1. The value of Revelation chapter 13 in the whole Book of Revelation must be understood.
a. Revelation chapter 13 is the central chapter of the Book of the Revelation. With Revelation chapter one (Rev.1-11 and Revelation chapter two (Rev. 12- 2) as introductions to the two halves of the Book (Rev 1-11 and Rev 12-22), if you leave out the two introductions, you remain with 20 chapters. The second half of the 20 chapters starts with chapter 13, thus making it the central chapter in its content in the whole Book of Revelation. (2-11 is 10 chapters; 13-22 is 10 chapters, thus 20 chapters).
2. Revelation chapter 13 is the central chapter of the book for the following reasons:
a. The final anti-Christ institutions are identified.
i. The Beast (The Papacy). Rev. 13:1-2.
ii. The Beast with the lamblike horns (the United States of America). Rev.13:11.
iii. The Image of the beast or the political global system that would enforce the mark of the beast (Commuligion). Rev 13:14-15.
b. Revelation chapter thirteen (Rev. 13) contains important things that relates to the last days of grace before probation closes and the plagues begin to fall.
i. It has the mark of the beast being enforced. Rev. 13:16-17.
ii. It has the dragon, Satan—(Rev. 12:9) being worshipped behind the cover of the Beast and His image. Rev. 13:4.
iii. It has spiritualism being used globally to deceive the world to embrace Commuligion, the image of the beast. Rev. 13:13-14.
3. Revelation chapter 13 can first be divided into two major parts, they are:
a. Rev. 13:1-10.
b. Rev. 13:11-18.
4. The materials of these two divisions of Rev 13 tell us the following points:
a. Rev. 13:1-10 gives us a brief account of the rise and the history of the antichrist papal power and also the nature of the papal antichrist.
b. Rev. 13:11-18 gives us a brief history of the final events in the earth with the role of the beast and its image, and also the lamblike beast in these events while the last remnants of salvation is yet available.
5. Another important fact about Revelation chapter 13 is that it has a second major division according to chronological content. Here are the divisions:
a. Rev. 13:1-4.
b. Rev. 13:5-10.
c. Rev. 13:11-18.
6. Here is a brief account of the three divisions:
a. Rev. 13:1-4, is an introductory history and description of the Papal beast from its rise to its recovery after its wounding just before the plagues start.
b. Rev. 13:5-10 is an account of the wicked deeds of the papal beast up to its first wounding.
c. Rev. 13:11-18 is an account of how the American beast with the lamblike horns aids in the healing of the wound of the papal beast. The use of spiritualism to set up a Commuligion system of governance and to spread it world-wide in order to enforce the mark of the beast is outlined.
7. Here are some important points to understand the structure of the material of Revelation chapter 13.
a. For a connective flow of the events of Rev. 13:1-10, one must read Rev. 13:1-2.
b. Verse 2 of Rev 13 is continued in its connective flow in Rev. 13:5-8.
c. Rev. 13:10 explains the wounding of the Papal power, and this continues in its recovery and exaltation in Rev. 13:3-4.
8. Just what was the healing of the papal beast? It is a healing that occurs with the aid of the American beast.
a. The healing causes “all the world” to be marvelled after the beast and to worship it. Rev. 13:3-4.
b. It is the American beast that encourages the world to worship this first beast causing the wound to be healed. Rev. 13:11-12.
c. The beast is described as “the beast whose deadly wound was healed” and “the beast which had the wound by a sword and did live” not because it is healed before the American beast helps it, but merely as a reference to Rev. 13:3. (Rev. 13:12, 14).
9. Another important point to be learnt from Revelation chapter13, is the fact that, the high point of the final exaltation of the image of the beast and the beast is in fact a cover for Lucifer to be worshipped hence being exalted as God with God according to his very original claim. (Rev. 13:3-4; Isa. 14:12-14).
