Q.E.D. And there it is. This is not news to Protestants who know their history and their prophecy. The Roman Catholic Church has NEVER surrendered a desire to control the temporal world, both secular and religious. It has NEVER retracted it's "Syllabus of Errors" in which the pontificate CONDEMNS our Bill of Rights for granting us freedom of religion and conscience.

It is the Whore of Babylon in the Book of Revelation, which both rides the Beast and is the mother of harlots, drunk with power and riches and the blood of those she has martyred, seated stop the seven hills of Rome, in the city having dominion over kings. Don't believe me?

Vatican City is the ONLY city in existence to which kings are beholden; a kingdom is a region where a king has dominion---cities do not have dominion over them. The word kings is meant to indicate rulers of countries, and as they do not all rule over a single city, the single city in prophecy must somehow have power or authority over the rulers...which Vatican City does, since the pontiff may threaten excommunication and denial of final absolution to practicing Roman Catholics (most of the rulers of Europe), and because Vatican City is recognized as a city-state by the UN, being the ONLY religion with formal leader membership in the UN out of all the religions in the world. And that is because one sixth of the global population self-identify as being Roman Catholic, roughly 1.3 billion people. (Islam very nearly matches it.)

In biblical numerics, six is the number associated with the man of sin. Satan is associated with the number 666 because in Revelation, he appears as Antichrist at the sixth seal, sixth vial, and sixth trumpet. "Anti" is the prefix meaning "instead of" in the original Greek of the NT---it means "against" in Latin vulgate--which should alert people to the fact that the first man able to do wondrous things and descending from above claiming to be the true Christ will actually be the Antichrist---the Devil, "instead of Christ". Jesus Christ does not appear until the SEVENTH trumpet.

The Antichrist has two horns "like a lamb," but will speak "as a dragon". Horns are associated with power in Scripture--these two powers are secular and religious. Sharpen up! To be "like" a lamb means one is NOT the true lamb, for one cannot be both the thing itself AND the thing resembling it. Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world; the Antichrist "like" the lamb cannot BE the Lamb, merely passing himself off as Jesus Christ INSTEAD OF being Jesus Christ.

Moreover, Scripture identifies the Devil as being "that great Dragon"; the Antichrist "spake as a dragon"; AS is not the same as LIKE. The term "as" here indicates the true nature of the person who looks like or resembles the lamb, since it indicates type. For example, "We played card games, as blackjack, poker, and gin rummy tables were operating at the casino." This means that the Antichrist will be a man of sin, who pretends to be Jesus Christ INSTEAD OF being Jesus Christ, even though he will appear LIKE Jesus Christ, but in reality speak AS a dragon, because he will actually be Satan, the Great Dragon. Do NOT be deceived! That was Jesus' warning to his disciples! Do NOT bow down and worship the first supernatural being---Satan, pretending to be Christ, for Satan appears first, at the sixth trumpet, and our true Christ appears at the seventh trumpet.

The Antichrist gives power to the false prophet, the religious person having authority over the secular realm. This person is the pontiff, who is associated with the Whore of Babylon. Before anyone gets high and mighty about singling out the Roman Catholic Church for condemnation, bear in mind that the Whore is the "mother of harlots". A whore is associated with sexual licentiousness for the sake of sheer pleasure, whereas a harlot engages in sexual promiscuity for monetary gain or some other material privilege. In biblical meaning, a woman signifies a religion, and a beast signifies a governmental entity; each of the beasts in the Book of Daniel, for example, represents an empire, and God likens idolatrous people to adulterous women and His chosen people as His bride.

The Whore of Babylon, therefore, is an idolatrous religion, apostate for sheer self-indulgent purposes, and she gives birth to harlots, equally apostate religions, which, however, necessarily prostitute themselves for gain...to their loveless mother, who controls the wealth and power of the world. (If she were a righteous mother, she would not compel her children to sell themselves in order to sustain themselves, but would provide them with food, clothing, and shelter out of love for them. Instead, she will compel them to adopt her idolatrous ways, thus the other religions will become apostate, too, in order for their practitioners to be able to live.)

The Whore is an idolatrous and apostate religion, and since she RIDES ATOP the beast government with a single hand, that means that she is controlling it, since her other hand holds the lavish cup overflowing with her iniquities, symbolizing her control over the power and wealth of the global government. Using only one hand to control the beast means that she controls it EASILY, that the global government is WHOLLY SUBDUED by it.

