Conspiracy in History - Conspiracy against Job and idolatry (2/4)
By Orlando Fedeli - Reading the book of Job, God revealed that the devil can use natural phenomena, men, and even organize entire peoples to do evil.
Note from the translator: This is an essay by Mr. Fedeli named “Conspiracy in History: Examples from the Old Testament” which we are breaking in 4 parts:
Conspiracy in History
Examples from Holy Scripture: Conspiracy against Job and idolatry ←
Examples from Holy Scripture: Jewish leadership and their secret idolatry
Coming 01/20
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We said that since the beginning of times there has been a diabolical conspiracy to lose souls. In this article, we do not intend to make an exhaustive demonstration of this history, from all centuries — as Leo XIII said in Humanum Genus — the wicked have articulated to fight the good, the Church and Christ. We just want to draw attention to some signs of this conspiracy in times before Christ based on Sacred Scripture itself. With this we aim to open the eyes of Catholic minds who refuse to see that there is a conspiracy in history, or who naively imagine that the conspiracy began in 1714 with the Masonic constitution made by Anderson, as the Masonic and anti-Masonic books say.
The case of Job
In Scripture we read that, with God's permission, Satan destroyed Job's possessions, killed his children and caused him a severe wound from head to toe. To do these evils, it is written that Satan, in addition to using natural forces (lightning, hurricanes), instigated the Sabeans and organized the Chaldeans into three squadrons (Job I, 13-20). God revealed in this text that the devil, with His permission, can use either natural phenomena, or men, and even organize entire peoples to do evil.
In Job's case, the diabolical action was aimed at only one man. But with the spread of idolatry, what the devil aimed at was the loss of entire peoples, because — it must not be forgotten — the pagan gods were demons, as we read in the Psalms and in St. Paul. “For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils” (Ps. XCV, 5) and “Or that the idol is any thing? But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not to God.”(Saint Paul, I Cor. X, 19 -20).
Idolatry and the kingdoms of the world
With idolatry, the devil dominated all Gentiles. The Gospel narrates that when Christ was tempted, "the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, And said to him: All these will I give thee, if falling down thou wilt adore me." (Mt. IV , 8-9).
[5] And the devil led him into a high mountain and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. [6] And he said to him: To thee will I give all this power and the glory of them. For to me they are delivered: and to whom I will, I give them. [7] If thou therefore wilt adore before me, all shall be thine. (Saint Luke IV, 5-7).
Christ repelled the temptation, saying that God alone should be worshiped, but he did not deny what Satan asserted, that all the kingdoms of the world were his at the time Christ came to earth. They were his by idolatry, because by worshiping idols all these peoples were worshiping the devil himself. So much so that their kings and leaders hatched plans against God and against his Christ. They conspired and God laughed at their pretensions.
[1] Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things?
[2] The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.
[3] Let us break their bonds asunder: and let us cast away their yoke from us.
[4] He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them: and the Lord shall deride them.
(Ps. II, 1-4).
And was Israel included in the "for to me they are delivered" asserted by Lucifer when he tempted Christ?
The blindness with which they refused to see the light of Christ shows that they did. Furthermore, Christ himself stated that the Pharisees, who were the leaders of the Jewish people, were children of the devil. “You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do (…) for he is a liar, and the father thereof.” (John VIII, 44).
How and when did the father of lies dominate the Jews?