The Justice of God: Vatican II is damned by God. The nation of the Jews is Perfidious and damned and only brings forth the Antichrist.

The lie attributed to Romans 11:28 - 36 that God will do good again to the Jews as a nation is absolute blasphemy which denies the Cross of Christ and the Perfidy of the Jews and is of the Antichrist. Thus the teaching of the full consensus of the Church Fathers has always been, by the time of the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D. there was never again any possibility of the Jews offered salvation as a nation. Period. Amen. Amen.

The below is ONLY relevant to 2,000 years ago - in the beginning of the Book of the Acts the Jews were gathered out of every nation to hear the Gospel - they rejected it as a nation and it will never be offered to them again as a nation.

Romans 11:28 - 36

27 And this is to them my covenant: when I shall take away their sins.

28 According to the gospel, indeed, they are enemies for your sake: but according to election, they are most dear for the sake of the fathers.

29 For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.

30 For as you also in times past did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy, through their unbelief:

31 So these also now have not believed for your mercy, that they also may obtain mercy.

32 For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he may have mercy on all.

33 O the depth of the riches, of the wisdom, and of the knowledge of God!  How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!

34 *For who hath known the mind of the Lord?  Or who hath been his counsellor?

35 Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him?

36 For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be glory for ever.  Amen.

Acts - The regathering of Israel by God already happened 2,000 years ago. It will not happen again. What is going on today by the false prophets and antichrists who have invaded and support the invasion of occupied Palestine today is only the Antichrist and its followers being made known to the world - ANYONE WHO GIVES ANY CREDENCE TO ANY OF THAT AS BEING FROM GOD IS DAMNED FOREVER.

ACTS 2 {2,000 YEARS AGO, EARLY FIRST CENTURY A.D. - 30 A.D.}

CHAPTER II.

The disciples receive the Holy Ghost.  Peter's sermon to the people.  The piety of the first converts.

1 And when the days of the Pentecost were accomplished, they were all together in one place:

2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty wind coming, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

3 And there appeared to them cloven tongues, as it were of fire, and it sat upon each one of them:

4 *And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak.

5 Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men out of every nation under heaven.

6 And when this voice was made, the multitude came together, and was confounded in mind, because that every one heard them speak in his own tongue.

7 And they were all amazed, and wondered, saying; Behold are not all these, who speak, Galileans?

8 And how have we every one our heard own tongue wherein we were born?

9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome,

11 Jews also, and Proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians: we have heard them speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.

12 And they were all astonished, and wondered, saying one to another; What meaneth this?

13 But others mocking, said; These men are full of new wine.

Verses 5- 13 - Note: This was the final regathering of the Jews to hear the Gospel of Christ - there is no other regathering of Jews ever by God.

See also Hebrews, 6th Chapter (written shortly before the destruction of the Temple and the eternal condemnation of the Jews as a nation by God, forevermore) below: 

4 *For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, have tasted also the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 Have moreover tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,6 And are fallen away, to be renewed again unto penance, crucifying again to themselves the Son of God, and making a mockery of him. 

Hebrews Chapter Six, Verses 4-6 - Note: to pretend that God will send salvation to the Jews as a nation a second time is absolute apostasy condemned here forevermore. They rejected it as a nation and as a nation are damned forever - anyone pretending different is damned with them forever. 

14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke to them: Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell in Jerusalem, be this known to you, and with your ears receive my words.

15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day:

16 But this is that which was spoken of by the prophet, Joel;

17 *And it shall come to pass in the last days, (saith the Lord) I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.

18 And upon my servants indeed, and upon my handmaids, will I pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy:

19 And I will shew wonders in the heaven above, and signs on the earth beneath: blood and fire, and vapour of smoke.

20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and manifest day of the Lord cometh.

21 *And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved.

22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus, of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you, by miracles and wonders, and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as you also know;

23 This same being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have crucified and put to death by the hands of wicked men:

24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the sorrows of hell, as it was impossible that he should be held by it.

