The Holy Land Foundation Trials & The Muslim Brotherhood

Jihad in America

The Holy Land Foundation trial was the largest terrorist (Hamas) funding trial in our nation’s history. Zakat (islamic charity) was used to fund violence, supremacism, jihad.

The Holy Land Foundation was the largest Islamic charity in the United States. It was headquartered in Richardson, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. In 2007, federal prosecutors brought charges against the organization for funding Hamas and other Islamic terrorist organizations. The Holy Land Foundation’s assets were frozen by the European Union and U.S., and the charity was shut down by the U.S. government following the discovery that it was funding Hamas. The 2008 trial of the charity leaders was the largest terrorism financing prosecution in American history. In 2009, the founders of the organization were given life sentences for funneling $12 million to Hamas.

Established in 1988 (under the name “Occupied Land Fund”) by Shukri Abu Baker, Mohammad El-Mezain and Ghassan Elashi, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) was a non-profit, tax-exempt, charitable trust headquartered in Richardson, Texas. It also maintained branch offices in New Jersey, California, and Illinois. Its name change took place in 1992.

October 29, 2012: The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the Holy Land Foundation case. Their decision marks the end of the judicial process and the beginning of a massive effort to free the Holy Land Foundation co-conspirators from the onus of their wrongdoing. That is the trial and its outcome in a nutshell.

Following court proceedings, the Holy Land Foundation was found guilty of providing millions of dollars in funding to Hamas and other Islamic terrorist organizations in 2008. Named as “unindicted co-conspirators” in the trial among others,  were the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Both have documented ties to the radical Muslim Brotherhood…which then have ties to the Obama administration, but I digress.

In its own documents, the Ikhwan (The Muslim Brotherhood)  in America has defined itself as a hostile threat to the American constitutional order. It has identified itself as a “foreign agent” of the greater global jihad, and exists as part of the transnational “Ikhwan Movement.” The Holy Land Foundation trial has established evidence of material support to terrorism by Brotherhood entities and ties to international terrorism, namely Hamas, and likely other jihadi terrorist organizations in the Middle East. Therefore, the Muslim Brotherhood in America meets all three criteria of DoD Directive 5240.1-R.

In June 2008, the ACLU sued on behalf of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT). Both were founded by the Muslim Brotherhood and designated as unindicted co-conspirators in the terrorism-financing trial of the Holy Land Foundation. FBI investigators identified them as Muslim Brotherhood fronts as far back as 1987 and a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood internal document lists them among “our organizations and the organizations of our friends.”

It seems the Islamists wanted us to believe that all the Holy Land Foundation was involved in was good works and sending poor Palestinian Muslims to school. They went to great lengths to highlight these activities.

Such excuses will no longer pass muster. The court documents and evidentiary materials that have been amassed for use in the Holy Land Foundation case  proved beyond all doubt that CAIR is Hamas

The three prominent Muslim-American organizations were labeled by the federal government as “unindicted co-conspirators” in the trial-the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT). The documents requested by Rep. Gohmert, provided to the Holy Land Foundation’s defense team,  were denied to Congress.

…The IAP, which involved the defendant Ghassan Elashi as an original incorporator and bank account signatory, was designed as a propaganda facility, responsible for Intifada festivals (involving the defendant HLF), pro-Hamas publications, and the general rallying of support within the American Palestinian community. The IAP was the first organization to publish an English version of the Hamas charter, which, as previously explained, vows to replace Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza with an Islamic state. Further, during their existence, unindicted co-conspirator and Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars into the three organizations (UASR, IAP, OLF/HLF) during a time when he was an unemployed graduate student.”

The Justice Department tied CAIR to its terror-finance case against the Richardson, Texas-based Holy Land Foundation, which was convicted of funneling more than $12 million to Hamas.

And that’s why the Holy Land Foundation sent at least $12 million to Hamas and other Jihadist organizations–they were following Islamic law. As a result, the charity was shut down and its leaders deposited in jail for life.

