Folks,
While Glenn Beck's rally at the Mall in Washington, DC to restore national honor is a good and noble thing, we must remember that Mr. Beck himself is a Mormon and Mormonism is an outright heresy which says that God the Father was once a man and had to earn His divinity in order to be God of this world, Jesus is the brother of Lucifer, the truly faithful who tithe regularly to the Mormon Church will on death gain their own world to rule as gods with their spouses, and contrary to what Jesus told the Saducees, marriage and families last for eternity (Matthew 22:30).
Sarah Palin, who joined Mr. Beck at the Mall, is herself a Pentecostal, a member of one of the innumerable Protestant denominations denying both 2nd Thessalonians 2:15 (the teaching of Sacred Tradition) and 1st Timothy 3:15 (the Church, the pillar and foundation of Truth). Most importantly, Sarah Palin and like-minded people deny the Real Presence of Jesus Christ (His Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity) in the Holy Eucharist contrary to what Jesus Himself declared in Matthew 26:26-29 and explained at length in John 6:26-71. How can one have honor with a person who claims to follow Jesus and believe in every word the Bible states, yet denies what those very passages of Scripture clearly teach?
So Michael Voris' latest video from Real Catholic TV is all the more important, and his quote from Jesus speaking to Pontius Pilate is all the more apropos: "My kingdom is not of this world" (John 18:36). This is the whole thing that is wrong with the left-wind social justice crowd in the Catholic Church: they think they can create God's kingdom on Earth and they are just as dead wrong as their opponents on the right-wing: Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and the rest. God's Kingdom will be manifested only when Jesus Christ returns again to Earth as Revelation 19:11-16 describes. There will be neither honor restored in America (Glenn Beck's dream) nor hunger and homelessness wiped away (Matthew 26:11) until He returns. Now that doesn't mean we give up on being honorable and righteous people, or we give up on carrying for the needy (Matthew 25:31-46). It means that we lose our arrogance in thinking our good works bring either honor (all man's righeousness is like filthy rags - Isaiah 64:5) or prosperity. Those things are God's gifts from the bounty of His mercy, and we deserve neither, yet we often think quite erroneously that such is our payment for doing simply as we ought to do.
I really like how Michael Voris talks about this whole issue.
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Of course, you're right and so is Voris. And strangely enough, in his own way, so is Beck. While you and I would agree about the truth of Catholicism and the errors of all other forms of "Christianity", I'm seeing something larger at work here.
ReplyDeleteI've had this feeling for awhile now. Admittedly, it's a feeling so take it for what it's worth. I believe that God is coming to us on our terms in some way. The times are of such a grave nature that He's offering us a once in a lifetime deal. He wants us so badly that He'll just about cut us as much slack as needed if we'll just get behind Him and follow.
This isn't to say that the truth has been put on hold or that one faith is as good as the next. No, it's more of a thing where I think that if we just open ourselves up to his grace, the rest will follow.
And I think that may be what Beck's rally was really about.
Beck is a reader of the Founders and I think his religious opinion is being, in part at least, formed by them. So on top of his Mormonism we can now add Masonic influences as well. A double whammy of heresy.
And even with all that, his real message, that we need to understand that our rights come from God and that they are immutable and unalienable is just about as true as it comes. Further, he is saying that the only way out of the mess we're in is to get behind God and allow Him to protect us. I can't argue with that, either.
Is the messenger flawed? Sure. And does he have some rather unorthodox and downright dangerous religious views? Yep. That being said, the overall message, that of returning to God, is THE message America needs to hear.
What needs to happen now is that the leaders of the Catholic Church in America, at least the small handful that actually still teach and believe the truth, need to start filling out this basic call. They need to publicly and loudly pick up the torch of freedom and apply the truth of Catholicism to it. they need to teach that freedom is the state god intended man to live in. they need to explain subsidiarity and the evils of Progressivism, Socialism and Communism using the teachings and writings of the popes in the last 150 years. In other words, there is a once in a lifetime opportunity to explain, teach and sell the Church and the truth to America and Beck opened the door.
And for that we have a heretic to thank. God does work in mysterious ways.
Both Beck and Palin are from Catholic backgrounds. Let's pray for their return to the faith. Scotju
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