BABYLON FROM DANIEL’S VISION’S NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM OF THE GREAT IMAGE AND THE FOUR BEASTS PART 1 THE HEAD OF GOLD AND THE LION WITH EAGLES WINGS (1 ST BEAST)

DANIEL 2:31 “Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. Thisgreat image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; andthe form thereof was terrible.”DANIEL 2:32 “This images head was of fine gold”DANIEL 2:38 “And where so ever the children of men dwell, the beastsof the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand,and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold .”BABYLON IS ALSO THE FIRST BEAST OF DANIEL 7DANIEL7:17 “These great beasts, which are four, are four kings,which shall arise out of the earth.”DANIEL 7:4 “The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings:”THE BIBLE PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBES BABYLON LIKE A LION.JEREMIAH 4:7 “The lion is come up from his thicket , and the destroyerof the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to makethy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without aninhabitant.”JEREMIAH 28:14 “For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Ihave put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that theymay serve Nebuchadnez z ar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him:and I have given him the beasts of the field also .”JEREMIAH 50:43- 44 “The king of Babylon hath heard the report ofthem, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, andpangs as of a woman in travail. Behold he shall come up like a lionfrom the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong:”SO WE KNOW THAT BABYLON IS THE HEAD OF GOLD, AND THE FIRSTBEAST WHICH WAS A LION WITH EAGLE’S WINGS. WHICH ROSE TOPOWER IN THE YEAR 606 B.C. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM YOU WILL FIND AGREAT STONE TAKEN FROM THE ANCIENT CITY OF BABYLON- WHICHPORTRAYS A LION WITH WINGS. THIS WAS THE SYMBOL OF BABYLON.NEXT IN PART 2 MEDO- PERSIA CONQUERS BABYLON, AND BECOMES THENEXT WORLD POWER.

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PERSIA FROM DANIEL’S VISION’S NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM OF THE GREAT IMAGE AND THE FOUR BEASTS PART 2 THE BREASTS AND ARMS OF SILVER AND THE BEAR (2ND BEAST)

DANIEL2:32 “His breasts and arms of silver”THE NEXT TWO VERSES DEAL WITH THE FALL OF BABYLON.DANIEL 2:39 “And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior tothee”DANIEL 7:4 “And I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, andit was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand upon the feet asa man, and a man’s heart was given to it.”BABYLON WAS MADE UP OF THREE KINGDOMS BABYLON, LYDIA, ANDEGYPT. THE NEXT KINGDOM TO RULE IS DESCRIBED NEXT. THISKINGDOM IS MEDO- PERSIA.DANIEL5:28 “Pe- res; thy kingdom is divided, and given to theMedes and Persians”HERE GOD TELLS US THAT BABYLON WILL BE DIVIDED BY THE MEDESAND THE PERSIANS. DANIEL5:31 “And Darius the median took the kingdom, beingabout threescore and two years old.”DANIEL7:5 “And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, andit raised itself up on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth ofit between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, arise anddevour much flesh.”THIS SECOND BEAST DESCRIBES PERSIA THE SECOND KINGDOM TO RULE.THE THREE RIBS STAND FOR THE THREE KINGDOMS BABYLONCONQUERED UP TO THE YEAR 606 B.C. BABYLON WAS MADE UP OFTHREE KINGDOMS BABYLON, LYDIA, AND EGYPT. PERSIA CONQUEREDTHE WORLD IN 538 B.C. THE PERSIANS WERE STONGER THAN THE MEDESAND CONQUERED THEM SOON AFTER. DANIEL SAW THIS IN VISIONALSO, AND FORETOLD OF THIS AS WELL, WHICH WE SEE NEXT.DANIEL 8:3- 4 “Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold,there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and thetwo horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and thehigher came up last. I saw the ram pushing westward, andnorthward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand beforehim, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; buthe did according to his will and became great.”

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DANIEL 8:20 “And the ram which thou sawest having two horns,are the kings of Media and Persia”DAINEL 11:2 “And now will I show thee the truth. Behold, thereshall stand up yet three, kings in Persia; and the fourth shall befar richer than they all: and by his strength through his richeshe shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.”

GREECE FROM DANIEL’S VISION’S NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM OF THE GREAT IMAGE AND THE FOUR BEASTS PART 3 THE BELLY AND THIGHS OF BRASS, THE HE GOAT AND THE LEOPARD (3RD BEAST)

DANIEL 2:39 “And another third kingdom of brass, which shall bearrule over all the earth.”DANIEL7:6 “After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, whichhad upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also fourheads ; and dominion was given to it.”THIS WAS GREECE WHICH CONQUERED PERSIA, THIS WAS DONE BY THEHAND OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. THE FOUR WINGS STAND FOR THE SPEEDIN WHICH HE CONQUERED THE WHOLE WORLD. HE DID IT IN 13 YEARSFASTER THAN ANY COUNTRY IN HISTORY HAS DONE. HE BEGAN AT THEAGE OF 18 AND FINISHED AT 31 YEARS OF AGE.DANIEL 8:5 “And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came fromthe west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground:and the he goat had a notable horn between his eyes. And he came tothe ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before theriver, and ran unto him in the fury of his power. And I saw him comeclose unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, andsmote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power inthe ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, andstamped upon him: and there was none who could deliver the ram outof his hand.”DANIEL 8:21 “And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the greathorn that is between his eyes is the first king.”DANIEL 11:3 “And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule withgreat dominion, and do according to his will.”ISN’T IT INTERESTING HOW HE PREDICTIED THIS 207 YEARS BEFORE ITHAPPENED? AND IT HAPPENED EXACTLY AS HE SAID IT WOULD. LOOK INHISTORY. REMEMBER DARIUS FROM DANIEL5:31 .

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THE ART OF WAR IN THE WESTERN WORLD chapter 1 Ancient Warfare pg.25 2 nd and 3 rd paragraph. At Arbela, Alexander's thirdmajor battle against the Persians, he again met Darius , who hadassembled a large, heterogeneous army which even includedchariots and a few elephants. To save his crumbling empire, Dariuswaited to receive the greek invaders in battle, having wisely chosenlevel ground suitable for his calvary and chariots. Since his army,thought powerful lacked much heavy infantry, he had placed hismounted troops in the forefront of his array. Alexander moved hisarmy forward to attack the Persian army, leading the right flankhimself. He could clearly see Darius in the center, “conspicuous inthe midst of his life- guard, a tall and fine looking man, drawn in alofty chariot, defended by an abundance of the best horse, who stoodin close order about it, ready to receive the enemy.” As the armiesbecame closely engaged, Alexander led his Companions and heavyinfantry phalanx against the enemy center, the Companionsdefeating the Persian army by “ thrusting themselves against thePersians and striking their faces with their spears” and routing theircenter. Darius saw that “all was lost, that those who were placed infront to defend him were broken and beat back upon him, that hecould not turn or disengage his chariot without great difficulty, thewheels being clogged and entangled among the dead bodies, whichlay in such heaps as not only stopped, but almost covered the horses,and made them rear and grow so unruly, that the frightenedcharioteer could govern them no longer.” The defeated Persianmonarch did escape, mounted on a horse. Alexander turned awaywith his men to rescue his hard - pressed left and win a decisivevictory . IT ALSO STATES WITHOUT ALEXANDER'S GENIUS THE GREEKSCOULD NOT HAVE CONQUERED THE PERSIAN EMPIRE. SOON AFTER HE DIEDAT THE AGE OF 33 FROM ALCOHOL POISONING WHILE DRINKING WITH HISTROOPS, HE BELIEVED THE STRONG SHOULD RULE THE WEAK, AND LEFT HISKINGDOM DIVIDED BETWEEN HIS FOUR GREATEST GENERALS. DANIEL ALSOPREDICTED THIS…TWICE!!! SO WHAT ABOUT THE FOUR HEADS OF THE 3 RD

BEAST, THE FOUR HORNS OF THE HE GOAT AND ALEXANDER’S FOURGENERALS?DANIEL 11:4 “And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be dividedtoward the four winds of heaven; and not to his prosperity, nor according tohis dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even forothers beside thoses.”DANIEL7:6 “The beast had also four heads; and dominion was givento it .”DANIEL 8:8 “Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when hewas strong, the great horn was broken; and it came up four notableones toward the four winds of heaven.”

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DANIEL 8:22 “Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it,four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.”DANIEL 8:22 TELLS US THAT GREECE WOULD BE DIVIDED INTO FOURKINGDOMS, BUT ALEXANDER WOULD NOT BE THE RULER. ALEXANDER'SFOUR LEADING GENERALS WERE 1)CASSANDER , 2)LYSIMACHAS , 3)SELEUCUS,4)PTOLEMY, ALL THIS TOOK PLACE IN THE YEAR 168 B.C. THE SAME YEARROME CONQUERED GREECE. DANIEL ALSO PREDICTS THE FALL OF GREECETO ROME. ROME BECOMES THE NEXT WORLD POWER IN PART 4.

ROME FROM DANIEL’S VISION’S NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM OF THE GREAT IMAGE AND THE FOUR BEASTS

PART 4 THE LEGS OF IRON AND THE TERRIBLE BEAST (4TH BEAST) AND THE LITTLE HORN THAT CAME UP OUT OF ONE THE

FOUR HORNS OF THE HE GOAT

DANIEL 8:9 “And out of one of them (4 horns of Daniel 8:8) cameforth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south,and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.”ROME CAME TO POWER AMID THE DIVIDED LAND AFTER ALEXANDER’SDEATH.DANIEL 8:10- 11 “And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven;and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground,and stamped upon them. Yea, he magnified himself even to theprince of the host , and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away ,and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.” DANIEL8:12 “And the host was given him against the daily sacrifice byreason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground ; andit practiced and prospered.”THE DAILY SACRIFICE OF THE JEWS WAS NOT TAKEN AWAY UNTIL CHRISTWAS CRUCIFIED ON THE CROSS. PILATE WAS THE GOVERNOR WHOM THEJEWS BROUGHT JESUS BEFORE. HE WAS ONE OF THE GOVERNOR’S OF ROME.

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DANIEL2:33 “his legs of iron ”DANIEL2: 40 “and the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron :forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and asiron break in pieces and bruise.”DANIEL7: 7 “and after this I saw in the night visions, and behold afourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it hadgreat iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped theresidue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts thatwere before it; and it had ten horns .ROME CONQUERED GREECE IN THE YEAR 168 B.C. AND RULED UNTIL 476A.D IT WAS OFTEN CALLED THE IRON MONARCHY. SO FAR DANIEL HASPERFECTLY PREDICTED RISE OF THE ROMAN KINGDOM OVER 438 YEARSBEFORE IT HAPPENED.DANIEL 7:24 “And the ten horns out this kingdom are ten kingsthat shall arise:”NEXT WE WILL COVER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN 476 A.D.AND THE RISE OF THE PAPACY…THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE.TERTULLIAN WHO WAS BORN IN 155ad AND DIED IN 222ad, OVER TWOCENTURIES BEFORE THE FALL OF THE WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE, SPOKECONCERNING THE FUTURE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.SAMUEL J. CASSELS, “CHRIST AND ANTICHRIST” PG.12, PRESBYTERIANBOARD OF PUBLICATION, PHILADELPHIA 1846; EXTRACTED FROM “DERESURRECTIONE CARNIS” CH.24 SPEAKING OF ROME“Whose separation into ten kingdoms will bring on ANTICHRST”

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RISE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE THE PAPACY FROM DANIEL’S VISION’S NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM, FEET OF THE GREAT IMAGE THE LITTLE HORN OF THE FOURTH BEAST AND THE BEAST OF THE SEA OF REVELATION 13 PART 5

EMPEROR CONSTANTINE WAS KNOWN AS THE FIRST CHRISTIAN EMPEROR,JUSTINIAN WHO SUCCEEDED CONSTANTINE WAS THE LAST ROMANEMPEROR. DANIEL7:8 “I considered the horns”DANIEL7:20 “and the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kingsthat shall arise.” DANIEL2:33 “his feet part of iron and part of clay”DANIEL2:4 “and as the toes were part of iron, and part of clay , so thekingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken”ROME FELL IN THE YEAR 476 A.D. AND WAS DIVIDED INTO EXACTLY TENKINGDOMS AND THE TEN KINGDOMS WERE THE ANGLO- SAXONS,ALEMANNI, HERULI, VANDALS, OSTROGOTHS, VISIGOTHS, SUEVI,LOMBARDS, BURGUNDIANS AND THE FRANKS.DANIEL7:8 “I considered the horns , and, behold, there came upamong them another little horn , before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots :”DANIEL 7:24 “and the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings thatshall arise: and another shall arise after them; and he shall be diversefrom the first, and shall subdue three kings.”JUSTINIAN WAS THE LAST EMPEROR OF ROME, CONSTANTINE THEPREVIOUS EMPEROR, DID THE ONE THING NO OTHER EMPEROR HAD, HESTOPPED THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS AND SOUGHT TO BRINGPAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY UNDER THE SAME ROOF. HE SUCCEEDED,WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, AFTER THE DEATH OF CONSTANTINE ROMEWAS AT THE MERCY OF POPE SYLVESTER. REVELATION13:2 “and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat,and great authority.”FROM PAPAL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES, 1889,PP.13,14“When the Roman Empire became Christian and the peace of the church wasguaranteed, the Emperor left Rome to the Pope, to be the seat of authority for

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the Vicar of Christ, who should reign there independent of all humanauthority, to the consummation of ages, to the end of time.”FROM THE MEDIEVAL READER PG.30 THE DONATION OFCONSTANTINE.“THIS DOCUMENT WAS FORGED IN PAPAL CIRCLES BY A CLERK NAMEDJOHN THE MANGLED- FINGERS TO HELP THE POPE COUNTERVAIL POWEROF THE RISING FRENCH MONARCHY. IT TELLS THIS STORY (MYTHICAL):CONSTANTINE, THE FIRST CHRISTIAN EMPEROR COMES DOWN WITHDREADED LEPROSY. POPE SYLVESTER 1 CURES HIM, AND CONSTANTINE ISSO GREATFUL THAT HE SURRENDERS ROME AND MUCH OF WESTERNEUROPE TO THE POPE AND TAKES UP RESIDENCE IN THE EAST. EMPERORSAND KINGS TRIED TO IGNORE THE DOCUMENT WHOSE AUTHENTICITYWAS WIDELY BELIEVED IN, ALTHOUGH NOT BY EVERYONE. IT WAS PROVENA FORGERY IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, BY WHICH TIME IT DIDN’TMATTER”REVELATION13:1 “and I stood upon the sand of the sea, and sawa great beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and tenhorns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads thename of blasphem y .”CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY V. 1 “THE CHRISTIANROMAN EMPIRE” (THE CATHOLIC CHURCH). PG. 518 “FOR A TIME, THE OUTWARD DISSENSION CEASES, AND IN THE STRUGGLENOT FAR DISTANT WITH VANDALS OF AFRICA AND GOTHS (OSTROGOTHSAND VISIGOTHS), IN ITALY, THE EMPIRE REPRESENTS THE SIDE OF THECATHOLIC FAITH AGAINST EITHER PERSECUTING OR TOLERANTARIANISM.”THE ART OF WAR IN THE WESTERN WORLD PG. 98 “THE GOTHIC ARMY FLED, BECOMING ENTANGLED IN THEIR OWN INFANTRYIN THE PROCESS, AND KING TOTILA RECEIVED A MORTAL WOUND DURINGHIS FLIGHT FROM THE FIELD. THIS BATTLE OVERTHREW THE GOTHIC RULEIN ITALY, AND RETURNED ITALY TO THE EMPIRE.”CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY V. 1 “THE CHRISTIANROMAN EMPIRE” (THE CATHOLIC CHURCH) PG. 19&583“THE GOTHS RETURNED TO THEIR OLD POSITION AS SERVANTS AND ALLIESOF ROME. IN 512 A.D THE HERULI AFTER THEIR DEFEAT BY THE LOMBARDSWERE SETTLED IN THE EMPIRE, BUT AFTERWARDS REBELLED AND HAD TOBE PUT DOWN BY FORCE.”THE THREE HORNS (KINGDOMS) THAT WERE PLUCKED UP WERE THEVANDALS, THE OSTROGOTHS AND THE HERULITHIS LEAVES SEVEN HORNS, NOTICE THE BEAST OF REVELATION HASSEVEN HEADSREVELATION13:1 “and I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw agreat beast rise up out of the sea , having seven heads”DANIEL 7:8 “and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man,and a mouth speaking great things”DANIEL 7:25 “and he shall speak great words against the most HIGH,and wear out the saints of the most HIGH, and think to change timesand laws ;”

