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Part Two

By Michael Berry Cont’d. The [ ] marks are SheepShed’s commentary.

This article explains how that during the Reformation the two great emphases
that stood out in the reformers preaching was 1) the just shall live by faith, and
2)  the papacy is the Antichrist of the Scriptures.  The entire Reformation was
brought about by and rested upon this two-fold premise. It is understandable
that the Roman Catholic Church was extremely upset by their position. They
then established a band of priests known as the “Jesuits” who were assigned to
undo the teachings of the Reformation and to make the Protestant movement
complacent in the evangelization of Catholics and the world in general. came
into being. ]Be careful in your discernment, Children!]

   Below is an article which will explain how the Jesuits successfully seduced
the whole Protestant movement to stop pointing their fingers at the Pope, and
how they made their movement complacent with one single teaching, according
to Ralph Woodrow’s book.
1) WHO WAS INVOLVED?                        
Alcazar (a Spanish Jesuit)
2) STORY BEHIND THE FALSE TEACHING
started the idea that the apostle John could not possibly foretell events which
were to happen hundreds of years after his own time; that he was writing
merely about what was happening in his own day, and that his Antichrist was
probably the Emperor Nero, or some other early persecutor.
1) Ribera (another Spanish Jesuit)
2) Went to the other extreme and propounded the theory that the whole Book
of Revelation related to events to take place just at the time of Christ’s second
coming, and therefore still in the future.
1) Emanuel Lacunza (a Chilean Jesuit)                        
2) was steeped in the current Jesuit teaching that the appearance and reign of
Antichrist was still in the future. To this he added a touch of his own…namely,
that in order to make room for all the events which he anticipated at the coming
of Christ (including the resurrection of the saints), there would have to be a
period of time between the resurrection of the saints and the actual second
coming of Christ. His notable book, The Coming the Messiah in Glory and
Majesty, places the reign of Antichrist after the resurrection, and before the
second appearance of
Christ. This book was black-listed by the Roman Church in order to get the
Protestants  
movement to embrace it.
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1)Bishop of Canterbury
2) In 1816 a diplomatic agent of the South American Republic gave Lacunza’s
book as a gift to the Bishop. Since the book was written in Spanish, it was
translated in English and published as one of the first theological works from
South America. There was one library in London which could not well afford to
be without a copy of this new publication. This was the library of the Archbishop
of Canterbury. It was here, on these library shelves of the official Anglican
Church, the very heart of British Protestantism, that Lacunza’s work drilled a
hole in the rock of reformed theology to divert and hinder the work of the
Reformation.
1) Dr. Maitland (librarian of Canterbury)
2) started the Protestant  world in 1826 with a series of pamphlets introducing
the theory already taught by the Jesuits 250 years before. For 250 years the
Jesuits worked to undo the belief that the reign of the Antichrist extended all
through the Dark Ages, from the fourth century to the Reformation. And now,
after their long-awaited victory, the Protestant world was invaded with work of
Lacunza. [ His reign was to be 31/2 yrs.]
1) Edward Irving
2) Knowing fully that he was giving the body of Christ a false position on the
second coming of Christ and the resurrection of the dead, he presented
Lacunza’s work as a new revelation from God. Irving, became one of the most
eloquent preachers of his time. In 1828 his open air meetings in Scotland drew
crowds of 10,000 people. In March 1830, he held a series of prophecy
meetings in which he introduced Lacunza’s ideas. Immediately a parishioner
named Margaret McDonald stood to her feet as though having a vision and
prophesied that Irving’s teaching was indeed from God. [I have her hand-
written account of her own prophecy, Children, and it is not what “Irving”
interpreted it to be. I have written this account in one of our lessons: “The
Faith.” I sent it to my Sister and she said, “Sis, you’re right, she never
prophesied what Irving claimed.” Actually, almost the opposite.]
1) J.N. Darby
2) apparently was the first to teach and introduce the main current views held
by many Protestants today. There is strong evidence indicating that Darby
wrote several volumes on this new-found view, later to be read and embraced
by C.I. Scoffield Bible.
1) Dr. Harry B. Ironside
2) was the pastor of the Moody Bible Church after the death of D.L. Moody.
After reading Scoffield’s Bible, he proclaimed it as the newest revelation of this
century. Finally, the Jesuits’ vision had been realized, and this false teaching
was embraced by the Protestant world.

