MARTIN
LUTHER
AND
OUR
LADY OF GUADALUPE
In the Name of the
Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit
There is a mass
migration of Christians into Evangelical denominations or into what is called
"born-again" Christians or Fundamentalists. Most Christians don’t
know where this idea of "born-again" comes from; in fact, even
"born-again Christians" have no idea where it all started. Most
Fundamentalists couldn’t answer what a Fundamentalist is. This is sort of a
history lesson on the two concepts: being "born again" and
"Fundamentalism". It is also a history lesson on the relationship between
"born again" and Guadalupe.
In the 1500’s
Catholic kings fought each other all over Europe. Twenty-five million people
lost their lives to the Black Plague, many being priests and nuns because they
were the only ones who would care for the sick and bury the dead. So many priests
and nuns lost their lives to the Black Plague that priests were quickly
ordained with only one or two years of training, and many bad priests were the
result. Two anti-popes fought for the Chair of Rome. The Moors occupied Spain
and Portugal all across the Mediterranean Sea, and they occupied the latter for
hundreds of years while the Christian armies were unable to drive them out.
Mohammed II invaded the Mediterranean Islands and the southern coast of Italy.
Hidden spies infiltrated the Christian armies and gave away secrets, preventing
them from winning any wars with the Moors. The King of France, aided by a false
mystic, (who claimed that the Pope was not the rightful Bishop of Rome) invaded
Italy with the intention of arresting the Pope. This was the situation of the
Kingdom of God on Earth at the turn of the Century.
When all seemed
lost, God sent a woman, Isabella of Spain, to save the Kingdom. Isabella became
Queen of Spain and, although constantly pregnant, she rode her horse all over
Europe to defeat the Turks and the Tartars, pushing Mohammed out of Europe,
stopping the King of France and saving the Holy Father. She brought peace to
Spain and Portugal. A pregnant woman on a horse saved the world from the first
of the Antichrists of the world, Mohammed.
She, and she alone,
financed Christopher Columbus to discover the new world of the Americas.
Because of Isabella of Spain and Columbus, eventually all the wealth of Spain
and Portugal would migrate to the Americas and drain the power from Spain and
Portugal.
Before her death in
1504, a child was born in Germany of a poor peasant miner, named John Luder.
This child would eventually change his name because the word "Luder"
in German means "beast". Let me emphasize this: the word "Luder"
means "beast". This will be relevant later.
Now, this child, by
all Twentieth Century standards or even Fifteenth Century standards, was an
abused child. He didn’t like authority, and so, he was beaten constantly by his
father, mother, and his teachers. One time he was beaten fifteen times by his
school master before morning. He became a runaway. All authority became his
enemy.
One day he was
almost struck by lightning, and this so frightened him that he made a promise
to God. If God would save his life from the storm, he would become a priest.
And so, he did. He became an Augustinian priest.
To understand
Luder, we must read Luder’s own writings. When he was still a priest, Luder
wrote:
"If Christ had not entrusted all power to one man, the Church
would not have been perfect. There would have been disorder, and each person
would have been his own master claiming to be led by the Holy Spirit. This is
what the heretics do.
"The principle sin of heretics is their own pride. With pride they
insist on their own opinions. Frequently they serve God with great devotion.
They do not intend any evil, but they serve God according to their own will.
"Even when refuted they refuse to change their words. They think
they are guided by the Holy Spirit. The things that have been established for
centuries and in which countless martyrs have lost their lives, they treat as
doubtful questions. They interpret the Bible according to their own heads, and
carry their own opinions in it."
Luder wanted to be
a perfect priest but he did not understand one important thing; he did not
understand "grace". He wanted to acquire sanctity by his
own efforts, his own justice, his own works, and he did not like anyone
helping him - not even God. He hated authority, in whatever form it took,
including God. He said of himself,
"I gave special tasks to myself, which my superiors fought against
(and rightfully so). I was a persecutor of my own soul, by fasting and prayer,
which was suicide. From misplaced reliance on my own righteousness, I became
filled with mistrust, fear, hatred, and blasphemy of God. I was such an enemy
of Christ, that whenever I saw a picture of Christ or the Cross, I would shut
my eyes and thought that I would rather have seen the devil. I was constantly
depressed or melancholy. For do what I would, my good works or righteousness
brought me no help or consolation."