10. The question is, what is Revelation 13? It is an explanation of the dragon’s war with the Remnant in the very last days. This war is presented in Rev. 12:17.
a. It is this war that the saints endure by keeping the Law of God and the Faith of Jesus. Rev. 14:12.
b. Revelation chapter 13 reveals the instruments the dragon or Satan uses in the last days to war against the remnant commandment keepers who have the testimony of Jesus. They are:
i. The Beast whose deadly wound was healed. Rev. 13:3-4.
ii. The image of the beast. Rev. 13:15.
iii. The beast with the two horns like a lamb. Rev. 13:11.
iv. The earth and them that dwell therein. Rev. 13:12.
v. The dragon also uses spiritualism or supernatural manifestations to aid in his war against the Remnant people of God. Rev. 13:13-14.
c. The item that is enforced is the Mark of the Beast, although the name and number of the beast is also exalted. Rev. 13:16-17.
i. The mark of the beast is exalted for people to accept. Rev. 13:16.
ii. The name of the beast which points to the chief office in the beast is thus accepted in connection with the mark, for this office is also exalted. Rev. 13:17.
iii. The number of the beast is the number of his name, and this number is 666. Since the name of the beast-his chief office- is exalted, then so is the number exalted. But it merely identifies the name of the chief office. Rev. 13:17.
d. What is so evil about the mark of the beast?
i. Accepting it causes worship to the beast. Rev. 13:12.
ii. Accepting it causes worship to the image of the beast. Rev. 13:15.
iii. Accepting it causing, most of all, the worship of the dragon-Satan. Rev. 13:4.
e. It is specific. It is God alone that should be worshipped. Matt. 4:10.
11. Thus the real issue in the latter days, the final issue is about worship.
a. To worship the beast is to worship the name of the beast. This means to accept the name or antichrist office that heads the beast. Rev. 13:12, 17.
b. To accept the name or antichrist office that heads the beast is to worship the name or antichrist office that heads the beast; this causes the person to worship the dragon or devil that is behind the beast. Rev. 13:4.
c. Worshipping the dragon is exalting Lucifer to be God with God. (Isa. 14:12-14, Eze. 28:1, 2).
12. The messages that are to be preached to deal with the issues of Revelation chapter 13 are the following:
a. The third angel’s message threatening the plagues and hellfire for the worshipers of the beast and his image. Rev. 14:8-12.
b. This message tells us that those who resist the beast and his image keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus. Rev. 14:12.
c. The fourth angel’s message denouncing false religion and urging people to come out of false religion to escape the seven last plagues. Rev. 18: 1-4.
13. The issue of “worship” in Rev 13 relates to the “commandments of God” in Rev 14. Those who refuse the worship of the beast and his image, worship God according to the Commandments of God.
a. Worshipping God according to the Law of God is having no other gods before God. Ex. 20:3.
b. It is not creating false-gods images in the mind and thus not worshipping or serving them. Ex. 20:4-5.
c. It is not taking YHWH’s name in vain. Ex. 20:7.
d. This means that a person must exalt YHWH as the true God alone while downgrading all idols. Isa. 42:8.
e. The best way to downgrade all idols while exalting God to be God alone is by presenting the messages in the Sabbath that exalts God to be God alone. They are:
i. YHWH is the Creator hence He is God alone. Ex. 20:11.
ii. YHWH has the Right to command obedience as is seen in His call to remember the Sabbath day and how to keep it. Ex. 20:8-10.
iii. By commanding the seventh day, a day on which YHWH Himself rested to show that His completed creation was very good on the sixth day; YHWH shows that He is perfect hence God alone. Ex. 20: 9-11. (Gen. 1:31; Gen. 2:1-3).
f. Thus by showing the following truths from the seventh-day Sabbath, YHWH shows that He is God alone.
i. YHWH is the Creator.
ii. YHWH has the Right to command obedience.
iii. YHWH is perfect.
14. The central major verse of Revelation chapter 13 is Rev. 13:10.
a. The retribution expressed two ways in the verse is true of the beast in a summary.
b. The endurance and Faith of the saints is true for both periods of persecution by the beast, one before its wounding and the other after its recovery.
c. The saints are given divine commendation in the whole history of persecution.
15. Revelation chapter 13 reveals to us that in the last remnants of salvific time we are not to expect the following types of global kingdoms.
a. We are not to expect a global communistic kingdom, (not even from China).
b. We are not to expect a global Islamic caliphate.
c. We are not to expect and Israeli Kingdom governing the world.
d. We are not to expect global Hindu dominance.
e. We are not to expect a United Nations socialistic Kingdom governing the United States and the world.
