Satan: The Foremost Apostle

The Vatican is the seat of Roman Catholicism. It is “the seat of Peter” because Peter was its first Pope. He is likewise known as the “Vicar of Christ”. Roman Catholicism indoctrinates that their church is the “Church founded on Peter” by OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. Roman Catholics from generation to generation take pride with such doctrine of faith. History has born that out time and time again. Catholics died for their Roman Catholic faith against the Moors centuries ago in one of the most unforgettable battle of religions in the history of this damned world. In equal measure, the Moors also had the same line of thinking and contention. They also fought and died for their Islamic religion. Both religions, however, claimed that their followers died for God. They were martyrs. So they say.

Did I not choose the twelve of you myself? Yet one of you is a devil!” (John 6:70)

Every utterance that comes out of the holy lips of the Son of Man is the truth and nothing but the truth. No believer of the Son of Man will contest that. The preceding holy utterance is a categorical and indisputable admission that of the dozen men He chose to follow Him in His work of salvation one person was the “devil in disguise”. He involved His enemy in His teaching ministry. The other eleven were not. The Lord’s revelation was not a riddle or a figure of speech or a joke. He was emphatic. The apostle who was a “devil in disguise” must be a person who acted in opposition to the fulfillment of the Scriptures because no demon or devil obeys, follows or agrees with the command or word of God. It always acts in opposition to God.

“Get out of my sight, you Satan! You are not judging by God’s standards but by man’s!” (Mark 8:33)

Direct from the lips of the Rabbi who is God, He identified right there and then in His divine ire the apostle who is a beast within. It was the leader of the chosen Twelve who was sternly and vehemently against the fulfillment of the Scriptures. It was not Judas Iscariot, the suspected thief among the dozen. It was Peter the “Rock”!  He was leveling with his God and arguing with his God against the fruition of the Passion and Resurrection. He was oblivious that he cannot level with his God. No human person can. He already attempted it but failed miserably. He saw the Messiah walking unperturbed on a restless body of water. He attempted to duplicate the act. He submerged. That alone was an indication that He cannot level with his Master but he was hard-headed.

The standards of man or earthly life are totally and extremely divergent from the standards of God or heavenly life. The standards of man were established and concretized by Adam and Eve that made them human. Did they not argue with God even when they were caught beyond reasonable doubt of conspiring with the ancient serpent that is Satan? Such was the convoluted and serpentine standard of man that Peter the Rock followed and applied with his Master in derailing in words and in deeds the fulfillment of the Scriptures. God in His anger revealed Peter’s true identity and reprimanded him severely for his satanic stance. It was a knockout punch.

“Do you not suppose I can call on my Father to provide at a moment’s notice more than twelve legions of angels? But then how would the Scriptures be fulfilled which say that it must happen this way? (Matthew 26:53-54)

For the second time, Peter the rock attempted to railroad the realization of the Passion of his Master who is God. He was consciously playing out the role of devil’s advocate or villain. He initiated the stubborn resistance to the arrest of the Son of Man by chopping off the ear of one of the arresting soldiers. He really wanted to derail the fulfillment of the prophecy if he had his way. The Messiah stopped him and uttered the preceding two interrogative sentences from Matthew’s texts on his face. Peter was fully convinced that his Master was wrong and he was right. He was doing Him a great service by preventing Him to be treated as a criminal. Peter believed in himself that the authority given him from Above has placed him in equal footing with his Rabbi. Otherwise, he would not behave the way he did.

“Cephas” was so confident and cocksure with himself. No sooner the Rabbi will make him realize his folly and his self-righteousness. His rock-hard mentality and attitude will lead him to deny his Master. He would do it not once, not twice but thrice! It was foretold upon him but he insisted strongly that it will never happen. It happened so fast. He fell so swiftly like a falling star on the firmament. He disowned the Son of Man thrice at the height of the unfolding drama to save himself from persecution. He even frontally said to the Rabbi that he will die for Him. He lied to his teeth. He did not. He sobbed not because he was sorry. He did not say it in spite of his verbosity and assertiveness. He sobbed profusely because he was caught with his pants down for the nth time lying and hypocritical. He did not mean what he said. He was not true to his word. He was a mere politician. The Lord knew it all along. Peter the Rock was a man of little faith. The Rabbi declared it after He saved Peter from drowning while attempting to walk on a berserk body of water upon his own initiative.

Peter turned around at that and noticed the disciple whom Jesus loved was following… Seeing him, Peter was prompted to ask Jesus, “But Lord, what about him?” “Suppose I want him to stay until I come.” Jesus replied. ”How does that concern you? Your business is to follow me.” (John 21: 20-22)

From the preceding gospel text, Peter questioned the prophecy on the manner of his demise on this earth as opined by John the Evangelist.  His attitude and mentality did not change a bit. The beast within him surfaced once again as expected. He questioned the resurrected CHRIST about the fate of John the Beloved. It appears he felt shortchanged and disadvantaged why he had to suffer a fate unlike that of the ‘beloved’ when they are both His chosen ones. He resented the thought of being handcuffed and compelled to perform a will not his own. He felt he had the human right to question the divine right or the divine prerogative of the resurrected CHRIST. He may have wanted to invoke human dignity. Nevertheless, in the eyes of GOD there is no dignity in the human person. The human person is a clone of Adam and Eve who wantonly abandoned and double-crossed their Creator and embraced the Impostor that made them human from divine. So, where is the dignity in that? What is the value of Peter’s cherished human right and so-called human dignity with the resurrected CHRIST? It is utterly valueless! He hates the human in the human person more so if the human person insists and justifies its being human in front of his GOD. The reply Peter got from his foolish question was like a big and loud slap on his face that he no longer complained and did not bother to re-assert his self-esteem and cherished human right. Had he complained about the slap he could have ended up a heap of salt akin to the unpalatable fate that befell the wife of Lot in the olden times. The hardheadedness of the ‘Rock’ has been his undoing since the beginning. What can he do if the resurrected CHRIST declared that the ‘beloved’ must live in this terrestrial world forever? The answer is nothing. Does he have enough power to prevent it? He has no power at all. He denied the person He declared as the Messiah thrice. What then, in the name of Batman and Superman, was he complaining about? Can he find any other authority equal to or above the divine authority of the one and only GOD with whom he can lodge his grievances? He will find none. Therefore, the question of “the demon in disguise” upon whom the Roman Catholic Church was built was as useless as his person insofar as the resurrected CHRIST is concerned. Peter had no option but to follow without question. It is as simple as that because they are worlds apart. The ‘Rock’ was human and the Person he questioned uselessly was the Supreme Divinity who can eliminate him to Timbuktu with just a whisper.

Reconciling the Roman Catholic assertion that their church is the “Church founded on Peter” with the Scriptural and truthful assertion that Peter the Rock was the devil that assumed human flesh, it follows, with the application of the principles of human logic, that the Roman Catholic Church is the Church founded on Satan. How else can it be? The Holy Bible is very explicit. Only one of the twelve was a devil. It was the first Pope!

Satan, the foremost apostle, was the first “Vicar of Christ” if it is to be believed that the Roman Catholic Church is the “Church founded on Peter”.