The Jesuit Agenda and the Evangelical/Protestant

Church

According to Bible prophecy, a one-world religion that will offer the promise of peace throughout the world is going to
commence prior to Christs return.This agency will seem like a wonderful thing and may be a pseudo-Christianity(coming
in the name of Christ);however,it will actually establish and set up the antichrist and his one-world government.
In order for this to happen, all religions must come together in an ecumenical plan. Today, as part of this Satanic scheme,
the evangelical/Protestant church is being drawn seductively into the Roman Catholic church, largely through what we call
The Jesuit Agenda. The majority of proclaiming Christians are not at all aware it is happening.
So, what should we expect if we are in the time when such a system unfolds? First, many who once were Protestant and
evangelical will become ecumenical and eventually assimilate with the Roman Catholic church. Second, all religions will
unite in solidarity of purpose. Knowing the Jesuit Agenda is essential to understand how this deception will come about.
Who are the Jesuits?
Since its foundation, the Catholic papacy has been zealous and often brutal in its endeavor to establish the kingdom of
the Pope (of whom it is believed within the Catholic church is headed by Jesus Christ). In fact, the Pope has been referred
to as the Vicar of Christ. This determination was witnessed during the Inquisition where countless thousands, if not
millions, died cruelly for resisting Rome. Foxes Book of Martyrs describes many of these atrocities.
While many believers in Christ during the Reformation period attempted to spread the truth that Gods Word was truly
Gods Word and could not be squandered and kept hostage by the papacy and the Catholic Church, it was not long before
the Counter Reformation was founded to bring the Separated Brethren back to the Mother of All Churches.
This Counter Reformation was largely headed by Ignatius Loyola, the man who founded the Jesuit Order in the mid 1500s
and launched an all-out attack against those who dared stand against the papacy and Rome. This excerpt from Foxes
Book of Martyrs gives us an idea of the nature and determination of this Counter Reformation:
The emperor Ferdinand, whose hatred of the Bohemian Protestants was without bounds, not thinking he
had sufficiently oppressed them, instituted a high court to prosecute the reformers upon the plan of the
Inquisition, with this difference, that the court was to travel from place to place and always to be attended
by a body of troops. This court was conducted chiefly by Jesuits and from their decision there was no
appeal, by which it may be easily conjectured that it was a dreadful tribunal indeed.
This bloody court, attended by a body of troops, made the tour of Bohemia. They seldom examined or saw
a prisoner, for the soldiers were permitted to murder the Protestants as they pleased and then to make a
report of the matter to them afterward.(1)
You see, the Jesuits were commissioned by the Pope to do whatever it took to end the Protestant Reformation. The 1540
Constitution of the Jesuits states:
[L]et whoever desires to fight under the sacred banner of the Cross, and to serve only God and the
Roman pontiff, His vicar on earth, after a solemn vow of perpetual chastity,- let him keep in mind that he
is part of a society, instituted for the purpose of perfecting souls in life and in Christian doctrine, for the
propagation of the faith . . . Let all members know, and let it be not only at the beginning of their
profession, but let them think over it daily as long as they live, that the society as a whole, and each of
them, owes obedience to our most holy lord, the pope, and the other Roman pontiffs, his successors,
and to fight with faithful obedience for God. (Emphasis added.)
While most Christians think that the Counter Reformation is a thing of the past because we are not seeing Inquisitions
today, this movement continues until today and with renewed effort through various avenues of the evangelical/Protestant
church. In a way, it is more insidious than the Inquisitions, because now it has infiltrated Christianity and is being disguised

as the new Christianity. (Rick Warren promotes it as the new or second reformation.) But disguised or not, it is the
Jesuit Agenda, and it is bringing about ecumenism and a one-world religion. And at the same time, it is attempting to
destroy the message that so many died for - the message that Jesus Christ is not found in a wafer and a cup of juice to
be re-crucified day after day but has died once and for all for the sins of man and offers a salvation that is an entirely free
gift, unearned to those who believe on Him (Hebrews 7:27; 10:11-14).

Who Was Ignatius Loyola?