It was while he was
in this state of melancholy that his problems began. Leo X issued a Bull on
Indulgences, and the Dominican, Tetzel, traveled throughout Germany preaching
indulgences and collecting money to rebuild Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
Tetzel angered Luder to the bottom of his soul because Tetzel said that man did
not rely on himself, but needed the grace of God to do any good work. Tetzel
taught that the grace stored up in the Church by all the saints, martyrs,
monks, and cloistered nuns could be tapped. By appealing to these graces we
could gain the power to overcome temptation and sin. By appealing to these
graces stored up in the Body of Christ, the Church, we could gain power from
God to do good and to gain the remission of sins.
So angry was Luder
that his fasting and penance was for nothing, that he lashed out at Tetzel. On
Halloween Day in 1517 ( 500 years before Fatima) he nailed up on the Church
doors 95 objections against indulgences. The Church made little of it, except
to answer his objections, because this was a standard way of getting answers to
questions in those days. Luder began to vacillate. At first he wrote to the
Holy Father,
"Whatever your decision I will accept as Christ speaking through
you."
However, when his
errors were pointed out to him, Luder rebelled. He denied one day what he had
professed the day before. He declared the Church infallible one day, then
denied it the next. He submitted to the councils and then he did not. He stated
that civil government had power over the Church and then he denied it. He
admitted Hell and then he questioned it. He taught that Sacraments gave grace
and then he denied it. He taught seven Sacraments, then two, then three. He
admitted that Baptism gave grace and then he did not. He maintained Purgatory,
and then he denied it.
Finally, in 1520 he
was excommunicated. Regarding his excommunication, Luder said,
"I maintain that the author of this excommunication (the Pope) is
the Antichrist."
The Bible did not
support his views. He needed a new bible. In the Sixteenth Century, it
could be said that if anyone could not read Latin, he could not read at all. In
spite of this there were 17 versions of the Bible in the German language
alone before Luder came out with his own version.
In order to make a
new version, he took the Newenburg Version of 1483 and began to change
everything in it. He wrote his own version from the German Newenburg Version
in only 10 weeks. He never stopped changing his own version until his
death. He never went to the Greek or Hebrew, and his only source was the German
version written in 1483.
He changed
Scriptures so that wherever it said to "do penance", he wrote,
"to do better". In Acts 19:18 where it says, "Many of them came
confessing their sins", he wrote, "They came acknowledging the
miracles of the Apostles". In the Annunciation where it said, "Full
of Grace", he changed it to "Thou gracious one". In Romans where
it said, "We account a man to be justified by faith", he wrote,
"We hold man justified by faith alone without the works of the
law."
When questioned
about his addition of the word "alone" he stated,
"If your Pope annoys you with the word, tell him that I will have
it that way. Popes and asses are one and the same thing. To the devil
with anyone who censures my translation without my will or knowledge. I will
have it that way. I am the doctor of all the doctors of popidom. These Popish
asses are not able to appreciate my labors."
Regarding the
Doctors of the Church - Augustine, Jerome, Basil, Aquinas, Luder wrote,
"They are untrustworthy teachers. Bores, out of which Christians
have been drinking. Naive blasphemers, infernal asses, knowing nothing of the
gospel, deceived by the devil, and deserving of hell rather than heaven."
Then he proceeded
to take out whole sections of the Bible: Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiastics, Tobias,
Machabees I and II, parts of Ester, parts of Daniel, the prayers of Menasseh.
Regarding Moses,
"I do not wish to see or hear anything of Moses. If we allow the
10 commandments any influence on our conscience they become the cloak of evil,
heretics, and blasphemers. If Moses should intimidate you with his 10
commandments, tell him right off to chase himself to the Jews. Moses should
forever be looked about with suspicion, even as a heretic, damned, even worse
than the Pope and the devil."
Luder had no
respect for the rest of the Bible, either. Judith he called a tragedy. Tobias
he called a comedy. Ecclesiastics he said was OK for ordinary dumb folks.
