Here is part of the Jesuit Oath.
I do further promise and declare, that I will have no opinion or will of my own, or any mental reservation whatever, even as a corpse or cadaver, but will unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the Militia of the Pope… I furthermore promise and declare that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am directed to do, to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex or condition; and that I will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and the wombs of their women and crush their infants heads against the walls, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisoned cup, the strangulating cord, the steel of the poniard or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity, or authority of the person or persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agent of the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Faith, of the Society of Jesus. — Edwin A. Sherman, The Engineer Corps of Hell; or Rome’s Sapper’s and Miners, Private Subscription, 1883, pp. 118-124.
Still laughing? I researched this a little and found it stored in the Library of Congress. Further study revealed a certain rebuttal stating it was originally written on a napkin at a cocktail party as a joke. Really? Not exactly funny to this ex-Catholic (did you really think a man with my last name did not have roots back to Rome?) My father's side of the family will not speak to me anymore because I an a heretic. They have framed pictures of the pope on the walls of their houses begging the 'most-holy Father' for his blessing on their marriage.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. - 2 Thessalonians 2:3,4
Can you think of any other places in scripture where it says this power would persecute the saints of the Most High? During the period of 538 AD when Roman Emporor Justinian gave preeminence of all Europe to the Roman Bishop (Pope) to 1798 AD when Berthier captured the pope, took him back to France and held himin exile until he died, there were millions who were tortured and murdered because they refused to bow to the church. Also, doesn't the bible mention in Rev how this power would have a deadly wound which would heal, and all the world would wonder after it? Catholicism means 'universal'. In 1929, that wound was healed with the Lateran pact being signed by Mussolini and Gaspari (Pope's representative). The San Fransisco Times covered it with an article entitled "Old wound healed between church and state".
Did you catch the time span of those dates I mentioned earlier? It is 1260 years exactly - actually the spring of each of those years is when the events happened. There are two places specifically mentioned in scripture where a day is equal to a year in prophecy. One is Ezekiel 4:6, the other is Numbers 14:34. In bothe Daniel and Revelation, a 1260-day period is mentioned in which the saints of the Most High would be tormented by this power. It is also mentioned as 42 months or 3.5 years - a Jewish calander has 30 days in every month. Only reason we have weird numbers like 31 days and 28 days in a month is because the Roman emporers as Julias and Augustas fought over whose month would have more days.
But then, I assume you knew all of this, correct?