The Angel of the Lord (Jesus Christ Himself, for "angel" simply means "messenger" and the proper name of the book is "The Revelation of Jesus Christ to John") specifies that the Whore is that great city having dominion over kings, seated upon seven hills, and Vatican City, Rome is the ONLY city which meets this description. Don't be deceived---Jerusalem cannot be the city because it is controlled by a secular government, and the woman is a religious symbol, and anti-Semitism is rampant in the world, thus the rulers of the world do not honor the religion of the Jews. And the city is not actual Babylon, for God swore to forever make it desolate, and Christians will never be duped into worshipping Allah as Christ, because the Koran very specifically declares that Allah has no son, and that Jesus is not divine. And the city is not New York, either, for the Angel of the Lord specifically says of it that it is a city which was and is at the time of the prophecy, and New York did not exist in 100 A.D. Of all four candidates which people have proposed, ONLY Rome (long a symbol of secular empire and religious powers) meets the criteria in our day and age.

The Book of Revelation prophecy attests that in the age of Antichrist, we will have a one world government, a one world economic system, and a one world religion...and the first two will be controlled by the third, and that religion will be controlled by the false prophet, the pontiff. A majority of leaders in the global banking system are Jesuit-educated Roman Catholics, as are many government rulers; ALL THREE BRANCHES OF THE US GOVERNMENT ARE NOW LED BY ROMAN CATHOLICS. Jesuits are especially tasked with advancing the sole and supreme authority of the pontificate. (I know---I was raised in a Roman Catholic family and attended a parochial high school; there are nuns and priests and brothers in my family aplenty, sadly.)

No one will be able to buy or sell without the mark, or name, or number of the beast, meaning without access to the global government economic system (which will be fully electronic, hence the prophecy that men will throw their gold and silver in the street as being worthless), a government controlled by the Roman Church, a religion set up in power by the Antichrist whom will demand you worship him or suffer the harsh recompense of the Roman Catholic Church, a religion with a bloody, bloody history, drunk on the blood of martyrs, as indicated by Jesus Christ in His revelation.

The FIRST battle, in Heaven, was over the issue of worship, as Lucifer thought to be as the Most High God, our Heavenly Father, and attempted to overthrow his Maker, God. The LAST battle, in Heaven and on Earth, will be over the issue of worship, as Satan will attempt defeat our Father yet again, with his legions of fallen angels and added human evildoers. The MIDDLE battle will be here on Earth, and will also be over the issue of worship...and it will be a spiritual battle, to see which of us will bow down and worship the Antichrist, because we have been deceived, despite the warnings of Jesus.

The MARK of the beast is its seal, meaning those directly under the rule of the entity which has the stamp of authority, as used with wax signets, for example, by kings on their decrees; these are the priests, nuns, bishops, cardinals, monks, etc. directly under order of the pontiff. The NAME of the beast involves those who act in accordance to the authority of the beast governmental entity, as deputized by it--these are the powers which be serving the pontiff global bureaucracy, many of whom are practicing Roman Catholics already. And the NUMBER of the beast involves those who comply with the mandates of the beast power, in order to survive---numbered in the same way which Jews were numbered by the Nazis, for control and tracking purposes. These are people who do not necessarily believe the great deception, but who nonetheless comply with physical worship of the Antichrist in (they will bow their knees and do the bidding of the global pontifical government set up by the Antichrist), in order to be able to survive.

SATAN DOES NOT WANT YOUR LOVE, HE WANTS YOUR OBEDIENCE. HE WANTS POWER AND WORSHIP OF HIM IN HIS GREAT PRIDE. AND HE MUST DRAW YOU AWAY FROM THE TRUE GOD, OR PUNISH YOU FOR FIDELITY TO OUR LORD AND SAVIOR. Read your Holy Bible! Do not be deceived, and pray for others to grasp the truth as well, including Moslems, Jews, Hindus, Roman Catholics, etc., all if whom are our brethren and whom the LORD would have come to His salvation as their Heavenly Father. (Only the King James Version has biblical concordances of the original languages; Strong's for the strong, and Young's for the young.)

Democrats famously have stated that one needs to take advantage of crises...including plandemics and manufactroversies, such as climate change nonsense. How evil is that doctrine? It is akin to raping a child one has found bound and gagged already raped, instead of helping deliver him or her. This is the wicked ideology of the Left, and the current pontiff is a globalist Communist, this his statements here come as no surprise. Yes, Communist government is atheistic (without God), but is also ANTI-theistic (being both against worship of God permitted and acting "instead of" God, "in stead" meaning "in place of,"meaning ruled by men who acknowledge their own supremacy over that of God's authority). How can a pontiff and religious clerics be Communists? Because, same as the Pharisees and scribes, they are hypocrites ("play actors" in Greek), pretending to believe what they practice, as whited sepulchers which are all ravening and death within. A religion headed and run by people who do not genuinely worship the true Christ in order to secure power, prestige, and wealth in this world will have no reservations to secure those things if guaranteed by the Antichrist.

Do not despise Roman Catholics, pray for them to be freed from deception: "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 of her plagues." (Revelation 18:4 KJVB) The voice is that of God, and the "her" is the apostate religion symbolized by the Whore of Babylon. The Lord is our shepherd, the Good Shepherd, and His sheep know His voice and follow Him and Him alone...amen and amen!