“Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power” (Maranatha, p. 216)
In an effort to heal the long-standing divisions between Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants, Pope Francis has been aggressively promoting unity among Christians. His call for all Christians to participate in the Sunday Holy Eucharist celebration is at the heart of this effort. By promoting shared participation in the Roman Catholic sacrament of communion, Pope Francis seeks to highlight the common faith that he believes binds all Christians. The ultimate goal is to heal divisions through a unified Christian world based on Catholic doctrine and traditions.
On November 11, 2024, Pope Francis received a delegation at the Vatican from the Mar Thoma Syrian Church, an Oriental Protestant Christian denomination headquartered in India. In their meeting, Pope Francis emphasized the need to restore unity and bring all believers together to celebrate the same Eucharist. He also stressed the importance of having a shared ecumenical evangelism, which is collaboration among different Christian denominations to spread the message of Christ.
The Vatican Press Office published the following:
• “Your Church, heir to both the Syriac tradition of the Saint Thomas Christians and the Reformed tradition, rightly defines itself as a ‘bridge Church’ between East and West. As Your Grace pointed out, the Mar Thoma Church has an ecumenical vocation and it is no coincidence that it became involved in the ecumenical movement early on, establishing a number of bilateral contacts with Christians of different traditions.” [1]
• “The first meetings with the Church of Rome took place at the time of the Second Vatican Council, in which His Grace Philipose Mar Chrysostom, the future Metropolitan, participated as an Observer. These are the small steps that bring us closer.” [1]
• “I rejoice at the beginning of this dialogue, which I entrust to the Holy Spirit and which I hope will hasten the day when we will be able to share the same Eucharist, in fulfilment of the Lord’s prophecy: “They shall come from east and west and sit at table (Matt. 8:11).” [1]
• “I am reminded of what the great Zizioulas said about Christian unity. He was a great man, a man of God. He said: ‘I know the date when there will be full unity between the Churches.’ What is the date? ‘The day after the Last Judgement.’ He added: ‘But, in the meantime we must walk together, pray together and work together. All together’.” [1]
• “I am convinced that working together to bear witness to the Risen Christ is the best way for us to draw closer together. For this reason, as our recent Synod proposed, it is my hope that one day we can celebrate an ecumenical Synod on evangelization, everyone together.” [1]
In Revelation 17:5, “Babylon the Great” is depicted as the “mother of harlots” and represents a corrupt religious, political, or cultural system that aligns itself with worldly powers in opposition to God. The daughters represent all of the churches that will join the idolatrous system that is seducing people away from true faith. This is describing how in the last days many will be deceived, including religious institutions. Under the leadership of Rome, many churches and religious leaders, seduced by the promise of peace, unity, and security, will join this alliance, uniting under a single world religion that will appear tolerant and inclusive yet will reject Christ’s teachings.
Today there is a call for the entire religious world to establish a close and intimate relationship. Pope Francis is trying to unite religious powers in a common vision and mission. Unfortunately, Seventh-day Adventists face an enormous temptation today, a temptation that is becoming increasingly popular. The temptation for God’s commandment-keeping people is to join the religious world on the path toward ecumenism, thus making ourselves indistinguishable from the rest of the fallen churches of Babylon. Instead of joining this movement, we have been called to expose it:
“The sins of Babylon will be laid open. The fearful results of enforcing the observances of the church by civil authority, the inroads of spiritualism, the stealthy but rapid progress of the papal power—all will be unmasked. By these solemn warnings the people will be stirred. Thousands upon thousands will listen who have never heard words like these” (Great Controversy, 606).
Seventh-day Adventists were not raised up as a people to grasp the hand of Romanism. We were raised to give a very special warning message to the world. What is that startling message that God has commissioned us to preach? It is the Three Angels’ Message found in Revelation 14:6–12. These messages need to be heard in every Adventist pulpit and in every Adventist church around the world more than ever before.
“Most startling messages will be borne by men of God’s appointment, messages of a character to warn the people, to arouse them. And while some will be provoked by the warning and led to resist light and evidence, we are to see from this that we are giving the testing message for this time” (Testimonies, Vol. 9, p. 137).
“The third angel is represented as flying in the midst of heaven, symbolizing the work of those who proclaim the first, second, and third angel’s messages; all are linked together. The evidences of the abiding, everliving truth of these grand messages that mean so much to us, that have awakened such intense opposition from the religious world, are not extinct. Satan is constantly seeking to cast his hellish shadow about these messages, so that the remnant people of God shall not clearly discern their import—their time and place—but they live, and are to exert their power upon our religious experience while time shall last” (Selected Messages, Vol. 3, p. 405).
Sources
[1] https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2024/11/11/241111a.html
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To share communion with the church of Rome, by partaking of her Eucharist, is to literally drink the wine of Babylon. The wine she claims to magically transform into the literal blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To submit to this blasphemous false doctrine for the sake of unity, is open unabashed apostasy. Denying one of the most basic and fundamental truths of the Protestant Reformation –
Heb 7:22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. 23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: 24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. 25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. 26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. 28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
Heb 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us………………….
24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. 14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Through the false doctrine of transubstantiation, sinful humanity has set up a priesthood of and by the fallen, upon which it is said all are dependent for salvation. In that none but the priests of Roman Catholicism are supposedly endowed with the gift of turning the bread and wine into the literal flesh and blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This false priesthood and ministration is built once again upon many priests often offering this supposedly un-bloody sacrifice as necessary to salvation. Thereby rejecting our Lord’s once and for all perfect sacrifice, in the practice of this most unscriptural and usurping ministration.
Pope Francis represents the anti-Christ, is the anti-Christ. It would be blasphemy and apostasy for true Christians to ever partake of their so-called Eucharist with them. But they have every right to have their “Eucharist” and true Protestants respect their liberty to do so, but that’s not enough, Pope Francis aims to dominate all and if he has his way he would slay on the spot all naysayers. He gets his “”his power, and his seat, and great authority” directly from Satan himself. These two verses prove he has no connection with heaven: “Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:19. “He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” 1 John 2:4.
Notice that he hopes people partake in a ceremony rather get their hearts right with God so as to partake of the TREE OF LIFE