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NOTICE THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE LITTLE HORN OF DANIEL ANDTHE BEAST OF THE SEA OF REVELATION 13 BOTH SPEAK GREAT THINGSAGAINST GOD AND BLASPHEMIES (WHICH IS TO SPEAK AGAINST GOD).REVELATION 13:5 “and there was given unto him a mouth speakinggreat things and blasphemies”DANIEL 8:24 “and his power shall be mighty, but not by his ownpower: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, andpractice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.”CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY V. 1 “THE CHRISTIAN ROMANEMPIRE” (THE CATHOLIC CHURCH). CH.1 PG. 14SPEAKING OF CONSTANTINE “HIS ONE OBJECT WAS TO MAKE AN END OF THE DIVISION OFTHE CHURCHES. SO WHATEVER PLEASED THE BISHOPSPLEASED THE EMPEROR TOO. EASTER WAS FIXED ACCORDINGTO THE CUSTOM OF ROME AND ALEXANDRIA FOR THESUNDAY AFTER THE FULL MOON FOLLOWING THE VERNALEQUINOX. IT IS THE RULE WE HAVE NOW, AND THOUGH IT DIDNOT PRODUCE THE COMPLETE UNITY TILL THE LUNAR CYCLEWAS SETTLED, IT SECURED THAT EASTER SHOULD COMEAFTER THE PASSOVER, FOR SAID CONSTANTINE “HOW CAN WEWHO ARE CHRISTIANS KEEP THE SAME DAY AS THOSEUNGODLY JEWS?”THIS WAS DONE WITH THE COUNCIL OF NICEA AT WHICH TIME THEY ALSOCHANGED THE BIBLE SABBATH FROM THE SEVENTH DAY (SATURDAY) TOTHE FIRST DAY (SUNDAY). OR IN REALITY THOUGHT THEY CHANGED IT.DANIEL 7:25 “and THINK to change times and laws”DANIEL 8:25 “and through his policy also he shall cause craft toprosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and bypeace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince ofprinces; but he shall be broken without hand.”CONSTANTINE WAS NOT BROKEN BY ANY ENEMY AND HE BY HIS OWN WILLMOVED HIS THRONE TO CONSTANTINOPLE, LEAVING NOONE TO RULE INROME BUT THE POPE, UPON HIS DEATH THE DONATION OF CONSTANTINESURFACED. SO WHAT ABOUT HIS POLICY? LET’S FIRST LOOK AT THE BIBLE. EXODUS 20:8- 11 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six daysshalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is theSabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou,nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant,nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six daysthe Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, andrested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day,and howllowed it.”THE ABOVE VERSE IS THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT.REVELATION 14:12 “Here is the patience of the saints: here are theythat keep the comman d m e nts of God, AND the faith of Jesus .

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NOTICE IT SAYS COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE FAITH OF JESUS, NOTOR THE FAITH OF JESUS. THIS TELLS US STRAIGHT FORWARD THAT THOSESAVED WILL DO BOTH. 1 JOHN 5:3 “For this is the love of God, that we keep hiscommand m en ts : and his command m en ts are not grievous.”THIS IS WHAT GOD WANTS. MATTHEW 19:17 “And he said unto him, why callest thou me good?There is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life ,keep the comman d m en ts .”HERE JESUS TELLS US IF WE WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN TO KEEP THECOMMANDMENTS, FOR THERE IS ONLY ONE OTHER LIFE BESIDES THE ONEWE ALREADY LIVE AND THAT IS ETERNAL LIFE. THE NEXT VERSE TELLS USTHAT THE COMMANDMENTS LAST FOREVER.PSALMS 111:7- 8 “The works of his hands are verity and judgment;ALL his comman d m ents are sure. They stand fast for ever and ever ,and are done in truth and uprightness.”LUKE 16:17 “and it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than for onetittle of the law to fail”HERE IT PLAINLY STATES ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS STAND FOR EVER ANDEVER. THIS INCLUDES THE SABBATH. NOONE CAN CHANGE GODS LAW BUTGOD. AND THE BIBLE SAYS RIGHT HERE THEY LAST FOREVER. REMEMBERDANIEL 7:25. DANIEL 7:25 “and think to change times and laws”NOW LETS LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE REIGN OFCONSTANTINE AND PAPACY. REMEMBER “HIS ONE OBJECT WAS TOMAKE AN END OF THE DIVISION OF THE CHURCHES. SO WHATEVERPLEASED THE BISHOPS PLEASED THE EMPEROR TOO”THE DARK AGES 711- 1096 A.D THE WORLD HISTORY OF THEJEWISH PEOPLE PG.72 2 ND PAR. “THE CHRISTIANS WERE FORBIDDEN TO ABSTAIN FROM WORKON THE SABBATH(BIBLE SABBATH;SATURDAY) , THUS PRACTICINGJEWISH CUSTOM, OR TO ACCEPT GIFTS AT JEWISH FESTIVALS OR,FINALLY, TO ACCEPT THE JEWS UNLEAVENED BREAD, ORPARTICIPATE IN THEIR PROFANITIES.” FROM 314 A.D. – 401 A.D. THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH OF THE TENCOMMANDMENTS WAS SLOWLY PUSHED DOWN WHILE THE SUNDAYSABBATH (THE POPES SABBATH) WAS EXALTED.314 A.D. - ON SUNDAY “THERE SHALL BE A SUSPENSION OF BUSINESS ATTHE COURTS AND OTHER CIVIL OFFICES”321 A.D. - CONSTANTINES FAMOUS SUNDAY LAW IS PASSED REQUIRINGREST ON THE “VENERABLE DAY OF THE SUN” "On the venerable day ofthe Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let allworkshops be closed. In the country however persons engaged inagriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits because itoften happens that another day is not suitable for gain- sowing or vineplanting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for such operations thebounty of heaven should be lost. (Given the 7th day of March, Crispusand Constantinebeing consuls each of them the second time." Codex

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Justinianus , lib. 3, tit. 12, 3; translated in History of the ChristianChurch , Philip Schaff, D.D., (7- vol.ed.) Vol. III, p.380. New York, 1884325 A.D. - COUNCIL OF NICEA CHANGES THE SABBATH FROM THESEVENTH DAY (SATURDAY) TO THE FIRST DAY (SUNDAY).368 A.D. - COUNCIL OF LAODICEA CANON 29: “CHRISTIANS SHALL NOTJUDAIZE ON SATURDAY BUT SHALL WORK ON THAT DAY; BUT THELORDS DAY THEY SHALL ESPECIALLY HONOR…IF HOWEVER THEY ARECAUGHT JUDAIZING (BY KEEPING THE SABBATH) THEY SHALL BE CUTOUT FROM CHRIST.”386 A.D. – BY A LAW OF THE YEAR 386 CIVIL TRANSACTIONS OF EVERYKIND ON SUNDAY WERE STRICTLY FORBIDDEN.401 A.D. –COUNCIL OF CARTHAGE CANON 5: “ON SUNDAYS AND FEASTDAYS NO PLAYS MAY BE PERFORMED”

THE QUESTION BOX 1913 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA“QUESTION : WHAT BIBLE AUTHORITY IS THERE FOR CHANGING THE SABBATHFROM THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK TO THE FIRST? WHO GAVE THE POPETHE AUTHORITY TO CHANGE A COMMAND OF GOD? ANSWER : IF THE BIBLE ISTHE ONLY AUTHORITY FOR THE CHRISTIAN, THEN THE SEVENTH DAYADVENTIST IS RIGHT IN OBSERVING SATURDAY WITH THE JEW. BUTCATHOLICS LEARN WHAT TO BELIEVE AND DO FROM THE DIVINE, INFALLIBLEAUTHORITY, ESTABLISHED BY JESUS CHRIST, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH , WHICHIN APOSTOLIC TIMES MADE SUNDAY THE DAY OF REST, TO HONOR OURLORDS RESSURECTION ON THAT DAY, AND TO MARK OFF CLEARLY THE JEWFROM THE CHRISTIAN. IS IT NOT STRANGE THAT THOSE WHO MAKE THEBIBLE THERE ONLY TEACHER SHOULD INCONSISTANTLY FOLLOW IN THISMATTER THE TRADITION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?”

THIS IS A LIE!! IT WAS NOT DONE IN APOSTOLIC TIMES !!! IT WAS DONE WITH THE COUNCIL OF NICEA DURING EMPERORCONSTANTINES REIGN, IT WAS DONE OVER 250 YEARS AFTER THEDEATH OF THE LAST APOSTLE!!

THE PAPACY HAS BEEN CAUGHT IN A BOLD FACED LIE.THIS VERY EVIDENCE, THAT, COMES FROM HISTORY NOT FROM OPINIONREFUTES THE POPES AND PAPACY’S CLAIM OF BEING INFALLIBLE.DANIEL 7:25 “and he shall speak great words against the most HIGHREVELATION 13:5 “and there was given unto him a mouth speakinggreat things and blasphemies”THE BEAST OF REVELATION 13 HAS 7 HEADS AND TEN HORNS AND THEFOUR BEASTS OF DANIEL HAVE THE SAME TOTAL NUMBER OF HEADS ANDHORNS. BABYLON (LION) 1 HEAD 0 HORNSMEDO- PERSIA (BEAR) 1 HEAD 0 HORNS GREECE (LEOPARD) 4 HEADS 0 HORNSROME (TERRIBLE BEAST) 1 HEAD 10 HORNS TOTAL 7 HEADS 10 HORNS

BEAST OF THE SEA (REV. 13) 7 HEADS 10 HORNS THE SCARLET BEAST (REV. 17) 7 HEADS 10 HORNS THE BEAST OF REVELATION 13 CLEARLY REPRESENTS A POWER THATRESULTED FROM THE CULMINATION OF THE FOUR BEASTS OF DANIEL 7.

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DANIEL 13:2 “And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard , and his feetwere as the feet of a bear , and his mouth as the mouth of a lion : and thedragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.”FROM THE BOOK “TWO BEASTS, THREE DEADLY WOUNDS AND FOURTEENPOPES” BY RUSSELL R. STANDISH AND COLIN D STANDISH, BOTH WHICHRECEIVED DEGREES IN MODERN HISTORY FROM THE UNIVERSITY OFSYDNEY, AUSTRALIA’S OLDEST AND MOST ESTEEMED INSTITUTE OF HIGHERLEARNING. Pg. 44- 48 CONCERNING THE 1 ST BEAST OF REVELATION 13 We shall now examine the reason God chose to designate this first beast ofrevelation 13 as a leopard - - - Grecian in substance. “Scholasticism reached itsheight in the writings of the Dominican friar, Thomas of Aquinas, “the angelicdoctor.” His systematic exposition of the catholic faith in terms of Aristotelianphilosophy produced a revolution in Christian thought, for Augustine andAnselm, the Christian thinkers in general before Aquinas, had regardedPlatonism as the specifically Christian philosophy. (Henry Bettenson,documents of the Christian church, p.199)” here we see that Augustine, bishopof hippo (354- 430), whose grossly faulted theology dominated roman catholicthinking from the fifth century, brought the Greek pagan concepts of Plato(428 B.C.- 348 B.C) into the Christian church. Anselm (1033 - 1109) who servedas Archbishop of Canterbury is regarded by Roman Catholics as the greatesttheologian in the 800 year period between Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274) merged the views of the pagan Greekphilosopher, Aristotle (384 B.C- 322 B.C.), with Christianity. As we shall laterdocument, it was he who advocated death for heretics as just, and the use ofthe state to enforce the church’s punishment of heretics. Thus in describing thefirst beast Revelation 13 as a leopard beast, Christ revealed to the apostleJohn a faith built on Greek philosophy intermixed with Christianity. The use ofthe symbol of the leopard power, Greece, from Daniel 7 is a most importantand accurate clue to the identity of the first beast of Revelation 13. God’ssymbols are always full of meaning. This beast possessed the feet of a bear,the symbol of the empire of Medo- Persia. It would crush opposition underfootas did Medo- Persia. In what way was Medo- Persia able to crush oppositionunder its feet? The kings of Medo- Persia were deified (considered gods) andso, as gods, they were declared to be infallible in their decision making. Thuswe read that their laws could not be altered once they were enacted by theking. We site two instances from Scripture. DANIEL 6:8, 12 “ Now, O king,establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according tothe law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not (does not change). Thenthey came near, and spoke before the king concerning the kings decree; Hastthou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any Godor man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den oflions? The king answered and said, the thing is true, according to the law ofthe Medes and Persians, which altereth not. ESTHER 8:7,8 “Then the kingAshuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, behold, I havegiven Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows,because he laid his hand upon the Jews. Write ye also for the Jews, as it likethyou, in the kings name, and seal it with the kings ring: for the writing which iswritten in the kings name, and sealed with the kings ring, may no manreverse. Here is another one. DANIEL 6:15 “Then these men assembled untothe king, and said unto the king, Know O king, that the law of the Medes and

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Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may bechanged.” The long tradition of papal infallibility in the Roman CatholicChurch and its proclamation by Pope Pius IX, in 1870 as a dogma to bebelieved by all, is in the tradition of the bear (Medo- Persia) and is a powerfulweapon designed to crush all dissent (difference of opinion) from papalproclamations. How appropriate that this power be represented, in symbol, topossess the feet of a bear. This beast would speak the words of Babylon. Thislast feature must be remembered, for the book of Revelation represents thispowerful entity as spiritual Babylon in chapters 14, 16, 17, and 18. Thus it wasappropriate for God to depict this power possessing the mouth of a lion, thesymbol of Babylon in Daniel 7.There is yet a deeper and even more sinister meaning in the designation of thebeast’s having the mouth of a lion. Babylon enforced worship by the issuing ofa death decree designed to quell all dissent. This decree was issued as theleader’s gathered on the plain of Dura to perform an act of worship before theimage set up by this beast (lion) power. DANIEL 3:1- 6 “Nebuchadnez z a r theking made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and thebreadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province ofBabylon. Then Nebuchadnez z a r the king sent to gather together the princes,the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, thesheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of theimage which Nebuchadnez z ar the king had set up. Then the princes, thegovernors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, thesheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces were gathered unto the dedicationof the image that Nebuchadnez z ar the king had set up; and they stood beforethe image that Nebuchadnez z ar had set up. Then an herald cried aloud, Toyou it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, that at what time yehear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and allkinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image thatNebuchadnez z ar the king hath set up: and whoso falleth not down andworshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fieryfurnace. Thus the mouth of the 1 st beast of Revelation 13represented fearfulpersecution of God’s people as a death decree was invoked for conscientiousdissenters to the king’s decree. The second beast of Revelation 13, we areinformed, uses its mighty power to enforce worship of the first beast.REVELATION 13:12 “And he excerciseth all the power of the first beast beforehim, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the firstbeast, whose deadly wound was healed.” How appropriate that this coercedworship is said to involve the making of an image to the beast, paralleling thatwhich happened under Babylon, the lion power, on the plain of Dura.REVELATION 13:14,15 “And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by themeans of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast;saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to thebeast, which had the wound by a sword and did live. And he had power to givelife unto the image of the beast, that the image should both speak, and causethat as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”Thus the first beast of Revelation 13 is identified as a power - - -

1. The very theology of which is based upon Greek philosophy;2. which proclaims its infallibility;

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3. And which utilizes death decrees in order to exterminate all dissentfrom its dictated worship.

Such identifying features greatly narrow the search for the identity of thebeast of Revelation 13.THE POPE DECLARES HIMSELF “VICARIUS FILII DEI” IN ENGLISH “VICAR OFCHRIST” AN INTERESTING NOTE IS THAT THE ONLY GREEKINTERPRETATION FOR THE LATIN TERM VICARIUS FILII DEI ISANTICHRISTOS, AND THE ONLY LATIN INTERPRETATION FOR THE GREEKTERM ANTICHRISTOS IS VICARIUS FILII DEI. THE DEFINITION OF THE WORDVICARIUS OR VICAR IS “SERVE INSTEAD OF SOMEONE ELSE” A “SUBSTITUTE”HENCE THE TERM “VICAR OF CHRIST” ACTUALLY MEANS A “SUBSTITUTEFOR CHRIST.”

