The Roman Antichrist in "The Passion"

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I believe it is significant, and its meaning is supported by other evidence. Following is a brief article that appeared a few days ago: </div> <bR> <div> '666' Shows Up on 'Passion' Movie Tickets</div> <div> <B>Monday, March 01, 2004</B></div> <bR> <div> ROME, Ga. — Tickets at one movie theater screening Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" are being deemed decidedly unholy.</div> <div> The number 666, which many Christians recognize as the "mark of the beast," is appearing on movie tickets for Gibson's film at a Georgia theater, drawing complaints from some moviegoers.</div> <bR> <div> The machine that prints tickets assigned the number 666 as a prefix on all the tickets for the film, said Gary Smith, owner of the <B>Movies at Berry Square</B> (<U>search</U>) in northwest Georgia. The 666 begins a series of numbers that are listed below the name of the movie, the date, time and price.</div> <div> "It's from our computer and it's absolutely a coincidence," Smith said. "It has nothing to do with the film company or any vendor. It's completely in our computer."</div> <bR> <div> In the Bible, the <B>book of Revelation</B> says 666 is the "number of the beast," usually interpreted as Satan or the Antichrist.</div> <bR> <div> Several patrons have made comments about the numbers, and one person who was uncomfortable having 666 on her ticket asked for a pass to be substituted for a ticket.</div> <bR> <div> "A lot of people have asked what the numbers mean, some said it seemed odd, some said it was inappropriate," said theater employee Erica Diaz.</div> <div> The movie, which opened Wednesday, is a bloody depiction of Christ's final hours and crucifixion.</div> <div> End Article</div> <bR> <bR> <div> In case you did not notice, this movie theater is located in a town in North Georgia that bears the name "Rome". Below is a picture of one of these tickets. </div> <div> <IMG SRC="83d90de0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="222" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Now, this by itself would not mean much to some people. It would merely be written off as a strange coincidence that Rome, the number 666 and Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ" should all be linked together. But I want to encourage you to read the following article along with this. The article comes from "The Cutting Edge" website.</div> <bR> <div> <B>THE CUTTING EDGE</B></div> <bR> <div> Once our journalistic investigations prior to the opening of "The Passion" had revealed strong occult Roman Catholic influences in the creation and the direction of the movie [NEWS1895 ], I felt that we should see a significant Illuminati signature depicted somewhere in the movie. After all, the occultist always loves to leave a signature imprinted upon his work so that fellow Adepts throughout the world would understand that the work was created by an occultist and for an occultic goal, while the masses of people not attuned to the occult will have no idea that they had even seen a symbol! Such a symbol is called a "magic symbol". Listen to an occultist explain the full meaning:</div> <bR> <div> "The true magic symbol is an image which hides an inner meaning. This meaning is usually hidden behind a form which most people think they can understand immediately." ["Magic Symbols", by Frederick Goodman, Brian Todd Publishing House, Ltd., p. 6]</div> <bR> <div> Thus, the occultist will go to great lengths to hide the fact that he is even presenting a symbol, but the Adepts will see it at once! One of the methods of hiding a symbol in an on-going work is to present the key elements at differing times so only the Adept will recognize the fact that he must put the elements together in order to arrive at the intended conclusion! Keep this in mind as we proceed through this article.</div> <bR> <div> <B>ANTI-CHRIST SYMBOLISM IN "THE PASSION"</B></div> <bR> <div> Satanic Virgin Mother and "Divine" Antichrist Child</div> <bR> <div> In the Garden of Gethsemane , at the very beginning of this movie, we are introduced to Satan in the form of a female! Of course, this is unbiblical, for God sent an angel to minister unto Jesus during His agony at the Garden [Luke 22:43]; nowhere do the Gospels report that Satan came to the Garden to tempt Jesus. Some controversy has erupted as to whether this Satan was supposed to be female or androgynous. A Catholic author writing in Belief Net took note of this controversy and said it really did not matter. However, we believe this movie depicted Satan as female, because of the demonic counterfeit scene of the Virgin Mother and Divine Child seen later. This depiction required that Satan be female, as she was definitely being shown in an opposite Virgin Mary/Jesus setting. </div> <div> <IMG SRC="838935a0.jpg" border=0 