Smokescreens - by Jack T. Chick (c)1983.pdf - Friends of the ...

Chapter Five: Another Gospel
As a Christian, what do I do concerning the whore of Revelation? I'm accused of not showing love
and of being too harsh in exposing Catholicism. Am I being unscriptural? Let's see.
Bible Christianity and Roman Catholicism are doctrinally as far apart as the east is from the west.
One is based on the Bible and the other on the traditions of men. So how can we walk together without
compromise? It's impossible.
Many Protestants and Charismatic Catholics claim that the Holy Spirit is drawing them together.
But, is it the Holy Spirit of God? Or could it be a different spirit? Are Charismatic Catholics leaving the
whore of Revelation? Or are they being used to pull Protestants to Rome?
Some Charismatic Catholics claim that after being baptized by the Holy Spirit they have a deeper
relationship with Mary, they can recite the rosary in tongues, and so on. None of this is in the Bible.
They are the inventions of men. In II Corinthians 11:2-4, it says: "For I am jealous over you with godly
jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 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. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we
have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which
ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.' Paul is warning them here against following anyone
preaching another gospel.
And then in John 16:13 it says: "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into
all truth: for he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak."
Now, God the Holy Spirit is the spirit of truth. How can He lead someone deeper into error? That's
impossible, Beloved. That's a different spirit, and it is not from God. Satan is the master deceiver and
this is his clever religious game to pull Protestants under the control of the whore.
Has Rome changed? Beloved, when the whore of Revelation dumps the mass, the veneration (or
worship) of Mary, when they throw away their rosaries and repent from claiming that Mary was free
from original sin just like Jesus, when they admit they cooked up the idea of purgatory; and when the
priests of Rome concede to the priesthood of all believers; when the whore of Revelation does all that,
then I will believe she is changing. People say she is changing, but, beloved, she is only changing her
tactics.
How does a harlot, or whore, seduce her victims? The book of Proverbs tells us in chapter 7, verses 6
through 10: "I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, Passing through the
street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and
dark night: And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart." Then,