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"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." Revelation 13:18

 

Another part of the 2300-day prophecy of Daniel 8 is the 1260-day prophecy. In this time the little horn/seven headed amalgam beast would speak great things, blaspheme God by assuming the ‘place of God Almighty on earth’ – “Vicarius filii Dei” – and “think to change times and laws” – 10 commandments (Daniel 7:25; 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4; Revelation 13:1). This was fulfilled on time when the emperor of Rome gave his power, seat and authority to the Pope in 538ad (Revelation 13:2). For 1260 years all of Western Europe was subjected to the tyranny of the Roman Catholic Church. Kings were humiliated, the bible was forbidden, literacy was abominably low and people, adhering to Biblical Christianity, were driven into hiding to avoid torture and a painful death (GC 51.3; 57.3). On the 31st October 1517 the Roman church received the first major hit in its tyrannical reign bringing gradual relief to God’s people (GC 129.2). The Word of God began to be restored to the people through the work of Martin Luther and the subsequent reformers.

 

They struggled, unsuccessfully, to maintain control on the people of Europe with various plots and schemes. For example, the Gunpowder plot of 1605 was in an effort to stop the publication of the English translation of the Bible commissioned by King James I (published in 1611). However, on Schedule, in 1798, 1260 years after taking power, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church was taken into captivity, under the command of the French Emperor Napoleon, by his general Berthier (GC 439.2). This is in direct fulfilment of the prophecy in Revelation 13:10, “He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity”. After this deadly wound was inflicted the power of the Roman church began to decompose. They lost their lands, their influence over world leaders, were actively hated by many nations and remained a shell of their former existence for nearly two centuries.

 

However, Scripture tells us that this deadly wound would be healed (Revelation 13:3). Anyone who has received a cut knows that wounds take time to heal. And this wound was mortal. The deadly wound of the Roman Church marked its healing in 1929 when the church received a small acreage of land in the middle of Rome through the Lateran Treaty. Like the national equivalent of a man possessed, the church again joined the ranks of civil authorities as a sovereign, independent nation (Revelation 12:3, 9; 13:2; 17:3). The pope is the only religious leader that has a seat at the United Nations and is able to address all world leaders with his agenda (Revelation 17:1-5). From this vantage point the church has steadily grown in acceptance by world leaders, formerly protestant church leaders, and has again amassed great influence among people, giving opinions and supporting worldwide movements to bring about its agenda.

 

Be watchful

 

Revelation - The Bride the Beast and Babylon

 

Lineage - Constantine the Great

 

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