Posted on 11/29/2013 7:33:39 AM PST by SatinDoll
The whole passage cribs heavily from Jer 25, and nobody is in any doubt about what city Jer 25 is addressing.
The same Augustine you quote also said, "When God crowns our merits, he crowns nothing but his own gifts."
Sure. Enjoy. A long read, but what itemized account of 2,000 years of coercion isn't, huh?
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vatican/vatican_billions.htm
Anticipating apologistic outrage with this source, please know that this is but one of literlly hundreds of such documentations of the Vatican's pecuniary pursuits. As Scripture tells us so vividly, "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also..."
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How very pious of you, accusing me of some scriptural deficiency...
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Really? That sounds like more ad hominem. I didn’t accuse you of anything. I asked if you knew what the Scriptures said on the topic and got no answer...so I then asked again. I made NO statement of accusation. I have not judged you at all as only God can do that. I am, however, coming to logical conclusions based on your responses.
And now...you seem to be backing off completely rather than address the issue. I will respect your choice to do so.
“You fundamentally misunderstand the term “merit”. Merit is a claim on a reward. Merit isn’t what saves someone, merit is what someone has as a result of being saved.”
The Catholic catechism disagrees, since it makes meeting God half-way, and the earning of merits, necessary for salvation. Of course, I disagree with the Catholic understanding of the issue and side with Augustine.
The problem is, except for a short time with Solomon, Jerusalem has never been a leading mercantile city like Rome and the bible makes it very clear Jesus was not crucified in the city walls, so He was actually outside of Jerusalem when crucified. And Jerusalem has never been called a "great" city as of yet. When God's millennium starts then it will be call "great" (toward the end of Revelation). Jeremiah 25 makes no mention of the mercantile prowess of Jerusalem like Revelation 18 does about the Mystery Babylon.
A friend of mine and I have this disagreement a lot. He says its Jerusalem in the future. I think it could be one of two things, its either Vatican City or the three city-corporations of the earth both in the future. The private financiers of the Federal Reserve managed to change the status to "corporation" of small sections of the three cities that rule the earth, Rome with Vatican City, London with the City of London, and Washington DC with DC. These city-corporations, I believe, runs the four dynasties of the end times: the religious dynasty, the educational dynasty, the political dynasty, and the financial dynasty (New York at the UN building may also be included with the three). I believe a conflict began in the time of the Tower of Babel between the Pontifex Maximus (being Nimrod) and the actual builders of the tower of Babel (being the masonic orders), both being agents of Satan. In the same way there's a dispute on the good side between lay Catholics and lay Protestants, there has been this long dispute on the evil side between the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and the hierarchy of the masonic orders, and it over works versus faith just like on the good side. Cardinal Ratzinger was very anti-mason before he became pope. Nimrod was the first Pontifex Maximus, which means "bridge-builder". He was building a bridge to heaven. The Jesuits are part of the Masons and even though they say they work for the pope, they hated the popes before Francis and even assassinated a few of them. The masons gained the upper hand at Vatican II and got one of their own in there: John XXIII. And now of course they've been emboldened to go ahead and install the first Jesuit as pope. They hate the Catholic Church though and will burn it with fire, I believe.
We'll know shortly which city/cities it is.
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