The Pope assures the sick they’re building God’s Kingdom.
The Pope blesses a sick child. He should have called for and prayed for healing.
Benedict XVI today assured people suffering illnesses that they are building the Kingdom of God.
The Pope said this at the conclusion of the general audience, during his customary greeting to young people, the sick and newlyweds.
He urged those who suffer illnesses or disabilities to “always be aware that you contribute in a mysterious way to the building of the Kingdom of God, offering your sufferings to the heavenly Father in union with those of Christ.”
The Holy Father encouraged young people to “prepare yourselves to face the important stages of life with spiritual commitment, building your projects on the solid basis of fidelity to God.”
Finally, he recommended to newlyweds: “Be able to build your family daily by listening to God, in faithful reciprocal love and in hospitality to the neediest.”
The Bible never calls sickness a blessing. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that the sick are building the Kingdom of God.
The only one who builds the Kingdom of God is Jesus. We are His co-workers, and Obey Him.
When you are sick, something is wrong. You are in need of healing.
The reasons behind sickness is often personal sins. But not always. Pollution of the Earth is not your personal responsibility.
Jesus never said “blessed are the sick”. To the radical opposite, Jesus healed people form all kind of sicknesses. He also healed through His disciples.
Matthew 10:1 Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.
Not to pray for healing of the sick is faithlessness. You will surely depart from Earth because of some kind of sickness. Only Jesus shall decide when you will depart. Up till that moment, pray for healing.
The Jews want peace. Not Jesus of Nazareth. The Pope gets ready to be their “peace maker”.
The Pope wants to bring peace to the Word, Him self being accepted as "prince of peace".
Pope Benedict XVI has made a sweeping exoneration of the Jewish people for the death of Jesus Christ in a new book, tackling one of the most controversial issues in Christianity.
In ‘Jesus of Nazareth’ excerpts released Wednesday, Benedict uses a biblical and theological analysis to explain why it is not true that the Jewish people as a whole were responsible for Jesus’ death.
Interpretations to the contrary have been used for centuries to justify the persecution of Jews.
While the Vatican has for five decades taught that Jews weren’t collectively responsible, Jewish scholars said Wednesday the argument laid out by the German-born pontiff, who has had his share of mishaps with Jews, was significant and would help fight anti-Semitism today.
“There’s a natural human tendency to take things for granted, and very often this tends to lead to a lapse in awareness and consciousness about the risk of anti-Semitism,” said Rabbi David Rosen, head of interreligious affairs at the American Jewish Committee and a longtime leader in Vatican-Jewish dialogue.
He noted that the Vatican issued its most authoritative document on the issue in 1965, Nostra Aetate, which revolutionized the Catholic Church’s relations with Jews by saying Christ’s death could not be attributed to Jews as a whole at the time or today.
Rosen said the pope’s words might make a bigger, more lasting mark because the faithful tend to read Scripture and commentary more so than church documents, particularly old church documents.
“It may be an obvious thing for Jews to present texts with commentaries, but normally with church magisterium, they present a document,” he said. “This is a pedagogical tool that he’s providing, so people will be able to interpret the text in keeping with orthodox Vatican teaching.”
Neither the Pope, nor the majority of Jews, are interested in turning towards Jesus the Messiah and be saved. That the Pope frees the Jewish people from being THE people who killed Jesus, does not free each individual human being from being guilty.
It was my sins that crucified Jesus. Your sins too, and the sins of each individual Jew. Only by accepting the Messiah as Lord and savior, you can enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only Jesus can save. Not Moses and Elijah, nor the Pope.
The Vatican has already told the Jews, that they can get saved without embracing Jesus as the Messiah. That makes the Pope an anti-Christ.
Acts 17:31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
Since the Jews want peace at any cost, regardless if the truth about the Kingdom of Heaven and coming judgment is preached, the Pope will soon be their perfect “peacemaker”. He will unite all World religions, and enter Jerusalem as the “man of peace”. Jesus will return and thrown this false “peace maker” into hell. The flesh of his followers will be eaten by the birds.
Revelation 19:19-21 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army. But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. The rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.
The Gate of Death is found Inside Saint Peters Bascilica in Rome, and above fly’s a skeleton.
The Gate of Death inside the Vatican, under the statue of Pope Alexander VII.
The monument that includes a skeleton inside Saint Peters Bascilica in Rome, has made many tourists puzzled with what exactly this piece of “art” is all about.
The monument is made by Bernini in the years 1671 A.D to 1678 A.D. It was set up in the Bascilica as an honor to Pope Alexander VII who died in 1667.
This is the official version of what this monument is all about.
“The working door below symbolizes the Gate of Death, above which a skeleton lifts a fold of red marble drapery and holds an hourglass. He is flanked on the right by a statue representing Truth or religion, who rests her foot on a globe specifically placed upon the British Isles, symbolizing the pope’s problems with the Church of England. Three other figures represent Charity, Prudence and Justice”.
A yellow colored skeleton is flying over the Gate of Death. A statue of Pope Alexander VII reign over the Gate of Death. Behind the Gate of Death, there is light. And a staircase that will take you down to the crypt with dozens of dead popes.
Yet another skeleton inside the Vatican, and this one in the Saint Peters Bascillica.
This skeleton is not of human origin, but symbolizes that all man will face death, if we are not raptured.
But why does the Pope feel that we will all end up in the basement of the Vatican?
Would it not be better to make a monument that points to the Gate of Heaven?
We are spiritual born again beings, and our Master Jesus will not take us through the Gates of Death. After Jesus died on the cross, paid the atonement for our sins, death has no power over us.
Romans 8:37-39 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(end of scriptures).
When you enter through the Gate of Death, you will eventually end up in the crypt of the Basilica. And not surprisingly, there you will find a couple of dozen dead Popes, lifeless, pumped full of chemicals, or kept in wax.
It is bad enough to keep human remains, bones, skull and skeleton inside Churches. But to set up the gate of death?
There is only one word for this: Horrible. The Vatican is just a plain spiritual disaster zone.
Three million USD from the International development budget was spent on the Pope’s UK visit in September.
The Queen and the Pope feasted together, with money earmarked for the poor.
MP’s in the UK have queried the “surprising” transfer from the Department for International Development to the Foreign Office. (Dfid).
Ministers should explain what the money was spent on “and how it tallies with our commitments on overseas aid”.
A Dfid spokesman said the department was one of several which part-funded the Pope’s visit.
He added: “Our contribution recognised the Catholic Church’s role as a major provider of health and education services in developing countries”.
“This money does not constitute official development assistance and is therefore additional to the coalition government’s historic commitment to meet the 0.7 per cent UN aid target from 2013. “The committee acknowledges that we are right to focus on conflict-ridden countries, home to some of the world’s poorest people.”
Source: The BBC.
This most be an excellent example of taking money from the poor, and giving money to the rich.
The UK Government did not take the money from the defense budget.
Why?
The Pope is an ambassador for World peace, and his contributions to Global peace and stability should be honored, could have been the UK’s explanations.
Shame on the UK Government. Shame of the Papacy, who wined and dined with such blood money.
James 3: 4-5.
Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.
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