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The Mark Of God vs. The Mark Of The Beast
Now to explain
why the House of Israel lost their identity and
the House of Judah didn't. God gave them an identifying
sign which they lost. By losing this sign, they lost
their identity. Now the world believes that the Jews are
the only Israelites, because they still have this
identifying sign. |
Wherefore
the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the
Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever: for
in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh
day he rested and was refreshad."
Notice the Sabbath (Saturday, Friday at sunset until Saturday at
sunset ; Leviticus 23:32) is the sign of Gods people, FOREVER!!
Why ? So you may know that he is the Lord that sanctify you.
Ezekiel 20:11-13, " And I gave them my statues, and shewed
them my judgements, which if a man do, he shall even live in
them. Moreover I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me
and them That they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify
them. But the House of Israel rebelled against me in the
wilderness: they walked not in my statues, and they despised my
judgements, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my
Sabbaths they greatly polluted: Then I said, I would pour out my
fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them"
Ezekiel 20:16-20, "Because they despised my judgements, and
walked not in my statues, but polluted my Sabbaths: for their
heart went after their idols. Neverless my eye spared them from
destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the
wilderness. But I said unto their children in the wilderness,
walk ye not in the statues of your fathers, neither observe their
judgements, nor defile yourselves with their idols: I am the Lord
your God; walk in my statues, and keep my judgements, and do
them; and hollow my Sabbaths; they shall be a sign between me and
you, THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD.
Speaking of the Passover, which the Lord also calls a Sabbath,
he says the following in Exodus 13:9,16, "And it shall be
for a sign unto thee upon thy hand, and for a memorial between
thy eyes, so the Lords law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong
hand the Lord brought thee out of Egypt. And it shall be for a
token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: For
by strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt."
Deuteronomy
6:1,6-8, "Now these are the commandments, the statues and
the judgements, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you,
that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it.
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine
heart. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thou children,
and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thou house, and when
thou walkest by the way,and when thou liest down and when thou
risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thou hand,
and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. Deuteronomy
11:18,"Therefore shall ye lay up these words in your heart
and in your soul and bind them for a sign upon your hand, and
that they may be as frontlets between your eyes."
Proverbs 7:2-3, 'Keep my commandments and live and mine law as
the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them
upon the table of thine heart."
Revelations 7:3-4, "Saying, hurt not the earth, neither the
sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God
in their foreheads. And I heard the number of them which were
sealed: and there were sealed: an hundred and forty and four
thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel."
144,000,
such a small number considering the population of the world. Now
that you know who the children of Israel are, you see how we
compare to the 3 or 4 mentioned in Genesis as living -^ by God's
laws in the first 2000 years of the earth's history.
Revelations
14:1, "And I looked and behold a lamb stood on the Mount
Zion, and with him a hundred forty and four thousand, having his
fathers name written in their foreheads."
If you'll notice the sign of God's people are his Sabbaths, and
his commandments. This sign will be on their hand and between
their eyes. The children of Israel was removed from God's"
sight and lost this identifying sign, although the Jews never
lost this sign of identity, and that's why even today they're
known as God's people. Now notice how this compares to the mark
of the beast. Both signs will be on the hand and on the
foreheads. But they are two totally opposite signs or marks.
Revelations 14:9-12, "And the third angel followed them,
saying with a loud voice, if any man worship the beast and his
image, and recieve his mark in his forehead , or in his hand, the
same shall drink from the wrath of God, which is poured out
without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be
tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy
angels, and in the presence of the lamb: and the smoke of their
torment ascendeth up forever and ever: and they have no rest day
nor night who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever
recieveth the mark of his name."
Revelations 13:16-18, "And he causeth all, both small and
great, rich and poor, free and bond,, to recieve a mark in their
hand, or in their forehead,And that no man might buy or sell,
save he that had the marK, or the name of the beast, or in the
number of his name. Here is wisdom, Let him that hath
understanding count the number of the beast; for it is the number
of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six."
As you can see God's people will have a sign in their hand and on
their forehead between their eyes. Also there shall be people
with a different mark on their forehead and in their hand; the
mark of the beast. We will discuss in great detail this beast and
his mark shortly. Now you understand why the House of Israel lost
their identity, because they lost God's sign of his people, which
is his Sabbaths and his commandments. You also can see how God's
sign is located in the same area as the mark of the beast. You
will soon see who this beast is and what his mark is, and if you
have it or not.
Now you must learn who
the beast is and the "number of his name". We will
solely rely on God's own interpretation. For there is only one
interpretation and that is God's, Isaiah 55:8.
