Prophecy Of Ezechiel
Chapter 8
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The prophet sees in a vision the abominations committed in Jerusalem; which determine the Lord to spare them no longer.
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And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the
fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the ancients of Juda
sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me. 2
And I saw, and behold a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the
appearance of his loins, and downward, fire: and from his loins, and
upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the appearance of amber. 3
And the likeness of a hand was put forth and took me by a lock of my
head: and the spirit lifted me up between the earth andthe heaven, and
brought mein the vision of God into Jerusalem fn.‘n’, near the
innergate, that looked toward the north, where was set the idol of
jealousy to provoke to jealousy. 4 And behold the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I had seen in the plain. 5
And he said to me: Son of man, lift up thy eyes towards the way of the
north. And I lifted up my eyes towards the way of the north: and
behold on the north side of the gate of the altar the idol of jealousy
in the very entry. 6 And he said to me: Son of man, dost thou see, thinkest thou, what these are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should depart far off from my sanctuary? and turn thee yet again and thou shalt see greater abominations. 7 And he brought me in to the door of the court: and I saw, and behold a hole in the wall. 8 And he said to me: Son of man, dig in the wall. And when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. 9 And he said to me: Go in, and see the wicked abominations which they commit here. 10 And I went in and saw, and behold every form of creeping things, and of living creatures, the abomination, and all the idols of the house of Israel, were painted on the wall all round about. 11 And seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and Jezonias the son of Saaphan stood in the midst of them, that stood before the pictures: and every one had a censer in his hand: and a cloud of smoke went up from the incense. 12 And he said to me: Surely thou seest. O son of man, what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every one in private in his chamber: for they say: The Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath forsaken the earth. 13 And he said to me: If thou turn thee again, thou shalt see greater abominations which these commit. 14 And he brought me in by the door of the gate of the Lord's house, which looked to the north: and behold women sat there mourning for Adonis. 15 And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: but turn thee again: and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
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"Adonis"... The favourite of Venus, slain by a wild boar, as feigned
by the heathen poets, and which being here represented by an idol, is
lamented by the female worshippers of that goddess. In the Hebrew, the
name is Tammuz.
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And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord: and
behold at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the
altar, were about five and twenty men having their backs towards the
temple of the Lord, and their faces to the east: and they adored towards
the rising of the sun. 17
And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: is this a
light thing to the house of Juda, that they should commit these
abominations which they have committed here: because they have filled
the land with iniquity, and have turned to provoke me to anger? and
behold they put a branch to their nose. 18
Therefore I also will deal with them in my wrath: my eye shall not
spare them, neither will I shew mercy: and when they shall cry to my
ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.
fn. ‘n’ Dan. 14, 6.
1-Ver. 3. The statue of jealousy which stirs up jealousy: the
statue which provokes the Lord's jealousy for his honor. This was the
statue of the goddess Ashera erected by the wicked King Manasse[cf. 4
Kgs. 21, 7 (449); 2 Par. 33, 7. 15 (519)]. Though it had been
removed by King Josia [4 Kgs. 23, 6(451)], it had been set up again in
the repaganizing of Jerusalem that followed on Josia's death.
2-Ver. 5. He: an angel accompanies Ezechiel in these visions and represents the voice of the Lord; cf. Ezech. 40, 3f (1000).
3-Ver. 10. Creeping things and loathsome beasts: Egyptian
deities, which were represented in animal form. During the last days
of Jerusalem King Sedecia was allied with Egypt, trusting in it for
protection against the Chaldeans.
4-Ver. 14. Weeping tor Adonis, i.e. Tammuz: the Withering of trees and plants in autumn was thought to be due to the descent.of Tammuz, the Babylonian god of fertility, to the nether world of the dead; this descent was bewailed by the women.
5-Ver. 16. Bowing down to the sun: sun worship had been made an important part of Judaite idolatry by the impious kings; cf. 4 Kgs. 23,11 (452). a
6-Ver. 17. Put the branch to their nose: the meaning is certain. It refers to an Egyptian practice imported into Juda: the Egyptian sun god Re is pictured with a vine
branch at his nose, signifying the transfer of creative power (divine
breath) to living things, especially included in this practice was
the sacrifice of infants to Mammon-Re as a way of influencing and
divining the future and the disembowelment of these children for the
conjuring of the demon they believed was attached to the soul of these
“immaculate” children as they called them in Graeco-Egyptian religion
which dated back to 1500 B.C. Such rites were and have always been
abominable to the Lord.
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Prophecy of Ezechiel
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Prophecy of Daniel
Prophecy of Daniel
Chapter 11
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War between Syria and Egypt
The
angel declares to Daniel many things to come, with regard to the
Persian and Grecian kings: more especially with regard to Antiochus as a
figure of Antichrist.
