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Can the Catholic Church Be Salvaged?

I’d like to dedicate my argument this evening with love on God’s behalf to all LGBTQ people the world over.. with particular mention of those who are loving parents. God prefers .. and shares.. the views of those who respect children.. over those who do not.

A small reading from The Book Of The Prophet Isaiah…

“The Lord stands up to plead a cause.. The peoples leaders have been misleaders.. So they that are led have been confused”

My argument is not based upon my own opinions but those of God as he reveals himself in The Books of The Prophets.. and those of Jesus as he reveals himself in the Gospels and The Book Of Revelation.

The Vatican have extensive knowledge of these books .. I will show you what the Vatican do not… that the idea the Catholic Church can be salvaged is entirely against it’s own teachings…

I will show you that the end of religion is the CORE of Christ’s message.. and that to believe ANY Christian church will survive .. is in fact anti-Christian…because.. it is opposite to Christ’s Revelation.

If you believe the church can survive then you haven’t studied your theology.

Please save questions until the end and please remember .. I didn’t write the books

I’m just reading them out loud.

Also please be ready to make two notes along the way.

The Books Of The Prophets repeatedly reveal God is a FURIOUSLY anti religious character ..

ISAIAH CHAPTER 1

“Your new moons and fixed seasons fill me with LOATHING…

They are a burden to me ..

I cannot endure them. ..

Your hands are stained with crime…

Your wine is cut with water.

Your rulers are rogues ..

And the cronies of thieves. ..

Trample my courts no more ..”

ISAIAH CHAPTER 10

“Those who write out evil writs and compose iniquitous documents and have fatherless children as their booty..

To whom will you flee when calamity comes?

Your stored wealth shall become as paper..

And he who amassed it a spark .. ”

He is emphatic in The Book Of Jeremiah .. that he never wanted religion and it has crucified him.

JEREMIAH CHAPTER 2. VS 5

“What wrong did your fathers find in me that they abandoned me and went after delusion and were deluded?

The priests never ask themselves where is The Lord ..

The guardians of the teachings ignore me…”

He is referring to…

EXODUS CHAPTER 20. VERSES 2, 3 And 5

“I AM The Lord your God..” “You shall have no other God but me…” You shall NOT bow down to sculptured images”

JEREMIAH CHAPTER 2 continues

“But My people have exchanged it’s glory for what can do no good.

Be appalled oh heavens at this.

Be utterly dazed.

For my people have done a twofold wrong..

They have forsaken me.

The fount of LIVING waters.

And .. hewn themselves out CISTERNS…. .

BROKEN cisterns…

Which cannot even hold water..”

He states his agony over the separation caused by religion.. between himself and ourselves..

With whom he had intended a direct relationship..

But has been cock blocked.

JEREMIAH CHAPTER 4..

“Oh my suffering.. My suffering.. How I writhe..

Oh.. The walls of my heart.

Because my people are shattered I am shattered.

Seized by desolation

Why has healing not yet come to my poor people?

Oh that my head were water.. My eyes a fount of tears.. I would weep day and night for my poor people.

In JEREMIAH CHAPTER 7

God asks of religious leaders..

“Will you steal and murder and swear falsely.. And then come and stand before ME in this House which bears MY name?

And say we are safe?

Safe to do all these abhorrent things?

Do you consider this house.. Which bears MY name.. To be a den of thieves????

As for me..

I have been watching..”

Jesus smashed up the temple money men.

MARK CHAPTER 3. VS 28

“All the sins of man will be forgiven but one.. which is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit”

Lying.. in the LIVING PRESENCE of the Holy Spirit .. about the COVER ups.. of the rapes, theft, sale and even manslaughter of children.. is blasphemy.

MATTHEW CHAPTER 5. VERSES 17 AND 18

THESE ARE THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT SENTENCES EVER UTTERED BY CHRIST

And they are INCENDIARY.

Please remember I said incendiary.

Also please note the word ‘law’ in each verse.. refers to religion.