In Revelations 13 we see a beast starting with verses 1&2 :
"And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise
up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his
horns ten crowns, and upon his head the name of blasphemy. And
the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet was
as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and
the dragon gave him power and his seat and great authority."
Notice first that the dragon gave him power. In Revelations 12:9,
we see that God defines the dragon as being Saton; "And the
great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil and
Satan, which deceiveth the whole world..."
In Daniel chapter 7 we see the same symbols described. The beast,
the seven heads, the ten horns, the lion, the bear, and the
leopard. And here we find the interpretation of these things.
Notice that both the beast of Revelations 13 and Daniel 7, both
came out of the sea, Daniel 7:3 : "And four great beast came
up from the sea, diverse one from the other."
Notice Daniel 7 verses 4-6, the symbols of the lion, the bear,
and the leopard. "The first was like a lion, and had eagles
wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was
lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man,
and a man's heart was given to it. And behold another beast, a
second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and
it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and
they said thus unto it, arise, devour much flesh. After this I
beheld and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of
it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads and
dominion was given to it.
Now notice verse 7, the fourth beast: "After this I saw in
the night vision, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and
terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it
devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the
feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were
before it; and it had ten horns."
Notice in Daniel there's only one head describing the lion, one
for the bear, and one for the fourth beast. But the third beast
had four heads, making a total of"7 heads, just as in
Revelations 13. Notice also out of the fourth beast came 10
horns.
Now notice in Daniel
7:16, he's going to interpret these symbols. " So he told me
and made me know the interpretation of the thing." In verse
17 we see the beast is defined as kings, it says, " The
great beast which are four, are four kings, which shall a-rise
out of the earth." In verse 23, we see that the beast is
also defined as kingdom, it says, " Thus he said, the fourth
beast shall be the fourth kingdom..." In verses 18, 22, 24,
and 27, the word kingdom is used to refer to the beast. The 10
horns are defined in verse 24: " And the ten horns out of
this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise..."
The same four world
ruling Gentile kingdoms are found in Daniel chapter 2. The dream
is described in verses 31-35 and the interpretation begins with
verse 36.
Let's begin with verses
31-35, the dream. It says, "Thou 0 king, sawest, and behold
a great image. This great image whose brightness was excellent,
stood before thee, and the form thereof was terrible. This image
head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his
belly and his thighs of brass, 'his legs of iron, his feet part
of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till a_ stone was cut out
without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of
iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the
clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces
together, and became as the chaff of the summer threshingfloors;
and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them:
and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and
filled the whole earth."
Now in verse 36 we see, " This is the dream; and we will
tell the interpretation therof before the king."
Starting with verse 37-40, we see the interpretation and the same
four world ruling governments as in Daniel chapter 7. It says,
" Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven
hath given thee a kingdom, power and strength and glory. And
wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beast of 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 (King
Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon 625-539bc). And after thee shall arise
another kingdom inferior to thee (Persian Empire 558-330bc), and
another third kingdom of brass (Greece or Macedonia under
Alexander the Great 333-330bc), which shall bear rule over all
the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron:
forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and
as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and
bruise (the Roman Empire).
As you can see the four
ruling goverments of Daniel chapter 2 and the four beast of
Daniel 7 are the same. History shows the first was the Chaldean
Empire of Babylon under King Nebuchadnezzar. Second was the
Persian Empire often called the Medo Persian Empire because it
consist of Medes and Persians. Third was Greece (Macedonai),
under Alexander the Great who conquered the Persian Empire. Upon
Alexanders death his empire was divided into four divisions as we
learned earlier, and this is why in Daniel 7:6, it is described
with four heads. The fourth kingdom developing from Rome, spread
out and gradually absorbed each one of these other kingdoms.
Dreadful, terrible and exceedingly strong was the Roman Empire,
31bc-476ad,(Daniel 7:7 and Daniel 2:40).
Rome had all the royal
splender of ancient Babylon, thus having the head; the strongest
part of the lion. It had the massive powerful army of the Persian
Empire, symbolizing the legs; the most powerful part of the bear.
The Roman Empire was the worlds most powerful war making machine
the world had ever seen. It also possessed the swiftness, the
cunning, the cruelty of Alexanders army, symbolized by the
leopard. This fourth beast; the Roman Empire was like no other on
earth. It was stronger, greater, more terrible than any before
it.
