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Shock As Pope Francis Defends Communist Liberation Theology, Says It Was ‘Good For Latin America’

In a controversial interview, Pope Francis has publicly defended Liberation Theology, calling it a “positive thing” in Latin America.

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9 years ago

January 28, 2017

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In a controversial interview, Pope Francis has publicly defended Liberation Theology, calling it a “positive thing” in Latin America.

In his lengthy interview last week with the leftist Spanish daily El País, the Pope said that “Liberation Theology was a good thing for Latin America,” but also recognized that it had “deviations” that needed to be corrected.

The part of Liberation Theology that “opted for a Marxist analysis of reality was condemned by the Vatican,” Francis said.

“Cardinal Ratzinger issued two instructions when he was Prefect of the Doctrine of the Faith,” he continued. “One very clear one about the Marxist analysis of reality, and the second picked up positive aspects.”

“Liberation Theology had positive aspects and also had deviations, especially in the part of the Marxist analysis of reality,” he said. The two Vatican documents cited by the pontiff were Libertatis Nuntius, issued in 1984, and Libertatis Conscientia, released just two years later, in 1986.

Pope Francis, the Jesuits and liberation theology:

Libertatis Nuntius addressed “developments of that current of thought which, under the name ‘theology of liberation,’ proposes a novel interpretation of both the content of faith and of Christian existence which seriously departs from the faith of the Church and, in fact, actually constitutes a practical negation.”

“Concepts uncritically borrowed from Marxist ideology and recourse to theses of a biblical hermeneutic marked by rationalism are at the basis of the new interpretation which is corrupting whatever was authentic in the generous initial commitment on behalf of the poor,” the instruction continues.

The document also noted that in “certain parts of Latin America,” the recognition of injustice “is accompanied by a pathos which borrows its language from Marxism, wrongly presented as though it were scientific language.”

The letter also said that certain Christians, despairing of every other method, turned to a Marxist analysis, “especially in Latin America.”

The 1986 text was issued as a complement to the first one, and sought to “highlight the main elements of the Christian doctrine on freedom and liberation” as a corrective to the errors of Liberation Theology brought out by the prior instruction.

In a striking revelation in 2015, the highest ranking Cold War defector asserted that the KGB had created Liberation Theology, exporting it to Latin America as a means of introducing Marxism into the continent.

Ion Mihai Pacepa, a 3-star general and former head of Communist Romania’s secret police who defected to the United States in 1978, has been called “the Cold War’s most important defector.” During the more than ten years that Pacepa worked with the CIA, he made what the agency described as “an important and unique contribution to the United States.”

He is reported in fact to have given the CIA “the best intelligence ever obtained on communist intelligence networks and internal security services.”

“Liberation theology has been generally understood to be a marriage of Marxism and Christianity. What has not been understood is that it was not the product of Christians who pursued Communism, but of Communists who pursued Christians,” Pacepa said.

In his role as doctrinal watchdog, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger referred to Liberation Theology as a “singular heresy” and a “fundamental threat” to the Church. source

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The Department Of War Announced Today The United States Military Will Undergo A Full Integration Of Google Gemini Agentic AI To Its Palantir Platform

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December 9, 2025

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Palantir is already the dominant force in US military software and it will now be augmented by the addition of Google Gemini Agentic AI as an autonomous decision maker

As the Department of War rolls out Google’s Gemini AI across the U.S. military through GenAI.mil, another player stands quietly in the background — but its influence is enormous. That company is Palantir Technologies, the most military-embedded AI and data-fusion firm in the world.

“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Genesis 13:15 (KJB)

A few months ago, we told you all about Memetic Warfare, something that most people had not heard of before. Today I want to add another little nugget to your knowledge base, because very soon you will be hearing this everywhere. Agentic AI. It’s AI that doesn’t just respond to your commands, it gives them to you. Scary stuff, to say the least. The Antichrist kingdom will not be run on typewriters, filing cabinets and fax machines. It will be run on autonomous agentic AI, global networks, biometric systems, and militarized enforcement technologies. Gemini Agentic AI is not used the way you use WordPress or Excel, this is not your father’s Oldsmobile, as the old marketing campaign goes. This is a whole new day.

Agentic AI is being trained to:

Evaluate situations
Predict outcomes
Execute tasks
Adapt over time
This is “agentic AI.”
An AI that acts.
An AI that decides.
An AI that will eventually be allowed to operate without human approval in order to remain “faster than adversaries.”

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When that happens, you have crossed the line into autonomous warfare — and there will be no going back. Bible prophecy has two sides to it, on one hand it involves the opening of doors to bring about its fulfillment. On the other hand, it closes those same doors after you’ve walked through them. You might want to think about that for a year or two.

While Google provides the thinking engine, Palantir provides the eyes, ears, and nervous system to feed it. Together, they form a structure almost tailor-made for the end-times surveillance and enforcement systems foreseen in the King James Bible. Palantir’s entire business is built on the idea that every data point — financial, personal, military, biological, social, digital — can be ingested into one fused system and analyzed instantly by artificial intelligence.