16. Revelation chapter 13 reveals to us that we are to expect Catholic and Apostate Protestant global dominance in the last remnants of salvific time.
a. A false theocratic Kingdom shared by the beast (Catholic) and apostate Protestant Commuligion (the Image of the Beast) are to hold global dominion. Rev. 13:3-4, 11-12.
b. This false theocratic Kingdom is the dominion of Babylon and her daughters. Rev. 17:18.
c. The following chart illustrates this point:
(BABYLON) + (DAUGHTERS)
C A T H O L I C + P R O T E S T A N T S
G L O B A L T H E O C R A T I C K I N G D O M
G L O B A L C O M M U L I G I O N
17. We know that it is apostate Christianity that gains the global dominion through Commuligion in the last remnants of time when salvation is still available because of these following points:
a. Jesus warned of many coming in His name (Christian) and deceiving the world saying that He is indeed the Christ. Matt. 24:3-4.
b. It is this grand false Christian religion that Jesus warned about that will also persecute Christians. (Jn. 16:1-3; Matt. 24:48-51).
c. The formation of this great grand false religion out of Christianity was explained by Paul in Acts 20:29-31.
d. Paul showed that this grand apostate Christianity would arise out of apostasy in the Church. 2 Thess. 2:3-12.
e. John called it the spirit of the substitute Messiah (anti-Christ) which, in his time, was already in the world. 1 Jn. 4:1-3.
18. A brief account of the development of this great apostate Christian religion is given to us in the book of Revelation.
a. In the Ephesus church state time it is called the Nicolaitanes. Rev. 2:1,6.
i. This Christian Gnostic sect turned the grace of God into license for sin. Jude 4.
ii. Of them we are told.
“…the basic teaching of the Nicolaitanes was, “If it feels good, do it” They taught that the deeds of the body do not affect the purity of the heart and consequently have no bearing upon eternal life”. Paul G. Swatzer, Amazing Prophecies of Revelation Deciphered, pg. 2-3.
b. In the Smyrna church state time the apostasy is called “them which say they are Jews and are not” (false Jews) or “the synagogue of Satan”. Rev. 2:9.
i. They claimed that they were Jews inwardly, but were not converted in heart. Rom. 2:29.
ii. They claimed to be Abraham’s spiritual seed but were not, because they were not in Christ. Gal. 3:27-29.
iii. The false apostate Synagogue of Satan “Christians” blasphemed I claiming that they were gods. (Rev. 2:9; Jn. 10:33).
iv. Here is the blasphemy of Clement of Alexandria (died 215 A.C.B.), in his book Stromata.
“On this wise it is possible for the Gnostic already to have become God”. Quoted in, Robert L. Odom, Sabbath and Sunday in Early Christianity, pp. 178-179.
c. In the Pergamos church state time, the apostasy is again called the Nicolaitanes. Rev. 2:15.
i. In addition to this we are told that Satan’s seat was already a part of the apostasy. Rev. 2:13.
ii. This refers to the “man of sin” already arising but in the place of the great city that ruleth over the kings of the earth. This is Rome where Satan (the dragon) gave his seat. (2 Thess. 2:3-4, 8; Rev. 17:18; Rev. 13:2).
d. In the Thyatira church state time, the great apostate false religion is called the prophetess woman Jezebel. Rev. 2:20-23.
i. A woman is the pure church. Eph. 5:23, 24-27.
ii. Thus a harlot woman is an apostate church in teachings and life. Isa. 1:21; Eze. 23:1-5.
iii. It was Jezebel that caused open idolatry to be introduced into Israel, so also does the false church leaders. 1kings 16:29-33.
e. A summary chart of the development of the false “Christian” church as follows:
S P I R I T O F A N T I – C H R I S T
N I C O L A I T A N E S
S Y N A G O G U E O F S A T A N
N I C O L A I T A N E S
S A T A N’S S E A T
W O M A N J E Z E B E L
(C A T H O L I C C H U R C H)
19. The beast with two horns like a lamb, forms the Image of the Beast (Commuligion) which facilitates for the enforcement of the Mark of the Beast. Rev. 13:11,15,16.
20. Revelation 13:11-18 could be divided into the following parts:
a. Rev. 13:11-12.
b. Rev. 13:13-14.
c. Rev. 13:15-17.
d. Rev. 13:18.