After a serious injury in the military and during a lengthy rehabilitation, Ignatius Loyola (b. 1491, d. 1556) turned his focus
from military enthusiasm to ghostly fanaticism.(2) Ignatius assumed the name and office of Knight of the Virgin Mary,
seeing himself as Marys favorite. Ignatius wanted to start a new order, The Society of Jesus (or the Jesuits) and
presented the idea to the Pope. He told the Pope that the idea had been inspired by heavenly revelations. At first, the
Pope hesitated, but when Ignatius added a fourth vow (in addition to the regular poverty, chastity, and obedience),
absolute subservience to the pope, promising to do whatever the Pope wanted and go wherever he wanted, the Pope
agreed and sent the new order out to invade the world. While other monks of other orders sought to separate
themselves from the world, the Jesuits went out into the world and obeyed whatever command the Pope gave. Often this
was to win the world with the sword. No violent act was withheld if the order came from their top general. (3)
In time, the Jesuits entered the education system, especially that of the Protestants. The Jesuit maxim was: Give us the
education of the children of this day and the next generation will be ours.(4) The Reverend W. C. Brownlee, D.D.
stated: They pretended to be converted and to enter into Protestant churches. One Jesuit even boasted that the Jesuits
were successfully able to imitate the Puritan preachers. They used trickery and deception to become all things to all
men. Within 48 years, there were eleven thousand Jesuits around the world, quite a large number for back then. (5)
By 1773, the order was abolished because of their bad reputation of bloodiness, deception, and immorality, but they were
reinstated in 1814 by Pope Pius VII. By this time, the influence and infiltration into the U.S. by the Jesuits was significant.
In 1857, the Reverend W.C. Brownlee, D.D. compiled a book of a translated document called Secret Instructions of the
Jesuits (found on the Boston College Libraries website, for one). While Catholic sources say that the Secret Instructions of
the Jesuits is an untrue document, there is enough evidence to indicate that it is true indeed. Naturally, it is so indicting
against the papacy and the Jesuit Order that one can understand from a human point of view why Catholic sources would
say the document isnt true. But the facts are that the Jesuit Order was performing brutal cruel acts to bring the world to
Christ and the Mother Church and that they were infiltrating every area of society to do so. This cannot be denied.
Brownlees book would be a worthwhile read for those who wish to understand more of the history of the Jesuits.

The Jesuit Oath

It is said that the ancient Jesuits took the Jesuit Oath. This has been refuted by Catholic sources as a true oath taken by
Jesuits of the past; nevertheless, there is evidence enough that the oath did exist to include excerpts of it in this report.
We have taken these excerpts from a book titled Political and Economic Handbook by Thomas Edward Watson published
in 1916, and found in the Harvard College library.
I do declare from my heart, without mental reservation, that the Pope is Christs Vicar General
and . . . He hath power to depose Heretical Kings, Princes, States . . . that they may safely be
destroyed. Therefore, to the utmost of my power I will defend this doctrine. . . . I do further declare the
doctrine of the Church of England, of the Calvanists [sic], the Huguenots, and other Protestants to be
damnable and those to be damned who will not forsake the same.
I do further declare that I will help, assist, and advise all or any of His Holiness agents in any place
wherever I shall be; and to do my utmost to extirpate [exterminate] the heretical Protestant doctrine,
and to destroy all their pretended power. (p. 437)
In another version of the Jesuit Oath, the Jesuit is asked to promise that he will make relentless war against all heretics,
Protestants and to hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle, and bury alive these infamous heretics (found in U.S. House
Congressional Record, 1913, p. 3216).

The Jesuit Agenda Today:

While we are not saying that Jesuits today are murdering Protestants if they dont convert to Catholicism, we are saying
that the determination and efforts to convert Protestants back to the Mother Church still exist. Basically, while the methods
may have changed, the plan and objectives have not. The following quote from an article titled Essay on Popery by Rev.
Ingram Cobbin M.A. (taken from one edition of Foxes Book of Martyrs) is insightful:
The Jesuits, though at times expelled or pretendedly so from Rome, have been its awful emissaries to
augment its power. The intrigues and deceptions of these men would fill volumes, and the
conveniency of their creed to deny or affirm anything, or assume any profession as it may serve their
purpose, is too well known to need recapitulating here. These men have at times assumed so much
that every papal state has alternately ejected them; and large numbers are now in this country
doubtless many under false colours waiting the most favourable opportunities to corrupt the rising
generation, and, as much as possible, restore the dark days of former ages. The Jesuits are
unchangeable.

The Jesuits were driven in the past to bring back the lost brethren, and they are driven today with the same vision. Today,
that vision is part of the popes Eucharistic Evangelization, drawing people to the Eucharistic Christ. The Eucharistic
Evangelization is discussed at length in Another Jesus: The Evangelization of the Eucharistic Christ and in several articles
on the Understand the Times website.

