Despite Mel Gibson's effort to disavow any anti-Jewish influence in his film about Jesus' death, his critics are firing back with fresh evidence that the movie closely follows an anti-Jewish book by a 19th-Century German nun.
Actor Jim Caviezel has been struck by lightning while playing Jesus in Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion Of Christ.
The lightning bolt hit Caviezel and the film's assistant director Jan Michelini while they were filming in a remote location a few hours from Rome.
A Message from Kelly
Dear Redeemed:
I want to send out a warning about the movie "The Passion of Christ" before you go to see it so you will have your guard up. Although I have not seen it yet, this is what I do know.
I have interviewed Mel Gibson's dad on my show because he is outspoken about "The New World Order." What I found out while interviewing him is that he and his son are "Latin Mass Only" Catholics. This means that they believe like the old Catholics did before the "Vatican II." They believe that worship can only be done in Latin. That Latin is some holy language and the scriptures can only be in Latin. Of course this is the time when Catholics also believed that regular individuals cannot read the Word of God. Mel has a chapel on his property and has services there. Before Mel started believing like this, he married an Episcopalian, and has been quoted to say that his wife will not go to heaven. He has been quoted in an interview with the New Yorker: "there is no salvation for thoughs outside the Church." During the time of the Catholic religion that Mel believes in, was a time of extreme anti semitism. From the Crusades to the second world war, the Catholics blame the Jews for the death of Christ. Of course we know that Christ laid down his life for us, to pay the penalty of sin for us. Catholics penalty for sin is confession, money and Hale Mary's.
Mel Gibson said in his interview with the New Yorker that the "Visions of Emmerich" supplied him with stuff he would never would have thought of. This movie is based not just on the Scriptures, but on vision of Nuns. Anne Catherine Emmerich(1774-1824) and Mary of Agreda (1662-1665). Emmerich supposedly had wounds of Christ in her body. She supposedly had visions of Christ's crucifixion and tells where Christ begs for mercy. I guess this will be in the movie. Plus Mary of Agreda's vision that Jesus is thrown off a bridge and Mary is assisting Jesus to the cross.
From articles in the BBC, actor Jim Caviezel has been struck by lightning twice during the filming of this movie. If you read some of his comments you will understand why.
Latin brought into the movie as some holy language. The movie will not be in English, but in Aramaic and Latin. Those who do not understand the Gospel will blame the Jews for the killing of Jesus. I just want you to be aware of the truth before seeing it with your guard down.
Blessings in the Name of the Resurrected Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
........."It's all - maybe not all fiction - but most of it is," he said, adding that the gas chambers and crematoria at camps like Auschwitz would not have been capable of exterminating so many people.
But actor portraying Christ in Mel Gibson's upcoming film miraculously escapes injury
Mel Gibson's
The Passion Of The Christ
1. Jesus hung over a bridge by chains and then yanked ?
2. What about Jesus' brothers and sisters ? Not in the movie !
3. The actor playing the role of Jesus carryed a piece of the true cross. Is it really from the cross ?
"Plains Baptist Challenger"
February 2004
Published by:
TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH
E. L. Bynum, Pastor/Editor
Reasons for Rejecting Mel Gibson's Movie
We believe that there are good and sufficient reasons why a Bible believing Christian should avoid the movie, "The Passion of Christ." We gladly state some of these reasons so that our readers may evaluate them.
1. Gibson's movies are noted for their extreme violence. This is not the main reason we are warning people. I have never seen one of his movies and I have no intention of doing so. This no doubt was a great influence when he saw the movie script, for this gave him the excuse for making another violent movie. It certainly would take a lot of fake violence to portray the death of Jesus Christ. The record found in the Bible is enough and I think it would be foolish for anyone to try to correctly portray His death. We live in a world of violence and movies and television have magnified this above all limits. This has a very destructive influence on everyone and it has warped the minds of a lot of kids and young people. We are seeing this in the behavior of many today.