Baruch he said was worthless. Esra,
"I would not even translate it. There is nothing in it you would
not find in Aesop’s Fables," wrote Luder.
Regarding Job, he
said it was a fable. Ester he said he would throw into the Ibe River. As for
Jonas, Jonas he said was monstrous.
In the New
Testament he rejected Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation. Of the four
Gospels, he said only John was trustworthy. Regarding Hebrews he said that it
has bits of wood, hay and straw. Of James he said he did not hold it to be
James’ writings. Regarding Revelation he said,
"I feel an aversion to it, and this is sufficient reason for me to
reject it."
Even those words he
could not change, he changed the meaning. He told his followers that wherever
they saw the words, "to do" they should understand them to mean
"to believe". "Do this and you shall live" in Matthew
should be taken to mean "Believe this and you shall live."
Now, armed with a
Bible that supported his views, he placed cheap copies of it into the hands of
the peasants and the princes. To flatter them, he told the peasants that they
were the priests and that anyone’s interpretation of Scripture had equal value
to anyone else.
"Among Christians there should not be any authority," he
said.
The peasants took
this farther than Luder wanted them to. Led by a man named Mussner, they
revolted against the kings, princes and the Church. They demanded the right to
elect priests, the elimination of serfdom, the elimination of subjects, the
elimination of princes, and the elimination of kings. They used the new Gospel
of Luder to claim the right to kill all until authority was destroyed and the
new Kingdom of God was established.
To arouse the
masses even further, Luder had cartoons pasted all over Germany showing the
Pope and the Cardinals being born out of the devil’s behind.
Monasteries,
churches, and the palaces of the princes were attacked. At first Luder was
happy. He wanted to use the peasants to destroy the Church in Germany. However,
when they also attacked the kings and princes who had protected his cause, he
realized that if the peasants gained control, he would lose control.
He wrote a
declaration against the peasants, and the kings posted his declaration all over
Germany.
"Pure deviltry is the peasants. They rob and rage like mad dogs,
therefore whoever is able to mow them down, slaughter them or stab them, openly
or in secret, let them do so. Remember, nothing is more poisonous, noxious or
devious than a rebel. You must kill them like you would a mad dog."
The peasants were
slaughtered like cattle. After the slaughter Luder wrote,
"I, Luder, slew all the peasants because I said they should be
slain. All their blood is upon my head, but I put it upon the Lord, God, by
whose command I spoke."
In 1531 he
celebrated the slaughter of the peasants by marrying a nun, and becoming the
author of the "State Church" because he said,
"He who owns the country owns the Church. He who makes the laws
for you, has the right to make the religion for you. No finer government in the
world is there than that of the Turks, who have neither a secular nor spiritual
code of law, but only the Koran."
He said that the
Abbeys belonged to the princes, and that monasteries were dens of iniquity that
the kings should root out and destroy. If the kings did this, he said, then God
would bless them.
So began all state-controlled
religions. Eventually some governments would go so far as to outlaw all
religions, as in the case of the "French Revolution" and
"Communism". By 1984 Communism would outlaw religion in 74% of the
entire world.
When Pope Paul III
died, Luder said,
"This is the fourth Pope I have buried and I will bury many
more."
Soon after he said
that, however, Luder died. The main theological argument of Luder was that man
has no free will to choose good or evil, and therefore cannot be blamed for any
sin whatsoever.
"It is either God or the Devil that rules. Man has no freedom to
choose and is absolutely devoid of responsibility. Having lost free will, man
cannot observe the precepts of the ten commandments. He cannot master his
passions. He must sin as long as he lives."
"Good works are useless. They are sin. And in fact, impossible. It
is more important to guard against good works than to guard against sin."
Now listen very
carefully to the following writings of Luder and you will see where we are
going with all of this.
"If men believe in Christ and accept Him as their personal Savior,
His justice will be imputed to them and they will go straight to Heaven. It
does not matter what evil they have done during their lives. It does not matter
whether they are, or not, repentful of their sins. It does not matter at the
moment of their death whether they have contrition or not, or if they are in
the state of grace. If they have accepted Christ as their personal Savior they
will be saved."