1 And from the first year of Darius the Mede I stood up that he might be strengthened and confirmed. 2 And now I will shew thee the truth. Behold there shall stand yet three kings in Persia, and the fourth
shall be enriched exceedingly above them all: and when he shall be
grown mighty by his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of
Greece. 3 But there shall rise up a strong king, and shall rule with great power: and he shall do what he pleaseth. 4
And when he shall come to his height, his kingdom shall be broken, and
it shall be divided towards the four winds of the heaven: but not to
his posterity, nor according to his power with which he ruled. For his
kingdom shall be rent in pieces, even for strangers, beside these. 5 And the king of the south shall be strengthened, and one of his princes shall prevail over him, and he shall rule with great power: for his dominion shall be great.
2 "Three kings"... Viz., Cambyses, Smerdes Magus, and Darius, the son of Hystaspes.-- Ibid.
6 And after the end of years they shall be in league together: and the daughter of the king of the south
shall come to the king of the north to make friendship, but she shall
not obtain the strength of the arm, neither shall her seed stand: and
she shall be given up, and her young men that brought her, and they that
strengthened her in these times. 7 And a plant
of the bud of her roots, shall stand up: and he shall come with an
army, and shall enter into the province of the king of the north: and he
shall abuse them, and shall prevail. 8
And he shall also carry away captive into Egypt their gods,and their
graven things, and their precious vessels of gold and silver: he shall
prevail against the king of the north. 9 And the king of the south shall enter into the kingdom, and shall return to his own land. 10 And his sons shall be provoked, and they shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and he shall come with haste like a flood: and he shall return and be stirred up, and he shall join battle with his forces. 2 "The fourth"... Xerxes. 3 "A strong king"...Alexander. 5 "The king of the south"... Ptolemeus the son of Lagus, king of Egypt, which lies south of Jerusalem.-- Ibid. 5 "One of his princes"... that is, one of Alexander's princes, shall prevail over him: that is, shall be stronger than the king of Egypt. He speaks of Seleucus Nicator, king of Asia and Syria, whose successors are here called the kings of the north, because their dominions lay to the north in respect to Jerusalem.
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"The daughter of the king of the south"... Viz., Berenice, daughter of
Ptolemeus Philadelphus, given in marriage to Antiochus Theos, grandson
of Seleucus.
11 And the king of the south
being provoked shall go forth, and shall fight against the king of the
north, and shall prepare an exceeding great multitude, and a multitude
shall be given into his hand. 12
And he shall take a multitude, and his heart shall be lifted up, and
he shall cast down many thousands: but he shall not prevail. 13
For the king of the north shall return and shall prepare a multitude
much greater than before: and in the end of times and years, be shall
come in haste with a great army, and much riches. 14
And in those times many shall rise up against the king of the south,
and the children of prevaricators of thy people shall lift up themselves
to fulfill the vision, and they shall fall. 15
And the king of the north shall come, and shall cast up a mount, and
shall take the best fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not
withstand, and his chosen ones shall rise up to resist, and they shall
not have strength. 7 "A plant"... Ptolemeus Evergetes, the son of Philadelphus. 8 "The king of the north"... Seleucus Callinicus. 10 "His sons"... Seleucus Ceraunius, and Antiochus the Great, the sons of Callinicus.-- Ibid. 10 "He shall come"... Viz., Antiochus the Great.
11 "The king of the south"... Ptolemeus Philopator, son of Evergetes.
16 And he shall come upon him and do according to his pleasure, andthere shall be none to stand against his face: and he shall stand in the glorious land, and it shall be consumed by his hand. 17 And he shall set his face to come to possess all his kingdom, and he shall make upright conditions with him: and he shall give him a daughter of women, to overthrow it: and she shall not stand, neither shall she be for him. 18 And he shall turn his face to the islands, and shall take many: and he shall cause the prince of his reproach to cease, and his reproach shall be turned upon him. 19 And he shall turn his face to the empire of his own land, and he shall stumble, and fall, and shall not befound. 20 And there shall stand up in his place, one most vile, and unworthy of kingly honour: and in a few days he shall be destroyed, not in rage nor in battle.
16 "He shall come upon him"... Viz., Antiochus shall come upon the king of the south.-- Ibid.
16 "The glorious land"... Judea. 17 "All his kingdom"... Viz., all the kingdom of Ptolemeus Epiphanes, son of Philopator.-- Ibid. 17 "A daughter of women"... That is, a most beautiful woman, viz., his daughter Cleopatra.-- Ibid. 17 "To overthrow it"... Viz., the kingdom of Epiphanes: but his policy shall not succeed; for Cleopatra shall take more to heart the interest of her husband, than that of her father. 18 "The prince of his reproach"... Scipio the Roman general, called the prince of his reproach, because he overthrew Antiochus, and obliged him to submit to very dishonourable terms, before he would cease from the war. 20 "One most vile"... Seleucus Philopator, who
sent Heliodorus to plunder the temple: and was shortly after slain by the same Heliodorus.
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A Figure of the Antichrist
Dan. 11:
21 And there shall stand up in his place one despised, and the kingly honour shall not be given him: and he shall come privately, and shall obtain the kingdom by fraud. 22 And the arms of the fighter shall be overcome before his face, and shall be broken; yea also the prince of the covenant. 23 And after friendships, he will deal deceitfully with him: and he shall go up, and shall overcome with a small people. 24
And he shall enter into rich and plentiful cities: and he shall do
that which his fathers never did, nor his fathers' fathers: he shall
scatter their spoils, and their prey, and their riches, and shall
forecast devices against the best fenced places: and this untila time. 25 And his strength and his heart shall be stirred up against the king
of the south with a great army: and the king of the south shall be
stirred up to battle with many and very strong succours: and they shall
not stand, for they shall form designs against him.
