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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Breaking News!!!

Ready for this? The Church is behind the push for the New World Order! The End Times are heading our way!! This is it - it's right around the corner! Stay away from the corner!

It all makes so much sense now - the reason why the Church so long ago prevented people from reading the Bible. So what if the illiteracy rate prior to the invention of the Gutenberg press was 97%? That doesn't matter! A team of researchers from the AoftheA Department of Apocalyptic Assessment recently uncovered Vatican documents dating from the mid 15th century that prove without any doubt whatsoever that the End Times are coming, heralded by the installation of the New World Order that the Church is planning to usher in! And then the Rapture, cleverly disguised as "alien abductions" (what, you didn't know about that either?!?)

You read that right. One document quotes a Cardinal as having said "I hate that Gutenberg guy! Now that the people will be able to read Scriptures on their own, they will come to learn of our plans to take over the world in the early 21st century!" Another document gives details to the plot to split the Church into numerous denominations - "we must bide our time wisely, perhaps wait fifty years or so. If we do this right, the break-up will give us perfect cover. Let's keep our eyes open for a scapegoat, maybe a German monk or someone."

You think I'm making this up, just because it hasn't shown up on Spirit Daily? I'm serious - and based on what I just read on another site, it's all beginning to make more and more sense. And you won't believe who's part of The Plan.

Archbishop Chaput. Yep, the dojo of Denver himself.

It turns out that the talk he gave in Slovakia was nothing more than a clever feint, to make us think he's opposed to the secularization sweeping the globe, which will ultimately lead to a New World Order. Which will hurtle us towards the Rapture.

You see, an End Times/Symbologist blogger linked to my post highlighting Archbishop Chaput's talk, dug deep into the talk, and made some startling discoveries and correlations (all links and bold type original):
Acts Of The Apostasy brings us a story about how earlier in the week, Archbishop Charles Chaput gave a speech at the 15th Symposium of the Canon Law Association of Slovakia, entitled "Living Within The Truth: Religious Liberty And Catholic Mission In The New Order of the World", and here are some selected excerpts...

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Right off the bat, it's ironic to me because while the Archbishop is correct in his assessment of the current state of the world, he fails to realize (as does the blogger) that the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican, and the Pope are, sadly, eager accomplices in this drive to establish a New World Order, or the very thing he says he's trying to prevent.
In addition, reading Daniel 11 reminded me that the coming Antichrist will claim a motto of peace, yet he will take the kingdom by intrigue, which simply means a covert, underhanded scheme, by mystery, or to arouse one's interest (according to The American Heritage Dictionary, 1976). I would go so far as to say that he will be one who is a "smooth talker" who will share a plan that will appeal to nearly everyone. He will flatter people, but Christians who will be made aware of his schemes will recognize them. His actions may seem good, but the core root character of the Antichrist will be evil. To many people, his schemes may actually seem good and innocent. He will be a "man of the people" (at least, at first).
But wait...there's more!!!! I'm excerpting quite a bit here, but these are the points concerning Archbishop Chaput -
It's a shame because A LOT of what this Archbishop said in his speech resonated with me on a deep, personal level. Yet, I'm always mindful (a little suspicious really) of anything besides the Word of God that evokes that kind of visceral response from me because I know that those are PRECISELY the kinds of feelings that our common enemy wants to generate so that he can try to use them to manipulate us if he can.

Bottom line, let's all keep an eye on this (and this man) -- just in case. Why? Well, given what we know from God's Word about the end times, the coming Antichrist, and the False Prophet, I thought it was more than a little eyebrow raising to read about a few more "curious" facts associated with this man.

Charles Chaput was born in Concordia, Kansas. In 1897, Pope Leo XIII founded the Roman Catholic Diocese of Concordia, KS. Right in line with our studies here today, Pope Leo XIII impacted Roman Catholic Mariology, promoted both the rosary and the scapular, issued a record 11 encyclicals on the rosary, approved 2 new Marian scapular, and was the first Pope to fully embrace the concept of Mary as Mediatrix! What are the odds of that!?!

To me more specific, his predecessor, Pope Pius IX, became known as the "Pope of the Immaculate Conception" because of the dogmatization in 1854. Pope Leo XIII, in light of his unprecedented promulgation of the rosary in 11 encyclicals, was called the "Rosary Pope" too. In 11 encyclicals on the rosary, he promulgates Marian devotion. In his encyclical on the 50th anniversary of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception, he stresses her role in the redemption of humanity, mentioning Mary as Mediatrix and Co-Redemptrix.

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Archbishop Chaput was born to Joseph and Marian Helen Chaput. Hmmm...His parents were named "Joseph" and "Mary", huh? That's odd. Oh yeah, his father was a French Canadian who also claimed to be directly descended from King Louis IX too!

See?!? Too many coincidences to NOT BE TRUE!!!! I mean come on, Chaput was born in Concordia, KS! Don't you get it? It's so obvious! Concordia!!

I have to admit, I was rather skeptical about this analysis, ready to chalk it all up to an over-active imagination and seeing a prophecy in every pillowcase, but when he included King Louis IX, that closed the deal for me.

Now that I'm part of the NWO conspiracy - unwittingly and unknowingly at first, but now that I know, there's no turning back - I have to warn you of the consequences should you continue reading AoftheA: you become part of the conspiracy.

Welcome aboard.


p.s. - while I am knocking the guy for his crazy theories, I don't doubt his sincere love for Jesus, and I don't think he's blatantly anti-Catholic. He's just sincerely wrong in his assertions, and misunderstands the true nature and meaning of the Catholic Church - a lot of people do. Such interpretations highlight the importance of allowing the Church to guide us in such matters (even if it means the Church is 'hiding the truth', LOL!), and Her wisdom in not making proclamations on "the signs of the times", and instructing us in the same. We have been in the End Times since Christ's Ascension - and while we are taught to be aware and prepared, we're also taught to work out our salvation and to be found working on the day Christ returns. Plus, such interpretations shows the fallacy in sola scriptura, and the necessity for Sacred Tradition and Magisterial teaching.

Or so we're led to believe....

p.p.s. - just kidding on that last bit.

p.p.p.s. - Or am I?