V = 5 F = 0 D = 500 I = 1 I = 1 E = 0 C = 100 L = 50 1 = 1 A = 0 I = 1 R = 0 I = 1 I = 1U OR V = 5 S = 0TOTAL = 112 + 53 + 501 GRAND TOTAL =666THE NUMEROLOGY BREAKS DOWN THE SAME IN ALL OF THE THREEORIGINAL LANGUAGES OF THE BIBLE WHICH ARE GREEK, LATIN, ANDHEBREW.HERE ARE FIFTEEN MORE IDENTIFYING FEATURES FROM AUSTIN P.COOKE’S PAMPHLET, THE ANTICHRIST 666, HIS RISE, REIGN, RUIN ANDRESTORATION, PG.2

1. IT IS A POLITICAL KINGDOM2. IT RISES AMID NUMEROUS PEOPLE3. IT IS ONE OF SEVEN POLITICAL POWERS OR EMPIRES OPPOSED TO

GOD4. IT IS CONNECTED WITH WESTERN EUROPE5. IT ARISES WHEN THE POWERS OF WESTERN EUROPE ARE REIGNING6. IT IS CONNECTED WITH THE FOUR KINGDOMS OF DANIEL 7 –

BABYLON, MEDO- PERSIA, GREECE, AND ROME7. ITS SEAT OR CENTER IS GIVEN IT BY IMPERIAL ROME8. IT BECOMES A UNIVERSAL OR CATHOLIC POWER (CATHOLIC MEANS

UNIVERSAL)9. IT PRACTICES BLASPHEMY10. IT PERSECUTES AND DESTROYS THE SAINTS 11. ITS NUMBER IS 66612. ITS POLITICAL SUPREMACY IS FOR 1260 YEARS (DARK AGES FROM

538 A.D.- 1798 A.D.) covered in part 713. IT IS THEN FATALLY WOUNDED14. ITS WOUND IS HEALED15. IT IS RESTORED TO WORLD SUPREMACYFROM THE ECCLESIASTICAL (ROMAN CATHOLIC) DICTIONARY, BYLUCIUS FERRARIS, ENTITLED “PROMPTA BIBLIOTHECA CANONICA” VOL.

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VI (6)PGS. 438, 442 ARTICLE “POPE” THE 1913 CATHOLICENCYCLOPEDIA VOL. VI, P.481. “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.”2. “HENCE THE POPE IS CROWNED WITH A TRIPLE CROWN, AS KING OF

HEAVEN AND OF EARTH AND OF THE LOWER REGIONS.”3. “SO THAT IF IT WERE POSSIBLE THAT THE ANGELS MIGHT ERR IN

THE FAITH, OR MIGHT THINK CONTRARY TO THE FAITH, THEYCOULD BE JUDGED AND EXCOMMUNICATED BY THE POPE.”

4. THE POPE IS AS IT WERE GOD ON EARTH, SOLE SOVEREIGN OF THEFAITHFUL OF CHRIST, CHIEF KING OF KINGS, HAVING PLENTITUDEOF POWER, TO WHOM HAS BEEN ENTRUSTED BY THE OMNIPOTENTGOD DIRECTION NOT ONLY OF THE EARTHLY BUT ALSO OF THEHEAVENLY KINGDOM.”

5. “THE POPE CAN MODIFY DIVINE LAW, SINCE HIS POWER IS NOT OFMAN BUT OF GOD.”

6. “THE FIRST PROPOSITION NEEDS LITTLE PROOF. THECATHOLIC CHURCH FOR OVER ONE THOUSAND YEARS BEFORETHE EXISTENCE OF A PROTESTANT, BY VIRTUE OF HER DIVINEMISSION CHANGED THE DAY FROM SATURDAY TO SUNDAY.WE SAY BY VIRTUE OF HER DIVINE MISSION, BECAUSE HE WHOCALLED HIMSELF THE "LORD OF THE SABBATH," ENDOWEDHER WITH HIS OWN POWER TO TEACH, "HE THAT HEARETHYOU, HEARETH ME;" COMMANDED ALL WHO BELIEVE IN HIMTO HEAR HER, UNDER PENALTY OF BEING PLACED WITH THE"HEATHEN AND PUBLICAN;" AND PROMISED TO BE WITH HERTO THE END OF THE WORLD. SHE HOLDS HER CHARTER ASTEACHER FROM HIM - CHARTER AS INFALLIBLE AS PERPETUAL.THE PROTESTANT WORLD AT ITS BIRTH FOUND THECHRISTIAN SABBATH TOO STRONGLY ENTRENCHED TO RUNCOUNTER TO ITS EXISTENCE; IT WAS THEREFORE PLACEDUNDER THE NECESSITY OF ACQUIESCING IN THEARRANGEMENT, THUS IMPLYING THE CHURCH'S RIGHT TOCHANGE THE DAY, FOR OVER THREE HUNDRED YEARS. THECHRISTIAN SABBATH IS THEREFORE TO THIS DAY, THEACKNOWLEDGED OFFSPRING OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ASSPOUSE OF THE HOLY GHOST, WITHOUT A WORD OFREMONSTRANCE FROM THE PROTESTANT WORLD.” From theCatholic Mirror of Sept. 23, 1893

HERE WE HAVE IT FOLKS!!!!! STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSES MOUTH!!!HE CLAIMS TO BE GOD ON EARTH, HE CLAIMS TO BE RULER OF HEAVEN,EARTH AND HELL, HE CLAIMS TO BE ABLE TO CAST ANGELS OUT OFHEAVEN, AND HE CLAIMS TO BE ABLE TO CHANGE GODS LAWS! IF THATIS NOT BLASPHEMY I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS!!!! THIS DIRECTLYCONTRADICTS THE TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE. AND ONE THING IS FORSURE GOD HAS CHARGE OVER HIS WORD.2THESSALONIANS 2:3- 4 “THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY” “LET KNOWMAN DECIEVE YOU BY ANY MEANS: FOR THAT DAY SHALL NOT COME,

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EXCEPT THERE BE A FALLING AWAY FIRST, AND THAT MAN OF SIN BEREVEALED, THE SON OF PERDITION. WHO OPPOSETH ANDEXALTETH HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD , OR THATIS WORSHIPPED, SO THAT HE AS GOD SITTETH IN THE TEMPLE OFGOD, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD.WHAT DOES JESUS SAY ABOUT THIS?MATTHEW 28:18 “And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, all poweris given to me in heaven and in earth.”MATTHEW 10:24 “The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord.”BUT THE POPE SAYS IAM GOD. “hence the pope is crowned with a triplecrown, as king of heaven and of earth and of the lower regions.”MATTHEW 15:9 “BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING FORDOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN.”BUT THE POPE SAYS “the pope can modify divine law, since his power isnot of man but of god.”FROM “THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION” BY J.H. MERLE D’AUBIGNE’QUOTING MARTIN LUTHER “It is an awful thing to behold the man whostyles himself Christ’s vicegerent displaying a magnificence that noemperor can equal. Is this being like the poor Jesus, or the humble Peter?He is (they say) the lord of the world! But Christ, whose vicar he boasts ofbeing, has said, My kingdom is not of this world. Can the dominions of avicar extend beyond those of his superior?” WITH THE EVIDENCE BEFORE YOU THE PAPACY HAS SHOWN THEWORLD THROUGH THE HISTORY OF HER ACTIONS, AND HER WORDS,THAT SHE IS THE 1 ST BEAST OF REVELATION 13. IT CANNOT BEREFUTED. GOD HAS CHARGE OVER HIS WORD (THE BIBLE), AND IT DOESNOT CONFLICT WITH ITSELF. AND HOW CAN HISTORY LIE?

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THE WOMAN ON THE SCARLET BEAST THE MYSTERY OF GOD AND MYSTERY OF INIQUITY PART 6

REVELATION 17:3- 6 “So he carried me away in the spirit into thewilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of namesof blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns . And the woman was arrayedin purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones andpearls , having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness ofher fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY,BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OFTHE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints andwith the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her I wondered withgreat admiration.”GOD IN THE BIBLE FIGURATIVELY USES A WOMAN TO REPRESENT A CHURCH(ONE MEANING FOR CHURCH IS A “BODY OR CONGREGATION OF RELIGEOUSPEOPLE). THE BIBLE TELLS US THIS IN JEREMIAHJEREMIAH 6:2 “I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely anddelicate woman”ISAIAH 51:16 “say unto to Zion, thou art my people”SO WE KNOW THAT GODS PEOPLE (CHURCH) ARE LIKENED TO A“COMELY AND DELICATE WOMAN” A HARLOT WOULD BE A FALSECHURCH, ONE THAT DECEIVES.RELIGION HAS TWO FACES, ONE FACE IS THE FACE OF TRUTH, AND THEOTHER FACE IS THE FACE OF DECEPTION. WE WILL NOW STUDY WHATTHE MYSTERY OF GOD IS AND HOW THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY OPPOSESTHE MYSTERY OF GOD.EPHESIANS 3:1- 4 “For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christfor you Gentiles, if ye have heard of the dispensation of the graceof God which is given me to youward (directed towards you) : Howthat by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wroteafore in few words, whereby, when ye read , ye may understand myknowledge in the mystery of Christ)AS WE WILL LEARN IN THE NEXT VERSE, THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEENJESUS AND GOD WAS NOT ENTIRELY KNOWN TO EVERYONE, SAVE THEHOLY APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, TO THE SONS OF MEN IT WAS ONLYKNOWN THAT A SAVIOR WAS TO COME AND DELIVER THE JEWS, AMESSIAH. IF HOSTAGES ARE TAKEN IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY AND THEPRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A IS GOING TO SEND THEM SOMEONE TODELIVER THEM FROM THE HANDS OF THEIR ENEMIES, IT IS NOTEXPECTED THAT BUSH WOULD SEND HIS SON TO DO IT, IT ASSUMEDTHAT HE WOULD SEND SOMEONE OF A LOWER RANK. THAT’S WHYBEFORE CHRIST CAME HE WAS KNOWN ONLY AS THE MESSIAH. GOD ORTHE SON OF GOD IS NO WHERE CONTAINED IN THE DEFINITION OF THE

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WORD, IN THE ARAMAIC LANGUAGE ( MESSIAH IS MESHIHA, HEBREW ITIS MASHIHA BOTH OF WHICH MEAN “ANOINTED” WHICH MEANS TO BECHOSEN BY OR AS IF BY DIVINE ELECTION). AS INFLATED AS THEPHARISEES AND SCRIBES WERE BEFORE THE COMING OF CHRIST THEREIS A CHANCE THEY THOUGHT ONE OF THEM WOULD BE ELECTEDTHROUGH DIVINE GUIDANCE TO BE THE MESSIAH OR THAT HE WOULDBE CHOSEN BY THEM (THIS IS NOT A CLAIM BUT A THOUGHT). THENEXT VERSE TELLS US IT (THE MYSTERY OF THE FELLOWSHIP) WAS NOTKNOWN.EPHESIANS 3:5 “Which in other ages was not made known unto thesons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles andprophets by the Spirit”THIS NEXT VERSE IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT 1) LETS US KNOWWHERE OUR SALVATION COMES FROM, 2) WHO MAY ALSO BE SAVED(THE GENTILES [NON- JEWS]), 3) AND BY WHAT MEANS WE MAY FINDTHIS OUT. NOTICE ABOVE IT SAYS “WHEN YE READ” SO PAULUNDOUBTEDLY KNEW NOT ALL WOULD HEAR THE TRUTH AS IT WASSPOKEN BY THE SPIRIT THROUGH HIM AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME,SOME WOULD HAVE TO READ THE SCRIPTURES TO FIND OUT. LIKE FORINSTANCE PEOPLE AFTER HIS DEATH.EPHESIANS 3:6 “That the 2) Gentiles should be fellow heirs , and ofthe same body, and partake of 1) his promise in Christ 3) by thegospel :”EPHESIANS 3:9 “And to make all men SEE what is the fellowship ofthe mystery , which from the beginning of the world hath been hidin God , who created ALL things by Jesus Christ ;”HERE WE LEARN WITHOUT A SHADOW OF DOUBT THAT JESUS CHRISTCREATED ALL THINGS, HE CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, HECREATED MAN, THE LIGHT AND THE DARKNESS (TIME), THE TENCOMMANDMENTS, AND HE EVEN CREATED AND SANCTIFIED ANDHOWLOWED THE SEVENTH DAY…SATURDAY.COLLOSIANS 1:13- 15 “Who hath delivered us from the power ofdarkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son :In whom we have redemption through his blood, even theforgiveness of sins : Who is the image of the invisible God , the firstborn of every creature.”GOD IS MIRRORED IN JESUS CHRIST; CHRIST IS THE VISIBLE IMAGE OFGOD .THIS NEXT VERSE SPEAKS AGAIN OF JESUS CHRIST.COLLOSIANS 1:16 “For by him were all things created , that are inthe heaven , and that are in the earth , VISIBLE and INVISIBLE,whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers:ALL things were created BY him, and FOR him .”SO WHAT ELSE DOES PAUL TEACH US ABOUT THE MYSTERY OF THEFELLOWSHIP OF GOD? THE ANSWER IS THAT WE HAVE DIRECT ACCESSTO HIM, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST. WE NEED NO MEDIATOR BETWEEN USAND CHRIST IN ORDER TO BE SAVED AND OUR SINS FORGIVEN. PAULGOES ON TO EXPLAIN THIS. SCRIPTURE PROVES THIS.

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EPHESIANS 3:11- 12 “According to the purpose which he purposedin Christ Jesus our Lord : In whom we have boldness and accesswith confidence by the faith of Him. ” THIS NOT ONLY TELLS US THAT BY FAITH WE HAVE ACCESS TO CHRIST,BUT; WITH BOLDNESS WE CAN BE CONFIDENT ABOUT OUR DIRECTACCESS TO HIM; WE NEED NOT QUESTION THAT ACCESS AS LONG AS WEHAVE FAITH IN CHRIST. SO HOW DOES “THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY”OPPOSE THE MYSTERY OF THE FELLOWSHIP OF GOD? LETS FIND OUTTHROUGH SCRIPTURE, IT FIRST BEHOOVES US TO FIND OUT WHEREINIQUITY FIRST STARTED. SO LET US NOW LOOK TO SCRIPTURE TO FINDTHIS OUT. INIQUITY MEANS “WICKEDNESS OR GROSS INJUSTICE”

ISAIAH 14:12- 14 “How art thou fallen O Lucifer , son of the morning!How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken thenations! For thou hast said in thine heart , I will exalt my throneabove the stars of God : I will sit also upon the mount of thecongregation , in the sides of the north: I will ascend above theheights of the clouds; I will be like the most High .”HERE WE DISCOVER THAT LUCIFER HAS DECIDED THAT HE 1) WANTS TOBE ABOVE HIS CREATOR 2) WANTS TO BE WORSHIPPED AS GOD, 3)WANTS TO SIT UPON THE MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION IN THE SIDESOF THE NORTH AND 4) DECLARES HE WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH.ONE VERY INTERESTING POINT HERE IS HE SAYS UPON THE MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION, NOT ON A MOUNT OF A CONGREGATION . HE ISSPECIFIC. HE WANTS TO BE WORSHIPPED BY MAN, GODS CREATION. HECAN ONLY DO THIS BY DECEPTION. HE HAS TO DECIEVE MAN INTOBELIEVING HE IS WORSHIPPING GOD WHEN IN FACT HE IS WORSHIPPING,SATAN. HE HAS TO ESTABLISH A FALSE SYSTEM OF BELIEF, HIS OWNRELIGEON. HE SEEKS TO OBTAIN THAT WHICH IS NOT RIGHTLY HISTHROUGH THEFT. HOW ELSE COULD HE DECIEVE MAN EXCEPTTHROUGH SELF EXALTATION? THE WORD “CONGREGATION” HAS SOMEVERY INTERESTING DEFINITIONS IN THE DICTIONARY (WEBSTERSCOLLEGIATE). I WILL GIVE THEM ALL TO YOU. FROM WEBSTER’S NINTHNEW COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY 1990 CONGREGATION “1 a: an assemblyof persons: GATHERING: esp.: an assembly of persons met for worship andreligious instruction. b: a religious community: as (1): an organized bodyof believers in a particular locality (2): a Roman Catholic religious institutewith only simple vows (3): a group of monasteries forming an independentsubdivision of an order 2: the act or an instance of congregating orbringing together: the state of being congregated 3: a body of cardinals andofficials forming an administrative division of the papal curia THE PAPAL CURIA IN CASE YOU’R CURIOUS IS THE BODY OFCONGREGATIONS, TRIBUNALS, AND OFFICES THROUGH WHICH THEPOPE GOVERNS THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. ON A SIDE NOTE, ISN’TIT INTERESTING HOW, OUT OF THE 7 DEFINITIONS THERE ARE, THINGSRELATING TO THE PAPACY AROSE 3 TIMES. ESPECIALLY AFTER IT’S BEENPROVEN THAT THE PAPACY IS THE BEAST OF THE SEA OF REVELATION13. NOW THAT WE ARE AWARE OF HOW SATAN PLANS TO DECIEVE THE

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WORLD LET US LOOK AT THE METHOD BEHIND HIS MADNESS, THEMYSTERY OF INIQUITY. PAUL DID NOT WANT TO CAUSE A PANICKEDUPROAR AMONG THE PEOPLE OR MISLEAD THEM INTO BELIEVING THATCHRIST WAS COMING AGAIN WITHIN THEIR LIFESPAN. SO HE GAVETHEM AN INSIGHT AS TO WHAT MUST HAPPEN FIRST. PAUL WARNS USOF THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY IN THE BIBLE SO LETS TAKE A LOOK ATSCRIPTURE.2THESSALONIANS 2:1- 3 “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming ofour Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye benot shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor byletter as from us, as that the day of the Christ is at hand. Let no mandeceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there be afalling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.

