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http://www.cloakanddagger.ca/media/Chamish/Pope_Zionist/FW%20Pope's%20Zionist%20Sabbateans.htm "Pope's Zionist Sabbateans" by Barry Chamish with Forward by Eric Phelps The following article is written by my friend, Barry Chamish, whom I consider to be the foremost authority on both the past and present state of affairs within Israel today. I highly recommend the reading of his several books, as they sustain the fact that the Pope of Rome has controlled the Zionist, anti-Torah, Socialist-Communist government of the Nation of Israel from its inception - to the detriment, pain, and heartbreak of the beloved Hebrew/Jewish/Israelites people of the Most High within and without the nation. In light of my research, his article simply put is as follows: the Pope's Masonic Jewish Zionists, including those racially half-Jews known as "Sabbateans," are merely the open, visual agents of the Black Pope in fulfilling his wicked Council of Trent in making the Pope the "Universal Monarch of the World" ruling from Jerusalem's soon-to-be-built Third Hebrew Temple. The fulfillment of the Order's Council of Trent (upheld by every Pope since its conclusion in 1563) means the deliberate mass-murder of historic "heretic" Reformation Protestants, pre- Reformation Baptists, racial and religious Jews, as well as "liberal" anti-Communist, anti-Jesuit, anti-Masonic Roman Catholics. In giving examples illustrating the above point, history attests to the mass-murder of six hundred thousand, anti-Jesuit, Roman Catholic French Vendee by the Order's great Masonic avenger - Napoleon Bonaparte. This is why the Order, in control of the Masonic Islamic Young Turks, murdered over one million "heretic" non-Roman Catholic, Orthodox Armenian Christians (many of whom were racial Jews, as were the "Roma" Gypsies having been exterminated in Nazi Death Camps deep within the forests of Roman Catholic Poland) during World War I - the beginning of the Black Pope's Second Thirty Years' War (1914-1945). This is why, in returning the Russian Orthodox Church to the "One Shepherd" of Rome, the Jesuit "Society of the Perfect" murdered over two million Russian Orthodox people and overthrew the Orthodox Romanoff Dynasty during its Bolshevik Revolution and ensuing five-year Civil War. This is why the Sons of Loyola used their occult SS - patterned after the Jesuit Order by the infamous Bavarian Roman Catholic Jesuit Coadjutor Heinrich Himmler - to murder nearly seven million Jews, tens of millions of non-German Protestant European "Aryans," and tens of millions of Russian "Slavs" during World War II. All these massacres were financed by the Rothschild/Schiff/Warburg Vatican Bankers and/or were openly led half-Jews who, in fact, were mere agents of Jesuit General Ledochowski. Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich, Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin were all Vatican-controlled, racially half-Jews who worked in conjunction with the Pope's Masonic Jewish Zionists, while murdering millions of "perfidious Jews" so surnamed by the Pope's Canon Law. As of 1946, the Professed of the Fourth Vow Luciferian Society of Jesus altered its Constitutions so http://www.cloakanddagger.ca/media/Chamish/Pope_Zionist/FW%20Pope's%20Zionist%20Sabbateans.htm (1 of 18)08/08/2004 19:34:14 http://www.cloakanddagger.ca/media/Chamish/Pope_Zionist/FW%20Pope's%20Zionist%20Sabbateans.htm as to admit Jews into the Company. I contend that Jews were secretly admitted into the Order - at the absolute discretion of the Jesuit General - for two reasons. First, to secretly carry out the Order's Council of Trent committing horrible atrocities in the name of Communism, Fascism, and Zionism. Payback would be the breakup of the Ottoman Empire and the transfer of Palestine and Jerusalem's Temple Mount to the control of the Pope's Masonic Jewish (truly anti-Jewish) Zionists. In turn, the Pope's "Court Jews" of Israel would deed back the Temple Mount to the Papacy in 1993. Later, the Pope's CFR-controlled American Jewish Zionists would aid the Order's Knight of Malta and former Director of the CIA, George J. Tenet, in demolishing the World Trade Center and then igniting a "War Against Islam," intending to ultimately destroy the Mosques now legally on the Pope's Temple Mount. The Second reason the Sons of Loyola have admitted Jews into the Order is more ominous and deadly than the average Jew or Gentile can imagine. The Pope's Masonic Jewish Zionists, covertly overseen and controlled by the Society of Jesus (while they overtly finance and/or direct the Company's bloody revolutions during the last two centuries), have knowingly, and willingly, and purposely, and consciously, betrayed and framed