The John-Henry Westen Show - Antichrist Full Breakdown： The Signs You NEED To Know

00:00:00.000 At some point, Antichrist will declare that he is himself God and will be worshipped as such

00:00:06.060 in the temple. Let's see what St. Paul says in the Bible,

00:00:10.940 talking about the Antichrist coming before the second coming of Christ.

00:00:21.440 Hey my friends, did you see the show I did recently where I touched on the Catholic

00:00:25.620 conception of the Antichrist and how it relates to the rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple

00:00:30.940 and the special cow called a red heifer? Well, in this show, we're going to start a deep,

00:00:37.560 deep dive into how all these matters are linked and why. Who or what is Antichrist? Wasn't that

00:00:45.400 Hitler or Stalin or is it AI or something yet to come? This show is part of a series based on the

00:00:54.160 research and writing of Dr. Micah Hickson and Paul Cahill, which you will find exclusively at

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00:02:19.280 Let's begin as we always do, with the sign of the cross. In the name of the Father,

00:02:24.140 and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

00:02:28.780 The Antichrist. What a sensationalist topic. Over the years, in fact over the centuries,

00:02:34.940 so much ink has been spilled writing about Antichrist. Movies have been made about him,

00:02:40.540 some of which have been really terrifying. Rivals have claimed that their

00:02:44.500 rivals have been the Antichrist. For instance, during the Protestant Reformation, many of the 0.99

00:02:49.640 most important names tried to claim that the papacy itself was the Antichrist prophesied in

00:02:56.040 Holy Scripture. But today, we're going to look at some exclusive theological research LifeSite

00:03:01.980 News has published, cut through the media sensationalism, and see what we can know for sure

00:03:08.000 about this terrifying figure of evil. First things first, while there have been many foreshadowings in

00:03:16.040 both historical figures and systems, the Antichrist will be a single man, a single human person.

00:03:23.800 He'll be a mere man, that is, he won't be Satan incarnate like our Lord was God incarnate.

00:03:28.680 But nonetheless, he will have amazing charism and powers of seduction and deception,

00:03:34.720 such that he will draw almost the whole world to himself. Many authors say, based on Scripture,

00:03:41.040 that he will start his career in a lowly and obscure way. But because of his personal powers

00:03:46.400 and diabolical assistance, he will rocket to a position of great power and influence,

00:03:51.920 even unto worldwide rule. In the Apocalypse, or Revelations, the last book of the Bible,

00:03:58.020 St. John writes concerning Antichrist, and I quote,

00:04:01.940 power was given him over every tribe and people and tongue and nation, end quote. He will also perform

00:04:10.320 amazing feats, which many will take to be miracles. Over time, the Antichrist will declare that he is

00:04:17.040 the true Christ or Messiah, and according to the fathers and doctors of the Church,

00:04:21.100 he will sadly deceive the Jewish people into believing this claim and accepting him as their 0.99

00:04:27.740 long-awaited Messiah. Many of the fathers teach this sad fact, such as St. Jerome, St. Gregory the

00:04:35.100 Great, St. Ambrose, and others, based on the words of our Lord himself in the Scriptures. Jesus said,

00:04:42.080 I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not. If another shall come in his own name,

00:04:48.440 him you will receive. And that's from the Gospel of John, chapter 5, verse 42.

00:04:54.740 This is also the view held by mystics such as Bartholomew Holtshauser and Mary of Agreda,

00:05:00.900 who wrote the great works, The City of God. This mystic, Mary of Agreda, is said to have talked about

00:05:05.880 a difficult period for the Jewish people, she saw the future, of course, who will in the end approach

00:05:12.180 the Antichrist for help, and presumably at that time the Antichrist will be seen simply as a great

00:05:17.840 statesman or some kind of leading politician or whatever. But Mary of Agreda writes this, and I

00:05:23.120 quote, he will now declare himself ready to fulfill their wishes, talking to the Jewish people's wishes,

00:05:27.940 right? While at the same time he will arouse the neighboring nations to revolution. The Jews will 1.00

00:05:35.440 finally bring him a costly crown and a kingly garment, as well as a scepter, and declare him

00:05:42.500 as their freely elected king. End quote. But as I've said, this isn't just based on the words of one or

00:05:50.200 two mystics. It's what the fathers and doctors of the, and the great theologians of the church thought

00:05:56.860 was going to happen. So we're on safe ground thinking that the Jewish people will be deceived into 1.00

00:06:04.300 accepting the Antichrist as their Moshiach. Moshiach, that's the Hebrew word for Messiah, and it's a 0.98

00:06:10.940 handy way to mark when we're talking about the idea of the earthly Messiah, and thinking about these

00:06:17.000 matters from their perspective. The Antichrist will probably himself be of Jewish origin. Some say that

00:06:23.420 he will be of the tribe of Dan, but others disagree, and it's an open question. However, once he's acclaimed,

00:06:30.520 he will quickly use his worldwide power to persecute the church of our Lord Jesus Christ and wage war 0.99

00:06:37.560 on God. Most authors think that he will begin with a deceptive show of kindness and greatness,

00:06:44.520 but even then he will be persecuting the church and denying the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ

00:06:50.100 and moving towards setting himself in the place of Jesus Christ.

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00:08:06.080 At some point, Antichrist will declare that he is himself God and will be worshipped as such

00:08:15.560 in the temple. Let's see what St. Paul says in the Bible, talking about the Antichrist coming before

00:08:22.920 the second coming of Christ. You'll read this in 2 Thessalonians 2, verses 3 and 4. And I quote,

00:08:29.580 Let no man deceive you by any means. For unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin,

00:08:35.880 that's the Antichrist, man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and is lifted up above

00:08:41.880 all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sits in the temple of God, showing himself

00:08:49.760 as if he were God. So there it is, the temple. So as I mentioned before, there isn't a consensus on

00:08:57.160 where this temple will be. Some authorities say that the temple in which the Antichrist will sit

00:09:02.840 will be either the church or perhaps a church, a significant one, maybe like St. Peter's Basilica

00:09:08.540 in Rome or elsewhere. Some think that he will reign from Rome itself, although it seems more common to

00:09:13.960 think that Rome will be the seat of something called the false prophet during a vacancy in the

00:09:19.140 Holy See. And that's what some 20th century theologians said before Vatican II. Others, in fact most,

00:09:26.820 it seems, say that the temple refers to a literal temple in Jerusalem, which Antichrist will rebuild

00:09:34.560 after it was destroyed in 70 AD by the Romans. Before we go on, I want to do just a really quick

00:09:40.820 detour on that, because there's a really amazing story. In the 4th century, Julian the Apostate was

00:09:47.660 an emperor of Rome. He actually knew two saints, Gregory of Nanciansus and Basil the Great. When he became

00:09:55.900 emperor, he unveiled his true views and tried to take Rome back to paganism. He struck up an odd

00:10:02.800 alliance with some Jewish groups and tried to rebuild the Jerusalem temple as a means of disproving

00:10:09.600 Christ's prophecy that the temple would be destroyed. And that did not go very well. A Roman historian who

00:10:16.320 was himself a soldier under Julian tells us the following, and I quote,

00:10:19.980 the undertaking was frustrated in a miraculous manner. The place was made inaccessible by fearful

00:10:26.720 balls of fire that broke out near the foundations and so scorched and burned the workmen that they

00:10:33.160 were forced to retire. The frequent attacks finally caused the work to be abandoned, end quote. The

00:10:40.000 miraculous events which prevented Julian's rebuilding of the temple have been understood as vindicating

00:10:46.120 Christ's prophecy. Some take it as an indication that the temple will never be rebuilt. Others, however,

00:10:53.540 say that it is possible that the rebuilding of the temple was simply not to happen at that time.

00:10:58.960 Rebuilding this temple in Jerusalem is held to be a key means by which the Antichrist will deceive the 0.98

00:11:04.980 Jewish people into accepting him as Mosheach. That's the opinion of some very big names, Saints

00:11:11.220 Arrhenius, St. Hippolytus, St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Damascene, and others. It's a pretty reasonable

00:11:19.240 thing to think. From the Jewish perspective, rebuilding the temple and re-establishing the

00:11:23.900 sacrifice is one of their central conditions for recognizing that their earthly Mosheach has come.

00:11:30.120 In fact, it's the definitive confirmation that he has come according to the enormously influential

00:11:36.780 12th century Jewish sage, Maimonides. He writes about a possible Mosheach this way. He says, and I

00:11:43.500 quote, if he succeeds in the above, builds the temple in its place, and gathers the dispersed of

00:11:50.080 Israel, he is definitely the Mosheach, end quote. Not all the fathers and doctors of the church agree

00:11:58.360 that the Antichrist actually needs to succeed in doing this, that is, rebuilding the temple. You can see

00:12:04.300 that, for example, in St. Robert Bellarmine, the doctor of the church who says that, of the Antichrist,

00:12:08.840 that he will attempt to restore the temple, and that he would not be accepted by the Jews if he did 0.86

00:12:14.620 not, quote, in some way, restore the temple, end quote. So, there is a reason that the temple was

00:12:19.820 destroyed in 70 AD, and why Christ went out of his way to prophesy this event. We're used to a world

00:12:27.080 in which the Jewish religion exists without the temple, but at the time of Christ, it was completely

00:12:33.240 central to the Jewish religion. When it was destroyed, all of the different temple mitzvot, 0.73

00:12:40.360 it's called, that means the commandments or good deeds, became impossible, because they were all

00:12:45.420 predicated on having a temple and temple sacrifice. This was such a radical change, the ending of the

00:12:51.580 temple sacrifice, that even Jewish authors say that this destruction led to the birth of a new

00:12:57.640 religion, focused on the law and learning, rather than the temple and sacrifice. And that religion 0.95

00:13:04.360 is commonly called rabbinic Judaism. These aren't my words, by the way. They're the words of Alieza

00:13:11.220 Salzberg and MyJewishLearning.com, and many history books will tell you the same thing.

