from speaking engagements by Catholic bishops Robert McManus,
Kevin Farrell, and Jaime Soto, and blocked by the Melkite Greek
Catholic bishop in the U.S., Nicholas Samra, from accepting several
other invitations to speak. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
moves actively and swiftly to silence and demonize voices that tell the
truth about the Muslim persecution of Christians. On August 13, 2015, I
was the keynote speaker at the annual convocation of the North American
Lutheran Church in Dallas, Texas (Kevin Farrell’s diocese; Farrell had
previously prevented me from speaking at a parish there that had invited
me to come). I spoke about the global Muslim persecution of Christians.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, I was told, sent a
representative to that North American Lutheran Church convocation every
year. However, that year, when the USCCB found out I was the keynote
speaker, they pulled their rep from the Lutheran convocation, lest
anyone get the idea that the Catholic Church endorsed a truthful and
accurate analysis of the plight of Middle Eastern Christians. No worries, reverend fathers: no one will ever mistake you for people
who are interested in telling uncomfortable truths. Watch the video of
my talk here, and consider that this talk was too hot for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Cowards, time-servers, trimmers and self-deluded wishful thinkers
dominate the Church hierarchy today, among both bishops and priests, and
all too many Catholics believe that to say so makes one disloyal to the
Church. Nonsense. Calling these people to account for the damage they
have done and are doing is the highest form of loyalty to the Church.
But they are completely in control, and don’t even deign to engage those
who oppose what they are doing. Well, they have the Church they want
now, and as the years go by, it will become clear to everyone what they
have done, and what unimaginable damage and destruction they have
enabled, both to the Catholic Church and to the world at large.
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
“Don’t listen to liberals, because the Muslims will cut your heads off.” That’s the comment that warranted the KRQE headline,
“Parents accuse Belen priest of making discriminatory comments against
Muslims.” Apparently no one had a problem with the “don’t listen to
liberals” part. Instead, being well trained in political correctness, it
was the moment Fr. Jonas Romea, a priest in Belen, New Mexico, told a
group of pre-K to eighth grade Catholic kids that there were Muslims
terrorists that caused the problem. Specifically mentioning Muslims
cutting “heads off” was when parents became terribly offended on behalf
of Islam. The next thing you know, a reporter at KOAT Action News
was asking Fr. Romea if he didn’t think his remarks were
“Islamophobia?” Fr. Romea said that he denied that label, and
strengthened his point by saying: “Recent reports out of the Middle East
show that Catholics around the world are under attack. The news pieces
that we get… from there tell us that actually, Christians are being
slaughtered.”
KRQE reported that after receiving complaints about Fr. Romea’s
remarks (made during a homily to students at Our Lady of Belen Church,)
the “Archdiocese of Santa Fe sent out a letter to parents saying the
homily didn’t fully embrace the message of Jesus Christ.”
Later, Fr. Romea sparred with KOAT reporter David Carl asking, “Are all people burglars? No, not all people are burglars. But my next question is, do you lock your doors at night?”
Carl responds, “I do. I do. So are you lumping in Muslims as
burglars? Are you making an equivalency there?” Carl knows better, but
with progressively tweaked critical thinking techniques designed to
disarm traditional reasoning, Fr. Romea is easily mocked, then easily
silenced with a craftily edited interview. By this time, he has been so
intimidated — by someone or some governing body — that he will not even
name “that religion that he mentioned” — Islam.
The original story aired March 30th. By April 12th, Fr. Romea issued
what some local people told me they believed to be a “coerced apology”
which can be read here;
and by April 28th he found himself terminated from the diocese. (This
fact was told me by someone who had spoken directly with Fr. Romea
himself, and was also present during the April 30th mass where Fr.
Romea’s departure was discussed. There has been no official statement
from the diocese.)
Romea’s apology contained the sentence: “I have
come to realize that the Islamic Faith is not to be equated with
terrorism and vice-versa.”
Sadly, 84-year-old French priest Jacques Hamel didn’t
get a chance to concur with that statement, having had his throat slit
by ISIS militants less than a year ago during a quiet morning Mass. One
has to wonder what kind of internal spiritual struggles these Catholic
Christian leaders are suffering as the world keeps forcing them to the
ground — symbolically or literally — to grovel toward Mecca.
In New Mexico, the incident took on an overtly political tone when former senator Michael Sanchez reportedly shone a spotlight on it by Tweeting what happened “wasn’t right” and that he “stands with Muslims.”
Stories of priests being silenced as they try to speak against Islam
aren’t new, but aren’t abating either. Earlier this month, the diocese
of Orlando, Florida reprimanded a priest for teaching his students about
Muhammed from the writings of Catholic Saint John Bosco. The story, not surprisingly unearthed by the Huffington Post’s Documenting Hate
Project, ended with the Orlando diocese stating “the information
provided in the sixth grade class is not consistent with the teachings
of the Catholic Church.”
This past February, the Rev. Peter West,
pastor of St. John’s Catholic Church in Orange, NJ made news calling
moderate Islam “a myth” and openly supported President Trump’s travel
ban, (though its characteristics changed
over time.) A spokesman for that diocese said, “…we are concerned about
Father West’s comments and actions, and will be addressing them
according to the protocols of the Church.”
Journalist Mark Mueller, writing for NJ.com, told his readers:
(Father West’s) attacks, while popular with many of his
7,300 Facebook followers from around the country, run counter to the
statements and philosophies of his own leader, Newark Cardinal Joseph W.
Tobin, and his ultimate boss, Pope Francis.
What is really happening in small Catholic dioceses across the
country, one can only guess; but you can be sure the politically-correct
thought police are on duty everywhere…. It is the greatest irony that while there is no known
Catholic priest, nor adherent of Catholicism, that has been charged with
beheading a Muslim in modern times, that those who warn against Islam are the targets of censure and ridicule by their own societies.