Let’s read that
again,
"If men believe in Christ and accept Him as their personal Savior,
His justice will be imputed to them and they will go straight to Heaven. It
does not matter what evil they have done during their lives. It does not matter
whether they are, or not, repentful of their sins. It does not matter at the
moment of their death whether they have contrition or not, or if they are in
the state of grace. If they have accepted Christ as their personal Savior they
will be saved."
The author of that
was Luder, the beast. Reading on, in Luder’s writings, he said this:
"The Laws of God are only there so that man can see in them the
impossibility of doing good. Man must persuade himself to have nothing to do
with the law, and that no sin should deny him anything. Let him, so to say, boast
of his sins. What should be the rule every time you read in the Scripture:
God commanding good works, you should understand that to mean, that the Scripture
forbids good works. Be on your guard against good works. Avoid them as one
avoids a pest. I will drink all the more because you forbid it. I will drink
goblets in the name and honor of the name of Jesus Christ. If you think
about good works, prayers, the laws of Christ, I advise everyone to drive these
satanic thoughts out of their minds by thinking about a pretty woman, or money
or drink. It is impossible to do without a woman. Chastity is an
abomination. --- Be a sinner and sin boldly but believe more boldly still.
We must sin as long as we are what we are. Sin will not drive us away from God
even if we commit fornication thousands of thousands of times a day. The
gratification of sexual desire is God’s work, and it is as necessary as eating,
drinking, sweating, or sleeping."
Regarding a family,
Luder wrote,
"He who keeps a prostitute is closer to God --- than one who
takes a wife."
Regarding the Jews,
he wrote,
"Burn their Synagogues and schools. Put them on fire, their homes,
their prayer books and their rabbis."
Are you getting an
idea where Hitler got his ideas, and why he found a following in Germany?
Before he died,
however, he complained that there were as many differing opinions on the Bible
as there were people, but he did not repent. He went on to say, "My
word is the word of Christ. My mouth is the mouth of Christ."
Luder is the
founder, the prophet, the christ of the
BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIANS.
He is Luder, the
beast, but he changed his name to Martin Luther, the founder of the Protestant
Reformation. Today there are 27,000 Christian sects, and there are 400 new ones
created every week.
At the same time that Martin Luder was
crushing the peasants in 1531, and celebrating this by marrying a nun;
at the same time that priests and nuns were
being murdered;
at the same time that Monasteries and Abbeys
were being destroyed, the saints on earth and in heaven were praying:
"How long O
Lord, Holy and True, do you refrain from avenging and judging those who dwell
on earth." (Revelation 6:10)
God answered their
prayers. We know He answered their prayers from what followed in History, and I
can imagine that God said this,
"I AM, therefore I foresaw this Luder. I AM, therefore I reserved
for Myself a hidden world for this time. I AM, therefore for each soul that is
lost because of Luder, I will bring ten into the Kingdom of God on Earth before
Luder’s death. I AM, therefore, with the use of a woman, My Isabella, I saved
the Kingdom from the Moslems. I AM, therefore, with the use of THE WOMAN, I
will save the kingdom from his lies.
"Out of Luder’s lies, will come lies upon lies, sect upon sect,
but My Kingdom will stand until I do away with all My enemies."
On one side of the
world in 1531 Luder brought two million out of the Church. On the same day,
in the same year, on the other side of the world, atop a small hill in
Guadalupe, Our Lady appeared to Juan Diego and, because of Her, ten million
people were converted to the Faith and brought into the Kingdom within a year.
Ten million before Luder died. Ten million in one year, between 1531 and 1532. God
will not be mocked. Let us learn the story of God’s answer to Martin Luther in
Guadalupe.
