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THE KING OF THE NORTH AT JERUSALEM
expressing his confidence that it was the King’s desire to “extend the privileges of the church,” and “to
establish her jurisdiction where at present she has none.” The extension of “the privileges of the church”
and the establishment of “her jurisdiction” results in the increase of her enormous wealth.
The presumptive power of the Papacy to “divide the land” to its own advantage was brought to
view in connection with the discoveries of the new world by Columbus. In his book, “The Prophetic Faith
of Our Fathers,” volume II, LeRoy E. Froom says:
“The popes had given Portugal a monopoly on the sea route to India by way of Good Hope. Spain
and Portugal, rival sea powers, had found it impossible to traffic with the Far East without violating the
papal mandate-until this westward route was proposed, and against which there was no papal edict,” pp.
165, 166. This writer continues: “Pope Divides Globe Between Spain and Portugal. The Spanish and
Portuguese discoveries offered a wide field for papal extension. However, soon after Christopher Columbus
discovered the New World, a hot dispute arose between Spain and Portugal . . . Ferdinand and Isabella at
once dispatched an embassy to Alexander VI for. the purpose of ensuring their rights to the new territories,
on the principle that Martin V had given to the king of Portugal possession of all lands he might discover
between Cape Bojador and the East Indies. In two bulls, of May 4 and 5, 1493, Alexander VI presumed to
divide the Western world between Portugal and Spain by a line one hundred leagues west of the Azores,
north and south. The possession of the lands discovered, and to be discovered, was assigned to the two
countries to be held in perpetuity ... Thus half the globe was divided between Spain and Portugal.
“As Peter’s successor, the pope claimed the right to give away the Western continent, a gift that
involved an unending right of tenure,” pp. 168, 169.
“For gain,” or “for a price,” margin. Through its false teachings, the Papacy acquires great wealth:
“for a price” it can bring forgiveness and comfort to the living; “for a price” it can help the dead who are
supposed to be in purgatory. “For a price” it will sprinkle water on infants; “for a price” according to their
ability to pay-Roman Catholics can have a “high” or an ordinary nuptial mass. “For a price” the holy (?)
places and things in Jerusalem and Rome can be seen. Bishops, archbishops, etc., are appointed to certain
territories in the world and through them the Papacy derives considerable wealth. The Revelator, as well as
Daniel, draws attention to this trafficking in connection with the things of salvation-see Revelation 17: 4;
18: 3, 11-19. The Papacy “for a price” has supported dictators in their covetous ambitions for power.
Today, they are bargaining with any force that will operate in any country to bring those countries under
their control. “For a price” they lend their aid to ambitious men who desire to rise to power in their
respective countries.
By comparing Daniel 11:37, 38 and 1 Timothy 4:1-3; 2 Thessalonians 2: 3, 4; Revelation 16: 13,
14; etc., we know that Daniel’s prophecy (v. 38, 39) points to the superstitious belief that certain buildings
and various countries can be dedicated (Australia has just been dedicated to Mary) to patron and protecting
saints as tutelary deities.
Commenting upon Daniel’s prophecy and applying it to the Papacy, Matthew Henry’s Bible
states: “His flatterers call him our Lord god the pope and honors the god of forces, the god Mahuzzim, or
strongholds, saints and angels, whom his followers take for their protectors, as the heathen did of old their
demons. These they make presidents of several countries, etc. These they honor with vast treasures
dedicated to them.”
Applying these verses to the papacy, Dr. Thomas says: “He was the god of a new system of
idolatry, whose idols were the images of Mahuzzim, or ‘the ghosts’ of pretended saints and martyrs. Now,
to honor a god of guardians with such things, is to enrich the institutions dedicated to the guardian saints.
The churches, chapels, and cathedrals are the strongholds, and houses of merchandise, dedicated by the
prospering craft to guardian-saints and angels. There are the images and pictures of the saints. They are the
saints’ houses in which are deposited their shrines; silver, gold, and ivory crucifixes. They are truly Bazaars
of spiritual merchandise. But then, bazaars of priestly wares are distinguished from places of honorable
trade, by being dedicated to Mahuzzim. This is a remarkable feature in the prophecy, which finds its
counterpart in the dedication of the churches to guardian saints and angels. St. Sophia at Constantinople, St.
Peter’s at Rome, Our Lady’s at Paris, St. Paul’s at London, and innumerable other bazaars, dedicated to all
conceivable kinds of saints, and, lest any should be forgotten, to All Saints, and even to All Souls are
examples in point”-Elpis Israel, pages 365-369.
In his book, “King of the North,” pp. 27, 29, M. C. Wilcox says: “The whole earth has been
divided. Whole countries have been dedicated to patron and protecting saints as tutelary deities. The
country has been divided up, and cities have been consecrated to different saints as witness in our land-San
Francisco, St. Louis, St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. Joseph. And the earth, its countries, its cities, have not only
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