WHO IS THE TRUE BRIDE OF JESUS
REVELATION 17
Lesson 1
Part 1
If the outline of Jesus can be traced in every book of God’s Word, and it is, then He is blazing brighter
than the noonday sun in Revelation. No book of God’s Word more clearly shows all the Beauty of Jesus.
From the very first verse, God declares that He is revealing (unveiling) Jesus for us, His servants, to
the very last verses where God is inviting all who are thirsty to come to Jesus, The Water of Life.
Revelation overflows with our Lord Jesus. How are you doing in your daily time in the Word of God?
Are you experiencing the wonders of Discovering Jesus? That is exactly what the Book of Revelation is all
about. It is a tool, a guide and a roadmap into the very presence of God. It is a full color photo album
of Jesus. It is a gripping action film taken from the vantage point of the control room of the Universe
where God is monitoring the passing of time to the serene background music of heavenly worship. Come and
Discover Jesus as Pastor John takes us on 40 carefully planned stops. Each message of this Revelation Series
brings us to a unique view of our Blessed Lord. From the prison colony of Patmos gaze at the MAJESTY OF JESUS
as HE COMFORTS the Apostle John in Revelation 1. Across the parchment of seven personal letters directly from
Jesus to His Bride, listen to the MESSAGE OF JESUS as HE CONFRONTS His Church in Revelation 2-3. Against the
backdrop of seals, trumpets and bowls ponder the MISSION OF JESUS as HE CONQUERS the Cosmos in Revelation 4-19.
With the world back in control and the New Heavens and Earth coming into view rejoice for the MANSIONS OF JESUS
as HE CALLS in Revelation 20-22.
* Revelation 17 asks us to meet The True Bride of Jesus!
LESSON #1 WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THE MASS AND THE ROLL OF MARY?
Galations 1:6
LESSON #2 WHY I AM NOT NOR NEVER COULD BE A ROMAN CATHOLIC
Galations 1:6-10
LESSON #3-4 ARE THE SACRAMENTS AND PERGATORY IN THE SCRIPTURE?
LESSON #5 WHAT IS THE PERGAMOS CONNECTION TO PAGANISM?
Pergamum: Wed to the World Revelation 2:12-17
LESSON #6 DISCOVER THE TRUE BRIDE OF JESUS
LESSON 1: WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THE MASS AND THE ROLE OF MARY?
“WHY I AM NOT NOR EVER COULD BE A ROMAN CATHOLIC ” GALATIANS 1:6
The largest visible church in the World is the one called the Catholic or Roman Catholic church.
There are many who love the Lord and serve the Lord who have been or are Catholics today.
Many organizations work freely with both Protestants and Catholics. As the years pass, the lines
of distinction seem to blur. Before I start with my list of reasons let me assure you that I know
and love some dear born again Roman Catholics. In fact, some of my closest spiritual advisors were
baptized Roman Catholic priests (emphasis on were). Their names are: John Wycliffe, Jon Hus, John Calvin
and Martin Luther Some critical texts this study is built around are:
* Galatians 1:6-10
6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
8 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.
9 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.
10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the
servant of Christ.
* 1 Peter 2:24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might
live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
* 2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted
from the simplicity that is in Christ.
And even today I have met warm and loving folks who are born again but stay in the Roman church. How? It’s like
AIDS – AIDS is deadly killer. It strikes good and bad. Romanism is deadly so many good people are touched by it
but it doesn’t lessen the evil of the blasphemous doctrine of Romanism.
Let me explain:
THE FIRST ROMAN CATHOLIC FALSE DOCTRINE IS THE MASS Now what does Rome teach on this vital subject?
Listen to the creed of Pope Pius IV, which is a summary of the findings of Rome’s Great Council of Trent:
Article Five: “That in the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really and substantially the
Body and Blood, together with the Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that there is made a conversion
of the whole substance of the wine into the Blood; which conversion the Catholic Church calls Transubstantiation.