2. Mel Gibson is a devout Roman Catholic. He is devoted to the Latin Mass and goes to a Catholic Church that practices this. I have read that he had a Roman Catholic priest on the movie set, and that the Mass was celebrated every day. The Mass is pure idolatry of the worst kind, because it represents the crucifixion of Christ over and over again. They believe that the wafer (bread) literally becomes the body of Christ and that they are really eating His body. They believe that the wine turns into the literal blood of Christ. This happens when the priest does his thing.
3. This movie is a product of the Hollywood movie industry. The movie industry is at the very center of a cesspool of sin and corruption. For two generations they have been responsible for much of the moral and ethical decline in our nation. They not only produce violence, but they glorify fornication, adultery and sexual perversion on the silver screen. Bed hopping, wife swapping and all forms of immorality, profanity and evil flow forth from Hollywood. The awful moral damage to our nation is so huge that it can hardly be expressed, much less over estimated.
It is curious that there are so many environmental activists in Hollywood that are all steamed up to save the environment. They are concerned about owls, mice, trees, fish and many other things that they feel are being destroyed by people. At the same time they are in the pollution business, as they pollute the minds and morals of our nation and of the world. They have promoted alcohol and drugs which destroy masses of people and weaken the moral fiber of our nation. No thanks, I want nothing that Hollywood produces.
4. This movie encourages churches to take their Young People to the theaters. There was a time when pastors boldly took a stand and preached against the movie theaters. This pastor still does preach against the movies, and I intend to keep on doing it. The movies today are ten times worse today than they were when it was popular to preach against them. Now churches are encouraging their people to go see a movie and this sends a silent message that it is all right to go to the movies and support Hollywood. How art the mighty fallen, and by their falling have caused truth to fall in the church and in the street.
5. Beware when any movie, book, video, or seminar is embraced by most of the Religious world. Ecumenicalism is the avowed enemy of the truth of the Word of God. If the Catholics, Protestants, Baptists and most of the religious world are for it, true Bible believing Christians should avoid it like the plague. That ecumenical crowd never endorses the truth of God's Word. A good rule is to find out what all the religious crowd is promoting, and then you can nearly always take a strong stand against it. "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" (Amos 3:3)
6. We are taught to "Abstain from all appearance of evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22). Christians cannot see "The Passion of Christ" and do that. In fact if we patronize the movies at all, we are disobeying the above Scripture. We are called to holiness and not worldliness. We are commanded, "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. (2 Corinthians 6:17) You cannot do this and be identified with such movies and with Hollywood in general. You cannot run off to join the ecumenical rush to cooperate and still be in compliance with this Scripture.
7. We are taught to do things that will bring glory to God. "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God" (1 Corinthians 10:31). I am unable to see how a person that lives by this Scripture could possibly join in with an ecumenical crowd in an ungodly theater, to see a religious movie produced out of a Hollywood pollution factory.
Will the Movie Be a Success?
It most likely will be widely accepted by the religious world. It will probably in the end make a lot of money for Mel Gibson. It is no doubt a very emotional and moving movie that will result in many people testifying in its favor. This does not mean that it will be a success in the eyes of God and in the light of the Bible. All is not gold that glitters, and not every thing that looks good is good.
No doubt Mel Gibson may well think that he had good motives in making this movie, but that does not mean that it is true.
Kelly- "What's fascinating to me is that so few Christians are willing or even able to judge this effort from a biblically discerned perspective, choosing instead to run frantically alongside the hyperbolic herd to the Next Big Thing just because it is being called biblical when, in fact, it is an R-rated film of unrelenting bloodshed, torture and trauma contrived by human imagination that people, including children, will be dealing with for years."
.....she redeemed the human race together with Christ."
Benedict XV, Inter Sodalicia, 1918
Jesus Was Not Enough ?
Why was this depiction used in this film!
