The False Prophet, Mortal Sin, and Heretics' Sacraments

[spauline]

Evangelicals ask “what are the two horns”? and they think it is usually nations or divisions within a nation that the literal anti-john-the-baptist figure will rule in the very end of the world.

Catholics usually don’t care what the two horns are.

Then there are Catholics that are mystics, who see profound possibilities in the apocalypse, who do not wave their hands and dismiss great imagery.

The ECFs prophesied that in the Last Days, men shall give astounding interpretations of the apocalypse.

let us return to the two horns of the false prophet.

If we are to be mystical, we must admit that even if there will be a literal false prophet at the end of the world, what does it matter whether he is the governor of 2 nations or 23 nations? That is meaningless information.

But I will show you a better way, the way of the mystics. The two horns are like a Lamb, who has seven.

Horns are biblical symbols of power. Where does Christ exercise His power, and WHY does He use His power? Christ uses His power to redeem, and the redemption is wrought through grace, and in Catholicism, there are seven primary sources of sanctifying grace, unlike any other: the Sacraments!

Tertullian taught that the devil plagiarizes the sacraments. He takes what is good and beautiful and twists it diabolically into a lie.

Which two sacraments would the dragon twist, so as to proclaim the supreme lie?

I say the answer follows intrinsically from the Catholic theology: In Catholic theology, heretics retain only two sacraments, baptism and marriage.

heresy means to take, and leave behind what you don’t want.

The two sacraments that the dragon would mock would need to form a SUMMARY of all iniquity, to be the supreme base lies from which all other lies flow.

I say these two lies are precisely the twisting of the base sacraments of heretics, so as to make them the “ultimate heresy”.

And how?

there are in the end, two things that determine all religion:

I. God
II. the Creation

A just man must have the right relationship with respect to both in order to be saved.

In relation to God, the person must seek Divine Truth, the Divine Will, and help from the Divine to find and live these as his supreme goal in order to be saved. This disposition is none other than the disposition implicit in baptism or the desire thereof, without which man cannot be saved (Trent, dogma.)

hence, the first lie is anti-Baptism: have NO concern for Divine Truth, nor the Divine Will, nor assistance or revelation from the Divine.

This would be the first horn.

The second horn pertains to the creation.

What is mortal sin? Mortal sin is preferring a created good to the uncreated good which is God. IOW, mortal sin is saying I would rather have the creation instead of God.

The second disposition of the just man is then about the creation. It implies the first disposition implicit in Baptism. For since the creature seeks the Divine Will and truth above all else, he must approach the creation from the standpoint of the just, which is to say, he understands that the creation is but an ICON to God, and NOT the final end. He understands that his final goal is love with God and not something in the creation. He sees the creation as containing symbols of mysteries meant to teach him of God and His truth. All the just have this disposition. This disposition is called SACRAMENTALITY: the creation and things therein is a sign post to God, catechetical, imparting Divine Mysteries.

Therefore, the just man RECEIVES the creation from God as a gift and seeks to use the creation according to the Divine Order, and understands that it is not the final end, but only points to the final end, which is God himself. Therefore, in some sense, the just man understands that his final destiny is to MARRY God, and not the creation.

Hence, the Whore shews forth the second lie of the dragon: those who deny the implicit call of Baptism, are in mortal sin already in intellect, and hence, not living for God, they live for the creation.

But they do not marry the creation, for even marriage bears with it the notion of love. The child of the devil, therefore, commits FORNICATION with the Creation, for they seek from it not Divine Mysteries of love that only point to God, but only TAKE from the creation what they can get from it selfishly, for purely brute superficialities and arrogant and ambition.

Therefore, the second lie of the dragon is anti-Marriage, the fornication with the creation as the supreme end of man, in place of the heavenly marriage with God, Infinite Love possessed forever.

These two horns are then the ultimate heresy: anti-Baptism, and anti-Marriage.

Upon these two supreme lies, derives all iniquity that the dragon institutes. These lies SUMMARIZE all spiritual darkness, even better than Catholicism’s seven cardinal sins.

 

[Jesus_N_Cherie]

Spauline, that is deep, and without the particular grace from God, it is going over my head. I understand parts of it, but being honest, I wish I could understand all of it. Thanks for exposing me to it though. God isn’t finished with me yet. I may yet come to a better understanding of things that are not simple.

 

[Ed_Rand]

I have always taken the horns of the false prophet–(like a lamb’s horns)–to mean that many will mistake this man for Jesus.

This is brilliant. Thank you and God bless you.

 

[spauline]

Spauline, that is deep, and without the particular grace from God, it is going over my head. I understand parts of it, but being honest, I wish I could understand all of it. Thanks for exposing me to it though. God isn’t finished with me yet. I may yet come to a better understanding of things that are not simple.

thanks, Jesus and Cherie, for looking at it. Perhaps there are parts that i can explain better? don’t be shy. I want to make things as simple as I can.

God Bless you, Cherie!

 

[spauline]

I have always taken the horns of the false prophet–(like a lamb’s horns)–to mean that many will mistake this man for Jesus.

This is brilliant. Thank you and God bless you.

You’re welcome, Ed, and thank you for the compliment.

In Her Love,
Scott

 

[spauline]

let us move on and show the folly of the heretics, who are hypocrites like the pharisees.

