Probing Deeper into Scripture : Could Protestantism and Trent be in Apocalypse? ...
// Bad Bishops give scandal and lead to rejection
Protestantism mainly occurred because there were a lot of Judas’s in the hierarchy of the late Middle Ages: women wine concubines plantations and especially the immoral abuses of indulgences to be used for extravagant art in the churches.
These great forms of Judasization led to a great and terrible rejection of Jesus’ Catholic Church and to the supreme heretical rebellion of Protestantism.
Let us examine further.
// The later rigor of the trumpets will integrate with the above theology
From here I'm going to delve into the trumpets , but the problem is that an entire backdrop is necessary in order to argue for the validity in some sense of where I proceed from here.
But don't worry because I plan to, in the very near future, put in part II of the critique of the St John apocalypse film that came out earlier this year within I believe February.
That forthcoming article will be very, very long but will make powerful arguments to give rigorous interpretation of the trumpets in the Apocalypse.
For now, suffice it to say, in the Book of Destiny , published by TAN books, author Father Kramer of the 1930s attempted to give an exhaustive understanding of apocalypse. Moreover, for him, the fifth trumpet was Protestantism, of which I agree with this.
// Using rigor of exegesis versus eisegeses and levels of context
But from a far more rigorous standpoint, I will attempt to deepen all the other trumpets in a logical trajectory, rather than just using eisegeses, which means to read into the text what one would like to see, rather than reading out of the text what should be there based on context.
And if there is insufficient context to fully read out from it, then effectively one must use Catholic doctrine and other scriptural or tradition analogies as well that otherwise fit to the context and then more or less make sense from the situations and details of the text in terms of appropriateness, etc.
This is really the best means of drawing forth what is likely to be more academic sense of the text then just, once again, trying to read into things that in many cases are just either controversial or non-rigorous or even sensational like a lot of fundamentalism.
// The trumpets briefly
From here, I will just briefly mention how I view the trumpets, but the full rigorous argumentation like I said , will come in a subsequent article soon:
From here, we see that quite appropriately, the process of first scandal or moral darkness of the Catholic clergy, forms the prelude to the terrible and great heretical rebellion of Protestantism.
We see above also, that in our analysis, the theology above is trumpets four and five respectively. Let us now work out that such speculation is still largely academic and fits well with the text.
// Trumpet theology for the scandal and rebellion
Yes, moving on, this is all like the fourth trumpet and 5th trumpets of the Apocalypse.
// The fourth trumpet, darkening is moral not doctrinal
In the fourth trumpet, the sky is rather dark and a third of the Sun a third of the Moon and a third of the stars are darkened.
The next trumpet is a great Woe in which terrifying creatures that are like locusts with roaring wings and scorpion tails go out into battle and torture innocent souls without the Seal of God with the scorpion tails for 5 months.
Now luminaries give the light, the light of the truth of God. Since Christ left the earth in the ascension, he is no longer the direct light to humanity but rather the Church, which is the sacramental grace of salvation unto the world.
Here, then, the fourth trumpet can symbolize the great moral fall or darkening of the Catholic clergy and hierarchy prior to the Protestant rebellion, which greatly scandalized a great portion of the faithful.
In part, this darkening is the moral essence of the hierarchy and not the light that they manifest to the world, since the magisterium and the Pope, despite whatever sins inhabit their souls, are in fact the fullness of light to the world. In other words, since the Church is the primary light of God to the world with no stain in its formal teaching, this darkening of the luminaries cannot refer to truth, and therefore must be referring to their moral character , which is the other dimension of their souls.
// The fifth trumpet: Protestantism
Consequently, this led to the Great rebellion of Protestantism , which would be the 5th trumpet: a hurricane of formal heretics going out like fearful locusts to quote on quote proclaim their individual versions of the Gospel, terrifying innocent people into not trusting the See of Rome and the Catholic Church, so that they must now try to sift through multitudes of self-mutating and conflicting versions of hellfire and brimstone preachers, no two of whom can fully agree on how you avoid going to hell.
This is like spiritual torture of a scorpion, a hard-hearted formal heretical minister who does not give them an egg of doctrinal development of the Catholic church, but rather a scorpion, as in the parable of the Christ,.
// An egg or a scorpion, Catholic doctrinal development or spiritual torture through confusion
We can see this here, in the parable of the Christ Jesus: he says that what father would give his child a scorpion if he asked for an egg?
Now this my kind of goofy theology, which I have had in previous articles, which have done rather well on Catholic 365, such as the loaves and fishes, and the fingers and toes of the crucified Christ, and also considering an extension of the great St John Paul II’s theology of the body to the fowls.
Toward this end, I am going to argue that an egg from common sense scripture and knowledge is in fact a symbol of Catholic doctrinal development.
// The male and female fowls and the egg
Let us look at it. Firstly, an egg is the result of the union of the female fowl with the male fowl, or the cock which crows in the night to herald the dawn.