FROM “THE ANTICHRIST IS HERE” BY COLIN AND RUSSEL STANDISH“While the term antichrist is sparingly used in the Scriptures, this apostatepower is vividly described in the Bible. Paul uses the terms “man of sin”and “son of perdition”. He pinpoints the appearance of antichrist asoccurring prior to the second coming of Christ.”IN THE NEXT VERSE SCRIPTURE GIVES AN INSIGHT AS TO THEDESCRIPTION OF WHAT THAT “SON OF PERDITION” WILL DO. 2THESSALONIANS 2:4 “Who opposeth and exalteth himself aboveall that is called God , or that is worshipped, so that he as God sittethin the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. ” NOTICE HOW THIS FITS PERFECTLY WITH ISAIAH 14:12- 14. AS WELEARNED EARLIER, SATAN HAS TO ESTABLISH A FALSE SYSTEM OFBELIEF, ONE IN WHOSE DOCTRINES, DIRECTLY OPPOSE THE WORD OFGOD (HOLY BIBLE) BUT SHARE ENOUGH SIMILARITIES TO DECIEVE EVENTHE VERY ELECT.SO THE QUESTION IS HOW, CAN HE ESTABLISH ENOUGH CREDIBILTY TODECIEVE DOCTORS AND HIGHLY EDUCATED THEOLOGIANS, ANDPASTORS, AS WELL AS THE MASSES? THE ANSWER IS 1) SATAN HAS TO CREATE A FALSE LINEAGE THAT REACHES BACK TOTHE TIME OF CHRIST2) IT WOULD HAVE TO BE ESTABLISHED AFTER THE CRUCIFIXTION3) IT WOULD HAVE TO CLOSELY PARALLEL TRUTH YET LEAD AWAYFROM IT AND YET SHARE SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF IT.4) IT WOULD HAVE TO INCORPORATE THE BIBLE, YET BE BELIEVED TOBE ABOVE IT (SO AS NOT TO BE BROUGHT DOWN BY IT)5) IT WOULD HAVE TO BE SEEN AS A FORM OF CHRISTIANITY SINCECHRISTIANITY IS BASED AROUND JESUS CHRIST (AND SINCE THE SPIRITOF SATAN IS THE ANTICHRIST) WE FIND THAT THE APOSTLE JOHN WARNS US OF THIS.1 JOHN 2:18- 19 “Little children, it is the last time: and as ye haveheard that antichrist shall come , even now are there many antichrists ; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went outfrom us ; but they were not of us : for if they had been of us , they

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would no doubt have continued with us : but they went out, thatthey might be made manifest that they were not all of us.” THE PAPACY WITHOUT A DOUBT MATCHES ALL 5 OF THESE CRITERIA,MORE THAN ANY OTHER RELIGION ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. FROM “THE PAPACY” CHAPTER VI “APOSTOLICITY, OR PETER’SPRIMACY” BY J.A. WYLIE …(WHO IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE FOREMOSTAUTHORITIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD CONCERNING THEPAPACY) “Seated on the throne of the Caesars, and drawing the peculiardoctrines of their creed, and the peculiar rites of their worship,from the fount of the pagan mythology, the Roman pontiffs havenevertheless sought to persuade the world that they are thesuccessors of the apostles, and that they wield their authority andinculcate (teach by frequent repetitions) their doctrines .Apostolicity is a peculiar and prominent claim of Rome. Protestantslay claim to apostolicity in the sense of holding the doctrine of theapostles; but the Popes of Rome assert an uninterrupted linealdescent from the apostle Peter , and on the ground of this supposedlineal succession they sustain themselves the heirs of the powersand functions of Peter. The doctrine held by the Church of Romeon this head is briefly as follows:- - That Christ constituted Peterthe prince of the apostles and the head of the Church; that heraised him to this high dignity when he said to him, “Thou artPeter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.” “Jesus saith untohim, feed my sheep;” that Christ in these words committed to Peterthe care of the whole Church, pastors as well as people; that Romewas the seat of this bishoprick of Peter; that the popes succeededhim in his see, and, in virtue of this success ion, inherited all theroyalties and jurisdiction, the functions and virtues, with whichPeter became invested when Christ addressed him in the words wehave quoted; that this “mystic oil” has flowed down through the“golden pipes,”—the popes, - - - to our day; that it resides in all itsfullness in the present occupant of Peters chair; and that it isthence diffused by innumerable lesser pipes, formed by thebishops and priests, to the remotest extremities of the RomanCatholic world, vivifying and sanctifying all its members, givingauthority to all its priests, and validity and efficacy to all theirofficial acts .”The two main reasons assigned by Dens why the Roman Church istermed apostolic are, first , That “the doctrine delivered by theapostles is the same which she has always held, and will continueto hold ;” and second , Because that Church “possesse s a lawful and uninterrupted succession of bishops, especially in the chair ofPeter.” “Messiah founded the kingdom of his holy Church inJudea,” says Dr. Milner , “and chose his apostles to propagate it throughout the earth, over whom he appointed Simon as the centre of union and head pastor, and changing his name into that of

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PETER or ROCK; adding, ‘On this rock I will build my Church.’ Thusdignified, St. Peter first established his see at Antioch, the head ofcity of Asia; whence he sent his disciple St. Mark to establish andgovern the see of Alexandria, the head city of Africa. He afterwardsremoved his own see to Rome, the capital of Europe and the world.Here, having with St. Paul sealed the gospel with his blood, hetransmitted his prerogative to St. Linus, from whom it descended insuccession to St. Cletus and St. Clement.” In Dr. Challoner’sGrounds of the Catholic Doctrine, as contained in the profession offaith published by Pope Pius IV, it asserted “that the Church ofChrist must be apostolical by a succession of pastors, and a lawfulmission derived from the apostles;” and when it is asked “how doyou prove this?” it is answered; 1 st , “because only those who canderive their lineage from the apostles are the heirs of the apostles!And, consequently, they alone can claim the right to the Scriptures,to the administration of the sacraments, or any share in thepastoral ministry: it is their proper inheritance, which they havereceived from the apostles, and the apostles from Christ.” “Her[Catholic Church] pastors, says Keenan, are the only pastors onearth who can trace their mission from priest to bishop and frombishop to pope, back through every century, until they trace thatmission to the apostles.” This is a vital point with Rome. Theprimacy of Peter is her corner- stone; and if that is removed, thewhole fabric tumbles into ruin. It reasonable then to ask someproof of that long claim of facts by which she [Catholic Church]attempts to link the humble fishermen with the more than imperialpontiffs. We are entitled to demand that the Church of Romeproduce conclusive incontrovertible proof of the followingpoints:- - That 1)Christ constituted Peter prince of the apostles andhead of the whole Church ; 2) that Peter went to Rome , and thereestablished his see ; 3) that, dying at Rome, he transmitted to hissuccessors in his charge the rights and prerogatives of hissovereignty ; and that, 4) these have been handed down through anunbroken series of bishops, every one of whom possessed andexercised Peter’s powers and prerogatives . If the Church fails inestablishing any ONE of these points, she FAILS as regards to thewhole. The loss of one link in this chain is as fatal as the loss of all.But alas for Rome! Not one of the positions above stated has sheproved to be true, and not a few of them can be shown to be false[which means A LOT can be proven false] . The words of our Lordto Peter, already quoted, the anchor by which Rome endeavors tofasten the vessel of her Church to the rock of Christianity: “Thouart Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church; and the gatesof hell shall not prevail against it.” As it happens that, in theoriginal text, the term Peter and the term rock closely resembleeach other, the Church of Rome has taken advantage of this,

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dexterously, and by a kind of sleight of hand, to substitute the onefor the other, and thus to read the passage substantially asfollows:- - Thou art Peter; and upon thee, Peter, will I build myChurch. We look upon such feats of interpretation much as wegaze upon the feats of the juggler. Who but the Roman doctorscould have evolved from this plain passage a whole race of popes?Why, even with the aid of papal spectacles, or tradition, whichdiscovers so many wonderful things in Scripture never seen by theman who examines it simply with the eyes of his understanding,do we fail to make out this sense from the passage? For the opinionof the fathers [of the Catholic Church] on the words of our Lord toPeter is directly opposed to the interpretation which the Church ofRome has put upon them; and every priest swears at his ordinationthat he “will not interpret the Scriptures but, according tounanimous consent of the fathers.” Peter but a moment beforemade his great confession, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of theliving God.” And says Poole, in his examination of the Churchesinfallibility, “The fathers generally understood this rock to be, notPeters person, but his confession, or Christ, as confessed by him.Vide St. Cyril, Hilary, Hierom, Ambrose, Basil, and Austin, who areproved by Moulins, in his discourse entitled ‘The Novelty ofPopery,’ to have held this opinion.” Of the same sentiments wereChrysostom, Theodoret, Origen, and others. Here, then we leavepriests of Rome taking a solemn oath at the ordination that theywill not interpret Scripture except with the unanimous consent ofthe fathers , and yet interpreting the passage in a sense directlycontrary to the concurrent opinion of the fathers. What, then, arewe to understand by the “rock” on which Christ declared that hewould build his Church? Whether we are to understand Peter, whoafterwards thrice denied him, or the great truth which Peter hadjust confessed, even the eternal deity of Christ? The fathers, wehave seen, interpreted “this rock” of Christ himself, or of theconfession of his deity by Peter; and so will every man, we ventureto affirm, who is competent to form an opinion, and has no objectto serve but the discovery of truth. Our Lord, knowing the time ofhis death to be nigh, thought it well, as they journeyed onward, todirect the current of the conversation to topics relating to thenature and foundation of that kingdom which was so shortly to bevisibly erected in the world. “Whom do men say that I, the Son ofman am?” said he to his disciples. To this interrogatory (formalquestion or inquiry), the disciples replied and enumeration of thevarious opinions held respecting him by the people at large. “But,”said he, directing his question specially to the disciples, - - “whomdo ye say that I am?” and Simon Peter answered and said, “Thouart the Christ the Son of the living God.” Pleased to find his truecharacter so clearly understood, so firmly believed in, and so

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frankly avowed, our Lord turned to Peter and said, “Blessed artthou, Simon Barjona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed IT untothee. ” What IT? Unquestionably the truth he had justacknowledged, that Jesus is “the Christ, the Son of the livingGod,”—a truth which lay at the foundation of his mission, whichlay at the foundation of all his reaching, and, by consequence, atthe foundation of that system of truth commonly called hiskingdom, which he was to erect in the world, and which therefore,was a fundamental truth, if any truth ever merited to be calledsuch ; for unless it be true that Jesus was “the Christ, the Son of theliving God,” there is nothing true in Christianity, - - it is all a fable .We must bear in mind, then, in proceeding to the next clause, thatit was on this truth, which both Papist and Protestant must confessto be the very first truth in Christianity, that the minds of our Lordand his disciples were now undividedly fixed . “And I say untothee,” continues our Lord, “that thou art Peter; and upon this rockwill I build my Church.” Upon what rock? Upon Peter, sayRomanists, grounding their interpretation upon the similarity ofsound, “Tu es Petrus, et super hanc petram .” Upon the truth hadPeter just confessed, say Protestants, grounding their principles ofsense, and the reason of the thing. “Upon this rock,” says our Lord,not upon thee , the rock, but upon this rock, namely, the truth youhave now enunciated in the words “the Christ the Son of the livingGod ,”—a truth which has been a matter of special revelation tothee, the belief in which has made you truly blessed, and a truthwhich holds a place so fundamental and essential in the gospelkingdom, that it may be well termed “a rock. ” What is the Church?Is it not an association of men holding certain truths? Themembers of the Church are united, not by their belief in certainmen, but by their belief in certain principles.”THIS UNDOUBTEDLY PROVES THAT THE WHOLE FOUNDATIONALSUPPORT FOR THE SYSTEM OF ROMAN CATHOLICISM IS “THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY” IT HAS ALL OF THE QUALITIES. IT EVENSAYS IN BIBLE TO BEWARE OF FALSE TEACHERS.1TIMOTHY 4:1- 3 “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the lattertimes some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, anddoctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy: having their conscienceseared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstainfrom meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving ofthem which believe and know the truth.PRIESTS ARE FORBIDDEN TO GET MARRIED, AND DURING LENT IT IS ASIN TO EAT MEAT ACCORDING TO THE POPE.MATTHEW 12:25 “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought todesolation; and ever city or house divided against itself cannot stand”

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THE 42 MONTH REIGN OF THE 1 ST BEAST OF REVELATION 13 (BEAST OF THE SEA) THE FATAL WOUND HEALED PART 7

DANIEL 7:25 “And he shall speak great words against the most High,and wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change timesand laws: and they shall be given into his hand for a time and timesand the dividing of time.REVELATION 13:5 “And there was given unto him a mouth speakinggreat things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him tocontinue forty and two months .”IN DANIEL WE FIND THAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR SUFFERED 7 LITERAL YEARSOF ILLNESSDANIEL :4:16 “Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’sheart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.”REVELATION 11:2 “But the court which is without the temple leaveout, and measure it not; for it given unto the Gentiles: and the holy cityshall they tread under foot forty and two months”REVELATION 12:14 “And to the woman there were given two wings ofa great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place,where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from theface of the serpent.”REVELATION 12:6 “And the woman fled into the wilderness, where shehath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there athousand two hundred and three score days.”WE KNOW A SCORE IS 20, THE DEFINITION OF WHICH CAN BE FOUND INTHE DICTIONARY. THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND THREESCORE DAYS = 1260FORTY AND TWO MONTHS = 1260 DAYS (1 month is 30 days)SO HOW DO WE KNOW THAT THERE WERE 30 DAYS CONTAINED IN AMONTH? LET’S LOOK TO THE BIBLE FOR THE ANSWER.GENESIS 7:11 “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in thesecond month, the seventeenth day of the month , the same daywere all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and thewindows of heaven were opened up.”GENESIS 8:4 “And the ark rested in the seventh month, on theseventeenth day of the month , upon the mountains of Ararat.”THIS IS EXACTLY 5 MONTHS THE VERSE BELOW TELLS US HOWMANY DAYS THAT ACTUALLY WAS.GENESIS 7:24 “And the waters prevailed upon the earth andhundred and fifty days .”30 DAYS * 5 MONTHS =150 DAYS