width="147" height="346" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> [http://www.cuttingedge.org/Virgin_Child_Babylon.jpg] </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="839da620.gif" border=0 width="218" height="354" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> [http://www.cuttingedge.org/Virgin_Child_India.gif] </div> <bR> <div> However, before we get to this scene in "The Passion", let us first examine religious history to see how Satan counterfeited the Virgin Mother/Divine Child scenario almost 1,000 years before the Holy Spirit incarnated Jesus in the womb of Mary! Do not be surprised that Satan aggressively counterfeited the Virgin/Child concept, for God revealed it quite clearly in the Garden of Eden,</div> <bR> <div> "And the Lord God said to the serpent ... I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring; He will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His heel." [Genesis 3:15; Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary]</div> <bR> <div> If Satan did not know that God planned to incarnate the promised Messiah in a virgin before God uttered this prophecy, he knew it then. Therefore, he planted this concept in many religious pagan systems throughout the world. As we gather close to the time when the Roman Catholic Pope will become the False Prophet [NEWS1052 ], uniting all the world's religions under Rome's umbrella, this worship of the Virgin Mother/Divine Child will have played a major role.</div> <bR> <div> Listen to this brief history:</div> <bR> <div> "In Papal Italy, as travelers universally admit ... all appearance of worshipping the King Eternal and Invisible One is almost extinct, while the Mother and the Child are the grand objects of worship. Exactly so, in this latter respect, also was it in ancient Babylon. The Babylonians, in their popular religions, supremely worshipped a Goddess Mother and a Son, who was represented in pictures and images as an infant or child in his mother's arms. From Babylon, this worship of the Mother and Child spread to the ends of the earth. In Egypt, the Mother and the Child were worshipped under the names of Isis and Osiris. In India, even to this day, as Isi and Iswara; in Asia, as Cybele and Deoius; in Pagan Rome, as Fortuna and Jupiter-puer, or Jupiter, the boy; in Greece, as Ceres, the Great Mother with the babe at her breast, or as Irene the goddes of Peace with the boy Plutus in her arms; and even in Tibet, in China and Japan, the Jesuit missionaries were astonished to find the counterpart of Madonna and her child as devoutly worshipped as in Papal Rome itself; Shing Moo, the Holy Mother in China, being represented with a child in her arms, and a glory around her, exactly as if a Roman Catholic artist had been employed to set her up." ["The Two Babylons", by Rev. Alexander Hislop, p. 20-21]</div> <bR> <div> Thus, you can see that, many centuries before Jesus incarnated, Satan had counterfeited the virgin birth all around the world, in so many pagan religions. Thus, today it is proving easier to bring these various pagan religions to Rome.</div> <bR> <div> Now that we have read this background, let us review the demonic Virgin Mother/Antichrist scene in "The Passion".</div> <bR> <div> Once King Herod refused to condemn Jesus, Caiaphas the High Priest had no choice but to send Him back to Pilate. Because he feared that the High Priest might foment a bloody rebellion if he refused to punish Jesus, Pilate ordered his commander to have our Lord scourged. Pilate ordered the scourging to be "severe", but to not enough to kill Him. Jesus is roughly led away to a courtyard in which a 3-4 foot pillar has been implanted. Obviously, this courtyard was the official place where all scourging occurred.</div> <bR> <div> Pilate's soldiers begin to beat Jesus with thin wooden staffs resembling bamboo sticks; they certainly bent without breaking and yet were thin enough to tear open the flesh when they hit the prisoner. Jesus is beaten 32 times with these sticks before the commander orders them to stop so they can switch to the more sinister cat-o'-nine-tails, a fearsome weapon which has bone fragments at the ends, so that pieces of flesh can be ripped out when the torturer pulls the whip back.</div> <bR> <div> As all this torture is going on, amidst Jesus' cries of pain, the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene, plus the Apostle John, looked on in abject horror. In full accord with Sister Emmerich's writings, Mary was spiritually connected with Jesus, feeling every bit of pain and agony He was feeling. Time and time again, Jesus would look at His Mother, gain physical strength from the visual exchange which enabled Him to go on. From the Garden of Gethsemane to the end of the crucifixion, this movie depicts exactly what the Roman Catholic Church depicts, i.e., that Mary was Co-Redemptrix and that her suffering made up for what Jesus' suffering lacked. Listen to the Catechism teaching on this subject, as Mary is talking:</div> <bR> <div> "...THE SUFFERINGS TO BE ENDURED CAN MEAN THAT IN MY FLESH I COMPLETE WHAT IS LACKING IN CHRIST'S AFFLICTIONS FOR THE SAKE OF HIS BODY, THAT IS, THE CHURCH." [The Catechism of the Catholic Church # 1508]</div> <bR> <div> Number 1508 contains a cross-reference to Catechism Number 618, which says:</div> <bR> <div> "...This is achieved supremely in the case of his mother, who was associated more intimately than any other person in the mystery of his redemptive suffering."