GUADALUPE
The story of Our Lady of Guadelupe begins when
Cortez arrived in Mexico in 1519. What he saw was the great civilization of the
Aztec Empire. There were accomplished mathematicians, astronomers, physicians,
architects, philosophers, craftsmen, and artists. They had a judicial system
that resembled that of Europe. Reading and writing began at an early age, but
their writing was in pictographs similar to that of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
The town, which is
now Mexico City, was an island in the center of a lake with three land bridges
leading to it. What Cortez saw when he arrived there was a beautiful city with
a stone pyramid in the middle of it. It was the temple where they held their
religious ceremonies. The Aztecs were afraid of nature, and out of nature they
made their gods. They were afraid of the sun, the moon, the stars, the rain,
the wind, fire, and so on, and they made these their personalized gods and
goddesses. They built idols of these, and they worshipped them in the pyramid
temples. They offered human sacrifices to these gods. They regarded themselves
as "The People of the Sun", since the sun was their primary god. For
fear that the sun might not rise again, they offered human sacrifices to the
sun god. Victims of these sacrifices were often prisoners, slaves, children, or
unwanted babies.
While still alive,
a black-robed, long-haired priest tore out their heart and held it in his hand
offering it to his sun god as he watched the heartless victim die. In some
rituals they mutilated and ate their victims alive. They would kill thousands
of humans on any one of their feast days. On the inauguration day of their
temple pyramid in 1487 they killed over 20,000 people on their altars in one
day.
The mightiest of
their gods was the feathered or stoned serpent to whom many thousands were
sacrificed every year. Another of their gods was the mother god, whose temple
stood on a small hill that would later become Guadalupe. Her head was a
combination of snakes heads and her clothes a mass of living serpents.
When Cortez
arrived, the ruler of the Aztecs was Montezuma the Second. Somehow God had gone
before Cortez, because their mystics were predicting to Montezuma his own
overthrow. His sister had dreamed of the ships with the black cross on their
sails, and of the soldiers with the black crosses on their armor. A prophet
from their past had predicted that a man with white skin and a white beard
would bring them knowledge of the true God.
The Spaniards did
not even have 400 soldiers, and the Aztecs had thousands, but Montezuma was
afraid because of what his prophets had told him and decided to negotiate with
Cortez. On November 8, 1519, Cortez met Montezuma and marched right into the
center of the city. While Cortez negotiated with Montezuma, his remaining
soldiers, who were waiting at the ships, mutinied. Cortez had to leave the city
to put down the rebels. While he was gone, Montezuma attacked the remaining
soldiers in the city, and 300 of Cortez’s 400 men were killed. Some of the men
were sacrificed alive to the snake god.
In spite of his
small force of men, Cortez attacked the city, killed Montezuma and overtook the
Aztecs. This was how the Spaniards took over the Aztecs. They put into place
something called, "First Alliance", and they put in charge ruthless
people who treated the Aztecs like second-rate citizens, even as animals.
King Charles the
Fifth, back in Spain, heard about this and wanted to correct this abuse, so he
appointed a bishop to take charge of the new world.
Bishop Zumeragua
arrived in the New World in 1528 as the first bishop of the New World. He tried
very hard to stop the abuses and overcome the hatred between the Aztecs and the
Spaniards. He brought fruit trees, and agriculture experts, and printing
presses with him. He built schools. He built the College of the Holy Cross,
which would become the largest college in the world.
The Bishop,
however, had a lot of problems with the Spanish soldiers. In fact, they even
attacked him and his monks. The hatred grew so bad between the Spaniards and
the Aztec Indians that the Bishop felt there would be an uprising. He smuggled
out a message in a hollowed out cross to King Charles. King Charles appointed
another Bishop (Don Sebastian Rameres) to be the head of the government in
America and to do away with the "First Alliance".
Before Bishop
Rameres arrived, the situation got so bad that an uprising was imminent. Most
historians agree that if the Aztecs had rebelled at that time they would have been
exterminated by the Spaniards, and all history would have been different.
However, Bishop Zumeragua began to pray to Our Lady.
He asked Our Lady
to send him some Castilian Roses, as a sign that his desperate prayers had been
heard. In the Sixteenth Century there were no Castilian Roses in all the
Americas.
In 40 AD the Virgin
Mary went to Ephesus with John, the Apostle, to destroy the goddess Diana. And
now 1500 years later on a hill that was formerly the temple to the goddess of
the snake, Our Lady appeared to an Indian, one of the few Christians who
existed at the time, Juan Diego.
