バチカンの獣性
今朝もジョッギングで体温を上げ、さらに風呂で30分、実に爽快だ。
2007年、唯一の教会はカトリックのみであるとの声明をバチカンが出している。
The Vatican issued a document Tuesday restating its belief that the Catholic Church is the only true church of Jesus Christ.
The 16-page document was prepared by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a doctrinal watchdog that Pope Benedict used to head.
Pope Benedict XVI was elected Pope in April 2005.
(Plinio Lepri/Associated Press)Formulated as five questions and answers, the document is titled "Responses to Some Questions Regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine on the Church."
It says although Orthodox churches are true churches, they are defective because they do not recognize the primacy of the Pope.
"It follows that these separated churches and communities, though we believe they suffer from defects, are deprived neither of significance nor importance in the mystery of salvation," it said.
The document adds that Protestant denominations ? called Christian Communities born out of the Reformation ? are not true churches, but ecclesial communities.
"These ecclesial communities which, specifically because of the absence of the sacramental priesthood … cannot, according to Catholic doctrine, be called 'churches' in the proper sense," it said.
要するにいわゆるプロテスタントはカトリックから生まれものであり、真の教会ではなく単なる共同体に過ぎない。彼らは教皇を認めず、サクラメントも拒否しているからだ、というわけ。
バチカンについてはすでに緋の獣に乗る緋と紫の衣をまとう大淫婦であると指摘しているが、その獣性は今後露骨に露わにされることであろう。
今回のベネディクトの退位の件で、バチカンに奇跡が起きたとする向きがある。
雷が避雷針に落ちることは当たり前だが、そのタイミングは一応考慮すべきであろう。
わたしが見ていると、サタンが、いなずまのように天から落ちました。-Luke 10:18
私たちは、今後、あの不法の者、荒らす憎むべき者の出現を予想以上に早い段階で見るかもしれない。
まことに2013年、終末の徴を見る年である。
一方で、2013年、イヤー・オブ・ウォーでもある。イランとロシアが戦略的パートナーシップを締結した。いつものJoel Rosenbergの記事より要点のみを引用する：
“A strategic partnership”: So Iran and Russia describe the series of security, economic and cultural agreements they’ve signed together in the past few weeks.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Ai-Akbar Salehi arrived in Moscow this week to co-chair the first annual session of the “partnership” with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. Days earlier, a group of officers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard arrived in the Russian capital for a crash course in crowd control and civil unrest. They’re expected to return to Iran by May and be “operational” in time for the June presidential election. Iranian authorities are nervous about expected unrest during the elections, and so have called on Russia to help prevent an Iranian version of the “Arab Spring.” But Russia made its support conditional on signing a security treaty with Iran; Tehran complied last month.
The agreement represents a break with an old principle in Iran’s defense and security doctrines. Russia has been a source of fear and fascination for its Iranian neighbors since the 18th century. Several wars of varying magnitude proved Russia to be a threat, as successive czars dreamed of winning control of a port on the Indian Ocean ? which meant annexing or dominating Iran.
In Iranian political folklore, Russia has long been depicted as a bear whose embrace, even if friendly, could smother you….Even after the fall of the shah and of the USSR, the Iranian tradition of keeping the Russian bear at arm’s length continued under the Khomeinist regime. It’s clear that a different fear has moved Tehran to abandon that tradition.
The new security pact provides for cooperation in intelligence gathering and the fight “against terrorism, people-trafficking, and drug-smuggling.” But it more significant is that it commits Russia to training and equipping Iranian security forces to deal with civil unrest….
There are other signs of change in Moscow-Tehran relations. Last week, Iran played host to Russian warships visiting Bandar Abbas on the Strait of Hormuz in what looks like the opening gambit for a Russian naval presence in the strategic waterway….
Days after the Irano-Russian pact was signed, Putin announced that he had terminated security cooperation with the United States on the fight against drug trafficking, people-smuggling and piracy.
Observers in Tehran say the change in relations is caused by several factors. Both regimes are involved in the Syrian civil war on the side of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Both believe that the “Arab Spring” is the result of “plots” hatched by Washington under the Bush administration. Both fear that the “velvet revolution” recipe for regime change could be used against them. And both Moscow and Tehran regard what they see as an US strategic retreat under President Obama as an opportunity. They think that, with the United States out, no other power has the capacity to check their regional ambitions.
まことにエゼキエル38,39章のゴグ・マゴグの戦争への布石が着々と打たれている。聖書預言の登場人物と舞台がすべて揃いつつのあるのだ。二千数百年以上前の古文書に過ぎない聖書が現代の錯綜した地政学的、政治・経済的事象をピンポイントで描き出している！再建主義などのポスト・ミレの人たちは、これらもメーソンやイルミナティによる陰謀であるとせざるを得ないわけで、これはけっこうツライことだと推察する次第。