We have had a trying couple of days. We have had to draw on our reserves. I know it's tough. But listen. We already know this story. We know that if you are going to have a great victory, it's meaningless unless it firsts tests your faith.
“Bind him, I say!” repeated the White Witch. The Hags made a dart at him and shrieked with triumph when they found that he made no resistance at all. Then the others– evil dwarfs and apes– rushed in to help them, and between them they rolled the huge Lion over on his back and tied all his four paws together, shouting and cheering as if they had done something brave, though, had the Lion chosen, one of those paws could have been the death of them all. But he made no noise, even when the enemies, straining and tugging, pulled the cords so tight that they cut his flesh. Then they began to draw him towards the Stone Table." -CS Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Here we are. The blue-haired hags, the evil soy dwarves, the apes in the media, they are playing this perfectly by the great script of history. They've got the lion, they think, and they're shouting and cheering. The Lion is not only GEOTUS, the Lion is all of us, our collective culture as freedom-loving Americans.
We MUST go through this moment, this ever-third-act of all meaningful dramas. We must be challenged, or else the victory won't be OURS. We'd just be spectators.
We are AT the Stone Table. In the Upper Room.
Hold. It is the greatest privilege.
Their pope took $2 billion from Xi, and instantaneously became a Chinese CCP mouthpiece, on top of continuing the coverup of thousands of priest-molested kids. Not to mention the pope stating that you "don't have to believe in Jesus to be a Christian." (Literally how you are defined to be a Christian.) Pushes the environment as a god. Screams capitalism is the "Great Evil". Has sucked up to EVERY globalist, but refuses to meet with Trump & Pence.
That is fucked-up religion, not Jesus.
One has nothing to do with the other.
this pope didn't invent purgatory....it's been part of the catholic canon for 16+ centuries. as for being non-biblical, you're wrong. a simple search for the history of purgatory found 7 separate bible verses that led Christians to ponder the interim after death.
No.
Jesus, literally God made flesh, talks openly about Sheol...the grave of the souls before the first and second resurrections.
He tells us we don't go straight to heaven when we die. We are bound to earth until He returns to judge.
Jesus describes 2 "waiting rooms" for judgement...not pergatory, as catholocism describes it, where you can "work your way out of it."
You have already been judged when you arrive in one of the two holding rooms. One is described as a paradise, with Abraham. The other, a thirsty, hot, tortuous fucked-for-eternity situation.
Those with Abraham are of the first resurrection, and join Jesus in His return to earth.
Those in the second resurrection are brought up AFTER the millenial reign, along with everyone else left living, and are tossed into the lake of fire, for good.
The catholic description of "pergatory" has infants somehow fighting their way out of hell, just for dying as babies, as well as somehow giving adult condemned, blessed by a priest before death, of course, for a price, a way to redemption through papal palm greasing.