 Our advice is to make friends, to follow us of all religions. A lot of times we pass around these words like evil and wicked, satanic and demonic, kind of as a way to show our distrust, our displeasure about something or someone, almost like the way that we use the word love, we don't really mean it. But in this case, when I say that the Pope is evil, that he is wicked, that he is satanic, I'm not mincing words, I am deadly serious about that. Now, you need to understand something about the Pope. You need to understand what type of Catholic he is. He is a Jesuit. You hear this term often, but oftentimes many people don't know what the term means. Jesuit. A Jesuit was an order of almost like an enforcement group. They were formed to eliminate any sort of opposition to the Pope, to the papacy, to the church, especially towards the Protestants. Their history has been violent. These are not peaceful people, or at least historically have not been peaceful. And their whole goal is to promote an adherence and a defense to the papacy. Why is that important? Well, because this Pope, Pope Francis, is a Jesuit. And as a Jesuit and as a Jesuit Pope, his goal is to bring people under the adherence and power of the Pope and the Catholic Church. Now, you need to remember also that the Catholic Church believes that it's going to be a Roman Catholic Pope as well as being in line with the Roman Catholic monarch who is going to usher in a time of prosperity and peace. And so you're going to see him doing things, him working to kind of bring about this. Obviously, he's not doing it for the glory of himself, although he does, like most men, he baths in the glory of being recognized and being promoted and being propped up. He is at heart working for another master. And I want you all to hear me on this. I am not saying that the Pope is the Antichrist. We say that enough to where it becomes laughable to people and then they start turning off any sort of legitimate claims that you may have about what he's doing. He is not the Antichrist. However, the Bible says that there are now many Antichrists even in the world today. And so while he is not the Antichrist, he is certainly an Antichrist in today. Make no mistake about it, his mission, his goal does not line up with those of Christ. And he is here to deny the power of the gospel, specifically the power of Christ. I reserve these harsh words only for a select few. He fits the category. He is a universalist. What a universalist is, is someone that's kind of all-inclusive of other faiths and of people who have no faith. What they do is they use kind of tactics that we all are used to when we were in elementary school, junior high, high school, and even other parts of life where we would find some commonality with somebody just so we can kind of gain some friendship. And then if we want to use them or if we're to be used by them, we're under their power because we feel like we're friends, we feel like we've got something in common and that we're in this together. And that's what he does. Speaking about the atheists who are atheists, they do not believe there is a God or even those that are agnostic, he's going to try to make some inroads with them because he wants to make friends. Why? Because he's going to need as many people on board with him as possible. Something alarming that this pope has said, and it's not a new thing, other popes have said the same thing, but this particular pope has stated that even atheists can be redeemed. If you do good works, if you follow the example of the Beatitudes, if your works are good, then you too can be redeemed. Forget following Christ or coming to the Father through Christ as John stated that I am the way, the truth in life, and no man comes to the Father but by me. No, that's out of the door as far as the pope is concerned, as far as this pope is concerned, but he believes if you just do good works. And now it's interesting to note that who determines that you are legitimately a part of this redeemed group, a part of the church, a part of the church, a part of this redeemed group, a part of the church without having come through Christ, well, obviously the pope does. When you have a person who claims to be a leader of a church, now, remember the Catholic Church of the nearly 2.5 to 2.8 billion, 2.9 billion professed Christians. Obviously it's not that many who are actual Christians, but these are the number of people that are professed and it's somewhere between 2.5 to almost 3 billion, give or take a half a billion who have professed so. Remember 1.2 billion of those professed believers are Catholics, whether they're in South America, whereas a large majority, a large portion of Catholics reside, even gaining a strong foothold in Africa as well as Asia. And you're here in America as well. He makes a pretty alarming statement. He makes a statement that is clearly antithetical to the church and to the mission of Christ, and that is this. And this coincides with his belief that Jesus is not the only way to heaven, but really through the Catholic Church, really through the pope. He has made this statement that you should not even evangelize or proselytize others. It is not possible to convince your faith that proselytizing is the strongest villain against the ecumenical path. Do you want to convince others that you're a Catholic? No, no, no. There is a big sin against ecumenism. There is a big sin against ecumenism. Proselytizing. And they are going to obviously and naturally reject what the pope is preaching. And so we can't have that. Let's just let them in and say they're apart, and I'll be the one that kind of pronounces that they are redeemed. The pope would say this. He has called all people children of God. Well, that can't be. The Bible says that those who have the Son, those are the ones that he has given the right, the privilege to be called sons of God. The faith pope has made inroads with the Muslim community, with Islam itself, because where would you see a Christian leader even being welcomed among some of these terror groups and among some of these Islamic leaders who despise Christians, even with a particular Muslim leader who has called for openly, repeatedly, consistently the death of Christians. And here we have he and the pope communicating and fellowshiping together. Well, because he's also called them brothers, irrespective of their faith, they're also children of God, worshiping the same God. What he has done, and many of you are familiar with how the Catholic Church has used Mary and has propped her up to almost as though she's the fourth state, the fourth person of the Trinity, because Catholics and Muslims share one common thing, and that is their love and veneration of Mary. Muslims hold Mary in high esteem as a matter of fact I believe she's mentioned some 37 times in the Quran, and so he's made inroads using her in the Catholic Church with the Muslim groups through Mary. And so he's