00:13:16.420 The destruction of the temple in 70 AD marked the conclusion of what had started with the tearing

00:13:23.220 of the veil in the temple at Christ's death. That tearing of the temple veil was divine proof 0.88

00:13:29.660 that the promises of the old covenant had been fulfilled. It was the time for what God promised

00:13:36.280 to Jeremiah, a new covenant. Truth has a power of its own. It moves hearts and saves lives. It heals

00:13:46.520 wounds and restores souls, but only if it is heard. That's why our enemies are working non-stop to

00:13:54.040 suppress the truth. That's why LifeSite News is the most censored life, faith, and family news source

00:13:59.560 in the world. They are working to keep you in the dark. They are working overtime to make you feel

00:14:05.840 alone and forgotten. But God says, I will never forget you. God never leaves us without hope of victory.

00:14:13.160 And LifeSite News will never stop sharing the truth that sets us free. We will tell the truth

00:14:19.360 without fear. We will tell the truth without compromise. And as mainstream platforms silence us,

00:14:25.760 we will build our own. That's why I'm pleased to announce today the launch of the new LSN TV app,

00:14:33.080 which can bring all LifeSite News' top video content direct to your phone, tablet, computer,

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00:14:53.900 St. Thomas Aquinas says that when Christ died, the rights of the old law also died, in that they could

00:15:00.840 still be observed, but they were no longer effective or obligatory. But at a certain point,

00:15:08.340 once the gospel had been spread sufficiently, these rights became deadly too, in that they couldn't be

00:15:14.840 observed without mortal sin. This is because what these rights pointed to, Christ and redemption,

00:15:21.740 had actually already come. Their continued observation was basically a denial that everything

00:15:27.980 had been fulfilled by Christ. That's why, by the way, some warn that the Christian Seder meals at

00:15:35.240 Passover are problematic. And I know that everyone who does this has good intentions, but it would 1.00

00:15:41.200 probably have horrified St. Thomas Aquinas and other great lights of the Church. It's also why

00:15:47.520 Christians should not be getting involved in the restoring of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. 1.00

00:15:53.780 A few weeks ago, we looked at Byron Stinson, the self-proclaimed Judeo-Christian, who had raised some

00:16:00.960 red heifers and taken them out to Israel in preparation for the building of the temple.

00:16:06.200 Again, Stinson obviously has good intentions too, but this attempt to resurrect Jewish rights was 0.97

00:16:13.520 always understood as a denial that Christ had already come in the flesh and fulfilled the law.

00:16:20.040 And that's precisely how St. John describes the Antichrist.

00:16:23.780 And I quote,

00:16:25.480 For many seducers are gone out into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ has come in the

00:16:30.120 flesh. This is a seducer and an Antichrist. End quote. And that's from 2 John 1.7.

00:16:36.880 And then there's huge geopolitical problems. Imagine, they're trying to rebuild the Jerusalem temple.

00:16:43.020 Well, currently, on Temple Mount, there stands the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam.

00:16:49.600 It's simply impossible to rebuild the Jewish temple without destroying the mosque, and the Islamic world 1.00

00:16:56.340 is not going to tolerate such destruction without further violence. But it's important to remember

00:17:01.660 that some of the Jewish authorities think that Moshiach's reign will commence with a great war

00:17:08.600 between two powers symbolically called Gog and Magog. And this talk of bloodshed actually leads us to the

00:17:15.760 fact that the Antichrist will bring about the cruelest, most brutal, most thorough, and most

00:17:22.280 horrible persecution in the history of the Church, or indeed the history of the world.

00:17:27.020 But what exactly is going to happen? Well, in the later stages of Antichrist, it will be a direct

00:17:33.440 and bloody persecution. We can get an eye for what it'll be like in the Gospels and in the events that

00:17:39.320 served as foreshadowings of this time to come. For example, the persecution of the Jews leading up to

00:17:45.800 the Maccabean Revolt, the persecution of Catholics by the pagan Roman Empire, the Aryans, the Protestant

00:17:51.860 Reformation, Nazi Germany, and Communist Russia. Theologians and mystics say that the Antichrist

00:17:58.640 persecution will surpass and combine these terrible times. St. Robert Bellarmine says that there will be

00:18:05.920 four broad stages of Antichrist. Number one, the Antichrist will start by prohibiting Christian 1.00

00:18:12.020 institutions and imposing Jewish laws and rights. Number two, he will proclaim himself as the Mosheach 0.97

00:18:19.120 and deceive the Jews who will help him establish himself further. Number three, he will then proclaim 0.93

00:18:26.360 himself to be God and demand worship from all when he is sitting in the temple, wherever that temple will be.

00:18:33.280 And number four, he will finally end by cursing all other gods and religions, including the true God

00:18:39.800 and true religion, as well as the sects which helped him to get to power. He'll abandon any pretense of

00:18:46.660 being the Jewish Mosheach and persecute the Jews too. Everyone will be required to worship him as God 1.00

00:18:54.360 and those who don't will be destroyed horribly. The good news, well if you can call it good news,

00:19:00.500 is that this terrible reign will be temporary. It will be short. Although, in fact, for those who

00:19:08.800 live through it, it'll seem like an eternity, I'm sure. But based on both the book of Daniel and the

00:19:14.420 book of the Apocalypse in the Bible, most Catholic authorities think that will last about three and a

00:19:19.520 half years or 1260 days as you'll read in the Bible. At that point, our Lord will destroy him. St. Paul

00:19:27.200 says that the Lord Jesus shall kill him with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy him with the 0.99

00:19:33.720 brightness of his coming. Truth has a power of its own. It moves hearts and saves lives. It heals wounds 0.95

00:19:42.760 and restores souls, but only if it is heard. That's why our enemies are working non-stop to suppress the

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00:20:49.080 There's a lot that could be said on that, but I don't want to focus on how terrible that persecution

00:20:54.220 will be, though it will be terrible. Instead, I want to talk about how it will be at the beginning,

00:21:00.140 before any of the bloody persecution starts. And in fact, before even softer form of that persecution

00:21:05.560 starts, the world has to be ready for Antichrist to come. The world has to have fallen away from God

00:21:11.800 and from the true religion. Our Lord taught that both faith and charity would decay toward the end

00:21:17.600 of the world. That's what many call the great apostasy. This decay of faith and charity will be,

00:21:25.180 according to many writers, through the spread of naturalism. The idea that mankind can set aside

00:21:32.140 the truths of divine revelation and the Holy Trinity and the Incarnation and the Redemption.

00:21:38.480 It's the idea that we can live and exist without regard for the objective supernatural order established

00:21:44.960 and willed by God. If we aren't living in that time right now, I'd hate to see what the real great

00:21:53.860 apostasy will be like. But when the Antichrist first comes, many writers believe that he will begin

00:21:59.620 with a show of benevolence and reasonableness in his denial of Christianity and imposition of

00:22:05.920 his own religion. One writer says that, quote, he will hide behind a mask of moderation and feigned

00:22:11.960 holiness, end quote. How will that be? Well, it might start to make sense if we think of his early

00:22:17.880 stages as continuing the humanism and secularism of our time today. That certainly is how Monsignor

00:22:26.360 Robert Hugh Benson depicts it in his famous novel, Lord of the World. The Jewish convert priest,

00:22:32.660 Father Lehman, says that there will be two key measures in his persecution. One, the banning of

00:22:39.040 Christian teaching, and two, the obligation to teach error. And we can already see this drift and trend. 0.78

00:22:45.580 We can see it in England with the banning of silent prayer outside an abortion clinic and with the various

00:22:50.800 attempts to treat holy scripture as hate speech around the world. We can also see it in the

00:22:56.880 obligation to allow statues of Satan in government buildings on the grounds of religious freedom.

00:23:03.060 But in fact, the attempt to get Christianity out of the public square, to uncrown Christ, and to remove 0.75

00:23:10.800 him from his throne over our society has been going on for a very long time. And here again,

00:23:16.740 we're going to see an alignment between what Catholic theologians think will be the religion of

00:23:23.800 Antichrist and what significant Jewish authorities expect will be the religion for the Gentiles under

00:23:31.440 the Moshiach. In the next part of this series of videos, we're going to do another deep dive into

00:23:38.360 this religion for the Gentiles. And it isn't Christianity, at least Christianity as we know it, nor is it 1.00

00:23:46.300 compatible with true Christianity. You're going to be shocked at how advanced this religion for the 1.00

00:23:53.040 Gentiles already is in the world today, and the really significant world leaders who are pushing

00:24:00.740 this religion for the Gentiles. If you want to learn more about these topics, take a look at the two

00:24:07.420 links in the description below, which are part of an ongoing series of articles on this topic.

00:24:12.620 They go into a lot more detail than is possible in a video.

00:24:16.780 These Catholic saints think that the Antichrist will rebuild the temple in Jerusalem and reimpose 0.99

00:24:23.140 aspects of the Jewish religion. He will present himself as divine and demand to be worshipped in

00:24:28.880 the temple. He will later throw off any claim of being the Moshiach and deny all religion altogether.

00:24:42.620 Welcome back to the second part of everything you need to know about the Catholic teaching

00:24:46.780 on the Antichrist. Can man be good without Jesus Christ? Over the last few centuries, the possibility

00:24:54.360 of being good without Christ has been cherished as an idea of all sorts of Antichristian groups.

