Wings of Liberty • December 12, 2024

Seven Mountain Mandate

Part 3: Clasping Hands


What is the link between the Papacy and the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR)? This installment hopes to provide some answers to this question.


On a stage in a Los Angeles stadium on April 9, 2016, NAR Apostle Lou Engle warmly welcomed a delegation from Pope Francis before a packed crowd of ecstatic worshipers. The wet weather had not deterred the throng of 60,000 people who had gathered to commemorate the 110-year anniversary of the original Azusa Street Revival, recognized as the beginning of both the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements.i The crowd eagerly welcomed the messengers of the Pope.


Pope Francis’ delegates greeted the gathered masses in the name of the Catholic church, and especially the 100 million plus charismatic Catholics whose worship practice closely resembles those in the Pentecostal/Charismatic movements. Charismatic Catholicism has grown rapidly around the globe, and like its Pentecostal cousins, focuses on deep emotional experiences, uplifted hands during worship singing, speaking in tongues, and a personal relationship with Jesus.ii Vatican II encouraged ecumenism, formally declaring that “The restoration of unity among all Christians is one of the principal concerns of the Second Vatican Council.”iii


After effusive mutual expressions of unity and forgiveness, the Pope’s delegate and Lou Engle kissed each other’s feet before the gathered masses and the world, proclaiming a holy moment ending the “the diabolical sin” of division between Catholics and Protestants. The papal delegates proclaimed, “Jesus doesn’t care about our differences [in doctrine]”, “we must fly united”. The exchanges can be seen starting at the 6 hour and 50 minute mark.


This incident, and other ecumenical gatherings like it, are a stunning and ominous development in the Protestant world. It is a fulfilment of Bible prophecy.


It is all too clear that the aims of Vatican II have been balefully successful. For Pentecostalism and the Charismatics, gone is the protest of Luther, forgotten are the lives of Huss, Jerome, and Wycliffe. Abandoned are the works of John Knox and John Bunyan. Forgotten are the martyrs who died by the rack and at the stake, killed by the papal power. Forgotten are the centuries of persecution, and the suffering of Pilgrims who fled Europe for America to escape the persecution of that worst of all evils, the combined rule of the church and the state. Forgotten are the warnings of Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Roger Williams and many others.


For many in what passes for Christianity today, the faith of their fathers is gone. Gone is sola scriptura. Instead, the paramountcy of the Bible has been replaced with the primacy of emotional ecstasy. The doctrines of salvation are supplanted, and dismissed as unimportant. Repetitive and trance-inducing rock music leads to an emotional high and what is seen by many charismatics as the worship’s climax: the ecstatic emotional utterances of congregants speaking in gibberish tongues.


Today, this worship experience is not only for Pentecostals. Its entrenchment is well advanced in
almost every major denomination in the world, including, as stated, in the ranks of over a
hundred million Catholics.iv


A clip of NAR Apostle, Lance Wallnau, teaching his followers to speak in tongues can be viewed
here.v



Bible Prophecy and the Papal Power


The Bible revealed that the Roman papacy would be dominant for a period of 1260 years.vi


History demonstrates the truth of the infallible Word. From 538 AD, when civil power was
assumed by the Bishop of Rome pursuant to the decree of Emperor Justinian, to 1798 and the
capture of Pope Pius VI by Napolean’s general Berthier, the Papacy had tremendous authority
and influence over western Europe. Kings knelt at the feet of the Pope for centuries, and did the
bidding of the Roman pontiff.


Church and state in union brought incredible peril to the human family. The Dark Ages were
marked by superstition, censorship and persecution. It was the age of the suppression of the
Bible, of the Inquisition, and the burning of so-called heretics.


With the Protestant Reformation, the power of the papacy to control the state gradually
weakened until the pope of that period, Pius VI, was taken captive and died in exile in France.
The Bible had prophesied that at the conclusion of the 1260 years the papal power would receive
a deadly wound, and so it did. To hear a detailed presentation on this subject, click here.vii


A beast in Bible prophecy symbolizes a kingdom.viii There are two beasts, or kingdoms,
mentioned in Revelation 13. The Protestant Reformers knew and taught that the leopard beast of
Revelation 13 was the papal power. They knew from the Bible that the papacy was predicted to
persecute God’s people,ix and then one day receive a deadly wound.x They were aware that the
book of Revelation also foretold the rise of another kingdom around the time the papacy was to
lose its dominance. In 1752, the Reformer John Wesley correctly predicted that the lamb-like
beast with the two horns of Revelation 13 was not far away.xi


