Exclusive: A Seat for the Pope at King David's Tomb
Published: Friday, February 01, 2013 http://www.israelnationalnews.com
Israel seems to have sold Jerusalem to the Vatican.
An historic agreement has been drafted between Israel and the Vatican. The Israeli authorities have granted the Pope an official seat in the room where the Last Supper is believed to have taken place, on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, and where David and Solomon, Jewish kings of Judea, are considered by some researchers, to also be buried.
It is the culmination of a long campaign by the Catholic Church to regain religious stewardship over the place where Jesus is supposed to have broken bread and drunk wine with his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion.
This is an enormous issue pushed through without any public debate.
According to our sources, the agreement, which is expected to be ratified next June, gives the Pope a “special authority” over the second floor of the building, so that Christian pilgrims will be able to celebrate religious functions like Pope John Paul did in 2000.
The agreement constitutes Israel’s capitulation to the Vatican’s efforts to “Christianize” the holy site, like when a Catholic convent was built in Auschwitz.
The Catholic Church has long wanted control over part of the area on Mt. Zion so as to turn it into an international religious center for Catholics. The blueprint of the agreement reads as follows: “The Vatican hands over this use of the Cenacle to the Custody of the Holy Land which will keep the Cenacle open from 6 AM to 8 AM for the celebration of the Holy Mass”. [1]
Apostolic Truth
Do not mix up Catholicism with the Christian faith.
Since the reformation, most Evangelical Christians have correctly belled the Pope as an antichrist. (Has he shown his face?)
This article is just another example that the Catholic faith is an anti-Zionist faith. It is simply impossible for God of Israel to support anti-Zionism.
The Pope is also a supporter of the PLO. The late Pope also kissed a Koran.
What more do you need to understand that both Islam and the Catholic faith has nothing to do with God of Israel?
Comment by Ivar
Has he shown his face?
Mat 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
| כה וּמִלִּין, לְצַד עליא (עִלָּאָה) יְמַלִּל, וּלְקַדִּישֵׁי עֶלְיוֹנִין, יְבַלֵּא; וְיִסְבַּר, לְהַשְׁנָיָה זִמְנִין וְדָת, וְיִתְיַהֲבוּן בִּידֵהּ, עַד-עִדָּן וְעִדָּנִין וּפְלַג עִדָּן. | 7:25 And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the seasons and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.The Hebrew CalendarYears are counted from the Era of Creation, or Era Mundi, which corresponds to -3760 October 7 on the Julian proleptic calendar. Each year consists of twelve or thirteen months, with months consisting of 29 or 30 days. An intercalary month is introduced in years 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17, and 19 in a nineteen-year cycle of 235 lunations. The initial year of the calendar, A.M. (Anno Mundi) 1, is year 1 of the nineteen-year cycle.
The calendar for a given year is established by determining the day of the week of Tishri 1 (first day of Rosh Hashanah or New Year's Day) and the number of days in the year. Years are classified according to the number of days in the year (see Table 3.1.1).
** In a deficient year, Kislev has 29 days. *** In a leap year Adar I has 30 days; it is followed by Adar II with 29 days. |
"...and he shall think to change the seasons and the law;"
The Julian Calendar
The Julian calendar was the calendar in predominant use in most of Europe from 45 BC until it was superseded by the Gregorian calendar commencing in 1582, although it continued to be used as the civil calendar in some countries into the 20th century. The Gregorian calendar has now replaced the Julian calendar as the civil calendar in all countries which formerly used it. Most Christian denominations in the West and areas evangelized by Western churches have also replaced it with the Gregorian calendar as the basis for their liturgical calendars. However, most branches of the Eastern Orthodox Church still use the Julian calendar for calculating the dates of moveable feasts, including Easter(Pascha). Some Orthodox churches have adopted the Revised Julian calendar for the observance of fixed feasts, while other Orthodox churches retain the Julian calendar for all purposes.The Julian calendar is still used by the Berber people of North Africa and on Mount Athos, and is the basis for the Ethiopian calendar, which is the national standard (not used only by the Orthodox Church).
It was a reform of the Roman calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC (708 AUC) to commence in 45 BC (709 AUC). The calendar has a regular year of 365 days divided into 12 months, as listed in Table of months. A leap day is added to February every four years. The Julian year is, therefore, on average 365.25 days long.
