THE SCARLET WOMAN IN REVELATION 17

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QUOTES AND EXCERPTS BY D.M. PANTON (1870-1955) ON THE PROPHESIED RISE OF

THE SCARLET WOMAN IN REVELATION 17

[One of the first sermons I preached, years ago, consisted of scores of

quotes from earlier Bible teachers and commentators predicting, on the

basis of Scripture, the revival of Rome and the coming merger of

Protestants and Evangelicals with her. Since that time, we have seen the

rise of E.C.T. and other pro-Catholic movements (such as Promise Keepers,

etc.), that unwittingly prepare the way for the Whore to once again become

drunken with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. In a previous Kingdom

Alert, I included English Baptist writer, D.M. Panton's, "The Flight of

the Papacy." The following additional quotes and excerpts by Panton reveal

that not many decades ago, Christians were keenly aware of what the future

holds. But today, so many are fast asleep. - J. Faust]

"...all that is heathen in Rome pagan and Rome papal was bodily

transported from the Tigris to the Tiber...Rome is veiled Babylon." (May

15, 1924)

"Now the master-fact of the situation is that the passion for reunion,

when wedded to a deep unsettlement in Scriptural truth, can lead to but

one goal - submission to Rome. This Rome both demands and expects. 'On

essential questions,' says Cardinal Mercier, 'such as the primacy of the

Pope, neither I nor my friends intend to sacrifice a single article of the

Catholic, Apostolic and Roman creed.' 'Papal Infallibility,' says Cardinal

Bourne (Times, March 3, 1924), 'is the fundamental doctrine of the

Catholic Church; and all discussions are useless and mere waste of time

until this doctrine is accepted...We are confronted once again with the

easy leniency which is the fruit of deep ignorance both of the human heart

and of the Roman see. Mr. Rattenbury, for example - a foremost Wesleyan -

says: -'How is it possible for any body of men who represent one Church of

Christians to ignore the existence of what, after all, is the largest body

of professing Christians? Is it absolutely incredible that there should be

a change of heart in Rome?'...A recent fact, alone, ought to open the eyes

of the blindest. On May 27, 1923, in front of the Church of Santa Maria

della Navicella a sacred function, in which the clergy took part, was

witnessed by a vast crowd. To quote the 'Osservatore Romano' the organ of

the Roman Curia: 'there were thrown into the flames many licentious books,

immoral periodicals, and PROTESTANT BIBLES, which had been taken from the

hands of the young. They were consumed in the fire to the honour of the

Madonna.' The Fascisti paper 'Il Popolo d'Italia' responded that the Bible

was the foundation of the whole Christian Church, including the Roman

Church itself, and that the burning of these copies constituted a

repudiation of the words of Jesus Christ Himself. The 'Osservatore Romano'

retorted that if it is permissible for the Facisti to be intolerant in the

political field, in burning newspapers that oppose them, likewise it is

permissible for the Catholics to burn the Protestant Bibles. It said: -

'It would seem that intolerance in politics is allowed. Now we ask, why

can it not be so in religion, when it is not an opinion that is in danger,

but the truth...We believe in intolerance.' But even today Rome does not

stop at burning Bibles...For the amazing spiritual intoxicant, producing a

profound drunkenness foretold for the nations (Rev. Xvii.2, 15), which

Rome is able to put to the lips was perhaps never better revealed than by

Loyola: - 'The white which I see I would believe to be black if the

hierarchical Church were so to rule it'..." (May 15, 1924)

"Profoundly as we are convinced of the ultimate rebuilding of Babylon

[literal]...equally profoundly we hold the Papal character of Babylon the

Mystic in Revelation xvii..."

(Aug. 15, 1924)

"Uniting a medicine and a poison produces a poison, not a

medicine...Individual groups are already prepared for submission...Nor is

it certain that Modernism, though a disintegrating force bound at last to

be at war with itself...will prove any better than a reed of Egypt. 'I

would be willing,' says Dean Inge, than whom there is no more outstanding

figure in Modernism today, 'to be reordained and reconsecrated by a Roman

bishop, if that were the price to be paid for reunion.' Meanwhile, at

least a third of the Anglican Church works openly and ceaselessly for

Papal absorption...Nor is it at all certain that contemporary

'evangelicalism' is to be relied upon...To cite but one example: the

'Missionary Review of the World,' founded by Dr. A.T. Pierson and still an

evangelical organ, says (Oct., 1932) of Ignatius Loyola, the creator of

'the fascists of the Papacy': - 'Here is one who lived consciously in the

presence of God, - to whom in this age can we compare him, and why does

not our generation produce more men like him?' If the founder of Jesuitry

walked with God, there is no apparent reason why every Jesuit may not be

doing so now; an dit is a sin to be out of communion with men who walk

with God. The Spirit of God has unveiled in prophecy the very goal to

which contemporary facts are thus manifestly heading. The Roman Church's

undying claim, emblazoned on her most ancient fane the Lateran -'Mother

and Mistress of Churches' is countersigned by the Apocalypse; and with the

exquisite accuracy of prophecy...The Roman Church has suffered eclipse,

but never death, and her sun bursts into cloudless blaze just ere her

final sunset...But he who imagines that the Mother of Harlots - for such

are all Churches who compromise with idolatry - has abjured intolerance by

an iota is most dangerously ignorant...ecclesiastical power, re-enthroned,

inevitably brings back the block and the faggot. Irresistible unity gave

birth to the Inquisition. A work by Cardinal Lepicier published in 1910

with the 'imprimatur' of the Ecclesiastical Authorities, and a special

letter from Pius X expressing his 'infinite thankfulness,' says: -'As for

the heretics who have wilfully become so, who openly profess heresy and

encourage other people by their example and their writings to adopt the

same errors, nobody can doubt they deserve, not only to be rejected from

the Church by excommunication, but moreover that they are to be taken away

by death from the living world (per mortem e vivis auferantur)'...In the

words of Canon Melville: - 'Make peace, if you will, with Popery; but be

certain that Popery thus honoured and embraced is the very Popery that was

loathed and degraded by the holiest of your fathers.' Every privilege we

have was bought by the blood of a martyr; and some of us will yet have to

lay down our lives in consequence of the great betrayal. By a stoke of the

pen in 1917 Benedict XV placed in abeyance the death-penalty for heretics;

but a stroke of the pen can restore it." (Dec. 15, 1932)