“Do not think that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets.

I have come not to abolish but fulfil.

I tell you not the smallest letter or the smallest part of A letter will pass from the law UNTIL… ALL … THAT IS WRITTEN … HAS BEEN FULLFILLED…”.

The KEY word is UNTIL…

He Is stating religion will exist UNTIL the books of the prophets have been fulfilled..

He is stating stating The books of the prophets WILL BE fulfilled.

The Books Of The Prophets end with the end of religion.

He is a militantly anti religious man..

Because he IS God upon earth.

The very LAST book of prophecy is also the very last book in the bible..

The Book Of Revelation..

I refer you to our earlier passage from Isaiah..

“Your stored wealth shall become as paper..

And he who amassed it… a spark… ”

Catholic Encyclopeadia states….

“It is within the city of Rome .. called The City on seven hills. .. that the entire Vatican state proper is now confined”

I want you remember the city on seven hills.. ”

Revelation concerns THE CORE Christian belief.. that Christ will come again.. and religion will end.

It is the completion of Christ’s mission as described in Chapter 21 verses 3 and 4..

“Behold God’s dwelling is with the human race.

The the old order has passed away..”

In REVELATION CHAPTER 17… a woman sits upon a beast who has seven heads.

Scripture states…

“One of the seven angels said to me..

Come here I will show you the judgement on the woman wearing purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones.

She held in her hand a gold cup that was filled with her abominable deeds.

The angel said to me.. “Here is a clue for one who has wisdom… ”

The Seven heads are the SEVEN HILLS upon which the woman sits.

Then he said to me

“The woman represents the great city that has SOVEREIGNTY .. over the kings of the earth..”

CHAPTER 18.. states..

Then I saw another angel coming down from heaven ..

He cried out in a mighty voice..

“Fallen..

Fallen .. is Babylon the great..

She has become a haunt for demons.

She is a cage for every unclean and disgusting beast.

Then I heard another voice from heaven say..

Depart from her my people..

For her sins are piled up to the sky ..

And God remembers her crimes..

For she said to herself

“I sit enthroned as queen..

I am no widow…

And I will never know grief…

The kings of the earth will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her pyre… ”

Remember what God said in Isaiah..

“Your stored wealth shall become as paper

And he who am massed it a spark… ”

REVELATION 18 continues…

“When they see the smoke of her pyre.. The princes of the world cry out..

” Alas… great city .. Wearing fine linen, purple and scarlet..

In one hour your judgement has come..

In one hour this great wealth has been ruined”.

VERSE 21

A mighty angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone and threw it into the sea and said

“With such force .. will Babylon be thrown down.

And no light from a lamp will ever be seen in you again..

Because your commerce was with the princes of the earth .. all nations were led astray by your sorcery..

Smoke will rise from you forever and ever…”

REVELATION CHAPTER 22 tells u what happens afterward..

“One of the angels said .. “Come here.. I will show you the bride of the lamb..”

He took me to a high mountain and showed me a holy city coming down from God..

Remember we saw earlier.. “Behold.. GODS DWELLING is with the human race.. ”

WHAT I WILL READ NEXT ARE THE 17 MOST IMPORTANT MOST IMPORTANT WORDS IN SCRIPTURE ..

Revelation .. Chapter 21.. Vs 2.

“I SAW NO TEMPLE IN THIS CITY. …

FOR ITS TEMPLE IS THE LORD GOD AND THE LAMB…”

Write it down.. In MASSIVE letters please..

“I SAW NO TEMPLE IN THIS CITY

FOR ITS TEMPLE IS THE. LORD GOD AND THE LAMB”

There is NO religion in God’s plan.

The closing passage of REVELATION and therefore the bible .. states..

“These words are trustworthy and true

And The Lord God of prophetic spirits has sent his angel to show his servants what must happen soon.

Behold I am coming soon.

Blessed is the one who keeps the PROPHETIC MESSAGE OF THIS BOOK..”

Sinead O’Connor is a musician and activist.