"Juanito, my
son, where are you going?"
Juan Diego was
shocked at her beauty and could only mumble, "I am on my way to church to
hear Mass."
Our Lady smiled,
"Know for certain that I am the perfect and perpetual Virgin Mary,
Mother of the True God through Whom everything lives - the Lord of all
things, who is the master of heaven and earth. I ardently desire a temple to be
built here to me, where I will show and offer my love and compassion, my help,
my protection to the people. I am your merciful Mother, the Mother of all
who live united in this land and of all mankind, of all those who love me,
of all those who cry to me, of all those who have confidence in me. Here I will
hear their weeping and their sorrows, and will remedy and elevate their
sufferings and misfortunes.
"Therefore, in
order to realize my intentions, go to the house of the bishop of Mexico City,
and tell him that I send you and that it is my desire to have a temple built
here. Tell him all that you have seen and heard. Be assured that I will be very
grateful and will reward you for doing diligently what I have asked of you. Now
that you have heard my words, my son, go and do everything as best as you
can."
Juan bowed his head
reverently, "My Lady, I will do everything that you asked." And he
went down the mountain to see the Bishop.
He returned to Our
Lady the same day. The Bishop was kind but did not believe him.
"I beg You,
Noble Lady, entrust this matter to someone of importance, someone well known
and respected, so that your wish will be accomplished, for I am only a lowly
peasant, and You have sent me to a place where I have no standing. Forgive me
if I have disappointed you, for having failed at my mission."
The Virgin looked
tenderly on him and said,
"Listen to me, My son, and
understand that I have many servants who I could charge with the delivery of My
message, but it is altogether necessary that you should be the one to carry out
this mission. It is through your mediation and assistance that My wish should
be accomplished.
"I wish you to
go to the bishop again tomorrow. Tell him in My Name and make him fully
understand my disposition, that he should undertake the erection of a Church
for which I ask. And repeat to him that it is I, in person, the Ever Virgin
Mary, the Mother of God, who sends you."
Once again the
bishop pushed him out the door saying, "If the Lady could give me a sign
maybe then I could believe."
"What kind of
sign?" asked Juan.
"I leave it up
to Her," he said.
"Come again
tomorrow," Our Lady told Juan, when he had told Her what the bishop had
said, "and I will give you a sign for the bishop."
When Juan went home
he found his uncle sick and dying. Instead of going back to see Our Lady, he
tried to go around the mountain to get a priest for his dying uncle. She
intercepted him on the path at the foot of the mountain. "Where are you
going, my son?"
Juan told Our Lady
about his dying uncle and that he was going to get a priest to give him the
Last Rites. He promised to come back the next day to do as Our Lady had
requested.
"Listen,
and let it penetrate into your heart my dear little son. Do not be troubled or
weighted down with grief. Do not fear any illness, or vexation, anxiety, or pain.
Am I not here, who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection?
Am I not your fountain of life? Are you not in the folds of My Mantle, in the
crossings of My Arms? Is there anything else you need?
"Do not let
the illness of your uncle worry you, because he is not going to die of this
sickness. At this very moment he is cured."
Our lady told Juan
to go up to the top of the mountain and pick the flowers that he would see
there and to bring them down to Her. When he did, She placed them very
carefully in the front part of his tilma which he held in his hands. He then
ran to the bishop with the tilma folded over the flowers.
With much
difficulty he entered into the bishop’s chamber, and there he found himself in
front of two bishops and a priest. The new bishop, who would be the head of all
Mexico, had arrived. The priest was his interpreter.
Juan told his story
and threw down the tilma, and the Castilian Roses fell to the floor. The bishop
was speechless. These were the Castilian Roses that the bishop had prayed to
the Virgin for.
After some time, he
looked up at Juan, and at that instant an image of the Virgin Mary appeared on
the front of the tilma, Juan’s robe. It was done in pictograph form as the
Aztec Indians wrote in their language.
