Thursday, December 17, 2020

Out of Phocas

If Jesus broadcast these words today (even if they weren't addressed directly to us), what would we, Christians, do?
• [W]oe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! …
• Woe unto you, ye blind guides, …
• Ye fools and blind: …
• Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
• Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
• Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?1
Yes, what would we do? especially if He had cried, “Hypocrites!” seven times in scarce the time for us to take seven, shocked breaths? especially when we are all guilty to some degree or other.

I suspect that many of us would throw Him to the censors — just as we have done to a lot of unsavory history — which brings me to the topic of Phocas, Eastern Emperor of Rome, circa 602-610 A.D.2

Phocas, a low-ranking officer under Emperor Maurice [Mauritius], staged a military coup and was soon crowned the new emperor by the patriarch in the church of St John the Baptist at the Hebdomon. To cement his power, Phocas brutally tortured and murdered Maurice, his wife, and nine children, after which he “devoted his energy to purging enemies and destroying conspiracies.”

The lasting legacy of Phocas, however, was to “settle” a long-running supremacy struggle within the Roman Church.
When Phocas usurped Maurice [Mauritius], Gregory the Great was bishop of Rome and he praised Phocas as a restorer of liberty. Gregory referred to him as a pious and clement lord, and compared his wife (the new Empress) Leontia to Marcian's consort Pulcheria (whom the Council of Chalcedon called the new Helena). In May 603, portraits of the imperial couple arrived in Rome and were ordered by the pope to be placed in the oratory of St Caesarius in the imperial palace on the Palatine.

Imperial approval was needed in that time to appoint a new pope, but the approval was delayed by a year upon the death of Pope Sabinian in 606, as Phocas was occupied with killing internal enemies that threatened his rule. He finally gave approval in 607 and Boniface III became pope. Phocas declared Rome "the head of all churches". Shortly afterwards, Phocas had a gilded statue of himself erected on a monumental column in the Roman Forum, known as the Column of Phocas.3
So, in short, papal primacy4 and papal supremacy5 came out of the reign of Phocus.6 

So how does this relate to 2020? Perhaps in the subtle and no-so-subtle censorship (denial or rejection) of truth. We don't insist that leaders speak truth to us.7 We don't let history inform our knowledge of things as they have been and are. We distract ourselves from what is really going on in this world of fear-mongering, power abuse, and “lying wonders.” We acquiesce too easily to living a lie — to pretending it's all pro-health when it's all pro-control. We refuse to admit that the un-corrupted science of human health and well-being belies every mandate.8 We use “love thy neighbour” to force / shame others into the pied-piper march of trust in “the arm of flesh” which is anything but loving, either God or our neighbour. We muzzle ourselves. We don't openly acknowledge the truth of history. We don't admit that secret combinations have got above us. We pretend that by obeying mandates, the mandates will go away, even when we're blatantly informed that such mandates will not go away. 

We seem almost completely out of focus — unconscious of prophetic past or advancing prophetic fulfillment.

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1. New Testament | Matthew 23:13-15, 16, 17, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 33 (Read the whole chapter, JST, too)
New Testament | Luke 13:31-32 ~ The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee. And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
2. https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Phocas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phocas
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phocas
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_primacy
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_supremacy
6. A more detailed account of papal primacy and papal supremacy is given in Dowling, John. The history of Romanism: from the earliest corruptions of Christianity to the present time ; with full chronological table, indexes and glossary ; and fifty illustrative engravings 1853 (Kindle Locations circa 1659-1909). Kindle Edition.
7. Old Testament | Isaiah 30:8-11 ~ Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
8.  https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/11/which-science.html
(Just a few more resources of thousands possible)
• The Great Barrington Declaration at https://gbdeclaration.org/
• Dr. Roger Hodkinson CEO & Medical Director – MA, MB, FRCPC, FCAP (Time 5:02) Presentation to Edmonton public hearing, November 13, 2020 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvYzf0MqObg
• Making face masks mandatory is not backed by science or law: Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms at https://www.jccf.ca/making-face-masks-mandatory-is-not-backed-by-science-or-law/
• Huge Lawsuits Coming Against COVID Totalitarians …  at https://thenewamerican.com/huge-lawsuits-coming-against-covid-totalitarians-and-con-artists/?fbclid=IwAR0dzvQxcJbaogNTRoJ15DA2LgAcY49P6OWUqNfdFU0kGotagYjfm64QG34 
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