Jesuit (Mystical) Spirituality and the Protestant/Evangelical Church

So if the methods of converting lost or prodigal souls back to Rome have changed, what is the method to accomplish
these goals today? It is largely through what is called Jesuit Spirituality. A 2002 book titled Contemplatives in Action: The
Jesuit Way reveals how the Jesuit order has had and continues to have a great influence in people around the world. It
attributes this vitality to its spirituality which has also evoked fierce loyalty and fierce opposition.(6)
What is the spirituality of the Jesuits that was so controversial? By their very roots, Jesuits are proponents of mystical
prayer practices. The founder of the Jesuits, Ignatius Loyola, created spiritual exercises that incorporated mysticism,
including lectio divina. Today, millions of people worldwide practice the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola.
One Jesuit priest who resonates with the mystical spiritual outlook is Anthony De Mello (d. 1987), author of Sadhana: A
Way to God. De Mello is often quoted today by contemplative and emerging authors and embraced the mysticism of
Hinduism. He stated:
To silence the mind is an extremely difficult task. How hard it is to keep the mind from thinking,
thinking, thinking, forever thinking, forever producing thoughts in a never ending stream. Our Hindu
masters in India have a saying: one thorn is removed by another. By this they mean that you will be
wise to use one thought to rid yourself of all the other thoughts that crowd into your mind. One thought,
one image, one phrase or sentence or word that your mind can be made to fasten on. Anthony de
Mello, Sadhana: A Way to God (St. Louis, the Institute of Jesuit Resources, 1978), p. 28 (cited from A
Time of Departing, by Ray Yungen, p. 75).
Ray Yungen explains that Sadhana is very open in its acknowledgment of Eastern mysticism as an enrichment to
Christian spirituality.
It doesnt take a long search to find De Mello within the evangelical/Protestant camp. In fact, Richard Foster, one of the
pioneers of the evangelical spiritual formation (contemplative) movement wrote the introduction to one of De Mellos
books, The Sacrament of the Present Moment. In A Glimpse of Jesus, popular contemplative author Brennan Manning
quotes De Mello. Amazon shows that De Mellos book, The Sacrament of the Present Moment is cited in 82 books, some
of which are written by some of evangelicalisms most popular authors: John Ortberg, Richard Foster, Jan Johnson, Philip
Yancey, and Calvin Miller incidentally all these are contemplative advocates.
Another example of Jesuit influence in the evangelical/Protestant church is the Be Still DVD, where Richard Foster quotes
18th century Jesuit priest, Jean Nicholas Grou as saying: O Divine Master, teach me this mute language which says so
much. This mute language Grou speaks of is the mystical silence practiced by contemplatives and mystics throughout
all religions.
One of the key figures in the new progressive Christianity today is Leonard Sweet. Sweet has partnered on a number of
occasions with Rick Warren and speaks at evangelical events frequently. In Sweets book, Quantum Spirituality, he states:
Mysticism, once cast to the sidelines of the Christian tradition, is now situated in postmodernist
culture near the center. . . . In the words of one of the greatest theologians of the twentieth century,
Jesuit philosopher of religion/dogmatist Karl Rahner, The Christian of tomorrow will be a mystic, one
who has experienced something, or he will be nothing. [Mysticism] is metaphysics arrived at through
mindbody experiences. (p. 76)
How fitting that Sweet would quote a Jesuit priests prediction about the Christian of the future.