The two bishops,
the priest, and Juan stood in a daze for a long time. Finally the Bishop
removed the Tilma reverently and hugged Juan, asking his forgiveness. News
spread throughout Mexico all night of the miracle. The next day, Juan and the
Bishops led a procession to the site of the future Church. The Indians were so
excited that they jumped up and down and sang songs to Our Lady. "Our Lady
is one of us" they shouted. They shot arrows into the air in celebration.
One of these arrows came down and killed one of the Indians.
The bishop knew
that Our Lady would not allow this sadness on this day, so he placed the Tilma
on the dead man, and he came back to life perfectly healed. The bishop ordered
a chapel to be built immediately until a Cathedral could be built. After the
celebrations, Juan finally returned to his dying uncle. It had been almost two
days since he left him.
Juan found his
uncle perfectly cured as he knew he would be, but he did not expect the story
his uncle told. The Virgin appeared to his uncle at exactly the same time She
was appearing to Juan, cured him, told him the story, and told him Her name.
The name She actually gave was an Aztec Indian word which means, "The
Woman Who Crushes the Head of the Serpent". But the Spaniards
misunderstood the name and took it for "Our Lady of Guadalupe" which
is a famous shrine in Spain where there is a statue of Our Lady that was owned
by Leo the Great in the Fifth Century.
Indians from all
over the Americas in the millions came to see the picture, and miracles
occurred everyday. What did the Indians see? They saw an Indian Lady on that
Tilma blocking out their sun god, standing on their moon and snake gods, and
praying to a God more powerful than Her.
For the first time,
Indians and Spaniards hugged each other. Conversions to the faith happened so
fast that some priests baptized more than 6000 people in a single day. At one
convent alone, two priests baptized 14,200 Indians in five days. Indian women
replaced their mini-skirts with clothes similar to Our Lady. Ten million
Indians were baptized in one year.
The bishop, who
prayed for Our Lady’s help; Cortez, who stopped the slaughter of infant babies;
and Juan Diego, who saw Our Lady; all died in the same year.
In the same year
that Martin Luther took two million people out of the Kingdom of God on Earth,
Our Lady brought ten million in. In fact, the fifty-year span from 1531 to 1581
was the fastest growth of the Catholic Church in the entire 2000-year history
of the Church.
God will not be
mocked.
When Christianity
centered around the East, wealth and prosperity followed, but when they began
to accept the heresies of the Gnostics, the Arians, and the Nestorians, God
moved His Kingdom into Germany, Spain, England and Russia. He then sent
Mohammed, and the once paradise of the world became a desert of poverty and
war.
God will not be
mocked.
When Christianity
began to apostatize in Europe, God moved His Kingdom to the Americas, with the
help of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Wealth followed and Mexico became the wealthiest
Country in the world with the best schools, the best hospitals, and the best
standard of living.
God will not be
mocked.
When the Mexican
Government became Masonic in 1917, and tried to wipe out all Christianity by
killing priests and nuns, confiscating all the schools and hospitals, God moved
His Kingdom to Northern America, and the wealth followed.
God will not be
mocked.
As Christianity in
North America begins to lose the faith, Africa, England, Korea, Japan, and all
the far east is coming alive. In Africa so many people are converting to the
faith that there is a three-year wait to get into the seminaries, and they have
some of the largest seminaries in the world. Africa just built the largest
Catholic Church in the world, even larger than Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
In Korea the Church is doubling in size every year. In the rest of the Far East
conversions are at an all-time high. All the while in Pagan America old-line
Catholics, who failed to even read their Bibles, leave the Kingdom in droves.
God is not
mocked.
Protestants and
Protestant ministers are coming into the Kingdom at an astounding rate, and
they are making the Church come alive again.
God is not
mocked.
Am I a
"Born-Again Christian"? Yes! When I was baptized I became "born
again". Does that mean I am saved? No! Read 1 Cor. 9-27 or Phil 3:11 and
you will see that Paul did not believe "once saved - always saved".
Study your Bible and you will see that the Bible is the story of the Catholic
Church and the Catholic Church is the story of the Bible.
The Word is a two-edged sWord. It’s
time to pick up your sWord and defend Our Lady.
Rick Salbato
Knight of Our Lady