In order for this to happen, all
religions must come together in an ecumenical plan. Today, as part of this
Satanic scheme, the evangelical/Protestant church is being drawn seductively
into the Roman Catholic church, largely through what we call “The Jesuit
Agenda.” Incredibly, while the evidence is obvious to some, the majority of
proclaiming Christians are not at all aware it is happening.
So, what should we expect if we
are in the time when such a system unfolds? First, many who once were
Protestant and evangelical will become ecumenical and eventually assimilate
with the Roman Catholic church. Second, all religions will unite in solidarity
of purpose. Understanding the Jesuit Agenda is essential if we are to
understand how this worldwide deception will come about.
Who are the Jesuits?
Since its foundation, the Catholic
papacy has been zealous and often brutal in its endeavor to establish the
kingdom of the Pope (of whom it is believed within the Catholic church is
headed by Jesus Christ). In fact, the Pope has been referred to as the “Vicar
of Christ.” This determination was witnessed during the Inquisition where
countless thousands, if not millions, died cruelly for resisting Rome. Foxe’s
Book of Martyrs describes many of these atrocities.
While many believers in Christ
during the Reformation period attempted to spread the truth that God’s Word was
truly God’s Word and could not be squandered and kept hostage by the papacy and
the Catholic Church, it was not long before the Counter Reformation was founded
to bring the “Separated Brethren” back to the “Mother of All Churches.”
This Counter Reformation was
largely headed by Ignatius Loyola, the man who founded the Jesuit Order in the
mid 1500s and launched an all-out attack against those who dared stand against
the papacy and Rome. This excerpt from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs gives us
an idea of the nature and determination of this Counter Reformation:
The emperor Ferdinand, whose
hatred of the Bohemian Protestants was without bounds, not thinking he had
sufficiently oppressed them, instituted a high court to prosecute the reformers
upon the plan of the Inquisition, with this difference, that the court was to
travel from place to place and always to be attended by a body of troops. This
court was conducted chiefly by Jesuits and from their decision there was no
appeal, by which it may be easily conjectured that it was a dreadful tribunal
indeed.
This bloody court, attended by a body of troops, made the tour of Bohemia. They seldom examined or saw a prisoner, for the soldiers were permitted to murder the Protestants as they pleased and then to make a report of the matter to them afterward.(1)
You see, the Jesuits were
commissioned by the Pope to do whatever it took to end the Protestant
Reformation. The 1540 Constitution
of the Jesuits states:
[L]et whoever desires to fight
under the sacred banner of the Cross, and to serve only God and the
Roman pontiff, His vicar on earth, after a solemn vow of perpetual chastity,-
let him keep in mind that he is part of a society, instituted for the purpose
of perfecting souls in life and in Christian doctrine, for the
propagation of the faith . . . Let all members know, and let it be not only at
the beginning of their profession, but let them think over it daily as long as
they live, that the society as a whole, and each of them, owes obedience to
our most holy lord, the pope, and the other Roman pontiffs, his successors,
and to fight with faithful obedience for God. (Emphasis added.)
While most Christians think that
the Counter Reformation is a thing of the past because we are not seeing
Inquisitions today, this movement continues until today and with renewed effort
through various avenues of the evangelical/Protestant church. In a way, it is
more insidious than the Inquisitions, because now it has infiltrated
Christianity and is being disguised as the “new” Christianity. (Rick Warren
promotes it as the “new” or
second reformation.) But disguised or not, it is the Jesuit Agenda,
and it is bringing about ecumenism and a one-world religion. And at the same
time, it is attempting to destroy the message that so many died for - the
message that Jesus Christ is not found in a wafer and a cup of juice to be
re-crucified day after day but has died once and for all for the sins of man
and offers a salvation that is an entirely free gift, unearned to those who
believe on Him (Hebrews 7:27; 10:11-14).
Who Was Ignatius Loyola?
After a serious injury in the
military and during a lengthy rehabilitation, Ignatius Loyola (b. 1491, d.
1556) turned his focus from “military enthusiasm to ghostly fanaticism.(2) Ignatius assumed
the name and office of Knight of the Virgin Mary, seeing himself as Mary’s
favorite. Ignatius wanted to start a new order, The Society of Jesus (or the
Jesuits) and presented the idea to the Pope. He told the Pope that the idea had
been inspired by heavenly revelations. At first, the Pope hesitated, but when
Ignatius added a fourth vow (in addition to the regular poverty, chastity, and
obedience), “absolute subservience to the pope,” promising to do whatever the
Pope wanted and go wherever he wanted, the Pope agreed and sent the new order
out to “invade the world.” While other monks of other orders sought to separate
themselves from the world, the Jesuits went out into the world and obeyed
whatever command the Pope gave. Often this was to win the world with the sword.
