This information came from Alberto Rivera, former Jesuit priest after his conversion to
Protestant Christianity. It is excerpted from "The Prophet," published by
Chick Publications, PO Box 662, Chino CA 91708. Since its publication, after several
unsuccessful attempts on his life, he died suddenly from food poisoning. His testimony
should not be silenced. Dr. Rivera speaks to us still...
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 AD, 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 placed
today where the temple once stood, the Dome of the Rock Mosque stands 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.
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. Lookng 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 1950’s 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 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 (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 AD. This made Jerusalem the 2nd
most holy place in the Islam 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 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 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.
A light control was kept on Muslims from the Ayatollah down through the Islamic
priests, nuns and monks. The Vatican also engineers a campaign of hatred between the
Muslim Arabs and the Jews. Before this, they had co-existed peacefully. 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 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 world-wide 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 phoney 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 world-wide, 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."
References:
Double Cross, Chick Publ, pgs 13,14.
The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, Pickthall, Mentor Books, pgs 220,221;
Martin Lings, Muhammad, pgs 81-84.Archive
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