</div> <bR> <div> Finally, Catechism Number 964, teaches:</div> <bR> <div> "Mary's role in the Church is inseparable from her union with Christ and flows directly from it. 'Mary’s role in the Church is INSEPARABLE FROM HER UNION WITH CHRIST and flows directly from it. ‘THIS UNION OF THE MOTHER WITH THE SON IN THE WORK OF SALVATION is made manifest from the time of Christ’s virginal conception up to his death’ IT IS MANIFEST ABOVE ALL AT THE HOUR OF HIS PASSION.”</div> <bR> <div> Mary's spiritual union with Jesus is the essence of the movie, and cannot be missed by the serious observer.</div> <bR> <div> Now, let us go back to the severe flagellation scene. The Virgin Mary and Magdalene are on one side of the crowd surrounding the pillar. Suddenly, on the other side - virtually the opposite side - the sinister figure of the female Satan is shown gliding through the crowd. At first, you only see her, and the thought crossed my mind that this Satan was on the opposite side of the Virgin Mary simply because the two are spiritual opposites. The Virgin Mary is seen a spiritually virtuous, as the Catholic Co-Redeemer, while Satan is clearly the opposite type of Virgin Mother, exceedingly evil.</div> <bR> <div> The camera focuses again on Satan as she passes behind the Roman officer in charge of the scourging. As soon as her body clears the body of the soldier in front of her, you can see that she is carrying a very white, almost albino, child. At first glance, you cannot see the face of this evil "Divine Child", but his head is enormous compared to his body and his hand is caressing the cheek of the female Satan.</div> <bR> <div> Immediately, I thought, this scene is so opposite to the scene so popular within Catholicism, of the Virgin Mary carrying her Divine Child, Jesus. Therefore, if Satan is a Virgin Mother, she is really female, not androgynous. Furthermore, this evil Virgin Mother -- spiritually opposite to the Virgin Mary -- must be carrying a child opposite to Jesus! Which person does the Bible teach in going to come to mankind in the "guise of Christ" -- Antichrist!</div> <bR> <div> There can be no other explanation. This baby is Antichrist!</div> <bR> <div> Slowly, the evil Virgin Mother figure slides the clothing off the baby's shoulder, revealing swirls of the type of black hair you would expect from a fully grown man. This baby then slowly turned his face toward Jesus and sneered. The scenario being depicted is that he saw Jesus' terribly bloody scourging and was greatly pleased. The face of this baby is terribly evil -- but it was a human face, not a demon face.</div> <bR> <div> Now, why would Mel Gibson include an obvious reference to Antichrist in this movie? We had warned before this movie was released to remember that the Illuminati has the world spinning toward the time when Antichrist will arise out of the dust and destruction of the planned World War III. All prophecies relating to this event are either already fulfilled or are at the point where you can see the stage being set for fulfillment. The most important goal of the Illuminati is to stage their Antichrist, just as Revelation 17:12-17 foretells.</div> <bR> <div> Therefore, if this movie was really created in order to facilitate the global gathering of all Christian religions to Rome, we should expect to see a symbol of Antichrist in this movie! This scene was the most blatant, but certainly not the only symbol.</div> <bR> <div> </div> <div> [http://www.cuttingedge.org/Passion_Jesus_OneEye.jpg] </div> <div> <IMG SRC="83b1f2c0.jpg" border=0 width="287" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> [http://www.cuttingedge.org/All-Seeing_Eye_Unfinished_Pyramidsmall.jpg] </div> <bR> <div> <B>One-Eyed Jesus Plus His Depicted Nakedness</B></div> <bR> <div> In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus is repeatedly punched in the face by Caiaphas' guards. After this savage fist beating, Jesus' face is swollen and very puffy. In fact, His right eye is completely closed. For the rest of the movie, Jesus is shown as being able to see only out of His right eye, as this picture clearly demonstrates. Right up until the time of His death on the cross, Jesus is able to see out with only one eye. In other words, Jesus is a one-eyed Messiah for the vast majority of this movie. Keep this deliberate wording in mind, for it shall gain greater significance later in this article.