the Jews of America and the world, in cunningly creating worldwide anti-Jewish fury so necessary to the culmination of the Pope's Anglo- American-led Crusade and the coming international rule of Antichrist. It is for this reason that during "the time of Jacob's trouble," the coming Great Tribulation to last 1260 days, the LORD from heaven will cry out to all the Jews on earth: "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." Revelation 18:4 May the elect remnant of Jews, about to inherit salvation in Messiah, come out of the Mother Of Harlots today and believe the true gospel as preached by the Jewish Apostle Peter when he said in Acts 3:10-12: "Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ [Joshua the Messiah] of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised form the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner [Psalm 118: 22], Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." http://www.cloakanddagger.ca/media/Chamish/Pope_Zionist/FW%20Pope's%20Zionist%20Sabbateans.htm (2 of 18)08/08/2004 19:34:14 http://www.cloakanddagger.ca/media/Chamish/Pope_Zionist/FW%20Pope's%20Zionist%20Sabbateans.htm For Isaiah 62:11 declares: "Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold thy salvation [Yeshua] cometh; behold, HIS reward is with HIM, and HIS work before HIM." Eric Phelps' Comments are in brackets and in Blue, KERRY, GAZA AND THE NEW JEWISH SABBATEAN HOLOCAUST by Barry Chamish In the first week of February 2004, two related incidents occurred in Israel and America. Prime Minister Sharon announced his decision to evacuate the Jewish residents of Gaza and John Kerry won enough primaries to just about settle the issue of who will be the Democratic Party candidate in the upcoming American elections. Here are a few less than publicized facts about Kerry: - He is a graduate, like both President Bushes, of the occult Yale University cabal, the Skull And Bones Society. [Half-Jew Roman Catholic John Kerry, J.D., was later educated in the law by Jesuits at their Boston College.] So whoever Americans vote for, they get the same secret society determining their lives. - Kerry, http://www.cloakanddagger.ca/media/Chamish/Pope_Zionist/FW%20Pope's%20Zionist%20Sabbateans.htm (3 of 18)08/08/2004 19:34:14 http://www.cloakanddagger.ca/media/Chamish/Pope_Zionist/FW%20Pope's%20Zionist%20Sabbateans.htm like Howard Dean, Wesley Clark and Joe Leiberman are all members of the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR). So whoever Americans choose to be the Democratic candidate, they will get the same CFR agenda. - The well publicized CFR agenda insists on Israel withdrawing from Gaza, Judea and Samaria and half of Jerusalem, making Israel unviable as a state. To that end, like Dean before him, Kerry has promised to appoint Jimmy Carter (CFR) or Bill Clinton (CFR) as his administration's Middle East advisor. [The Pope's CFR-Roadmap (Roadblock) agenda is intended to create a war within Israel that will result in the destruction of the Temple Mount Mosques enabling the Third Temple to be built - for the Pope.] - Not that Kerry will receive any new advice from either of them, since his campaign manager is Alan Solomant, an executive of Peace Now - America. - Kerry is being protected from exposure of the ugly crime of participating in a massacre in Viet Nam. - But as his prominence grew, so did the investigation of his past. And what did we recently discover; why Kerry is Jewish on his father's side. Somehow, he forgot the fact that his grandparents were prominent Jewish business people in Prague and that his father is 100% Jewish. Ask yourself, do you know anyone who doesn't know his father's religious background? As rare as it must be, that affliction runs rampant in CFR circles. Former CFR Secretary-of-State Madeleine Albright also forgot that both her parents were Jews, even though she was raised in the Jewish home of her relatives in London. If you don't feel like voting for Kerry, there is Wesley Clark waiting in the wings. Uncannily, he is also a CFR member who only discovered his father was Jewish while he was burning Bosnia to ashes. [Bosnia is composed of non-Papal Orthodox Serbs condemned by the Order's Council of Trent. As the Order used its SS Croatian Muslim Division in killing Tito's Orthodox Serbs during World War II, so it is now using Albanian Muslims to continue the same genocide pursuant to the Council of Trent.] Now how come, no matter which Democrat you choose, you get a CFR half-Jew who forgot all about it? The answer is found in the Sabbatean (also Shabbataian and similar spellings) policy of having their Jewish apostate followers converting and hiding their roots and beliefs.
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