The answers to these questions should provide some explanation for declining a prosecution that is strongly supported by the record from the Holy Land Foundation trial.  In a previously sealed Memorandum Opinion Order of July 1, 2009, United States District Judge Jorge A. Solis declined CAIR, ISNA and NAIT’s August 14, 2007 and June 18, 2008 requests to strike their names from the United States Attorney’s list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation case. Judge Solis found that the “Government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA and NAIT with [the Holy Land Foundation, “HLF”], the Islamic Association for Palestine (“IAP”), and with Hamas.” The Court found that the evidence was “sufficient to show the association of these entities with HLF, IAP, and Hamas. Thus, maintaining the names of the entities on the List is appropriate in light of the evidence proffered by the Government” (citation omitted). At minimum, FBI testimony established that Mr. Ahmad attended a meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in which participants discussed how they could support Hamas, including by raising funds for this terrorist group. NAIT was similarly unsuccessful in its subsequent request to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to have its name removed from the list of co-conspirators.

The Justice Department tied CAIR to its terror-finance case against the Richardson, Texas-based Holy Land Foundation, which was convicted of funneling more than $12 million to Hamas.

The role of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) has already been discovered. MPAC was founded by Brotherhood ideologues and works in tandem with the aforementioned groups, but was not labeled as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the Holy Land trial. Rep. Gohmert was apparently referring to CAIR, ISNA or NAIT.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism’s rebuttal corrects the misleading characterizations in the report. Muslims who innocently donated to the charities do not need to worry. Prosecutors would have to prove in the court of law that they consciously donated to an entity involved in terrorism. Notably, not a single donor to the Holy Land Foundation was prosecuted. The five who were jailed were leaders of it.

The jury from the first trial was not convinced of the prosecution’s perplexing narrative, especially because none of the zakat committees are listed as designated terrorists by the Department of Treasury. In fact, these zakat committees, or distribution centers, listed on the Holy Land Foundation’s indictment also received funds from American government agencies, most notably USAID, the United States Agency for International Development.

This likely led to Obama’s Justice Department dropping the charges against unindicted co-conspirators CAIR, ISNA, and other Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organizations in the Holy Land Foundation terror-funding trial. It also helped bring the MB to power in Egypt as Obama threw Mubarak under the proverbial bus despite a decades-long history of a peaceful alliance among Egypt, America, and Israel. And with numerous MB operatives working with or in the administration, it is no wonder that an Egyptian cleric recently stated, “Trust me, very soon we will see the flag of ‘There is no god but Allah’ flying over the White House. They are already holding [Muslim] prayers in the White House.”

Ghassan Elashi, one of CAIR’s founding directors,  was convicted in 2004 of illegally shipping high-tech goods to terror state Syria and is serving 80 months in prison. He was also convicted of providing material support to Hamas in the Holy Land Foundation terror-financing trial. He was chairman of the charity, which provided seed capital to CAIR. Elashi is related to Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook.

As noted in a December 5, 2006 piece Ghassan Elashi’s Sentencing Proves CAIR’s Terror Ties Ghassan Elashi is the pivotal figure in this chain of association. He was the founder of Texas Chapter of CAIR and the individual who was responsible for incorporating the IAP, he was also present at the Philadelphia Hamas funding meeting detailed later on in this piece. Elashi was sentenced in the InfoCom terror funding case and was  a key defendant in U.S. v Holy Land Foundation case.

…The IAP,(Islamic Association for Palestine) which involved the defendant Ghassan Elashi as an original incorporator and bank account signatory, was designed as a propaganda facility, responsible for Intifada festivals (involving the defendant HLF), pro-Hamas publications, and the general rallying of support within the American Palestinian community. The IAP was the first organization to publish an English version of the Hamas charter, which vowed to replace Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza with an Islamic state. Further, during their existence, unindicted co-conspirator and Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars into the three organizations (UASR, IAP, OLF/HLF) during a time when he was an unemployed graduate student.”