</div> <bR> <div> But Gibson has placed even more emphasis on a one-eyed depiction because he has selected a human one-eye picture for his own business, Icon Productions. This picture shows a person's face in which the nose and the left eye are most prominent. You may view this symbol of Gibson's Icon Productions at: <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Georgia" ><U>http://www.iconmovies.net/</U></FONT></div> <div> <IMG SRC="83c3c540.jpg" border=0 width="60" height="84" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> In the movie, while Jesus is hanging on the cross, He turns His head slightly to the side and the camera focuses in on exactly the area of His face that is depicted in Gibson's symbol for his Icon Productions! Jesus' nose is to the lower left of the screen while His bloody eye is to the upper right. This camera shot lasted only a few seconds, but the scene is identical to his production company's symbol.</div> <bR> <div> Even in the scene in the tomb, where Jesus is sitting at the foot of the crypt holding the collapsing burial cloths, the camera very carefully concentrates on only one side of the face, so that the entire depiction in the tomb is still of a one-eyed Messiah. I caught the ending of this movie again just today just so I could view this tomb scene, to make sure that I had seen it all correctly.</div> <bR> <div> Therefore the question of the hour is this: Why the emphasis in "The Passion" upon one eye? This movie strongly depicts Jesus as a Messiah with only one eye, and with His left eye being the undamaged one. Why?</div> <bR> <div> The third time I viewed this movie, I asked Mac Dominick of Cutting Edge to accompany me, as he had not yet seen it. After the movie, Mac and I were talking as we were driving away from the theater. After Mac had shared a couple of observations, he then said, "The thing that bothered me the most is that Jesus was depicted for almost the whole movie as being one-eyed, and we know how much the Illuminati stresses the one eye."</div> <bR> <div> Mac was right, and I was amazed that I had not caught that significance. Jesus was depicted with only one eye during the vast majority of this movie. Was that an All-Seeing Eye of Illuminized Freemasonry, the One-Eyed Wisdom and Benevolence of Providence.? That certainly seemed to be possible, and very intriguing.</div> <bR> <div> Then, I said to Mac that the one thing I really and truly did not appreciate occurred at the ending of the movie; as Jesus rose from his seat at the end of the crypt stone near the burial cloths and as He began to walk away, the camera showed his bare buttocks. Now, I could have gone my entire life without seeing "Jesus'" bare buttocks! That scene was the very last thing you saw before the credits began to come up.</div> <bR> <div> Carefully consider this fact: that depiction was totally unnecessary to this film! The Gospels do not record that Jesus left the tomb naked; Sister Anne Emmerich did not see in her "visions" that Jesus was naked as He left the tomb. Therefore, why would Gibson and his Jesuit script writer concoct such an ending? Since Gibson reportedly spent $50 million of his own money to make this film and get it distributed, and since he is a proven professional screen director, you know that he paid attention to every detail, no matter how minute. You know that he knew this film was going to end on Jesus' bare bottom, so that must have been the plan.</div> <bR> <div> But, why?</div> <bR> <div> This morning, I received a phone call from Dr. Cathy Burns, of Sharing Ministries. I related to her exactly what I have just related to you in the indented paragraphs, above. When I finished telling her of "Jesus" bare buttocks, she suddenly became very excited! She said, "Do you mean that we have a one-eyed Messiah who is naked"?</div> <bR> <div> When I answered in the affirmative, Dr. Burns said, "David, go get your copy of my book, "Masonic and Occult Symbols Illustrated". I put down the phone and walked to my bookcase. When I sat down again and picked up the phone, Cathy told me to turn to page 205. She said, "Notice that the C.F.R. (Council on Foreign Relations) portrays Antichrist as a one-eyed, left-eyed naked Messiah riding a white horse!"</div> <div> <IMG SRC="83fb7d90.gif" border=0 width="183" height="217" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Can be viewed at: http://www.cuttingedge.org/Passion_CFR_Messiah.gif</div> <bR> <div> As you can see, Dr. Burns is exactly correct! Remember I told you at the beginning of this article that sometimes the Illuminati will create a "magic symbol" composed of two or more elements, knowing that only the Adepts will make the connection while the ignorant masses will never understand. In this movie, an occultist would recognize the repeated scenes of a one-eyed Messiah. Then, at the very end of the movie, the occultist would see the bare buttocks and make the connection solidly! He would recognize that the movie depicted a CFR-type Antichrist Messiah!