News has broken that the Pope is planning to visit the UK on the invitation of Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. The visit it also expected to include Northern Ireland.
Gordon Brown was brought up in a Presbyterian Manse in Scotland, where officially at least, he would have known what his church taught about Antichrist's representative on earth, the Pope. He would have known what his Huguenot ancestors suffered at the hands of the Roman Catholic 'church' in the 17th and 18th centuries. He ought also to have known that what his church teaches and what the RC church teaches is very different, and indeed is directly contrary to the teaching of the Scriptures.
The invitation that Brown extended to the Pope will serve only to reinforce false doctrine, and keep millions of poor needy sinners away from the true Gospel as taught by reformers like John Calvin and his Huguenot sons Moise Amyraut, Jean Daille, and Richard Baxter, and in spiritual darkness.
He will know that the Roman Catholic religion is believed to have been the motivation for the vicious IRA campaign of terrorism, mainly in Northern Ireland, and also in GB, with devastating effects.
The very presence of the Roman Catholic church and its false religion is evidence of the failure of the Reformation, and is also a call for evangelistic effort to convert the millions of adherents of that religion. It is also evidence of the decadence of the Protestant churches which have lost sight of the transforming truths of the everlasting Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Roman Catholicism is also a call to reformed evangelicals to busy themselves in trying to win these poor deluded sinners to Christ.
Had Mr Brown learned his church and secular history, he would not have invited the head of error to visit our country. By doing this, he is endangering our democracy, and fostering a spirit of deepening falsehood among our peoples. If the church stood in need of reform in 1517, how much more does it need it today, with Rome's additional detestable errors that it has added to its religious inventory.
Our nation does not need to be further weakened by such a visit. Our spiritual needs are enormous, but few seem to care. Morally, we are approaching melt-down, but few see it. The challenge of Islam, with its proposal to take over every democratic country in the world, falls into this same category.
We neither want nor do we need a visit from the Pope; but what we do need most urgently is for God to raise up a man who will herald forth His saving Gospel with mighty Holy Spirit power. We need another Cranmer, another Ridley, another Baxter, another Ryle, men who know God and who proclaim His saving Word.
Of course, such men are despised by the world, and by large tracts of the visible church. But a man despised by the world and the worldly churches is precisely what this country needs at present.
May God's people plead with the Sovereign God to raise up such a man. No need is greater, and none more urgent.
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It will be interesting to see what the "Good men in the Presbyterian Church of Ireland" will do!I think i can give a prophecy........................
It will also be interesting to see what responses come from ALL the churches to this proposed invitation. The ecumenical churches will, no doubt, welcome the invite and visit, but the evangelical churches will probably remain silent when the Antichrist's official representative on earth arrives on these shores. They will back up their silence by saying that the media refused to allow them to have their say.
I know how difficult it is to get unpopular views published or broadcast, but perseverance pays off, as I have proved.
Our land and its people are left without directional leadership from the evangelical and reformed churches, their silence being deafening to date. I do not expect it to be any different when it comes to their response to the Pope's visit to Northern Ireland next year - if it comes off.
Why have the churches no longer got a prophetic ministry? What has silenced them bringing the judgement of Almighty God on the moral meltdown we are experiencing?
These 'good' churches will have to bear an awful judgement for their neglect of this central role that God has committed to them. May He in wrath remember mercy!
Yes well said Dr Lynch. Jacob Prasch last week said in ref to King Uzziah that the way to backslide is not necessarily to do the wrong thing, but rather to fail to do the right thing. Where have all the men with backbone gone?
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