"...and he shall think to change the seasons and the law;"
The Gregorian Calendar
The Gregorian calendar today serves as an international standard for civil use. In addition, it regulates the ceremonial cycle of the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches. In fact, its original purpose was ecclesiastical. Although a variety of other calendars are in use today, they are restricted to particular religions or cultures.
| 1. January | 31 | 7. July | 31 |
| 2. February | 28* | 8. August | 31 |
| 3. March | 31 | 9. September | 30 |
| 4. April | 30 | 10. October | 31 |
| 5. May | 31 | 11. November | 30 |
| 6. June | 30 | 12. December | 31 |
* In a leap year, February has 29 days.
Apostolic Truth
Primitive Christianity (“the first church”) in its earliest stages, was still monotheistic.
Most notably, from 313–316 bishops in North Africa struggled with other Christian bishops who had been ordained by Donatus in opposition to Caecilian. The African bishops could not come to terms and the Donatists asked Constantine to act as a judge in the dispute. Three regional Church councils and another trial before Constantine all ruled against Donatus and the Donatism movement in North Africa. In 317 Constantine issued an edict to confiscate Donatist church property and to send Donatist clergy into exile. More significantly, in 325 he summoned the Council of Nicaea, effectively the first Ecumenical Council (unless the Council of Jerusalem is so classified). The Council of Nicaea is most known for its dealing with Arianism and for instituting the Nicene Creed.
Constantine enforced the prohibition of the First Council of Nicaea against celebrating the Lord's Supper on the day before the Jewish Passover (14 Nisan) (see Quartodecimanism and Easter controversy).
This marked a definite break of Christianity from the Judaic tradition. From then on the Roman Julian Calendar, a solar calendar, was given precedence over the lunar Hebrew Calendar among the Christian churches of the Roman Empire.
Constantine made new laws regarding the Jews. They were forbidden to own Christian slaves or to circumcise their slaves.
Deuteronomy 32:39, “See now that I myself am He! There is no god besides Me . . .”
As
a result of this and many other inspiring affirmations throughout the
Jewish Scriptures,1 faithful
Jews to this day will only worship the One life-giving God of Israel
– alone.
No
prophet in Tanach ever remained silent on this foundational teaching.
As if with one voice, they pleaded with their often-wayward nation
never to compromise their faith for anything other than the
unwavering monotheism that they tirelessly preached. Over and over
again, the Hebrew Bible declared with deliberate clarity in its most
celebrated creeds that the Almighty alone is God, and there is no
other. Nothing could ever be “screened” or “veiled” because
the very survival of the Jewish people depended on it. The Torah
intimately connects the faith in one indivisible God with the
national experience of the Jewish people throughout their long
history. Dreadful suffering was the consequence for any defection
from the uncompromising monotheism that the Almighty demanded of His
people.
Throughout
the Jewish Scriptures, God never “screened or veiled his divine
nature.” In fact, Isaiah unequivocally proclaimed that the Almighty
did not reveal Himself in darkness or in a hidden or veiled fashion.
The prophet, speaking in the Almighty’s name, declares that,
I have not spoken in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness; I have not said to Jacob’s descendants, “Seek Me in vain.” I, the Lord, speak the truth; I declare what is right. (Isaiah 45:19)
Although
the belief in the unity of God is taught and declared on virtually
every page of the Jewish Scriptures, the doctrine of the Trinity is
never mentioned anywhere throughout the entire corpus of the Hebrew
Bible. Moreover,
this doctrine is not to be found anywhere in the New Testament either
because primitive Christianity, in its earliest stages, was still
monotheistic. The
authors of the New Testament were completely unaware that the Church
they had fashioned would eventually embrace a pagan deification of a
triune deity. Although the worship of a three-part godhead was well
known and fervently venerated throughout the Roman Empire and beyond
in religious systems such as Hinduism and Mithraism, it was quite
distant from the Judaism from which Christianity emerged. However,
when the Greek and Roman mind began to dominate the Church, it
created a theological disaster from which Christendom has never
recovered. By the end of the fourth century, the doctrine of the
Trinity was firmly in place as a central tenet of the Church, and
strict monotheism was formally rejected by Vatican councils in Nicea
and Constantinople.2
When
Christendom adopted a triune godhead from neighboring triune
religious systems, it spawned a serious conundrum for post-Nicene
Christian apologists. How
would they harmonize this new veneration of Jesus as a being who is
of the same substance as the Father with a New Testament that
portrays Jesus as a separate entity, subordinate to the Father, and
created by God? How
would they now integrate the teaching of the Trinity with a New
Testament that recognized the Father alone as God? In
essence, how would Christian apologists merge a first century
Christian Bible, which was monotheistic, with a fourth century Church
which was not? [2]
The Council of Laodicea of around 365 decreed 59 laws
"...and he shall think to change the seasons and the law;"
Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lord's Day; and, if they can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let them be anathema from Christ. (Percival Translation).