00:25:01.940 It's the idea that the Enlightenment had, the idea of the French Revolution, of Freemasonry, 0.54

00:25:07.800 of Communism, and in our day, Modernism and the Advocates of the Inter-Religious Dialogue. And all 0.53

00:25:14.680 of these ideas converge together in this idea of being good without Christ, which is the central

00:25:21.400 assumption of a little-known but growing religion, which may be destined to sweep the world in the early 0.51

00:25:29.480 stages of the Antichrist's horrible reign. Its promoters are already in high places today.

00:25:38.760 You're going to want to stick around for this episode.

00:25:42.200 Truth has a power of its own. It moves hearts and saves lives. It heals wounds and restores souls,

00:25:49.480 but only if it is heard. That's why our enemies are working non-stop to suppress the truth. That's why

00:25:56.760 LifeSite News is the most censored life, faith, and family news source in the world. They are working

00:26:02.740 to keep you in the dark. They are working overtime to make you feel alone and forgotten. But God says,

00:26:10.220 I will never forget you. God never leaves us without hope of victory. And LifeSite News will never stop

00:26:16.500 sharing the truth that sets us free. We will tell the truth without fear. We will tell the truth

00:26:22.640 without compromise. And as mainstream platforms silence us, we will build our own. That's why I'm

00:26:29.660 pleased to announce today the launch of the new LSN TV app, which can bring all LifeSite News' top

00:26:36.380 video content direct to your phone, tablet, computer, and TV so that you can bypass the censors and keep

00:26:43.140 fighting with us for life, faith, family, and freedom. Don't be alone in the darkness. We've been

00:26:48.620 canceled. Fight the cancellation. Download the app. Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the

00:26:56.940 cross. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Before, we saw that

00:27:05.020 Catholic theologians think that the Antichrist will deceive the Jewish people into thinking that he is

00:27:10.660 their long-awaited Messiah, the Mosheach, as they call him. These Catholic saints think that the Antichrist

00:27:17.620 will rebuild the temple in Jerusalem and reimpose aspects of the Jewish religion. At some point

00:27:24.800 during his reign, he will present himself as divine and demand to be worshipped in the temple. He will

00:27:30.720 later throw off any claim of being the Mosheach and deny all religion altogether and say he is God

00:27:37.360 himself. In this series, we're considering the fascinating alignment between what we Catholics expect

00:27:44.660 of the Antichrist and what some Jewish authorities expect of the Mosheach. And they're eerily similar. 0.86

00:27:52.840 For example, the religious persecution of Antichrist is very similar to the religious utopia of the 0.88

00:27:59.280 earthly Mosheach. At an early stage, Antichrist will be denying the divinity of Christ, the Holy Trinity,

00:28:06.520 and the Christian religion itself. After all, he can't claim to be the earthly Mosheach of the Jews

00:28:12.640 without doing so, at least implicitly. This persecution will first come, it seems, in the form of another

00:28:19.900 false religion imposed at the expense of the true religion. Antichrist will start with a show of 0.98

00:28:27.220 benevolence, so it seems likely that this religion will claim to make man good, naturally good, without

00:28:32.760 Christ and his grace. This is what's called naturalism. Naturalism and the related idea of

00:28:40.900 rationalism is a ruling out of the supernatural. There are many things about God and morality which

00:28:48.860 can be known through natural reason alone. For example, God exists, he is one, he is perfect.

00:28:55.560 We should render everyone what they are due. Innocent men have a right to their lives,

00:28:59.860 therefore murder is unjust and wrong. An unborn baby is a human, a man, and therefore killing one 0.94

00:29:07.620 is unjust and wrong. And that's all great. The problem arises when we either exclude the possibility

00:29:15.080 of the supernatural, anything above nature, or when we exclude the actual objective supernatural

00:29:21.640 revelation which has come to us from Jesus Christ and his church. But naturalism is not just the denial

00:29:28.320 of the possibility that God could have elevated our natural life in order, or just the denial of that

00:29:35.760 order itself. It's also the denial of the objective fact that Christ, who is who he said he was, God incarnate

00:29:45.040 and the Redeemer, it's the denial of the Holy Trinity and the redemption, the life of grace and the church.

00:29:53.460 You can't get around that by professing belief in another supernatural order because there is no other

00:30:00.180 supernatural order. Naturalism is also the affirmation that society itself should be organized along the

00:30:08.680 lines of this denial of the supernatural order. In other words, society, laws, and government should act

00:30:15.440 as if it wasn't really known or certain that Jesus Christ is God, and so on. These objective

00:30:22.660 supernatural truths need to be relegated to the private sphere of opinion, we are told, because they

00:30:30.320 are supernatural. So, if that sounds reasonable to you, that's because the ideas of liberty of religion or

00:30:38.620 liberty of worship, as well as the separation of church and state have been in the main ideologies,

00:30:44.940 the mainstream advanced since the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. The goal has been the

00:30:52.660 de-Christianization of society and the fantasy of being good without Jesus Christ. It's about denying 0.59

00:30:59.340 that civil society itself has certain clear duties towards God and the true religion.

00:31:06.140 Pope St. Leo XIII condemned this approach in 1889 and called it, and I quote,

00:31:12.740 the legal apostasy of society from its divine author, end quote. Society has to recognize Christ is king

00:31:20.520 and govern and worship accordingly. My point is just to show how entrenched these ideas are in our

00:31:28.940 society. Many of us would shrink from the idea of saying that the Catholic Church should be the

00:31:35.380 religion of the state, but the alternative is state agnosticism, which is this legal apostasy and yet

00:31:42.520 another form of naturalism. This is accepting Christianity as one of the many possible permitted

00:31:48.660 religions. It's allowing Jesus, at best, a place in a pantheon of gods or wise moral teachers,

00:31:55.820 but without affirming the truth that is that he is the divine Messiah, the redeemer of the human race

00:32:02.560 and the second person of a triune God. This denial is itself the special mark of the Antichrist,

00:32:09.780 according to St. John in his epistles. He writes, and I quote,

00:32:12.980 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is Antichrist, the one who denies the

00:32:19.660 Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father. He that confesses the Son has

00:32:26.320 the Father. That's from 1 John 2, 22 and 23. And in his second epistle, St. John writes,

00:32:35.500 For many seducers are gone out into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ has come in the

00:32:40.700 flesh. Such a one is a seducer and an Antichrist, 2 John 1, 7. So any person or state which adopts

00:32:51.180 naturalist principles can be said in St. John's terms to be Antichrist. This is why he talks of

00:32:57.660 many Antichrists, many Antichrists, if you will, who prepare the way or prepare the way over the

00:33:04.860 centuries for the Antichrist. It is very striking, therefore, that this naturalist departure from

00:33:11.400 Christ is precisely what significant Jewish authorities expect to occur under their earthly 0.96

00:33:18.240 Moshiach. And indeed, that such a departure is a necessary means of preparing for the coming of 0.88

00:33:25.260 their Moshiach. Let's see what they have to say about it. Maimonides, Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, or

00:33:33.640 Rambam, as he's called, is an enormously influential 12th century Jewish rabbi. He states that once the

00:33:41.360 Moshiach has rebuilt the temple, it will become the focus of a worldwide religion. He says that

00:33:47.560 Moshiach, and I quote, will improve the entire world, motivating all the nations to serve God together.

00:33:53.420 And he quotes the prophet Zephaniah saying, all will call upon the name of God and serve him with one

00:33:59.200 purpose. So, serve God together, serve him with one purpose. In this context, from this man, that sounds

00:34:07.460 like a one-world religion, right? Well, so does that mean that we will all be forced to become Jews? 0.57

00:34:14.220 Well, actually, it's more complex than that. Maimonides and those following him certainly did

00:34:20.360 not think that the whole world would become Jewish. It's well known that Jewish religion does not actively 1.00

00:34:25.760 seek converts. There are several reasons for that, including some esoteric ideas about the Jewish soul 0.50

00:34:31.280 and the relative status of Jews and non-Jews. But another reason is that they don't believe that you

00:34:37.160 have to be a member of Judaism to have a portion in the world to come. So, quite different to the idea

00:34:44.700 that you have to be in the church to be saved. We all believe that the old covenant, the Torah,

00:34:50.460 was given by God to Moses, so that the Jewish people could be a light to the nations. These writers,

00:34:58.100 though, think that after the Moshiach restores the full Jewish religion and the temple, he and the Jewish 0.89

00:35:05.260 people will together be this light to the nations. By teaching us Gentiles about God, leading us to 1.00

00:35:12.820 recognize the God of Israel, recognizing the Moshiach as king and coming to worship God in Jerusalem,

00:35:19.680 but not as Jews. Now, you might be thinking, hasn't this already happened? Haven't a collection of 1.00

00:35:28.760 Jewish men and women already brought knowledge of the God of Israel to the whole world already?

00:35:34.620 Don't we already see everything I just said fulfilled? Well, yes, they have brought this

00:35:41.040 knowledge. Yes, we do already see it fulfilled in Christ and his Catholic Church, and it's amazing.