   From the article above, we have learned that the present Protestant position
on the resurrection of the dead is based on the teaching of Lucanza. In order
to bring more clarity and understanding to the historic eschatological position
of the reformers, we need to examine Daniel’s 70th week, which has been
distorted by Lacunza’s work.
    Daniel 9:26-27 (Berkley Version) says, “After the sixty-two weeks (69
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in verse 25) Messiah shall be slain, although there is nothing against Him. The
people
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of a prince, who comes, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; its end shall
come overwhelmingly and till the end shall warfare; ruins that are determined.
In a week He (speaking of Jesus) shall make a covenant to prevail for many,
and in the middle of the week He (speaking of Jesus) will cause sacrifice and
offerings to cease (Hebrews 9:20-28; 10:1-14; Luke 23:25; John 19:28). Then
on a wing of horrors shall a desolator come to bring ruin until a fully determined
end comes down on the desolation” Daniel 9:27).
a)        Jesus’ earthly ministry began when He was baptized by John the Baptist
in approximately A.D. 26 Matthew 3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-23; John 1:
32-36 which was 483 years (or 69 weeks) after the decree of Daniel 9 went
forth. We know His ministry on earth ended three and one half years later (half
of the 70th week), leaving us with three and one half years yet to be fulfilled
during the period between the resurrection and the stoning of Stephen. It was
during this period that the Gospel went to the Jews alone. Later, Titus would
invade and destroy the temple and the city in 70 A.D., thus fulfilling this
prophetic promise given to Daniel.
b)        Acts 3:21 tells us that the heavens will retain (or hold back) Christ until
the restoration of all things is complete. [It actually says, “Until the times of,  the
mo’ed, the restoration of all things spoken by all the prophets.” I think this
shows a different meaning to the interpretation…’as up to the time of’ the
restoration.]  We can safely assume that the resurrection of the dead will not
take place until the restoration of all things is complete. Thus we see that the
reformers’ view of events concerning the second coming and subsequent
resurrection of the dead, taught prior to Lacunza’s position, was quite different
from what is taught in the mainstream Protestant movement today.
c)        The historic position of the Protestant movement held to the belief that
the reformers’ viewpoints broke the influence of papacy by the spoken and
printed word 2 Thessalonians 2:8.
d)        It is possible that the reformers saw only in part or grasped only a part
of the truth regarding the man of sin. Yes, the Antichrist spirit, or attitude
(exalting itself above God and opposing Him) was embodied in the papacy,
perhaps even before, this same spirit of antichrist has also been
embodied…more subtly, to be sure…in denominations, whose roots are in the
restoration and whose fathers were the reformers, are today the enemies of
restoration by their attitudes of “we have the truth…all the truth” John 2:18.
[There is a teaching that the saints are going to have everything under their
feet before the Lord returns…Hebrews 10:12-13 [SFB The complete adequacy
of the sacrifice Jesus offered is seen by the fact it needed to be offered only
once, is its footnote. But the teaching is also using Acts 3:18-21.]
1) The last enemy of Christ to be defeated is death 1 Corinthians 15:55-58.
[But see also 1 Cor 15:23-28…we are not His feet, regardless of the current
teaching].
a) It is the praising generation to come that will break the appointment with
death Psalm 102! b) As the Body of Christ moves into the full restoration and
ushers in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, we are promised as believers
that He will wipe away every tear from our eyes and take away death
forevermore
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Revelation 21:1-4.
Word Wealth1 Cor 15:23 coming, parousia Strong’s #3952. The technical term
signifying the second advent of Jesus, was never used to describe His first
coming. Parorusia originally was the official term for a visit by a person of high
rank, especially a king. It was an arrival that included a permanent presence
from that coming onward. The glorified Messiah’s arrival will be followed by a
permanent residence with His glorified people.

   [An 85 year old Wade Taylor claims that the Shekinah glory will precede the
Messiah’s second Coming. See lesson “Only Two Trees attached.”]
   
   We, Michael Berry, wish to acknowledge Ralph Woodrow for the use of
material from his book, Great Prophecies of the Bible, copyright 1977,
quotations used by permission. [This is the book that was handed to me while I
was resident manager at TraveLodge, I spoke about.]

