Snapshot of Satan's Daughter?

Snapshot of Satan's Daughter?

By Terry James

Children are beautiful. Their innocence makes them especially so. Caught on film early on, it seems only goodness and happiness can come from the promise the new life presents.

The child grows in an environment uniquely his or her own, however, and promise all too often turns to disappointment, even tragedy.

God’s Word gives us an end-time portrait of a symbolic woman whose end exhibits the wanton life of a murderous, blood-thirsty prostitute. Her photograph is described to us as follows:

And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration (Rev. 17:4-6).

Certainly this Revelation 17 portrait is of Satan’s daughter, all grown up. She has become Antichrist’s mistress, and rides that last tyrant’s power and government while murdering the saints of God. She lives sumptuously, and has the attentions of the kings and merchants of Planet Earth.

This woman is portrayed as the beast’s consort. She is Satan’s counterfeit of Israel, the wife of Jehovah and the Church, the Bride of Jesus Christ.

She represents all the religions of the world, come together to do the bidding of the false prophet of Revelation 13. She fulfills Jesus' prophetic forewarning that false prophets and false teachers will come on the scene in great numbers and will deceive the world into believing that one other than Jesus is the long-awaited savior of the world.

The world religions have for decades been meeting in great ecumenical enclaves at various places around the world. The fetus of one-world religion has thus been long gestating in the womb of the godless religion called humanism. The case might be made that now we have a portrait of Antichrist’s future mistress, the infant daughter of Satan to look at. She, in the form of false Christianity, is presently being proudly exhibited by American media.

She comes with the right birth certificate. A likeness of Christ is at the center of her handprint and footprint. She will be easily taken as the authentic representation of all that is good—and acceptable—within Christianity.

New York, 11 March (ENI)—A long-discussed grouping bringing together a wide range of US churches and church bodies will be officially launched in June.

The new organization, Christian Churches Together in the USA (CCT-USA), will officially inaugurate its work on 1 to 3 June at a Jesuit retreat centre in Los Altos, California…CCT is being formed to "widen and enlarge the table" of ecumenical action, cooperation and dialogue in the United States and is not expected, at least for now, to supplant the already existing National Council of Churches (USA)…

The latest US denomination to declare itself a founding member of the CCT is the Episcopal Church. The denomination's executive council committed the church to the new grouping during an 11 to 14 February meeting in Austin, Texas, the Episcopal News Service reported.

Bishop Christopher Epting, the denomination's chief ecumenical officer, told the news service that CCT-USA could "have the potential of moving beyond the old, institutional structures and bureaucracies of the ecumenical movement and tap into the new energies of a spiritual ecumenism."

ENS reported that in addition to the Episcopal Church and the US Catholic bishops, full members include the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Church of God, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the United Methodist Church, several Orthodox bodies, the Salvation Army, the United Church of Christ, Open Bible Churches, International Pentecostal Holiness Church, the advocacy group Evangelicals for Social Action, and the humanitarian organization World Vision… (Chris Herlinger, "New US grouping bringing more churches together set for June launch," Ecumenical News International, Daily News Service, 11 March 2005).

As stated above, the supposed Christ-centered pedigree is in their official jargon. It reads, in part:

The purpose of Christian Churches Together in the USA is to enable churches and national Christian organizations to grow closer together in Christ in order to strengthen Christian witness in the world. CCT welcomes churches, Christian communities and national Christian organizations that: believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Savior according to the Scriptures; worship and serve the one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit; seek ways to work together in order to present a more credible Christian witness in and to the world…

Sounds great, doesn’t it? The neutralizing antidote to the true message of the Bible, however, is hidden in the fine print:

Several bishops expressed concern whether there are sufficient safeguards in the organizational structure of the CCT to protect the Catholic Church from being associated with statements that contradict Catholic beliefs. Bishop Blaire said such safeguards are in place. He explained that the CCT will be able to take positions or issue statements as a body only if all its members agree: A single 'no' vote is sufficient to block a statement. He also explained that if a member church neither supports nor opposes a statement, it could 'stand aside,' neither voting for the statement nor blocking it. There is also provision for issuing statements with separate majority and minority positions attached for those aspects of a subject on which agreement cannot be reached, he said…

Paul’s forewarning resonates across the centuries of history: “Know this also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall…[have] a form of godliness, but [deny] the power thereof…” (2 Tim. 3:1-2, 5).

And again we hear the apostle’s words echoing down God’s great prophetic hallway of time: "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables” (2 Tim. 4:3-4).

The false church of the Tribulation won’t appear at first to be a pagan body that strays far from biblical truth. The deception, however, is already observable within the doctrinal statements of most of those denominations given as future members of the CCT. These, in almost every case, give the message that salvation is through Christ. But, they, again almost in every case, have a very different view of what needs saving and what salvation means.

In most cases, the environment of Mother Earth needs rescue and guardianship. The poor need fed. The homeless need shelter. The porpoises and baby seals need saved from extinction. These are all admirable things, to be sure. But it is not the Gospel message, nor truth from God’s Word about the matter of salvation or Jesus Christ and who He is and why He came to earth as both God and man.

To understand more precisely what types of issues this organization is about, I suggest you follow this link to the news item: Link.

Again, Paul the apostle speaks to the heart of the problem with regard to the forming apostate church: “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any [man] preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed” (Gal. 1:8-9).

The picture we are seeing develop of the church that will become mistress to the man of sin is but one more signal of just how near we must be to the rapture of the true church.