History shows that only one nation was rising to global prominence at the time of the deadly
wound to the papal power, and that nation was the United States of America


America is the greatest nation the world has ever seen, and it was founded on an express
rejection of papal teaching and authority. The papacy vehemently opposes the
separation of church and state.xii The U.S. Constitution requires a separation of church and state
in the First Amendment.xiii The Papacy is opposed to liberty of conscience.xiv The U.S.
Constitution protects liberty of conscience and religious liberty as a God-given right.xv


The papacy is opposed to freedom of speech and freedom of the press,xvi and maintained a list of
banned books for centuries.xvii The U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom
of the press, and the Founding Fathers taught that without a free press liberty would perish.xviii
The papacy systematically trampled on the principles of due process both before and during the
centuries of the Inquisition, torturing people to obtain a confession to so-called heresy.xix The
U.S. Constitution constitutionalizes due process, including a right to remain silent,xx and rejects
torture.xxi


The Bible foretold that the Bride of Christ would flee into the wilderness to escape the dragon
and from the power of the Roman papacy. Ultimately, Protestantism found its way to the New
World, and one of the last great wilderness areas on the planet. How fitting that the lamb-like
beast, the United States, comes up “out of the earth” – Revelation 13:11, as opposed to the point
of origin of the other beasts in Daniel 7 and Revelation 13! Geographically, those other beasts
come out of the water, and specifically find their geographic location around the Mediterranean,
as noted in Daniel 7:2.xxii But America rose from the ground of the New World.


The Declaration of Independence repudiated the contentions of the church/state system and thus
rejected the dominionist claims of the Pope. The Founders trumpeted that human rights come
from God, not from the state. The Founders declared as “self-evident truth” “that all men are
created equal, and endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights.”


“Righteousness exalts a nation” – Proverbs 14:34. America’s protection of the rights and
freedoms of humanity has brought it greatness. It’s secret strength, like Samson’s, has its source
in the Almighty. America was raised by the Lord as a haven for the persecuted, and as a place
where the Gospel and the light of the Scriptures could be proclaimed to all the world. Individual
rights, constitutionalism, and the separation of church and state have made America great.


But like Samson, even the mighty may fall.


Samson, the mightiest man recorded in the Scriptures, fell through continued liaison with a
harlot.xxiii Delilah wooed him and plied him with her charms until he violated the secret trust
between himself and God and gave up the secret of his great strength. In liaison with the
Philistine civil powers, Delilah cut his hair and took his power. His two eyes were put out, and
his liberty was taken from him.


Sadly, the Bible predicts that America will fall the same way. The harlot who seeks America’s
power is the papal harlot, described in Revelation 17.xxiv Long has she sought to bring America
to its knees


As discussed HERE and HERE, the NAR apostles also want political power. The Papacy is more
than willing to ally with the NAR to accomplish her ends.


In 2016, NAR leaders met personally with Pope Francis to discuss their mutual interests. This is
a photo of NAR Apostle Che Ahn and Pope Francis.


Further details of this meeting can be found here.


Conclusion


The Bible foretells that the Papacy’s deadly wound will be healed.xxv The Bible states that the
world will wonder after the first beast, the Papal power, and it is. And the Bible states that
America and the Papacy will work together to bring about the final events of Bible prophecy.


Today, both the New Apostolic Reformation and the Catholic Integralism of the Heritage
Foundation, which openly advocates for a reunification of church and state, are within striking
distance of their goal. This will be the subject of an upcoming installment in this series.
For now, we conclude with words written nearly a hundred and thirty years ago regarding the
events now taking place before our eyes:


Through the two great errors, the immortality of the soul and Sunday sacredness, Satan
will bring the people under his deceptions. While the former lays the foundation of
spiritualism, the latter creates a bond of sympathy with Rome. The Protestants of the
United States will be foremost in stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand
of spiritualism; they will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power; and
under the influence of this threefold union, this country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience.xxvi




i https://news.ag.org/en/article-repository/news/2016/04/what-azusa-had-and-we-need


ii  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Charismatic_Renewal


iii Unitatis Redintegratio, the Decree on Ecumenism (1964, #1).


iv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLmMHdYjWGI


v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZi9F-5pXf8


vi Revelation 13:5 – the time period of the 42 months is the same as the time period of the 1260 years mentioned in Daniel 7: . Using a Hebrew lunar month of 30 days, 42 months is 1260 days. The day for a year principle of prophetic interpretation is found in Ezekiel 4:6.


vii https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-OX2Fzr1IU


viii See Daniel 7.