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42 months =1260 daysEZEKIEL4:6 AND NUMBERS14:34 SHOW US THAT ONE PROPHETIC DAYEQUALS ONE LITERAL YEAR.SO 1260 days = 1260 YEARSJUSTINIAN LEFT ROME TO THE POPE, HE ALONG WITH CONSTANTINE HADBOTH FELT ROME SHOULD BE THE SEAT OF THE POPE, AS THEYCONSIDERED HIM TO BE THE VICAR OF CHRIST AND HENCE A KING OFKINGS SO TO SPEAK. THE POPE WAS GIVEN FULL CONTROL OF ROME IN 538,AFTER JUSTINIAN THERE WERE NO MORE EMPERORS, HE WAS ONLY THEPOPE LEFT TO RULE AS HEAD OVER ALL THE CHURCHES AND JUDGE ALLHERETICS, THIS BEGAN THE DARK AGES AND THE 1260 YEAR REIGN. THEDARK AGES LASTED FROM 538 A.D. – 1798 A.D. IN THE YEAR 1798NAPOLEANS GENERAL BERTHIER, INVADED ROME CAPTURED THE POPEAND TOOK HIM TO FRANCE, BUT NEVER IN ONE SPOT, THE POPE DIED INEXILE AWAY FROM ROME. THE PAPACY HAD RULED FOR EXACTLY 1260YEARS IN WHICH OVER 150,000,000 PEOPLE WERE SLAUGHTERED. GOD KEPTHIS WORD ALIVE WITH HIS TWO WITNESSES, AND SOME OF THE MOSTCOURAGEOUS PEOPLE TO EVER LIVE. WE WILL NOW GET INTO THE TWOWITNESSES, WHO THEY WERE. WE CAN FIND THIS IN THE BIBLE.JOHN 5:36- 37 “But I have greater witness than that of John: for the workswhich the Father hath given me to finish , the same works that I do, bearwitness of me , that the Father hath sent me. And the Father himself, whichhath sent me, hath borne witness of me . Ye have neither heard his voice at anytime, nor seen his shape .”JOHN 5:39 “Search the Scriptures ; for in them ye think ye have eternallife: and they are they which testify of me. ”REVELATION 11:2- 3 “But the court which is without the temple leave out, andmeasure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall theytread under foot forty and two months . And I will give power to my twowitnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three scoredays, clothed in sackcloth.”ISN’T INTERESTING HOW THIS 1260 DAYS KEEPS POPPING UP, ESPECIALLYSINCE WE ALREADY KNOW THAT THE 1260 DAYS LASTS FROM 538 A.D.-1798 A.D. SO WHAT HAPPENS DURING THAT PERIOD? THE BIBLE WASNEVER ALOUD IN THE HANDS OF THE COMMON PEOPLE, AND VERY FEWWOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO READ IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. YOU SEE THECHURCH DID NOT SEE IT FIT FOR ANYONE TO INTERPRET THE SCRIPTURESBUT THEM, SO THEY NEVER HAD IT TRANSLATED INTO THE LANGUAGE OFTHE PEOPLE SUCH AS FRENCH, ITALIAN, ENGLISH, SPANISH ETC. IN FACTBIBLES WERE FORBIDDEN, AND FOR SOMEONE TO PREACH FROM IT THATWAS NOT ORDAINED BY THE PAPACY BROUGHT DEATH BY BURNING ATTHE STAKE. TORTURE USUALLY CAME FIRST (MOLTEN METAL DOWN THETHROAT ETC.). BUT GOD ALWAYS HAS CHARGE OVER HIS WORD ANDWOULD NOT ALLOW HIS PEOPLE TO REMAIN IN IGNORANCE. THE OLD ANDNEW TESTAMENT WERE THE TWO WITNESSES, WE WILL NOW LEARN ABOUTTHERE JOURNEY. REVELATION 13:7 “And it was given unto him to make war with thesaints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over allkindreds, and tongues, and nations.”

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HERE IS AN EXCERPT FROM J.A. WYLIE’S EXHAUSTIVE STUDY ON THEMATTER. FROM CHAPTER’S 1 AND 13“The History of the Waldenses” CHAPTER 1 “ The Waldenses—Their Valleys” BY J.A. WYLIE

“It was the ninth century, and superstitious beliefs and idolatrous riteswere overspreading the Church, when Claudius, Bishop of Turin, who wasdeeply imbued with the spirit of Augustine, set himself to arrest thegrowing corruption with all the fervour of a living faith, and the vigour ofa courageous and powerful intellect. To the battle for the purity ofdoctrine he joined that for the independence of the Churches ofLombardy. Even in Claude’s day they remained free, although manyChurches more remote from Rome had already been subjugated by thatall- conquering power. The Ambrosian Liturgy was still used in thecathedral of Milan, and the Augustinian doctrine continued to be preachedfrom many of the pulpits of Lombardy and Piedmont. This independenceof Rome, and this greater purity of faith and worship, these Churchesmainly owed to the three Apostolic men whose names adorn their annals—Ambrose, Vigilantius, and Claude. When Claude went to his grave, aboutthe year 840, the battle, although not altogether dropped, was butlanguidly maintained.” CONCLUSION FOLLOWS, TO EXPLAIN THE ENTIREACCOUNT WOULD BE OUT OF THE SCOPE OF THIS PAPER. “Their greatestenemies, Claude Seyssel of Turin (1517), and Reynerius the Inquisitor(1250), have admitted their antiquity, and stigmatised them as "the mostdangerous of all heretics, because the most ancient."

DANIEL 7:21 “I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints,and prevailed against them.”

HERE IS ONE OF THE WORST ACCOUNTS PAINFUL AS IT IS TO READ IT MUSTBE, IN ORDER TO SEE THE TRUE FACE OF WHO WE ARE DEALING WITH.

FROM “THE HISTORY OF THE WALDENSE” The Great Massacre CH.13

“The throne of Savoy was at this time filled by Charles Emmanuel II., ayouth of fifteen. He was a prince of mild and humane disposition; but hewas counselled and ruled by his mother, the Duchess Christina, who hadbeen appointed regent of the kingdom during his minority. That motherwas sprung of a race which has ever been noted for its dissimulation, itscruelty, and its bigoted devotion to Rome. She was the daughter of HenryIV. and Mary de Medici, and granddaughter of that Catherine de Mediciwhose name stands so conspicuously connected with a tragedy which hasreceived, as it merited, the execration of mankind—the St. BartholomewMassacre.

THE WALDENSES DID MUCH TO TRY TO REACH A PEACEFUL AGREEMENTWITH THE POPE, BUT IT WAS TO NO AVAIL. CONTINUING ON - - - - -

At last the blow fell with the sudden crash of the thunderbolt. At fouro’clock on the morning of Saturday, the 24th of April, 1655, the signal was

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given from the castle- hill of La Torre. [So says Leger, who was an eye-witness of these horrors]. But who shall rehearse the tragedy thatfollowed? "It is Cain a second time," says Monastier, "shedding the blood ofhis brother Abel" [Monastier, p. 270]. On the instant a thousand assassinsbegan the work of death. Dismay, horror, agony, woe in a momentoverspread the Valleys of Lucerna and Angrogna. Though Pandemoniumhad sent forth its fiends to riot in crime and revel in blood, they could nothave outdone the soldiers of the Propaganda. Though the victims climbedthe hills with what speed they could, the murderer was on their track. Thetorrents as they rolled down from the heights soon began to be tingedwith blood. Gleams of lurid light burst out through the dark smoke thatwas rolling through the vales, for a priest and monk accompanied eachparty of soldiers, to set fire to the houses as soon as the inmates had beendispatched. Alas! what sounds are those that repeatedly strike the ear?The cries and groans of the dying were echoed and re- echoed from therocks around, and it seemed as if the mountains had taken up a wailingfor the slaughter of their children. "Our Valley of Lucerna," exclaims Leger,"which was like a Goshen, was now converted into a Mount Etna, dartingforth cinders and fire and flames. The earth resembled a furnace, and theair was filled with a darkness like that of Egypt, which might be felt, fromthe smoke of towns, villages, temples, mansions, granges, and buildings,all burning in the flames of the Vatican" [Leger, part ii., p. 113]. Thesoldiers were not content with the quick dispatch of the sword, theyinvented new and hitherto unheard - of modes of torture and death. Noman at this day dare write in plain words all the disgusting and horribledeeds of these men; their wickedness can never be all known, because itnever can be all told. From the awful narration of Leger, we select only afew instances; but even these few, however mildly stated, grow, withoutour intending it, into a group of horrors. Little children were torn from thearms of their mothers, clasped by their tiny feet, and their heads dashedagainst the rocks; or were held between two soldiers and their quiveringlimbs torn up by main force. Their mangled bodies were then thrown onthe highways or fields, to be devoured by beasts. The sick and the agedwere burned alive in their dwellings. Some had their hands and arms andlegs lopped off, and fire applied to the severed parts to staunch thebleeding and prolong their suffering. Some were flayed alive, some wereroasted alive, some disembowelled; or tied to trees in their own orchards,and their hearts cut out. Some were horribly mutlitated, and of others thebrains were boiled and eaten by these cannibals. Some were fastened downinto the furrows of their own fields, and ploughed into the soil as menplough manure into it. Others were buried alive. Fathers were marched todeath with the heads of their sons suspended round their necks. Parentswere compelled to look on while their children were first outraged, thenmassacred, before being themselves permitted to die. But here we muststop. We cannot proceed farther in Leger’s awful narration. There comevile, abominable, and monstrous deeds, utterly and overwhelmingly

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disgusting, horrible and fiendish, which we dare not transcribe. The heartsickens, and the brain begins to swim. "My hand trembles," says Leger, "sothat I scarce can hold the pen, and my tears mingle in torrents with myink, while I write the deeds of these children of darkness—blacker eventhan the Prince of Darkness himself" [Leger, part ii., p. 111].

MATTHEW 10:22 “AND YE SHALL BE HATED OF ALL MEN FOR MY NAMESSAKE; BUT HE THAT ENDURETH TO THE END SHALL BE SAVED.”

Aubign’e History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century

“If you shall not receive brethren who bring you peace, you shallreceive enemies who bring you war. If you will not unite with us inshowing the Saxon’s the way of life, you shall receive from them thestroke of death. ”

J.A. Wylie History of the Waldenses b.16 ch.1“The pope issued a BULL to call upon all members of the churchto join the crusade against the heretics, as an incentive it“absolved from all ecclesiastical pains and penalties, general andparticular; it released all who joined the crusade from any oathsthey might have taken; it legitimized their title to any propertythey might have illegally acquired; and promised remission of alltheir sins to such as should kill any heretic. It annulled allcontracts made in favor of Vaudois, ordered their domestics toabandon them, forbade all persons to give them any aidwhatever, and empowered all persons to take possession of theirproperty .”LEGER WAS IN FACT AN EYE WITNESS TO THESE EVENTS. THINGS LIKE THISWENT ON FOR THE ENTIRE 1260 YEAR PERIOD KNOWN AS THE DARK AGESAND THE INQUISITION. PEOPLE WERE STARTING TO WAKE UP AND SEEWHAT WAS HAPPENING. IF YOU WERE FOUND IN POSSESSION OF A BIBLE, ORPREACHED FROM IT, OR EVEN SPOKE OF IT YOU WOULD BE BURNED AT THESTAKE.IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE VAUDOIS (WALDENSES), JOHN WICKLIFFE,JOHN HUSS AND JEROME (WHO WERE BOTH BURNED AT THE STAKE),ZWINGLE, MARTIN LUTHER, JOHN CALVIN AND OTHER COUNTLESSINDIVIDUALS WORKING TO BRING THE BIBLE TO THE PEOPLE WE WOULDSTILL BE IN THE DARK AGES. MAY GOD BLESS THE COUNTLESS PEOPLE THATSUFFERED FOR OUR SALVATION. ALTHOUGH NOT REMEMBERED BY MOSTPEOPLE TODAY IT WAS NOT IN VAIN. SO WHAT DO THE PROTESTANTFATHERS SAY ABOUT THE PAPACY? LET’S FIND OUT, BECAUSE IT SEEMSNOW MANY PROTESTANTS HAVE FORGOTTEN THE TRUTH WHICH CAMEFORTH FROM THEIR FOUNDERS AND THE PEOPLE THAT DIED FOR OURSAKE.

After Pope Gregory came two rival popes each one claiminginfallibility, and declaring the other one to be the antichrist. JohnWickliffe who preached the gospel to the poor and was hated by thepapacy, in a tract which he published called the “Schism of the popes”

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called upon the people to consider whether these two priests were notspeaking the truth in condemning each other as the antichrist. “God”said he “would no longer suffer the fiend to reign in only one suchpriest, but made a division among two, so that men, in Christ’s namemay the more easily overcome them both ” R. Vaughan “Life andopinions of John de Wickliffe” vol.2 pg.6

Martin Luther “There sits the man, of whom the apostle wrote(2THESSALONIANS 2:3- 4) , that will oppose and exalt himselfabove all that is called God. That man of sin to be revealed, the sonof perdition…he suppresses the law of God and exalts hiscommandments above the commandments of God . LeRoy Froom,The prophetic Faith of our Fathers, vol.2,pg.281 We here are of theconviction that the papacy is the seat of the true and realantichrist. Ibid, pg.256John Calvin “I deny him to be the Vicar of Christ ….he is antichrist - - - - Ideny him to be the head of the church.” John Calvin Tracts,vol.1pp.219,220John Knox “That tyranny which the pope himself has for so many agesexercised over the church, the very antichrist and son of perdition, ofwhom Paul speaks. The Zurich Letters, p. 199Philipp Melanchthon “It is most manifest, and true without any doubt, thatthe Roman pontiff, with his whole order and kingdom, is very antichrist.Likewise, in 2 Thessalonians 2, Paul clearly says the man of sin will rule inthe church by exalting himself above the worship of God.” LeRoy Froom,The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol.1 pp. 296- 9Sir Isaac Newton “ But it [the papacy] was a kingdom of a different kindfrom the other ten kingdoms [referred to in Daniel7:7- 8] ….And such aseer, prophet, and king is the Church of Rome [referring to the little hornof Daniel 7]. Sir Isaac Newton, Observations on the Prophesies p.75John Wesley “Romish Papacy, he is, in an emphatical sense, the man ofsin.” John Wesley, Antichrist and his Ten Kingdoms, p.110Samuel Lee (a seventh century Rhode Island minister) “It is agreed amongall the main lines of the English Church that the Roman pontiff is theantichrist. Samuel Lee, The Cutting Off of Antichrist, p.1

“History reveals that individual Popes had faced "bad times" before, so whatwas different in 1798 when pope Pius VI was imprisoned, and, being sicklydied? After all wasn't Pius VII restored by a concordat with Napoleon a yearlater? We must realize that not only was the pope taken captive in 1798, but anew set of laws were established. 1798 marks the END of the Popes LEGALprimacy. Napoleon codified a whole new set of laws in 1804. While these lawswere codified in 1804, the 1798 "declaration of Independence" preceded theNapoleon Code. PLEASE NOTE THAT after the French revolution, anoverwhelming number of legal reforms took place. The bills against thePapacy were declared and signed IN 1798.”

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by Ulrike Unruh http: / /www.geocities.com / mydedication2000 / bacchiocchi.html

JUSTINIAN’S CODE OF LAW BEGAN THE PAPACY’S LEGAL POWER .

THE CODE OF OUR LORDTHE MOST SACRED EMPEROR JUSTINIAN.

SECOND EDITION.

BOOK 1.

TITLE 1.

CONCERNING THE MOST EXALTED TRINITY AND THE CATHOLIC FAITH AND PROVIDING THAT NO ONE

SHALL DARE TO PUBLICLY OPPOSE THEM.

1. The Emperors Gratian, Valentinian, and Theodosius to the people of theCity of Constantinople.

We desire that all peoples subject to Our benign Empire shall live underthe same religion that the Divine Peter, the Apostle, gave to the Romans,and which the said religion declares was introduced by himself, and whichit is well known that the Pontiff Damascus, and Peter, Bishop ofAlexandria, a man of apostolic sanctity, embraced; that is to say, inaccordance with the rules of apostolic discipline and the evangelicaldoctrine, we should believe that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit constitutea single Deity, endowed with equal majesty, and united in the Holy Trinity.

(1) We order all those who follow this law to assume the name ofCatholic Christians, and considering others as demented and insane, Weorder that they shall bear the infamy of heresy; and when the Divinevengeance which they merit has been appeased, they shall afterwards bepunished in accordance with Our resentment, which we have acquiredfrom the judgment of Heaven.

Dated at Thessalonica, on the third of the Kalends of March, during theConsulate of Gratian, Consul for the fifth time, and Theodosius.

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2. The Same Emperors to Eutropius, Praetorian Prefect.

Let no place be afforded to heretics for the conduct of their ceremonies,and let no occasion be offered for them to display the insanity of theirobstinate minds. Let all persons know that if any privilege has beenfraudulently obtained by means of any rescript whatsoever, by persons ofthis kind, it will not be valid. Let all bodies of heretics be prevented fromholding unlawful assemblies, and let the name of the only and the greatestGod be celebrated everywhere, and let the observance of the Nicene Creed,recently transmit ted to Our ancestors, and firmly established by thetestimony and practice of Divine Religion, always remain secure.

