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Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR002148S
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00:01 We are living at a time
00:02 when almost anything can be called Truth. 00:05 Not long ago, truth was set in stone. 00:08 Now, a change is depending on what is popular at the moment. 00:12 A personal opinion now masquerades as truth. 00:16 So, where can we find the truth, 00:19 the whole truth and nothing but the truth, 00:22 so help us God. 00:24 In this program, 00:25 John Carter gives us a closer look 00:28 at The Aims of the Papacy. 00:41 Welcome back, my friend. 00:44 Today's topic is the Aims of the Papacy. 00:49 And I'm talking on this subject 00:51 because I received this letter from Bob, in California. 00:56 I'm going to read it to you again 00:57 because I think it's important so you know where we're going. 01:01 "Hi, John, I hope all is well with you and Beverley. 01:05 I'm not sure if you've noticed what is going on in Scotland 01:08 and Europe right now. 01:10 As I write you, there is a conference 01:12 forming in Scotland with all the world 01:13 leaders to discuss the climate. 01:16 Pope has stated that he will attend the conference 01:19 and present his answer for the climate. 01:22 His proposal is to establish a worldwide day of rest 01:26 to lower the carbon emissions, and of course, 01:29 this day wouldn't be Sunday. 01:32 Although this may help the environment somewhat, 01:35 its real purpose is to get the world leaders to conform 01:38 with the Catholic Church and the pope. 01:41 America currently has a leader 01:43 that has no backbone, and is Catholic." 01:45 Now, let me say this. 01:49 Bob is expressing his viewpoint, 01:51 not the viewpoint of the Carter Report, 01:53 and not mine and probably not yours. 01:57 We're not here to criticize the President 01:59 of the United States. 02:00 He says, "America currently has a leader 02:03 that has no backbone, and is Catholic. 02:07 So, he will certainly bow to the pope 02:09 and is also obligated to do so because he is Catholic. 02:14 John, could this be the beginning 02:17 of the mark of the beast? 02:19 How clever would this be for the pope 02:21 to take this opportunity to advance his agenda? 02:25 What are your thoughts about this? 02:27 Bob, in California." 02:31 Now, let me say this so every person understands 02:35 what I'm trying to do here today. 02:38 We're not talking about Roman Catholics. 02:41 People say, "No, we don't... It's about Catholics." 02:44 No, no, it's not about Catholics at all. 02:47 We're talking about the papacy 02:52 as a political religious system. 02:57 And as we talk about it, 02:58 we recognize that the vast majority 03:01 of God's true children are in the Roman Catholic Church, 03:05 and in some other churches as well. 03:08 I belong to a church that's got only about 03:10 23 or 24 million people. 03:14 I'd be very presumptuous to think 03:16 that all the true Christians were in my church. 03:21 I've traveled the world, and I happen to know 03:25 that there are millions and millions of wonderful 03:29 Roman Catholic Christians who are saved, 03:34 and who are right with God. 03:37 The Adventist Church, 03:38 the person whom I believed was a prophet, 03:40 Ellen White, and she said, 03:42 "The vast majority of God's true people 03:44 are in the Roman Catholic Church 03:45 and the other churches." 03:47 I believe this. 03:48 I believe in tolerance, I believe in love, 03:54 and I believe in grace. 04:00 "What is the power of the papacy?" 04:06 The Roman Catholic Church has got tremendous power. 04:11 I'm talking about the Roman Catholic Church 04:13 as a political system, not just as a spiritual power. 04:18 Now, the Vatican is a state of its own. 04:22 United States government 04:23 has an ambassador to the Vatican 04:26 because it's another government. 04:29 It's a theocracy. 04:31 It's a total dictatorship. 04:34 The pope is a king. 04:37 Now, we're not criticizing the pope as a person, 04:40 but we are talking about a system 04:43 that we believe has been described 04:47 in the prophecies of the Bible. 04:52 Yes, the papacy has immense power. 04:56 The papacy claims to have the authority 05:00 to forgive sins. 05:03 Now, I'm a preacher of the gospel. 05:05 I believe that Jesus Christ is the only person 05:08 who's got the authority and the power to forgive sins. 05:13 Who can forgive sins but God alone 05:16 is a relevant question. 05:19 But the papacy believes that through the power 05:24 that God gave to St. Peter, 05:27 the first pope? 05:30 They believe that through this power, 05:33 the Roman Catholic Church 05:35 can forgive the sins of men and women, 05:38 and open to them the gates of heaven. 05:43 Amazing! 05:45 The Roman Catholic Church, of course, has the confessional 05:49 and onerous good Christian Roman Catholics 05:51 go along, and they confess to the priest. 