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An
Objection Answered Regarding My Historicism by J. Parnell McCarter
Date: 8/19/17
Sean McDonald has posted on my Facebook
page this: “I don't want to get
into this conversation, but the record should be put straight. True, historic
Reformed historicism has always taught that the Church of Rome is the whore of Babylon in Revelation
17-18. Check every Reformed theologian and every Reformed commentator on the
Revelation before the nineteenth century --- including the one that Parnell had
translated and self-published. It is only in Parnell's idiosyncratic exposition
that this passage is understood in a radically different light.”
My response:
Any reformed commentator writing before our modern era would
of course not assert that the USA is the whore of Revelation chapters 17-18
that sits on top of the Romish kingdom beast (ie, Church of Rome = “Beast of 7 Hills” there). How could they possibly have guessed how
things would transpire in this way, and guessed the role of an entity that did
not even then exist (which has been in no small degree the creation of the
Roman Catholic Church and its devices), much less garner the power and
influence it has worldwide?
1. The words “radically
different light” unfairly characterizes what I have *guessed* is the case. I believe the Romish
kingdom (especially its Jesuit Order) has been the pivotal tool in turning the USA into a modern Babel,
and I believe the Romish kingdom will resume its
superpower status after the USA
falls. My interpretation maintains that
the Pope is the Man of Sin, and Satan’s primary instrument in the world for
deceiving multitudes. But it does adjust
how the Protestant Reformers thought the Romish
Church would operate to achieve its goals in the modern era, taking into
account what has actually happened. The Roman Catholic Church is both ‘Babylon’ (Revelation 14:8) and holds up a ‘Babylon’ (Revelation
17:3).
2.
3. Arguably the foremost
historicist apologist of the modern times, Dr. Francis Nigel Lee, worked with
me in Historicism Research Foundation to defend historicism, knowing full well
my guess regarding the identity of the USA in the historicist
paradigm. While he did not embrace it as
his own, he did not rule it out as a possibility and one that did not fall
within “historicism”. We worked together
to defend historicism while Dr. Lee was still alive.
4. Sean McDonald is a member
of a denomination which has prostituted itself to this modern Babel, by its seminary and college
subscribing to the “diversity agenda” (see http://www.puritans.net/articles/ats.htm
). The “diversity agenda”, representing
Jacobin egalitarianism, is the philosophical basis for this modern Babel. Even if one does not wish to identify the USA
with the whore of Revelation 17-18, a Protestant Christian nevertheless should
see how the USA is a modern Babel, and how the Roman Catholic Church has used
this modern Babel as its tool.
5.
6.
The Roman Catholic Church has been wanting
to show the world that any Protestant nation that does not bow to the Romish Pope will
end up becoming a humanist Babel
state. It has been using its Jesuit
Order and its members over US history (like the Carrolls,
the Kennedys, the Cuomos, Nancy Pelosi, Dick Durbin,
etc.) wickedly to turn formerly Protestant America into a humanist Babel state,
working with rebellious children of Protestant forefathers (including Benjamin
Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Lyndon Johnson, Bill Clinton, etc.), Jews, etc. as
part of its diabolical coalition to achieve the results. The Romish Church
is waiting for the world to jump fully back into its arms after the USA experiment
proves an abject failure, as it is already proving. The Papacy still maintains that she wears the
Triple Crown, as Christ’s Vicar on earth.
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8.
I would submit that one reason Sean McDonald and others in
NAPARC will be strongly offended by my analysis of the situation is because
they do not want to acknowledge how they have been caught in the “Romish net”. Very
few professedly reformed denominations have avoided getting caught in this
net. By God’s grace, the FPCS and NRC
have thus far evaded this net, although even we have been influenced by its
effect in a negative way. This all goes to show the total depravity of man and
our dependence on sovereign grace.