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POPE CHARACTERIZES ISRAEL’S GAZA CAMPAIGN AS “TERRORISM” AND CALLS FOR WORLD PEACE (Friday Church News Notes, December 1, 2023, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – Speaking separately to a Palestinian delegation and an Israel delegation on Nov. 22, Pope Francis called Israel’s Gaza campaign “terrorism,” and in his general audience that day he called for world peace. He said, “[H]ere we have gone beyond wars, this is not waging war, this is terrorism” (“Pope calls Gaza war terrorism,” Crux, Nov. 22, 2023). The 10 Palestinian delegates said the pope called the war “genocide,” but the Vatican denied that. In his general audience and in a video appeal, the pope called “for peace in the Holy Land and in the world.” The pope is ignorant of the fact that he is fulfilling prophecy, not only as preaching a false christ and a false gospel, and as a chief element of the Mystery Babylon of Revelation 17 (e.g., names of blasphemy, arrayed in purple and scarlet, decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication), but also the prophecies of the call for peace. “For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape” (1 Thessalonians 5:2-3). The hour is very late.

David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
Humble, Tx