Tony Campolo, another popular figure in the evangelical church, reveals something quite interesting in his book, Letters to
a Young Evangelical. In the book, he explains the role mysticism had in him becoming a Christian. He explains:
I learned about this way of having a born-again experience from reading Catholic mystics, especially The
Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola. (p. 30, see Coming to Christ Through Mysticism, Oakland )
For skeptics who may need further evidence that Jesuit Spirituality has come into the evangelical/Protestant church,
consider this. In 2006, Baker Books, one of evangelicalisms top book publishers, released a book titled Sacred Listening:
Discovering the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola written by James Wakefield. A publisher description of the book
states:
Central to the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), the Spiritual Exercises is a manual used to direct a
month-long spiritual retreat. Now adapting these time-honored Exercises specifically for
Protestant Christians, James L. Wakefield encourages readers to integrate their secular goals
with their religious beliefs and helps them reflect on the life of Jesus as a model for their own
discipleship.(7)
Wakefields book, devoted to the Jesuits and Ignatian Exercises, should be proof enough that the Jesuit Agenda has
entered the Christian church and that mysticism is the tool by which the Jesuit Agenda is largely being brought into the
lives of countless evangelicals and Protestants. Is it any wonder Wakefields book found praise within the Jesuit
community? Armand M. Nigro, professor emeritus at the Jesuit school, Gonzaga University, said:
As a Jesuit for 62 years, I have been formed by the Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, our principal
founder. I rejoice, then, at the long-awaited publication of Sacred Listening. It will be for its readers,
I hope, a classic manual for spiritual growth in genuine mystical prayer. (on back cover of book)
Incidentally, Eugene Peterson, author of The Message wrote an endorsement of Wakefields book on the front cover.
These are just a few of a great many examples where the Jesuit Spirituality has come into the Protestant church; thus
this new modern (post-modern) mystical method to accomplish the goals of the papacy is working.
If Protestants and evangelicals can be convinced to practice mysticism (i.e., contemplative), this conditions them to begin
embracing Rome and even all religions. Its important to understand that mysticism is the bridge that unites all the
religions of the world. In order to unite them, there would need to be a uniting, common denominator, so to speak. That
common uniting medium is mysticism. Thomas Merton recognized this. In a conversation he was having with a Sufi
master, the topic of Christian atonement arose. The Sufi master said this was an area they could never agree on, to which
Merton replied:
Personally, in matters where dogmatic beliefs differ, I think that controversy [atonement] is of little value
because it takes us away from the spiritual realities into the realm of words and ideas . . . in words there
are apt to be infinite complexities and subtleties which are beyond resolution. . . . But much more
important is the sharing of the experience of divine light, . . . It is here that the area of fruitful dialogue
exists between Christianity and Islam.(8) (Emphasis added.)
Tilden Edwards, co-founder of the Shalem Institute (where Ruth Haley Barton was educated), would agree with Merton.
He said, This mystical stream [xe "contemplative prayer"xe "contemplative prayer"xe "contemplative
prayer"contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality (Spiritual Friend, p. 18). And in a New Age
book titled, As Above, So Below, the author states (quoting Aldous Huxley) that the metaphysical [mystical] that
recognizes a divine reality is the highest common factor that links the worlds religious traditions. And even
evangelical-turned-emerging author Tony Campolo recognizes this commonality in mysticism when he states: Beyond
these models of reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and
Islam (pp 149-150).
Incidentally, when we say all the religions of the world uniting, we include the New Age movement (perhaps one of the
largest religions in the world today). New Agers believe that in order to enter into an age of enlightenment (or Age of
Aquarius), the world needs to become vibrationally sympathetic, meaning that a sufficient mass (critical mass) of people
will need to engage in mystical prayer.(9)

The Counter Reformation Continues

Jesuit influence in the world today is everywhere: in the business world, in education, in government, and yes, in the
evangelical/Protestant church. According to Contemplatives in Action: The Jesuit Way, there are over one million people
living in the United States alone who have graduated from Jesuit high schools, colleges, and universities (Introduction, p.
1)
While there have often been tensions between the Pope and the Jesuit Order over various issues, the current Superior
General of the Jesuit Order, Adolfo Nicolas Pachon, reassured the Jesuit commitment to Rome when he stated:
The Society of Jesus was born within the Church, we live in the Church, we were approved by the
Church and we serve the Church. This is our vocation...[Unity with the pope] is the symbol of our union
with Christ. It also is the guarantee that our mission will not be a 'small mission,' a project just of the
Jesuits, but that our mission is the mission of the Church."(10)
Where Else in Evangelicalism is the Jesuit Evangelism Showing Up?
Earlier this year, Understand the Times released an article titled Jerry Boykin and the Calvary Chapel Connection. It was a
difficult article for many to read. People do not want to think that Christian leaders and pastors they have trusted for years
would be so foolish as to associate with and promote someone who is part of a group that wants to bring the lost
brethren back to the Mother Church. But the fact is that a high officer in the Vaticans Jesuitical, Knights of Malta was a
featured speaker at a Calvary Chapel sponsored Preach the Word prophecy conference.
Another example, and I believe an important one, has to do with one of the most well-known and influential evangelical
organizations in America. Robert Siciro is a Protestant turned Catholic Paulist priest, and he is one of the featured
speakers in the very popular Truth Project by Focus on the Family. While the Paulist Order is not a Jesuit Order, it has
basically the same objective as the Jesuit order with regard to winning souls for the Catholic church. According to one
Catholic source , the Paulist order is A community of priests for giving missions and doing other Apostolic works,
especially for making converts to the Catholic faith. Robert Siciro is President of the Acton Institute, an ecumenical think
tank where, incidentally, there are scores of articles by or about those in the Catholic faith, including a number of Jesuits.
Now, through the Truth Project, thousands and thousands of evangelical/Protestant Christians have been introduced, by
way of proxy, to the Eucharistic Evangelization.
The Fatima Plan
For those who are not convinced that we are headed toward a one-world religion for peace, take a trip some time to
Fatima, Portugal where annual pilgrimages bring people from the religions of the world to pray to the queen of heaven,
also called our lady of Peace.
Pope John Paul II was dedicated to Mary and especially Our Lady of Fatima. He believed this entity saved him from an
assassins bullet on May 13, 1981, on the anniversary of the so-called apparitions appearance (to have first occurred in
1917).
People from all around the world have been coming to Fatima to pray to Our Lady. At a gathering for world peace in
Fatima, Jesuit priest Jacques Dupuis stated:
The religion of the future will be a general converging of religions in a universal Christ that will satisfy all.
The other religious traditions in the world are part of God's plan for humanity and the Holy Spirit is
operating and present in Buddhist, Hindu and other sacred writings of Christian and non-Christian faiths
as well. The universality of God's kingdom permits this, and this is nothing more than a diversified form of
sharing in the same mystery of salvation.(11)
Fatima is just another avenue through which the Jesuit Agenda is being accomplished.

