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Pope John Paul II lies in state in the Clementine Hall at the Vatican.
(Italian Presidency, Enrico Oliverio, AP)
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Paying Their Respects to Pope John Paul II
St. Peter's Basilica
Vatican City
Pictured from left, President George W. Bush, Laura Bush, former President George H. W. Bush,
former President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and White House Chief of Staff
Andy Card pay their respects to Pope John Paul II as he lies in state in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican
Wednesday, April 6, 2005.
White House photo by Eric Draper
www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/pix/prsdnt/44360.htm
www.state.gov/cms_images/2005_04_06_funeral.jpg
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Links to additional photographs of Pope John Paul II's attire lying in state:
Pope John Paul II died on Saturday, April 2, 2005.
Cardinals and dignitaries pay their respects to Pope John Paul II, whose body lies
in repose in the Clementina Hall at the Vatican's Apostolic Palace. Reuters © 2005
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4575880
The body of Pope John Paul II is carried through St Peter's Square to the Basilica
April 4, 2005 in Vatican City. The Pope's body will be viewed by the faithful in the Basilica
until his funeral on April 8, 2005.The body k
www.catholicpressphoto.com/servizi/04-04-2005-trasporto-papa/ppages/ppage25.htm
The body of Pope John Paul II was moved in a formal procession to the Vatican Basilica,
where his body lay in state for public "veneration" [sic].
www.stnicholasowen.co.uk/articles.php?action=fullnews&id=7
Pope laid to rest at Vatican
Hundreds of Maltese to pay their respects to Pope
Pope lying in state at St. Peter's Basilica
Pope lying in state at Apostolic Palace
www.maltamedia.com/features/papacy/news-jp2.shtml
Koehler, at far left, paid his final respects to John Paul II before attending the late pontiff's
Vatican funeral. dpa photo
www.germany.info/relaunch/info/publications/week/2005/050408/politics1.html
In this photo made available by the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano, Spain's King Juan Carlos
and Queen Sofia pay their respects to the late Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican,
Thursday, April 7, 2005.[AP]
www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-04/08/content_432513.htm
(From left) First Lady Laura Bush, U.S. President George W. Bush and former presidents
George Bush and Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice pay homage [emphasis added]
to Pope John Paul II. Photo: Reuters
www.theage.com.au/ftimages/2005/04/07/1112815665210.html
US President George Bush, left, his wife Laura, Presidents George Bush snr and Bill Clinton
pray before the Pope's body in St Peter's Basilica. President Bush will be the first US president
to attend a pope's funeral. [emphais added] Photo: Reuters
www.theage.com.au/news/World/The-mighty-join-millions-to-farewell-John-Paul/2005/04/07/1112815672191.html
President George W. Bush first sitting US President to attend a papal funeral. [emphasis added]
http://catholicism.about.com/od/popejohnpaulii/a/funeralpjpii05.htm
[ link no longer working, transfers to: Catholic history on popes: http://catholicism.about.com/od/popes/Popes.htm ]
Steve Lefemine:
Sadly, the late Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) was not a saved man. The Bible says,
"And it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:" Hebrews 9:27
Today Karol Wojtyla is like that man in Luke, chapter 16, who after he died, cried out
and said, "... I am tormented in this flame." Karol Wojtyla, the late Pope John Paul II,
will burn for an eternity in the flames of hell because he was not regenerate, not born-again,
and the Saviour Himself said a man will not "enter into the kingdom of God" unless that
man is born again. The Messiah said, "Ye must be born again." John 3:5,7
Karol Wojytla is now a lost man for eternity because while he lived, he was not saved.
The teaching of his professed Roman Catholic religion is NOT salvation by grace alone,
through faith alone, in the Saviour alone.