(1) Moreover, he who is an adherent of the Nicene Faith, and a truebeliever in the Catholic religion, should be understood to be one [pg. 10]who believes that Almighty God and Christ, the son of God, are oneperson, God of God, Light of Light; and let no one, by rejection, dishonorthe Holy Spirit, whom we expect, and have received from the SupremeParent of all things, in whom the sentiment of a pure and undefiled faithflourishes, as well as the belief in the undivided substance of a Holy

Trinity, which true believers indicate by the Greek word Thesethings, indeed do not require further proof, and should be respected.

(2) Let those who do not accept those doctrines cease to apply the nameof true religion to their fraudulent belief; and let them be branded withtheir open crimes, and, having been removed from the threshhold of allchurches, be utterly excluded from them, as We forbid all heretics to holdunlawful assemblies within cities. If, however, any seditious outbreakshould be attempted, We order them to be driven outside the the walls ofthe City, with relentless violence, and We direct that all Catholic Churches,throughout the entire world, shall be placed under the control of theorthodox bishops who have embraced the Nicene Creed.

Given at Constantinople, on the fourth of the ides of January, under theConsulate of Flavius Eucharius and Flavius Syagrius.

3. The Emperor Martian to Palladius, Praetorian Prefect.

No one, whether he belongs to the clergy, the army, or to any othercondition of men, shall, with a view to causing a tumult and givingoccasion to treachery, attempt to discuss the Christian religion publicly in

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the presence of an assembled and listening crowd; for he commits aninjury against the most reverend Synod who publicly contradicts what hasonce been decided and properly established; as those matters relative tothe Christian faith have been settled by the priests who met at Chalcedonyby Our order, and are known to be in conformity with the apostolicexplanations and conclusions of the three hundred and eight Holy Fathersassembled in Nicea, and the hundred and fifty who met in this ImperialCity; for the violators of this law shall not go unpunished, because theynot only oppose the true faith, but they also profane its veneratedmysteries by engaging in contests of this kind with Jews and Pagans.Therefore, if any person who has ventured to publicly discuss religiousmatters is a member of the clergy, he shall be removed from his order; ifhe is a member of the army, he shall be degraded; and any others who areguilty of this offence, who are freemen, shall be banished from this mostSacred City, and shall be subjected to the punishment prescribed by lawaccording to the power of the court; and if they are slaves, they shallundergo severest penalty.

Given at Constantinople, on the eighth of the Ides of February, under theconsulship of Patricius.

4. John, Bishop of the City of Rome, to his most Illustrious and MercifulSon Justinian. Among the conspicuous reasons for praising your wisdomand gentleness, Most Christian of Emperors, and one which radiates light[pg. 11]as a star, is the fact that through love of the Faith, and actuated byzeal for charity, you, learned in ecclesiastical discipline, have preservedreverence for the See of Rome, and have subjected all things to itsauthority, and have given it unity. The following precept wascommunicated to its founder, that is to say, the first of the Apostles, bythe mouth of the Lord, namely: "Feed my lambs." This See is indeed thehead of all churches, as the rules of the Fathers and the decrees of theEmperors assert, and the words of your most reverend piety testify. It istherefore claimed that what the Scriptures state, namely, "By Me Kingsreign, and the Powers dispense justice;" will be accomplished in you. Forthere is nothing which shines with a more brilliant lustre than genuinefaith when displayed by a prince, since there is nothing which preventsdestruction as true religion does, for as both of them have reference to theAuthor of Life and Light, they disperse darkness and prevent apostasy.Wherefore, Most Glorious of Princes, the Divine Power is implored by theprayers of all to preserve your piety in this ardor for the Faith, in thisdevotion of your mind, and in this zeal for true religion, without failure,during your entire existence. For we believe that this is for the benefit ofthe Holy Churches, as it was written, "The king rules with his lips," andagain, "The heart of the King is in the hand of God, and it will incline to

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whatever side God wishes"; that is to say, that He may confirm yourempire, and maintain your kingdoms for the peace of the Church and theunity of religion; guard their authority, and preserve him in that sublimetranquillity which is so grateful to him; and no small change is granted bythe Divine Power through whose agency a divided church is not afflictedby any griefs or subject to any reproaches. For it is written, "A just king,who is upon his throne, has no reason to apprehend any misfortune." Wehave received with all due respect the evidences of your serenity, throughHypatius and Demetrius, most holy men, my brothers and fellow- bishops,from whose statements we have learned that you have promulgated anEdict addressed to your faithful people, and dictated by your love of theFaith, for the purpose of overthrowing the designs of heretics, which is inaccordance with the evangelical tenets, and which we have confirmed byour authority with the consent of our brethren and fellow bishops, for thereason that it is in conformity with the apostolic doctrine. The followingis the text of the letter of the Emperor Justinian, Victorious, Pious, Happy,Renowned, Triumphant, always Augustus, to John, Patriarch, and mostHoly Archbishop of the fair City of Rome: With honor to the ApostolicSee, and to your Holiness, which is, and always has been remembered inOur prayers, both now and formerly, and honoring your happiness, as isproper in the case of one who is considered as a father, We hasten to bringto the knowledge of Your Holiness everything relating to the condition ofthe Church, as We have always had the greatest desire to preserve theunity of your Apostolic See, and the condition of the Holy Churches ofGod, as they [pg. 12] exist at the present time, that they may remainwithout disturbance or opposition. Therefore, We have exerted Ourselvesto unite all the priests of the East and subject them to the See of YourHoliness, and hence the questions which have at present arisen, althoughthey are manifest and free from doubt, and according to the doctrines ofyour Apostolic See, are constantly firmly observed and preached by allpriests, We have still considered it necessary that they should be broughtto the attention of Your Holiness. For we do not suffer anything which hasreference to the state of the Church, even though what causes difficultymay be clear and free from doubt, to be discussed without being broughtto the notice of Your Holiness, because you are the head of all the HolyChurches, for We shall exert Ourselves in every way (as has already beenstated), to increase the honor and authority of your See.

[pg. 125] One Hundred and Thirty- First New Constitution.

The Emperor Justinian to Peter, Most Glorious Imperial PraetorianPrefect.

PREFACE.

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We enact the present law with reference to ecclesiastical rules andprivileges and other subjects in which holy churches and religiousestablishments are intrusted.

Chapter I.

Concerning Four Holy Councils.

Therefore We order that the sacred, ecclesiastical rules which wereadopted and confirmed by the four Holy Councils, that is to say, that ofthe three hundred and eighteen bishops held at Nicea, that of the onehundred and fifty bishops held at Constantinople, the first one of Ephesus,where Nestorius was condemned, and the one assembled at Chalcedon,where Eutyches and Nestorius were anathematized, shall be considered aslaws. We accept the dogmas of these four Councils as sacred writings, andobserve their rules as legally effective.

Chapter II.

Concerning The Precedence of Partriarchs.

Hence, in accordance with the provisions of these Councils, We orderthat the Most Holy Pope of ancient Rome shall hold the first rank of all thePontiffs, but the Most Blessed Archbishop of Constantinople, or NewRome, shall occupy the second place after the Holy Apostolic See ofancient Rome, which shall take precedence over all other sees.

Source: Corpus Juris Civilis (The Civil Law, the Code of Justinian), byS.P. Scott, A.M., published by the Central Trust Company, Cincinnati,copyright 1932, Volume 12 [of 17], pages 9- 12, 125. NEXT PAGE COVER’S BERTHIER’S NEW CONSTITUTION WHICH ENDED THELEGAL REIGN OF THE PAPACY IN 1798, WHICH HAD RULED EXACTLY 1260YEARS.

1. PAPAL GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSED, REVERTING TO PEOPLE.—The famousBill No. 8, in parallel French and Italian, dated Pluviose 27 (February 15), isa formal declaration by "Citizen Alexander Berthier, General in Chief." Inthis he makes the announcement:

2. “The Roman people are now again entered into the rights of sovereignty,declaring their independence, possessing the government of ancient Rome,constituting a Roman Republic. "The General- in- chief of the French army in Italy declares, in the nameof the French Republic, that he acknowledges the Roman Republic

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independent, and that the same is under the special protection of theFrench army. "The General- in- chief of the army acknowledges, in the name of theFrench Republic, the provisional government which has been proposed bythe sovereign people. "In consequence, every other temporal authority emanating from the oldgovernment of the Pope, is suppressed, and it shall no more exercise anyfunction.... "The Roman Republic, acknowledged by the French Republic,comprehends all the country that remained under the temporal authorityof the Pope, after the treaty of Campo- Formio.

"ALEXANDRE BERTHIER."

ROMAN POPULACE CASTS OFF PAPAL YOKE.

—Bill No. 9, likewise of the same date (February 15, 1798), titled "Acte duPepule [peuple] Souverain" (An Act of the Sovereign People) —certified andsigned by three notaries, and confirmed by General Berthier—makes thisclear- cut declaration:

The people of Rome, long tired of the monstrous despotism under which theygroaned have on various occasions tried to shake off this yoke. The magic ofpublic opinion and political interests combined into a mighty force have notallowed their efforts to succeed. And a despotism of that nature becomes themore insulting the more its weakness and arrogance corresponds to itsmisery. But at last, the people, fearing to be exposed to an hideous anarchyand in despair to fall under even a worse tyranny have mustered all theircourage in order to evade these sinister consequences and to reclaim theprimitive rights of their sovereignty. Assembled in the presence of the Eternaland the whole universe, they solemnly and unanimously declare to have hadno part whatever in the crimes and assassinations committed by thegovernment against the French Republic and her nation. They disapprove ofthese crimes and detest their originators and invoke upon them (vow them)eternal shame. They further have suppressed, abolished and crushed thepolitical, economic, and civil authorities of the former Roman government andhave constituted themselves a free and independent sovereignty in taking upall executive and legislative powers which its legitimate representatives shallexercise according to the immortal rights of man based on the principles oftruth, justice, liberty, and equality. They have declared that their desire is thatno attack against religion or the spiritual authority of the pope should bemade and that they reserve to themselves the right by their representatives toprovide for the comfortable sustenance [of the Pope] and to ensure the safetyof his person by a national guard . "The present act has been signed by severalthousand persons who, with many others, have read, approved and confirmedit by their acclamations on the Capitol. On the 27. Pluviose in the 6. year of theRepublic."

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THE WOUND WAS HEALED WITH LATERAN CONCORDAT OF 1929 Newspapers at the time even proclaimed the "wound" to the Vatican as"healed". Here on the left is an article from the February 12th, 1929 edition ofthe San Francisco Chronicle .NOTICE THE TOP LEFT CORNER.

Rev 13:3 “And I saw one of his heads as it werewounded to death; and his deadly wound washealed: and all the world wondered after thebeast.” Even Catholic newspapers reporting the eventdeclared the "wound" to be healed by the LateranTreaty. Here is a page from The Catholic Advocate ,published in Australia on April 18th, 1929 .

THE ABOVE ARTICLE IS FROM THE PAPER ON PAGE 33 I HAVEEXPANDED IT FROM THE PICTURE TO MAKE IT EASIER TO READ. THELOCATION OF THEM IS IN THE CENTER ABOVE THE PHOTO OF THELATERAN PALACE.

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SOURCES FOR WOUNND HEALED FOUND AThttp:/ / w w w.biblelight.net / wound.htmThe agreement signed 70 years ago by Benito Mussolini and CardinalGasparri, on behalf of the King Victor Emmanuel III and Pope Pius XI,restored the full diplomatic and political power of the Holy See ofRome . And today, all the world indeed "wonders" at the revived power ofthe Roman Catholic Church, the epitome of Church and State combinedand a major player in global politics.SO HOW DOES THIS FIT IN TO OUR DAY AND AGE? READ PART 8 TO FINDOUT.

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THIS IS WHEN WE WILL OVERLAP INTO THE PRESENT DAY, AND ACTUALLYSEE HOW THE BEAST OF THE EARTH WILL MAKE AN IMAGE TO THE FIRSTBEAST OF REVELATION 13.

THE BEAST OF THE EARTH THE IMAGE TO THE BEAST THE MARK OF THE BEAST PART 8

REVELATION 13:11 “And I beheld another beast coming up out of theearth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.”REMEMBER THE BEAST OF THE SEA OF REVELATION 13 ROSE UP OUT OF THESEA, WHICH IS TO BE INTERPRETED AS DENSELY POPULATED AREA’S.WE CAN ALSO LOOK TO SCRIPTURE FOR THIS AS WELL TO FIND A CLUE.REVELATION 17:15 “And he saith unto me, the waters which thou sawestwhere the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes and nations, andtongues.”AS WELL AS WE KNOW FROM HISTORY THAT THE PAPACY (BEAST OF THESEA) AROSE OUT OF A MULTITUDE OF NATIONS, AND PEOPLES TEN TO BEEXACT. THE OPPOSITE OF THE SEA WOULD BE THE EARTH, AND SEEING ASTHE SEA REPRESENTS DENSELY POPULATED AREA’S THE EARTH WOULDREPRESENT JUST THE OPPOSITE, A LAND WITHOUT AN ESTABLISHEDNATION, A LAND NOT DENSELY POPULATED WITH PEOPLE. WHILE THEREWERE TRIBES OF INDIANS IN AMERICA THEY WERE BUT TRIBES THEY WERENOT A FORMED NATION, AS WELL AS THEY DID NOT DENSELY POPULATETHE LAND. THE BEAST OF THE EARTH CAN ONLY REPRESENT THE UNITEDSTATES OF AMERICA. IN THE FOLLOWING SCRIPTURE WE WILL SEE OTHERSIILARITIES.REVELATION 13:11 “and he had two horns like a lamb”THE UNITED STATES WAS THE VERY FIRST RULING POWER TO ESTABLISHSEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, WHICH WAS A MOST IMPORTANTTHING. AMERICA WAS DISCOVERED IN 1492, DURING THIS TIME THEPAPACY STILL RULED EUROPE, AND MANY WERE LOOKING FOR A WAY TOESCAPE PERSECUTION, OVER THEIR RELIGEOUS BELIEFS. MANY FOUND THEWAY TO ESCAPE PERSECUTION WAS TO FLEE THE COUNTRY. ONE OF THEMAIN CONCERNS OF OUR FOUNDING FOREFATHERS HAD WAS ONE TOESCAPE THE HOLD ENGLAND HAD OVER THEM, FOR ENGLAND ROYALTYWAS AGAIN TAKING DIRECTION FROM THE POPE. THE SECOND CONCERNTHEY HAD WAS TO ENSURE THE PEOPLE OF THE NEWFOUND AMERICAWOULD NOT SUFFER THE RELIGEOUS PERSECUTIONS THAT THEY HAD BEENTHROUGH. THE ONLY WAY THEY SAW THAT HAPPENING WAS KEEPINGCHURCH AND STATE SEPARATED, IF THEY WERE SEPARATED THERELIGEOUS DOGMAS OF ANY ONE RELIGEON COULD NOT BE ENFORCE BYGOVERNMENT POWERS.BUT TO KNOW AVAIL LAWS WOULD STILL BE FORCEFULLEY INACTED. HERE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE LAWS INACTED IN THE VIRGINIA COLONY’SREVELATION 13:11 “ , and he spake as a dragon”Laws and Documents relating to religion in early Virginia, 1606- 1660

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“April 10, 1606 [In a preamble to letters patent for Sir Thomas Gates, SirGeorge Somers, and others, for establishing colonies in Virginia, a yearbefore the Jamestown settlement was founded, King James I made clearthe religious importance of such a colonizing effort. The opportunity tobring the Christian religion, and thereby "civility," to the native inhabitantswas considered especially valuable.] We greatly commending, andgraciously accepting of, their desires for the furtherance of so noble awork, which may, by the providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend tothe glory of his divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian religion to suchpeople, as yet live in darkness and miserable ignorance of the trueknowledge and worship of God, and may in time bring the infidels andsavages, living in those parts, to human civility, and to a settled and quietgovernment….” Hening, I, 58 . ALL BUSINESSES WERE REQUIRED TO CLOSE DOWN. LAWS WERE ENFORCEDFOR THE OBSERVANCE OF SUNDAY, PEOPLE WERE REQUIRED TO ATTENDCHURCH ON THAT DAY, AND PAY TITHE, AS WELL AS A PLETHORA OFOTHER GUIDELINES, WHICH, IF WEREN’T FOLLOWED PUNISHMENT WASENACTED, FIRST BY FINES, THEN BY LAND SEIZURES, FULLEXCOMMUNICATION, IN WHICH IMPRISONMENT FOLLOWED, MANY UPONEXCOMMUNICATION WERE DECLARED HERETICS AND SENTENCED TODEATH. WHAT WAS HAPPENING WAS THE SAME THING THAT WASCURRENTLY GOING ON IN EUROPE. RELIGEOUS VIEWS FORCED UPON THEMASSES.Tyler, Narratives of Ear ly Virginia, 271- 272, 273“August 4, 1619 All ministers shall duly read divine service, and exercisetheir ministerial function according to the Ecclesiastical laws and orders ofThe church of England, and every Sunday in the afternoon shall Catechizesuch as are not yet ripe to come to the Communion. And whosoever ofthem shall be found negligent or faulty in this kind shall be subject to thecensure of the Governor and Counsel of Estate.”Hening, I, 155- 156“February 24, 1632 It is ordered, That their be a uniformity throughoutthis colony both in substance and circumstance to the cannons andconstitution of the church of England as near as may bee and that everyperson yield ready obedience unto them upon penalty of the pains andforfeitures in that case appointed. That the statutes for coming to churchevery Sunday and holydays be duly executed. That is to say; that thechurch wardens do levy one shilling for every time of any person’s absencefrom the church having no lawful or reasonable excuse to be absent. Andfor due execution Here of the Governor and Council together with theburgesses of this grand assembly do in Gods name earnestly require andcharge all commanders, captains and church - wardens that they shallendeavor themselves to the uttermos t of their knowledge that the due andtrue execution hereof may be done and had through this colony, as theywill answer before God for such evils and plagues wherewith Almighty Godmay justly punish his people for neglecting this good and wholesomelaw.” .