These hypocrites, like Lindsay, say, see the EU has ten subdivisions, therefore, it could be the beast.

And what is their folly? Look at this way, hypocrites. The Lamb has seven horns and the false prophet has two.

So then, there could just as soon be a wicked ruler who rules seven kingdoms, and a wise and just ruler who is an evangelical Christian who rules two nations. And would that prove that the evangelical is neverthelss the false prophet, and that the wicked man is the Christ?

You fools, if modern Europe retained its Christian roots and didn’t scoff at the Gospel, and they lived in harmony with Christ, would the EU still be the beast, simply because it has ten subdivisions?

For in antiquity, Rome was an empire and it was wicked in paganism, and in the Middle Ages, there was a Holy Roman Empire, a Christian empire, and now we have an Empire that indeed dwells where the former Empire of antiquity was, and it is also wicked and scofffull towards the Gospel, but is what makes it the beast geography or its wickedness?

Hypocrites!

So then, why, you hypocrites, do you say the beast is ONLY the EU, and not also the whole of the general civs that come from Europe that are likewise in apostasy?

For which is the issue: the geographical nature of a society, or its SPIRITUAL condition? Is it not the spiritual, and that the geography has nothing to do with it?

And so it is that heretics look, but do not see, they listen, but do not hear.

And what is the source of their folly? Is it not that they forget we live in a New Covenant and not the Old? For indeed, in Daniel, the beasts were Gentile kingdoms and the horns were kings of power, yes. And the heads subdivisions of empires, yes.

but that was the Old, and we now live in the New Covenant?

Why do the hypocrites not understand that Daniel foretold temporal kingdoms so as to meet the People Old where they were at? For does not the Old Covenant give them a literal earthly kingdom, so that God must also shew them the literal earthly powers that would rise against them in the times leading up to Messiah?

But the Kingdom of the New Covenant is no longer a literal physical kingdom, a single land. It is a spiritual kingdom that spans the whole earth, and the threats that are truly worth considering are not temporal powers but spiritual depravities.

hence, the Church can never define NT history in terms of temporal kingdoms, because her teachings do not deal with temporal kingdoms. For where do the dogmas of the Church reference France, China, or Algeria?

Nowhere.

but the Church defines her spiritual threats in her dogmas, and phrases them in terms of truth and its sources, and grace and its sources.

hence, the CCC references Islam, and how does Islam relate to the Church?

The Church is not so much concerned about WHERE Islam resides geographically, but rather HOW Islam relates spiritually to the kingdom of Christ. And it is this: Islam is the general religion that takes the Catholic faith and disembowels from it the Trinity and Incarnation utterly, so as to leave the shell of the Gospel: an all powerful God who is only One in Person, who has NOT become one of us so as to suffer for our sins, and who therefore, has sent a mere man whose revelation presumably “surpasses” that of the Christ. IOW, Islam is the religion that most fully attacks the mysteries of God as Triune and Incarnate, and yet retains, more or less, the other elements of the Gospel that remain.

And this is precisely the nature of the threat of Islam that matters: its spiritual deficiencies.

But that it resides in Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, and Iran and Syria, and Libya is not the issue. What matters is its spiritual opposition.

So also, another threat, of a much lesser order, are the schismatics. And what Islamics do with the Trinity and Incarnation, the schismatics do with Peter. Schismatics are then they who rip Peter and his special mediatory authority from the Gospel, and retain, for the most part, everything else. Hence, this is only a minor threat.

And the heretics, how do they relate? They are a much worse threat, for they rip from the Gospel not only Peter, but the whole of the apostolic successors and hence also separate themselves from five of the sacraments. Theirs is a severe deficiency that, having cast aside Apostolic Tradition, they necessarily confound the living hell out doctrine in attempting to understand Writings that neither belong to them, nor that they will ever understand, precisely because they reject the very Tradition that is needed to understand the Writings that they twist, in many cases, to their own destruction.

As for the infidels of the Enlightenment, they are ALMOST the beast, for they relate to the Church by way of supernatural death: for the deists and rationalists, disillusioned by the scandal of religious confusion and bloodshed in the pursuit of supernatural truth, have cast aside any faith in a God who either intervenes in this world (deism) or who reveals things (rationalists), and are content to admit that there must be a Supreme Being who created the world, but are resolved to delude themselves into thinking the Supreme Being does not need to tell us things of his nature and what we should do, that is, that we can figure this out with our own Reason, and that we can be moral on our own power, apart from Redemption. IOW, the Enlightenment accepts only the natural light of reason, and no more. For this reason, because they cast aside all supernatural sense of religion, they are the supernaturally dead, and remain alive only in a natural sense.

And the apostates of today? Well go back and read about the two horns. the apostates of today have cast aside all light, even the natural (that at least the Enlightenment infidels accept). They are the children of utter darkness, who bear, unless they repent, the mark of the beast.

So then, how should we view the trumpets? As literal environmental calamities and other literal woes, or rather a symbol of this gradual spiritual digression, that harms all but those with the Seal, that is, faithful Catholics, who, because they have the fullness of truth and are faithful to it, shall be able to weather the storm, the storm of SPIRITUAL assault.

 

[tessi]

These two horns are then the ultimate heresy: anti-Baptism, and anti-Marriage.

That is silly because the devil knows that the Eucharist is the center of the universe and that is what he always tries to destroy.