“The United States-based Muslim Brotherhood and its sub-group the Palestinian Committee); organizations established by the Palestinian Committee, such as the defendant Holy Land Foundation (HLF), the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), and the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), as well as other organizations. See Superceding Indictment, pp. 6-7. Each of the above organizations, as well as its members, representatives and supporters were participants in the same joint venture or conspiracy — the conspiracy to support Hamas.”

Observers who follow such things know how important the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial has been in uncovering the spread of both violent and civilizational jihad in the USA.

Muslim Brotherhood in America

The Muslim Brotherhood is an large Organization that has spawned many many branches since its founding in 1928 Egypt.The Muslim Brotherhood was formed in 1928 in Egypt after the demise of the Ottoman Empire with the aim of resurrecting the Islamic caliphate and helping establish the global rule of Islam, as taught in the Quran, and establishing Sharia law.

The HLF Trial turned up primary source threat documentation and information that provides new insights into global jihad organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood and affiliated and derivative organizations should be considered a single entity for purposes of analysis and law enforcement

An Egyptian paper claimed Obama is a secret member of the Muslim Brotherhood. The article went on to say that Obama originally embraced the thought of the Brotherhood while living in Indonesia, per Spyer, and further alleges that the son of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat al-Shater had threatened to expose a document revealing the secret membership.

“Egyptian Newspaper’s Explosive Allegation: President Obama Is a Secret Muslim Brotherhood Member” The Egyptian newspaper Al-Wafd published a story on August 30, 2012, alleging President Obama is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood . (If you missed it, a “liberal” Egyptian newspaper has front page headline claiming Obama as full-on member of Muslim Brotherhood international.)

Why the enduring interest in the Brotherhood? Since its founding in 1928 by the Egyptian schoolteacher and imam Hassan al-Banna, the Brotherhood has managed to voice the aspirations of the Muslim world’s downtrodden and often confused middle class. It explained their backwardness in an interesting mixture of fundamentalism and fascism (or reactionary politics and xenophobia): today’s Muslims aren’t good enough Muslims and must return to the true spirit of the Koran. Foreigners, especially Jews, are part of a vast conspiracy to oppress Muslims. This message was—and still is—delivered through a modern, political party-like structure, that includes women’s groups, youth clubs, publications and electronic media, and, at times, paramilitary wings. It has also given birth to many of the more violent strains of radical Islamism, from Hamas to al-Qaeda, although many of such groups now find the Brotherhood too conventional. Little wonder that the Brotherhood, for all its troubling aspects, is interesting to western policy makers eager to gain influence in this strategic part of the world.

Obama is the one that brought the Muslim Brotherhood into the government. They’re in DHS and all have security clearances. And currently as I have stated before, he is using American agencies and Armed Forces as proxy agents for the Muslim Brotherhood/Al Qaeda.

In 1969 the Ikhwan established their separate leadership organization while retaining control and influence over the student unions. By the 1970s they began to establish affiliated “vocational” and professional organizations, including Muslim Doctors, Social Workers, and Science and Engineers syndicates. In the mid-70s the Muslim American Youth Association was established under the direction of the Brotherhood, coordinating Muslim youth coming to America from around the world. The Muslim Student Union in the 1980’s transformed into the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). In 1981 they founded the Islamic Association of Palestine. That Association’s work is directly tied to the Palestinian Intifada and the establishment and support of the Hamas terror organization [the root basis of the  trial] according to this document.

In its own documents, the Ikhwan in America has defined itself as a hostile threat to the American constitutional order. It has identified itself as a “foreign agent” of the greater global jihad, and exists as part of the transnational “Ikhwan Movement.” The Holy Land Foundation trial has established evidence of material support to terrorism by Brotherhood entities and ties to international terrorism, namely Hamas and likely other jihadi terrorist organizations in the Middle East. Therefore, the Muslim Brotherhood in America meets all three criteria of DoD Directive 5240.1-R.