In Revelations chapter
13 John doesn't see four beast, but one because it had absorbed
all the others. So it had all the seven heads. If you'll notice
John's beast in Revelations had the ten horns, just as Daniel's
fourth beast had ten horns. As you can see John's beast is
Daniel's fourth beast. In Daniel chapter 2 Nebuchadnezzar's image
of the two legs represent the two divisions of the Roman Empire
after 330ad; west with the capitol at Rome and east with it's
capitol at Constantinople.
In Revelationsi3:4,
John talks about this beast and he says, "Who is able to
make war with him."
In Daniel 7:23, we saw where it said this fourth beast is the
fourth kingdom on earth. Every teacher and educator will tell you
the fourth world ruling kingdom on earth was the Roman Empire.
But they reject God's own interpretation of his own symbols as in
Daniel 7:23.
In Revelations 13:3-5,
we see one of the beast's heads were wounded to death and then we
also see where the wound was healed. It says, "And I saw one
of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound
was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they
worshipped the dragon which gave power to 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."
You just saw the deadly wound in the last paragraph of the last
chapter. It was administered on September 4, 476. This deadly
wound was also healed and did continue forty and two months.
42 months X 30 day months (God's Calender) = 1260 days As you can
see 42 months equal 1260 days going by God's calender, not the
Roman calender we all go by today.
Remembering the day for a year principle we saw earlier in
Numbers 14:34 and Ezekiel 4:6. Then this would be 1260 years, and
by actual fulfillment we know this to be true. The Roman Empire
was ressurrected in 554 and continued until 1814, exactly 1260
years.
We saw earlier that the ten horns were ten kings to come out of
this fourth beast, the Roman Empire (Daniel 7:24), and these are
they -
1. The Vandals who sacked Rome in 455
2.The Heruli government set up by Odoacer in 476
3.The Ostrogoths kingdom from 493-554
These three kingdoms filled the period in history as the
"transition age"; That is a transition between the
wound and the healing.
In Daniel and in Revelations it speaks of a little horn that
plucks up these first three kingdoms by the roots. It says in
Daniel 7:8: "I considerd the horns, and behold, there came
up among them another little horn, before whom there were three
of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this
horn was eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great
things." We will discuss this little horn in great detail
later.
These first three horns were destroyed, plucked up, by the pope.
The pope had tremendous power, just like today. The pope
dominates completely the horns to follow.
It was the fourth horn (kingdom) which really healed the (j
deadly wound. With the fourth horn came the " Imperial
Restoration
4.Justinian set up his kingdom in 554 healing the deadly wound.
5.The Prankish kingdom from France in 774
6.The Germans in 962 restores Romes glory as "The Holy Roman
Empire "
7.The Habsburg Government in 1520
8.Napoleon was crowned Emporer by the pope on December 2, 1804
In 1814 when Napoleon was defeated the beast continued no longer.
9.In 1870 the ninth horn appears with the rule of Mussolini, and
he continues until 1945.
10. We are now waiting on the tenth horn to appear.
In Revelations chapter 17 it speaks of this beast also. We will
discuss chapter 13 and 17 in great detail later, but for now
let's look at Revelations 17:10: "And there are seven kings:
five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and
when he cometh, he must continue a short space."
The seven kings are the last seven of the horns. Remember the
first three were plucked up by the roots. The five that are
fallen are the five that filled the 1260 year period the beast
was to continue. The one that is, was Mussolini. And the one that
has not yet come, will be a future empire of ten kings under one
leader, which we'll discuss more about later.
We will deal later more specifically with the 17th chapter of
Revelations. But notice for now that the woman mentioned in this
17th chapter never rode on any part of the beast of Revelations
chapter 13 except it's last seven horns. She is the little horn
of Daniel chapter 7, whose " look was more stout than his
fellows " and who caused the first three horns to be plucked
up by the roots. And since in the 17th chapter of Revelations the
woman rode all seven of the heads of the beast, and since she
rode none of the heads but only the last seven of the horns of
the " healed beast" of the 13th chapter of Revelations
then we can conclude that the seven horns of the 13th chapter
form the seven heads of the 17th chapter.
The 7th head with it's 10 horns,in the 17th chapter, will be as
the 17th chapter explains, the revival of the beast, The Roman
Empire, as it says in verse 8: " The beast that thou sawest
was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit; and
go into perdition: and they that dwell in the earth shall wonder,
whose names were not written in the book of life from the
foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and
is not, and yet is."
This beast will appear in the near future and consist of the
federation of 10 European nations centered within the old bounds
of the old Roman Empire. This is actually taking place as we
speak.
The entire beast of Revelations 17 is part of the seven heads of
Revelations 13 and Daniel 7 because it comprises the last seven
horns. Yet this revived Roman Empire is " the eighth "
system, differing from the seven before it (Rev.17:11).
