How the
Vatican Created Islam (June 9, 2002)
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assumes everything in it is true. I don't know, and have no way of
verifying. It was forwarded by a subscriber, and it is offered here for your
interest and discernment, along with the link to where it originates.
However, while little details may vary slightly, from source to source, its
basic thrust seems to be corroborated by other sources such as
tuppersaussy.com, and others I have read from time to time.
It is offered because its claims are so out-of-the-mainstream understanding
of history. And yet, when a person reads it, and observes current events, it
begins to make sense; much in the same way a person might wonder about a
life-time of a relative's aberrant behavior, and then one day to be told
some little bit of information about some event that happened in that
person's life that seems initially to be so outlandish as to be
unbelievable...but when a person considers with a calm/rational mind, that
little bit of information becomes the "key" to understanding that person's
entire life.
Consider how Islam is so (supposedly) "anti-Christian" as to persecute and
martyr Christians around the world, and yet, terrorist Arafat has made
pilgrimages to the Vatican, and when the pope visited the Holy Land a few
years ago, his primary message was in support of the plight of the
downtrodden so-called "Palestinians". For being such a staunch "Muslim" and
fighting "Jihad" (Islamic holy war), Arafat has been seen attending
(catholic) masses; and has made public statements about how their Jihad has
not sought to destroy Catholicism's icons and shrines, that he would "never"
do such a thing...even proclaiming a certain veneration for the "virgin
Mary" and her statues.
As we have been seeing this seemingly "strange bed-fellow" relationship
between the Vatican and Islam, and we see -two- interrelated "beasts" in
Revelation ch13, it would do us good to read the following, and keep its
data in our minds as we continue observing world events unfold.
This information came from Alberto Rivera, former
Jesuit priest after his conversion to Protestant Christianity. It
is excerpted from "The
Prophet," published by Chick Publications, PO Box
662, Chino CA 91708.
Since its publication, after several unsuccessful attempts
on his life, he died suddenly from food poisoning. His testimony should not
be silenced. Dr. Rivera speaks to us still...
What I'm going to tell you is what I learned in secret
briefings in the Vatican when I was a Jesuit priest, under oath and
induction.
A Jesuit cardinal named Augustine Bea showed us how desperately the Roman
Catholics wanted Jerusalem at the end of the third century. Because of its
religious history and its strategic location, the Holy City was considered
a priceless treasure. A scheme had to be developed to make Jerusalem a
Roman Catholic city.
The great untapped source of manpower that could do this job was the
children of Ishmael. The poor Arabs fell victim to one of the most clever
plans ever devised by the powers of darkness.
Early Christians went everywhere with the gospel setting up small
churches, but they met heavy opposition. Both the Jews and the Roman
government persecuted the believers in Christ to stop their spread.
But the Jews rebelled against Rome, and in 70 AD, Roman armies under
General Titus smashed Jerusalem and destroyed the great Jewish temple
which was the heart of Jewish worship in fulfillment of Christ's prophecy
in
Matthew 24:2. On this holy placed today where the temple
once stood, the Dome of the Rock Mosque stands as Islam's second most holy
place.
Sweeping changes were in the wind. Corruption, apathy, greed, cruelty,
perversion and rebellion were eating at the Roman Empire, and it was ready
to collapse. The persecution against Christians was useless as they
continued to lay down their lives for the gospel of Christ.
The only way Satan could stop this thrust was to create a counterfeit
"Christian" religion to destroy the work of God. The solution was in Rome.
Their religion had come from ancient Babylon and all it needed was a
face-lift. This didn't happen overnight, but began in the writings of the
"early church fathers."
It was through their writings that a new religion would take shape. The
statue of Jupiter in Rome was eventually called St. Peter, and the statue
of Venus was changed to the Virgin Mary. The site chosen for its
headquarters was on one of the seven hills called "Vaticanus," the place
of diving serpent where the Satanic temple of Janus stood.
The great counterfeit religion was Roman Catholicism, called "Mystery,
Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth."
Revelation 17:5 She was raised up to block the
gospel, slaughter the believers in Christ, establish religions, create
wars and make the nations drunk with the wine of her fornication as we
will see.
Three major religions have one thing in common - each has a holy place
where they look for guidance. Roman Catholicism looks to the Vatican as
the Holy City. The Jews look to the wailing wall in Jerusalem, and the
Muslims look to Mecca as their Holy City. Each group believes that they
receive certain types of blessings for the rest of their lives for
visiting their holy place.
In the beginning, Arab visitors would bring gifts to the "House of God,"
and the keepers of the Kaaba were gracious to all who came. Some brought
their idols and, not wanting to offend these people, their idols were
placed inside the sanctuary. It is said that the Jews looked upon the
Kaaba as an outlying tabernacle of the Lord with veneration until it
became polluted with idols.
In a tribal contention over a well (Zamzam) the treasure of the Kaaba and
the offerings that pilgrims had given were dumped down the well and it was
filled with sand - it disappeared. Many years later Adb Al-Muttalib was
given visions telling him where to find the well and its treasure. He
became the hero of Mecca, and he was destined to become the grandfather of
Muhammad.