What the Brotherhood in America has explained to us, in somewhat lofty but stark terms, is clear. They exist in America to overthrow our American civilization, our Constitutional order and replace it with an Islamic civilizational model, known as the Sharia, or Sharia law. As an individual “citizen” that sort of activity constitutes sedition. As an organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, its adherents and its enablers, should be considered part of a latent insurgency, engaging in protracted mobilization with clear potential of military capabilities.

The Muslim influence is immense. The U.S. Defense Department even brought Louay Safi to Fort Hood, right after the massacre; he was invited to work as an instructor lecturing on Islamic sensitivities. Safi held a top official status at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a Muslim Brotherhood front. He also advocates direct talks between Washington and Iran’s leaders.

“If there are any questions about what sort of American jihad is envisioned by the Brotherhood, Zeid al-Noman (aka Zaid Naman) lays it out for us. Al-Noman (listed in the personal phone books of both convicted PIJ leader Sami al-Arian and Hamas deputy political bureau chief Musa Abu Marzook), was introduced as Masul or “official” of the Executive Office of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood before a speech he gave in the early 1980s on the Brotherhood in America somewhere in Missouri — likely in Kansas City. In this fascinating speech, al-Noman explained the history of the Movement, going into detail about its roots in the Muslim Students Association (MSA) and the establishment of other front-organizations.”

The term “Islamophobia” is one of the favored weapons of the Muslim Brotherhood and a few allied ‘jihadist’ organizations in the West. Muslim Brotherhood groups such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) employ it to manufacture a modern-day thought-crime [factory] out of legitimate concern and [censure] about Islamic bigotry, misogyny and support for terrorist entities like Hezbollah and Hamas.

An Egyptian magazine is reporting about Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the Obama administration at the highest level. This Egyptian magazine names Rashad Hussain, exposed as Brotherhood at Atlas in January 2010; Arif Alikhan, exposed at Atlas here back in January 2009; and the others, Salam al-Marayati; Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA); and Eboo Patel, all profiled at Atlas many times. Since June 2009, when Obama invited the then-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to his submission speech in Cairo, his subversive support of the Islamic supremacist organization has wreaked havoc on freedom-loving peoples the world over.

A U.S. citizen, Ghassan Hitto served as vice-president for the Dallas-Fort Worth branch of CAIR, according to The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report. CAIR, the Justice Department discovered, was founded in Washington, D.C., in 1993 as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S.

“…the issue of terrorist financing in the United States is a fundamental example of the shared infrastructure levered by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and al Qaeda, all of which enjoy a significant degree of cooperation and coordination within our borders. The common link here is the extremist Muslim Brotherhood – all these organizations are descendants of the membership and ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

“The Ikhwan [The Muslim Brotherhood’s name for itself] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”

The Muslim Brotherhood in America is part of the radicalization infrastructure that supports the “phases of radicalization” described in the  NYPD Report, Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s strategic information warfare program seeks to, shape, influence, transform and ultimately destroy America’s foundations, in order to leverage and Islamize America global influence for the establishment of a restored caliphate.

The Bush administration devised a strategy to establish close relations with Muslim groups in Europe that were ideologically close to the Brotherhood, figuring that it could be an interlocutor in dealing with more radical groups, such as the home-grown extremists in Paris, London and Hamburg. And, as in the 1950’s, government officials wanted to project an image to the Muslim world that Washington was close to western-based Islamists. So starting in 2005, the State Department launched an effort to woo the Brotherhood. In 2006, for example, it organized a conference in Brussels between these European Muslim Brothers and American Muslims, such as the Islamic Society of North America, who are considered close to the Brotherhood. All of this was backed by CIA analyses, with one from 2006 saying the Brotherhood featured “impressive internal dynamism, organization, and media savvy.” Despite the concerns of western allies that supporting the Brotherhood in Europe was too risky, the CIA pushed for cooperation. As for the Obama administration, it carried over some of the people on the Bush team who had helped devise this strategy.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s infiltration of Washington is exposed in “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America”

Under the Muslim Brotherhood-influenced Obama administration, U.S. policy has undergone such a drastic shift in the direction of outright support for these jihadist movements — from al-Qa’eda militias in Libya, to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and both al-Qa’eda and Muslim Brotherhood-linked rebels in Syria — that it is scarcely recognizable as American any more.