25 For David saith concerning him; *I foresaw the Lord always before my face: because he is at my right hand, that I may not be moved:

26 For this my heart hath been glad, and my tongue hath rejoiced: moreover, my flesh also shall rest in hope:

27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, nor suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life: thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

29 Ye men, brethren, let me freely speak to you of the patriarch, David, *that he died, and was buried: and his sepulchre is with us to this present day.

30 Whereas, therefore, he was a prophet, and knew *that God had sworn to him with an oath, that of the fruit of his loins one should sit upon his throne,

31 Foreseeing he spoke of the resurrection of Christ, *for neither was he left in hell, neither did his flesh see corruption.

32 This Jesus hath God raised up again, whereof we are all witnesses.

33 Being exalted, therefore, by the right hand of God, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath poured forth this which you see and hear.

34 For David ascended not into heaven: but he himself said; *The Lord said to my Lord, sit thou on my right hand,

35 Until I make thy enemies thy footstool.

36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know most assuredly, that God hath made this Jesus, whom you have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

37 Now when they had heard these things they had compunction in their heart, and they said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles; What shall we do, men, brethren?

38 But Peter said to them; Do penance, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins: and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

39 For the promise is to you, and to your children and to all that are far off, whomsoever the Lord our God shall call.

40 And with a great many other words did he testify and exhort them, saying; Save yourselves from this perverse generation.

41 They therefore that received his word were baptized: and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.

42 And they were persevering in the doctrine of the apostles, and in the communication of the breaking of bread, and in prayers.

43 And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles in Jerusalem, and there was great fear in all.

44 And all they that believed were together, and had all things common.

45 They sold their possessions and goods, and divided them to all, according as every one had need.

46 And continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they took their meat with gladness and simplicity of heart:

47 Praising God together, and having favour with all the people.  And the Lord added daily to their society such as should be saved.

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4:  Matt. iii. 11.; Mark i. 8.; Luke iii. 16.; John vii. 39.; Supra i. 8.; Infra xi. 16. and xix. 6.

17:  Isai. xliv. 3.; Joel ii. 28.

21:  Joel ii. 32.; Rom. x. 13.

25:  Ps. xv. 18.

29:  3 Kings ii. 10.

30:  Ps. cxxxi. 11.

31:  Ps. xv. 10.; Infra xiii. 35.

34:  Ps. cix. 1.

St. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, 6th Chapter written shortly before the DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE IN 70 A.D. WHICH IS THE  ETERNAL CONDEMNATION OF THE JEWS AS A NATION BY GOD, damns the nation of the Jews forever. (Only individual Jews by first renouncing Judaism can come to Christ and confess Him and be baptized and be saved.)

HEBREWS 6

CHAPTER VI.

He warns them of the danger of falling by apostacy; and exhorts them to patience and perseverance.

1 Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to things more perfect, not laying again the foundation of penance from dead works, and of faith towards God,

2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and imposition of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

3 And this we will do, if God will permit.

4 *For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, have tasted also the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

5 Have moreover tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

6 And are fallen away, to be renewed again unto penance, crucifying again to themselves the Son of God, and making a mockery of him.

Hebrews Chapter Six, Verses 4-6 - Note: to pretend that God will send salvation to the Jews as a nation a second time is absolute apostasy condemned here forevermore. They rejected it as a nation and as a nation are damned forever - anyone pretending different is damned with them forever.

7 For the earth that drinketh in the rain which cometh often upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is tilled, receiveth blessing from God.

8 But that which bringeth forth thorns and briers, is rejected; and very near to a curse, whose end is to be burnt.

9 But my dearly beloved, we trust better things of you, and nearer to salvation: though we thus speak.

10 For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work, and the love which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered, and do minister to the saints.

11 And we desire that every one of you shew forth the same carefulness to the accomplishing of hope unto the end:

12 That you become not slothful, but followers of them, who through faith and patience shall inherit the promises.

13 For God promising to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom he might swear, swore by himself,

14 Saying: *Unless blessing, I will bless thee, and multiplying, I will multiply thee.

15 And so after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

16 For men swear by one greater than themselves; and an oath, for confirmation, is the end of all their controversy.

17 Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath:

18 That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, who have fled for refuge, to hold fast the hope set before us:

19 Which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm, and which entereth even within the veil,

20 Where the forerunner, Jesus, is entered for us, made a high priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech.

