Moral declension's 'godliness'

“Satan, the real master of the New Age, delights in mysterious code words and (symbols) because they allow his agents, when questioned, to escape public censure by hiding behind a verbal mirage.”

-- Texe Marrs, author of Dark Secrets of the New Age.

In detailing characteristics of the last days of the dispensation of grace, Paul gives generalized morality kinds of things in which man is the measure of everything.

“Paul tells us that, in spite of all of the excess of human depravity, men have ‘a form of godliness,' " explains Jordan. “Man is naturally religious; he just can’t ‘get over it’ and that’s why Romans 1, after he’s ‘changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things’ . . .  he simply takes God and reduces Him to something he can control and you have to understand there’s a WORSHIP. There’s a desire to worship and control things.

“There is an external religious form of godliness. Even the Antichrist uses the Baal worship system in Scripture to rise to power. So human depravity isn’t going to leave out religion and it will have a zeal for what it’s committed to with a religious fervor and the ferocity of religious commitment.”

Here is post from 10/29/16:

The other week Donald Trump was sitting with Hillary Clinton at a white-tie affair in Manhattan’s Waldorf-Astoria with only Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, between them.

At the end of Trump’s speech to this very elite NYC crowd (Henry Kissinger among guests) gathered for the annual Jesuit-run Catholic fundraiser put on by the Al Smith Foundation (the same dinner Trump has attended with his father since he was a teenager), he said, “We can also agree on the need to stand up to anti-Catholic bias.”

Giving the “666 sign” with his right hand, as he's come to be noted for, Trump said, “And we’ve got to come together, not only as a nation, but as a world community . . . and the great religious leaders here tonight give us all an example that we can follow.”

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“Satan’s policy and M.O. involves human good; you always want to remember that,” Richard Jordan once advised. “His attempt is to ‘solve’ problems apart from God, and every attempt at solving the problems of mankind apart from God’s Word is only a satanic delusion, whether it’s socialism, communism, internationalism, capitalism, reformation, humanitarianism, welfare, government intervention, government coercion, liberalism, conservativism, organized Christianity, religion . . . 

“Whatever it is, no matter how humanly good you might think it to be, a satanic policy of evil is to use human good to solve men’s problems apart from God.”

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In his book A Woman Rides the Beast, Dave Hunt writes of the Inquisition in the 12^th Century, “Failure to give wholehearted allegiance to the pope was considered treason against the state punishable by death. Here was the basis for slaughtering millions. As Islam would be a few centuries later, a paganized Christianity was imposed upon the entire populace of Europe under the threat of torture and death.

“ . . . The inquisitors seemed to be drugged into insensibility until their normal sense of horror and sympathy had been numbed. Indeed, to be able to impose the most extreme torture without a twinge of conscience or compassionate thought became a mark of holiness and fidelity to the Church.

 “ . . . Imagine the torment of dislocated joints, torn and seared flesh, internal injuries, broken bones on the rack and other devices, mended by doctors so they could be torn asunder again by fresh torture . . . Such was the fate of millions.

“These were real people: mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters—all with hopes and dreams, with passions and feelings, and many with a faith that could not be broken by torture or fire.

“Remember that this terror, this evil of such proportions that it is unimaginable today, was carried on for centuries in the name of Christ by the command of those who claimed to be the vicars of Christ . . .  Remember that the doctrines which supported the Inquisitions remain in force within the Roman Catholic Church even at this present time.”

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Hunt writes, “If Antichrist pretends to be Christ and is worshipped by the world (Rev. 13:8), then his followers are of course ‘Christians.’ Not Communism, but Christianity will take over the world, and not real Christianity but an Antichrist counterfeit thereof.

“. . . Part of the apostasy is the ecumenical movement, which is literally setting the stage for a union between all religions and even influences evangelicals as well.  An Antichrist ‘Christianity’ must be created which embraces all religions and which all religions will embrace—precisely what is occurring today with astonishing speed.

“. . . The Latin equivalent of the Greek ‘anti’ is ‘vicarius,’ from which comes ‘vicar.’ Thus ‘vicar of Christ’ literally means Antichrist. Although the Roman Catholic popes have called themselves vicar of Christ for centuries, they were not the first to do so, but inherited that title from Constantine. 

“As already noted, in the ancient Roman Empire the Emperor was worshipped as God. As such he was the leader of the pagan priesthood and of the official, state-sponsored pagan religion of the empire. An image was made to the Caesars, before which the citizens were required to bow in worship. Those who refused to acknowledge the emperor as God were killed."