The closing of the Vatican Synod laid a mine field into the center of the great prophetic river flowing towards the coming of the Messiah. The gauntlet has now been laid, and everyone who still proclaims a belief in “Replacement Theology” and that the “Jews have been cursed of G-d for rejecting His Messiah” now know who their mentor, and confessor is; Pope Benedict XVI.
The opening of the Vatican’s “Synod of the Middle East” began on October 10, 2010 during a Mass surrounded within the opulence of St. Peter’s Basilica. According to their official statements, the purpose of the Synod was “pastoral: to consider how the Church can better live her mission in that region of the world called the Middle East. According in the opening homily, Pope Benedict XVI made this profound statement:
Pope Benedict XVI – “"Salvation is universal, but it passes through a specific historical mediation: the mediation of the people of Israel, which goes on to become that of Jesus Christ and the Church." (Pope Benedict XVI, Homily, Opening Mass of the Synod on the Middle East, St. Peter's Basilica, Sunday, October 10, 2010)
The language was given with great care and deliberation. Salvation began in history with the mediation of the people of Israel. This included the Jews and also the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel. Yet, salvation “passed through” this historical mediation and evolved “to become” that of the Roman Catholic “Jesus Christ and the Church”. In one fatal swoop, the Pope proclaimed, salvation is not through YHVH’s Messiah, the historical Jewish rabbi called “The Nazarene” known as Yahshua HaMaschiah (Jesus the Messiah) but the Roman Christian Pontiff redefined “Jesus Christ” who now is mediated by “The Church”, or the Papacy at the “Holy See" in Rome.
Pope Benedict XVI also welcomed the great ecumenical Church recognized by the Papacy as the “One Church of Christ”,
Pope Benedict XVI - "In those lands (Middle East), the one Church of Christ is expressed in the variety of liturgical, spiritual, cultural and teaching traditions of the six Venerable Eastern Catholic Churches sui iuris, as well as in the Latin tradition."
He then continued to speak not about the One G-d of Israel but the “One and Triune” who communes spiritually and carries out His Plan of Salvation through a “method” called “covenants” with His holy people. This covenant though, according to Benedict does not include an earthly Promised Land, or an earthly Paradise. Paradise Lost in the Pontiff’s vision will never become a Paradise Reclaimed or a Paradise Restored.
Pope Benedict XVI – “God is love and wants all men to be part of His life; to carry out this plan He, who is One and Triune, creates in the world a mystery of a communion that is human and divine, historical and transcendent: He creates it with the “method” -- so to speak -- of the covenant, tying himself to men with faithful and inexhaustible love, forming a holy people, that becomes a blessing for all the families of the earth (cf Gen 12:13).
Thus He reveals Himself as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (cf Ex 3:6), who wants to lead his people to the “land” of freedom and peace.
This “land” is not of this world; the whole of the divine plan goes beyond history, but the Lord wants to build it with men, for men and in men, beginning with the coordinates of space and time in which they live and which He Himself gave them.”
All the statements about the G-d of Israel that the “Land of Israel” is sacred and belongs to Him have now been dismissed by the Papal Father. The Pope espoused St. Augustine’s vision of the City of God, when he stated that the way is not simply to be understood as possessing an earthly territory, an earthly homeland, or an earthly "Promised Land" because this 'land' is not of this world."
The theme of the TaNaKh (Old Testament) is that there was a spiritual heaven and G-d created a literal earth. In the Brit Hadassah (New Testament) the orthodox Jewish believers of the Jewish Messiah believed that there was also a literal “Promised Land” for the “New Heaven and a New Earth” would not come until after the end of the seventh thousand years.
Does the Pope believe in the scorched earth apocalypse in which all men, animals and any habitations will be destroyed or raptured into a spiritual heaven? Where is St. Augustine’s and the Papacy’s amillennialism that Rome promoted throughout the entire Middle Ages? Where is the “New Jerusalem”, the “City of God” that St. Augustine’s indwelling Christ will come to spiritually rule the whole earth?
Out of the Second Great Awakening there raised a renewed call that the Jewish Messiah would literally return to Planet Earth. At that time, all Christian denominations, Catholic and Protestant alike believed in a spiritual return of the Messiah. The “Advent Movement” as it was called, was defined around the literal interpretation of the World of G-d. And so, the Protestant Christians continued the Great Protest against Roman Christian apostasy.
Today there is no “protest” and today most of the Protestant Christians have begun to return back to Rome. They have now become “Spiritual Israelites”, and Israel or the Jews play no part in the final drama of redemption. The Jews are ignored in Adventist end times prophecies as though they are not a participant (except as Adventist Jewish Christians) and the Evangelical “Secret Rapture” Christians are waiting to be secretly raptured before tribulation, and let the Jews meet their second holocaust before the Messiah returns. According to Benedict, it appears it is time to eliminate the Jew, for they are not a participant in the final events before G-d’s judgment?
In the eyes of Benedict XVI, the “triumphant Church” will soon have control over the Temple Mount, and will mediate for all mankind from the Land of Israel. So as the Vatican Synod began, the Pontiff declared that Israel doesn’t exist, the Jews have no mandate or covenant by which to live in the Promise Land. He also proclaimed that the prophets of Israel should now be interpreted allegorically where “The Church” has now become “Spiritual Israelites” because “Jesus Christ and the Church” meaning the Roman Catholic Church now hold the “covenant” for redemption. If your church holds to “Spiritual Israelite” theology, it is time to reconsider whether you have now returned back to Rome.
It’s also time for the non-protesting Protestants to make a decision to whom they will serve! The “Line” is now being drawn. Whom do you choose; the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Israel or do you choose to serve the “god of apostate Rome”. Even today, there is a lot of “apostate Rome” that is still imbedded in Adventist, Baptists, Episcopalians, Methodists, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, and even Messianic Christian’s theology, liturgy, and philosophy. So who was this Jesus the Messiah? Let us read the testimony of the Orthodox Jew called the Righteous One, Simon HaTzaddik, who held this babe Yahshua (Jesus) cradled in his arms in the Temple of Herod;
Simon the Just – “L-rd, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace, according to Your word; For my eyes have seen Your salvation, which You have prepared before the face of all people, a Light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of Your people Israel (Jews and the Lost Tribes of Israel).”
Yes, when the final apocalypse is over, G-d’s people, the House of Judah and the House of Israel, will be there as G-d’s triumphant people, just as He proclaimed that they would be.
The Roman Catholic Synod; Jews and Israelites not Relevant to Salvation
Go to Part One – “Vatican Synod proclaims: Salvation does not come through G-d’s Messiah and Israel; Salvation comes through Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church”
Go to Part Two – “Head Archbishop of Vatican Synod – Jews are no longer a ‘Chosen People’”
Go to Part Three – “The Vatican is Prepared to Control the Temple Mount and Jerusalem”
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