21. The following are the material of Rev. 13:11-18.
a. A new power is introduced that speaks like a dragon or the devil. Rev. 13:11.
b. How does he speak like a dragon? He forces the earth’s inhabitants to worship the beast before it. Rev. 13:12.
c. How does it work to achieve that? By the use of spiritualistic miracles. Rev. 13:13.
d. What does he use the miracles to do? To convince the nations of the earth to make the image of the beast as a directive “God” wants to be done. Rev. 13:14.
e. He then makes the Image of the Beast system work, speaking by legislation and causing (enforcing) by executive action people to be persecuted. Rev. 13:15.
f. What does the Image of the Beast enforce? It enforces the Mark of the Beast. Rev. 13:16.
g. It attacks one’s private property Rights, also, to enforce the mark of the beast. Rev. 13:17.
h. The final verse is a numerical riddle to encourage research to find out what is the beast. Rev. 13:18.
22. The two numerical riddles given in Revelation 13 to help us identify who is the beast , are the following:
a. The forty and two (42) months the beast continues for. Rev. 13:5.
b. The 666 which is the number of the name of the beast (or that makes up the name of the beast) Rev. 13:17-18.
23. The following are the foundational Rights of man attacked by the Beast and his Image.
a. Man’s Right to Religious Liberty is attacked by the forcing of the worship of a false god. Rev. 13:12.
b. Man’s Right to Life is attacked as he is threatened to be killed. Rev. 13:15.
c. Man’s Right to Private Property is also attacked as his buying and selling activity is targeted. Rev. 13:17.
24. The following are the supreme Rights of God that is attacked by the Beast and his Image.
a. The Right of God to be worshiped alone by all is attacked by men being forced to worship the beast. Rev. 13:2.
b. The Right of God to be the source of knowledge and revelation for all is attacked by the false knowledge given by the religious horn of the beast which says to make an image of the beast. Rev. 13:13-14.
c. The Right of God to be the Judge of all is attacked by the powers presuming to judge conscientious objectors, with loss of property Rights and the Right to Life. Rev. 13:17,15.
25. This is an attack upon the Right of God to Rule over all as this is what the beast seeks for himself, Rev. 13:3-4.
26. This is also an attack upon the Right of God to Command Obedience from all, since the beast commands obedience to itself away from God’s requirements. Rev. 13:14,16,17.
27. As the beast and his image have taken to themselves the Rights of God, they have made themselves God with God.
a. Thus the beast receives obedience worship. Rev. 13:4,8,12; Rev. 20: 4.
b. And the image of the beast also receives obedience worship. Rev. 13:15.
Exegesis of Revelation Chapter 13:
28. Revelation 13: 1-4 is an introductory history of the reign of the beast. Rev. 13:1-4.
a. Rev. 13:1-3 is the reign of the beast up to its wounding. Rev 13: 1-3.
b. Rev. 13:3,4 is about the reign of the beast after it recovers from the wounding. Rev. 13:1-3.
29. Exegeting Rev. 13:1:
a. John stood upon the sand of the sea. This was a sandy beach upon the Isle of Patmos where John was exiled. Rev. 1:9.
b. Beast is used in prophecy to symbolize different types of political powers. Dan. 7:2,17.
c. Sea symbolizes people, most often unconverted people. Ps. 65:7; Isa. 17:12,13; Isa. 57:20,21.
d. Seven heads (on the beast). The power that has seven heads has seven divisions. We know this because:
i. The four heads on the leopard, Greece is the four horns. (Dan. 7:6; Dan. 8:8).
ii. This is four kings or divisions of this power. Dan. 8: 8,21,22.
e. Ten horns are the ten European nations that arose out of the Western Roman Empire by the year 476 A.C.B. These horns symbolize Europe. Dan. 7:7,24.
i. This is the same as the ten toes of Dan. 2:42.
f. Ten crowns indicates that at the time of their rising the ten horns are kingships, the ten horns are ruled by kings. 2 Sam. 12:30; 1Chr. 20:2.
i. The ten horns have no crowns in Rev. 17:3 to indicate that at the time of their final attempts at unity, they are not ruled by kings. Their governments are non-monarchial Communist states. Rev. 17:7,12-14.
g. 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.
j. So far, a summary of this beast tells us the following from Rev. 13:1.
i. He is a religious yet political power.
ii. He arose from the multitudinous intrigues of unconverted men.
iii. He had seven divisions.
iv. He had ten horns or the ten European influences with his make up or composition.
v. These influences came from the times Europe had monarchial governments.