I also confess that under each kind alone Christ is received whole and entire, and a true Sacrament.”
I have a Mass Book here and in it the priest and congregation are instructed thus:
“After the words of Consecration, the priest, kneeling, adore the Sacred Host; rising, he elevates It—Look up at
the Sacred Host with faith, piety and love, saying: ‘My Lord and My God’—and then placing it in the coporal,
again adores It.” The priest and the congregation1 actually worship the little pancake god and call it
“My Lord and My God.” No wonder I call it the mockery of the mass. Yes, and what a mockery of God, of Christ,
of the Holy Ghost, and Calvary it all is!
Trent declares: …in this divine sacrifice…is contained and immolated in an unbloody manner the same Christ who
once offered Himself in a bloody manner…this is truly propitiatory…. For the victim is one and the same…now
offering [Himself] by the ministry of priests…not only for the sins…of the faithful who are living, but also for
those departed in Christ but not yet fully purified (i.e., still suffering in purgatory for their sins).
(P. 146) If anyone says that in the mass a true and real sacrifice is not offered to God…[by] priests [who] offer
His own body and blood…[or] that the sacrifice of the mass is…not a propitiatory one…let him be anathema (p. 149).
This blasphemous gospel necessarily alienates evangelicals because it contradicts the specific teaching of Scripture:
Nor yet that he should offer himself often [as Catholicism teaches]…but now once in the end of the World hath he
appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself…we are sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
once for all…for by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
…Now…there is no more offering for sin.
Heb. 9-25-10:18, and many other verses).
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood
of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath
he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time
without sin unto salvation.
Hebrews 10:18
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
(Dave Hunt Newsletter) The epistle to the Hebrews speaks of the once for all sacrifice of Christ on the cross,
not a daily sacrifice on altars. It cannot be argued exegetically that the Mass is a real and true sacrifice of
reconciliation and that Christ still sacrifices Himself daily by the hands of the priest (Council of Trent) as
the Bible repeatedly affirms in the clearest and most positive terms that Christ’s sacrifice on Calvary was complete
in that one offering. And that it was never to be repeated is set forth in Hebrews, Chapters 7, 9 and 10.
There we read: “Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and
then for the peoples: for this he did once, when he offered up himself” (7:27) “…by his own blood he entered in once,
into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us: (9:12). “…And without shedding of blood is no
remission…Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with
blood of others; for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world; but not once in the end of
the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself…So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of
many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation: (19:22-28).
“By the which we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest
standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man,
after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting
till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified”
(10:10-14). Dr. Loraine Boettner, in his classic book “Roman Catholicism”, asks the reader to “Notice that throughout
these verses occurs the statement ‘once for all’, which has in it the idea of completeness, or finality, and which
precludes repetition. Christ’s work on the cross was perfect and decisive. It constituted one historic event,
which need never be repeated, and which in fact cannot be repeated.
The language is perfectly clear: ‘He offered one sacrifice for sins for ever’ (10:12).
Paul says that ‘Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more’ (Romans 6:9);
and the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews says that ‘By one offering he had perfected for ever them that are
sanctified’ (10:14)…We are told that Christ has sat down as token that His work is finished. Depend upon it,
He never descends from that exalted place to be a further sacrifice upon Rome’s altars or on any other, for of such
sacrifice there is no need…. Thank God that we can look back to what our Lord did on Calvary and know that He
completed the sacrifice for sins once for all, and that our salvation is not dependent on the whim or arbitrary
decree of any priest or church. Any pretense at a continuous offering for sin is worse than vain, for it is a
denial of the efficacy of the atoning sacrifice of Christ on Calvary.
So first, I am not Roman Catholic because of the anti-Christian blasphemy of mass. Don’t partake of it, if you
know Christ!
“Only one life to live and soon is past
Only what’s done for Christ will last!”
Hoping to make the time I have left count for the glory of God.
WHO IS THE TRUE BRIDE OF JESUS REVELATION 17 Lesson 1 Part 1