Popery had become the world’s despot. Kings and emperors bowed to the decrees of the Roman pontiff. The destinies of men, both for time and for eternity, seemed under his control. For hundreds of years the doctrines of Rome had been extensively and implicitly received, its rites reverently performed, its festivals generally observed. Its clergy were honored and liberally sustained. Never since has the Roman Church attained to greater dignity, magnificence, or power.
But “the noon of the papacy was the midnight of the world.”—J. A. Wylie, The History of Protestantism, b. 1, ch. 4. The Holy Scriptures were almost unknown, not only to the people, but to the priests. Like the Pharisees of old, the papal leaders hated the light which would reveal their sins. God’s law, the standard of righteousness, having been removed, they exercised power without limit, and practiced vice without restraint. Fraud, avarice, and profligacy prevailed. Men shrank from no crime by which they could gain wealth or position. The palaces of popes and prelates were scenes of the vilest debauchery. Some of the reigning pontiffs were guilty of crimes so revolting that secular rulers endeavored to depose these dignitaries of the church as monsters too vile to be tolerated. For centuries Europe had made no progress in learning, arts, or civilization. A moral and intellectual paralysis had fallen upon Christendom.
The condition of the world under the Romish power presented a fearful and striking fulfillment of the words of the prophet Hosea: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee: … seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” “There is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.” Hosea 4:6, 1, 2. Such were the results of banishing the word of God. GC 59.3 – GC 60.3
POPE FRANCIS THE KING 👑 OF THE NORTH: . “Babylon the great” was “drunken with the blood of the saints.” The mangled forms of millions of martyrs cried to God for vengeance upon that apostate power.
Popery had become the world’s despot. Kings and emperors bowed to the decrees of the Roman pontiff. The destinies of men, both for time and for eternity, seemed under his control. For hundreds of years the doctrines of Rome had been extensively and implicitly received, its rites reverently performed, its festivals generally observed. Its clergy were honored and liberally sustained. Never since has the Roman Church attained to greater dignity, magnificence, or power.
But “the noon of the papacy was the midnight of the world.”—J. A. Wylie, The History of Protestantism, b. 1, ch. 4. The Holy Scriptures were almost unknown, not only to the people, but to the priests. Like the Pharisees of old, the papal leaders hated the light which would reveal their sins. God’s law, the standard of righteousness, having been removed, they exercised power without limit, and practiced vice without restraint. Fraud, avarice, and profligacy prevailed. Men shrank from no crime by which they could gain wealth or position. The palaces of popes and prelates were scenes of the vilest debauchery. Some of the reigning pontiffs were guilty of crimes so revolting that secular rulers endeavored to depose these dignitaries of the church as monsters too vile to be tolerated. For centuries Europe had made no progress in learning, arts, or civilization. A moral and intellectual paralysis had fallen upon Christendom.
The condition of the world under the Romish power presented a fearful and striking fulfillment of the words of the prophet Hosea: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee: … seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” “There is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.” Hosea 4:6, 1, 2. Such were the results of banishing the word of God. GC 59.3 – GC 60.3
By Wills Robinson For Dailymail.com17:14 12 Mar 2022, updated 19:26 12 Mar 2022
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Rob O’Neill was the Navy SEAL who shot the 9/11 mastermind in 2011 in Pakistan
He has left the service after 16 years and 400 combat missions for his countryÂ
Decorated veteran says Russians are dying for a ‘leader who’s lost his marbles’Â
He also criticized the U.S. and their ‘nonsense’ ploys and showing ‘weakness’
The example he uses is the canceled nuclear missile test last weekend
Also said the Pentagon is ‘wasting resources’ by ‘trying to turn warships green’
O’Neill added there’s no way the U.S. could take out Putin like he did Bin LadenÂ
Buy O’Neill’s new book The Way Forward, written with Dakota Meyer, hereÂ
Navy SEAL Rob O’Neill served his country in 400 combat missions over 16 years and shot and killed Osama Bin Laden during arguably the most famous, deadly raid in modern American history.
The Montana native knows more than most about facing off with terrorists and the grim realities of war.
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But as he has watched bloodthirsty Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine from afar, he has seen soldiers dying for a leader who’s ‘lost his marbles’ with an endgame to cement his place in the history books, and has witnesses the U.S. responding with what he perceives as weakness.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, the decorated veteran criticized the Biden administration for cancelling a nuclear missile test last weekend while Russian forces started to attack Ukrainian citizens and how the Pentagon is more concerned with their climate change agenda than trying to deter Putin.Â
I was shown the inhabitants of the earth in the utmost confusion. War, bloodshed, privation, want, famine, and pestilence were abroad in the land…. My attention was then called from the scene. There seemed to be a little time of peace. Once more the inhabitants of the earth were presented before me; and again everything was in the utmost confusion. Strife, war, and bloodshed, with famine and pestilence, raged everywhere. Other nations were engaged in this war and confusion. War caused famine. Want and bloodshed caused pestilence. And then men’s hearts failed them for fear, “and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.”—Testimonies for the Church 1:268. ChS 54.5 – ChS 55.1
‘You don’t defeat a crazy man with nuclear weapons, with weakness. It’s like trying to stop a schoolyard bully by appeasing him, it’s nonsense.