[According to John’s Gospel Record the Kingdom is synonymous with “eternal
life,” and those who walk or live by the flesh ‘shall not inherit the Kingdom of
God, eternal life.” See also Gal 5:21.
Irenaeus, a martyr, a disciple of Polycarp, a disciple of the Apostle John, in A.
D. first century 100-55 wrote: please note: before the Catholic Church fell into
the false teaching in the Seat of the Papacy; predicted that  the Roman Empire
would be desolated preceding the end of the world [age] and the eternal
Kingdom of Christ.
   Irenaeus writes: the agnostics are refuted, tools of Satan, who invent
another Father different from the Creator.
    In a clearer light has John [the Apostle], in the Apocalyspe [Revelation],
indicated the Lord’s disciples what shall happen in the last times, and
concerning the ten kings who shall arise, among whom the empire which now
rules [the earth, which is Rome] shall be partitioned. He teaches us what the
ten horns shall be were seen by Daniel, telling us that it had been said to him:
“And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, who have received no
kingdom as yet [at the time of his vision],  but shall receive power as kings one
hour with the beast. These [two, kings and beast] shall make war with the
Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, because He is the LORD of lords
and KING of kings.” It is manifest, therefore, that these potentates, “he who is
to come” will slay three kings, and subject the remainder [7] to his power, and
that he shall be himself the ‘eighth’ among them [the 7]. And they shall lay
Babylon wasted, and burn her with fire, and shall give their kingdom to the
beast, and put THE CHURCCH TO FLIGHT [tribulation]. Note: not Israel
national…but the CHURCH! After they shall be destroyed by the coming of our
Lord. For that the kingdom must be divided, and thus come to ruin [iron & clay].
God has already foreshadowed the partition and division [which will take place].
Daniel also says particularly, that the end of the fourth kingdom consists in the
toes of the image seen by Nebuchadnezzar, upon which came the stone cut
out without hands; and as does himself say: “The feet were indeed the one
part iron, the other part clay, until the stone struck
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    the image upon the iron and clay feet, and dashed them to pieces, even to
the end.” {I have been saying that the clay is Islam that will not mix with the Iron
remnants of Roman culture and beliefs. If the Catholic Church is Babylon…I
can see exactly why being portrayed as Christianity. But on the otherhand, as
not being a system, but the city of Babylon, herself. I am wondering if the
scripture in Hebrews is referring in some way to the FEET of this image “But
this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the
right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made a footstool.
For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.”
What is holding the Lord Jesus back from coming, we must ask ourselves?
Selah! Hebrews 10:12-14 And remember, Daniel saw these beasts coming up
out of the Great Sea, now addressed as the Mediterranean.]
    The Ten toes therefore, says Irenaues, are these ten kings, among whom
the kingdom shall be partitioned, of whom some shall be strong and active, and
some others be sluggish and weak and not agree and there shall be minglings
among the human race, but no cohesion one with the other. [I believe it is
because Islam will not mix with any other law but Sharia Law in its finality! But
neither will Christ’s Kingdom. Jack Van Impe is teaching that the Catholic
Church is the false prophet. Even the late Pope Paul predicted that this next
pope would be the fallen  one! Perry Stone is teaching, as many others, that
Club Rome has already divided the world into ten kingdoms. I have sent you
the map of this division. America along with Canada and Mexico is stated as
being North America, # one.]
          Daniel says, “And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven
raise up a kingdom which will never decay [which means it must take on
incorruption, a resurrection first…before creation itself can take on the same
glory of incorruption, Romans 8:18 seq. …read this carefully, Children, and it
will solve a lot of misled teaching coming across in our hearing today,] and His
kingdom will not be left to another people!  It, our Kingdom of Christ, shall
break in pieces and shatter all kingdoms, and shall be exalted forever. God
has pointed out to the king what shall come to pass after these things; and the
dream is true, and the interpretation trustworthy.”
           Therefore God showed future things to Daniel, and confirmed them by
His Son; and if Christ is the stone, and He is, which is cut out without hands,
who shall destroy temporal kingdoms, and introduce an eternal one, which is
the resurrection of the just [being the first resurrection]; as He declares, “The
God of heaven shall raise up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed,” let
those thus confuted come to their senses, who reject the Creator [Allah is not
the Creator] and do not agree that the prophets were sent beforehand from
the same Father from whom also the Lord Jesus came. For those things which
have been predicted by the Creator alike through all the prophets have Christ /
Messiah fulfilled in the end, ministering to His Father’s will, and completing His
dispensations [stages o, ages] with regard to the human race. {I think Irenaeus
was speaking in part to the Jews here.]

     THE DISTINCTION TO BE MADE BETWEEN THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE
WICKED. THE FURTURE OF THE BEAST, AND THE END OF THE WORLD
[AGE] CONTINUED BY IRENAEUS
     This is very enlightening, Children!
     CHAPTER 28:
          Jesus says that those upon His right hand [hand of power] are called
into the Kingdom of Heaven, but those on the left He will send into eternal fire
for
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   they have deprived themselves of all good…choosing darkness rather than
light. And for this reason the apostle Paul says: “Because they receive not the
love of God that they might be saved, therefore God shall also send them the
operation of error, that they may believe a lie, that they all may be judged who
have not believed the truth, but consented to unrighteousness. For when he
[the beast] is come, and of his own accord concentrates in his own person the
‘apostasy,’ and accomplishes whatever he shall do according to his own will
and choice, sitting also in the temple of God, as judicial power. “ Has the Word
come for the ruin and the resurrection of many? For the ruin, certainly, of
those who do not believe Him, to whom also He has threatened a greater
damnation in the judgment day than Sodom and Gomorrah; but for the
resurrection of the believer, and those who do His will of His Father in heaven.
The judgment comes for the purpose of separating the believing from the
unbelieving. Understand that separation from God is death, and separation
from light is darkness…and to be separated from God is the loss of all benefits
which He has in store for those who love Him. {“If you love Me, you will keep My
commandments,” said Jesus.]

