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PASTORS ON WHEELS – KINGDOM KINDNESS & HELPS MINISTRIES Dr. Michael Torres May 17, 2021

Theme: Old School (Part 20) Title: Old School Church Spiritual Road Map Sin #1 – Idolatry (Part 7) WORSHIP [Part 4] Text: I Corinthians 10:7 Introduction: First Sin To Avoid On Our Spiritual Pilgrimage I Corinthians 10:7 “Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, ‘The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.’”

Quote #1: IDOLATRY. (Greek eidololatreia, from eidolon, “image,” and latreia, “worship”). The worship of a false god or image of such, a practice prohibited by the law of God (Exodus 20:4-5).1

Worshipping Demons – I Corinthians 10:20 Worshipping Antichrist – II Thessalonians 2:3-4

1 Donald K. McKim, Westminster Dictionary Of Theological Terms (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996), p. 137. 1

I. Antichrist (s) – Trans-Generational Replacements For Christ: I John 2:18

Quote #2: The prefix “anti” comes from the and has two meanings: 1) opposed to, and 2) in the place of or a substitute for. Antichrist will embody both of these meanings. Antichrist will indeed oppose Christ, but in the most diabolically clever way it could be done: by pretending to be Christ and thus perverting “Christianity” from within.2

II. Romish-Styled /Pontiffs – Trans-Generational Replacements For Christ :

Just as the Bishop of (the ) is not the only bishop in the Roman , he is not the only pontiff or bridge between God and man. All cardinals, archbishops, bishops in the Romish system are pontiffs also. The very notion that every bishop in the Roman Catholic Church is a pontiff – a bridge between God and men makes the entire corpus of Romish leadership antichristian. St. Paul was emphatic when he wrote, “For there is one God, and ONE MEDIATOR between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,” (I Timothy 2:5). A Church that contradicts the Bible and offers many ways or access points to God is not of God! There can only be one God and one mediator for the Greek word employed by St. Paul in I Timothy 2:5 is heis, and it is the first cardinal numeral. Without exception the Greek heis always means one. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6). There is only one way to God and one name that saves – Jesus (Acts 4:12). To suggest otherwise as Rome does is both blasphemous and heretical.

III. Romish-Styled Bishops/Vicars – Trans-Generational Replacements For Christ:

From top to bottom the Romish Church is completely anti-God and anti- Christ. The Pope is Satan’s premier or leading antichrist with thousands of other little vicars/antichrists marching behind him and serving in lesser yet very important supporting roles:

2 Dave Hunt, A Woman Rides The Beast (Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 1994), pp. 44 – 45 – Bold Lettering Added. 2

Quote #3: Vicar of Christ – A title meaning “one who takes the place of Christ,” often used of the Bishop of Rome in particular, but used to refer to bishops in general as well…The central point is that all bishops are vicars of Christ for their local Churches, as the Pope is for the universal Church, in their ministerial functions of priest, prophet and king. 3

IV. The Double-Sin Of African American Romish-Styled Antichrist Bishops:

• Sin #1: Setting-Up In Houses Of Worship – Matthew 23:1-6; Revelation 2:12-13; II Thessalonians 2:3-4.

Quote #4: Satan’s : Greek thronos, a seat, usually high having a footstool, a throne as the emblem of royal authority (Revelation 2:13)…Synonym: Greek kathedra, a seat (Matthew 23:1), protokathedria, the first or chief seat (Matthew 23:6).4

Pope Frances Sitting On His Papal Throne Or Carthedra

Quote #5: Cathedra: Chair. Term used to designate the “chair,” or seat of office of a bishop. The church on which the bishop’s seat is located is called his . The cathedra is a symbol of the bishop’s authority.5

3 Rev. Peter M. J. Stravinskas ed., Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia Revised Of (Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 1998), p. 991. 4 Spiros Zodhiates, The Complete Word Study Dictionary New Testament (Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, 1993), p. 743. 5 James T. Bretzke, Consecrated Phrases: A Theological Dictionary (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1998), p. 19. 3

Quote #6: Cathedra: the chair-throne of a bishop is always located in the sanctuary against the left wall on the side in the cathedral church of the doicese. Cathedra is the Greek word for chair or throne, from which is derived the word cathedral.6

Quote #7: Cathedra, (kath-ay’ drah; Latin, “chair”), technical term for an episcopal throne and, by extension, episcopal authority. It is also used, less frequently, to refer to the academic chair held by a professor. A doicesan bishop’s church is called a cathedral because it houses his episcopal chair.7

Quote #8: Chair (Cathedra) (kuh-THEE-druh). The seat or throne occupied by the local bishop in his church; hence the name cathedra…As the word Seat or See () is a word in the current language of the Church, the word Chair is also found in the Roman Liturgy and signifies not only the material piece of furniture but also episcopal authority.8

Quote #9: Cathedra. From the Latin for “chair or seat of authority.” The chair of the bishop. As a symbol of ecclesiastial and teaching authority, the cathedra was originally placed within the aspe behind the high . With liturgical revisions and in response to archtectural changes brought about by the Counter-Reformation, the bishop’s chair was located in the sanctuary by the side of the altar.9

