MARK OF THE BEAST IX

In my last post I showed how the receiving of the Mark of the Papal Beast was but one aspect of determining one's spiritual position in the kingdom of the Antichrist. Obedience to the Papal Beast was necessary after his Mark had been taken on the forehead. Those who refuse his Mark and/or refuse to obey him are determined to be either heretics, schismatics or infidels. Infidels cannot be excommunicated from the Church because they never claimed Christ in the first place. Heretics and schismatics, however, do claim allegiance to Christ, and therefore are eligible for the disciplinary measure of excommunication. As I have proved earlier, this punishment consists of four things: (1) forbidding of participation in the sacraments; (2) forbidding of buying and selling; (3) forbidding of any social contact whatsoever; (4) forbidding of Christian burial. When an individual or group is declared anathema, excommunication is part and parcel.

FURTHER EXAMPLES OF IMPORTANT CATHOLIC CHURCH COUNCILS FORBIDDING BUYING AND SELLING VIA EXCOMMUNICATION

Lest the reader believe that the decree by Lucius III, Ad abolendum, A. D. 1184, is the exception to the rule, I will now quote from a few Lateran Councils, foundational councils of the Roman Catholic Church. They, too, decree the forbidding of buying and selling to those who refuse the Mark, as well as to those who manifest disobedience to the Papal Beast.

(1) 2nd Lateran Council, A. D. 1139 - Canon 23:
"Those who, simulating a species of religious zeal, REJECT the sacrament of the body and blood of the Lord, the baptism of infants, the priesthood, and other ecclesiastical orders, as well as matrimony, we CONDEMN and CAST OUT OF THE CHURCH as heretics [i.e., excommunicate], and ordain that they be restrained by the civil power. For their partisans [i.e., favorers] also we decree the same penalty."

(2) 3rd Lateran Council, A. D. 1179 - Canon 27:
"………..in Gascony and the regions of Albi and Toulouse and in other places the loathsome heresy of those whom some call the Cathars, others the Patarenes, others the Publicani, and others by different names, has grown so strong that they no longer practice their wickedness in secret, as others do, but proclaim their error publicly [i.e., preach the Gospel, warning of the Papal Antichrist], and draw the simple and weak to join them, we declare that they and their defenders and those who receive them are under ANATHEMA, and we FORBID under pain of anathema that anyone should keep or support them in their houses or lands or should TRADE WITH THEM. If anyone dies in this sin, then neither under cover of our privileges granted to anyone, nor for any other reason, is mass to be offered for them or are they to RECEIVE BURIAL among Christians."

(3) 4th Lateran Council, A. D. 1215 - Canon 3:
"We excommunicate and anathematize [i.e., forbid buying and selling] every heresy that raises itself up against the holy, orthodox and Catholic faith which we have above explained; condemning all heretics under whatever named they may be known…..Those condemned being handed over to the secular rulers or their bailiffs, let them be abandoned, to be punished with due justice, clerics first being degraded from their orders……Clerics shall not give the sacraments of the Church to such pestilential people, NOR SHALL THEY PRESUME TO GIVE THEM CHRISTIAN BURIAL…….."

Editorial Comment:
The reader need take pause to consider the nature of these Councils. They were not fly-by-night afterthoughts of a few bishops. They were called by the deliberate actions of the Holy See, attended by hundreds of the highest religious in the Roman Catholic Church. The Eastern Church was not involved. Their Patriarch is not the Beast of Revelation. Nor is a secular dictator the Beast. Nor will he ever be. The Revelation tells the history of the spiritual war between the saints of God and the kingdom of the Beast. The warfare is about worship of the true God. It is about defending the doctrines of the true God. Those obedient to the Beast kill the saints who are obedient to the true God. The murderers are not the martyrs, nor are the murderers the saints. The Holy Spirit has revealed one thousand years beforehand that the false Church can be identified by a minimum of five telltale characteristics:
(1) The false Church will insist all people receive the spiritual Mark/Characterem of the Beast on their foreheads and/or right hands.
(2) The false Church will insist on absolute obedience to the Beast and his laws.
(3) The false Church will forbid buying and selling in the Beast's kingdom if one does not receive His Mark and render obedience.
(4) The false Church will forbid burial to the disobedient.
(5) The false Church will kill the disobedient.

The reasonable reader need ask a pertinent question: If the so-called heretics condemned by the Roman Catholic Church are members of the false Church, as claimed by the Church of Rome, how is it they did not fulfill the above mentioned five telltale characteristics of the false Church? There can only be one logical answer: The Church of Rome fulfilled these characteristics. Therefore, the Church of Rome is Mystery Babylon and her Pope the Antichrist.

I look forward to intelligent, mature and polite responses to this post. Those who continue to use sarcastic ad hominems prove: (1) their spirit to be other than the spirit of Christ, and (2) they have no argument to refute me.

Rand Winburn