05:55 And the priest stands in the very place of God, 05:59 and he has the power of God to forgive sins. 06:04 Amazing! 06:08 Now, I ask the question, 06:09 "Does the church need a priest today?" 06:12 Does the church need a priest? 06:13 My answer is, yes, the church does need a priest, 06:18 and the church does have a priest. 06:20 We have a priest, 06:22 and His name is Jesus Christ. 06:26 Jesus Christ is our Priest. 06:30 Therefore, we believe this other system 06:33 is a counterfeit. 06:37 Ellen White, who we believe, had a special gift 06:40 and who was an American visionary 06:44 of the 19th century and the early 20th century, 06:48 said this. 06:50 "The Catholic Church meets the needs 06:54 of almost the whole human race." 06:58 This is a very perceptive statement, she said. 07:00 It's an amazing statement, she said, 07:03 "Satisfies the needs of almost all mankind. 07:05 Number one, 07:07 those who would be saved by their works, 07:11 and number two, 07:12 those who would be saved in their sins. 07:18 This is almost for everybody. 07:20 And therefore, the Roman Church 07:22 has got tremendous power. 07:26 And the Roman Church has got tremendous power 07:29 to keep people in superstition and darkness." 07:35 I've been to these countries. I've been to Mexico. 07:38 I've been to Latin America. 07:40 I've been to Central America. 07:42 I've been to these countries. 07:44 I've seen the power of the Vatican. 07:50 The power of the Vatican is immense 07:53 to control the minds 07:55 and the souls of human beings. 08:01 "Why does President Biden find strength 08:03 and comfort in the mass?" 08:09 Let it be said ever so plainly. 08:11 Today, we're not here to criticize individuals, 08:16 not here to criticize the pope, seems to be a fine gentleman, 08:21 Jesuit priest, 08:24 seems to be a person who cares for people. 08:26 We're not here to criticize the pope as a person. 08:30 Today, we are talking about a system of deception 08:36 that has put itself in the place of God. 08:40 I don't care whether the person is a Roman Catholic 08:43 or a Protestant. 08:44 If he is a church leader 08:46 and he puts himself in the place of God, 08:49 he becomes an Antichrist. 08:55 I believe that we have one priest, 08:56 and that is Jesus Christ our Lord. 09:00 We're certainly not here to criticize President Joe Biden. 09:05 He's an earnest Roman Catholic Christian. 09:09 He has the right to his faith. 09:12 We respect him for his faith. 09:16 But President Joe Biden believes 09:18 in the powerful ministry 09:22 of the Roman Catholic mass, 09:26 and this is something I do not believe in. 09:29 I repudiate it. 09:32 Let me read you a text in the Bible, 09:34 Luke 22:19-20. 09:40 It is talking about the Last Supper. 09:44 Are you with me? 09:45 Luke 22:19, "And He, Jesus, took bread, 09:50 gave thanks and broke it 09:53 and gave it to them saying, 09:55 'This is My body which is given for you, 10:00 do this in remembrance of Me.' 10:04 Likewise, He also took the cup after supper saying, 10:08 'This cup is the new covenant in My blood, 10:12 which is shed for you.'" 10:14 This is my body. 10:16 This is my blood. 10:22 Now, the Roman Catholic Church teaches this 10:25 through the doctrine of Transubstantiation. 10:29 That the priest through the power of God 10:32 can take the bread and through the doctrine 10:35 of Transubstantiation 10:38 that bread is turned into the body of Christ, 10:42 the wine is turned 10:45 into the blood of Christ. 10:48 As a Protestant Christian, I believe that the bread 10:52 is the symbol of the body of Christ. 10:55 When Jesus said, "This is My body." 10:58 It obviously wasn't His body because His body was here. 11:01 But He was saying, "This represents My body." 11:04 A little child can understand that. 11:07 Why have we made simple things so complex and so difficult? 11:13 Jesus said, "This is My blood," 11:16 when He took the grape juice, 11:19 but His blood was in His veins. So what was He saying? 11:23 He was saying, "This represents My blood, 11:28 which is shed for you." 11:32 But the papacy teaches that the priest has the authority 11:35 from Almighty God to turn the bread and the wine 11:39 into the actual body and the blood of Christ. 11:44 This is the great power of the Vatican. 11:46 This is the great power of the papacy, 11:49 and this is the great power 11:51 that has the President of the United States 11:55 so mesmerized. 12:00 I don't doubt the sincerity of his faith. 12:06 I do doubt his knowledge. 12:08 I do doubt his understanding of Scripture. 12:12 I don't think the President knows a great deal 12:14 about Holy Scripture. 12:16 He has been immersed and brainwashed 12:19 by the teachings of the church. 12:24 So when he goes to Mass as he does every week, 12:27 God bless the President, 12:29 He actually feels the very presence, 12:33 the actual presence of the actual body 12:38 and the blood of Christ. 