00:35:45.740 But that's not what the Jewish people are expecting. As we know from the Gospels, they expected an 0.97

00:35:53.280 earthly Messiah who would liberate them from the Romans, establish an earthly peace, and that any 0.99

00:35:59.820 Gentiles wanting to worship the God of Israel would be doing so in accordance with what they will teach 0.98

00:36:05.580 them. Nor is this a secret. There's already a name for the system which they will supposedly enlighten us

00:36:13.860 Gentiles with in the Messianic age. It's called the seven Noahide laws, or Noahidism. And we could even 0.96

00:36:22.600 call it a Noahide religion. These laws appear in the Talmud, which is the main holy book of the Jewish

00:36:30.540 religion. The Talmud claims that six commandments were given to Adam himself, with the seventh being

00:36:37.580 given to Noah after the flood. And that's why they call them the Noahide laws. And one who follows them 0.98

00:36:43.640 is a Noahide. One respected rabbi summarized this by saying that there was no concern for Gentiles to

00:36:51.380 become Jews, just for the observance of the ancient religion of Noah, the only religion incumbent on all 1.00

00:36:58.660 people who are not Israelites, end quote. So Maimonides himself seems to refer to these laws as, and I

00:37:06.320 quote, the true faith. Namely, that the true faith of which Judaism and the Noahide religion are each

00:37:13.520 expressions for Jew and Gentile respectively. So here are the Noahide laws. No idolatry or false gods,

00:37:21.180 no cursing God, no murder, no incest or adultery, no theft, established laws and courts of justice,

00:37:29.400 no eating flesh from a living animal. And that's it. That's the Noahide religion. You have to profess 0.85

00:37:37.400 belief in one God and obey these six rules. A non-Jew just has to obey these laws, albeit specifically 1.00

00:37:45.820 because he believes God gave them and he will merit a place in the world to come. However, he just has

00:37:51.780 to obey them. This is the only true religion of the Gentiles, we're told. And it's what we should 0.98

00:37:57.780 be holding now. And it's apparently what we will be holding in the messianic age. It's very simple.

00:38:05.360 In fact, it's so simple that those who are already Noahides and the Jewish people who are involved with 1.00

00:38:11.680 such Noahides have noticed in their own words that this religion is just, and I quote,

00:38:17.940 a formless set of vague moral guidelines, end quote, and in need of something to fill again,

00:38:23.980 and I'm quoting, the void and lingering hole left by lack of an active, defined spiritual life.

00:38:31.380 For that reason, because as a movement, it's a relatively modern phenomenon,

00:38:36.780 some rabbis are putting together prayer books and rituals for these Noahides.

00:38:41.180 But all in all, this sounds pretty unsatisfying and artificial.

00:38:47.840 This may be an aspect of what's meant by the Jews being the chosen people. We Catholics understand

00:38:54.240 that Jews have been chosen for the sake of preserving God's revelation, serving as the cradle of Christ,

00:39:00.700 and for bringing his gospel to us Gentiles. But the Noahide system makes it almost seem like they 1.00

00:39:08.460 are chosen to be the only ones who will really know God at all, at least in this life.

00:39:15.320 There are other aspects, too, which you can read about in the articles below.

00:39:21.100 Some authorities think these seven laws aren't all. Others think that it is just setting the standard

00:39:28.860 by which other religions can be practiced. Plus, in the abstract, the seven laws appear to be

00:39:35.840 similar to the Ten Commandments, don't they? Yes, sure. But who gets to decide whether another

00:39:42.180 religion is compatible and who gets to administer and interpret these laws? Well, I can tell you one 0.99

00:39:48.300 thing. It's not going to fall to Christians themselves, nor is it going to fall to Noahides 0.93

00:39:53.820 themselves. It's going to fall on those who are, and I quote, the light of the nations in that paradigm.

00:40:00.060 And you can see that here, where one rabbi says that there are different views on whether

00:40:06.560 Christianity is compatible with Noahide laws, and he advises these non-Jews to speak to their 1.00

00:40:12.740 Noahide rabbi. Let's take a look.

00:40:15.620 So as a result, you know, you can tell the non-Jewish friends that there are views that would consider this

00:40:23.260 to be a fulfillment of the Noahide law. There are other views that argue, and therefore speak to your

00:40:28.780 Noahide rabbi about which way, which way to go. But whoever heard of Christians being submitted to 0.98

00:40:36.360 a Noahide rabbi in the practice of the Christian religion? And in fact, when the supposedly earthly

00:40:42.620 Moshiach comes, it looks like it will be him who administers and decides on these matters for 0.97

00:40:49.280 the whole wide world. Now, if there ever were to be a man acclaimed as the earthly Moshiach,

00:40:56.800 whether he really be the Antichrist or not, the imposition of the Noahide religion would be 0.99

00:41:03.260 massively problematic for Christians for two reasons. First of all, while there definitely are 1.00

00:41:10.960 some ambiguous or nuanced views, the Noahide laws are widely understood to ban the worship

00:41:17.160 of the triune God. This is because Christians are deemed by many in this paradigm to be idolaters,

00:41:23.480 to engage in idol worship of a false God. Christianity itself is thought to have brought

00:41:30.300 untold problems to the world too. Here's Maimonides again, and note that he says that we do not serve

00:41:39.840 the true God. And I quote, this is Maimonides from the 12th century, very famous rabbi. He says,

00:41:46.140 quote, Christianity caused the Jews to be slain by the sword, their remnants to be scattered and

00:41:53.740 humbled, the Torah to be altered, and the majority of the world to err and serve a God other than the 0.99

00:42:00.720 Lord, end quote. Another really significant medieval authority famously claimed that the Trinity is idol

00:42:07.560 worship. The idea that we are idolaters is really very common. And these sorts of books are recommended

00:42:16.500 to Noahides on popular websites. Now, we know that we're not idol worshipers, and some apologists try to

00:42:26.020 prove that in dialogue, and that's an important thing to do for evangelization. But general opinions are not

00:42:32.680 going to be changed by dialogue like that against such strong authorities in the Jewish faith and also

00:42:41.400 the weight of history. Their whole history of for 2,000 years has called Catholics or Christians

00:42:47.920 idolaters. Now, look, Maimonides says that it's a mitzvah, a commandment to destroy false gods in the land 0.78

00:42:57.780 of Israel and any conquered land. And one fairly prominent rabbi says that even according to the

00:43:03.800 more liberal position, which allows Gentiles to believe in some form of Christianity, you could say,

00:43:09.740 Jews are obligated to destroy their objects of worship and churches, end quote. So, and again, 0.99

00:43:16.240 those are for the lands in Israel and those lands conquered by the Jews. But these men are debating

00:43:23.300 whether and when it's right to destroy Christian churches in the land of Israel, which, by the way,

00:43:29.900 includes Palestine for many people. Now, here's an example of a rabbi explaining what has to be done

00:43:38.940 in and out of Israel. Now, there's a difference in this mitzvah, whether it's in Israel or out of

00:43:44.720 Israel. In Israel, we actually have a mitzvah to seek out the idols, to make sure that every single one

00:43:49.060 is destroyed, out of Israel, we don't have to actively go and seek them out unless we conquer 0.98

00:43:54.940 that part. And then we have to destroy the article, the idols in the location that we destroyed.

00:43:59.700 Where do we know the difference between Israel and out of Israel? The Torah says,

00:44:02.480 you just destroy their, their name, eradicate the name of idolatry from that place,

00:44:08.100 from that specific place, from the land of Israel.

00:44:12.980 Truth has a power of its own. It moves hearts and saves lives. It heals wounds and restores souls,

00:44:20.240 but only if it is heard. That's why our enemies are working nonstop to suppress the truth. That's

00:44:27.320 why LifeSite News is the most censored life, faith and family news source in the world. They are working

00:44:33.460 to keep you in the dark. They are working overtime to make you feel alone and forgotten. But God says,

00:44:40.940 I will never forget you. God never leaves us without hope of victory. And LifeSite News will

00:44:46.500 never stop sharing the truth that sets us free. We will tell the truth without fear. We will tell the

00:44:53.060 truth without compromise. And as mainstream platforms silence us, we will build our own. That's why I'm

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00:45:22.440 And what's the punishment for idolatry? Well, it depends. And it's sometimes unclear what the

00:45:31.640 authorities are really saying. They themselves admit that they have to speak obscurely at times

00:45:37.240 to avoid angering Christians. Maimonides says,

00:45:42.660 a Noahide, and I'm quoting, a Noahide is executed for every type of foreign worship which a Jewish 1.00

00:45:50.420 court would consider worthy of capital punishment, end quote. He then says that Noahides aren't to be

00:45:57.000 executed for foreign worship which a Jewish court wouldn't deem worthy of death, but he is nonetheless 0.93

00:46:04.200 forbidden to engage in it. So, no capital punishment, but it's still wrong, pending whatever other

00:46:10.960 penalty. So, is Christianity a form of idolatry worthy of death? So, let's take a look at what 0.98

00:46:17.700 some think we are and we aren't allowed to do. So, if a Gentile worships an idol in the way that 0.98

00:46:24.060 it's normally worshipped, whatever the form of that pagan worship is, they have violated their mitzvah. 0.71

00:46:28.340 They violated this commandment. If a Jew were to be put to death for that act, then a Gentile would be 1.00

00:46:34.400 put to death for the same act. If a Jew would not be put to death for whatever form of worship, as we've 0.98

00:46:39.440 learned in details all the laws of pagan worship, then a Gentile is not put to death for that form

00:46:44.480 of worship as well. But it's still forbidden, but he's not put to death. They're not allowed to even

00:46:48.860 put up a monument for a pagan deity. They're not allowed to plant the tree. They would gather around

00:46:53.160 trees under the shade, the Asherah trees, and they cannot create any images, forms,

00:46:59.180 that are for pagan worship.

