Before we proceed, because this study is very important,
it is recommended that you be comfortable
with the bible version being used.
If you would prefer to use a version other than the King James Version,
go to the top of this page and select one
you trust. |
If you have not already studied the clues identifying the Beast of Revelation 13,
then you should first do the study I have set forth that brings many clues forward about it's identity.
To avoid doing this would mean that you are taking my word for the source and explanation for these clues.
While it may save you time, you should not take MY word, you should take the word of God from the Bible.
If you have not already done so, take this link to study those clues.
Ok, you are satisfied that you have seen enough clues, let's continue.
First we will re-cap on the list of clues we have extracted.
| | Clues extracted from the Bible |
|---|
| Secular power | | Religious Power
Capable of receiving worship | | | Rises from heavily populated area | | Seven Heads
On Seven Mountains | | | Robed in Purple and Scarlet | | | Heavy use of Gold and Jewelry | | Uses a Gold Cup
Containing abomination | | | Idol Worship | | Blasphemes God
Heavily involved in blasphemy | | Changes Times and Laws
God does not honour it's changes | | 666
Numeric representation of his name | | Parts of leopard, bear, lion, dragon.
Remnants of Greece, Persia, Babylon, Rome | | Babylonian Religion
Heavily influenced by the religion of Babylon | | Produces Corruption
Originator of abominations | | Mother of Harlots
Has off-shoot corrupt churches. | | | Gets its seat and power from Rome | | 10 horns
Power channeled through ten outlets | | 10 crowns
Power channeled through ten kingdoms | | | Rules 1260 years | | | It will control the whole world | | | Slaughters God's People | | | One head wounded to death | | Missing in Athiestic Communism period
The period just after the French revolution | | | Puts many into captivity | | | Goes in to captivity | | Kills by the sword
By Secular powers or word of God | | Killed by the sword
By Secular powers or word of God | | | Deadly wound healed | | | The whole world will be fascinated by it | | Unique Power
No other powers resemble it | |
|
I have studied these, and other, since I was twelve years old, and I can only find one organisation/body/person
that fits these clues.
I have found some clues that only fit one organisation, and only one other organisation
that fits more than two of these clues, and it only fits three.
The organisation that I believe fits the clues for the beast of Revelation 13 is
the Roman Catholic Papacy.
If you can find ANY other organisation/body/person that fits these clues,
then you are the only person to have done so, and I would love to hear about it.
Time to examine the clues.
| | Clues extracted from the Bible |
|---|
| Secular power | | Vatican City is a country.
It is represented in the United Nations.
It has ambassadors in most (if not all) countries.
It is a secular power.
| Religious Power
Capable of receiving worship | | There are an estimated 1.2 billion catholic worshipers in the world.
It is a religious power.
| | Rises from heavily populated area | | It rose out of the Roman Empire in densly populated Europe.
It rose from a densly populated area.
| Seven Heads
On Seven Mountains | | The city of Rome, where the vatican is situated, is built on seven large hills/mountains.
You can read the Wikipedia entry here:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_hills_of_Rome
The seven heads are seven mountains on which the vatican sits.
| | Robed in Purple and Scarlet | | A picture is worth a thousand words.
  
The catholic church is robed in Purple and Scarlet.
| | Heavy use of Gold and Jewelry | | The catholic church is the richest corporation (yes - corporation) in the world.
The catholic church uses an abundance of gold and precious stones.
| Uses a Gold Cup
Containing abomination | | The golden cup used in the catholic mass contains fermented wine.
Fermented wine is symbolic of sin, which CAN NOT be used to represent the blood of Christ.
The other problem with the gold cup is that it is part of the catholic mass,
which claims that the body of christ
is sacrificed EVERY TIME THERE IS A MASS.
The bible makes it VERY CLEAR that Jesus was sacrificed ONCE FOR ALL.
God felt so strongly about this point that He denied Moses entry to the promised land because he struck the rock twice.
Striking the rock was symbolic of Jesus (the Rock) being struck down, and it was to happen ONLY ONCE.
He was supposed to strike the rock once and then after that only TALK to the rock.
because he had paid the price ONCE FOR ALL.
The water that flowed from the rock was symbolic of the Living Water that Jesus spoke about to the woman at the well.
The catholic church uses a golden cup full of abominations.
| | Idol Worship | | Idol worship is rife in the catholic church.
Idols are all through the churches, and worshipers bow down and kiss their toes and worship them.
The worship services are full of idols.
This is in direct conflict with the law of God.
The catholic church is HEAVILY involved in idol worship.
| Blasphemes God
Heavily involved in blasphemy | | The catholic church accuses everyone, except itself of blasphemy.
However, what it defines as blasphemy is any thing that opposes it's teachings, whether they be right or wrong.
Let's see what the Bible defines as blasphemy.
Firstly, claiming to be the Son of God when you are not, is blasphemy.