12:42 And he believes that through partaking of this actual blood 12:47 and body, his sins are forgiven. 12:55 I cannot accept this 12:57 because I believe it is completely opposed 13:01 to the plain teachings of the scriptures. 13:04 But I say, "May God bless President Joe Biden." 13:11 "What are the aims of the papacy?" 13:17 Most people today are profoundly naive. 13:21 You know this is so. I know it is so. 13:25 Most people who go to church, most Roman Catholics and today, 13:29 most Protestants know nothing about Scripture. 13:34 They don't read Scripture. 13:37 Their religion has largely become politics, 13:40 but they don't read Scripture. 13:42 They don't study Scripture, now some do. 13:46 There are still a few Bible scholars 13:48 that are but they're tremendously rare. 13:52 And so most people today do not to understand Scripture, 13:57 and therefore, 13:59 they do not understand the Bible prophecies. 14:04 Now people say, "We don't like what you teach 14:06 about the Bible prophecy." 14:07 Well, look, it's not John Carter, 14:10 who has come up with something new or something... 14:13 The problem is that you have forgotten 14:16 what your church used to teach. 14:20 What I'm telling you today 14:21 is what the great Protestant Churches used to teach, 14:24 and also a huge number 14:26 of Roman Catholic theologians. 14:31 What I'm teaching today 14:32 is what the Lutherans used to teach, 14:35 and the Presbyterians, and the Methodists, 14:39 and the Episcopalians, and the Anglicans. 14:43 I can go, and the Adventists, 14:46 who still, some of them still teach it. 14:50 But this is what was taught by all of the great scholars 14:54 and all of the great Protestant theologians 14:58 and by many, many Roman Catholic priests, 15:03 and that is, the Vatican that's described 15:07 in the prophecies of the Bible. 15:11 And the Vatican has one great aim. 15:15 Are you strong enough to hear this? 15:18 Are you listening, or is this too much for you? 15:22 Is this too politically incorrect 15:25 for your sensitive ears? 15:28 Let me tell you, 15:30 the aims of the papacy outlined very plainly 15:33 in that magnificent book, The Great Controversy. 15:37 Get a copy of it. 15:39 There's a chapter there called, The Aims of the Papacy, 15:44 written by the prophetess, 15:46 Ellen White, very plain. 15:50 She quotes from the Bible prophecies. 15:53 The aims of the papacy 15:56 to rule the world, 16:00 to take over the Protestant Churches, 16:03 to take over the United States government, 16:06 world dominion. 16:12 "What is so powerful about true Protestantism?" 16:20 Most people today haven't got a clue 16:23 about true Protestantism. 16:27 Protestantism, it could be a breakfast cereal. 16:33 Most people know nothing about it, 16:37 but Protestantism gave you the freedoms that you have. 16:42 Australia would not have its freedoms 16:44 were it not for Protestantism. 16:47 America would still be... 16:49 would be in the Dark Ages. 16:50 It would never have become the greatest nation 16:53 in the history of the world 16:55 if it had not been for the Protestant reformation. 16:58 Protestantism put up great in Great Britain. 17:04 Protestantism made the Scandinavian countries 17:07 the wonders of the world, the cleanest, 17:09 the most prosperous. 17:12 Protestantism lifted the world out of the mire 17:16 of darkness and superstition. 17:21 We need to brush up, my friend, I think, 17:24 on our history. 17:26 What was the genius of Protestantism? 17:28 Let me give it to you. 17:30 Here it is. 17:32 Sola Christus, only Christ, I don't need a pope. 17:36 "Yeah, but every..." No, I don't need the pope. 17:39 I have Christ. 17:41 And if I have Christ, I don't need the pope 17:45 and I don't need a priest. 17:47 Sola Scriptura, only Scripture. 17:52 I don't need a hierarchy to tell me what to believe. 17:56 God has already told me 17:57 what to believe in the words of Scripture. 18:01 Sola Gratia, only grace. 18:04 I only need the grace of God. 18:06 Sola Fide, I only need faith. 18:08 Of course, I'm quoting a little bit of Latin. 18:12 But this was the genius of the Protestant Reformation. 18:15 If you want freedom, my friend, 18:18 then you better become a Protestant in your soul. 18:22 Even if you go to a Catholic Church, 18:24 you better become a Protestant in your soul. 18:27 Now, let me read you a text here, 18:29 Hebrews 6:19-20. 18:33 Now, I hope this is not too strong for you 18:35 but if it is so be it. 18:39 It says, "This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, 18:44 both sure and steadfast, 18:46 and which enters the presence behind the veil, 18:50 where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, 18:54 having become High Priest forever according 18:58 to the order of Melchizedek." 19:01 Bible tells me, I can go into the very presence of God. 19:05 I don't need your earthly priest. 19:07 I don't need your earthly pope. I have a High Priest. 