00:47:02.800 It's really difficult to tell from this whether Christianity would be a form of worship worthy 0.98

00:47:07.440 of death. But either way, it seems that it will be forbidden. As I said, there are many who claim

00:47:13.980 that Christians are not idolaters. But there are many who claim that we are. And there's no central

00:47:20.500 authority to decide all of this. But we can see how Christianity is viewed by some by considering

00:47:26.860 the hostile treatment of Christians in the Holy Land. Christians, especially priests, are spat upon

00:47:32.800 and churches and cemeteries. They're vandalized. In 2023, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem indicated 0.98

00:47:40.220 that this has increased since Netanyahu's coalition government came into power. This is because

00:47:46.500 these attitudes, these anti-Christian attitudes, also exist among those in power. Certain elected

00:47:56.280 politicians propose legislation to criminalize attempts to tell others about Jesus Christ in

00:48:01.800 Christianity. Check out that. We had that headline at LifeSite because it was already reported all

00:48:06.140 over the world. A fellow by the name of Atamar Ben-Gavir, a key figure in the coalition of Benjamin

00:48:14.840 Netanyahu, has praised activists who called Christianity that cursed religion and Christians 0.99

00:48:22.280 blood-sucking vampires. No, I kid you not. 0.99

00:48:26.240 But in 2023, that same Ben-Gavir spoke against treating spitting at Christians as a criminal

00:48:34.380 case. He said, not everything justifies an arrest. So he's speaking against the law, the coming

00:48:43.260 down on Jews who would spit at Christian priests and people. And before this politician was in

00:48:50.960 politics, according to the Times of Israel, he justified spitting towards Christians as,

00:48:56.540 and I quote, an ancient Jewish custom. Here's a video of that ancient Jewish custom in practice.

00:49:10.240 A Lutheran minister recently recounted more such examples in a 2024 interview with Tucker Carlson.

00:49:17.400 Here's his take on some of this.

00:49:20.980 Many Israeli politicians try to pass laws that prevent Christians from sharing their faith.

00:49:30.720 And so there is always this struggle and this tension about how much can Christians express

00:49:36.520 their faith. Now, the biggest problem Christians are facing is in East Jerusalem, where they are 0.76

00:49:42.480 constantly targeted by radical groups, radical Jewish groups, let's be clear.

00:49:47.960 Sometimes some churches, they tried, there was an attempt to burn them.

00:49:54.440 Oftentimes, and this is, you can look at it on social media, all over the place,

00:50:00.220 Christian clergy being spit at by these groups.

00:50:04.780 They write very offensive slogans on the wall, there's strong incitements against Christians,

00:50:10.600 especially in the old city of Jerusalem.

00:50:14.740 So I know that some of you will be thinking, well, this is all really bad, but don't be crazy. 0.92

00:50:20.520 None of these guys would really think that Christianity is a form of idolatry worthy of death.

00:50:25.620 Well, here's a fellow in Israel just a few months ago in 2023.

00:50:31.220 He wouldn't agree with you. Let's take a look.

00:50:33.320 You're not in the United States. You're in Israel. 0.79

00:50:35.960 I understand.

00:50:36.440 You cannot say whatever you want to say here.

00:50:38.060 Yes, you can. It's legal. It is legal to preach about Yeshua.

00:50:42.540 We preach at Damascus gate. The police said it's okay.

00:50:46.200 We preach at Joppa gate. The police say it's okay.

00:50:50.100 Please stop.

00:50:53.660 I respect you. Respect me.

00:50:55.960 It doesn't have to respect you.

00:50:57.400 Huh?

00:50:57.520 It doesn't have to respect you.

00:51:00.060 That is the right thing. Are you Jewish?

00:51:01.840 Do you want to honor God?

00:51:04.460 That is the godly thing to do. We respect one another.

00:51:07.080 The godly thing to do is to kill you. 1.00

00:51:08.640 The godly thing is to kill me. 1.00

00:51:10.220 That's right. That's what the Torah says. 0.99

00:51:11.660 The Torah says to kill us. 0.99

00:51:12.900 The Torah says that people who worship idols such as yourself, when there is a Sanhedrin... 1.00

00:51:19.840 To kill us. 0.99

00:51:21.280 Yes. 1.00

00:51:21.680 Okay.

00:51:22.200 That's what the Torah says.

00:51:22.800 So we know how the Jewish people feel about Christians, yes?

00:51:25.820 That you discriminate against Christians. 0.98

00:51:27.520 Christians are idol worshipers. 1.00

00:51:28.300 You discriminate against Christians. 0.99

00:51:29.320 The Torah says that Christianity is idol worship. 0.95

00:51:32.420 As far as I can see, this is just some normal guy expressing these ideas.

00:51:38.000 But wait.

00:51:38.900 There is one possible way that Christianity could be tolerated. 0.86

00:51:42.640 But that's not going to be acceptable to Christians at all. 0.95

00:51:49.100 It's about the purification of Christianity. 0.91

00:51:52.100 Some writers have spoken as if Christianity can be tolerated as a kind of ethical monotheism.

00:51:59.120 Some authorities are even more specific.

00:52:01.680 They suggest that while some form of Christianity could perhaps be tolerated amongst the Gentiles in a Noahide context, 0.90

00:52:09.940 it will need to be purified and reimagined in order to take it away from idolatry.

00:52:16.020 One influential 19th century rabbi believed that it was possible, in fact necessary, and even inevitable,

00:52:23.980 that Christianity would be drawn back into union with Judaism.

00:52:28.160 But not through the conversion of the Jews to Christianity, of course.

00:52:32.040 The Christianity that would emerge from this alliance and purification would, he said, be, and I quote, 0.84

00:52:38.960 all the more orthodox as it would have strengthened itself by drawing on an orthodoxy older than itself, end quote.

00:52:46.480 And thus strengthened it would, and I quote again,

00:52:49.280 satisfy the needs of men better than the present Christian churches can do, end quote.

00:52:54.480 Wow, aren't those big promises?

00:52:56.760 So how will this come about?

00:52:58.120 Well, surprise, surprise, it will be by rethinking and reimagining what he calls,

00:53:04.500 and I'm sorry to repeat such blasphemy, and I quote, 0.57

00:53:08.140 the problematic personage of Jesus.

00:53:10.860 Truth has a power of its own.

00:53:15.180 It moves hearts and saves lives.

00:53:17.740 It heals wounds and restores souls, but only if it is heard.

00:53:23.000 That's why our enemies are working nonstop to suppress the truth.

00:53:27.120 That's why LifeSite News is the most censored life, faith, and family news source in the world.

00:53:32.600 They are working to keep you in the dark.

00:53:34.920 They are working overtime to make you feel alone and forgotten.

00:53:39.420 But God says, I will never forget you.

00:53:42.520 God never leaves us without hope of victory.

00:53:45.540 And LifeSite News will never stop sharing the truth that sets us free.

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00:54:22.440 So, according to him, and so many others, through history,

00:54:30.020 our Lord was a good Jew who did not dream of founding a rival church,

00:54:35.960 and he had no notion of setting himself up as the founder of a religious movement to be created in his name.

00:54:42.800 This rabbi also suggests that the Holy Trinity is a distortion of the original view of the divine emanations

00:54:50.000 found in Kabbalah, a predominant school of Jewish mysticism.

00:54:54.560 He says that Christianity will be reformed on its first model, 0.91

00:54:59.320 and that this will come about through Judaism itself.

00:55:03.120 He seems to try and encourage any Christian readers by saying that once reformed,

00:55:08.060 Christianity will always be the religion of the Gentile peoples. 1.00

00:55:12.740 Other rabbis have expressed similarly tolerant views.

00:55:15.960 The problem is that this isn't Christianity at all.

00:55:21.000 Redefining the Holy Trinity along these lines would end up with a redefinition of the incarnation,

00:55:28.820 of the divinity of Christ, as well as of redemption.

00:55:31.960 That's because if God really isn't triune, then there is no God, the Son, to become the man, Jesus Christ.

00:55:38.860 But if Jesus was a wise teacher and not the incarnate God,

00:55:44.960 then his death was just a tragedy and not an infinitely pleasing sacrifice offered in atonement for our sins.

00:55:52.380 So that would mean that we haven't been redeemed.

00:55:55.060 We're still in our sins.

00:55:57.020 It would also mean that there's no grace or merit won by Christ to be applied to us.

00:56:01.380 So that means no supernatural order, no sanctification, no mystical body for us to be incorporated into.

00:56:07.940 Nothing.

00:56:09.540 Purifying Christianity so that it becomes compatible with the Noahide religion 1.00

00:56:14.000 would result in the fundamental denial of these most basic dogmas.

00:56:19.300 It doesn't matter if we're allowed to keep some Christian terms, to keep our beloved Jesus as a mere human rabbi,

00:56:27.140 or even to talk of a trinity in which the Son and the Holy Ghost are sort of helpers or partners of God

00:56:34.160 rather than being the second and third persons of the triune Godhead. 0.79

00:56:38.240 In fact, the idea of keeping the words and changing the meanings is precisely how one pre-consular theologian defined the heresy of modernism.

00:56:49.980 He portrayed it as a set of heresies which presumed to elevate and save Christianity by this kind of purification

00:56:58.440 and end in a hybrid of verbal Catholicism and naturalism.

00:57:04.160 Whichever way you splice it, the Noahide laws end up in naturalism.

00:57:10.800 If this is what is entailed, this naturalism is not a purification at all.

00:57:17.000 It's apostasy.

00:57:19.600 And this naturalism is what a significant Jewish school of thought believes will be imposed when their earthly Moshiach arrives.

00:57:27.600 The Jews will have a renewed Judaism with the temple, and the Gentiles will submit to the seven laws of Noah. 1.00

00:57:36.640 I'm going to be honest.

00:57:38.140 Given all this, it doesn't seem very likely to me that an unpurified Christianity which worships the triune God 0.92

00:57:45.240 and the incarnate Son of God is going to be deemed an acceptable form of idolatry in a Noahide regime.

00:57:52.040 The next part of this series, we're going to see just how frighteningly similar this is to what Catholic theologians and mystics

00:58:02.380 have expected from the Antichrist, his reign and the false religion which he will force on the world at the expense of the Catholic faith. 1.00

00:58:11.960 According to many Catholic writers, the Antichrist's way is going to be prepared through the spread of naturalism.

00:58:19.460 And it looks like a naturalist religion will be a key feature of his initial persecution of the Church.