A few statements from our catholic friends on the subject:-
"The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ,
He is Jesus Christ himself, hidden under the veil of flesh.” Catholic National July 1895
”All names which in the Scriptures are applied to Christ,
by virtue of which is established that He is over the church,
all the same names are applied to the Pope.”
,On the authority of the Councils,book 2,chapter 17
Claiming to be God is also blasphemy.
Some claims by the catholic church:-
“The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.”
Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Chapter XXVII, p. 218, “Cities Petrus Bertanous”
“We hold upon this earth the place of Almighty God”
Pope Leo XIII Encyclical Letter of June 20,1894
The Pope is of so great dignity, and so exalted that he is not a mere man, but as it were God,
and the vicar of God.”
Ferraris Ecclesiastical dictionary
The pope is also referred to as
Holy Father.
This is also against the wishes of God as he has told us that only God the Father is to be referred to as
Holy Father.
Another form of blasphemy is to claim the power to forgive sins.
I am not even going to waste my time with quotes. It is well known regarding the practice of the priests "forgiving"
sins in the confessional. It is almost equally well known, the practice of forgiving sins for money via indulgences.
The catholic church is very experienced in using and spreading blasphemy.
| Changes Times and Laws
God does not honour it's changes | | The catholic church has changed MANY times and laws, but I will just bring two forward here.
One of these is the second commandment (Exodus 20:4-6), which says:-
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:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
This commandment has been removed from the catholic catechism, for obvious reasons.
Another law that has been changed is also a time that has been changed.
The fourth commandment refers to the sabbath that God instituted at creation, and re-inforced with the ten commandments
This is the sabbath that Jesus kept. It is the sabbath that the disciples kept. Isaiah tells us we will keep it in heaven.
This is a whole subject by itself, and if you are going to follow on with these studies,
we will cover it in more detail in a later lesson.
The catholic church changed the sabbath from Saturday, the seventh day of the week, to Sunday,
the first day of the week, very early in it's career.
The catholic church has changed times and laws. (In it's own mind)
| 666
Numeric representation of his name | | The pope has an official latin title
Vicarivs Felii Dei
which means
Vicar of the Son of god,
and in english is pronounced Vicarius Filii Dei (The V becomes U).
In latin, certain letters of the alphabet have numeric values. This is where
Roman Numerals
came from.
The following diagram shows the numeric representation of the pope's official title.
The papacy is now starting to deny this, because it is getting hot in the kitchen, so to check this, you may have do do some googling, or if you are lucky enough (or unlucky, depending on how you see it) to get near enough,
check the inscription on the tiara.
The papacy wears the title of
 | Parts of leopard, bear, lion, dragon.
Remnants of Greece, Persia, Babylon, Rome | | The parts of the leopard, bear, lion, and dragon are references back to the vision in Daniel 7
These represented the nations of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome.
John is seeing parts of these in the Beast of Revelation 13, because remnants of these powers and their religions
have found their way into this power, the catholic church.
There are many pagan traits of the church that have continued till the present time.
Rosary beads, sungod emblems, the cross of Tammuz (maltese cross), praying to the dead,
worshiping the queen of heaven (alias Mary) and a whole lot more.
The papacy contains parts of the religions of Babylon, medo-Persia, Greece and Rome.
| Babylonian Religion
Heavily influenced by the religion of Babylon | | We have just seen that the papacy not only contains worship rituals from Babylon,
but also from Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome.
The strongest influence would appear to be that of the Babylonian religion, simply because it is the oldest,
and therfore contains the elements of pagan worship stemming from the Tower of Babel
through all the religions of the world.
The Bible refers to the papacy as
Mystery Babylon, Mother of Harlots.
| Produces Corruption
Originator of abominations | | The catholic church has corrupted the world on many fronts.
She has introduced
INDULGENCES,
where one can pay to be forgiven for a sin, even before it is commited, making it a paid license to sin.
She has introduced the
jesuits,
which is the lowest class of human on the planet. No crime is too low, or too hateful, or too cowardly,
or too evil for them to commit, as long as it is in the interest of the catholic church.
There is very strong evidence the the jesuits are behind the assassination of Abraham Lincolm and JFK,
the sinking of the Titanic, 911, WW1 and WW2, the World Bank, the NWO and many other evils.
She has convinced billions to pray to the dead instead of the King of the Universe.
She has trained her people to confess to priests, rather than God, so she can get the dirt on them and use it later.
The catholic church is full of corruption, and has passed it on to the world.
| Mother of Harlots
Has off-shoot corrupt churches. | | We shall cover this more in later studies, such as
The lamb Beast who speaks like a dragon
and
The Mark of the Beast,
but for now, the simplest explanation is that many protestant churches were spawned from the catholic church
(her daughters) and most of these have become corrupt, making them
Harlots.
The catholic church is Mother of Harlots.
| | Gets its seat and power from Rome | | The catholic church rose from the ruins of Rome.