‘When I was in the service, the main concern was whether you could perform the task at hand. Now they (the Pentagon) are wasting time and resources making warships green. The unfortunate truth is Russia and China are laughing at us when we talk about climate change in the military.’Â
He said he doesn’t care about his legacy, despite slaying the founder of Al Qaeda after a decade-long hunt, and is only focused on making sure his children are cared for.Â
O’Neill also said politicians like Lindsey Graham shouldn’t be talking about assassinating Vladimir Putin for TV ratings, but insisted he wouldn’t be against someone in the Kremlin’s inner circle taking Putin out ‘like Julius Caesar’. Â
‘The level of corruption is as high as it has ever been in the United States. These politicians talk from both sides of their mouths. They say one thing and vote for the other. They need handlers‘.
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He was a member the SEAL Team Six that took out the 9/11 mastermind in the deadly raid in Abbottabad in 2010 and has been portrayed on the big screen in Zero Dark Thirty, Captain Phillips and Lone Survivor.
He has now published a book with Medal of Honor winner Dakota Meyer called ‘The Way Forward’ about lessons from their lives and military careers.
The SEAL was decorated 52 times, leaving as senior chief petty officer. His decorations include two Silver Stars, four Bronze Stars with Valor, a Joint Service Commendation Medal with Valor, three Presidential Unit citations, and two Navy/Marine Corps Commendations with Valor.
O’Neill admitted that initially he didn’t think Putin would invade Ukraine because he ‘made the mistake of trying to make sense of an insane man’s decision’.
He believed the Russian leader would manipulate the West into spending more money on defenses by stationing hundreds of thousands of troops on the border, but never going in. He acknowledges he was wrong.
With the Ukrainian resistance shooting down helicopters and jets, he fears Putin will move to heavy, long-range artillery. Pentagon officials have already indicated it is happening with Russian strikes in western Ukraine, just 60 miles from the Polish border.
He said the U.S. is ‘crushing’ Russia with crippling economic sanctions, but they still need a ‘posture of strength’.
That’s when it gets extremely bloody. That’s when s*** gets real,’ he said about Russian rockets coming from over the horizon and landing in Ukrainian cities full of civilians.
‘We haven’t seen anything as bad as this since 1939. We used to joke about movies where they said a virus would cause a lockdown. We thought that was crazy. I am a big believer in normalcy bias, that nothing bad can ever happen because it never has.’
When the United States starts talking about climate change being the ‘number one concern for national security’, he says, the rest of the world starts to mock us.
‘They’re worried about making their warships green and then their, and I’ve had people that are still in the military that are getting out at special operators because instead of going to the range or to the weight room and training for war they’re taking classes on gender studies white rage.’
I’m coming for your soul!’
He called climate initiatives ‘ridiculous’, especially with mounting fears Putin could turn to nuclear weapons during the conflict.
‘The United States has decided we are going to be the “good guys” by ‘saving snapping turtles’, and the planet will get a ‘a lot hotter, quicker’ with a nuclear war.
He said he hopes the invasion will reach a point where the Russians are ‘getting their butts kicked so badly’ that the West and Ukraine will make a deal with Moscow to give them a way out.Â
‘I’m an optimist and that’s my hope. But my prediction was so bad at first, I am. I’m just going off what I hope happens.
‘Most people in the world can agree. There’s one person that can to stop this. All he needs to do is stop it.’
The world is stirred with the spirit of war. The prophecy of the eleventh chapter of Daniel has nearly reached its complete fulfillment. Soon the scenes of trouble spoken of in the prophecies will take place.—Testimonies for the Church 9:14.
I was shown the inhabitants of the earth in the utmost confusion. War, bloodshed, privation, want, famine, and pestilence were abroad in the land…. My attention was then called from the scene. There seemed to be a little time of peace. Once more the inhabitants of the earth were presented before me; and again everything was in the utmost confusion. Strife, war, and bloodshed, with famine and pestilence, raged everywhere. Other nations were engaged in this war and confusion. War caused famine. Want and bloodshed caused pestilence. And then men’s hearts failed them for fear, “and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.”—Testimonies for the Church 1:268. ChS 54.5 – ChS 55.1
. “Babylon the great” was “drunken with the blood of the saints.” The mangled forms of millions of martyrs cried to God for vengeance upon that apostate power.
Popery had become the world’s despot. Kings and emperors bowed to the decrees of the Roman pontiff. The destinies of men, both for time and for eternity, seemed under his control. For hundreds of years the doctrines of Rome had been extensively and implicitly received, its rites reverently performed, its festivals generally observed. Its clergy were honored and liberally sustained. Never since has the Roman Church attained to greater dignity, magnificence, or power.
But “the noon of the papacy was the midnight of the world.”—J. A. Wylie, The History of Protestantism, b. 1, ch. 4. The Holy Scriptures were almost unknown, not only to the people, but to the priests. Like the Pharisees of old, the papal leaders hated the light which would reveal their sins. God’s law, the standard of righteousness, having been removed, they exercised power without limit, and practiced vice without restraint. Fraud, avarice, and profligacy prevailed. Men shrank from no crime by which they could gain wealth or position. The palaces of popes and prelates were scenes of the vilest debauchery. Some of the reigning pontiffs were guilty of crimes so revolting that secular rulers endeavored to depose these dignitaries of the church as monsters too vile to be tolerated. For centuries Europe had made no progress in learning, arts, or civilization. A moral and intellectual paralysis had fallen upon Christendom.
The condition of the world under the Romish power presented a fearful and striking fulfillment of the words of the prophet Hosea: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee: … seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” “There is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.” Hosea 4:6, 1, 2. Such were the results of banishing the word of God. GC 59.3 – GC 60.3
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