If you really want a partial but in depth of Barack Hussein Obama’s connection with the Muslim Brotherhood, please take the time to review and/or analyze and study Obama’s support and promotion of the Muslim Brotherhood infiltration into various US government Departments and agencies, including but limited to, the State Department. CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, NIA, and other agencies, look at Frank Gaffney’s 10 video series on the Muslim Brotherhood in America. http://www.muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com   or on  http://www.blackquillandink.com

Take a hard, in depth look at Muslim Brotherhood in America, prepared by Frank Gaffney, President of Center for Security Policy and can be found in video series, of radical Islamic Muslim Brotherhood, which vehemently espouses Sharia Law, with the chief promoter and supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood in America being Barack Hussein Obama. When you finish the well documented video series, there will be no doubt in your mind where Obama stands with the Muslim Brotherhood and Obama’s “Holy Koran”. See: http://www.muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com  or view at: http://www.blackquillandink.com

 

George Bush’s Little Red Studebaker

The Myths Behind the Man

By Chylene Ramsey

George Bush’s early history is questionable to say the least; it is shrouded in myth, mystery and supposition. Webster Tarpley, an eminent historian and writer, cut through a lot of the Bush mystique with his scandalous book, “The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush”, in which he revealed the seamier side of George Bush to whoever cared to read his tome, and those who were wise, did. Those who were wiser read his subsequent biography of Barack Obama as well, but that is another story.

What Tarpley revealed about George’s early career is that his pedigree establishes him as a network asset of Brown Brothers Harriman, one of the most powerful political forces in the United Sates during much of the twentieth century, and for many years, the largest private bank in the world.

Brown Brothers, Harriman networks pervade the government and the mass media. Again and again stories embarrassing to George Bush would suspiciously disappear, and witnesses inculpatory to Bush be removed by mysterious and conveniently timed deaths. Where else is this happening today, by the way?

“The few relevant facts which have found their way here and there have been necessarily filtered by this gigantic apparatus”, Tarpley notes, “This problem has been compounded by the corruption and servility of authors, journalists, news executives, and publishers who have functioned more and more as kept advocates for Bush.” (This book was written in Bush’s heyday, by the way.)

George Bush wanted key aspects of his life to remain covert. At the same time, he sensed that the need for this cover-up was a drawback. This accounted for his steady stream of fake biographical and historical material, as well as studies that might not directly mention George at all.

The crucial role of Bush and his business partners in the Watergate affair was ignored, for example, by fingering Al Haig as Deep Throat. Lt. Col. Oliver North alleged in his book that Reagan knew everything about the Iran-contra affair, but that George was not part of his chain of command, fitting Bush’s lame excuse that he was “out of the loop” during all of those illegal transactions, something a mite hard to believe.

These charades are peddled to a very credulous public by operatives whose task goes beyond mere damage control to mind control—the “MK” in the government’s MK Ultra operations.

Early in the course of their research for his work, it became apparent that all books and most longer articles dealing with the life of George Bush had been generated out of a single printout of thoroughly sanitized, approved and canonically admitted “facts” about Bush and his family. They learned that during 1979-1980, Bush aide Pete Roussel attempted to recruit biographers to prepare a life of Bush based on a collection of press releases, news summaries, and similar pre-digested material. Most biographical material about Bush consists merely of points from this printout, strung out chronologically and made into a narrative through the interpretation of comments, anecdotes, embellishments, or special stylistic devices.