This is not theoretical, this is who Palantir already sells to:

The U.S. Army
Special Operations Command
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Intelligence agencies
Police departments
NATO partners
Foreign governments

Their flagship platforms, Gotham, Foundry, and the new Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), allow governments to:

Track people
Predict behavior
Identify patterns across massive datasets
Monitor communications
Analyze movement
Issue alerts and automated decisions

This is the digital backbone of a modern surveillance regime. The world has never seen anything like this, but Bible believers sure have, in the pages of Scripture. We are watching the infrastructure of the Antichrist kingdom coming into place piece by piece, contract by contract, AI model by AI model. Time is short. The Church’s departure is imminent. TO THE FIGHT!!!

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Donald Trump Begins To Implement The International Stabilization Force To Rebuild Gaza And He’s Putting Foreign Troops Like Turkey On Israel’s Border

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December 9, 2025

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Trump’s Gaza Peace Place is creating an International Stabilization Force that will put foreign troops on Israel border

A few weeks ago, we told you about the unanimous vote at the UN Security Council greenlighting the Trump ‘Board of Peace’ plan to rebuild Gaza after the war with Israel. Then last week we told you how it’s expected to begin right around Christmas of this year. It was at this point that things took a noticeable turn for the worse. In this Phase II, Trump has compiled a 10-nation confederacy to assist him in this task, creating an International Stabilization Force (ISF) made up of some heavyweight enemies of Israel like Turkey. What could go wrong?

“For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.” Psalm 83:2 (KJB)

Let’s be blunt, shall we? Once foreign troops enter Gaza, they are on Israel’s doorstep, positioned literally yards from Israeli towns. No matter their insignia, no matter the color of their helmets, those forces answer to international governments, not to the IDF.

Israel would suddenly find herself under the watchful eye of:

NATO generals hostile to Israeli policies,
Arab states with their own agendas,
EU bureaucrats eager to carve up the Middle East, and
United Nations officials who have condemned Israel more than every other nation on earth combined.
Call it what you want, but a force like that is not neutral.

Once in place, it becomes nearly impossible for Israel to remove, and this is where the true danger lies. So you can look at Trump’s Peace Plan in one of two ways. Either this is a great plan and the great friend of Israel Donald Trump will use the might of the United States to rebuild Gaza and bring peace to the region, a blessing for Israel – or – the International Stabilization Force he’s putting together to form a concrete ring about the Jewish state made up of mostly her enemies. A permanent force of international troops on Israel’s border is right out of Bible prophecy.

“And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.” Luke 21:20 (KJB)

A multinational force in Gaza sets a deadly precedent: the idea that the world has the right — even the responsibility — to intervene in and administer parts of Israel’s biblical inheritance.

Once accepted in Gaza, the same logic will be applied to:

Jerusalem’s Old City
the Temple Mount
Judea and Samaria

This mirrors the prophetic warnings of Zechariah:

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.” Zechariah 12:2 (KJB)

The ISF is the camel’s nose under the tent — the first step toward “internationalizing” the holiest ground on earth. The nations are gathering, the pressure is mounting, and the stage is being set exactly as the scriptures have foretold.

The architects pushing this international force have already revealed their long game. The ISF is not simply about Gaza. It is about creating a mechanism through which the world can force Israel into a political settlement she does not want and should never accept.

The ISF allows diplomats to say:

“We control Gaza now. You must negotiate borders.”
“We administer security. You must divide Jerusalem.”
“We oversee reconstruction. You must accept a Palestinian state.”

Once the world plants its flag in Gaza, they will not stop until they plant it in Jerusalem, and according to the Bible, thus saith the Lord.

“I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.” Joel 3:2 (KJB)

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NTEB PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: Trump Has Signed Secret Directive NSPM-7 That Is Actually A Declaration Of Civil War Against The American People

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2 days ago

December 8, 2025

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NSPM-7 is titled “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence” and aimed at what the Government defines as “domestic terrorism and organized political violence.”

With the stroke of a pen, Donald Trump has quietly directed the federal government through the odious legal machinery contained in National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, or NSPM-7, to exert surveillance, suppression, and financial control over the American people hidden behind the language of “domestic extremism.” We told you this was coming, it’s here, and you’re not ready.

“Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?” Galatians 4:16 (KJB)

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, NSPM-7 significantly expands federal government’s domestic surveillance and enforcement reach. It coordinates across multiple agencies (law-enforcement, justice, financial, tax) to target not just violent actors, but entire networks — including funders, donors, organizations. It blurs the line between criminal acts (violence, property destruction, threats) and political belief, association, or funding. That means activism, protest, and dissent risk being treated as potential terrorism. For nonprofits, activists, churches, donors, and civic-society organizations — it introduces chilling uncertainty and risk. Many may self-censor, reduce activity, avoid controversial causes, or even shut down under pressure. For the broader society, it risks normalizing “pre-crime” policing of ideology, association, and funding — rather than punishing only actual criminal actions. The civil war we all thought would come through Obama is actually coming through Donald Trump. Welcome to the program, and buckle it, Christian, it’s gonna be a wild ride. Are you NSPM-7 compliant?

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