30. Exegeting Rev 13:2:
a. The beast was like a leopard in its body. This is the influence of Greece upon this religious power. Dan. 7:6.
i. Greece was known for philosophy 1 Cor. 1:22.
ii. It was Greek philosophy that gave unto the Papacy the concept of the immortality of the soul.
iii. It was Greek philosophy that gave the Papacy the concept of the “divinization” of man.
“The fact that man can cooperate with God determines his authentic greatness. The truth, according to which man is called to cooperate with God in all things, with a view towards the ultimate purpose of his life--- his salvation and divinization, found expression in the Eastern tradition, in the doctrine of synergism. With God, man “creates” the world; with God, man “creates” his personal salvation. The divinization of man comes from God. But here, too, man must cooperate with God” John Paul II, Crossing The Threshold of Hope, pp. 194-195.
iv. Concerning the concept of the immortal soul that came from Greek philosophy, we are plainly told by the Catholic Church, the following:
“The church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God- it is not ‘produced’ by the parents – and also that it is immortal; it does not perish when it separates from the body at death…”Geoffrey Chapman, Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church, p. 83.
v. Thus the “body” of this power bears the resemblance of Greek philosophy. Acts. 17:15,18.
b. The feet of a bear. This is Medo-Persia. (Dan. 7:5; Dan. 8:20).
i. To the Persians human law was sovereign. This is the status the Papacy gives to canon law which sustains their teachings and decrees as coming from God. Dan. 6:8,9,12,15.
ii. Thus the Papacy stands on Canon Law which is made up of (1) Decrees of the Popes. (2) Decrees of the Church Councils. (3) Traditions of the Fathers and (4) Infallible pronouncements of the Popes.
c. The mouth of the lion. This is Babylon. (Dan. 7:4; Jer. 4:6,7; Jer. 1:14,15).
i. The mouth of the lion refers to the mouth of the King of Babylon which exalts man as sovereign. Dan 4:29-30; Dan. 7:4.
ii. This power therefore derived the concept of man as exalted to the pinnacle from Babylon. This is the office of the Pope. A man exalted as God. 2 Thess. 2:3,4.
“The pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ Himself hidden under the veil of flesh”. Pope Pius x, The Catholic National, July, 1895.
“You know that I am the Holy Father, the representative of God on earth, the Vicar of Christ, which means that I am God on earth”. Pope Pius xi, April 30, 1922. From Steve Gregg, Revelation, Four Views, p. 288.
d. The dragon is Satan, the devil and Lucifer. Rev. 12:9.
e. “His power”. The power of the dragon is to deceive and to kill. Jn. 8:44; Rev. 12:9. Rev. 20:10.
f. “His seat”. The seat of Satan is his imaginary sitting in the seat of God, which is seeking to be God with God. Isa. 14:12-14; Eze. 28:1,2.
i. Satan gave his seat to this power or to the Papacy. 2 Thess. 2:3,4.
ii. Satan’s Seat was literally given to a place on the earth, that is, in Rome, where the Papal throne or the bishop of Rome’s office is. Rev. 2:13.
iii. The bishop of Rome is Satan’s representative, thus he holds Satan’s Seat.
“…she was induced to yield allegiance to the representative of Satan,-the bishop of Rome”. Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, pg. 77.
“The arch-deceiver had not completed his work. He was resolved to gather the Christian world under his banner and to exercise his power through his vicegerent, the proud Pontiff who claimed to be the representative of Christ”. Ibid, pg. 83.
iv. Satan’s Seat is the papal office of “Vicarius Filli Dei” or “Vicar of the Son of God”, this means it is the office of a Substitute (Anti) Christ. 1 Jn 2:18-22; 1 Jn. 4:1-3.
v. Lucifer aspired to an office like that of the Word (Christ). The divine office of Mediator or un-folder of God revealed that the Word was God. Jn. 1:1,18.
vi. Lucifer in his teaching office, taught the revelation of the Word, thus he presented his teaching office as an office of God or a divine office, thus he should be God with God. This shows that his controversy was with God in the office of Mediator or un-folder of God. (Rev. 12:7,8; Matt. 4:8-10).
vii. Lucifer’s so-called “fourth office” or the seat he sits in, that is, in seeking to be God with God; this “teaching” office is the office of the pope as the “Vicar of Christ”. Thus Lucifer gave his seat to the bishop of Rome on earth.
