The True Prophet and the False
Fr. Campbell
How can we not love our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ? St. Luke tells us that Jesus “was journeying through towns and villages, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God” (Lk.8:1). And “a very great crowd was gathering together and men from every town were resorting to him” (Lk.8:4).
It was not only
the men who
took an active role here, as St. Luke makes clear:
“And with him
were the
twelve, and certain women who had been cured of evil
spirits and infirmities:
Mary, who is called the Magdalene, from whom seven
devils had gone out, and
Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, and Susanna,
and many others, who
used to provide for them out of their means”
(Lk.8:1b-3).
Who in his right
mind would
not love this great and compassionate Savior who went
about among the people
doing good? And yet He was hated by most of those who
held power and authority
in His day, just as He is today, along with the true
Catholic Church which He
founded. The Gospel is not being preached. Many
Protestants, especially in this
country, have been misled by the preachers of Christian
Zionism. And the Novus
Ordo “church” no longer preaches the Gospel for the
salvation of the nations,
but instead “dialogues” with those of other religions,
leaving them in the ignorance
and darkness of unbelief.
The
“Dialogue” goes on! In a
recent dialogue with the Muslims at the Vatican, as
reported by a website
called the National Report (http://nationalreport.net/),
Francis is said to have reassured the Muslims about
the Church’s attitude
towards the Koran. Why the Koran is just as good as
the Bible any day. Francis
once kissed the Koran. It’s the same God, whatever
name you use for Him –
Jehovah, Allah, Jesus, the Great Spirit, or whatever.
Why insult those poor
people of other religions by suggesting that our
religion is superior to
theirs? If they’re comfortable where they are, they
should stay there. Any
little ol’ religion will do.
For that
matter, Francis loves
the Jewish Talmud too. While a Cardinal in Argentina,
he co-authored a book, On Heaven and Earth (Image Books, New
York, 2013), with his good friend, Rabbi Abraham
Skorka, in which Francis
quotes the Jewish Talmud. So the Talmud portrays Jesus
Christ as a vile sinner
condemned to Hell for all eternity, and the Holy
Mother of God, Mary, as a
woman of loose morals! That didn’t seem to be a
problem for Bergoglio.
This is
beyond outrage! By
taking part in such “dialogues”, Francis attacks the
very Divinity of Jesus
Christ, and His absolute uniqueness! Jesus Christ
alone is God’s Divine Son,
existing from all eternity with God the Father, in the
unity of the Holy Ghost.
St. John warns:
“Beloved, do not
believe
every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they
are of God; because many
false prophets have gone forth into the world. By this
is the spirit of God
known: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has
come in the flesh, is
of God. And every spirit that severs Jesus, is not of
God, but is of
Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he is coming,
and now is already in the
world” (1Jn.4:1-3).
Francis says that
we have
wars because we don’t respect one another’s religions.
If we did, the fighting
would come to an end. That’s the message of the False
Prophet. That’s the
message of the United Nations. But there will be peace
only when the Gospel of
Peace of Jesus Christ is preached and accepted.
We are called to
bring the
Gospel of Peace to the nations. Jesus Christ is the
Prince of Peace. We don’t
create peace, He does! He gives peace to all those who
believe in His Name and
seek to be baptized. He said to His Apostles:
“These things I
have spoken
to you that in me you may have peace. In the world you
will have affliction.
But take courage, I have overcome the world” (Jn.16:33).
It’s a huge lie,
what they
call a “whopper”, that if we have respect for one
another’s religions there
will be peace. That is not what preaching the Gospel is
about. St. Paul quotes
Isaiah: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach
the gospel of peace; of
those who bring glad tidings of good things!”
(Rom.10:15).
Those who hate
Jesus Christ
hate His Church, which is His Body, and they hate us,
because we belong to the
Body. Jesus is our Divine Savior and Lord. Those who see
Him as a betrayer and
an enemy are our enemies. And yet we must not hate them.
God “wishes all men to
be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth”
(1Tim.2:4). We must wish
the same. St. Paul tells Timothy to preach the Gospel
“in season, out of
season; reprove, entreat, rebuke with all patience and
teaching” (2Tim.4:2).
But how can we
not rush to
Our Lord’s defense when He is attacked and betrayed?
When His message is
despised? When He is blasphemed and slandered? When He
is insulted, reviled? Will
Jesus not accuse us on the Day of Judgment? Will He not
say to us:
“How could you
let them
blaspheme my Holy Name? How could you let them insult
me? How could you let
them crucify me and not cry out?”
St. John tells
us:
“I have not
written to you as
to those who do not know the truth, but as to those who
know it, and because no
lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he who denies
that Jesus is the
Christ? He is the Antichrist who denies the Father and
the Son. No one who
disowns the Son has the Father. He who confesses the Son
has the Father also.
As for you, let that which you have heard from the
beginning abide in you”
(1Jn.2:21-24a).
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