The Constantine Creed
“I renounce all customs, rites, legalisms, unleavened breads and sacrifices of lambs of the Hebrews, and all the other feasts of the Hebrews, sacrifices, prayers, aspirations, purifications, sanctifications, and propitiations, and fasts and new moons, and Sabbaths, and superstitions, and hymns and chants, and observances and synagogues. absolutely everything Jewish, every Law, rite and custom and if afterwards I shall wish to deny and return to Jewish superstition, or shall be found eating with Jews, or feasting with them, or secretly conversing and condemning the Christian religion instead of openly confuting them and condemning their vain faith, then let the trembling of Cain and the leprosy of Gehazi cleave to me, as well as the legal punishments to which I acknowledge myself liable. And may I be an anathema in the world to come, and may my soul be set down with Satan and the devils.”
(Stefano Assemani, Acta Sanctorium Martyrum Orientalium at Occidentalium, Vol. 1, Rome 1748, page 105)
Furthermore, any follower of the “Jewish Messiah” (Yeshua HaMashiach) who wished to join this “holy community” was compelled to adopt a different set of rules and customs. Subsequently special creeds were drafted, to which the Christian would have to swear such as:
“I accept all customs, rites, legalism, and feasts of the Romans, sacrifices. Prayers, purifications with water, sanctifications by Pontificus Maxmus (high priests of Rome), propitiations, and feasts, and the New Sabbath “So! dei” (day of the Sun, ), all new chants and observances, and all the foods and drinks of the Romans. In other words, I absolutely accept everything Roman, every new law, rite and custom, of Rome, and the New Roman Religion.”
Additionally, in approximately 365 AD, the Council of Laodicea wrote, in one of their canons:
Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day. Rather, honoring the Lord’s Day. But if any shall be found to be Judaizers, let them be anathema (against) from Christ”.
Note: Protestants are included as they still observe the holidays and sabbath of Rome, as in “are you going to church this coming Lord’s day”.
Concerning Antiochus Epiphanes…
He set up an image of Zeus in the Temple which was the Abomination of Desolation spoken of in Daniel 11. For 3 years, he continued to desecrate the Temple.
These were the new laws that Antiochus set up:
Thou shall profane the Sabbath
Thou shall change the set times (festivals) and laws
Thou shall set up idols
Thou shall eat unclean animals
Thou shall not circumcise
Thou shall forget Torah
3 years and 2 months later, the Temple was taken back and rededicated. This is known as the Feast of Dedication, or Festival of Lights, or Hanukkah.
What’s really is ironic…..these laws were created by an antichrist Antiochus, and are the same things Constantine would later repeat and this is what people want to live by today. Totally going against God’s Word. People today are living under laws created by Antiochus and Constantine; an antichrist. [3]
"...and he shall think to change the seasons and the law;"
Exodus Chapter 20 שְׁמוֹת
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
8 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;
9 but the seventh day is a sabbath unto the LORD thy God, in it thou shalt not do any manner of work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates;
10 for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day; wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Mat 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
Jesus would surely have known the Church would abandon the Sabbath three hundred years after his death?
The importance and sanctity of Shabbat can not be over stated. Shabbat is not a man made holy day based on the determination of some counsel of priests. Shabbat was set apart for special observance by God Himself! As we read in the Torah:
Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, along with everything in them.