Quote #10: Cathedra. From the Greek meaning “a thing sat upon,” with particular reference to the official seat or throne of the bishop. Hence the church in which this seat is placed is known as the cathedral church. This is undoubtedly the pldest insignia of a bishop’s authority, and many centuries before bishops assumed the wearing of , rings or even the carrying of pastoral staves and croziers, they were enseated in their thrones or cathedra on the day of their to the episcopate as the sign that they were invested with authority to preside over the church in their .10

6 Robert C. Broderick, The Catholic Dictionary Revised And Updated (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1986), p. 98 7 Richard P. Mc Brien gen. ed., The Harper Collins Encyclopedia Of Catholicism (New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers Inc., 1995), p. 237. 8 Rev. Jovian P. Lang, Dictionary Of The Liturgy (New York, NY: Catholic Book Publishing Company, 1989), p. 95. 9 Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Dictionary Of Christian Art (New York, NY: The Continuum Publishing Company, 1994), p. 73. 10 J. G. Davies ed., The Westminster Dictionary Of Worship (Philadelphia, PA: The Westminster Press, 1976), p. 123. 4

Quote #11: The triple crown or ceremonial headdress proper to the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church is called tiara. Shaped much like a beehive, it is made of silver clothe (sometimes gold) with three golden crowns ornamented with precious stones. A small cross sits on its highest point. The three crowns or diadems give the tiara its other name, triregnum or “threefold rule.”11

Quote #12: The Pope has been called, “Our Lord God the Pope;” and at the Pope’s inauguration in St. Peter’s, seated in his chair upon the high altar, which is his footstool, he has vividly foreshadowed him, [the Antichrist], who “exalteth himself above all that is called God.”12

Quote #13: II Thessalonians 2:4 – Shewing himself that he is God – [The pope] exercising all the prerogatives of God, accepting such titles, and doing such things, as, if they indeed belong to him, would show him to be God: an exact description certainly of the Papal power.13

11 Rev. Peter M. J. Stravinskas ed., Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia Revised Of (Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, 1998), p. 966. 12 A. R. Fausset, Jamieson, Fausset And Brown’s Commentary On The Whole Bible, Volume III (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1978), p. 474. 13 Rev. Joseph Benson, A Commentary On The Whole Bible, Volume V (New York, NY: George Lane, 1841), p. 410. 5

Quote #14: Bishop Eric D. Garnes – YouTube Video Entitled: Pecking Order14 Starting At The 5:04 Mark Link: Bishop Garnes - A Pecking Order - YouTube

• Sin #2: Sitting In The Temple Of God, Acting As Though They Were God – II Thessalonians 2:3-4.

Quote #15: II Thessalonians 2:4. (1). He opposses and exalts himself above all that is called God, or is worshipped; and thus have the bishops of Rome…(2.) As God, he sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. As God was in the temple of old, and worshipped there, and is in and with His church now, so the antichrist here mentioned is some usurper of God’s authority in the Christian church, who claims divine honors; and to whom can this better apply than to the bishops of Rome, to whom the most blasphemous titles have been given, as: 1) Dominus Deus noster papa – Our Lord God the pope; 2) Deus alter in terra – Another God on earth; 3) Idem est dominium Dei et papae – The dominion of God and the pope is the same.15

Quote #16: II Thessalonians 2:4. But the Roman pontiff, claiming to be the universal head of the whole church of God; called by his flatterers “Vice-God,” “a God upon earth,” arrogating the title of “,”

14 Bishop Garnes - A Pecking Order - YouTube 15 Matthew Henry, A Commentary On The Whole Bible, Volume VI (Mc Lean, VA: Mac Donald Publishing Company, 1979), p. 798. 6

boasting of “infallibility,” claiming the right to depose kings and bestow kingdoms on whom he pleases; with those impious claims before mentioned, answers so exactly to the description here given, that we cannot reasonably doubt for whom it was designed. While the Roman pontiff opposes the worship of God, by enjoining the worship of images, and of saints and angels, and the authority of his laws, to enforce subjection to his own edicts; he himself may be called the great idol, as well as the great tyrant, of the Romish church; as he demands the most abject submission, and prostration from all men, both in body and soul, and pours contempt on all authority human and divine.16

Quote #17: II Thessalonians 2:4 – He sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God. It is not idolatry that is furthered, but the putting of himself in God’s place for adoration. Antichrist would deify himeself (Revelation 13:1-18; Daniel 11:36). This is worst than idolatry. By “temple” some understand the temple at Jerusalem, then standing. More likely the Christian Church is meant. In any event, the idea is that Antichrist will seek to put himself in God’s place.17

Conclusion: Last Week, This Week, Next Week:

Last Week: The Pelican In Piety This Week: Bishop’s Throne Next Week: Christ’s Titles

16 Thomas Scott, A Whole Commentary On The Whole Bible, Volume VI (Boston, MA: Crocker And Brewster, 1858), p. 409. 17 Herbert C. Alleman ed., New Testament Commentary (Philadelphia, PA: The Muhlenberg Press, 1944), p. 575. 7