Before this time, Augustine became the bishop of North Africa and was
effective in winning Arabs to Roman Catholicism, including whole tribes.
It was among these Arab converts to Catholicism that the concept of
looking for an Arab prophet developed.
Muhammad's father died from illness and sons born to great Arab families
in places like Mecca were sent into the desert to be suckled and weaned
and spend some of their childhood with Bedouin tribes for training and to
avoid the plagues in the cities. After his mother and grandfather also
died, Muhammad was with his uncle when a Roman Catholic monk learned of
his identity and said, "Take your brother's son back to his country and
guard him against the Jews, for by god, if they see him and know of him
that which I know, they will construe evil against him. Great things are
in store for this brother's son of yours."
The Roman Catholic monk had fanned the flames for future Jewish
persecutions at the hands of the followers of Muhammad. The Vatican
desperately wanted Jerusalem because of its religious significance, but
was blocked by the Jews.
Another problem was the true Christians in North Africa who preached the
gospel. Roman Catholicism was growing in power, but would not tolerate
opposition. Somehow the Vatican had to create a weapon to eliminate both
the Jews and the true Christian believers who refused to accept Roman
Catholicism. Looking to North Africa, they saw the multitudes of Arabs as a
source of manpower to do their dirty work.
Some Arabs had become Roman Catholic, and could be used in reporting
information to leaders in Rome. Others were used in an underground spy
network to carry out Rome's master plan to control the great multitudes of
Arabs who rejected Catholicism. When "St Augustine" appeared on the scene,
he knew what was going on. His monasteries served as bases to seek out and
destroy Bible manuscripts owned by the true Christians.
The Vatican wanted to create a messiah for the Arabs, someone they could
raise up as a great leader, a man with charisma whom they could train, and
eventually unite all the non-Catholic Arabs behind him, creating a mighty
army that would ultimately capture Jerusalem for the pope. In the Vatican
briefing, Cardinal Bea told us this story:
A wealthy Arabian lady who was a faithful follower of the
pope played a tremendous part in this drama. She was a widow named
Khadijah. She gave her wealth to the church and retired to a convent, but
was given an assignment. She was to find a brilliant young man who could
be used by the Vatican to create a new religion and become the messiah for
the children of Ishmael. Khadijah had a cousin named Waraquah, who was
also a very faithful Roman Catholic and the Vatican placed him in a
critical role as Muhammad's advisor. He had tremendous influence on
Muhammad.
Teachers were sent to young Muhammad and he had intensive
training. Muhammad studied the works of St. Augustine which prepared him
for his "great calling." The Vatican had Catholic Arabs across North
Africa spread the story of a great one who was about to rise up among the
people and be the chosen one of their God. While Muhammad was being
prepared, he was told that his enemies were the Jews and that the only
true Christians were Roman Catholic. He was taught that others calling
themselves Christians were actually wicked impostors and should be
destroyed. Many Muslims believe this.
Muhammad began receiving "divine revelations" and his wife's Catholic
cousin Waraquah helped interpret them. From this came the Koran. In the
fifth year of Muhammad's mission, persecution came against his followers
because they refused to worship the idols in the Kaaba.
Muhammad instructed some of them to flee to Abysinnia where Negus, the
Roman Catholic king accepted them because Muhammad's views on the virgin
Mary were so close to Roman Catholic doctrine. These Muslims received
protection from Catholic kings because of Muhammad's revelations.
Muhammad later conquered Mecca and the Kaaba was cleared of idols. History
proves that before Islam came into existence, the Sabeans in Arabia
worshiped the moon-god who was married to the sun-god. They gave birth to
three goddesses who were worshipped throughout the Arab world as
"Daughters of Allah" An idol excavated at Hazor in Palestine in 1950's
shows Allah sitting on a throne with the crescent moon on his chest.
Muhammad claimed he had a vision from Allah and was told,
"You are the messenger of Allah." This began his career as a prophet and
he received many messages. By the time Muhammad died, the religion of
Islam was exploding. The nomadic Arab tribes were joining forces in the
name of Allah and his prophet, Muhammad.
Some of Muhammad's writings were placed in the Koran,
others were never published. They are now in the hands of high ranking
holy men (Ayatollahs) in the Islamic faith. When Cardinal Bea shared with
us in the Vatican, he said, These writings are guarded because they
contain information that links the Vatican to the creation of Islam.
Both sides have so much information on each other, that if exposed, it
could create such a scandal that it would be a disaster for both
religions. In their "holy" book, the Koran, Christ is regarded as only a
prophet. If the pope was His representative on earth, then he also must be
a prophet of God. This caused the followers of Muhammad to fear and
respect the pope as another "holy man."
The pope moved quickly and issued bulls granting the Arab generals
permission to invade and conquer the nations of North Africa. The Vatican
helped to finance the building of these massive Islamic armies in exchange
for three favors:
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Eliminate the Jews and Christians (true believers, which
they called infidels).
