The Christian world is moving ever closer to full reunification with Rome, thus fulfilling the plan outlined at the Second Vatican Council. This is what Catholic News Agency expressed in an article published on November 30, 2024, titled “A path toward unity: Pope Francis proposes joint Catholic-Orthodox celebration of Nicaea anniversary.” In his message, Pope Francis calls for “full communion” between the two faiths and for both parties to participate in the same “Eucharistic chalice.”
Catholic News Agency published the following:
• “Pope Francis has proposed celebrating the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea together with Orthodox leaders in a personal letter to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople.” [1]
• “The now imminent 1,700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea will be another opportunity to bear witness to the growing communion that already exists among all who are baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,’ Francis wrote in his message dated Nov. 30.” [1]
• “Reflecting on six decades of Catholic-Orthodox dialogue while looking ahead to future possibilities for unity, the pope acknowledged the progress made since Vatican II’s Unitatis Redintegratio decree marked the Catholic Church’s official entry into the ecumenical movement 60 years ago.” [1]
• “While celebrating the ‘renewed fraternity’ achieved since Vatican II, Pope Francis noted in his message that full communion, particularly sharing ‘the one Eucharistic chalice,’ remains an unfulfilled goal.” [1]
The Orthodox and Protestant churches are currently on the path towards full communion and unity with Rome—a religious organization that has not renounced any of its errors nor changed any of its doctrines. It is Protestantism that is making all the compromises. The Orthodox churches are also undergoing changes. We should instead be asking for full communion and unity with the word of God because the Pope still claims universal authority over the entire Christian world.
The Pope still claims infallibility. He claims to be the final authority in religious matters, thus placing himself above the Word of God. Rome still claims to forgive sins and still believes it has the authority to change God’s law. It still commands its members to worship and pray to idols, Mary, and all the dead saints. It still believes in purgatory, indulgences, and the sanctity of Sunday.
Instead of uniting with the man of sin, we should have the courage to say what a lone Orthodox priest once told Pope Francis three times. When Pope Francis arrived to meet with the top officials of the Greek Orthodox Church, an elderly priest rebuked him. After telling Pope Francis, “Pope, you are a heretic,” and urging him to “repent,” the elderly man was thrown to the ground by the police and forcibly escorted away.
Praise God that He will always have someone, somewhere, declaring His truth in the midst of all the lies that are being propagated to the world. The old priest was braver than all the Protestant denominations, including many Seventh-day Adventists, who no longer teach or believe that the Papacy is the great apostate system of Bible prophecy.
The so-called “path of unity” with Rome by the Christian churches plays an important role in the fulfillment of prophecy because we have been told that ecumenism will pave the way for the final crisis.
“Yet under one head—the papal power—the people will unite to oppose God in the person of His witnesses. This union is cemented by the great apostate. While he seeks to unite his agents in warring against the truth” (Testimonies, Vol. 7, p. 182).
“When the religious denominations unite with the papacy to oppress God’s people, places where there is religious freedom will be opened by evangelistic canvassing” (Testimonies, Vol. 6, p. 478).
“The Word of God teaches that these scenes are to be repeated as papists and Protestants shall unite for the exaltation of the Sunday” (Great Controversy, p. 578).
“While the Protestant world is making concessions to Rome, and danger is increasing on every hand, let us arouse to comprehend the situation, and to see the contest before us in its true bearings. Let the watchmen lift up the voice, and give with clearness the message which is present truth for this time” (Signs of the Times, November 28, 1900).
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