What I’m going to
tell you is what I learned in secret briefings in the Vatican when I was a Jesuit
priest, under oath and induction.
A Jesuit cardinal
named Augustine Bea showed us how desperately the Roman Catholics wanted
Jerusalem at the end of the third century. Because of its religious history and
its strategic location, the Holy City was considered a priceless treasure. A
scheme had to be developed to make Jerusalem a Roman Catholic city. The great
untapped source of manpower that could do this job was the children of Ishmael.
The poor Arabs fell victim to one of the most clever plans ever devised by
the Powers of Darkness.
Early Christians went
everywhere with the gospel, setting up small churches, but they met heavy
opposition. Both the Jews and the Roman government persecuted the believers in
Christ to stop their spread.
But the Jews
rebelled against Rome, and in 70 A.D. Roman armies under General Titus smashed
Jerusalem and destroyed the great Jewish temple which was the heart of Jewish
worship—in fulfillment of Christ’s prophecy in Matthew 24:2. On this holy
place, where the temple once stood, the Dome of the Rock Mosque stands
today as Islam’s second most holy place.
Sweeping changes
were in the wind. Corruption, apathy, greed, cruelty, perversion, and rebellion
were eating at the Roman Empire, and it was ready to collapse. The persecution
against Christians was useless, as they continued to lay down their lives for
the gospel of Christ.
The only way
Satan could stop this thrust was to create a counterfeit “Christian” religion to
destroy the work of God. The solution was in Rome. Their religion had come from
ancient Babylon, and all it needed was a face-lift. This didn’t happen
overnight, but began in the writings of the “early church fathers”.
It was through
their writings that a new religion would take shape. The statue of Jupiter in
Rome was eventually called St. Peter, and the statue of Venus was changed to the
Virgin Mary. The site chosen for its headquarters was on one of the seven hills
called “Vaticanus”—the place of diving serpent where the satanic Temple of Janus
stood.
The great
counterfeit religion was Roman Catholicism, called “Mystery, Babylon the
Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth” (Revelation 17:5).
She was raised up to block the gospel, slaughter the believers in Christ,
establish religions, create wars, and make the nations drunk with the wine of
her fornication as we will see.
Three major religions have one thing in
common—each has a holy place where they look for guidance. Roman Catholicism
looks to the Vatican as the Holy City. The Jews look to the wailing wall
in Jerusalem, and the Muslims look to Mecca as their Holy City.
Each group believes
that they receive certain types of blessings for the rest of their lives for
visiting their holy place.
In the beginning,
Arab visitors would bring gifts to the “House of God" and the keepers of
the Kaaba were gracious to all who came. Some brought their idols and, not
wanting to offend these people, their idols were placed inside the sanctuary. It
is said that the Jews looked upon the Kaaba as an outlying tabernacle of the
Lord, with veneration until it became polluted with idols.
The Kaaba, Mecca
In a tribal
contention over a well (Zamzam) the treasure of the Kaaba and the offerings that
pilgrims had given were dumped down the well and it was filled with sand; it
disappeared. Many years later Adb al-Muttalib was given visions telling
him where to find the well and its treasure. He became the hero of Mecca, and he
was destined to become the grandfather of Muhammad.
Before this time,
Augustine became the bishop of North Africa and was effective in winning Arabs
to Roman Catholicism, including whole tribes. It was among these Arab converts
to Catholicism that the concept of looking for an Arab prophet developed.
Muhammad’s father
died from illness, and sons born to great Arab families in places like Mecca
were sent into the desert to be suckled and weaned and spend some of their
childhood with Bedouin tribes for training and to avoid the plagues in the
cities.
After his mother and
grandfather also died, Muhammad was with his uncle when a Roman Catholic monk
learned of his identity and said:
“Take your brother’s
son back to his country and guard him against the Jews, for by God, if
they see him and know of him that which I know, they will construe evil against
him. Great things are in store for this brother’s son of yours.”
The Roman Catholic
monk had fanned the flames for future Jewish persecutions at the hands of the
followers of Muhammad. The Vatican desperately wanted Jerusalem because of its
religious significance, but was blocked by the Jews.
Another problem
was the true Christians in North Africa who preached the gospel. Roman
Catholicism was growing in power, but would not tolerate opposition. Somehow the
Vatican had to create a weapon to eliminate both the Jews and the true Christian
believers who refused to accept Roman Catholicism. Looking to North Africa, they
saw the multitudes of Arabs as a source of manpower to do their dirty work.