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4:  Mat. xii. 45.; Infra x. 26.; 2 Pet. ii. 20.

14:  Gen. xxii. 16.

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The Justice of God: Vatican II is damned by God.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 2012

Vatican II is damned by God.

See the two Nicene canons below for the real beginning of Roman See Primacy. Even if we assume that Canon XXXIX was as early as the first Nicene council in 325 A.D. it still is a decision of men and is therefore secondary to whatever God says through Jesus Christ. Even assuming that Canon XXXIX is as late an addition as would be at Chalcedon in 451 A.D. and was part of what alienated the Oriental Churches, it still governed a great deal of the Church for a very long time – centuries, and is therefore not to be taken lightly. Jesus Christ Himself instituted Church law in St. Matthew’s Gospel, Chapter 16 and Chapter 18. The prime example of how that governed of course is in the Acts.

See Acts Chapter 15 verses 28, 29 

28  For it hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay no further burden upon you than these necessary things:

29  That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication: from which things keeping yourselves, you shall do well. Fare ye well.

It is utterly clear that Vatican II and the antipopes John XXIII and Paul VI and John Paul I and John Paul II and Benedict XVI have utterly violated this, especially when John Paul II blamed the utterly idolatrous Assisi meeting on Jan. 24, 2002 on the Holy Spirit, and can not be followed under penalty of Blaspheming the Holy Spirit and eternal damnation. In addition Guiseppe Siri was the real Pope of Rome – Gregory XVII, elected in 1958 until his death in 1988. He was forced to remain silent and in exile for that whole time by the Vatican II plotters who threatened to murder him and his family if he said anything. Shortly before his death he did speak.

All of Vatican II and the Novus Ordo and all and everyone connected with it are utterly contravened by God, His Christ and the Holy Spirit and Pius XI’s Mortalium Animus. Also, the fact that the See of Rome has been vacant since 1988 and no Pope reigned visibly since 1958 releases all the faithful from any obligation to the Vatican. Taken together and they MUST BE, the faithful are commanded by God in Rev. 18:1-6 and 2 Cor. 6:11-18 to come out now and be totally separate in every way from the Apostate and utterly evil Vatican dominion and every thing to do with it including the Novus Ordo and anyone claiming ANY allegiance with the Vatican of the present.

See also:

St. Mark’s Gospel 3:29

29  But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, shall never have forgiveness, but shall be guilty of an everlasting sin. (DRV)

Rv:18:

1 ¶ And after these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power: and the earth was enlightened with his glory.

2  And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen: and is become the habitation of devils and the hold of every unclean spirit and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird:

3  Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies.

4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her, my people; that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not of her plagues.

5  For her sins have reached unto heaven: and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities.

6  Render to her as she also hath rendered to you: and double unto her double, according to her works. In the cup wherein she hath mingled, mingle ye double unto her.

2Cor:6:

14  Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?

15  And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever?

16  And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and walk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.

17  Wherefore: Go out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing:

18  And I will receive you. And will be a Father to you: and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

(DRV)

Acts:15:

1 ¶ And some, coming down from Judea, taught the brethren: That, except you be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot be saved.

2  And when Paul and Barnabas had no small contest with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain others of the other side should go up to the apostles and priests to Jerusalem, about this question.

3  They therefore, being brought on their way by the church, passed through Phenice and Samaria, relating the conversion of the Gentiles. And they caused great joy to all the brethren.

4  And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received by the church and by the apostles and ancients, declaring how great things God had done with them.

5  But there arose of the sect of the Pharisees some that believed, saying: They must be circumcised and be commanded to observe the law of Moses.

6 ¶ And the apostles and ancients assembled to consider of this matter.

7  And when there had been much disputing, Peter, rising up, said to them: Men, brethren, you know that in former days God made choice among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.

8  And God, who knoweth the hearts, gave testimony, giving unto them the Holy Ghost, as well as to us:

9  And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

10  Now therefore, why tempt you God to put a yoke upon the necks of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

11  But by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe to be saved, in like manner as they also.

12  And all the multitude held their peace: and they heard Barnabas and Paul telling what great signs and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.