No violent act was withheld if the order came from their top “general.” (3)
In time, the Jesuits entered the
education system, especially that of the Protestants. The Jesuit maxim was:
“Give us the education of the children of this day – and the next generation
will be ours.”(4) The Reverend W. C.
Brownlee, D.D. stated: “They pretended to be converted and to enter into
Protestant churches.” One Jesuit even boasted that the Jesuits were
successfully able to imitate the Puritan preachers. They used trickery and
deception to become “all things to all men.” Within 48 years, there were eleven
thousand Jesuits around the world, quite a large number for back then. (5)
By 1773, the order was abolished
because of their horrible reputation of bloodiness, deception, and immorality.
However, they were reinstated fully in 1814 by Pope Pius VII. Even by this
time, the influence and infiltration into the United States by the Jesuits was
significant.
In 1857, the Reverend W.C.
Brownlee, D.D. compiled a book of a translated document called Secret
Instructions of the Jesuits (found on the Boston College Libraries website,
for one). While Catholic sources say that the Secret Instructions of the Jesuits
is an untrue document, there is enough evidence to indicate that it is true
indeed. Naturally, it is so indicting against the papacy and the Jesuit Order
that one can understand from a human point of view why Catholic sources would
say the document isn’t true. But the facts are that the Jesuit Order was
performing brutal cruel acts to bring the world to “Christ” and the Mother
Church and that they were infiltrating every area of society to do so. This
cannot be denied. Brownlee’s book would be a worthwhile read for those who wish
to understand more of the history of the Jesuits.
The Jesuit Oath
It is said that the ancient
Jesuits took the Jesuit Oath. This has been refuted by Catholic sources as a
true oath taken by Jesuits of the past; nevertheless, there is evidence enough
that the oath did exist to include excerpts of it in this report. We have taken
these excerpts from a book titled Political and Economic Handbook by
Thomas Edward Watson published in 1916, and found in the Harvard College
library.
I do declare from my heart,
without mental reservation, that the Pope is Christ’s Vicar General and . . .
He hath power to depose Heretical Kings, Princes, States . . . that they may
safely be destroyed. Therefore, to the utmost of my power I will defend this doctrine.
. . . I do further declare the doctrine of the Church of England, of the
Calvanists [sic], the Huguenots, and other Protestants to be damnable
and those to be damned who will not forsake the same.
I do further declare that I will
help, assist, and advise all or any of His Holiness agents in any place
wherever I shall be; and to do my utmost to extirpate [exterminate] the
heretical Protestant doctrine, and to destroy all their pretended power. (p.
437)
In another version of the Jesuit
Oath, the Jesuit is asked to promise that he will make “relentless war” against
“all heretics, Protestants” and to “hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle,
and bury alive these infamous heretics” (found in U.S. House Congressional
Record, 1913, p. 3216).
The Jesuit Agenda Today:
While we are not saying that
Jesuits today are murdering Protestants if they don’t convert to Catholicism,
we are saying that the determination and efforts to convert Protestants back to
the Mother Church still exist. Basically, while the methods may have changed,
the plan and objectives have not. The following quote from an article titled “Essay on
Popery” by Rev. Ingram Cobbin M.A. (taken from one edition of Foxe’s
Book of Martyrs) is insightful:
The
Jesuits, though at times expelled or pretendedly so from Rome, have been its
awful emissaries to augment its power. The intrigues and deceptions of these
men would fill volumes, and the conveniency of their creed to deny or affirm
anything, or assume any profession as it may serve their purpose, is too well
known to need recapitulating here. These men have at times assumed so much that
every papal state has alternately ejected them; and large numbers are now in
this country—doubtless many under false colours —waiting the most favourable
opportunities to corrupt the rising generation, and, as much as possible,
restore the dark days of former ages. The Jesuits are unchangeable.
The
Jesuits were driven in the past to bring back the lost brethren, and they are
driven today with the same vision. Today, that vision is part of the pope’s
Eucharistic Evangelization, drawing people to the Eucharistic Christ. The
Eucharistic Evangelization is discussed at length in Another Jesus: The
Evangelization of the Eucharistic Christ and in several articles on the
Understand the Times website.
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