The Gospels do not record that Jesus left the tomb naked; Sister Anne Emmeric did not see in her "visions" that Jesus was naked as He left the tomb. Therefore, why would Gibson and his Jesuit script writer concoct such an ending? Since Gibson reportedly spent $50 million of his own money to make this film and get it distributed, and since he is a proven professional screen director, you know that he paid attention to every detail, no matter how minute. You know that he knew this film was going to end on Jesus' bare bottom, so that must have been the plan. But, why?
Dr. Cathy Burns, who we have interviewed many times. Gives us great information about the movie and it showing Jesus with as a one-eyed Messiah and who is naked. In her book "Masonic and Occult Symbols Illustrated". On page 205. One can see the C.F.R. (Council on Foreign Relations) portrays Antichrist as a one-eyed, left-eyed naked Messiah riding a white horse!"
The books and visions of Ann Catherine Emmerich were key sources that inspired Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of Christ."
Ann Catherine Emmerich was a nun who lived from (1774-1824). She was known for her visions of Christ and mystic gifts. In 1806 a accident, made it impossible for her to leave her room at the monastery for the next six years. During this time, is where God was to have bless her with spiritual gifts.
Then by the end of 1812, is when she was given her so called, marks of Christ's Passion on her body. This is the strange phenomena known as stigmata. Where person's around the world claim to bleed from their hands like the wounds of Jesus Christ.
The following are links to stories about Ann Catherine Emmerich and Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of Christ."
Jesus the Christ told Anne Catherine Emmerich, who lived two centuries ago in Germany, that her gift of seeing (mystical visions) was greater than that possessed by anyone else in history. Her visions are well documented. Ann Catherine Emmerich in one of her inspired visions saw,"a long line of royal females extending from the Mother of God, virgins with crowns and scepters, though not earthly, queens, souls who had preceded or followed Mary in the order of time.
Members claim it violates 2nd Commandment on images of God
The Selling of Images
KJV Exodus 20:4 - Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
.....Mel Gibson has, in fact, cast three hardcore pornography stars in major roles in this so-called "Christian" movie......
Mel Gibson's
Icon Productions
The most satanic of all was in the beginning when Jesus was being arrested. The Roman guards should have been lying on the ground if the Bible was followed, but instead Jesus's face was pulverized causing his right eye to be swelled shut. It then stayed swollen shut throughout the movie. It is funny how Mel has a one eyed icon as his logo for Icon Productions.
A picture of Ann Emmerich shows her in bed with one eye in a pyramid over her, enlightening her with the vision to write her book. Keeping Jesus one eyed throughout the show, then showing him naked in the tomb reminded me of the picture that the Illuminati uses for the Antichrist. A one-eyed naked man on a white horse. In Zechariah 11:17, Zechariah is talking about the antichrist and says, "Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened."
Read that whole chapter, it is very EYE opening! Hey wasn't that Jesus's right eye that was swollen shut in the movie? View Jesus' right eye blackened out on "The Passion of the Christ" web page. (Wait till the picture of Jesus appears.)
The Eye of Horus
The eye of Horus were depicted by the ancient Egyptians. The wounding of the left eye served as a mythical explanation of the phases of the moon, and its magical restoration meant that the left was usually the one used as an amulet and considered to be the 'Eye of Horus'.
Veronica's Veil
This is a very old legend !
In the movie, a woman from Jerusalem who was so moved by pity at witnessing Jesus struggling with his cross toward Golgotha that she wiped his face with her veil (or kerchief).
The legend says, that Jesus was so moved by this, that he put his image opon the veil and it became a healing cloth.
.....his 85-year-old father discounted the idea that millions of Jews died in the Holocaust and said Jews were trying to take over the world......
.....According to transcripts of the interview, he also blamed Jews for everything from the Roman persecution of early Christians to fomenting the Russian Revolution to orchestrating an international banking conspiracy. He urges someone to go out and "hang" Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who is Jewish.......