Some Arabs had
become Roman Catholic, and could be used in reporting information to leaders in
Rome. Others were used in an underground spy network to carry out Rome’s master
plan to control the great multitudes of Arabs who rejected Catholicism.
When “St.
Augustine” appeared on the scene, he knew what was going on. His monasteries
served as bases to seek out and destroy Bible manuscripts owned by the true
Christians.
The Vatican
wanted to create a messiah for the Arabs, someone they could raise up as a great
leader, a man with charisma whom they could train, and eventually unite all the
non-Catholic Arabs behind him, creating a mighty army that would ultimately
capture Jerusalem for the pope.
In the Vatican
briefing, Cardinal Bea told us this story:
A wealthy Arabian
lady who was a faithful follower of the pope played a tremendous part in this
drama. She was a widow named Khadijah. She gave her wealth to the church and
retired to a convent, but was given an assignment.
She was to find a
brilliant young man who could be used by the Vatican to create a new religion
and become the messiah for the children of Ishmael.
Khadijah had a cousin
named Waraquah, who was also a very faithful Roman Catholic, and the Vatican
placed him in a critical role as Muhammad’s advisor. He had tremendous influence
on Muhammad.
Teachers were sent to
young Muhammad and he had intensive training. Muhammad studied the works of St.
Augustine, which prepared him for his “great calling”. The Vatican had Catholic
Arabs across North Africa spread the story of a great one who was about to
rise up among the people and be the chosen one of their God.
While Muhammad
was being prepared, he was told that his enemies were the Jews and that the only
true Christians were Roman Catholic. He was taught that others calling
themselves Christians were actually wicked impostors and should be destroyed.
Many Muslims believe this.
Muhammad began
receiving “divine revelations” and his wife’s Catholic cousin Waraquah helped
interpret them. From this came the Koran. In the fifth year of Muhammad’s
mission, persecution came against his followers because they refused to worship
the idols in the Kaaba.
Muhammad
instructed some of them to flee to Abysinnia, where Negus, the Roman
Catholic king, accepted them because Muhammad’s views on the virgin Mary were so
close to Roman Catholic doctrine. These Muslims received protection from
Catholic kings because of Muhammad’s revelations.
Muhammad later
conquered Mecca and the Kaaba was cleared of idols.
History proves that
before Islam came into existence, the Sabeans in Arabia worshiped the moon-god
who was married to the sun-god. They gave birth to three goddesses, who were
worshipped throughout the Arab world as “Daughters of Allah”. An idol
excavated at Hazor in Palestine in the 1950s shows Allah sitting on a
throne with the crescent moon on his chest.
Muhammad claimed
he had a vision from Allah and was told:
“You are the
messenger of Allah.”
This began his career
as a prophet and he received many messages. By the time Muhammad died, the
religion of Islam was exploding. The nomadic Arab tribes were joining forces in
the name of Allah and his prophet, Muhammad.
Some of
Muhammad’s writings were placed in the Koran, others were never published. They
are now in the hands of high ranking holy men (Ayatollahs) in the Islamic
faith.
When Cardinal
Bea shared this information with us in the Vatican, he said:
“These writings are
guarded because they contain information that links the Vatican to the
creation of Islam.”
Both sides have so
much information on each other that, if exposed, it could create such a scandal
that it would be a disaster for both religions. In their “holy” book, the Koran,
Christ is regarded as only a prophet. If the pope was his representative
on Earth, then he also must be a prophet of God. This caused the
followers of Muhammad to fear and respect the pope as another “holy man”.
The pope moved
quickly and issued bulls granting the Arab generals permission to invade and
conquer the nations of North Africa.
The Vatican helped to
finance the building of these massive Islamic armies in exchange for three
favors:
Eliminate the Jews
and Christians (the latter were regarded as true believers, which they called
infidels)
-
Protect the
Augustinian monks and Roman Catholics
-
Conquer Jerusalem
for “His Holiness” in the Vatican
As time went by, the
power of Islam became tremendous—Jews and true Christians were slaughtered, and
Jerusalem fell into their hands. Roman Catholics were never attacked, nor were
their shrines, during this time. But when the pope asked for Jerusalem, he was
surprised at their denial!
The Arab generals had
such military success that they could not be intimidated by the pope—nothing
could stand in the way of their own plan.
Under Waraquah’s
direction, Muhammad wrote that Abraham offered Ishmael as a
sacrifice. The Bible says that Isaac was the sacrifice, but Muhammad removed
Isaac’s name and inserted Ishmael’s name. As a result of this and Muhammad’s
vision, the faithful Muslims built a mosque, the Dome of the Rock, in
Ishmael’s honor, on the site of the Jewish temple that was destroyed in 70 A.D.