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"One despised"... Viz., Antiochus Epiphanes, who at first was despised
and not received for king. What is here said of this prince, is
accommodated by St. Jerome and others to Antichrist; of whom this
Antiochus was a figure.
26 And they that eat bread with him, shall destroy him, and his army shall be overthrown: and many shall fall down slain. 27
And the heart of the two kings shall be to do evil, and they shall
speak lies at one table, and they shall not prosper: because as yet the
end is unto another time. 28
And he shall return into his land with much riches: and his heart
shall be against the holy covenant, and he shall succeed and shall
return into his own land. 29 At the time appointed he shall return, and he shall come to the south, but the latter time shall not be like the former. 30 And the galleys and the Romans
shall come upon him, and he shall be struck, and shall return, and
shall have indignation against the covenant of the sanctuary, and he
shall succeed: and he shall return and shall devise against them that
have forsaken the covenant of the sanctuary. 22 "Of the fighter"... That is, of them that shall oppose him, and shall fight against him.-- Ibid. 22 "The prince of the covenant"... or, of the league. The chief of them that conspired against him: or the king of Egypt his most powerful adversary. 25 "The king"... Ptolemeus Philometor.
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"The galleys and the Romans"... Popilius, and the other Roman
ambassadors, who came in galleys, and obliged him to depart from Egypt.
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And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall defile the sanctuary
of strength, and shall take away the continual sacrifice, and they shall place there the abomination unto desolation. 32
And such as deal wickedly against the covenant shall deceitfully
dissemble: but the people that know their God shall prevail and succeed.
33 And
they that are learned among the people shall teach many: and they
shall fall by the sword, and by fire, and by captivity, and by spoil
for many days. 34 And when they shall have fallen they shall be relieved with a small help: and many shall be joined to them deceitfully. 35
And some of the learned shall fall, that they may be tried, and may be
chosen, and made white even to the appointed time, because yet there
shall be another time.
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"They shall place there the abomination"... The idol of Jupiter
Olympius, which Antiochus ordered to be set up in the sanctuary of the
temple: which is here called the sanctuary of strength, from the
Almighty that was worshipped there.
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And the king shall do according to his will, and he shall be lifted
up, and shall magnify himself against every god: and he shall speak
great things against the God of gods, and shall prosper, till the wrath
be accomplished. For the determination is made. 37
And he shall make no account of the God of his fathers: and he shall
follow the lust of women, and he shall not regard any gods: for he shall
rise up against all things. 38 But he shall worship the god Maozim
in his place: and a god whom hisfathers knew not, he shall worship
with gold, and silver, and precious stones, and things of great price. 39 And he shall do this to fortify Maozim with a strange god, whom he hath acknowledged, and he shall increase glory and shall give them power over many, and shall divide the land gratis. 40 And
at the time prefixed the king of the south shall fight against him,
and the king of the north shall come against him like a tempest, with
chariots, and with horsemen, and with a great navy, and he shall enter
into the countries, and shall destroy, and pass through.
38 "The god Maozim"... That is, the god of forces or strong holds.
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And he shall enter into the glorious land, and manyshall fall: and
these only shall be saved out of his hand, Edom, and Moab, and the
principality of the children of Ammon. 42 And he shall lay his hand upon the lands: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. 43
And he shall have power over the treasures of gold, and of silver, and
all the precious things of Egypt: and he shall pass through Libya, and
Ethiopia. 44
And tidings out of the east, and out of the north shall trouble him:
and he shall come with a great multitude to destroy and slay many. 45 And he shall fix his tabernacle Apadno between the seas, upon a glorious and holy mountain: and he shall come even to the top thereof, and noneshall help him. 39 "And he shall increase glory"... He shall bestow honours, riches and lands, upon them that shall worship his god.
45 "Apadno"... Some take it for the proper name of a place: others, from the Hebrew, translate it his palace.
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The False Prophet goes before the Antichrist
False Prophet
http://www.orthodoxfaith.com/ecumenism_papacy_masonry.html
The Pope's Attitude towards Judaism
Journalist Robert K. Dahl says that Pope John Paul II's acquiescence to Judaism "has the appearance of treason, regardless of intent" (The Remnant, [St. Paul, MN], April 15, 1998). Indeed, in 1999, when John Paul II made the unprecedented decree that "the seeds infected with anti-Judaism" must "never again take root. . . " he was forbidding opposition to the religion of the Pharisees and proscribing the basis of the mission of Jesus Christ (Statement of Pope John Paul II in his "General Audience" at Rome, April 28, 1999, as reported in the official Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, May 5, 1999).
See:
Traditional Catholic Prayers: Traditional Catholic Prayers: Traditional Catholic Prayers: Look up, your redemption is at hand: The Naasseni and Isis
Most importantly see:
Prayer Against Evil
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