Constitutional History of the Western World (ePub)

Those of us who are Christians are waiting for the Antichrist to show up. 2 Thess 2 says the Antichrist shows up prior to the 2nd Coming of Christ.

We're also waiting for these 3 angels from Heaven mentioned in Revelation 14. 6-11 to show up.

If an angel shows up and says church X is a false church, says it drags people down to eternal perdition, then the members of church X will think that angel is an angel from Hell. But if he's an angel from Heaven, and if he's telling the truth about church X...

So, unless you already know how to find God's True Church with 100% accuracy you might not be able to determine if an angel is an angel from Hell or an angel from Heaven.

1 Corinthians 11. 27-29 says you drink damnation into your soul if you celebrate Holy Communion in an unworthy manner. For centuries churches under the cross gave Holy Communion to evil people. Lord Acton told us in his essay `Human Sacrifice,'

'And yet, long after the last victim had fallen in honour of the sun-god of the Aztecs, the civilised nations of Christian Europe continued to wage wholesale destruction...Protestants and Catholics, clergy and laity, vied with each other for two hundred years to provide victims, and every refinement of legal ingenuity and torture was used in order to increase their number. In 1591, at Nördligen, a girl was tortured twenty-three times before she confessed...Three years later, in the same town, a woman suffered torture fifty-six times without confessing she was a witch..."

What things lead people to perdition? Christ said you were allowed to save a lost sheep on the Sabbath Day. He didn't say the Commandment to keep the Sabbath Day Holy is no longer a Commandment. Lots of Christians are Sabbath violators. Lots of Leftists hate to see religion brought into politics. But it's like this: if Jesus is God, if Christianity is true, as we Christians insist, then you can trust what God / Jesus says in Matthew 16. 13-19: there is a True Church. If you obey this True Church then you go to Heaven. If you rebel against God and God's True Church you go to eternal perdition. So, you want to find the True Church and never rebel against it: don't promote religious or political doctrines the True Church has forbidden. Revelation 20. 12-15 deals with the Last Judgment. If you are in the True Church, if your name is written in the Book of Life, you go to Paradise. If your name is not written in the Book of Life, if you are not in the True Church, you are cast into the lake of fire.

The Roman Catholic crucifix is an image of a Roman Catholic version of Jesus. A Roman Catholic version of Jesus is a version of Jesus who says Rome leads people to Heaven, who says Rome is the True Church. It doesn't make any sense to say the Roman Catholic crucifix is an image of a Lutheran version of Jesus, or a Mormon version of Jesus.

So if the True God / True Jesus says Rome leads people to Heaven, says Rome is God's True Church, then you can trust Rome when Rome says the Roman Catholic crucifix is Holy and Sacred. But if Rome leads people to perdition, if Rome is a false church, then the Roman Catholic crucifix is the image of a lie. Again, the Roman Catholic crucifix is an image of a version of Jesus who says Rome leads people to Heaven. So it is the image of a lie if the True God / True Jesus says Rome leads people to perdition. If the Roman Catholic crucifix is the image of a lie, then the image of the beast comes to mind, the beast being a false version of Jesus.