00:58:32.380 Hello, my friends.

00:58:33.480 In the last show, we were looking at what Catholic authorities expect to see from the Antichrist 0.97

00:58:38.640 and how similar this is to what some Jewish groups expect to see from their earthly Messiah.

00:58:43.800 In this part, we're going to look at what both groups expect to be the religious system imposed by these respective figures.

00:58:52.720 And to me, they sound like the very same thing.

00:58:56.000 But I'm going to let you decide.

00:58:58.020 Stay tuned.

00:59:00.260 Truth has a power of its own.

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01:00:12.720 Let's begin as we always do with the sign of the cross.

01:00:15.220 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

01:00:19.080 Amen.

01:00:20.400 So let's pick up from where we left off in the last show.

01:00:23.940 We'd been looking at the Catholic expectations about the Antichrist

01:00:28.020 and how eerily similar these are to the expectations which some Jewish groups have for the coming of their earthly messiah or Mosheach, as they call him.

01:00:37.240 I'd really encourage you to go to take a look at the last show.

01:00:41.020 But just to recap, over the centuries, Catholic theologians, saints and mystics have held that the Antichrist will persecute the Church with a false religion imposed at the expense of the true religion.

01:00:53.720 They say he'll start with a show of benevolence, and they expect his religious system to be one which claims to make men good, naturally good, without Christ, of course, and Christ's grace.

01:01:05.220 There's a term for such a system.

01:01:07.480 It's called naturalism.

01:01:09.120 It's a ruling out or a setting aside of the supernatural order and its divine revelation.

01:01:15.020 In the public sphere, it also appears as a secularization of society and a denial that the state has duties towards God and the true religion.

01:01:24.900 This idea has been condemned by multiple popes.

01:01:28.100 Pope St. Leo XIII called it, and I quote,

01:01:30.680 In practice, it's treating Christianity as one of the many possible religions and allowing our Lord Jesus Christ, at best, to be placed in a pantheon of gods or wise moral teachers, but without affirming the truth that he is Jesus, the divine Messiah, the redeemer of the human race and the second person of the triune God.

01:01:57.420 So, this denial is itself the special mark of Antichrist, according to St. John, in his epistles.

01:02:04.480 And in the last show, we saw that the famous sage, Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides, as he's called, stated very similar things about the earthly Mosheach.

01:02:17.400 He said that the Mosheach would rebuild the Jerusalem temple and bring the whole world into the worship of the true God together.

01:02:25.260 But he didn't say that the whole world would become Jewish.

01:02:30.760 Certainly not.

01:02:31.780 On the contrary, he believed, and he's followed by many in this belief, that the true religion for non-Jews is something called the seven Noahide laws.

01:02:43.580 These laws consist of a prohibition of idolatry and six other pretty basic moral precepts.

01:02:49.600 But the question is, are they compatible with Christianity?

01:02:53.580 There is no clear answer on that.

01:02:56.920 On the one hand, many proponents think that Christianity is a form of idolatry.

01:03:01.020 And check out the last show to see what they think should be done to Christians, by the way. 0.97

01:03:06.980 And on the other hand, some think that it can be tolerated, that Christianity can be tolerated, 0.99

01:03:12.860 provided that Christianity is purified of some of its idolatrous features, like the Trinity and the dogma of the Incarnation. 0.96

01:03:21.780 Given the animus we've seen toward the person of our Lord Jesus Christ, even that doesn't seem very likely.

01:03:29.440 And anyway, we definitely couldn't accept such a purification, because that would just be apostasy.

01:03:35.260 But now, in this part of the series, we're going to see what Catholic theologians and mystics have expected from the false religion, 0.72

01:03:43.700 which the Antichrist will force on the world at the expense of the Catholic faith, 1.00

01:03:48.960 and how this false religion is actually already spreading across the world today.

01:03:54.480 The enormously influential Jewish sage, Maimonides, whom we've talked about several times already,

01:04:02.020 thinks that it is actually a commandment to compel observance of the Noahide religion.

01:04:08.860 He writes, and I quote,

01:04:10.400 Moses was commanded by the Almighty to compel all the inhabitants of the world to accept the commandments given to Noah's descendants, end quote.

01:04:19.240 And Maimonides added that, quote,

01:04:22.760 If one does not accept these commands, he should be executed, end quote.

01:04:28.280 First of all, let's be clear.

01:04:29.520 These texts appear in a chapter about armies invading Gentile territory.

01:04:34.960 It's not clear whether he also intends this death sentence to apply as a general rule,

01:04:42.060 whether now or when the Mosheach comes.

01:04:45.180 Many, or possibly most rabbis, have taken a different view to Maimonides

01:04:50.880 on whether there is a positive commandment to spread the Noahide laws to non-Jews.

01:04:56.540 However, there is one extremely influential Jewish group that does indeed follow Maimonides

01:05:03.940 in seeing that this mitzvah, or commandment, be fulfilled.

01:05:09.160 More on them shortly.

01:05:11.400 So first of all, let's look at some saints.

01:05:13.340 According to many Catholic writers, the Antichrist's way is going to be prepared

01:05:18.940 through the spread of naturalism, and it looks like a naturalist religion

01:05:23.140 will be a key feature of his initial persecution of the Church.

01:05:27.980 This dual approach to the Antichrist, the Jewish religion for the Jews 0.68

01:05:32.780 and Noahidism for everyone else,

01:05:35.400 even appears in what St. Hildegard von Bingen saw in Revelations from our Lord in the year 1179.

01:05:44.000 These revelations seem to have been approved by Pope Eugene III, by the way,

01:05:49.040 and the similarities are about to get really weird.

01:05:53.640 First, St. Hildegard says that the Antichrist will propose a simple and liberal doctrine

01:05:59.140 which will involve the rejection of baptism and the Gospel.

01:06:03.000 Antichrist will say, according to St. Hildegard, and I quote,

01:06:06.740 Jesus of Nazareth is not the Son of God, only a deceiver who gave himself out as God, 0.97

01:06:12.540 and the Church instituted by him is only superstition.

01:06:16.240 End quote.

01:06:17.280 He will say that the true Christ has finally come in his person.

01:06:21.800 He will say, I am the Savior of the world.

01:06:25.300 End quote.

01:06:26.180 He will try to convince the Jews that he is their Mosheach and he will succeed. 1.00

01:06:32.660 And then St. Hildegard describes this minimalist naturalist religion in these words, I quote,

01:06:39.560 His doctrine of faith will be taken from the Jewish religion 0.92

01:06:43.140 and seemingly will not differ much from the fundamental doctrine of Christianity,

01:06:48.060 for he will teach that there is one God who created the world,

01:06:51.220 who is omniscient and knows the thoughts of man and is just,

01:06:55.400 who rewards the obeyers of his commands and the trespassers he chastises,

01:07:00.540 who will raise all from the dead in due time.

01:07:04.120 End quote.

01:07:05.280 She goes on saying, and I quote again,

01:07:07.840 Religion he will endeavor to make convenient. 0.50

01:07:11.980 He will say that you need not fast and embitter your life by renunciation,

01:07:16.660 as the people of former times did when they had no sense of God's goodness.

01:07:21.800 It will suffice to love God.

01:07:24.520 End quote.

01:07:26.060 So, it's a naturalist religion which denies Christ and his revelation,

01:07:31.120 or at least treats him as a mere man,

01:07:33.040 while also being similar to Christianity in superficial, minimalist ways.

01:07:37.840 Could we think of a better definition of the Noahide religion?

01:07:43.500 Remember that Jewish writer who called Noahidism a form or a set of vague moral guidelines?

01:07:50.820 But also, could we think of a better definition of naturalism advanced by Freemasonry and the Enlightenment?

01:07:57.180 This is the same vision in Monsignor Robert Q. Benson's classic novel,

01:08:02.460 The Lord of the World, which depicts the Antichrist figure,

01:08:05.800 beginning with a hybrid religion of moralism, humanism, naturalism, and paganism.

01:08:12.380 Similar ideas were advanced by the theologians and writers,

01:08:16.020 whom you can read about in the links below.

01:08:18.720 The spread of this naturalism is also key for the preparation of both Antichrist and Mosheach.

01:08:25.360 As we've seen, the Antichrist spirit of naturalism has advanced incredibly over recent centuries.

01:08:32.680 Pope St. Pius X said in his first encyclical in 1903 that this demonstrated

01:08:38.580 that the preparation for Antichrist was well underway.

01:08:42.320 He said that because of this Antichristian naturalism, and I quote, 0.98

01:08:47.580 This is the distinguishing mark of Antichrist.

01:08:50.500 Man with infinite temerity is put himself in the place of God,

01:08:55.500 raising himself above all that is called God.

01:08:59.540 He has condemned God's majesty and, as it were, made of the universe a temple

01:09:04.920 wherein he himself is to be adored.

01:09:08.660 That is, man himself is to be adored.

01:09:10.740 He sits in the temple of God, showing himself as if he were God, end quote.

01:09:15.560 So, if you caught that, this saintly pope compared the Antichrist sitting in the temple with naturalism

01:09:22.300 and its ultimate destination, the cult of man, the worship of man himself.

01:09:27.840 And it's for this reason the pope said in the same encyclical, and I quote,

01:09:33.020 There may be already in the world the son of perdition of whom the apostle speaks, end quote.

01:09:39.320 The idea that naturalism will be a forerunner to the Antichrist

01:09:43.980 and will create the necessary conditions for his coming is not uncommon.

01:09:49.060 Father Michael Muller, writing in the 19th century, said that, quote,

01:09:54.040 Antichrist had the Freemasons as his forerunners to prepare the hearts of his followers, end quote.