Some examples? One device that keeps cropping up is what I call “Bush’s Little red Studebaker”. This is from Bush’s campaign autobiography, “Looking Forward”, ghost-written by his aide, Vic Gold:

‘Heading into Texas in my Studebaker, all I knew about that state’s landscape was what I’d seen from the cockpit of a Vultee Vibrator during my training days in the Navy.’

Here is the same moment as recaptured by Bush’s crony Fitzhugh Green, a friend of the Manhattan financier Russell Train, in his “George Bush: An Intimate Portrait”, published after Bush had won the presidency:

‘He [Bush] gassed up his 1948 Studebaker, arranged for his wife and son to follow, and headed for Odessa, Texas.’

Harry Hurt wrote the following lines in a 1983 Texas magazine article that was even decorated with what was supposedly Studebaker, but didn’t resemble one of that vintage much at all:

“When George Herbert Walker Bush drove his battered red Studebaker into Odessa in the summer of 1948, the town’s population, though constantly increasing with newly arrived oil field hands, was still under 30,000.’

More degraded is the version offered by Richard Ben Kramer whose biography appeared in 1992. An excerpt of his book was published in ‘Esquire’ in June, 1991, and it was—different.

 

‘In June, after the College World Series and graduation day in New Haven, Poppy packed up his new red Studebaker (a graduation gift from Pres), and started driving south.”

Was that Studebaker shiny and new, or was it old and battered? Perhaps the original printout was not specific on this point. In any case, as we can see, our ‘authorities’ diverge.

Books about Barbara Bush slavishly rehearse the same details from the same printout as well. Here is a relevant excerpt from “Simply Barbara Bush: A Portrait of America’s Candid First lady” written by Donnie Radcliffe and published after Bush’s 1988 election:

‘With $3,000 left over after he graduated in June, 1948, he headed for Texas in the 1947 red Studebaker his father had given him after George’s car died on the highway.’

And the truth of the matter? There is good reason to believe that George Bush did not arrive in Odessa Texas first at all, nor did he appear there in a shiny red Studebaker, battered or not. One knowledgeable source is the well-known Texas oil man and Bush campaign contributor Oscar Wyatt of Houston. In a letter to the ‘Texas Monthly’, Wyatt specifies, that “when people speak of Mr. Bush’s humble beginnings in the oil industry, it should be noted that he rode down to Texas on Dresser’s private aircraft. He was accompanied by hs father, who at that time was one of the directors of Dresser Industries.” “I hate it when people make statements about Mr. Bush’s humble beginnings in the oil industry. It just didn’t happen that way.” Writes Mr. Wyatt.

Dresser was a Harriman company, and Bush got his start working for one of its subsidiaries. The most cherished myth of the Bush biographers, then, is very much open to doubt, as is the little red Studebaker.

The Catholic Church Created Islam

Catholics Created Islam

By Chylene Ramsey

 

 

The Son of Perdition

 

Paul foretold the great apostasy that would result in the establishment of the papal power in his 2^nd Letter to the Thessalonians, in which he writes: “except there come a falling away first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.”

 

He further warns his brethren, “the mystery of iniquity doth already work.” (2 Thess 2:3, 4, 7). Even at that early stage of Christianity, errors were creeping in that would prepare the way for the development of the papacy.

 

Little by little, and then more openly as it increased in strength and gained control over the minds of then, the “mystery of iniquity” carried forth its deceptive and blasphemous work.

 

Paganism in the Church

 

Almost imperceptibly, the customs of heathenism found their way into the Christian Church. Persecution under paganism constrained the trend for a time, but as Christianity entered the courts and palaces of kings, it laid aside the humble simplicity of Christ, cast aside his apostles for the pomp and pageantry of pagan priests and rulers, and in place of the requirements of God, substituted human theories and traditions.

 

The Spirit of Paganism Controls the Church

 

The nominal conversion of Constantine in the early part of the fourth century caused great rejoicing and won many converts to the Church. But paganism, while it appeared outwardly to be vanishing, actually became the conqueror, for its spirit controlled the Church. It’s doctrine, ceremonies and superstitions were incorporated into the faith and worship of the professed followers of Christ.

