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Rev 13:4-5

And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
"The name of blasphemy means that the power will blaspheme God in the two ways blasphemy is identified in the Bible.
i. The power will claim to be God. This is called blasphemy. Jn. 10:33.
ii. The power will claim to forgive sins which is also blasphemy. Mk.2:7.
h. The evidence of this beast so far, shows that it is religious, because it claims to be God and also to forgive sins. It is also worshipped. Rev. 13:1,4.
i. It is the Roman Catholic Papacy that has a human head that fulfills this type of blasphemy.
i. The Pope claims to be God on earth.
“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…” Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Bibliotheca, vol. 6. Art. “Papa”
“We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty”. Pope Leo xiii in an Encyclical Letter, June 29, 1894. The Great Encyclical Letters of Leo xiii, p. 304.
ii. The pope claims power to forgive sins. This is what he delegates to priests that “forgive sins” in the confession box.
“The absolution given by the priest to a penitent who confesses his sins with the proper dispositions remits both the guilt and the eternal punishment (of mortal sin)… In the confessional the minister has the power to forgive all crimes committed after baptism.” Council of Trent quoted in, J. H. Meier, What Catholics and Protestants Should Know, p. 44." Revelation 13, Nyron Medina

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