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In only one way can this resur–
rected Holy Roman Empire be
brought to fruition-by the "good
offices" of the Vatican. uniting
church and state once again. with
the Vatican astride and ruling (Rev.
17: 1-5).
This united Europe is pictured in
the prophecy of Daniel 2 (the stu–
pendous dream-image) as the ten
toes of an image, which image por–
trayed and foretold the entire Gen–
tile and Babylonian rule from
Nebuchad nezzar's Chaldean Ero–
pire. 605 B.C., until the KtNGDOM
OF Goo (Dan. 2:44). This united
Europe will attempt to fight and de–
stroy the glorified Christ, as He re–
turns for WORLD RULE (Rev. 17:13-
14).
This new united Europe will be,
militarily and economically. as
strong, or even more powerful. than
either the Un ited States or the
U.S.S. R.
It
will be a th ird gigant ic
world power! But it will be ex–
ceedingly shor t -lived ( Rev.
17: 10, 12)- as iron and miry clay are
not adhesive, and will not st ick to–
gether (Daniel 2:42-43).
Now let me fill in a few pertinent
points. Revelat ion 13 :2.4 reveals
that Satan gave this religious-politi–
cal combine its power. and seat. and
great authori ty.
Yet that does not imply that the
millions of people within it are in
themselves any more evi l than the
rest of humanity in this world, for
THIS WHOLE WORLO- all nations–
has been DECEIVED by Satan (Rev.
12:9). A deceived person may be
ever so sincere, thinking he is right.
Those deceived-all but the very
mini mal "elect"-are simply natu–
ral- or carnal -minded-and the nat–
ural mind of MAN is hostile against
God, and not subject to the LA
w
of
God, neither indeed can be (Rom.
8:7) and is "decei tful above all
things, and desperately wicked"
(Jer. 17:9). THAT DESCRIBES ALL OF
us, as we were prior to conversion!
Satan has been the god of this
world (11 Cor. 4:4).
When God SENTENCED the world
(all except the
very
few, compara–
tively, that He would call) to be cuT
OFF from God, He at the same time
ALLOWED Satan to remain.
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There were two vital reasons for
this: 1) The THRONE OF THE EARTH.
on which God placed Lucifer. MUST
NOT BE VACATED. Even though Luci–
fer was disqualified and his name
changed to Satan, he must occupy
the throne UNTIL his successor,
Christ, has qualified (which He did
in A.D. 31) and been INDUCTED
INTO OFFICE (as He shall be at His
second coming in supreme POWER
ANO GLORY).
2)
As Jesus had lO
QUALI FY by rejecting and over–
coming Satan, so must all those.
from righteous Abe! on to now,
ALSO reject and overcome Satan in
order to QUALIFY to sit
with Christ
in
His throne when He ousts Satan and
Himself sits on that THRONE OVER
ALL THE EARTH!
The REAL CULPRIT lO bJame for
all the world's evils is Satan-NOT
DECEIVED MAN!
The 6,000-Year BaHie
World-famous evangelists have said
there is a supreme CONTEST or
BATTLE going on between Christ
and Satan. They believe that NOW is
the ONLY day of salvation; that
Christ is engaged in a supreme
struggle to get everybody "sAVED."
while Satan is fighting savagely lo
keep everybody "LOST.'' THAT IS AN
ENTIRELY FALSE ANO ERRONEOUS
CONCEPT. Those who proclaim it are
themselves DECEIVED by Satan.
The only CONTEST is between
those few God has called and Satan,
not between CHRIST and Satan.
Those called must, it is true. over–
come Satan. even as Jesus did, to
QUALIFY to sit on Christ's THRONE (a
throne NOW OCCUPIED BY SATAN}.
Therefore. WE-we called-out ones.
we who are CHRIST's-are con–
lend ing not against
other people
who
persecute. accuse and become hos–
tile against us. We are contending
against WICKED SPIRITS IN HIGH
PLACES, that is. Sa tan and his de–
mons (Eph. 6: 12).
lt
is Satan work–
ing IN people (Eph. 2:2) who really
is antagonizing, accusing, trying to
destroy us.
But Jesus Christ has already coN–
QUERED and OVERCOME Satan. The
former Lucifer was "perfect in all
his ways" from the day of his cre–
ation "UNTIL iniquity was found in
him" (Ezek. 28: 15). Goo created
Lucifer BY Jesus Christ (Eph. 3:9).
Christ is his MAKER! Satan has de–
ceived evangelists of this world into
putting Satan on an EQUAL FOOTING
in power with God his Creator!
UNOERSTAND THIS, once and for
all! Satan cannot do a thing except
what God ALLOWS him lO do! No–
tice th is in the book of Job: "Now
there was a day when the sons of
God carne to present themselves be–
fore the ETERNAL, and Satan carne
also among them" (Job 1:6).
Satan contended against one of
God's "CALLED"- Job. Satan wanted
PERMISSION from God to destroy all
Job possessed. "And the ETERNAL
said unto Satan. Behold, all that he
hath is in thy power; only upon
himself put not forth thine hand"
(Job. 1: 12). Satan can do NO MORE
THAN Goo ALLOWS! There is NO
CONTESTgoing on between God a nd
Satan!
But the first man, Adam. MADE
THE CHOICE to follow Satan's way.
God then sentenced man to be ON
HISOWN, cut off from God. God has
ALLOWED Satan to sway and deceive
mankind- and Goo HAO A GREAT
PURPOSE INDOING SO!
This world has NOT been God's
world. It has been MAN's world. but.
for a PURPOSE, God has allowed
Satan to tempt, deceive and mislead
mankind.
The Dllemma of the Papacy
Now, in SUCH AWORLD allowed by
God- a world deceived and CUT OFF
from Him- consider the si tuation of
the Roman Catholic Church. This
church has sat astride the govern–
ments of Europe through the
Middle Ages and up until 1814. For
a time after 181 4. the popes had
gone into virtual exile.
But now, in this twentieth cen–
tury, a drastic CHANGE has come
over all humanity. The so-called
"new morality" has swept over the
world. This. more than anything
else, was a revol t against the Roman
Catholic dictum, generally accepted
in the Western world. that sex is in
itself SINFUL, shameful.
Probably the founder of psycho–
analysis. Sigmund Freud. started
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The
PLAIN TRUTH
January
1979