“This pastoral office of Peter and the other apostles belongs to the Church’s very foundation and is continued by the bishops under the primacy of the Pope. The Pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter’s successor, is the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity, both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful. For the Roman Pontiff, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ and as pastor of the entire Church has full supreme and universal power over the whole Church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered”. Geoffrey Chapman, Catechism of the Catholic Church, pg. 205.
“The Roman Pontiff, head of the college of bishops, enjoys this infallibility in virtue of his office, when, as supreme pastor and teacher of all the faithful, who confirms his brethren in the faith- he proclaims by a definitive act a doctrine pertaining to faith or morals…” Ibid, pp.206-207.
g. “Great authority”, the authority Lucifer had over men-that is-deceived men, he gave to that power, the bishop of Rome. That authority is a recognition of power over people’s consciences, but all based upon deception or lies. (Jn. 8:44; 2 Thess. 2:3-4, 9-12; Rev. 12:9).
31. We need now to define what are the seven heads or divisions of the Papacy. The various heads of the Papacy can be best described as different successive developments in the history of the papacy that defined its image.
a. It was one bishop of one church congregation in one area in Rome that Satan chose to be his seat on earth. Here is what we are told.
“The men, who, from the position of simple pastors of a single church, advanced their authority, step by step, until they became not only the ecclesiastical, but in fact, the temporal lords of Christendom… their onward march to greatness from their first usurpations over the surrounding churches, until in the zenith of their pride and power, they trampled emperors and kings beneath their feet, absolved nations from their allegiance, took away and bestowed kingdom, and parceled out a world to whom they would”. Translator’s preface, in, Louis Marie De Cormenin, A Complete History of The Popes of Rome, Vol.1, p.3.
b. Very early in the history of the Papacy, or of the bishop of Rome’s office, the doctrine of religious freedom was termed heresy. This cleared the way for the bishop of Rome, of a particular church, in a particular area, to decree “Canon Laws” for all to follow against conscience.
“The doctrine of religious freedom was termed heresy, and its upholders were hated and proscribed. Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, p. 45.
c. In the very second century due to apostasy in the general church led by the overreaching influence of the bishop of Rome, a “faithful few” separated themselves from the apostate church, that is, from the church as under the influence of the bishop of Rome.
“After long and severe conflict, the faithful few decided to dissolve all union with the apostate church if she still refused to free herself from falsehood and idolatry. They saw that separation was an absolute necessity if they would obey the Word of God. They dared not tolerate errors fatal to their own souls, and set an example which would imperil the faith of their children and children’s children”. Ibid, pp. 45-46.
d. The heads of the Papacy are best described as the following:
i. Historical divisions of the same one Papacy that bears a certain public image.
ii. Divisions of the Papacy defined by it teachings or behavior that is its public image.
iii. Major characteristics developed and held by the bishop of Rome and his leading church as the Papacy was developed. Various doctrines and events led to this development, giving the Papacy its peculiar image and structure.
e. The seven heads to the Papacy are the following:
i. The Sunday Veneration head. 142-325 A.C.B.
ii. The Constantinian head. 325-538. A.C.B.
iii. The Justinian head.538-1044. A.C.B.
iv. The Western head. 1044-1198 A.C.B.
v. The Innocentinian head. 1198-1323 A.C.B.
vi. The Thomistic head. 1323-1545 A.C.B.
vii. The Tridentine head. 1545-1798 A.C.B.
f. It is the seventh head, the council of Trent head (The Tridentine head), that was wounded in 1798 A.C.B., and still remains wounded today in 2013 A.C.B.
i. The Tridentine head (wounded) 1798-2013 A.C.B.
ii. The Tridentine head will be healed at the time of the Mark of the Beast and last until the 7th plague.
MARK OF T R I D E N T I N E H E A D 7TH
THE BEAST HEALED OR RESTORED PLAGUE
32. The purpose of God in giving seven heads of the Papacy is for us to get a crash course in the history of the popes and the Papacy.
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