In Summary
Perhaps the best way to understand the Jesuit Agenda that undermines biblical Christianity is to recognize the move
toward a so-called social gospel that unites the religions of the world for the cause of peace. Like mysticism, this social
gospel is a vehicle through which all religions will be united. Who would have believed this could have happened to the
Protestant evangelical church? But we have already been warned in Scripture that Satans ministers are transformed as
the ministers of righteousness (2 Corinthians 11:15).
Rick Warren has been one of the many pied pipers of this move to unite through good works. Called Americas pastor,
Warren has become the evangelical/Protestant spokesperson for a one-world religion. His Purpose Driven model has
become the battle cry for let just all get along and do good. We can work together as one for one common purpose
peace in the world.
Willow Creek has helped to escalate this global religious body through their Global Leadership Summits, where they are
bringing people together from all nationalities to complete our shared Kingdom assignment in the Church and
beyond(12) (emphasis added). Warren and Hybels global agenda is moving full force throughout the earth today.
Rick Warren and Bill Hybels - protgs of Peter Drucker, by the way - have advanced the Jesuit Agenda by leaps and
bounds. Many of these new Christianity, new reformation leaders have ignored the prophetic warnings of Jesus Christs
soon return based on the signs we see from Bible prophecy. Instead, they promote the establishment of the kingdom of
God with all the worlds religions.
The emerging church movement, which has been widely propagated by Warren, Hybels, and a host of other Christian
figures, has been used by Satan to quickly bring about this worldwide deception by introducing mystical experiences and
the social gospel to an entire generation of young people. Sensual experiences that tickle the flesh of the postmodern
generation are often the same ones that Rome has used in the past to convince the faithful that they have encountered
the God of the Bible. History reveals that history is repeating, and the same tools of delusion are being used over and
over.

Those who shine the light on the Jesuit Agenda are considered to be conspiratorial crackpots. The prophets of the past
when they exposed the Babylonian worship by the leaders of Israel were also deemed to be crazy, as have been Biblebelieving Christians since Christianity began. One of those was John Huss (1372-1415). John Foxe describes what
happened:
[Huss] compiled a treatise in which he maintained that reading the books of Protestants could not be
absolutely forbidden. He wrote in defense of Wickliffe's book on the Trinity; and boldly declared against the
vices of the pope, the cardinals, and clergy of those corrupt times. He wrote also many other books, all of
which were penned with a strength of argument that greatly facilitated the spreading of his doctrines. . . .
(13)
Eventually Huss was arrested, and when he was brought before the council (of the papacy), he was mocked and called A
ringleader of heretics, to which he replied,
My Lord Jesus Christ, for my sake, did wear a crown of thorns; why should not I then, for His sake, wear this light crown,
be it ever so shameful? Truly I will do it and willingly.(14)
At 43 years of age, John Huss was burned at the stake, singing hymns during the brutal execution. Why was he called a
ringleader of heretics? For standing up for biblical truth against the Pope and Rome.
Discerning Christians should be asking many questions. But one question that stands out foremost is: why are so few
saying anything about the Jesuit Agenda? Do they see it but are afraid to speak? Or do they see it and are part of it?
Speaking of questions, Jesus asked one: [W]hen the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? (Luke 18:8).
Will He find it in the pastors and theological professors? Will He find it in your own church? Or will He only find those who
have remained silent?
Just as God raised up others to carry the torch of truth after Huss was eliminated from this earth, God will and is raising
up others today who are willing to risk all to stand for the truth and speak against the lies.
To believers who are standing fast, look up, for your redemption draweth nigh (Luke 21:28).

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the
children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but
now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and
righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the
unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. . . . See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as
fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but
understanding what the will of the Lord is. (Ephesians 5:6-11, 15-17)