Pope Francis called for the faithful not to listen to “end-times curiosities” or “apocalyptic preachers.”
“Those who follow Jesus,” Francis said, “pay no heed to prophets of doom, the nonsense of horoscopes, or frightening sermons that distract from the truly important things.”
Yet, it was Christ Himself that prophesied of the doom that is coming to an unrepentant world. Christ predicted the destruction of Jerusalem and drew end-time prophetic parallels to the time of Noah and the flood and the time of Lot and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
“It is important, the pope continued, to distinguish ‘the word of wisdom that God speaks to us each day’ from the shouting of those who use ‘God’s name to frighten, to nourish division and fear.’”
Pope Francis remarks were aimed, no doubt, at those evangelists and other pastors who teach the Bible prophesies about the end-time. Perhaps it is more pointedly aimed at those whose mission it is to link current events to Bible prophecy and help people get ready for the Sunday law crisis. Yet, this is the message that is to be given. Speaking of spiritual Babylon, Jesus says through the apostle John, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Revelation 18:4.
Francis’ was conducting Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, in Rome when he said these words. The Mass was one of the closing events of the “Holy Year of Mercy” and the “Jubilee for the Socially Excluded.”
The pope’s homily, amazingly, was about Jesus’ remarks on the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem and the end of times. Jesus says that “there will be no lack of conflicts, famine, convulsions on earth and in the heavens when the time comes,” said the pontiff. “Jesus’ aim is not to produce fear,” he added. Instead, God “asks us to persevere in the good and to place our trust” in Him, “who does not disappoint.” While it is true that those in Christ have no fear and put their trust in Him, Jesus instructed us to watch the signs of the times and to discern the seasons. If it were not the preaching of the apocalypse, there would be many who will be lost because they were unaware of the signs of the times and did not get ready for the crisis.
Speaking of the poor and excluded, the pope said, “This is the origin of the tragic contradiction of our age: as progress and new possibilities increase, which is a good thing, less and less people are able to benefit from them,” Francis said. “This is a great injustice that should concern us much more than knowing when or how the world will end.”
“Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us: and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry.” Luke 23:30, 21.
Comments
David Kelley
Thursday November 17th, 2016 at 09:36 AMI agree with everything this article wrote, I do know why the Pope said what he said, which wasn’t mentioned here; many evangelical Christian Churchs are misrepresenting prophecy of the most current events if the last few weeks, claiming that “Trump” literally is spoken in the Bible, many say that Mr Trump is a Divine appointment given by God, which is the misunderstanding, once again, by those who have started their measure rod, from the beginning of the walk in Christianity, off, way off. When you lay down a piece of track in the wrong direction from the very beginning, everything else will be as followed. Both the ones who don’t understand prophecy, and the Pope, are children of disobedience, and have the mark of Cain, if there is any hope for the misunderstood, we must pray that they “come out of her, out of Babylon”, and begin to hear the truth of the Lord, the living Creator God, and not the father of lies…
Gilbert
Monday November 21st, 2016 at 07:37 PMIt interesting that the pope would say things like that to soothed people into carnal security. It’s an awesome time to be live on the wining team of Christ Jesus
Barry
Tuesday November 29th, 2016 at 01:49 AMWait let me fix that.
Don’t listen to any preachers. 😉
Edward McCullough
Monday December 12th, 2016 at 06:06 PMStudy your Bible, know what the WORD says if they speak not according to the Word there is no light in them. Light vs darkness.
kerri saint
Tuesday January 3rd, 2017 at 08:24 AMHe really does not want the truth out there. He is a liar, and is doing all he can to keep the truth from the people. He has spoken to governments and internet leaders such as facebook to stop so called false news from getting out. What do they deem as false news?. All his lies fly’s in the face of his so called “LUTHER” Telescope, The church set up to watch for and interact with aliens when and of they come. Don’t believe any of his lies, believe the Bible and Bible alone. He says he is the representative of Christ, he is nothing like Christ in behavior or lifestyle. Jesus had nothing and gave all to the sick , dying and sinner. This man eats like a king, is driven around like a king and has more money in his control than most countries put together. Jesus laid down His life for us, the Pope just lays down and lets evil prevail.