What about the number of this beast,666, and who has this number
and where can you find this number ?
These are the only scriptures in the Bible that speaks directly
of this number:
Revelations 13:16-18: "And he causeth all both small and
great rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their
right hand, or in their forehead. And that no man might buy or
sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the
number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath
understanding count the number of the beast; for it is the number
of a man; and his number is six hundred threescore and six.
Revelations 15:2-3: "And I saw as it were a sea of glass
mingled with fire: and them that gotten the victory over the
beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number
of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
And the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the
Lamb, saying great and marvelous works, Lord God Almighty; just
and true are thy ways, thou King of Saints."
As you can see from these scriptures the beast has a number and
can be identified. The number is 666. We are told to count the
number. The same Greek word is used only in Luke 14:28:
"count the cost." As you can see this number, 666, is
the number of the beast. The only Bible interpretation for
"beast" is kingdom or king as we saw earlier in Daniel
7:17&23. So this number, 666, is the number of a kingdom and
king. It also says it is the number of a man. So it must be the
number of a man of this kingdom, or the king.
We know who the beast is, the Roman Empire. The founder and first
king of Rome was Romulus. The Roman Empire was named after him.
His name, the name of a man, also is the name of the kingdom. And
every citizen in the kingdom bears the same name, a Roman.
When John wrote the book of Revelations, telling us to count the
number of the beast, he wrote it in the Greek language. So we
must look to the Greek language for this number 666.
Everyone's familiar with the Roman numerals, where letters are
used as numbers. All know that I is 1, V is 5, X is 10, etc.
Although many people don't know that the Greek language, which
the book of Revelations was written also uses letters for
numbers.
The name Romulus, which was the father of Rome and also who the
empire was named after originally was spelled "Lateinos
", meaning " latin man". This word also signifies
"Roman". In the original Greek language L is 30, A is 1
, T is 300, E is 5, I is 10, N is 50, O is 70, and S is 200.
Count the numbers, they equal 666. It is no coincidence that the
name of the kingdom, its founder and first king and each man of
the kingdom , counts exactly 666. Certainly the beast stands
identified!
Satan has his civil governments on earth. He gave it " his
power, and his seat, and great authority " as you see in
Revelations 13:2. He has also organized religion to deceive the
whole world as it says in Revelations 12:9 and 20:3. In II
Corinthians 11:14 we see that Satan is transformed into
"angel of light". Paul says in II Corinthians 11:13-15,
that Satan has his ministers that pretend to be the ministers of
righteousness but are actually false apostles, deceitful workers,
calling themselves the ministers of Christ. It says, " For
such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan
himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no
great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers
of righteousness..."
Now to begin in the 13th chapter of Revelations with verse 11:
" And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and
he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon." As
we saw earlier the symbol of a beast represents a kingdom or
king. We also saw that the symbol of the lamb represents Jesus
(John 1:29 and
Rev. 17:14). And we
also saw the dragon represents Satan (Rev. 12 :9 and Rev.20:2) .
So here you see a kingdom or government appearing as that of
Christ but is actually that of Satan.
Now notice verse 12 of Revelations 13: "And he exerciseth
all the power of the first beast before him. " The first
beast is the Roman Empire. Now let's continue with the 12th
verse: "And he causeth the earth and them which dwell
therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was
healed."
So here you see another beast that exerciseth all the power of
the first beast, which was the Roman Empire. Notice also that
this is after the deadly wound was healed. This deadly wound was
healed in 554. So here we have a government, a religious
government, appearing to be that of Christ's government, and
actually ruling the Roman Empire after ad554.
For the entire 1260 years/ the emporers acknowledged the supreme
power of religion. The church was organized as a government, as a
dual, two fold government (symbolized by it's two horns), It
embodied church goverment, and it was also a state or civil
government, always occupying a certain amount of territory over
which it, alone, ruled as an independent sovereign state - in
addition to actually ruling the vast civil kingdom called the
Holy Roman Empire. Even today it is a seperate, independant
sovereign state.
Notice, the second beast was to weild power over all the earth
and it was to cause them that dwell upon the earth to worship the
first beast. In most encyclopedias under " millennium "
you will read the history of how the Holy Roman Empire was called
the kingdom of God upon earth. They claimed the millennium had
arrived.
Notice Revelations 13:14: "And deceiveth them that dwell on
the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do
in the sight of the beast." verse 13 says "he doeth
great wonders " Notice this beast performs miracles. He
performed them in the sight of the first beast, the Holy Roman
Empire. And with them he deceiveth the earth.