2 On the seventh day God was finished with his work which he had made, so he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 God blessed the seventh day and separated it as holy; because on that day God rested from all his work which he had created, so that it itself could produce.
Shabbat, the Sabbath or seventh day, stands unique among the days of the week. Shabbat was specifically set apart as holy (kodesh in the Hebrew) by God Himself. Of this word kodesh we read:
A primitive root; to be (causatively make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally): - appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, hallow, (be, keep) holy (-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify (-ied one, self), X wholly (Strong's: H6942).
This could not be any more clear. Shabbat is the most important ritual observance in biblical religion. Observing Shabbat is the sign that one is in a covenant relationship with HaShem. As our Messianic Siddur (prayer book) translates Exodus 31:13: "Above all, my Sabbaths you shall keep; for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you (page 12).
"Above all." This allows for no exceptions. There is not a single verse anywhere in the 66 books of the Bible that nullifies this direct command, nor a single verse sanctifying any other week day, including Sunday, as being kodesh (holy). As Y'hudey Y'shua Shabbat observance is not optional. Shabbat is the sign that we are part of the Brit Hadashah (New Covenant) -- that we have been "grafted into" or "adopted into" Judaism. [4]
Observing Shabbat is the sign, the mark which seperates us from the Beast
666 ~ Vicarius Filii Dei ~ 666
The Scripture does not list a single text conveying infallibility to a church officer." If the Bible is silent on the subject of assigning Christ's power to one individual as supreme Pontiff of the church, then there must be a historical point where that claim was made. There is, in fact, one such document, and unfortunately, the origin of this claim is tainted with deception.
It was not until the eighth century that the Roman Church proclaimed authority over all of God's churches through the succession of Peter's bishoprice. This was done with a forged document called "Donation of Constantine." It first appeared around the year 752 AD, four centuries after Constantine's death (337 AD). Bearing the forged name of the fourth century emperor, Constantine the Great, it originated the doctrine of apostolic succession and first coined the name vicarius filii dei.
Although you are probably not fluent in Latin, we will quote one sentence from the Latin of the Donation of Constantine. This paper was confirmed by church council, incorporated in Roman Catholic canon law by Gratian, later endorsed by Pope Gregory XIII; and cited by the Catholic scholar and historian Lucius Ferraris, who proved that it is a forged document.
Ut sicut Beatus Petrus in terris Vicarius Filii Dei fuit constitutus, ita et Pontifices eius successores in terris principatus potestatem amplius, quam terrenae imperialis nostrae serenitatis mansuetudo haber videtur" Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Biblietheca, (edition of 1890), art, "Papa," II, Vol. VI, p. 43.
Now, read the English rendering of this Latin translation from the Canon law of Gratian, which you will recall, was allegedly penned by Constantine the Great:
As the blessed Peter is seen to have been constituted Vicar of the Son of God on the earth, so the pontiffs who are the representatives of that same chief of the apostles, should obtain from us and our empire the power of a supremacy greater than the clemency of our earthly imperial serenity. Christopher B. Coleman, The Treatise of Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine, p. 13.If Constantine had, in fact, penned the former document, it would still not be authority to exalt the Bishoprice of one church over all others; yet this forged document actually became a "tool" to implement the doctrine of Papal supremacy and infallibility through Peter. Was Peter ever an apostle to the non-Jewish churches?
First, Peter was not the Bishop of Rome, but was an apostle to the Jews.
On the contrary, when they saw that to me [Paul] was committed [by God] the gospel for the uncircumcised [Gentiles], as to Peter that for the circumcised [Jews] (for he [God] who worked in Peter for the apostleship of the circumcised [Jews] worked also in me among the Gentiles--and when they recognized the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas [Peter] and John, who were considered the pillars [of the Jerusalem church], gave to me and to Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they [Peter, James and John]to the circumcised [Jews].... Galatians 2:7-9, Douay
[1] http://www.israelnationalnews.com
[2] http://www.outreachjudaism.org/articles/jesus-claim-to-be-god.html
[3] http://natzrim.blogspot.com/2011/04/constantine-creed.html#lExDwm5OUkZa8isQ.99
[4] The importance of Shabbat. http://yeshivabethhashem.org/yeshiva/1lesson2.html
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great