This made Jerusalem the second most holy place in the Islamic faith.
How could they give
such a sacred shrine to the pope without causing a revolt?
The pope realized
what they had created was out of control when he heard they were calling “His
Holiness” an infidel. The Muslim generals were determined to conquer the world
for Allah, and now they turned toward Europe.
Islamic
ambassadors approached the pope and asked for papal bulls to give them
permission to invade European countries. The Vatican was outraged; war was
inevitable. Temporal power and control of the world was considered the basic
right of the pope. He wouldn’t think of sharing it with those whom he considered
heathens.
The pope raised up
his armies and called them “crusades” to hold back the children of Ishmael from
grabbing Catholic Europe. The crusades lasted for centuries and Jerusalem
slipped out of the pope’s hands. Turkey fell, and Spain and Portugal were
invaded by Islamic forces. In Portugal, they called a mountain village “Fatima”
in honor of Muhammad’s daughter, never dreaming it would become world famous.
Years later, when
the Muslim armies were poised on the islands of Sardinia and Corsica, to invade
Italy, there was a serious problem. The Islamic generals realized they were too
far extended. It was time for peace talks. One of the negotiators was Francis of
Assisi. As a result, the Muslims were allowed to occupy Turkey in a “Christian”
world, and the Catholics were allowed to occupy Lebanon in the Arab world. It
was also agreed that the Muslims could build mosques in Catholic countries
without interference, as long as Roman Catholicism could flourish in Arab
countries.
Cardinal
Bea told us in Vatican briefings that both the Muslims and Roman Catholics
agreed to block and destroy the efforts of their common enemy:
Bible-believing Christian missionaries. Through these concordats,
Satan blocked the children of Ishmael from a knowledge of scripture and
the truth.
The Islamic
community looks on the Bible-believing missionary as a devil who brings poison
to the children of Allah. This explains years of ministry in those
countries with little results.
The Vatican also
engineers a campaign of hatred between the Muslim Arabs and the Jews. Before
this, they had co-existed peacefully. A light control was kept on Muslims— from
the Ayatollah, down through the Islamic priests, nuns, and monks.
The next plan was
to control Islam. In 1910, Portugal was going Socialistic. Red flags were
appearing and the Catholic Church was facing a major problem. Increasing numbers
were against the Church.
The Jesuits
wanted Russia involved, and the location of this vision at Fatima could play a
key part in pulling Islam to the Mother Church. In 1917, the Virgin appeared in
Fatima. “The Mother of God” was a smashing success, playing to overflow crowds.
As a result, the Socialists of Portugal suffered a major defeat.
Roman Catholics
worldwide began praying for the conversion of Russia, and the
Jesuits invented the novenas to Fatima, which they could
perform throughout North Africa, spreading good public relations to the Muslim
world. The Arabs thought they were honoring the daughter of Muhammad, which is
what the Jesuits wanted them to believe.
As a result of
the vision of Fatima, Pope Pius XII ordered his Nazi army to crush Russia
and the Orthodox religion, and make Russia Roman Catholic. A few years after he
lost World War II, Pope Pius XII startled the world with his phony “dancing Sun”
vision to keep Fatima in the news. It was great religious show biz and the world
swallowed it. Not surprisingly, Pope Pius was the only one to see this vision.
As a result, a
group of followers has grown into a Blue Army worldwide, totaling
millions of faithful Roman Catholics ready to die for the Blessed Virgin.
But we haven’t seen anything yet. The Jesuits have their Virgin Mary scheduled
to appear four or five times in China, Russia, and major appearance in the U.S.
What has this got
to do with Islam?
Note Bishop
Sheen’s statement:
“Our Lady’s
appearances at Fatima marked the turning point in the history of the world’s
350 million Muslims. After the death of his daughter, Muhammad wrote that she
‘is the most holy of all women in Paradise, next to Mary.’ He believed that the
Virgin Mary chose to be known as Our Lady of Fatima as a sign and a
pledge that the Muslims who believe in Christ’s virgin birth, will come to
believe in his divinity.”
Bishop Sheen
pointed out that the pilgrim virgin statues of Our Lady of Fatima were
enthusiastically received by Muslims in Africa, India, and elsewhere, and that
many Muslims are now coming into the Roman Catholic Church.
DR. ALBERTO RIVERA
1988 References
Double Cross, Chick
Publ, pgs 13,14. The Meaning Of The
Glorious Koran, Pickthall, Mentor Books, pgs 220,221. Muhammad, Martin
Lings, pgs 81-84.