13  And after they had held their peace, James answered,saying: Men, brethren, hear me.

14  Simon hath related how God first visited to take to the Gentiles, a people to his name.

15  And to this agree the words of the prophets, as it is written:

16  After these things I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down: and the ruins thereof I will rebuild. And I will set it up:

17  That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all nations upon whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord, who doth these things.

18  To the Lord was his own work known from the beginning of the world.

19  For which cause, judge that they who from among the Gentiles are converted to God are not to be disquieted:

20  But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood.

21  For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him in the synagogues, where he is read every sabbath.

22 ¶ Then it pleased the apostles and ancients, with the whole church, to choose men of their own company and to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas, who was surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren.

23  Writing by their hands: The apostles and ancients, brethren, to the brethren of the Gentiles that are at Antioch and in Syria and Cilicia, greeting.

24  Forasmuch as we have heard that some going out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, to whom we gave no commandment:

25  It hath seemed good to us, being assembled together, to choose out men and to send them unto you, with our well beloved Barnabas and Paul:

26  Men that have given their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

27  We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves also will, by word of mouth, tell you the same things.

28  For it hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay no further burden upon you than these necessary things:

29  That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication: from which things keeping yourselves, you shall dowell. Fare ye well.

30  They therefore, being dismissed, went down to Antioch and, gathering together the multitude, delivered the epistle.

31  Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.

32  But Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, with many words comforted the brethren and confirmed them.

33  And after they had spent some time there, they were let go with peace by the brethren unto them that had sent them.

34  But it seemed good unto Silas to remain there: and Judas alone departed to Jerusalem.

35  And Paul and Barnabas continued at Antioch, teaching and preaching, with many others, the word of the Lord.

36 ¶ And after some days, Paul said to Barnabas: Let us return and visit our brethren in all the cities wherein we have preached the word of the Lord, to see how they do.

37  And Barnabas would have taken with them John also, that was surnamed Mark.

38  But Paul desired that he (as having departed from them out of Pamphylia and not gone with them to the work) might not be received.

39  And there arose a dissension so that they departed one from another. And Barnabas indeed, taking Mark, sailed to Cyprus.

40  But Paul, choosing Silas, departed, being delivered by the brethren to the grace of God.

41  And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches, commanding them to keep the precepts of the apostles and the ancients.

(DRV)

CANON VI. 
LET the ancient customs in Egypt, Libya and Pentapolis prevail, that the Bishop of Alexandria have jurisdiction in all these, since the like is customary for the Bishop of Rome also. Likewise in Antioch and the other provinces, let the Churches retain their privileges. And this is to be universally understood, that if any one be made bishop without the consent of the Metropolitan, the great Synod has declared that such a man ought not to be a bishop. If, however, two or three bishops shall from natural love of contradiction, oppose the common suffrage of the rest, it being reasonable and in accordance with the ecclesiastical law, then let the choice of the majority prevail.

CANON XXXIX. 
Of the care and power which a Patriarch has over the bishops and archbishops of his patriarchate; and of the primacy of the Bishop of Rome over all.
Let the patriarch consider what things are done by the archbishops and bishops in their provinces; and if he shall find anything done by them otherwise than it should be, let him change it, and order it, as seemeth him fit: for he is the father of all, and they are his sons. And although the archbishop be among the bishops as an elder brother, who hath the care of his brethren, and to whom they owe obedience because he is over them; yet the patriarch is to all those who are under his power, just as he who holds the seat of Rome, is the head and prince of all patriarchs; in-asmuch as he is first, as was Peter, to whom power is given over all Christian princes, and over all their peoples, as he who is the Vicar of Christ our Lord over all peoples and over the whole Christian Church, and whoever shall contradict this, is excommunicated by the Synod.(1)
[I add Canon XXXVII. of Echellensis's Nova Versio LXXXIV. Arabic. Canonum Conc. Nicoeni, that the reader may compare it with the foregoing.]
Let there be only four patriarchs in the whole world as there are four writers of the Gospel, and four rivers, etc. And let there be a prince and chief over them, the lord of the see of the Divine Peter at Rome, according as the Apostles commanded. And after him the lord of the great Alexandria, which is the see of Mark. And the third is the lord of Ephesus, which is the see of John the Divine who speaks divine things. And the fourth and last is my lord of Antioch, which is another see of Peter. And let all the bishops be divided under the hands of these four patriarchs; and the bishops of the little towns which are under the dominion of the great cities let them be under the authority of these metropolitans. But let every metropolitan of these great cities appoint the bishops of his province, but let none of the bishops appoint him, for he is greater than they. Therefore let every man know his own rank, and let him not usurp the rank of another. And whosoever shall contradict this law which we have established the Fathers of the Synod subject him to anathema.(2) 