</div> <bR> <div> But, there is more to this symbol relating to Antichrist, so let us review the additional material Dr. Burns provides in this book.</div> <bR> <div> "The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is also pushing for a one world order. The CFR publishes a magazine called Foreign Affairs as well as printing 'position papers' ... They have in interesting logo. It is a naked man astride a white steed. His hand looks like he could possibly be making the sign of the horned devil ... A fascinating bit of information concerning the letters 'CFR' is found in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The Moslems believe that an Antichrist is to appear who will have 'one eye'." [Ibid.]</div> <bR> <div> Notice in this CFR Antichrist logo that this false Messiah is showing only his left eye! Just as "Jesus" did in "The Passion"!</div> <bR> <div> Therefore, you can only now conclude that the reason Gibson showed "Jesus" bare buttocks was that he was providing the second part of the Antichrist symbol - A one-eyed Messiah who is naked!</div> <bR> <div> ANTICHRIST IS PROPHESIED TO HAVE RIGHT EYE DARKENED!</div> <bR> <div> To conclude our shocking expose' of "The Passion", we need to check an Old Testament prophecy regarding the future "Idol Shepherd" -- Antichrist. Before we show you this Antichrist prophecy, remember the facts about how Jesus' eyes are portrayed in this movie. Because of the beating He took from Caiaphas' guards in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus' right eye was totally closed for the rest of the movie. He could only see out of his left eye. Now, let us examine this prophecy:</div> <bR> <div> "Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened." [Zech 11:17]</div> <bR> <div> Therefore, this movie depicts a "Messiah" who is compatible with this Old Testament Antichrist prophecy and who is compatible with the One-eyed, Left-eyed CFR Antichrist!</div> <bR> <div> There now can be no doubt. "The Passion" depicts two solid symbols of Antichrist and casts this "Jesus" as the one whom the Bible foretells shall come "in the guise of Christ" -- Antichrist.</div> <div> <B>End "Cutting Edge" Article</B></div> <div> <B>-----------------------------------------------</B></div> <bR> <div> The above verse from Zechariah is related as follows in the NASU:</div> <bR> <div> Zechariah 11:17</div> <div> "Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! A sword will be on his arm and on his right eye! His arm will be totally withered and his right eye will be blind." </div> <bR> <div> There are two ways to understand this. The first is that this film was intended to portray Christ as a "worthless shepherd who leaves the flock", a claim that some who are of an antichrist spirit have made throughout history, as they have accused Christ of ascending to heaven and leaving His flock to struggle with Satan, sin and the world by themselves. These have not understood the Scriptures which state:</div> <bR> <div> John 14:16-18</div> <div> "I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you."</div> <bR> <div> Many in the world see Christians as orphans abandoned by their Lord and Shepherd who ascended to heaven without them. These ones do not see the Holy Spirit, for they are spiritually dead and cannot perceive that which is hidden to them. It is an antichrist spirit that would portray Christ as a worthless shepherd that has left His flock behind.</div> <bR> <div> The other meaning is that this symbolism in the movie is merely a "magic symbol" that was placed as a signature mark from one Illuminati adept to others who have eyes to see. Whatever interpretation one should take, the movie is clearly filled with a depiction of a false christ that is not the Christ of Scriptures. I believe the first understanding is more on the mark, however. This movie has gone to great lengths to portray Christ as less than divine, as I commented on in the article "The Poisoned Passion Fruit of Mel Gibson." It has elevated Mary, the mother of Christ, while lowering the character of her Son. Mel Gibson claims to have been heavily influenced by the writings of Anne Emmerich, and in her book "The Dolorous Passion of Jesus Christ" she wrote:</div> <bR> <div> “John said to him: ‘Master, what has befallen thee? Must I call the other disciples?...Call not the eight; I did not bring them hither, because they could not see me thus agonising without being scandalized; they would yield to temptation, forget much of the past, and lose their confidence in me. But you, who have seen the Son of Man transfigured, may also see him under a cloud, and in dereliction of spirit; nevertheless, watch and pray, lest ye fall into temptation, for the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Ibid., 103). </div> <bR> <div> Commenting on this section of Emmerich's book, Rebecca Sexton of Former Catholics for Christ states:</div> <bR> <div> Did you catch that infamous blasphemy against Jesus? Emmerich reported Jesus saying He did not want His disciples to see Him in <B>"dereliction of spirit"</B>!