 

ix  Revelation 13:7


x Revelation 13:3


xi  https://ccel.org/ccel/wesley/notes/notes.i.xxviii.xiv.html


xii Pope Pius X, Vehementer Nos, 1906: “That the State must be separated from the Church is a thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error.” “Hence, mindful of Our Apostolic charge and conscious of the imperious duty incumbent upon Us of defending and preserving against all assaults the full and absolute integrity of the sacred and inviolable rights of the Church, We do, by virtue of the supreme authority which God has confided to Us, and on the grounds above set forth, reprove and condemn the law voted in France for the separation of Church and State, as deeply unjust to God whom it denies, and as laying down the principle that the Republic recognizes no cult. We reprove and condemn it as violating the natural law, the law of nations, and fidelity to treaties; as contrary to the Divine constitution of the Church, to her essential rights and to her liberty; as destroying justice and trampling underfoot the rights of property which the Church has acquired by many titles and, in addition, by virtue of the Concordat. We reprove and condemn it as gravely offensive to the dignity of this Apostolic See, to Our own person, to the Episcopacy, and to the clergy and all the Catholics of France. Therefore, We protest solemnly and with all Our strength against the introduction, the voting and the promulgation of this law, declaring that it can never be alleged against the imprescriptible rights of the Church.”


Also see - Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos, 1832: “Nor can We predict happier times for religion and government from the plans of those who desire vehemently to separate the Church from the state, and to break the mutual concord between temporal authority and the priesthood. It is certain that that concord which always was favorable and beneficial for the sacred and the civil order is feared by the shameless lovers of liberty.”


xiii  First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution


xiv  Pope Pius IX, in his Encyclical Letter of August 15, 1854, said: `The absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty of conscience are a most pestilential error—a pest, of all others, most to be dreaded in a state.’ Pius IX, in his Encyclical Letter of December 8, 1864, also anathematized `those who assert the liberty of conscience and of religious worship,’ also ‘all such as maintain that the church may not employ force.’


xv  First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution


xvi Pope Pius IX, Mirari Vos, 1832: “This shameful font of indifferentism gives rise to that absurd and erroneous proposition which claims that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone. It spreads ruin in sacred and civil affairs, though some repeat over and over again with the greatest impudence that some advantage accrues to religion from it. “But the death of the soul is worse than freedom of error,” as Augustine was wont to say.[21] When all restraints are removed by which men are kept on the narrow path of truth, their nature, which is already inclined to evil, propels them to ruin. Then truly “the bottomless pit”[22] is open from which John saw smoke ascending which obscured the sun, and out of which locusts flew forth to devastate the earth. Thence comes transformation of minds, corruption of youths, contempt of sacred things and holy laws — in other words, a pestilence more deadly to the state than any other. Experience shows, even from earliest times, that cities renowned for wealth, dominion, and glory perished as a result of this single evil, namely immoderate freedom of opinion, license of free speech, and desire for novelty. https://rsf.org/en/dangerous-comments-pope-freedom-expression


xvii https://www.britannica.com/topic/Index-Librorum-Prohibitorum


xviii  “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost” -Thomas Jefferson, 1786. “The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” - Thomas Jefferson, 1787.


xix  https://www.ccel.org/f/foxe/martyrs/fox105.htm


xx  The Fifth Amendment states: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-5/


xxi  https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/constitutional-amendments-amendment-8-freedom-excessive-bail-fines-and-cruel-punishments


xxii Danel 7:2 “Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.” The Great Sea of Danel’s vision is the Mediterranean. All of the beasts come up out of that sea, and all of the nations in the vision find their geographic location around the Mediterranean.


xxiii See Judges chapters 13-16.


xxiv  Revelation 17 will be examined in an upcoming segment.


xxv  Revelation 13:3 The healing of the papacy’s deadly wound will be covered in detail in an upcoming segment. It is the position of the author that the wound has been healed, and current events demonstrate the proof of this.


xxvi  Great Controversy, p. 588. https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/132.2635#2659