The Justice of God: The lie attributed to Romans 11:18

MONDAY, MAY 28, 2012

The lie attributed to Romans 11:18

First of all the main thing to remember is that Jesus Christ is the Word and Immortal Son of God the Father. It was ALWAYS Jesus Christ (pre-incarnate to Adam and Noah and Moses etc. and then Incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the blessed virgin Mary forevermore) who spoke to the faithful in all ages. Of course He spoke with complete absolute foreknowledge and omniscience and always does.

The lie attributed to Romans 11:18 is that it speaks about some future conversion of the Jews as a nation. IT DOES NOT. That lie is a Freemasonic invention and absolutely has no truth to it at all, not a scintilla - nothing.

St. Paul while at Corinth wrote the epistle to the Romans in 57/58 A.D. Let us always remember St. Justin Martyr's admonition to understand scripture in its historical context. At that time St. Paul still held the olive branch out to the Jews in spite of their obstinate hardened hearts. This was before St. Paul's journey to Jerusalem at which the synagogue saw to it that he was ensnared in their trap and subsequently St. Paul was sent to Rome to be judged by Caesar just as Paul's Master, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, had been judged by Caesar's representative Pontius Pilate earlier. After this time and just before the siege of Jerusalem St. Paul told of the withdrawing of even this olive branch then (Acts 28:25-28). See:

ACTS 18

CHAPTER XVIII.

Paul founds the church of Corinth: and preaches at Ephesus, &c. Apollo goes to Corinth

6 But they [the Jews] contradicting and blaspheming, shaking his garments, he [Paul] said to them: Your blood be upon your own heads: I am clean: from henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

ACTS 28

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Paul, after three months' stay in Malta, continues his voyage, and arrives at Rome. His conference there with the Jews.

1 And when we had escaped, then we knew that the island was called Melita. But the barbarians shewed us no small courtesy.

2 For kindling a fire, they refreshed us all, because of the rain which was falling, and of the cold.

3 And when Paul had gathered together a bundle of sticks, and had laid them on the fire, a viper coming out of the heat, fastened on his hand.

4 And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they said one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth him not to live.

5 And he indeed shaking off the beast into the fire, suffered no harm.

6 But they supposed that he would begin to swell up, and that he would suddenly fall down and die. But after they had waited a long time, and seeing that there no harm was done to him, changing their minds, they said he was a god.

7 Now in those places were possessions of the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and for three days entertained us courteously.

8 And it happened that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever, and of a bloody flux. To whom Paul entered in: and when he had prayed, and laid his hands on him, he healed him.

9 Which being done, all that had diseases in the island came, and were healed:

10 Who also honoured us with many honours, and when we were to setting sail, they laded us with such things as were necessary.

11 *And after three months, we sailed in a ship of Alexandria, that had wintered in the island, whose sign was the Castors.

12 And when we were come to Syracusa, we remained there three days.

13 From thence coasting, we came to Rhegium: and after one day, the south wind blowing, we came the second day to Puteoli:

14 Where finding brethren [Christians], we were invited to stay with them seven days: and so we went for Rome.

15 And from thence, when the brethren had heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii-forum and the Three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he gave thanks to God, and took courage.

16 And when we were come to Rome, Paul was permitted to dwell by himself, with a soldier that guarded him.

17 And after the third day, he called together the chief of the Jews. And when they were assembled, he said to them: Men, brethren, I, having done nothing against the people, or the custom of our fathers, was delivered up a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans:

18 Who when they had examined me, would have let me go, for that there was no cause of death in me:

19 But the Jews opposing it, I was forced to appeal unto Cæsar, not that I had any thing to accuse my nation of.

20 For this cause, therefore, I desired to see you, and to speak to you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.