 

This compromise between paganism and Christianity resulted in the development of the papacy, ‘the man of sin’ foretold in prophecy as opposing and exalting himself above God.

 

To secure worldly gains and honors, the church was then led to seek the favor and support of the great men of the earth and thus rejected Christ, and was induced to yield allegiance to the representative of Satan on earth—the bishop of Rome.

 

The Authority of the pope

 

One of the leading doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church is that the pope is the visible head of the universal church of Christ; he is invested with supreme authority over bishops and pastors in all parts of the world. More than this, the pope has arrogated the very titles of Deity. He styles himself “Lord God the Pope”, assumes his infallibility, and demands all men pay him homage.

 

However, those who fear and reverence God pay heed to Luke 4:8— “Thou salt worship the Lord thy God and Him only shalt thou serve.”  God has never given any single word or notion in His Scriptures that any man (other than the Lord Jesus) should be head of the church, or the world. The doctrine of papal supremacy, then, is directly opposed to the teachings of the Scriptures. The pope can have no authority over Christ’s church other than by usurping God Himself.

 

Satan Suppresses the Bible

 

Satan knew the Holy Scriptures would enable men to discern his deceptions and withstand his power. Wasn’t it by the Word the Savior resisted his attacks? At his every assault, Christ presented the shield of eternal truth, saying, “It is written.”

Always, Satan, I order to maintain his hold upon mankind and especially to establish the authority of the papal usurper, has endeavored to keep men in ignorance of the Scriptures and substitute false ones in their place.

The Bible exalts God and reveals the truth of man’s truth relationship to God, his true being, and the way to eternal salvation; its sacred truths had to be suppressed or men would know the salvation of their souls did not depend on priests and prelates and their dogmas and doctrines, their rotes and rituals, but only on the grace of God and the salvation offered by the Lord Jesus Christ. The logic was adopted in the Catholic Church as well.

 

The Bible Is Forbidden

 

For hundreds of years, circulation of Bibles was forbidden. People were forbidden to read it or have it in their homes, and unprincipled priests and prelates interpreted it to sustain their pretensions.

The pope thus became to be almost universally acknowledged as the vice-regent of God on earth, endowed with supreme authority over Church and State.

Image worship was gradually introduced, and the ancient Saturday Sabbath was set aside by Constantine in the fourth century.

 

Christ’s Salvation Spurned

 

Instead of trusting to Christ for the forgiveness of sins and eternal salvation, the people looked to the pope and to priests and prelates to whom he had delegated authority. They were even taught the pope was their mediator, and that none could approach God except through him.

Furthermore, he stood in the place of God to them, and therefore was to be implicitly obeyed. Deviation from his requirements was sufficient for the severest punishments to be inflicted upon body and soul of the offender.

With the elevation of human laws and traditions, and the suppression of God’s grave and the Scriptures, came corruption and venality.

 

 

The Church Launches a Bold Plan

 

The Church looked to consolidate its power over all the earth and assimilate or destroy all the remnants of Christianity who still believed in the Bible and were not Roman Catholics and would not bow their knees to the pope. It was impossible to convert them—experience had shown they willingly died for their faith and more sprang up in their place.

And the Jews, those obstinate killers of Christ! How to wrest Jerusalem from them? Jerusalem, the city Christ himself would rule from in the end times, which they were sure were right around the corner? The pope desperately wanted Jerusalem, but saw no way to get it from them—unless a crafty plan was devised to rid the world and the Church of both these pestilences forever and gain strong, loyal warriors of God that would forever be at the pope’s beck and call to quench any and all opposition to the pope’s edicts forever!

 

With them in place to enforce his every demand with him remaining piously anonymous, he could truly rule the world!

Thus, as you will see in this video, the pope and the Vatican laughed a bold and audacious plan that would have worldwide calamitous consequences that we are experiencing to this very day.

It is an understatement to say things didn’t go quite the way this’ God on earth’ had planned.