Karol Wojtyla was a Mary-worshipper, evidence of which was seen by the large "M' on his casket
and papal heraldic shield, and in the words of his last will and testament.
www.aloha.net/~mikesch/mary.htm
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-04-08-pope-saint_x.htm
http://logosresourcepages.org/images/MaryCasket.jpg
www.9news.com/9slideshows/Funeral%20for%20Pope%20John%20Paul%20II/Archbishop-Piero-Marini-places-Holy-Gospel-on-the-casket-of-Pope-John-Paul-II.jpg
Karol Wojtyla placed his eternity into the hands of Mary in his last will and testament...
"...like all else, this moment too I place into the hands of the Mother of My Master: Totus Tuus.
In the same maternal hands I place All those with whom my life and vocation are bound.
Into these Hands I leave above all the Church, and also my Nation and all humanity.
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-04-07-pope-will-text_x.htm
Among the many unbiblical practices, beliefs, and doctrines of the Roman Catholic system of religion are:
the false teaching that salvation is NOT by faith alone, but by works also (Eph. 2:8,9); transubstantiation
(spiritual witchcraft, saying the substance of the bread and wine are actually transformed into the actual body and
blood of the Saviour !, instead of only a spiritual and commemorative presence); the Rosary (praying to Mary);
the Mass (the blasphemous conjuring up of the sacrifice of Messiah, saying the same sacrifice that occurred
on Calvary is somehow present again on the "altar"); papal infallibility (on issues of faith and morals); the
false claim of the "Immaculate [sinless] Conception" of Mary herself; the false claim of Mary's
"pepretual virginity" (i.e., that Joseph and Mary did not have marital relations or children - see Mark 6:3 and
Matthew 12:46-50); infant baptism; the false teaching that one is "born again" through the act of baptism,
and that baptism cleanses from sins; purgatory; prayer to a host of other dead "saints;" and more.
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Be a Truth-seeker Christian !
Here are some more sources of information about the true nature of 'Christ'-Mass:
The Two Babylons - By Alexander Hislop
Chapter III, Festivals
Section I. Christmas and Lady-day
www.sabbatarian.com/TwoBabylons/Babylon3-1.html
Why Do We Observe Pagan Festivals?
www.elijahscry.org/gpage2.html
Holy Days or Holidays: Part 2--Birth of Messiah.pdf
http://www.elijahscry.org/Download.html
Why We No Longer Celebrate Christmas
David Alan Black
www.daveblackonline.com/why_we_no_longer_celebrate_chris.htm
Christmas: Going On From Here
David Alan Black
www.daveblackonline.com/christmas.htm
The STRANGE FIRES of CHRISTMAS
www.touchet1611.org/ChristmasOutofChristintro.html
Santa Claus - THE GREAT IMPOSTER
www.av1611.org/othpubls/santa.html
A Reformed Pastor's Thoughts on the Observance of Christmas
Chris Strevel
December 18, 2005
www.covenant-rpcus.org/articles/show/16
R.C. Sproul Jr, Christmas and the 2nd Commandment
Paul Vaughn
Vaughnshire Farm
A multi-generational vision for advancing the Kingdom of Christ
http://vaughnshire.com/
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Steve Lefemine:
"I do not observe "Christ"-Mass because I do not believe it to be a Biblical, Christian Holy Day;
neither in its origins, nor in much of its worldly practice, although many Christians see it as a time
to celebrate Messiah's birth. It is my understandiing that the Saviour was most likely born around
the time of the Feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:34) which is celebrated according to the
Jewish lunar (biblical) calendar around our modern-day months of September or October."
"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt [tabernacled] among us,..." John 1:14, KJB
Historically, both the Puritans in England (1643) and the colonists in New England in America
did away with the observance of Christmas by law (The World Book Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, C-Ch, 1965).
Here in America, it was the mass immigration influx of Irish Roman Catholics to New England
after the Irish potato famine (19th century), that "brought about the reinstitution of Christmas celebrations."
(Religious Holidays and Calendars - An Encyclopaedic Handbook, 1993).
