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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 432
(Daniel 7:7).
Before I continue, I would like to state that I do not make the statements above and to
follow lightly. I grew up a Catholic and attended a private Catholic grade school for six years.
My parents are Catholic as well as my brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins. I have
nothing personally against Catholics but I must be true to the word of God, for he is the one who
will hold me accountable. So let’s continue.
The papacy was also “diverse” or rather different from the kingdoms before it. The
previous powers were secular but the Papacy was a religious power (Daniel 7:7). The Papacy
continued the persecution of Christians as secular Rome did before it but its persecution was
different. The Papacy didn’t seek to stamp out Christianity; instead it sought to corrupt it. The
Papacy sought through persecution to force Christians to conform to its corrupt teachings.
Millions of those who would not conform were killed. Through persecution and war the Papacy
is said to have killed at least 50 million people. This was in fulfillment of Daniel 8:9-10.
1386
The Papacy also cast the truth to the ground in fulfillment of Daniel 8:12. The Papacy
persecuted and hunted down the Waldensians and others who possessed uncorrupted copies of
God’s holy word. It also martyred many of the reformers. David Otis Fuller writes in his book
Which Bible?:
In the Reformation period the Church of Rome sought to maintain its
dominant position by burning not only the copies of the bible, but also those who
recognized the supreme authority of God's word. Tyndale was burned at the stake
at Vilvorde outside Brussels in Belgium on August 6, 1536. His great offence was
that he had translated the scriptures into English and was making copies available
against the wishes of the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
1387
Of the martyred death of William Tyndale, W. Scott
writes in Story Of Our English
Bible:
The martyr was first confined in the castle of Filford, about 20 miles from
Antwerp. He was taken from prison on Friday, October 6 th 1536, fastened to the
stake, strangled, and his body burned to ashes. The fervent prayer of the martyr
Tyndale, when bound to the stake, 'Lord, open the King of England's eyes,' was
about to be answered shortly.
1388
The Catholic Church today does not apologize for its past atrocities but defends them.
Henry G. Graham declares in his book Where We Got The Bible, which is a Catholic publication:
The next man of any consequence we are confronted with is another favorite of the
Reformers, another “martyr” for the Bible, and this is William Tyndale. His treatment is also
flung in our teeth by critics, as fresh evidence of Rome’s implacable hatred of the open Bible.
Did she not persecute and
burn poor Tyndale and consign his copy of the Scriptures in
English to the flames? So here again we must show how wise and consistent was the action of
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