A watchman on the wall for these days: news, culture, and the "signs of the times" through a biblical lens and worldview. Maranatha. Formerly J.C. Ryle.
Every time I see Catholics worshipping relics on X, I think of this scene from the 2003 movie "Luther"
"As for myself, the priests assured me that by gazing at sacred relics, I could cut down my time in Purgatory. Luckily for me, Rome has enough nails from the Holy Cross to shoe every horse in Saxony. But there are relics elsewhere in Christendom. Eighteen out of twelve apostles are buried in Spain. And yet here in Wittenberg we have the pick of the crop… bread from the Last Supper, milk from the Virgin’s breast, a thorn that pierced Christ’s brow on Calvary, and 19,000 other bits of sacred bone. All authentic, ancient, sacred relics.”
@MrCasey62 Hey @grok is Joe Biden considered in good standing with the Roman Catholic Church? Or, has he been excommunicated due to his wicked governance and views?
@WordserviceDan Yes, they are guilty too. But received no where near as much funding. Why? Because Rome is ok with Roman Cetholic Hispanics coming into America and the democratic party is OK with their future votes. Rome and the democratic party work hand in glove.
This is not surprising at all, if you knew that Rome was behind much of the mass third world immigration into the West the past 20 years. Roman Catholic organizations have received billions of dollars to locate and relocate immigrants into the West.
According to GROK
Analyses of https://t.co/d535QL77AM data by groups tracking federal awards put immigration-related grants (prime awards and subawards) to Catholic NGOs at roughly $5.6 billion from 2009 through the early-to-mid 2020s. Of that:The Catholic Charities network accounted for about $2.9 billion.
The USCCB accounted for about $1.6 billion.
Under the Biden administration alone (roughly FY2021–FY2024), Catholic NGOs were awarded nearly $3.2 billion in such funding—more than double the Obama-era total over eight years and several times the first Trump-term level, according to the same analyses.
An earlier compilation for 2008–2022 estimated $3.05 billion to Catholic agencies for immigration-related federal funding, rising from about $85 million in FY2008 to $618 million in FY2022.
The murder of the innocent in America The past 53 years, explains everything we are experiencing in our nation today.
Harded hearts. Wicked government leaders. The professing churches apathy to the slaughter of the preborn. Americans being vomited out of the land by foreigners. Rise of False teachers galore. Most Protestant denominations apostatizing. Rome getting more power and influence in America.
This is judgement for child sacrifice...
The murder of the innocent in America The past 53 years, explains everything we are experiencing in our nation today.
Harded hearts. Wicked government leaders. The professing churches apathy to the slaughter of the preborn. Americans being vomited out of the land by foreigners. Rise of False teachers galore. Most Protestant denominations apostatizing. Rome getting more power and influence in America.
This is judgement for child sacrifice...
This is what every CULT teaches. Just trust the "tradition" of the elders...
The New Testament has a constant theme warning against false teachers and false prophets. Jesus called them, "wolves in sheep's clothing."
Most of Satan's best work has been in religion, even those religions who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, but elevate their traditions over the Word of God.
Here's some more false teaching from the "pope" which literally contradicts God's law.
It's amazing how many "traditions of men" that Rome has, which are in direct violation of God's revealed word. Here are a few...
-Against death penalty
-Priests cant marry
-Praying to dead people
-Claiming Mary is also a mediator
-Purgatory
-Indulgences
Roman Catholicism is literally a mockery of Biblical Christianity...
The Reformation was one of God's greatest gifts to mankind. Earnestly pray for another Reformation in the West before it's too late. We must break free from the shackles of Rome AND Islam. Lord have mercy!
Happy Reformation Month!
God used ordinary men and His Word to recover what Rome had buried: justification by faith alone.
The church had drifted over the centuries. The gospel did not.
Sola Fide!
Everything Catholics mock evangelicals and Protestants for, is happening in their own neck of the woods.
They got priests blessing gay marriages. Priests who support abor+tion. Roman Catholic politicians who still get served communion, despite their wicked governance.
Not to mention, all of the sexual abuse scandals which continue to come to light, even though, Rome did everything to cover it up.
Yes, by all indications a "great falling away is taking place" in many sectors of professing Christianity. Rome is not exempt. Trading the commandments of God for the traditions of men will produce bad fruit...
