Today marks the day that The Catholic tyranny broke. For a thousand years The Roman Catholic Church exercised such control over people’s lives, that they had one whole volume by Jean de Gerson on Masturbation where the confessor had to explain what they were thinking, feeling, ache, wayward thought and every nuance of the act to determine their penance! Masturbation was even considered worse than incest and rape!, “The obligation of Christians to confess their sins to a priest is not in the Bible, but medieval writers, drawing on several ambiguous passages, maintained that such an act was mandated by divine law. In 1215, this requirement was made binding by the papal decree Omnis utriusque sexus. At least once a year- preferably at Easter- all adult Christians were expected to confess. To help priests carry out this task, numerous confessor manuals were produced. These listed the different types of sins, weighted their seriousness, and suggested questions to ask. The sins covered the full range of human behavior, from oversleeping and stinginess to intoxication and blasphemy.
Sexual activity received special attention. One manual listed sixteen levels of sexual transgression, from chaste kisses at one end to bestiality at the other; masturbation was ranked twelfth most serious offense-higher even than incest and rape..the late Jean de Gerson prepared an entire volume to guide confessors on masturbation. Not only deeds but also thoughts, especially those involving sins of desire - were considered transgressions, and the penitent had to take note of every wayward impulse, ache, and craving (fetish).. Even when penitents prepared the required acts of satisfaction, there remained a residue of sin that had to be expiated before they could be admitted into heaven.” (Source, Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and The Battle for the Western Mind, Penance and Dread, Michael Massing, pg 52). This was how intrusive and controlling the priesthood of the Romanite Church was, judging you severely over every sin as if Jesus had not paid the price for your sins, “I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”” (Galatians 2:21), and “so also Christ was offered once for all time as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people. He will come again, not to deal with our sins, but to bring salvation to all who are eagerly waiting for him.” (Hebrews 9:28)
Sin was finished at Calvary! Christ our Lord even said, “It is Finished!,” (Joun 19:30) and we now may enter the holiest place by the Blood covering of Jesus, “And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus.” (Hebrews 10:19). Constantine and the Roman Catholic Church in essence went back to Levitical system of sacrifices that they call sacraments, and this is antichrist! Jesus paid it all at the cross, there is no need for more sacrifice, “Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. 26 Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.” (Hebrews 9:25-28), “But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,” (Hebrews 10:12), “He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself,” (Hebrews 7:27), “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast,” (Ephesians 2:8-9), “He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world,” (1 John 2:2), and, “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God,” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
The Roman Church was and is a tyrant of Satan. They nullify the grace of God!, “I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose,” (Galatians 2:21), and “How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?” (Hebrews 10:19)
Jesus our Lord said you can tell a tree by its fruit (Matthew 7:15-25), and the fruit of Catholicism is: Crusades, one of which was against Eastern Christians called The Fourth Crusade, The Spanish Inquisition that tortured people and had trials, burning people at the stake for translating the Bible in English such as William Tyndale or saying they had relationship with God like Joan of Arc (Encyclopedia Britannica), The St. Bartholomew Day Massacre when Catholics saying they were making peace at a wedding with Huguenot Christians slaughtered the Huguenots instead, and more. Now the Roman Catholic Church tries hard to hide their dark history, with their popular humanitarian and Jesuit Pope Francis and their ‘supposed reforms’ when they should still be reeling from all the sexual scandals, and that most of the Papacy is pedophiles, and men taking homosexual lovers despite vows of chastity (In The Closet of the Vatican, Frédéric Martel, who interviewed Cardinals, Bishops, and Priests who went on record).
The Harlot of Rome started to lose its teeth on October 31st, 1517 when an Augustian Monk named Martin Luther nailed a 95 Thesis to Castle Church, Wittenburg, Germany. In those days that was like making hashtag or sharing viral YouTube video, the tech at that time the Gutenberg Printing Press being the Link that spread the message across Germany and then the world. Other reformers like Jan Hus, Peter Waldo, and John Wycliffe had tried to tackle the Roman Catholic tyranny and met little success save for some closet followings. Luther was the anointed one of The Lord to bring it crashing down. He was imperfect, he own admission in Total Depravity, “that we can do no good because our conscious is warped by sin, only in Jesus can we bear fruit,” which comes from The Scripture in red letters of Jesus “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5). He had some bad moments with The Jews, and he tore out a lot of books in the New Testament when he felt they contradicted Grace and God’s Love. He was a radical man, but he was God’s Man to deliver us from Rome, just as Moses delivered the Hebrews out of Egypt. I am not saying Luther is on par with Moses in character, but they both did major things for God’s Elect. Other reformers like John Calvin who erroneously saw God as Law and Zwingli who was about tearing down traditions like Lent did not have the proper focus, Luther was obsessed with God is Love (1 John 4:16) and was enraptured in the love of God (see 95 Thesis and Other Writings, Martin Luther, Penguin Press and The Reformation by Diamand McCulloch). This made Luther God’s Candidate to break the Roman Catholic stronghold, Luther was guiding people back to The First Love, “But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches.” (Revelation 2:2-4). His moods and mistakes were not the issue, the fact was he was on the right nail for reform, that God is love, “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother,” (1 John 4:7-21), that He so loved, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life,” (John 3:16), that we are to be disciples of love, “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another,” (John 13:35), “What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.
Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord,” (Romans 8:31-39), “If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love [for others growing out of God’s love for me], then I have become only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal [just an annoying distraction]. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing,” (1 Corinthians 13:1-2), “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13).
The other reformers were fixated on changing branches of tradition, Luther was focused on the root of love which was how to get the Tree of Christ to break the rooted pine of Romanism; Luther was focused on the right path to reform.
Today is a celebration of God’s love, that Jesus Christ our Lord so loved us He died on cross to swallow The Second Death of Hell and cleanse us of Sin so that we can draw near to God and be in holiest place with Him (Hebrews 10:19). This Day is when the grip of an evil eagle, a dragon of Rome lost its clutches on souls, and the true gospel prevailed (Galatians 1:8-9, 2 Corinthians 11:3-4).
It is poetic that on the most Satanic day of Samhain (now Halloween), October 31st, is the day The Lord delivered The Church from the Satanic forces of Rome that tried to bury and keep captive The Gospel beneath their skeleton claws! Let us celebrate that Christ let the Truth break free of the Deceptive Doctrines of the Demonic Catholic Church and allowed us to come back to our First Love (Revelation 2:4-5 NLT) and easy yoke, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30). Amen.
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