// The male fowl and the light of the oral word of God
Firstly, the cock is already a supreme part of divine revelation, for the testimony of Christ to Peter on the very night before his passion dictates that before this common animal crows, Peter shall deny his beloved master three times!
Now this same animal crows to do what? To herald the dawn! And what is the dawn except the light of day! And we have already seen that light symbolizes showing us the truths and way of God!
Also, the heralding of this light by the cock is ORAL not VISIBLE, like scripture, which is written!
// The male and female Union of the fowls, and the union of Christ and the Church
Therefore, we could say that the male fowl symbolizes the Christ, from whom the oral word of God proceeds, or the sacred Tradition of the Church.
Then the female fowl, through the theology of the body, is the Church, since she receives the male fowl into her being, just as the Church receives the Christ into her being.
Moreover, since the seed of truth which comes from Christ is both the written and oral word of God, and since it proceeds into the inner being of the Church , this would be symbolized by the female fowl receiving into her inner being the seed of the male fowl.
// The union, the egg symbolizing doctrinal development
Thirdly, the fruit of this intercourse between the fowls is something which, quote on quote, develops, in the womb of the female and then comes forth for the human person to consume.
In the similar vein, the Christ infuses into the inner being of the Church the written and oral words of god, she receives them into herself, in the seed, the spiritual truth, joining it with her spiritual guidance by the holy Spirit, develops these teachings from the Christ into the doctrinal development of the Church preached through the councils and the papacy.
In conclusion, the egg becomes a symbol of the doctrinal development of the church, which emanates from the Christ's intercourse with the Church through the seed of his truth the oral and written words of God, pondered by the holy Spirit within the Church and developed into the teachings of Christ for the faithful to consume for nourishment.
// Heretical ministers and sects can only give the scorpion spiritually, the fearful uncertainty of how to avoid hell amidst confusion
However, heretical sects and so-called ministers do not partake of the bishopric and magisterium of the Church, and so cannot give this wondrous food that truly nourishes in stability. As a consequence, whether knowingly or not, (for instance , if the heretical ministers truly are seeking to understand scripture and want to share it but are innocently unaware of their errors, ) nevertheless, when one is faced with eternal damnation if they do not find the fullness of truth, the result is a certain spiritual torture, and this is like the physical scorpion that stings!
H e n c e, Jesus testifies in the parable, what father would give his child a scorpion if he asked for an egg?
// 5 months of scorpion torture, and the Catholic seal of God which protects from the heretical confusion
What does the five mean? For ages and ages I have been talking about the five loaves and two fish. Anytime we are fed sanctifying grace, this is like spiritual food. H e n c e, any sacrament is spiritual feeding and not just the holy Eucharist.
And in fact nevertheless, the sacrifice of the mass is also about holy Communion, and communion means one in beliefs and one in worship, which therefore has serious implications for the unity of Christendom itself.
Hence the division of the sacraments into loaves and fish can indicate a form of division within the body of Christ that radically tears apart the sacraments into one group of five and one group of two.
Hello hello, division according to heresy does in fact cut off the heretics from the five sacraments that are apostolic, and retains only two sacraments that can be had by them, baptism and marriage.
In addition fish are caught in the sea, which is a place chaos, just like the scripture says, heretics are tossed to and fro by every wave of doctrine.
As for the five loaves, loaves are made of barley, and barley is grown in the earth which is not like the sea but a stable place, and it is said of the holy church by Saint Paul to St Timothy that the Church of the living God is like the pillar and ground of Truth.
Now apostolic succession is like a firm ground of truth, even of the Orthodox, who possess the bishopric and the sacred tradition, making them effectively almost as stable as we are. Consequently the five loaves which emanate from the earth, can symbolize the five sacraments which heretics lose , the apostolic sacraments,
And if you look at the full theological implications of these five sacraments, it really seems that the vast majority of their theology summarizes most of the doctrinal confusion that the heretics of Protestantism argue over.
Consequently, this 5 months of time, a torture, can symbolize the spiritual confusion that terrifies innocent heretics because they have no way of knowing the full implications of apostolic doctrine that would reassure their souls how to avoid hell and go to heaven in a stable condition.
This is why, the Seal of God in the forehead in Apocalypse 7, can symbolize the Seal of the Catholic Church into the intellect of the soul, which renders the faithful Catholic protected from the harm of heresy , confusion , and errors, and this, precisely because the Catholic church is infallible and utterly stable in her teachings.
H e n c e, the terrifying hellfire creatures out of the fifth trumpet are, in the final picture, the formal heretics who spiritually torture the innocent heretics , who again do not possess the s e a l of God, which would otherwise protect them from the confusing heresies and give them the stability and infallibility of Catholic teaching.
This is really the way we should look at the apocalypse instead of the freaking preterism , which just sets it in the beginning of church history alone, and leaves some two or three thousand years of Ages of Catholic history in an oblivious wheat and tears before the final Antichrist