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FAKE MONEY, FAKE SABBATH Everyone knows it is a crime to print fake money, or to use it, also known as “passing it off”, as legal tender. If you want to go to jail fast, print fake money and give it to your buddies for their trips to 7/11. Why does the government get so bent out of shape if you make your own money? Because that’s their exclusive domain. The Constitution (Article 1, section 8) says that only Congress has the power to print money. And boy are they doing a lot of it! 38 Trillion of it in fact, and counting, and they don’t want any competition from civilians. Yes, if there’s anything left in the Constitution that the federal government actually takes seriously it’s the right to print money! The Bible says that we are to render to Caesar what is Caesar’s – Matthew 22:21. There is no doubt that regulating money is primarily the domain of government. Similar to ancient Rome, it has the faces of it's leaders on it. American money also bears the Great Seal of the United States, featuring the coat of arms on one side, and the so-called Eye of Providence on the other, a symbol which bears uncanny resemblance to the Eye of Horus in the rites of ancient Egypt, as well as the All-Seeing Eye in occult practices. God, the Creator and eternal sovereign of the universe, also has an exclusive domain, and he’s even more jealous about His authority than Caesar. Caesar has been delegated temporary oversight (by God) of civil government while this earth remains. But God has always retained sovereignty over religious matters. His domain is itemized in the first four commandments of the Decalogue, separated and enumerated on a separate table of stone to show unmistakably that this is the Creator’s exclusive domain. As part of humanity’s obligations to the Creator, God declares that the seventh day of the week is His Sabbath, and He blessed it as such. The Sabbath predates the fall of humanity – Genesis 2:1-3. 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Sunday sacredness will be exalted, and passed off to the public as the genuine article in much the same way any common counterfeiter makes fake Benjamins. If Congress jealously guards the right to print money, does it not think the God of the universe will jealously guard His Sabbath from counterfeiters? But that is what Sunday sacredness is – it is a counterfeit. It is the mark of the Papacy, and the sign of its authority. It is the Roman Catholic Papacy which boasts to have changed the law of God – it admits it is a counterfeiter. The Convert’s Catechism of Catholic Doctrine by Reverend Peter Giermann states the following: “ Question: Which is the Sabbath day? Answer : Saturday is the Sabbath day. Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Answer: We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church in the Council of Laodicea transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.” The Reverend Steven Keenan’s Doctrinal Catechism says similar: “ Question: Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept? Answer: Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her; she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day; a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.” There are many indicators which demonstrate that powerful forces are pushing American society toward a union of church and state and the imposition of Sunday rest laws on the populace. Jesuit-educated Erika Kirk, the new president of Turning Point USA, has given an interview where she laments the loss of Sunday blue laws, and has stated that society must be “retrained”. i On November 13, 2025, the Michigan House of Representatives passed House Resolution 222 which officially declares November 23, 2025, as “Christ the King Sunday”. Christian Nationalists today want the same thing Pius XI wanted when he wrote his encyclical Quas Primas in 1925 (which is referenced in the Michigan resolution), and created the original Catholic Feast of Christ the King Sunday. They want a union of church and state. The Michigan resolution was sponsored by Republican state Representative and Catholic, Josh Schriver, who also sponsored a resolution in September 2025 to honor Pope Leo XIV upon his election as pope. ii The White House has issued another press release honoring another Catholic holiday. First it honored Lent, and encouraged Christians to observe Lent, which is a festival entirely devoid of biblical basis. Now it has honored the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. iii The executive branch of government has declared that, “For nearly 250 years, Mary has played a distinct role in our great American story”, and “As we approach 250 years of glorious American Independence, we acknowledge and give thanks, with total gratitude, for Mary’s role in advancing peace, hope, and love in America and beyond our shores.” The attribution of God’s blessing and protection over America to Mary is idolatry, and blasphemy. Papist Jonathan Berry, architect of Project 2025’s Sunday provisions, has been ratified as Solicitor of Labor. The Department of Labor has wasted no time in moving toward a unification of church and state. It is hosting regular prayer services where federal employees are encouraged to pray and sing hymns. iv Berry has stated his intention to restore Sunday sacredness in America and use his civil authority as Solicitor of Labor to punish transgressors of Sunday rest laws. v Sunday laws are coming. A global conversation has begun and it will grow until it becomes the dominant issue on this planet. Everyone on earth will pick a side. On one side is the Creator of the universe, and His pledge to “write His laws in our hearts and in our minds – Jeremiah 31:31-33. To make all things new. He says, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.” On the other side is the ecumenical movement, the Papacy, the civil and apostate powers of government, and their false Sabbath, the eminent pagan day of the Sun. You will decide where you stand. ________________________________ i https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2HjvrMaHnlw ii https://www.wingsofliberty.net/michigan-house-of-representatives-pass-resolution-to-establish-papal-holiday iii https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/12/presidential-message-on-the-feast-of-the-immaculate-conception/ iv https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/politics/department-of-labor-hosts-first-prayer-service-emulating-regular-pentagon-events v https://www.wingsofliberty.net/copy-of-the-curse-of-church-and-state-part-3-liberty-threatened