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IN 1636, ANNE HUTCHINSON, A MOTHER OF FOURTEEN CHILDREN WASBROUGHT TO TRIAL FOR PREACHING THE HOLY BIBLE, HER CHARGE WASHERESY. SHE HAD BEEN TEACHING BIBLE CLASSES IN HER HOME, WHICH, 1)A WOMAN WAS NOT TO RELIGEOUSLY INSTRUCT ANYONE, AND 2) PEOPLEWERE NOT TO HOLD COMMUNION OUT OF THEIR HOUSE. Anne Hutchinson's "As I do unders tand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway.He who has God's grace in his heart cannot go astray."

SHE WAS EXCOMMUNICATED HER EXAMINATION IS IN PART BELOW

The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newton. 1637

[The General Court, highest in authority in Massachusetts Bay Colony,consisted of the Governor as Chair of the Court, the Deputy Governor, 5assistants, and 5 deputies. Several other ministers were in attendanceincluding Rev. John Cotton, Mrs. Hutchinson's minister, and the person whoinspired her basic theological position. Anne Hutchinson appears as theaccused in this trial].

Mr. [John] Winthrop, Governor: Mrs. Hutchinson, you are called here as one ofthose that have troubled the peace of the commonwealth and the churcheshere; you are known to be a woman that hath had a great share in thepromoting and divulging of those opinions that are the cause of this trouble,and to be nearly joined not only in affinity and affection with some of thosethe court had taken notice of and passed censure upon, but you have spokendivers things, as we have been informed, very prejudicial to the honor of thechurches and ministers thereof, and you have maintained a meeting and anassembly in your house that hath been condemned by the general assembly asa thing not tolerable nor comely in the sight of God nor fitting for your sex,and notwithstanding that was cried down you have continued the same.Therefore we have thought good to send for you to understand how thingsare, that if you be in an erroneous way we may reduce you that so you maybecome a

profitable member here among us. Otherwise if you be obstinate in yourcourse that then the court may take such course that you may trouble us nofurther. Therefore I would intreat you to express whether you do assent andhold in practice to those opinions and factions that have been handled in courtalready, that is to say, whether you do not justify Mr. Wheelwright's sermonand the petition. Mrs. Hutchinson:I am called here to answer before you but I hear no things laid to my charge.Gov.: I have told you some already and more I can tell you.Mrs. H.: Name one, Sir.Gov.: Have I not named some already?

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Mrs. H.: What have I said or done?Gov.: Why for your doings, this you did harbor and countenance those that areparties in this faction that you have heard of.Mrs. H.: That's matter of conscience, Sir.Gov.: Your conscience you must keep, or it must be kept for you.Mrs. H.: Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep myconscience. Gov.: Say that one brother should commit felonyor treason and come to his brother's house, if he knows him guilty andconceals him he is guilty of the same. It is his conscience to entertain him, butif his conscience comes into act in giving countenance and entertainment tohim that hath broken the law he is guilty too. So if you do countenance thosethat are transgressors of the law you are in the same fact.Mrs. H.: What law do they transgress?Gov.: The law of God and of the state.Mrs. H.: In what particular?Gov.: Why in this among the rest, whereas the Lord doth say honour thy fatherand thy mother.Mrs. H.: Ey Sir in the Lord.Gov.: This honour you have broke in giving countenance to them.Mrs. H.: In entertaining those did I entertain them against any act (for there isthe thing) or what God has appointed?Gov.: You knew that Mr. Wheelwright did preach this sermon and those thatcountenance him in this do break a law.Mrs. H.: What law have I broken?Gov.: Why the fifth commandment.Mrs. H.: I deny that for he [Mr. Wheelwright] saith in the Lord.Gov.: You have joined with them in the faction.Mrs. H.: In what faction have I joined with them?Gov.: In presenting the petition.Mrs. H.: Suppose I had set my hand to the petition. What then?Gov.: You saw that case tried before.Mrs. H.: But I had not my hand to [not signed] the petition.Gov.: You have councelled them.Mrs. H.: Wherein?Gov.: Why in entertaining them.Mrs. H.: What breach of law is that, Sir?Gov.: Why dishonouring the commonwealth.Mrs. H.: But put the case, Sir, that I do fear the Lord and my parents. May not Ientertain them that fear the Lord because my parents will not give me leave?Gov.: If they be the fathers of the commonwealth, and they of another religion,if you entertain them then you dishonour your parents and are justlypunishable. Mrs. H.: If I entertain them, as theyhave dishonoured their parents I do. Gov.: No but youby countenancing them above others put honor upon them.Mrs. H.: I may put honor upon them as the children of God and as they dohonor the Lord. Gov.: We do not mean to discourse with those of your sex butonly this: you so adhere unto them and do endeavor to set forward this factionand so you do dishonour us. Mrs. H.: I do acknowledge nosuch thing. Neither do I think that I ever put any dishonour upon you.Gov.: Why do you keep such a meeting at your house as you do every week

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upon a set day? Mrs. H.: It is lawful for me to do so, as it is all your practices,and can you find a warrant for yourself and condemn me for the same thing?The ground of my taking it up was, when I first came to this land because I didnot go to such meetings as those were, it was

presently reported that I did not allow of such meetings but held themunlawful and therefore in that regard they said I was proud and did despise allordinances. Upon that a friend came unto me and told me of it and I to preventsuch aspersions took it up, but it was in practice before I came. Therefore Iwas not the first. Gov.: ...By whatwarrant do you continue such a course?Mrs. H.: I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women shouldinstruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.Gov.: All this I grant you, I grant you a time for it, but what is this to thepurpose that you Mrs. Hutchinson must call a company together from theircallings to come to be taught of you?...Mrs. H.: If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince methat it is no rule I shall yield.Gov.: You know that there is no rule that crosses another, but this rule crossesthat in the Corinthians. But you must take it in this sense that elder womenmust instruct the younger about their business and to love their husbands andnot to make them to clash.... Mrs. H.: Will it please you toanswer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to anytruth. If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rulehave I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach womenand why do you call me to teach the court?Gov.: We do not call you to teach the court but to lay open yourself....

[They continue to argue over what rule she had broken]

[The trial text here reads:] All the court but some two or three ministers cryout, we all believe it- - we all believe it. [Mrs. Hutchinson was found guilty]Gov.: The court hath already declared themselves satisfied concerning thethings you hear, and concerning the troublesomeness of her spirit and thedanger of her course amongst us, which is not to be suffered. Therefore if it bethe mind of the court that Mrs. Hutchinson for these things that appear beforeus is unfit for our society, and if it be the mind of the court that she shall bebanished out of our liberties and imprisoned till she be sent away, let themhold up their hands.

[All but three did so]

Gov.: Mrs. Hutchinson, the sentence of the court you hear is that you arebanished from out of our jurisdiction as being a woman not fit for our society,

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and are to be imprisoned till the court shall send you away.Mrs. H.: I desire to know wherefore I am banished?Gov.: Say no more. The court knows wherefore and is satisfied.

I HAVE SKIPPED TO THE END OF THE TESTIMONY SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THELENGTH OF IT, ITS ENTIRETY CAN BE FOUND AThttp:/ /p ersonal.pitnet.net /primarysources /hutchinson.html OR BY DOING ASEARCH UNDER HER NAME.REVELATION 13:12 “And he excerciseth all the power of the first beastbefore him, and causeth the earth and them that dwell therein toworship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.”BLUE LAWS DID NOT GO AWAY, THEY WERE MERELY RELAXED, ANDSTARTED TO FADE OUT OF ENFORCEMENT BEGINNING AROUND THE LATE1960’S. THEY STILL REMAIN ON THE BOOKS TODAY THEY ARE JUST NOTENFORCED AS THEY WERE THEN. SOME OF THE LAWS STILL ARE IN EFFECTTHOUGH, MANY STATES USE THEM TO KEEP LIQUER STORE’S CLOSED ONSUNDAY’S MOST MALLS AND STORES WERE KEPT CLOSED UP UNTILAROUND 1985 IN THE SOUTH. THERE ARE HOWEVER RELIGEOUS GROUPSTHAT ARE STRIVING FOR RE- ENFORCEMENT THROUGHOUT THE UNITEDSTATES.Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, orprohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or ofthe press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition thegovernment for a redress of grievances .

THE MAJOR GROUPS INVOLVED IN SPIRITUAL UNITY OF ALL RELIGEONSARE AS FOLLOWS. THE CHRISTIAN COALITION, THE VATICAN, THEUNITED RELIGEONS INITIATIVE (WWW.URI.ORG), THE CATHOLICCAMPAIGN OF AMERICA, THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, THEUNITED NATIONS. THEY WISH TO DO THE SAME THING EMPERORCONSTANTINE AND POPE SYLVESTER DID WITH PAGANISM ANDCHRISTIANITY, THEY WANT TO MERGE AND UNITE ALL RELIGEONSUNDER ONE ROOF, AND WHO DO YOU THINK WILL BE THE HEAD OF THISNEW RELIGEOUS BELIEF? WHY THE POPE OF COURSE. THE VATICANCURRENTLY HAS DECISION MAKING CONTROL OVER THE UNITEDRELIGEONS INITIATIVE (IT WAS STARTED BY THEM), VATICAN HAS 100%CONTROL OVER THE CATHOLIC CAMPAIGN OF AMERICA, AND 50%CONTROL OVER THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, THE VATICAN HASALSO COME TO AGGREEMENTS AND HAS INFLUENCE OVER THECHRISTIAN COALITION, THE UNITED RELIGEONS INTITIATIVE ISACTUALLY A PART OF THE UNITED NATIONS, AS WELL AS THEY HAVETHEIR FINGERS IN THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES AS WELL. NOWREMEMBER CONSTANTINE? CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY V. 1 “THECHRISTIAN ROMAN EMPIRE” (THE CATHOLIC CHURCH). CH.1 PG. 14

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SPEAKING OF CONSTANTINE

“HIS ONE OBJECT WAS TO MAKE AN END OF THE DIVISION OFTHE CHURCHES. SO WHATEVER PLEASED THE BISHOPSPLEASED THE EMPEROR TOO. EASTER WAS FIXED ACCORDINGTO THE CUSTOM OF ROME ( EASTER WAS ORIGINALLY APAGAN HOLIDAY DEDICATED TO THE FERTILITY GODDESSDIANA) AND ALEXANDRIA FOR THE SUNDAY AFTER THE FULLMOON FOLLOWING THE VERNAL EQUINOX. IT IS THE RULE WEHAVE NOW, AND THOUGH IT DID NOT PRODUCE THECOMPLETE UNITY TILL THE LUNAR CYCLE WAS SETTLED, ITSECURED THAT EASTER SHOULD COME AFTER THE PASSOVER,FOR SAID CONSTANTINE “HOW CAN WE WHO ARE CHRISTIANSKEEP THE SAME DAY AS THOSE UNGODLY JEWS?”

THIS IS THE TIME WHEN THE DIFFERENT PAGAN RELIGEONSWERE MERGED WITH CHRISTIANITY. AND THE VATICAN ISDOING IT ALL OVER AGAIN TODAY RIGHT NOW THIS INSTANT.LOOK IT UP IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, ALL THE MOVEMENTSHAVE WEBSITES, PEEL BACK THE LAYERS AND YOU FIND THEVATICAN AT WORK IN ALL OF THEM. MARK MY WORDS ONCEUNITY IS COMPLETED TODAY PERSECUTION WILL FOLLOWAGAINST THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE UNPOLLUTED,UNADULTERATED WORD OF GOD. IT WILL HAPPEN... THEBIBLE SAYS SO.

THE MAJOR GROUPS NOW STRIVING TO IMPOSE THEIR RELIGEOUS BELIEFSON THE PEOPLE . HOW COULD THE UNITED STATES MAKE AN IMAGE TO THEBEAST? AND FURTHER MORE HOW ON EARTH COULD THE U.S.A FORCE THEAMERICAN PUBLIC ALONG WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD TO WORSHIP THEBEAST (PAPACY)? THIS IS OFTEN BEEN A PERPLEXING QUESTION THATREQUIRES STUDY. WOULDN’T PEOPLE REBEL AGAINST BLUE LAWS? FIRSTLETS TAKE A PEEK AT WHAT AN “IMAGE” TO THE FIRST BEAST WOULD BE.NOW REMEMBER WHAT JESUS CHRIST WAS, CONCERNING GOD?COLLOSIANS 1:15 SPEAKING OF JESUS “Who is the image of the invisible God ,”WHAT IS IT TO MAKE AN IMAGE OF SOMETHING. WEBSTER’S COLLEGIATEDICTIONARY GIVES US A DEFINITION. IMAGE #3: TO CREATE AREPRESENTATION OF; ALSO TO FORM AN IMAGE OF, TO REPRESENTSYMBOLICALLY. THIS OF COURSE IS NOT ALL THE DEFINITION’S BUT IS THEMOST APPLICABLE SEEING AS WE’RE DEALING WITH A SYSTEM OF BELIEF.REMEMBER WHEN WE STUDIED THE RISE OF THE PAPACY?THE QUESTION BOX 1913 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA

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“QUESTION: WHAT BIBLE AUTHORITY IS THERE FOR CHANGING THESABBATH FROM THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK TO THE FIRST? WHOGAVE THE POPE THE AUTHORITY TO CHANGE A COMMAND OF GOD?ANSWER: IF THE BIBLE IS THE ONLY AUTHORITY FOR THE CHRISTIAN,THEN THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST IS RIGHT IN OBSERVING SATURDAYWITH THE JEW. BUT CATHOLICS LEARN WHAT TO BELIEVE AND DO FROMTHE DIVINE, INFALLIBLE AUTHORITY, ESTABLISHED BY JESUS CHRIST,THE CATHOLIC CHURCH , WHICH IN APOSTOLIC TIMES MADE SUNDAYTHE DAY OF REST, TO HONOR OUR LORDS RESSURECTION ON THAT DAY,AND TO MARK OFF CLEARLY THE JEW FROM THE CHRISTIAN. IS IT NOTSTRANGE THAT THOSE WHO MAKE THE BIBLE THERE ONLY TEACHERSHOULD INCONSISTANTLY FOLLOW IN THIS MATTER THETRADITION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?”NOTICE THEY CALL THE ACT OF SUNDAY WORSHIP A “TRADITION ”ROME HAS ALSO ISSUED A CHALLENGE TO ALL OTHER PROTESTANTCHURCHES WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE ONES THAT ATTENDCHURCH ON THE BIBLE SABBATH. IN THIS CHALLENGE THEY ASSERTTHAT ALL CHRISTIANS THAT ATTEND CHURCH ON SUNDAY AREBUT BOWING IN SUBMISSION TO THE PAPACY AND CONSIDER THEPOPE TO TRULY BE CHRIST BEHIND A VEIL OF FLESH.2THESSALONIANS 2:3- 4 “THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY” “LET KNOW MANDECIEVE YOU BY ANY MEANS: FOR THAT DAY SHALL NOT COME, EXCEPTTHERE BE A FALLING AWAY FIRST, AND THAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED,THE SON OF PERDITION. WHO OPPOSETH AND EXALTETH HIMSELFABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD , OR THAT IS WORSHIPPED, SOTHAT HE AS GOD SITTETH IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, SHOWINGHIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD. NO OTHERHEAD OF CHURCH ASSERTS HIMSELF TO BE CHRIST EXCEPT THEPOPE.“THE POPE IS OF SO GREAT DIGNITY AND SO EXALTED THAT HE IS NOT AMERE MAN, BUT AS IT WERE GOD, AND THE VICAR OF GOD.”“HENCE THE POPE IS CROWNED WITH A TRIPLE CROWN, AS KING OFHEAVEN AND OF EARTH AND OF THE LOWER REGIONS.”“SO THAT IF IT WERE POSSIBLE THAT THE ANGELS MIGHT ERR INTHE FAITH, OR MIGHT THINK CONTRARY TO THE FAITH, THEYCOULD BE JUDGED AND EXCOMMUNICATED BY THE POPE.”AND WHAT DOES CHRIST SAY ON THIS MATTER OF “TRADITION”CLAIMED WITH SUCH BLASPHEMY? MATTHEW 15:9 “BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING FORDOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN.”POPE JOHN PAUL II HAS TRAVELLED THE WORLD MORE THAN ANY OTHERPOPE BEFORE, ALL IN AN EFFORT TO BRING PEACE AND FIND A COMMONGROUND AMONG THE DIFFERENT RELIGEONS. THE UNITED RELIGEONSINITIATIVE (WWW.URI.ORG) IS WORKING TIRELESSLY TO MERGE AS MANYRELIGEONS AS THEY CAN UNDER ONE ROOF. PAT ROBERTSON’S CHRISTIANCOALITION, IS WORKING TO INSTITUTE A NATIONAL SUNDAY LAW, POPEJOHN PAUL II IN 1998 RELEASED HIS LETTER “DIES DOMINI” IN WHICH HE