This is a long read, but worth the investment. Jon is a "voice of reason" between the far out voices of the CN movement, and the political pietists who refuse to get political at all.
From my vantage point, the CN movement joining hands with Catholics and Christless "conservatives" is very telling. You will not make America great again by uniting with Rome and pagans.
I think if the Lord does truly give us over to the communists and socialists, the CN movement that Jon highlights the second half of the article will be dead. If God grants Americans repentance and true Reformation, then some lane of CN could be attainable, although, it's impossible to know what that would look like...
Whatever happened to Christian Nationalism?
The term exploded, became a movement, and now seems to be losing its usefulness. But the debate over Christian political thought is far from over.
I explain why I have become more reluctant to use the term, what happened to the movement, and where Christians should focus instead.
Here are some interesting facts about Joe Biben during his time in politics, overlapping with Roe v. Wade...
Joe Biden was elected to political office (senate) on January 3, 1973, just 19 days before the Supreme Court ruled in the Roe v. Wade case. Let that sink into your mind. Biden "ruled" in America for about 51 years, and has supported and overseen the murder of over 63 million preborn children.
ALSO, Biden was the MASTERMIND behind derailing Robert Bork's nomination 1987 for Supreme Court Justice. Bork was appointed by Ronald Reagan. At that time, Biden was head of the Senate Judiciary Committee and he presided over the infamous Robert Bork hearings.
INSTEAD OF BORK being appointed to the Supreme Court, he was rejected by the Senate. Reagan then nominated, Anthony Kennedy, who ended up being the DECIDING VOTE in Planned Parenthood v. Casey upholding a woman's right to abortion (5 to 4 ruling in 1992) and Kennedy was the DECIDING VOTE (5 to 4) in the 2015 Obergefell gay marriage ruling. Had Bork been affirmed, Roe would've been overturned in 1992.
This is not surprising at all, if you knew that Rome was behind much of the mass third world immigration into the West the past 20 years. Roman Catholic organizations have received billions of dollars to locate and relocate immigrants into the West.
According to GROK Analyses of https://t.co/d535QL77AM data by groups tracking federal awards put immigration-related grants (prime awards and subawards) to Catholic NGOs at roughly $5.6 billion from 2009 through the early-to-mid 2020s. Of that:The Catholic Charities network accounted for about $2.9 billion.
The USCCB accounted for about $1.6 billion. Under the Biden administration alone (roughly FY2021–FY2024), Catholic NGOs were awarded nearly $3.2 billion in such funding—more than double the Obama-era total over eight years and several times the first Trump-term level, according to the same analyses.
An earlier compilation for 2008–2022 estimated $3.05 billion to Catholic agencies for immigration-related federal funding, rising from about $85 million in FY2008 to $618 million in FY2022.
The Christian nationalist “dudes” are unusually good at the modern influencer game. They focus on baiting opponents with audacious claims, that sound counter cultural and "radical" to keep their names circulating in the algorithm. They feed upon the outrage of their critics to "prove" they are right and they are simply just being persecuted. Their followers buy this logic 100% and that's why they are so devoted in defending them.
The point is to keep feeding their audience new claims and revelations, similar to an gnostic experience. It's like they got some "inside knowledge" that no one else does, and no one truly understands things like they do. That is the same playbook Alex Jones has run for decades. Focus on the latest cultural controversy, press into it had, sound like you are a prophet in the wilderness and no one else is "sounding the alarm" and continue to do this over and over to feed your audience.
The controversy is not a side effect. It is the product.
@tannngl Rome is the greatest spiritual threat to the world, due to the billions it has deceived. Islam is being raised up as a judgment against a rebellious world who continues to murder their children in the womb...
I shutter to think how many little boys have been abused by Rome throughout the last millennial.
Not allowing pastors to marry, is a gross violation of scripture and actually a fulfillment of end times deception. Rome literally violates God's word by now allowing Priests to marry AND fulfills Paul's warning against such false teaching.
Consider the words of 1 Timothy 4...
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, 2 through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, 3 who FORBID MARRIAGE and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
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More than 270 Catholic clerics sexually abused nearly 1,000 children across three Massachusetts dioceses over decades, according to an investigative report the state's attorney general released on Wednesday. https://t.co/DydUV9THE7