Today with the 12-20 million mass illegal invasion of culturally Roman Catholic Mexicans, the cult of the pagan
"Our Lady of Guadalupe, " an idolatrous, Roman Catholic perverted rendering of the biblical Mary, is growing
in America as well. The Virgin of Guadalupe "is a 16th century Roman Catholic Mexican icon depicting
an apparition of the Virgin Mary." "Mainstream Catholics believe that Guadalupe was a manifestation
of the Virgin Mary in the Americas, and recognize her as "Empress of the Americas.""
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe (see article and picture)
Alarmingly, the evangelical church in America, with the encouragement of many prominent"Christian" leaders
(e.g., Pat Robertson, James Dobson, and now-deceased D. James Kennedy) has largely embraced ecumenism (including the Romanist Holiday of "Christ"-MASS), and so God is His righteous judgement is giving us "more"
of what we have, in practice, desired - we have wanted more of "Rome" and we are getting more of "Rome."
When Christians celebrate "Christ"-MASS, they are enlarging the antichrist influence of Rome,
its pope, and it false religion of Roman Catholicism.
Roman Catholicism is NOT Biblical Christianity !
Five Reasons Why Roman Catholicism is not Biblical Christianity
www.ianpaisley.org/tiara.asp?printerfriendly=true
Evangelism to Roman Catholics by a former Roman Catholic priest:
The www.BereanBeacon.org website is the ministry outreach of former Catholic priest Richard Bennett.
The Pope Kissing The Koran
www.deceptioninthechurch.com/popekiss.html
Here is a photo of the Pope at the end of an audience with Patriarch Raphael I of Iraq where "the Pope bowed
to the Muslim holy book the Qu'ran presented to him by the delegation and kissed it as a sign of respect".
Quotes from "The Two Babylons - Romanism and Its Origins," by Alexander Hislop (1916):
www.chick.com/catalog/books/0185.asp
[highlighting emphasis added]
"It has been known all along that Popery was baptised Paganism; but God is now making it
manifest, that the Paganism which Rome has baptised is, in all its essential elements,
the very Paganism which prevailed in the ancient literal Babylon,..." (Introduction., p. 2)
See other books on the heresy of Roman Catholicism and related subjects to order at:
www.chick.com/catalog/catholicism.asp
Pope: Roman Catholic 'Church' only one true church
Repeating centuries of history, Rome has once again revealed its own dominion theology of primacy,
and indeed, sole legitmacy, as the only true "church" on earth, in a document approved by the current
false prophet occupying the antichrist Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, on June 29, 2007. This blasphemous,
perverted assertion is in fact just the opposite of the Truth. The false religion of Romanism is NOT Biblical
Christianity, but is in fact a "Christianized" form of the ancient pagan religion of historical Babylon.
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/CATHOLIC-07-01.DOC
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Roman Catholicism is not Biblical Christianity. The religious system of Romanism
is a "Christianized" form of the ancient pagan religion of historical Babylon.
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Although probably not taught in the antichrist government schools today, some homeschooling families may
have a copy of Willam Bradford's historical account of the Pilgrims, "Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647."
In Chapter 12. "Anno 1621 [Mayflower Departs and Corn Planted]" is recorded firsthand for history the fact
that for most of the Pilgrims, Christmas was not observed, and was just another work day
(In the edition of my own copy, is a footnote at the bottom of one page that begins,
"All English and Scots Puritans objected to the celebration of Christmas as a pagan revelry,...").
The Word of God teaches that Righteousness cannot be done in a land a forgetfulness. Psalm 88:12
We suffer as a people greatly ignorant of our own history, and the watered-down, feminized preaching
from most of the pulpits of America's evangelical churches today is a curse upon this nation.
As the (true, Bible-belieivng) church goes, so goes the nation !
It remains to be seen whether or not we will recover, or survive, as the nation is presently constituted...
God says, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:..." Hosea 4:6a, KJB
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC 29250
(803) 765-0916
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
www.LefemineForLife.net
December 25, 2006 / Revised December 23, 2007