01:10:00.440 And that's to prepare the hearts of his followers with a variety of vices,

01:10:05.680 including irreligion and unbelief, the essence of naturalism.

01:10:10.780 Other writers say similar things, marking the convergence of naturalism, Freemasonry,

01:10:17.340 modernism, pantheism, and various other isms of our day.

01:10:20.680 One said, and I quote,

01:10:22.180 A prelude to, and that's to the final struggle between Christ and Antichrist,

01:10:26.420 may be seen in the eras of modernism, which has been rightly designated a synthesis of all heresies.

01:10:34.620 So there are several 19th century churchmen, such as the famous English Cardinal Manning,

01:10:39.900 who talked about this in terms of the return of paganism.

01:10:45.220 We've seen aspects of full-on paganism already from Pope Francis with the Pachamama and the Western

01:10:51.020 Grandmother. Look that up on LifeSite if you don't know what I'm talking about. 0.87

01:10:54.740 But Cardinal Manning said that this paganism will also appear in the more refined form of the

01:11:03.780 ancient Roman and Greek societies in the attempt to build the natural society of men without God

01:11:09.740 and the removing belief in the incarnation from the social order of a nation and relegating it to

01:11:17.880 the private sphere. Even in his day, many writers were pointing to the link

01:11:24.320 of the removal of Christianity from public life in the schools, in the army, in the courts,

01:11:30.140 parliaments, and so on. It's obviously much worse today. The denial, implicit or explicit,

01:11:38.060 of the state's duty to acknowledge the triune God is another outgrowth of that special mark of the 0.68

01:11:44.700 Antichrist. And several such writers suggested that this and wider spread of naturalism is what's

01:11:52.080 paving the way for the coming of the Antichrist. Now, we've seen enough to recognize that all these

01:11:58.620 different lines—freemasonry, naturalism, modernism, the Noahide laws, and many other

01:12:03.640 Antichristian ideologies—are coming together in one place. And that, as far as we're concerned,

01:12:10.400 is the place of Antichrist. And as far as some others are concerned, it's also the place of the

01:12:18.340 Mosheach. Now, more than all of that, both groups—that is, Catholic scholars and saints, and as some of the

01:12:28.660 Jewish sects—both groups expect them ultimately to be a synthesis. And more than that, both groups expect

01:12:37.480 them ultimately to be synthesized into one concrete religious system imposed at the expense of

01:12:43.860 Christianity. I also mentioned that a really significant international Jewish organization

01:12:50.100 thinks that it is a mitzvah, a commandment, to spread the Noahide laws across the world. 0.97

01:12:57.000 Not only that, this group also believes that in spreading this naturalist religion for Gentiles,

01:13:03.580 they are directly preparing the ground for the coming of their earthly Mosheach. 0.98

01:13:09.600 This group is called Chabad Lubavitch. They are the Hasidic group based in New York and one of the

01:13:16.960 biggest and most influential Jewish outreach groups in the world. Their late leader, who died in 1994,

01:13:24.800 was Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known by many as the Rebbe or the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Schneerson is

01:13:36.260 at the heart of this group in its modern incarnation. In fact, a sizable number of Chabad Lubavitcher

01:13:44.020 adherents actually think that Schneerson himself was the Mosheach, that's their Messiah, and is either in

01:13:50.240 hiding or will come back from the dead when they have made the conditions right. There are stickers

01:13:56.840 and billboards in Crown Heights, New York to that effect, by the way. It will take a while to describe

01:14:03.400 Schneerson's influence, and we'll save that for a really important report we have coming from Dr.

01:14:09.680 Micah Hickson. This is just a preview of some of her findings. It's Rabbi Schneerson himself and his

01:14:17.940 personal magnetism that have transformed this Hasidic sect into the concerning powerhouse that it is 0.98

01:14:25.940 today. Even if you think you haven't heard of them before, you definitely have. Back in January, a riot

01:14:33.760 broke out at their headquarters in Crown Heights, New York, over a secret tunnel that was found beneath

01:14:39.820 their headquarters. This was reported as taking place at a New York City synagogue, but that's like

01:14:47.920 calling the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception a Washington, D.C. chapel.

01:14:54.600 It is the Chabad Lubavitch headquarters, and that's kind of a big deal, but of course it wasn't

01:15:00.280 mentioned that way. You will also have seen Chabad Lubavitcher rabbis and representatives around world

01:15:08.080 leaders and celebrities over many years. It also has a significant influence in the Israeli government

01:15:17.120 and politics today, and this is really important given the ongoing conflict in the Holy Land.

01:15:25.000 Chabad habitually have national leaders light their Hanukkah memorials, and they're normally the ones

01:15:32.120 installing the big ones in public. They have links with the World Economic Forum and even George Soros,

01:15:38.740 as well as political figures across the world. They're well connected in groups around Temple

01:15:44.540 Mount in Jerusalem, and we've already seen the significance of that. And it's not completely

01:15:49.840 clear whether they think, like some groups do, that they need to build the temple before the

01:15:54.720 Mosheach can come, but this is definitely one of their most cherished hopes, as Dr. Hickson's report

01:16:01.280 is going to show. But they are perhaps most known among Jewish people for their street evangelization

01:16:09.240 to Jews, trying to affirm Jewish identity by handing out Shabbat candles to Jewish women

01:16:14.380 and encouraging Jewish men to put on Teflin for prayer. Here's an example.

01:16:19.460 Today, Julius had his bar mitzvah. He's a Jewish boy, and he should never forget. He was born a Jew.

01:16:29.300 He's going to die a Jew, and he has to remember where he comes from, and we're all good people. 0.99

01:16:35.940 Everybody should all get along, and guys, I appreciate your good work. It's no disrespect to you. 0.86

01:16:41.500 It's all your good work. They came here, they wanted to give out pamphlets of, but Julius realized that

01:16:48.940 Chabad Lubavitch are also well known for that joyful spirit so evident in the representative there.

01:16:57.560 But did you catch the naturalism in that video? We're all good people, they said. We're not all

01:17:05.540 spiritually good, though, and we're not going to see God with merely natural goodness. For similar

01:17:12.180 reasons, they are also deeply involved in promoting the Noahide laws across the world. They've been 1.00

01:17:19.580 commended for this by American presidents and by Congress. They're doing this explicitly, by the

01:17:26.780 way, as a means of hastening the coming of the Moshiach. And that's no secret at all. Here's a video of 0.94

01:17:33.860 a Chabad rabbi discussing this. Listen.

01:17:37.320 As the Rebbe explains, the reason why the Rambam writes down in Sefer Yad HaChazok, all of the dinim of the 0.81

01:17:43.560 Bnei Noyach, right prior to the final two chapters, which deal with the redemption, with the final redemption,

01:17:49.460 that's because in human history, when will there be an awakening of Sheva Mitzvot's Bnei Noyach?

01:17:57.400 Right before the coming of Moshiach. And therefore, part of the Hachonah bringing Moshiach is to make 0.99

01:18:03.700 much, much bigger campaigns to educate the world with the Sheva Mitzvot's, just to share an idea 0.58

01:18:09.620 that came up here. So let's pause for a sec. Some of that can be hard to understand because all of

01:18:16.280 the Hebrew. So Ben Noyach means sons of Noah. So now let's carry on and see some of the strategies 0.70

01:18:25.420 discussed. So if your child has a moment of silence in a public school in America, that's

01:18:31.400 because, and a fruit of, Chabad's campaigning. This idea to bring about a spiritual awakening

01:18:38.860 without Christ, which they think is disposing us to the Noahide laws and for the coming of the

01:18:46.120 Moshiach, is that a surprise? Well, not when you think about it. A moment's silence is basically a

01:18:54.020 moment where we can either reflect in a naturally good way or each can pray to God in a way that

01:19:01.180 renders Christ a private God amongst others. It's naturalism. So I've talked about Maimonides a lot

01:19:09.080 in this video. Not all Jews and Jewish groups follow him, but Chabad Lubavitch are one of the foremost

01:19:16.940 promoters of this authority in the world today. They follow many of Maimonides' opinions and encourage

01:19:25.940 their supporters and members to read and study three chapters of his work each day. They have some of

01:19:33.040 their own ideas too, of course, derived in part from Schneerson as well as from their previous leaders

01:19:39.360 and other monuments of Jewish theology, law and mysticism.

01:19:45.800 Truth has a power of its own. It moves hearts and saves lives. It heals wounds and restores souls,

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01:20:55.500 Just a moment ago, I mentioned that we're not all supernaturally good. And that natural goodness

01:21:04.900 is not what will take us to heaven, of course, as Catholic teaching affirms. But the Jews see this 0.99

01:21:12.420 quite differently, especially those of Chabad Lubavitch. One concerning idea spread by Schneerson is that

01:21:19.660 each Jewish person has an additional divine soul or a Jewish soul or spark tending towards goodness

01:21:27.680 and assisting him in observing the Torah. By contrast, they hold that a Gentile, that's you and me,

01:21:34.880 only has an animal soul tending toward what is evil. This group holds similar views about the differences

01:21:42.960 between Jewish and non-Jewish bodies. Now, according to Schneerson and others of the same view,

01:21:50.640 if someone is born a Jew, he is a Jew for life. This is because he has a special Jewish soul which

01:21:58.140 he cannot lose even if he converts to Christianity. Such a conversion, says Schneerson, is, and I quote,

01:22:06.600 the biggest sin which a Jew could make, and a form of sickness. But let's hear what he said to Daniel 0.93

01:22:15.500 Lifshitz, a Jewish-born Catholic missionary who tried to share the gospel with him.

01:22:21.280 If someone was born a Jew, he is a Jew for all his life. And he cannot change it. It can make all 1.00

01:22:30.960 his life more complicated. So my life is much better today. My life is not miserable today.