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DECLARES THAT A SUNDAY LAW SHOULD BE ENFORCED, AND THEGOVERNMENT SHOULD AID IN THAT MATTER. VARIOUS PROTESTANTRELIGEONS ARE STARTING TO HAVE THE OPINION THAT THE CATHOLICCHURCH DIFFERS VERY LITTLE FROM ANY OTHER RELIGEON, AND THATTHE CRIMES SHE COMMITTED DURING THE DARK AGES WASN’T THAT BAD,THAT IT WAS JUST THE WAY LIFE WAS BACK THEN. THE REV. THOMAS A.BAIMA, S.T.L. IS A CATHOLIC PRIEST, AND IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICEFOR ECUMENICAL AND INTERRELIGIOUS AFFAIRS OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OFCHICAGO, AND TRUSTEE OF THE COUNCIL FOR A PARLIAMENT OF THEWORLD'S RELIGIONS, WHICH IS OVER THE UNITED RELIGEONS INITIATIVE. MANY BELIEVE THAT THE UNITED STATES WOULDN’T DO SUCH A THING(LIKE RECEIVE A MARK) TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BUT THE BIBLE SAYSDIFFERENT.REVELATION 13:15- 17 “And he had power to give life unto the image of thebeast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause all that aswould not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth allboth small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in theirright hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man may buy or sell, save hethat had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” SO HOW COULD IT EVEN BE THEORETICALLY POSSIBLE FOR THIS TO BEDONE YOU ASK. IT WOULDN’T BE HARD WITH THE TECHNOLOGY TODAY.THE INTERNATIONAL SATELLITES COMMUNICATIONS ORGANIZATION HAS17 INCOMSAT SATELLITES THAT ORBIT THE EARTH, EVERY FAX, PHONECALL, E- MAIL, GOES THROUGH THOSE SATELLITES, THE NSA CAN MONITORANYTHING. THEY ARE THE LARGEST EMPLOYER OF MATHEMATICIANS INTHE ENTIRE WORLD. BEFORE WE GET TO INDEPTH LETS FIRST LOOK ATWHAT THE SEAL OF GOD IS. A SEAL REPRESENTS AUTHORITY OVER APARTICLULAR OFFICE OR LAND. IT BEARS THE NAME OF THE RULER, THERULERS TITLE, AND THE LAND HE RULES OVER. SO WHERE CAN WE FINDTHESE THREE THINGS IN GOD’S LAW? RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TENCOMMANDMENTS!!EXODUS 20:8- 11 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six daysshalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is theSabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou,nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant,nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six daysthe Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is , andrested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day,and hallowed it.”

1) IT TELLS US WHO HE IS, THE LORD 2) WHAT HIS TITLE IS, THY GOD3) WHAT HE IS OVER, HEAVEN THE EARTH THE SEA AND

ALL THAT IN THEM IS.EZEKIEL 20:19- 20 “I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep myjudgments, and do them; and hallow my Sabbaths; and they shall be a signbetween me and you, and ye may know that I am the Lord your God.”ROMANS 4:11 “And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of therighteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might

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be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; thatrighteousness might be imputed unto them also.”HERE WE SEE THAT A SIGN AND A SEAL MEAN THE SAME THING. THE SEALOF GOD IS IN KEEPING HIS SABBATH, THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT IS THE SEAL OF GOD. SO WHAT THEN IN TURN IS THE MARK OF THE BEAST WELLWE IDENTIFIED THE BEAST ALREADY AS THE PAPACY, WHO NOT ONLYBOASTS ABOUT BEING ABLE TO CHANGE GODS DIVINE LAW BUT CLAIMS TOBE GOD ON EARTH. SHE HAS LONG CLAIMED THAT HER MARK OFAUTHORITY IS THAT SHE SUCCESSFULLY CHANGED THE SABBATH DAY IN325 A.D.REVELATION 13:17- 18 “And that no man might buy or sell, save he that hadthe mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here iswisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for itis the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”WEBSTER’S COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY DEFINES A MARK AS “TO FIX ORTRACE OUT THE BOUNDS OR LIMITS OF … TO SET APART AS BY OR AS IF BYA LINE OR BOUNDRY.”C.F. THOMAS, CHANCELLOR “IN REPLY TO A LETTER OF OCTOBER 28, 1895,TO CARDINAL GIBBONS, ASKING IF THE CHURCH CLAIMED THE CHANGE OFTHE SABBATH AS HER MARK, THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT WAS RECEIVED:‘ OF COURSE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CLAIMS THAT THE CHANGE WASHER ACT … AND THE ACT IS A MARK OF HER ECCLESIASTICAL POWER ANDAUTHORITY IN RELIGEOUS MATTERS.’” DR. EDWARD T. HISCOX BAPTIST AUTHOR OF THE BAPTIST MANUAL,SOURCE BOOK, PP. 513, 514 “THERE WAS AND IS A COMMANDMENT TOKEEP HOLY THE SABBATH DAY, BUT THE SABBATH DAY WAS NOT SUNDAY.IT WILL BE SAID , HOWEVER, AND WITH SOME SHOW OF TRIUMPH, THATTHE SABBATH DAY WAS TRANSFERRED FROM THE SEVENTH TO THE FIRSTDAY OF THE WEEK… WHERE CAN RECORD OF SUCH BE FOUND? NOT IN THENEW TESTAMENT - - - ABSOLUTLEY NOT… OF COURSE, I QUITE WELL KNOWTHAT SUNDAY DID COME INTO USE IN EARLY CHRISTIAN HISTORYAS ARELIGEOUS DAY, AS WE LEARN FROM THE CHRISTIAN FATHERS, ANDOTHER SOURCES. BUT WHAT A PITY THAT IT COMES BRANDED WITH THEMARK OF PAGANISM, AND CHRISTENED WITH THE NAME OF THE SUN GOD,WHEN ADOPTED AND SANCTIONED BY THE PAPAL APOSTASY, ANDBEQUEATHED AS A SACRED LEGACY TO PROTESTANTISM!” LUKE 6:5 “And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of theSabbath.” HERE HE IS TELLING THEM THAT IT WAS HIM WHO CREATED ALL THINGS,THAT HE IS LORD OF THE SABBATH OF THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT.REMEMBER COLLOSIANS 1:13- 15 “Who hath delivered us from the power ofdarkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son : Inwhom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness ofsins : Who is the image of the invisible God , the first born of everycreature.”COLLOSIANS 1:16 “For by him were all things created , that are inthe heaven , and that are in the earth , VISIBLE and INVISIBLE,

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whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers:ALL things were created BY him, and FOR him .”REVELATION 14:12 “HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS: HERE ARETHEY THAT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, AND THE FAITH OFJESUS.”IT IS QUITE CLEAR THAT THE MARK OF THE BEAST OR THE SEAL OF GODWILL BE EITHER ALLEGIANCE TO GOD BY KEEPING HIS FAITH ANDCOMMANDMENTS OR KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE BEAST, WHICHINSTILLED SUNDAY AND MADE IT HER DIVINE COMMAND. FOR YOU SEE THECATHOLIC DECLARES IT A SIN TO NOT SHOW REVERENCE TO SUNDAY,WHILE THE LORD CONSIDERS IT A SIN TO NOT SHOW REVERENCE TO THESABBATH (SATURDAY). WHO DO YOU THINK IS RIGHT?DANIEL 7:25 “and think to change times and laws”THE COMING OF JESUS CANNOT BE STOPPED, ITS BEST TO HAVE AS CLEAROF AN UNDERSTANDING OF HIS WILL AS WE CAN, WE CANNOT AND SHOULDNOT PUT ALL OUR FAITH INTO A CHURCH OR PRIEST OR PASTOR, IT ISFOOLISH FOR US TO LET THEM DECIDE WHETHER WE HAVE ETERNALSALVATION OR NOT. I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT THAT IS MUCH TOOIMPORTANT TO ME, KNOWLEDGE IS POWER AND GOD REVEALS TRUTH TOTHOSE WHO HONESTLY SEEK IT.SOME ARE SAYING “THERE IS NO WAY THAT THE UNITED STATES COULDPOSSIBLY FORCE THE ENTIRE WORLD TO OBSERVE SUNDAY. NO WAY!” TOANSWER THIS QUESTION TAKES A LITTLE STUDY, FIRST A GOOD MAJORITYOF THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES ARE ALREADY PRIMARILY CATHOLIC SO THETHERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR CHANGE THERE. SO WHAT ABOUT PLACESLIKE CHINA AND THE MIDDLE EAST? I NOT A PROPHET SO I CAN’T REALLYSAY HOW IT WILL BE DONE I JUST KNOW THAT IT WILL BE DONE BECAUSE ITSAYS IN THE BIBLE. BUT LETS TAKE A LOOK IN HISTORY A LITTLE AND SEEHOW THE GOVERNMENT HAS THOUGHT TO WIN THE PEOPLE OF THE U.S.AOVER IN THE PAST. BODY OF SECRETS BY JAMES BRAMFORD PG. 71 “ACCORDING TO DOCUMENTS OBTAINED FOR BODY OF SECRETS,LEMNITZER AND THE JOINT CHIEFS PROPOSED TO SECRETLY TO STAGE ANATTACK ON THE AMERICAN NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANIMO BAY, CUBA- - -AND THEN BLAME THE VIOLENT ACTION ON CASTRO. CONVINCEED THATCUBA HAD LAUNCHED AN UNPROVOKED ATTACK ON THE UNTIED STATES,THE UNWITTING AMERICAN PUBLIC WOULD THEN SUPPORT THE JOINTCHIEFS BLOODY CARRIBEAN WAR. AFTER ALL, WHO WOULD BELIEVECASTRO’S DENIALS OVER THE WORD OF THE PENTAGONS TOP MILITARYCOMMANDERS? THE NATIONS MOST SENIOR MILITARY LEADERSHIP WASPROPOSING TO LAUNCH A WAR THAT WOULD UNDOUBTEDLY KILL MANYAMERICAN SERVICEMEN, BASED SOLEY ON A FABRIC OF LIES.” JAMES BRAMFORD THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK OBTAINED MANY OF THEACTUAL DOCUMENTS KEPT BY THE NSA THROUGH OUR OWN COURTSYSTEM. OUR COURT SYSTEM HAD TO FORCE THE NSA TO RELEASEDOCUMENTS OVER 35 YEARS OLD, STUFF DEALING WITH THE CUBAN MISSLECRISIS AND OTHER INFORMATION DEEMED UNTHREATENING TO NATIONALSECURITY. HERE IS ANOTHER EXCERPT FROM HIS BOOK CONCERNING“OPERATION NORTHWOODS”. PG.82 2 ND AND 3 RD PARAGRAPH

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“IN THE NAME OF ANTICOMMUNISM, THEY PROPOSED LAUNCHING ASECRET AND BLOODY WAR OF TERRORISM AGAINST THEIR OWN COUNTRYIN ORDER TO TRICK THE AMERICAN PUBLIC INTO SUPPORTING AN ILLCONCEIVED WAR THEY INTENDED TO LAUNCH AGAINST CUBA. CODENAMED OPERATION NORTHWOODS, THE PLAN, HAD WRITTEN APPROVALOF THE CHAIRMAN AND EVERY MEMBER OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF,CALLED FOR INNOCENT PEOPLE TO BE SHOT ON AMERICAN STREETS ; FORBOATS CARRYING REFUGEES FLEEING CUBA TO SUNK ON THE HIGH SEAS;FOR A WAVE OF VIOLENT TERRORISM TO BE LAUNCHED IN WASHINGTOND.C., MIAMI, AND ELSEWHERE. PEOPLE WOULD BE FRAMED FOR BOMBINGSTHEY DID NOT COMMIT; PLANES WOULD BE HIJACKED. USING PHONYEVIDENCE ALL OF IT WOULD BE BLAMED ON CASTRO, THUS GIVINGLEMNITZER AND HIS CABAL THE EXCUSE, AS WELL AS THE PUBLIC ANDINTERNATIONAL BACKING, THEY NEEDED TO LAUNCH THEIR WAR.”THE DOCUMENTS MR. BRAMFORD OBTAINED FOR THE BOOK ARE ACTUALDOCUMENTS FROM THE NSA …DON’T GET ME WRONG I AM A PATRIOTICAMERICAN, AND I LIKE MY COUNTRY BUT I AM ALSO NOT BLIND TO OURGOVERNMENT HAS BEEN AND POSSIBLY COULD BE IN THE FUTURE, I MEANHOW MUCH RESEMBLANCE DOES THIS PLAN SOUND TO THE THINGS THATHAPPENED FROM 2001 - 2003? COULD IT ALL BE A HOAX IN ORDER TO GETTHE AMERICAN PUBLIC TO GIVE UP THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OUTOF FEAR? I DON’T KNOW, WHO CAN KNOW, ALL WE CAN REALLY DO ISTRUST IN JESUS AND WATCH. ONE THING IS FOR SURE THE U.S.GOVERNMENT HAS A LOT MORE POWER OVER THE PEOPLE THEN THEYUSED TO HAVE, WITH THE ONSET OF THE PATRIOT ACT (WHICH ONLY 1LEGISLATOR OUT 14 WHO SIGNED OFF ON IT ACTUALLY READ IT, AND THEONE THAT READ IT VOTED AGAINST IT), FEMA (WHICH HAS THE POWER TOSUSPEND OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS), HOMELAND SECURITYDEPARTMENT (WHICH SITS AT THE SAME LEVEL AS CONGRESS), A SHADOWGOVERNMENT CREATED BY THE PRESIDENT (WHICH HE DID WITHOUTCONSULTING CONGRESS), AS WELL THE POPES LETTER “DIES DOMINI” ANDPAT ROBERTSONS CHRISTIAN COALITION WHICH ARE BOTH CALLING TOHAVE THE BLUE LAWS RENFORCED BY THE GOVERNMENT. POLITICIANSARE NOW CONSTANTLY TALKING ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT ENSURING“GOOD CHRISTIAN VALUES” WHICH WOULD MOST CERTAINLY INCLUDESUNDAY OBSERVANCE. SO WHAT DOES JESUS SAY ABOUT THIS?MATTHEW 22:21 “RENDER THEREFORE UNTO CEASAR THE THINGSWHICH ARE CEASARS, AND UNTO GOD THE THINGS THAT AREGOD’S.”IF THE GOVERNMENT EVER ENFORCES OBSERVANCE OF A NATIONALSUNDAY LAW, WHO WILL YOU OBEY THE GOVERNMENT OR GOD? GOD FORBID, YOU CHOOSE THE GOVERNMENT. REVELATION 14:12 “HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS: HERE ARETHEY THAT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, AND THE FAITH OFJESUS.”

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