having this unholy fellowship. Why? Because it makes him even more powerful. And I don't know that he's necessarily trying to set up for his benefit, but I believe he is in concert working with his true master. He has spoken about issues, especially here in America, on social justice and equality. He may not know all the issues, that's not his point. His point is not to be well versed on whatever the issues are here in America or in South America or in Europe or anywhere else. No, his goal is to give a kind of a cookie cutter type theme something anyone could probably latch on to. We are looking for peace, for inclusion, for harmony amongst all brothers. And so if you are one of the ones who are kind of on the outside, one of the downtrod, maybe you're a low income, maybe you're looking to get ahead, you can, that is a statement that can resonate with you. And so you've got, because there's more poor, there's more people that are so-called oppressed, there are more people who are looking to get up versus those who are already up. And so this is a thing that resonates with them so they look to the Pope. The Pope is popular among mainstream audiences. Not so much with even the Catholic Church itself and certainly not with the Christian Church, but there's a method to his madness. There's a reason why he is promoting himself and inserting himself in areas regarding certain social issues. Then Pope Francis says something that we have never heard from anyone in any position of authority at the Catholic Church, let alone a Pope before. He says, God made you gay and loves you that way. Your sexuality doesn't matter. When it comes to the issue of homosexuality, the Pope has taken a softer stance than most as it relates to homosexual marriages or homosexuality, his inclusive tone and embracing them, not calling out sin as vociferously as he probably should, taking a soft stand and open to civil unions. This is something that you would not expect a Christian leader. And of course, obviously I don't believe a Pope is a Christian, but this is something that you would not expect even a Catholic Pope to do on the issues of immigration, even chiding our country on opening up our borders to let people come from the southern part of the Americas into our country. Of course now, I would say this, Mr. Pope, if you're so bent on having refugees from other parts of the world come in to our country, why don't you open up Vatican City and let them come in there? That's not going to happen because it's always a do as I say, not as I do when it comes to the Pope. And so when you see this Pope who is all inclusive, all loving, and as the world becomes more chaotic and you see all these things happening, by the way, these are things that are necessary to happen as Christ makes his way back. So when the world is looking for answers, when the world is looking for something, and when people are desperate for something, they don't necessarily turn to the right thing. And so he is lining himself up and the papacy as something that people would turn to and look at. And so as they do so, and as we look towards this satanic sort of government to be set up later on as we come to the end of this world, well, who do you think people are naturally going to look at when you've got the media popping him up, when you've got the media popping up the papacy and anytime he makes a statement they look at him and when he's trying to be all inclusive and when he's with people of the Muslim faith, people of other different religions around the world, they see this man as somebody that they can go to who is going to help to, maybe not be the person who actually brings in peace but be an agent and instrument to usher in peace around this world. Because who doesn't want peace, right? Certainly not Satan or any anti-Christ, nor any of his tools or minions. And even if you decide that you want to take a sort of semi-biblical approach to get to God, which is through Christ, well obviously in the Catholic Church you don't come straight to Christ anyway. You come to Christ through the priests and who's the head of all these priests? And so he is setting up to where even Catholics and non-Catholics, even Protestants who aren't versed in the Bible at all will look to him as a light, as a source of salvation, as a source of peace, as a source of healing in the world. It is a diabolical plan but making no mistake about it, it is also an effective plan. He's not the person that set this up, he's just the person that's been set up by ultimately his father, his God, that being Satan. And I know it sounds harsh, and I know I'm being a little rough but I'm also being truthful. The reason for the name of the channel, Smart Christian Channel, is not because I'm the Smart Christian, because I want us all to be smart and listen to what the Word of God says. Let me read this to you. 1 John 2 18 says, And so he says that there are many antichrists already in the world. Not the main one, but he's got these other little antichrists working setting things up. Let's continue to verse 20. But because you know it. And that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar? But he who denies that Jesus is the Christ. He is Antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either. He who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. So he's giving a warning and a reminder to those of us who are believers. And so we are wise and we are smart Christians. If we adhere to this, if we remember this, it's not going to be easy going forward. And so here's the question. What can we do and what should we do? Well, the answer is a tough one, but it's a true answer. In terms of what can we do as far as stopping this onslaught and this movement of the Antichrist and his workings, nothing. Sounds bad, doesn't it? But there's nothing. These things are going to take place. It's been prophesied. It's going to happen. And so in terms of stopping it, there's nothing we can do. The world is not going to start leaning all of a sudden in favor of biblical teachings. That's not what's going to happen. What our job is and what we can do and what we should do in spite of this or because of this, is that we not do what the Pope has asked people to do which is to stop proselytizing. No, our job is to proselytize. Our job is to go and to convert, to witness, to share the gospel. Our job is to be strong pillars in the community, beacons for Christ. Let people know this is what true peace looks like. And so while we've got this satanic rule happening from this little small enclave, Vatican City, and this Pope going all around the world spreading the gospel of Satan, our job while we're all over the world is to counter that and to preach the gospel. No man comes to the Father but through Christ, preaching the good news and I'm confident that in doing that, yeah, they'll have bigger numbers on their side but we'll have something in someone even bigger on our side. Amen.