21 But they said to him: We neither received letters concerning thee from Judea, neither did any of the brethren that came hither, relate or speak any evil of thee. [This was an exception in this case concerning these particular individual Jews, but it still only represented no commitment to Christ.]

22 But we desire to hear from thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that it is every where gainsayed. [gainsayed by the Jews, that is. This was typical of the Jews in Palestine and Rome.]

23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came very many to him to his lodgings; to whom he expounded, testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, out of the law of Moses and the prophets, from morning till evening.

24 And some believed the things that were said: but some believed not.

25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, Paul saying this one word: Well did the Holy Ghost speak to our fathers by Isaias, the prophet,

26 *Saying: Go to this people, and say to them: With the ear you shall hear, and shall not understand: and seeing, you shall see, and shall not perceive.

27 For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears have they heard heavily, and their eyes they have shut: lest perhaps they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

28 Be it known, therefore, to you, that this salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear it.

29 And when he had said these things, the Jews went out from him, having much discussion among themselves.

30 And he remained two whole years* in his own hired lodging: and he received all that came in to him,

31 Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, without prohibition.

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11: A.D. 61.

26: Isai. vi. 9.; Matt. xiii. 14.; Mark iv. 12.; Luke viii. 10.; John xii. 40.; Rom. xi. 8.

30: Until A.D. 63.

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St. Paul's epistle to the Roman Christians was to warn them not to be influenced by Jews who opposed the Gospel (the Jewish community there was presenting a terrible obstacle to the spread of the Gospel which soon under Poppea's instigation of Nero, an Antichrist and a prime type of the final Antichrist, resulted in the first rightly labeled Antichrist major historical persecution of the early Christians and our faith).

Romans 11:17 And if some of the branches be broken, and thou being a wild olive-tree, art ingrafted in them, and art made partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive-tree,

First of all, the Olive Tree can ONLY be Christ and the Apostles, this is seen by Our Lord's words in the Gospel of John.

JOHN 15

CHAPTER XV.

A continuation of Christ's discourse to his disciples.

1 I am the true vine; and my Father is the husbandman.

2 Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

3 Now you are clean, by reason of the word, which I have spoken to you.

4 Remain in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine: so neither can you, unless you abide in me.

5 I am the vine: you are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.

6 If any one remaineth not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch, and shall wither and they shall gather him up, and cast him into the fire, and he burneth.

7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you: you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done to you.

8 In this is my Father glorified, that you bring forth very much fruit, and become my disciples.

9 As the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, as I also have kept my Father's commandments, and do remain in his love.

11 These things I have spoken to you: that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be filled.

12 This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you.

13 Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

14 You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you.

15 I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends: because all things whatsoever I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

16 You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you, and have appointed you, that you should go, and should bring forth fruit, and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

The soon coming final judgement and condemnation of Israel as a nation forevermore, which came at the destruction of Jerusalem and temple by the Roman general Titus as God's rod of vengenace, is never to be retracted. This was foretold by Our Lord here:

MARK 11

CHAPTER XI.

Christ enters into Jerusalem upon an ass: curses the barren fig-tree: and drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple.

1 And when they were drawing near to Jerusalem, and to Bethania, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth two of his disciples,

2 And saith to them: Go into the village that is over-against you, and immediately at your coming in thither, you shall find a colt tied, upon which no man yet hath sat: loose him, and bring him.

3 And if any man shall say to you: What are you doing? say ye that the Lord hath need of him: and immediately he will let him come hither.

4 And going their way, they found the colt tied before the gate without, in the meeting of two ways: and they loose him.

5 And some of them that stood there, said to them: What do you, loosing the colt?

6 They said to them as Jesus had commanded them: and they let him go with them.

7 And they brought the colt to Jesus: and they lay their garments on him, and he sat upon him.

8 And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down boughs from the trees, and strewed them in the way.

9 And they that went before and they that followed, cried, saying: Hosanna:

10 Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Blessed be the kingdom of our father, David, that cometh: Hosanna in the highest.

