I have a question for the Catholics and Orthodox on the thread. I will pose it as a hypothetical realizing that there are varying views on the timing, etc., etc.,
But, since the Bible refers to False prophets arising and a person known as THE False Prophet in Revelation who points the way to one known as the Antichrist - what will your response be if your Patriarch or Pope steps up and says follow this person? Since the Apostate church will exist; what keeps you from following a counciliar recommendation to follow a great peace-maker who claims to be aligned with Christianity?
I'm not RC. I am a Baptist.
However, the apparitions that are supposed to be Mary and the doctrines that have developed around Mary come to mind. I only know of Scripture giving one example of humans coming back from heaven and that was Moses and Elijah being with Jesus. I have never read in Scripture where Mary is coming back to help us.
"what will your response be if your Patriarch or Pope steps up and says follow this person? Since the Apostate church will exist; what keeps you from following a counciliar recommendation to follow a great peace-maker who claims to be aligned with Christianity?"
Sadly, Orthodoxy has a long history of heresiarchs, but happily, we've always been able to get rid of them. What keeps us from following them, or following them for long, is our innate and God given sense of what is Orthodox and Catholic and what is not...and its almost always the laity which discovers these defaults and acts on it. Maybe God has prepared us for the coming of the Anti-Christ and the "Apostate Church".
I plan to tune in and see what Benny Hinn says to do.