</div> <bR> <div> Let me stop right here and comment on seeing the “Son of Man” in “dereliction of spirit”. The dictionary definition of “dereliction” is: <B>“Neglect or willful omission; failure in duty….”</B> (Funk and Wagnalls College Dictionary) A derelict is one who is <B>“unfaithful” </B>or <B>“neglectful of obligation”</B>. It’s evident that the spirit who was revealing the “passions of Christ” to Catherine Emmerich was <B>NOT</B> a Godly Spirit. Jesus NEVER failed in duty, nor was He EVER neglectful. This is rank blasphemy! </div> <bR> <div> In Emmerich's book, she describes Jesus as He is tormented by Satan in the Garden of Gethsemane, describing Him as writhing "<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Georgia" >like a worm beneath the weight of his anguish and sufferings</FONT>!” (<I>The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ</I>, 102) In the movie Gibson also portrays that Roman soldiers mocking Christ as they place a crown of thorns upon His head while striking Him and calling Him "King of the worms" and "the worm King". These extra-Biblical depictions of the Lord serve to debase Him even more in the eyes of those watching this film, going beyond the dignity of the Gospel accounts.</div> <bR> <div> Could Mel Gibson's actual intent be to debase the Son of God through this false depiction of the suffering of the Messiah? When all is considered, from the horrific abuse that he is portrayed as enduring, includng many extra-Biblical scenes such as being beaten by Caiphas' guards in Gethsemane, to being thrown over a bridge, to His mocking as a "worm king", to His depictions of groveling in weakness and fear, to His need to draw strength from His mother time and again, to the depiction of a child antichrist sneering at Him, to the ending shot that shows Him standing with bare buttocks exposed, all of these things are designed to further debase the Son of God. It is in perfect keeping with all of this shaming of Christ that Gibson should also include a subtle reference to a one eyed shepherd that would provide an allusion to Zechariah's words of a "worthless shepherd that leaves the flock". Such things are bound up in the spirit of antichrist, and Anne Emmerich, Mel Gibson, his Jesuit advisors, his pornographic actresses and many more who are associated with this film have revealed that they are of the spirit of antichrist.</div> <bR> <div> We are living in the last hours when deception is rampant, and if possible even the elect should be deceived .</div> <bR> <div> Mark 13:21-22</div> <div> "And then if anyone says to you, 'Behold, here is the Christ'; or, 'Behold, He is there'; do not believe him; for false Christs and false prophets will arise, and will show signs and wonders, in order to lead astray, if possible, the elect."</div> <bR> <div> Are not many saying, "Here is the Christ", as they flock to movie theaters to see this film produced by Mel Gibson? Observe how many in Christendom have jumped on Mel Gibson's coattails. One man who has a reputation among some saints as being a prophet has "prophesied" that Mel Gibson is John, the beloved apostle of Christ in Hollywood. Many others are hailing him as a champion of Christianity, and even such notables as James Dobson, Charles Colson and Billy Graham are declaring his movie to be a great evangelism tool, and the best movie ever made about the Christ.</div> <bR> <div> As we observe these things we must conclude that it is possible to lead astray those who name the name of Christ. Do any Christians suppose that the antichrist will appear with a sign around his neck proclaiming himself to be a fraud and an impostor. No! For Satan loves to appear as an angel of light (a messenger of truth), and he clothes his servants in the same garments of deception.</div> <bR> <div> I John 2:18</div> <div> Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour. </div> <bR> <div> Do you see how many Christians have been deceived by this false messenger and his movie which depicts a skewed image of Christ? Do you see how many churches are taking their entire congregations to eat of this poisoned fruit that places Mary on the same level as the Christ? Know then that the deceptions of this hour are dressed in very appealing array. Only those who are sober and vigilant and lovers of the truth will be kept from error. Only those who walk daily in communion with the Spirit of God will know that which is true and that which is false.</div> <bR> <div> I John 2:26</div> <div> These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>