In fact they were handed the keys to the empire by Justinian in 538AD, thereby fulfilling the prophecy
The dragon gave it it's seat and power and great authority.
Hey! Why do you think it is called
The Roman Catholic Church
?
The catholic church rose from the ruins of Rome.
| 10 horns
Power channeled through ten outlets | | I believe that this symbol has a double fulfillment.
The ten horns represent the 10 kingdoms that Rome divided into, which became the nations of Europe.
The catholic church used it's influence over these kingdoms to achieve it's goals.
I think this is about to repeat when the catholic church regains power (and it will) and use it's power through the
ten regions of the New World order.
The catholic church exerted it's power through the 10 kingdoms (horns) of Europe.
| 10 crowns
Power channeled through ten kingdoms | | The ten kingdoms were all sovereign kingdoms, hence the crowns.
Yes, this still applies to the catholic church.
| | Rules 1260 years | | The catholic church gained power in 538AD from the ruins of Rome, and was removed from power by General Berthier,
at the command of Napoleon in 1798.
The papacy ruled the world for 1260 years, from 538AD to 1798AD.
| | It will control the whole world | | For the period of 1260 years, it had control over the whole world through the influence over the secular powers.
The catholic church ruled the whole world from 538AD to 1798AD and will do so again.
| | Slaughters God's People | | The catholic church has persecuted, tortured, slaughtered and murdered millions of people during it's time in power
It has done this both blatantly out in the open and in cowardly secret.
If you want more on this subject, read
Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
This is a comment about the book by wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxe's_Book_of_Martyrs
The Actes and Monuments, popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs,
is a work of Protestant history and martyrology by John Foxe, first published in English in 1563 by John Day.
It includes a polemical account of the sufferings of Protestants under the Catholic Church,
with particular emphasis on England and Scotland. The book was highly influential in those countries,
and helped shape lasting popular notions of Catholicism there.
The book went through four editions in Foxe's lifetime and a number of later editions and abridgements,
including some that specifically reduced the text to a Book of Martyrs.
The catholic church has slaughtered millions of Christians.
| | One head wounded to death | | General Berthier, by command from Napoleon, took the pope captive and imprisioned him in 1798.
That pope died in captivity, and so:
One head was wounded to death.
| Missing in Athiestic Communism period
The period just after the French revolution | | The papacy was ended by Napoleon in 1798. This was at the start of the
Athiestic Communism Period
where the Bible was banned and Christianity was ruled out.
This is the period where the Bible says
The two witnesses (Old and New testaments) lay dead in the street.
The papacy was not in power during the Athisetic Communism period, but it will return.
| | Puts many into captivity | | No surprises here.
The catholic church has imprisoned and murdered millions of God's faithful people to further it's cause.
The catholic church has imprisoned millions of Christians.
| | Goes in to captivity | | The papal head, the pope, was imprisoned by the order of Napoleon in 1798.
The papacy went into captivity in 1798.
| Kills by the sword
By Secular powers or word of God | | The sword can mean either the word of God,
or it can mean the enforcment agents (Police/Military) of the secular powers, or both.
No problem in either case, because both fit.
The papacy used the secular powers to execute its judgments of death. It never did it directly.
It also held the word of God away from it's people by keeping the Bible in latin and outlawing use in any other language.
In doing this it was guilty of the verse.
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge"
The papacy killed with the sword.
| Killed by the sword
By Secular powers or word of God | | This clue was a double barrel clue, and refers to the pope dying at the hand of the state (Napoleon's Prison) and also
that the word of God is going to put a complete end to the papacy when He returns.
The papacy died by the sword, and will die permanently by the sword of God
| | Deadly wound healed | | This has not completely happened yet.
The commencement of the healing of the wound started in 1929,
when Benito Mussolini gave back land, and re-instated the vatican powers.
When this wound is completely healed, when the nations of the world give power back to the beast, the wound will be healed,
and the world will again see the tyranny, persecution, and slaughter of the catholic church.
The wound will be healed very soon.
| | The whole world will be fascinated by it | | The powers of the world have always been fascinated by the papacy,
but now the whole world at large is fascinated with it.
Here is the wikipedia quote regarding the funeral of Pope John Paul II
The funeral took place on April 8, 2005,
and was one of the largest gathering of statesmen and world leaders in history.[1]
Some of the dignitaries later attended the installation of Pope Benedict XVI on April 24, 2005.
Read the full article here.
The pope has just visited the USA, and he was greeted with open arms by the people.
He has recently addressed the united nations.
The whole world is wondering after the beast.
| Unique Power
No other powers resemble it | | There are no other powers that resemble the catholic church with it's papacy and vatican,
and the sway and hold it has over the nations of the world.
The catholic papacy is a very unique power indeed.
|
|
To sum it up, it is not hard to tell who is the BEAST of Revelation 13.
 | 
It helps to reinforce what you have learned by taking the optional quiz,
or simply return to the menu and do the next study.
  | | |