11 And he entered Jerusalem, into the temple: and having viewed all things round about, when now the hour of evening was come, he went out to Bethania with the twelve.

12 And the next day, when they came out from Bethania, he was hungry.

13 And when he had seen afar off a fig tree having leaves, he came, if perhaps he might find any thing on it. And when he was come to it, he found nothing but leaves: for it was not the time for figs.

14 And answering, he said to it: May no man hereafter eat fruit of thee any more for ever. And his disciples heard it.

15 And they came to Jerusalem. And when he was entered into the temple, he began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the chairs of them that sold doves.

16 And he suffered not that any man should carry a vessel through the temple.

17 And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written: My house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves.

The broken branches are the apostate Jews in Rome who were stirring up persecution against the Christians. The Christians who were being warned by Paul were those faithful Christians who were tempted by the apostate Jews to go off on their own without the guidance of the Apostles. St. Paul is walking a thin line since the forty years (a generation) of Our Lord's prophecy concerning the time for the Jews as a nation to repent from their rejection of Christ had not yet been exhausted, Christ's final dispensation for the Jews was not up until they pronounced the curses in the Temple against God and His Christ and the Christians and brought everlasting destruction upon themselves as a nation beginning immediately with the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by the Roman general Titus, which destruction of the temple was complete in 70 A.D. After that there is NO salvation ever offered again by God to the Jews as a nation. Only individual Jews can come to Christ and profess Him and be saved.

Romans 11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast: thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

In other words follow what is Apostolic from Christ and the Apostles.

St. Irenaeus explains the passage in Romans in his work Against Heresies, Book V, Chapter X; by the time, 180 A.D., that St. Irenaeus wrote Against Heresies, concerning St. Paul's admonitions about the olive tree and the branches, there was only left the allegorical meaning not to be unspiritual.

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Against Heresies, Book V, Chapter X.—By a comparison drawn from the wild olive-tree, whose quality but not whose nature is changed by grafting, he proves more important things; he points out also that man without the Spirit is not capable of bringing forth fruit, or of inheriting the kingdom of God.

1. This truth, therefore, [he declares], in order that we may not reject the engrafting of the Spirit while pampering the flesh. “But thou, being a wild olive-tree,” he says, “hast been grafted into the good olive-tree, and been made a partaker of the fatness of the olive-tree.” 4512 As, therefore, when the wild olive has been engrafted, if it remain in its former condition, viz., a wild olive, it is “cut off, and cast into the fire;” 4513 but if it takes kindly to the graft, and is changed into the good olive-tree, it becomes a fruit-bearing olive, planted, as it were, in a king’s park (paradiso): so likewise men, if they do truly progress by faith towards better things, and receive the Spirit of God, and bring forth the fruit thereof, shall be spiritual, as being planted in the paradise of God. But if they cast out the Spirit, and remain in their former condition, desirous of being of the flesh rather than of the Spirit, then it is very justly said with regard to men of this stamp, “That flesh and blood shall not inherit the kingdom of God;” 4514 just as if any one were to say that the wild olive is not received into the paradise of God. Admirably therefore does the apostle exhibit our nature, and God’s universal appointment, in his discourse about flesh and blood and the wild olive. For as the good olive, if neglected for a certain time, if left to grow wild and to run to wood, does itself become a wild olive; or again, if the wild olive be carefully tended and grafted, it naturally reverts to its former fruit-bearing condition: so men also, when they become careless, and bring forth for fruit the lusts of the flesh like woody produce, are rendered, by their own fault, unfruitful in righteousness. For when men sleep, the enemy sows the material of tares; 4515 and for this cause did the Lord command His disciples to be on the watch. 4516 And again, those persons who are not bringing forth the fruits of righteousness, and are, as it were, covered over and lost among brambles, if they use diligence, and receive the word of God as a graft, 4517 arrive at the pristine nature of man—that which was created after the image and likeness of God.