This same beast, the Roman Catholic church is pictured in other
scriptures as well.
First note in Revelations chapter 17. Here is pictured a woman.
As we learned in previous chapters a women is a symbol of a
church ; II Corinthians 11:2, Ephesians 5:22-27 and elsewhere.
This woman in chapter 17 is a fallen woman, an apostate church,
pictured as ruling over many nations in Revelations 17:1,15.
" And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven
vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, come hither; I will
shew unto thee the judgement of the great whore that sitteth upon
many waters;...And he saith unto me, the waters which thou
sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and
nations, and tongues."
In verse 3, this false church is pictured sitting on a beast. He
who sits on a beast guides, and controls the beast. It says:
"So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness:
and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of
names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns."
Notice verse 18," And the woman which thou sawest is that
great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth."
Notice verse 2: "With whom the kings of the earth have
committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been
made drunk -with the wine of her fornication."
Notice verse 6: "And I saw the woman drunken with the blood
of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of
Jesus..."
Notice Chapter 18:3: "For all nations have drunk of the wine
of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have
committed fornication with her..."
Notice 18:4: "And I heard another voice from heaven saying,
come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not her plagues."
Our God's title is " The Holy Father", the pope has
taken this title and put it upon himself. In II Thessalonians
chapter 2 it speaks of this. It says in verses 3-4 : "Let no
man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except
there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed,
the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all
that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God
sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is
God."
Verses 5-12: "Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you,
I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he
might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth
already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken
out of the way. And then shall the wicked be revealed, whom the
Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall
destroy with the brightness of his coming. Even him whose coming
is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying
wonders. And all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they
might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong
delusion, that they shall beleive a lie. That they might be
damned who beleive not the truth, but had pleasures in
unrighteousness."
This false church, the Roman Catholic Church will continue until
Christ returns.
Notice Revelations 16:13-14: "And I saw three unclean
spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon (Satan),
and out of the mouth of the beast (Roman Empire), and out of the
mouth of the false prophet (Pope). For they are the spirits of
devils, working miracles, which goeth forth unto the kings of the
earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of
that great day of God Almighty.
Notice Revelations 19:19-20: "And I saw the beast, and the
kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make
war against him that sat on the horse (Jesus), and against his
army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet,
that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them
that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped
his image, these both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning
with brimstone."
This false
Christianity, The Roman Catholic Church, is pictured as the
little horn, the woman who rode the beast and also the two horned
beast.
As we've read in revelations 13 and elsewhere, that the people
were made to worship the image of the beast. This organized
church government of the Roman Catholic church was built in the
image of the Roman Empire. Leo I thought the form of government
of the Roman Empire was the most marvelous thing on earth. He
applied its principles to the church, organized the church into a
government, forming the papacy. This church government, is in
fact a model, a counterpart, an image of the beast which is the
Roman Empire government. This image; man designed and man ruled
church government, compelled people to worship the church, and
since the church was organized into a worldly government, this
was worship of the image; false worship; idolatry!
This worldly church became a mother and daughters came out of her
in protest, calling themselves "Protestant". There are
over 400 different denominations that sprouted from this worldly
church, and they are all worldly churchs. They are all Pagan
teaching churchs cloaked in the name of Christianity. This is why
Revelations 17:5 says: "And upon her forehead was a name
written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND
ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."
The Roman Catholic Church is the great whore, mother of harlots.
And these other worldly churchs are the harlots.
We saw in a previous chapter that the sign of God's people are
the Sabbaths that they keep and his commandments and statues.
God's people as we learned will be marked by this sign on their
hand and between their eyes, on their forehead.
Satan's people will also have a mark on their hand and on their
forehead. This as you know now is the mark of the beast, and now
you know who the beast is, and his false prophet.
In 365ad the Roman
Catholic Church wrote in one of it's famous canons,
"Christians must not Judaize by resting on the Sabbath, must
work on that day. Rather honouring the Lords day. But if any
shall be found Judaizers, let them be athema from Christ."
This was a sentence to torture and death.
In Daniel 7:25, speaking of the beast, the Roman Empire,
"And he shall speak great words against the most High, and
shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change
times and laws..." The Romans did change times. God's day
began at sunset and ended at sunset, but now we start our day at
12:00 midnight. Also God started the year in the spring of the
northern hemispere but now we begin our year in the dead of
winter. We no longer go by God's calender but now we go by the
Roman calender. Also God's Sabbath was changed from Saturday to
Sunday. God's Holy Days were also changed, and now the world
holds the traditions of the pagans .
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