Battle of the Bibles - Present Truth

confined to the Dark Ages. On the contrary, within the lifetime of many who read this
book, the sacrilege of Bible burning was still part of Rome's repertoire.
The September 13, 1913 London "Protestant Observer" published a report by
Alfred Parcelli who recorded forty-three instances of Bible burning by Roman Catholics
between the years 1851 and 1913 inclusive. (Source the SDA "Protestant Magazine",
June 1915).
Again, in the same issue we read of Rome's activities in that papal stronghold,
the Philippine Islands, where in 1914, "The burning of a large number of Bibles took
place in Vegan, Ilocus Sur" (ibid p 44).
No wonder that amidst the present day prosperity enjoyed by South East Asian
countries, the Philippines are distinguished by impoverishment akin to that found in the
Latin countries of Central and South America!
Presumably, it was the futility of coping with the output of modern printing
presses that eventually convinced Rome that a planned program of Bible corruption
would be more productive. The growing complacency of Protestants would allow such a
program to succeed. Even "the truly Protestant" church sent a favourable signal to Rome
- the particular issue of the "Protestant Magazine", from which the above quotation is
taken, proved to be its swan song. It just disappeared!
Creeping compromise, a growing characteristic of slothful beneficiaries of the
Reformation, once allowed to pupate in a cocoon of "respectability", will finally emerge
as a creature of "acceptability". So while Protestant institutions and their values quietly
fade away, Rome, ever watchful, seizes every vantage point to strengthen her ramparts.
The development of such a scenario will inevitably tempt Rome to superintend a
return to the Dark Ages. But this time there would be an important difference. In the
words of the late Sir Winston Churchill they would return on the "The gleaming wings of
science". Churchill thus gave expression to a nagging fear engendered by the
suppressed knowledge that Adolph Hitler was a Vatican lackey. He, along with Benito
Mussolini had entered into a Concordat with the Vatican in return for "a guarantee of
political stability underwritten by the 'Vicar of Christ"' (See "The Inquisitive Christians", pp
89-92).
Now, both dictators would help carry out the Vatican's plans to finally crush
Britain. The country that more than any was responsible for the spread of the Protestant
Bible and became the bastion of Protestantism, the power that freed the Englishspeaking
world from the yoke of the pope, would now be irreversibly humbled and the
defeat of the papal-sponsored Spanish Armada avenged. Mussolini would restore the
Holy Roman Empire, while Hitler's thousand year Reich would, in reality, be the pope's
Millennium!
But, as history has once again testified, man's plans are as nothing if they are in
conflict with God's divine program. The elements which once decided the fate of the
Spanish Armada, now provided a protective cover for Britain's beleaguered armies. The
very darkness of her hour of extremity only served to highlight the miracle of deliverance.
Once again, Rome was forced to turn to her weapons of political and spiritual
subversion. The chief strategy in the new war would come to be known as "Ecumenism",
while its chief weapon for the destruction of Protestantism would be the interconfessional
Bibles.
We have seen how Rome's plan has been put into practice through the Vatican II
Council and the interconfessional Bibles to which it gave birth. Gladly did the Protestant
churches play the role of mid-wives and their offspring - the Bible Societies - as
nursemaids to the re-born children of Eusebius and Origen.
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