          Irenaeus describes the ‘Beast’ in the Apocalypse chapter 13 [which was
not called by the early disciples Revelation,] he explains that power was given
to him [the beast] for speaking great things, and blasphemy during forty-two
months. His ‘mouth opened’ indicating the spirit of Satan speaking for
blasphemy against God and His tabernacle [on earth, that being the saints.]
And those who dwell in heaven. “And power was given to him over all peoples
who dwell on earth worshipped him, everyone whose name was not written in
the book of the “Lamb slain from the foundation of the world!” If any shall lead
into captivity, he shall go into captivity. If anyone slay with the sword, he must
be slain by the word. Here is the endurance and faith of the saints [note: not
Jews only but all the saints of this tribulation period of forty-two months of the
‘beast.’”]

         Irenaeus calls the false prophet the Beast’s armor-bearer; and that he
also speaks as a dragon, and exercises all the power of the first beast in his
sight [as Pharoah and his priests] and through these miracles and wonders
which he does deceives the inhabitants of the earth and causes them to
worship the Beast. Let no one imagine that he performs these wonders by
Divine power, but by working of [his own] magical powers. And we must not be
surprised if, since the demons and apostate spirits [apostate fallen angels and
the nephilen] are at his service, he through their means performs wonders.
Note that Irenaeus is speaking in the pronoun ‘we’, not as a Jew, but as a
believer, who would be in the tribulation of the Beast’s forty-two months
granted rule. Note also, that the miracles are not performed by God’s power.
Paul called them ‘lying wonders,’ but wonders none the less, nor slight of hand,
nor are the of our modern technology, but the powers of Satan himself!
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         The mark is the number six hundred and sixty six, that is, six times a
hundred, six times ten, and six units. He gives this as summing up of the whole
of that apostasy which has taken place during the “six thousand years…[since
creation.] [According to Hebrew calculations we are in the year 5,471, if I
remember right.] Earlier Irenaeus states this calculated in the Greek because
the use the letter of the alphabet as numbers. Hebrew has the same system.
For in as many days this world was made in so many thousands years shall it
be concluded.  And for this reason the Scriptures says: “Thus the heaven and
the earth were finished, and all their adornment. And God brought to a
conclusion upon the sixth day from all His works.” This is an account of the
things formerly created, as also it is a prophecy of what is to come. For the
‘day of the Lord is as a thousand years; and in six days created things were
completed” it is evident, therefore, that they will come to an end at the sixth
thousand year. [Barnabas teaches the same Six Thousand year period of time.]

     THE LAST CONTEST
           At the time of the Beasts reign, Irenaeus states: “There shall be
tribulation such as has not been since the beginning, neither shall be.” For this
is the last contest of the righteous, in which, when they have overcome they
are crowned with incorruption changed in the twinkling of an eye into their
glorified body. [Indicating the wrath of God in the Day of the Lord that will come
upon the unbelievers, which the text of Irenaeus statement clearly shows].

           And therefore is therefore in this Beast, when he comes, a
recapitulation made of all sorts of iniquity and of every deceit, in order that all
apostate power, flowing into and being shut up in him, may be sent into the
furnace of fire. Fittingly, therefore, shall his name possess the number six
hundred and sixty six, since he sums up in his person all commixture of
wickedness which took place previous to the deluge, due to the apostasy of the
angels! [As Jesus predicted: [“As it was in the days of Noah.”] For Noah was six
hundred years old when the deluge came upon the earth, sweeping away the
rebellious world, which lived in the time of Noah! And Antichrist also sums up
every error of devised idols since the flood, together with the slaying of the
prophets and cutting off the just. For that image was set up by
Nebuchadnezzar had indeed a height of sixty cubits, while the breadth was six
cubits; on account of which Shadrach, Meshach and Abendego were cast into
the furnance, pointing out prophetically, by what happened to them, the wrath
against the righteous which shall arise towards the time of the end. For that
image, taken as a whole, was a prefigurine of this man’s coming, decreeing
that he should undoubtedly himself alone be worshipped by all men as God.
Thus, then, the six hundred years of Noah, in whose time the
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    deluge occurred because of the angels apostasy, and the number of the
cubits of the image for which these just me were sent into the fiery furnace, do
indicate the number of the name of that man in whom is concentrated the
    whole apostasy of six thousand years, for which things’ sake a cataclysm of
fire shall also come upon the earth! Peter teaches, “And the heavens being on
fire shall melt with fervent heat,” 2 Peter 3:10.
     
     Shalom, Children! Keep your garments washed in the BLOOD OF THE
LAMB!
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