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Protect the Augustinian Monks and Roman Catholics.
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Conquer Jerusalem for "His Holiness" in the Vatican.
As time went by, the power of Islam became tremendous.
Jews and true Christians were slaughtered, and Jerusalem fell into their
hands. Roman Catholics were never attacked, nor were their shrines, during
this time. But when the pope asked for Jerusalem, he was surprised at
their denial! The Arab generals had such military success that they could
not be intimidated by the pope. Nothing could stand in the way of their
own plan.
Under Waraquah's direction, Muhammad wrote that Abraham offered Ishmael as
a sacrifice. The Bible says that Isaac was the sacrifice, but Muhammad
removed Isaac's name and inserted Ishmael's name. As a result of this and
Muhammad's vision, the faithful Muslims built a mosque, the Dome of the
Rock, in Ishmael's honor on the site of the Jewish temple that was
destroyed in 70 AD. This made Jerusalem the 2nd most holy place in the
Islam faith. How could they give such a sacred shrine to the pope without
causing a revolt?
The pope realized what they had created was out of control when he heard
they were calling "His Holiness" an infidel. The Muslim generals were
determined to conquer the world for Allah and now they turned toward
Europe. Islamic ambassadors approached the pope and asked for papal bulls
to give them permission to invade European countries. The Vatican was
outraged; war was inevitable. Temporal power and control of the world was
considered the basic right of the pope. He wouldn't think of sharing it
with those whom he considered heathens.
The pope raised up his armies and called them crusades to hold back the
children of Ishmael from grabbing Catholic Europe. The crusades lasted
centuries and Jerusalem slipped out of the pope's hands. Turkey fell and
Spain and Portugal were invaded by Islamic forces. In Portugal, they
called a mountain village "Fatima" in honor of Muhammad's daughter, never
dreaming it would become world famous.
Years later when the Muslim armies were poised on the islands of Sardinia
and Corsica, to invade Italy, there was a serious problem. The Islamic
generals realized they were too far extended. It was time for peace talks.
One of the negotiators was Francis of Assisi. As a result, the Muslims
were allowed to occupy Turkey in a "Christian" world, and the Catholics
were allowed to occupy Lebanon in the Arab world. It was also agreed that
the Muslims could build mosques in Catholic countries without interference
as long as Roman Catholicism could flourish Arab countries.
Cardinal Bea told us in Vatican briefings that both the Muslims and
Roman Catholics agreed to block and destroy the efforts of their common
enemy, Bible-believing Christian missionaries. Through these
concordats, Satan blocked the children of Ishmael from a knowledge of
Scripture and the truth. A light control was kept on Muslims from the
Ayatollah down through the Islamic priests, nuns and monks. The Vatican
also engineers a campaign of hatred between the Muslim Arabs and the Jews.
Before this, they had co-existed peacefully. The Islamic community looks
on the Bible-believing missionary as a devil who brings poison to the
children of Allah. This explains years of ministry in those countries with
little results.
The next plan was to control Islam. In 1910, Portugal was going
Socialistic. Red flags were appearing and the Catholic Church was facing a
major problem. Increasing numbers were against the church. The Jesuits
wanted Russia involved, and the location of this vision at Fatima could
play a key part in pulling Islam to the Mother Church. In 1917, the Virgin
appeared in Fatima. "The Mother of God" was a smashing success, playing to
overflow crowds. As a result, the Socialists of Portugal suffered a major
defeat.
Roman Catholics world-wide began praying for the
conversion of Russia and the Jesuits invented the Novenas to Fatima which
they could perform throughout North Africa, spreading good public
relations to the Muslim world. The Arabs thought they were honoring the
daughter of Muhammad, which is what the Jesuits wanted them to believe.
As a result of the vision of Fatima, Pope Pius XII ordered his Nazi army
to crush Russia and the Orthodox religion and make Russia Roman Catholic."
A few years after he lost World war II, Pope Pius XII startled the world
with his phony dancing sun vision to keep Fatima in the news. It was great
religious show biz and the world swallowed it. Not surprisingly, Pope Pius
was the only one to see this vision.
As a result, a group of followers has grown into a Blue Army world-wide,
totaling millions of faithful Roman Catholics ready to die for the blessed
virgin. But we haven't seen anything yet. The Jesuits have their Virgin
Mary scheduled to appear four or five times in China, Russia, and major
appearance in the U.S.
What has this got to do with Islam? Note Bishop Sheen's
statement:
"Our Lady's appearances at Fatima marked the turning
point in the history of the world's 350 million Muslims. After the death
of his daughter, Muhammad wrote that she "is the most holy of all women
in Paradise, next to Mary." He believed that the Virgin Mary chose to be
known as Our Lady of Fatima as a sign and a pledge that the Muslims who
believe in Christ's virgin birth, will come to believe in His divinity.
Bishop Sheen pointed out that the pilgrim virgin
statues of Our Lady of Fatima were enthusiastically received by Muslims
in Africa, India, and elsewhere, and that many Muslims are now coming
into the Roman Catholic Church."