2. But as the engrafted wild olive does not certainly lose the substance of its wood, but changes the quality of its fruit, and receives another name, being now not a wild olive, but a fruit-bearing olive, and is called so; so also, when man is grafted in by faith and receives the Spirit of God, he certainly does not lose the substance of flesh, but changes the quality of the fruit [brought forth, i.e.,] of his works, and receives another name, 4518showing that he has become changed for the better, being now not [mere] flesh and blood, but a spiritual man, and is called such. Then, again, as the wild olive, if it be not grafted in, remains useless to its lord because of its woody quality, and is cut down as a tree bearing no fruit, and cast into the fire; so also man, if he does not receive through faith the engrafting of the Spirit, remains in his old condition, and being [mere] flesh and blood, he cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Rightly therefore does the apostle declare, “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;” 4519 and, “Those who are in the flesh cannot please God:” 4520 not repudiating [by these words] the substance of flesh, but showing that into it the Spirit must be infused. 4521 And for this reason, he says, “This mortal must put on immortality, and this corruptible must put on incorruption.” 4522 And again he declares, “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.” 4523 He sets this forth still more plainly, where he says, “The body indeed is dead, because of sin; but the Spirit is life, because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies, because of His Spirit dwelling in you.”4524 And again he says, in the Epistle to the Romans, “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die.” 4525 [Now by these words] he does not prohibit them from living their lives in the flesh, for he was himself in the flesh when he wrote to them; but he cuts away the lusts of the flesh, those which bring death upon a man. And for this reason he says in continuation, “But if ye through the Spirit do mortify the works of the flesh, ye shall live. For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.”

See and understand this most especially.

Romans 11:25 For I do not want you to be ignorant brothers, of this musterion [revelation which is revealed - at that time only], unless you should be wise in yourselves, that hardness in part has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles should comes in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved; as it has been written, “the one delivering will come out of Zion, He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob. 27 And this is the covenant from me to them when I take away the sins of them.” – This is quoted from Isaiah 59:20 and 20:21 and 27:9. None of this is future tense. It is present and the prophecy quoted is from Isaiah in the past and then fulfilled in the first advent of Our Only Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2,000 years ago. This is exactly what St. Paul is saying; all of Israel is saved when the last Gentile nation comes in. The Jews are not ever offered salvation as a nation again. Individual Jews can come to Christ and be saved, but only as individuals. Concerning the Gospel – it is to the Gentile nations only after the fall of Jerusalem in 70. A.D. See Our Lord’s words in the Great Commission: 

That commission begins at Jerusalem 2,000 years ago and then goes throughout the whole world and then comes the Second Coming of Christ. There is NO second salvation offered Jews as a nation in Jerusalem or any where else. To think that God will contradict His word and offer them salvation as a nation again voiding the covenant of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and in addition totally violate Hebrews 6th Chapter is to simply fall into and promulgate the trap of the Antichrist and be damned forever with the Son of Perdition and the False Prophet and Satan.

Matthew 28:18 And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.  19 Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world ["world" in the Greek is 'aeon' = age, this age of grace, then comes the judgment of all men at the Second Coming of Christ].

Mark 16:19 And the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God.  20 But they going forth preached everywhere: the Lord working withal, and confirming the word with signs that followed.

Luke 24:46 And he said to them: Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise again from the dead, the third day: 47 And that penance and remission of sins should be preached in his name, unto all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 

St. Irenaeus also explains Romans 11:26 in Against Heresies Book IV, Chapter II, Section 7.  But as many as feared God, and were anxious about His law, these ran to Christ, and were all saved. For He said to His disciples: “Go ye to the sheep of the house of Israel, which have perished.” And many more Samaritans, it is said, when the Lord had tarried among them, two days, “believed because of His words, and said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying, for we ourselves have heard [Him], and know that this man is truly the Saviour of the world.” And Paul likewise declares, “And so all Israel shall be saved;” [Romans 11:26] but he has also said, that the law was our pedagogue [to bring us] to Christ Jesus. Let them not therefore ascribe to the law the unbelief of certain [among them]. For the law never hindered them from believing in the Son of God; nay, but it even exhorted them so to do, saying that men can be saved in no other way from the old wound of the serpent than by believing in Him who, in the likeness of sinful flesh, is lifted up from the earth upon the tree of martyrdom [Jesus Christ on His most Holy Cross, Crucified for us ONCE never a second time], and draws all things to Himself, and vivifies the dead.