(NB: The diagram above is my addition. It is NOT part of Fr. Campbell's sermon.)
Third Sunday after Pentecost, June 14, 2015
“The way of truth maligned”
(2Pet.2:2)
Looking into the
future with a prophetic eye, St. Peter, the first Bishop of Rome, and our first
pope, warns us against “lying teachers” and “destructive sects”:
“Among you there
will be lying teachers who will bring in destructive sects. They even disown
the Lord who bought them, thus bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And
many will follow their wanton conduct, and because of them the way of truth
will be maligned. And out of greed they will with deceitful words use you for
their gain. Their condemnation, passed of old, is not made void, and their
destruction does not slumber” (2Pet.2:1-3).
St. Paul describes
in strong language, some of which I do not include here, the sinful state of
those who have abandoned the true faith and the worship of God:
“And so they are
without excuse, seeing that, although they knew God, they did not glorify him
as God or give thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless
minds have been darkened… And as they have resolved against possessing the
knowledge of God, God has given them up to a reprobate sense, so that they do
what is not fitting, being filled with all iniquity, malice, immorality,
avarice, wickedness; being full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity;
being whisperers, detractors, hateful to God, irreverent, proud, haughty,
plotters of evil; disobedient to parents, foolish, dissolute, without
affection, without fidelity, without mercy. Although they have known the
ordinance of God, they have not understood that those who practice such things
are deserving of death. And not only do they do these things, but they applaud
others doing them” (Rom.1:21;28-32).
You don’t have to
say a lot to be a false prophet. You can do it with one picture. Just ask Bruce
Jenner, now known as Caitlyn. We are being programmed to accept situations like
Jenner’s as the “new normal”. For years we have been exposed to gross moral
depravity by the TV and the other media. We watch at the peril of falling into mortal
sin, which is worse than any plague. Anthrax, Aids, or Ebola, can kill the
body, but can’t touch the soul. Mortal sin means death to both body and soul in
Hell for all eternity, unless by God’s grace one is able to repent. Those who don’t
fight courageously become blind to the truth, and fall into the grievous errors
of the corrupt society around them.
False prophets
abound. Think of the “lying teachers” and “destructive sects” created by the
Scofield Bible. Seeking to alter the Christian view of Zionism (the
re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel), the Jewish
Zionists have succeeded brilliantly by promoting a pro-Zionist subculture
within Christianity. They commissioned Cyrus Scofield (1843-1921) to re-write
the King James Version of the Bible by inserting Zionist-friendly notes in the
margins, between verses and chapters, and on the bottoms of the pages. The
Scofield Bible (1909) became the standard for interpreting scripture in
Protestant churches, seminaries, and Bible study groups. And they all followed
like sheep, including the famous TV evangelists of our time, Billy Graham, Hal
Lindsay, Pat Robertson, John Hagee, Joel Osteen and their like. And they in
their turn, with their enormous following, have led the whole country into
vassalage to the Godless modern State of Israel. Deceived themselves, they have
become “lying teachers”. How the Jewish Zionists must gloat over their
mind-boggling achievement.
St. Paul in his
Epistle to the Galatians contradicts the claims of the Scofield Bible:
“The promises were
made to Abraham and to his offspring. He does not say, ‘And to his offsprings,’
as of many; but as of one, ‘And to his offspring,’ who is Christ… For you are
all the children of God through faith in Christ Jesus” (Gal.3:15b,16).
This makes it
clear that to carry the blood of Abraham in one’s veins, or to be a believing
Jew, is of no advantage to those who do not have faith in Christ. And Scofield
and the Oxford University Press are liars when they try to prove that those who
are known today as “Jews” are the heirs to the promises of Abraham. The Jewish
religion today is not the
true religion
of the Jews of the time of Christ, but the false Talmudic Judaism which
blasphemes Jesus Christ and deifies the Jewish race. The promises God made to
Abraham are fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
The Jewish Zionists, in the dark themselves, have no interest
in promoting a true understanding of the Scriptures. And who would have thought
that the “Bible believing Christians” would have stumbled after them into the
darkness? Amazing as it seems, those pompous TV evangelists with so much to say,
have strayed far from the truth which they think they have found in the pages
of the Holy Bible. They should take note of St. Peter’s warning (concerning St.
Paul’s letters) that “there are certain things difficult to understand, which
the unlearned and the unstable distort, just as they do the rest of the
Scriptures also, to their own destruction” (2Pet.3:16).
Standing up in
Jerusalem on the First Pentecost, St. Peter spoke to the Jews of the “promise”
given to Abraham, which is fulfilled in Jesus Christ:
“‘Repent and be
baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of
your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For to you is the
promise and to your children and to all who are far off, even to all whom the
Lord our God calls to himself.’ And with very many other words he bore witness,
and exhorted them, saying, ‘Save yourselves from this perverse generation’”
(Acts2:38-40).
St. Paul tells us
of the true children of Abraham:
“Know therefore
that the men of faith are the real sons of Abraham. And the Scripture,
foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, announced to Abraham
beforehand, ‘In thee shall all the nations be blessed.’ Therefore the men of
faith shall be blessed with faithful Abraham” (Gal.3:7-9).