01:22:38.720 If someone is thinking about his illness, that that is a healthy thing, that is only a sign that his

01:22:47.760 illness is more possible and needs a refuel, a gerizone, a treatment as soon as possible.

01:22:58.960 You pray for me, but I am very glad, because for me, Jesus Christ is the Messiah.

01:23:04.540 Yeah, as I said before, if you are thinking about yourself as a healthy person, it's actually only a sign

01:23:12.800 that you are more ill than someone is thinking about you.

01:23:17.600 Schneerson told Lifshitz that he'll be praying that he repents and is forgiven for the biggest sin

01:23:25.280 that can be done. Not just being a Christian per se, but for a Jew to be a Christian. 0.92

01:23:32.900 Let's take a look.

01:23:34.280 And whether not to bless you that you became healthy is the main thing to became a Jew openly 0.91

01:23:41.400 and to reclaim for all the people around you, that it was a big error, but God Almighty has

01:23:49.440 so much mercy and she is forgiving even for the biggest sin that can be done.

01:23:57.160 Rabbi, pray for me.

01:23:58.900 As I said before, that's the only sign that your illness is much deeper than you imagine and I imagine.

01:24:07.460 And then he tells Lifshitz not to talk to any of the other Jews at the reception about our Lord Jesus Christ

01:24:17.880 and take a look at what he does with Lifshitz's book.

01:24:22.940 Watch.

01:24:23.460 God Almighty bless you to have good news and don't enter, people don't enter in discussion about what you are.

01:24:32.440 You are born a Jew. 1.00

01:24:34.100 I'm always a Jew.

01:24:35.380 Yeah, and there will be a Jew and a Jew openly and all see all person around you, especially your family.

01:24:42.900 You are claiming your strength to reclaim that someone that performed a big sin never is the less.

01:24:53.200 God Almighty has the God Almighty's strength to recover from his deep illness and as soon as you do it, as soon as the machine will come.

01:25:04.080 The real machine.

01:25:05.480 Can I give you the book?

01:25:06.520 Yeah, thank you.

01:25:07.720 Thank you, Rabbi.

01:25:08.840 That will prevent you from giving it to someone else and they use someone else to do something wrong.

01:25:19.060 Unreal.

01:25:24.500 And did you hear what he said about the real Mosheach?

01:25:28.620 That's the most relevant part to this series so far.

01:25:33.820 Schneerson actually taught the following in 1983 about what will happen when the earthly Mosheach comes, and I quote,

01:25:41.180 And I continue to quote,

01:25:49.620 The existence of even the enemies of the Jewish people will be transformed through the revelation of godliness in the Messianic age, and they will serve and assist the Jews, end quote.

01:26:02.500 In light of all this, we cannot help but be disturbed by President Ronald Reagan's statement about Schneerson.

01:26:12.520 And I quote, this is from Reagan about Schneerson.

01:26:15.060 I quote,

01:26:15.440 He has provided a vivid example of the eternal validity of the seven Noahide laws, a moral code for all of us, regardless of religious faith.

01:26:26.040 May he go from strength to strength, end quote.

01:26:28.660 Reagan is joined by many others in praising Schneerson and his movement.

01:26:34.980 It's not clear how many of those associated with Chabad are aware of these ideas.

01:26:41.320 We're certainly not saying they hold them themselves.

01:26:44.020 But given the significance of these ideas, these connections, and the current war,

01:26:50.900 LifeSite News is publishing important articles by Dr. Micah Hickson on the Chabad Lubavitch group and its international audience.

01:27:01.360 What we've found is going to be quite surprising, especially in light of what we've talked about in this video.

01:27:06.820 In the meantime, we've covered a lot of ground in this video and in the previous one.

01:27:13.420 I told you that it was going to be a deep dive.

01:27:17.340 We've seen that the spread of naturalism in the public and private spheres is a key means of preparing the world for the Antichrist and for the Mosheach, who appear to be the same person. 0.99

01:27:27.800 This naturalism is in the air we breathe today.

01:27:31.820 It's present in the conservative and even in the Catholic world.

01:27:35.420 There's a constant temptation to adopt terms like Judeo-Christian values and to focus on what supposedly unites us.

01:27:43.520 In other words, making a virtue of long-term political alliances with those of all faiths and none and making a virtue of advancing the common good without regard for Christ or the supernatural order, as if it doesn't matter if we set them aside. 0.57

01:28:00.120 Yes, we have to work with those we have to work with, but it's a delicate line and it's easy to start treating temporary pragmatic alliances like this as if they're normal.

01:28:12.260 Even if we do this in defense of conservative values, it is more or less adopting the principles of naturalism, Freemasonry, and, it seems, preparing the way for the Antichrist and the earthly Mosheach. 0.73

01:28:27.780 Pope St. Pius X wrote about this kind of naturalist political work in the early 20th century, and he said, and I quote,

01:28:35.720 The great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a one-world church, which shall have neither dogmas nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind nor curb the passions, end quote.

01:28:51.200 On the contrary, we need to proclaim the kingship of Christ over society and the absolute sovereignty of the supernatural order.

01:29:01.920 I've talked a lot about the Jewish people in this show, about what Catholic authorities say they will do towards the end of the world,

01:29:11.100 and how some of their most influential figures align this in ways that are absolutely opposed to what we must believe as Catholics.

01:29:21.040 So, none of that gives me any pleasure.

01:29:24.880 So, if any Jewish people have made it this far, through what must be a painful show to listen to, here's my message for you. 0.99

01:29:33.820 As I said in a previous video, in my heart, I hold immense love and gratitude for the Jewish people.

01:29:41.000 Your heritage has molded my life, inspired my mind and heart, and gives my life meaning and purpose.

01:29:48.840 We love you. I can speak on behalf of all Catholics. We love you.

01:29:52.040 We don't believe in special Jewish or Christian souls. 0.94

01:29:56.260 We are all one race, descended from Adam.

01:29:59.200 We are one race for whom our shared divine Messiah, Jesus Christ, shed his most precious blood for the glory of God.

01:30:07.740 We are natural brothers, and we could be supernatural brothers, too.

01:30:13.780 We count your ancestry as our own spiritual ancestry as well.

01:30:18.260 We revere the saints of your ancient fathers.

01:30:20.960 We honor them, and we implore God that we may follow their example of unyielding fidelity.

01:30:26.780 We are grateful beyond words for the grace that your people have bestowed on the world.

01:30:32.580 And although you may disown him, the greatest grace your people have given the world is Jesus Christ himself.

01:30:43.660 Truth has a power of its own.

01:30:46.200 It moves hearts and saves lives.

01:30:48.700 It heals wounds and restores souls, but only if it is heard.

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01:31:55.560 It was your people.

01:31:57.480 It was the Jewish people in the person of his apostles, humble Jewish fishermen,

01:32:02.020 who spread his gospel to us and who brought us Gentiles to the worship of the one true God

01:32:08.360 who had revealed himself to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to Moses.

01:32:13.480 It's because of your people that the Catholic Church is the largest religion in the world

01:32:18.540 and never ceases to sing the Psalms of David in the praise of God, the God of Israel.

01:32:25.600 It's because of what they did that even groups who have broken away from the Catholic Church

01:32:32.480 or from any form of Christianity at all still profess to be worshipping the God of Abraham.

01:32:37.540 The Jewish people truly have been a light to the Gentiles.

01:32:44.760 But now, even while it might offend you, the God of Israel wants us Gentiles to offer you that same light back again.

01:32:53.120 There will be no peace, there will be no knowledge of God in a world of Noahidism and naturalism.

01:33:00.340 The evil man who is coming and who will convince many that he is the earthly Moshiach, he will be a deceiver. 0.93

01:33:08.740 You can avoid the catastrophes that we've talked about in this video.

01:33:12.940 You can avoid being deceived if you take hold of the truth now, of today.

01:33:17.340 If you don't take it now, then who knows whether you will be able to discern the truth

01:33:23.920 when this evil man comes, and coming he is.

01:33:28.180 I made a show not long ago inviting Benjamin Netanyahu and all the Jewish people

01:33:32.780 to come to our Lord Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth.

01:33:37.820 I explained how he fulfills all the Messianic prophecies in the Hebrew Scriptures.

01:33:44.100 Here's a link to that video.

01:33:45.840 So, out of the love for you, for your heritage, and for the light you have already given to the world,

01:33:53.960 let me, and I'm really a nobody, but let someone who holds in his heart great love for the Jewish people

01:34:01.040 and a debt of gratitude, let me invite you, our Jewish brothers and sisters,

01:34:05.460 to recognize Jesus as the true Messiah, to see him for what he is.

01:34:10.500 He is the flesh of your flesh, the bone of your bone, a descendant of David, the Shiloh, 0.65

01:34:16.720 the desired of nations, the Immanuel, the rod of Jesse, the captain to lead his people,

01:34:22.940 the lion of the tribe of Judah.

01:34:25.100 He is the fulfillment of the sign prophesied by Isaiah.

01:34:28.720 Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Immanuel.

01:34:34.500 Let me invite you to consider him whom your heart desires.

01:34:40.300 Consider Jesus of Nazareth.

01:34:43.020 He is the God of Abraham.

01:34:46.020 He became man for love of you and for us.

01:34:50.280 He let his hands and feet be pierced for love of you.

01:34:53.440 He allowed himself to be crucified to save you and all of us from our sins.

01:34:57.540 He offered himself as the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world and to grant us peace together.

01:35:06.000 For LifeSite News, this is John Henry Weston.

01:35:08.780 May God bless you.

01:35:27.540 Thanks for watching and may God bless you.

The John-Henry Westen Show - May 28, 2024

Antichrist Full Breakdown： The Signs You NEED To Know

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