19:11 And the Bible tells me I can go into the very presence of God, 19:16 and through Jesus Christ, my sins are forgiven. 19:20 Does the church need a priest today? 19:22 You better believe it. 19:24 Does the church have a priest today? 19:26 You better believe it. 19:27 The Priest is Jesus Christ. 19:30 And no church, no pope, 19:33 no priest, no minister, 19:37 no ecclesiastical authority 19:40 can separate my soul from God. 19:47 "Why are most Protestants 19:49 so blind to the aims of the papacy?" 19:56 Well, it seems to me today that most Protestants, 19:58 at least in the United States of America, 20:01 are more interested in politics. 20:08 That's why America is in such a mess. 20:11 That's why we're going back into another Dark Age 20:14 because we've gotten away from the Word of God. 20:19 Can't you see what I'm trying to tell you? 20:23 Jesus said, "It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, 20:26 but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." 20:29 But we have become 20:31 a very ignorant people, 20:36 a very gullible people, 20:38 so easily deceived. 20:43 Also, business dealings, 20:46 people seem to be more interested in business dealings 20:50 than in dealings with Scripture and God. 20:54 And many of us have become dummies, 20:58 as far as the Word of God is concerned. 21:03 Now, a pastor was preaching down in San Diego. 21:06 This is very recently. 21:09 You may find this too hard to believe, it's true. 21:13 He was preaching at a funeral. 21:16 He's supposed to be giving people hope. 21:19 And he got up there and he told the congregation, 21:22 "Well, I don't know what's going to happen 21:23 to your loved one. 21:24 I don't believe in the resurrection. 21:27 I don't know if Jesus rose from the dead." 21:34 We wonder why America is in such a mess. 21:37 It is because we have forsaken God 21:40 and we have forsaken Scripture. 21:46 "Do some Protestant Churches have ambassadors 21:50 to the Vatican?" 21:54 I don't know if it's true to say ambassadors, 21:56 representatives. 22:00 Many churches who got representatives 22:02 at what they call the Holy See. 22:04 The Roman Catholic Church has tremendous influence. 22:09 Pope Francis is on a crusade to bring 22:12 all the Protestant Churches back under the wings 22:14 of the Catholic Church. 22:16 He's just proclaimed 22:18 a great new ecumenical outreach. 22:23 Virtually all of the churches, maybe your church, 22:26 I don't know, 22:27 but most of the churches today are involved in dialogue 22:32 with the Roman Catholic Church. 22:36 The Bible talks about the Mother Church, 22:37 and the Bible also talks in Revelation 17 22:40 about all the daughter churches. 22:43 And it does appear today 22:45 that many of the churches are hurrying to go back 22:50 to the Church of Rome. 22:53 I knew personally, one Protestant leader, 22:58 who went over regularly to the Vatican 23:02 and he sat with the cardinals. 23:05 What did you say? 23:06 Yeah, this man was a Protestant leader. 23:08 I knew him. On one occasion, he came to me... 23:13 And I can tell you the story, 23:14 but I'm not going to because it's too explosive. 23:19 But he came to me 23:21 with a personal message from the pope. 23:26 What was the message? 23:27 "Stop what you're preaching 23:30 or else you're going to be blacklisted. 23:32 We're going to destroy you. 23:36 You're going to go down." 23:40 Did it happen? Yes. 23:41 My wife was there when the conversation occurred. 23:47 Where do I stand? 23:51 I am a Christian. 23:55 I am a Protestant. 23:57 I am an Adventist. 23:59 I believe in the writings of Holy Scripture. 24:06 I have a Priest. 24:07 I confess my sins to this Priest every day, 24:10 many times during the day. 24:13 My Priest is in heaven, 24:15 Jesus Christ the Lord, 24:20 and I love my Roman Catholic brothers 24:23 and sisters. 24:24 I love the pope as a person. 24:28 I love Roman Catholic priests and nuns, 24:38 but I believe in Jesus Christ, my Savior. 24:44 I don't need a pope and I don't need a priest 24:48 because I have Christ. 24:50 Now, in the next session of this program, 24:53 which is going to be session number three, 24:56 I will deal more fully with a letter from Bob 25:00 that talks about The Aims of the Papacy. 25:12 Jesus said, 25:13 "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 25:17 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, 25:22 baptizing them in the name of the Father 25:24 and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." 25:29 John Carter reports, 25:31 "We have seen God's power as the Gospel of Christ 25:35 has been proclaimed in Africa, 25:38 India, 25:41 Russia, 25:43 Ukraine, 25:46 Cuba, 25:49 El Salvador, 25:51 and many other places. 25:53 We invite you 25:54 to partner with us in proclaiming Jesus Christ." 26:02 To God be the glory, 26:05 great things He has done. 26:09 Write today to the Carter Report, 26:13 P.O. 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