In this Issue

  The new Roman Catholic Pope, as well as the church itself is seemingly in a groundswell of disarray. A $660 million dollar settlement was granted on July 16 for sexual abuse by the clergy, deacons, etc. It has been reported that the church and certain of its various orders, the Carmelites, Franciscans, Jesuits, etc., have now forked over around $2 billion since 1950.

  This comes on top of a couple of other stories, one concerning the Jewish people. It seems that the Orthodox Jews are very disturbed and upset that Benedict XVI has reinstituted a Tridentine Mass that contains a prayer for the conversion of all Jews. The prayer is especially offered on behalf of the Jews on Good Friday before Easter (Ishtar) Sunday.

  If that wasn’t enough, Benedict also brought a document forward that was written around 1600 that proclaimed the Roman Catholic Church to be the One Church of Christ, while all others were a defect. The document actually does say that the Creator is working through the other groups, but that they were still defective.

  But what can this all mean? It appears that the Catholic Church is being backed into a corner, however, when a wild beast becomes cornered, that is when it can become most dangerous.

  Also, when one begins to think about what has gone on throughout the history of the Catholic Church, one has to also wonder if her destruction is not getting very close.

THE VATICAN WEBSITE

  As I research various things, I check to see what others may have to say about the issue, if available. This means that I check the encyclopedias, dictionaries, lexicons, etc., that I not only have in my possession, but also whatever I may have access to online.

  I have been on the Vatican’s website before researching various news items and other things. Recently I noticed that they had “Secret Archives” posted. Being inquisitive, I clicked onto it and it brought me to a three room area wherein various articles of art are exhibited. As I perused the artworks, I began to notice some things that became quite obvious. In many of the pictures, there is a bare breasted woman (or more) on one side or the other who has her arm raised over her head and is pointing to something.

  In the first place, I began to question, what does a bare breasted woman have to do with anything in relation to Yahweh and Yahshua and the true faith? A woman who has bared her breast publicly certainly isn’t discreet. Wouldn’t a bare breasted woman be more representative of a loose woman than a righteous one? Of course! Therefore, a bare breasted woman would be more representative of a HARLOT!

  What do the Scriptures say about a harlot? “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 judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 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. 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. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Yahshua: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration,” Rev. 17:1-6.

  Notice that it says that the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her. The artworks presented are of so many of the so-called great rulers of the earth, especially the Roman Empire and its subsidiaries, appearing before the Roman Pontiffs to swear their allegiance, give obeisance and to affirm that they will make donations to the church. The Roman Empire, of course, is the fourth kingdom of Daniel chapter 2 and the fourth beast of Daniel chapter 7.

  The Roman Catholic Church was made the state religion of the empire by Constantine the Great. This clearly made her the harlot that rode upon the Roman beast power. But Constantine abolished the Roman government in Old Rome and moved the center and power of the empire to Constantinople in the east. This action effectively split the empire between east and west and also effectively split the ecclesiastical power between the Latin Roman Catholic Church in the west and the Greek Orthodox Church in the east.

  Rome was divided once more in the 15th century when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks. The center of Rome was shifted to Moscow, Russia. The ecclesiastical power was also split between the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Churches.

  Moscow, Russia became the “Third Rome” under the power of the Czars/Tsars.

ABOMINATIONS

  The current sex scandal that is being played out all over the country is just one of those abominations that this great church is a part of. (Note: much of the following information is found in Halley’s Bible Handbook.)

  Silvester I (314-335) was bishop of Rome during the reign of Constantine the Great. Constantine regarded himself as head of the church as he possessed the title of Pontifex Maximus over all paganism. He called the council of Nicaea in CE 325, commanded Sunday worship, established December 25th to be the birthday of the Messiah (since he was a worshipper of the sun god Mithras and that was his birth date), and decreed Easter to be observed rather than Passover.

  Constantine outlawed the possession of all Hebrew documents on pain of torture and death. All Hebrew documents were to be destroyed. He donated 50 copies of the Scriptures in the Greek language to the churches of Constantinople. Under his direction, the church became an important instrument on the stage of WORLD POLITICS.

  Siricius (385-398) claim universal jurisdiction over the church although the division of the empire made it difficult to get the bishops of the east to recognize his authority.

  Early in the 5th century, Augustine wrote The City of God, which envisioned a universal Christian empire. This heavily influenced the bishops at Rome to declare their supremacy over a Universal Church.

  Leo I proclaimed himself to be lord over the whole church, advocated exclusive universal Papacy proclaiming that resistance to his authority was a sure way to hell and advocated the death penalty for heresy. Thus, the way was paved to put anyone to death who disagreed with the Roman Pontiff or with the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church, hence the historic inquisitions.

  With the fall of the Roman Empire in the west in 476 CE, the way was paved for the western Popes to make advantageous alliances that gave them the opportunity to become the commanding figure in the west.

  Zacharias made Pepin, father of Charlemagne, King of the Franks. Pepin was largely responsible for conquering the Lombards in central Italy who then gave the conquered lands to the power of the Pope establishing the Papal States.

  Leo III crowned Pepin’s son Charlemagne Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 800 CE. This, of course, was an abomination in itself, as there was nothing holy about the Roman beast. Supposedly, the Pope, being the Vicar of Christ was the one who made it all holy by his own decree, but this was all farcical, to say the least.

  Nicolas I (858-867) promoted his universal authority through a great literary fraud named the “Pseudo Isidorian Decretals.” It attempted to go back 5 centuries in establishing the Pope’s power through letters and decrees of the first church councils. Interestingly, the very name reveals the truth about them. “Pseudo” means “false.” But the great preponderance of the population was illiterate and was easily misled.

  The 200 years between Nicholas I and Gregory VII is called by historians the MIDNIGHT OF THE DARK AGES. Bribery, corruption, immorality and bloodshed, made one of the blackest chapters in the history of the RCC.

  Sergius III (904-911) is said to have had a mistress named Marozia. She, her mother, Theodora, and her sister, filled the Papal chair with their paramours and bastard sons, which turned the Papal Palace into a den of robbers. The period of 904-963 is known as the rule of harlots.

  John XII (955-963) a grandson of Marozia, was guilty of almost every crime; violated virgins and widows, high and low; lived with his father’s mistress; made the Papal palace a brothel; was killed while in the act of adultery by the woman’s enraged husband.

  Boniface VII (984-985), murdered Pope John XIV, and maintained himself on the blood-stained Papal throne by a lavish distribution of stolen money. The Bishop of Orleans, referred to John XII, Leo VIII and Boniface VII as monsters of guilt, reeking in blood and filth; antichrist sitting in the temple of god.

  Benedict VIII (1012-1024) bought the office of Pope with open bribery. This was called “simony,” that is, the purchase or sale of church office with money.

  Benedict IX (1033-1045) was made Pope as a boy of 12 years old through a money bargain with the powerful families that ruled Rome. He surpassed John XII in wickedness; committed murders and adulteries in broad daylight; robbed pilgrims on the graves of martyrs; a hideous criminal, the people drove him out of Rome. Some call him the worst of all Popes.

  Gregory VI (1045-1046) bought the Papacy. Rome swarmed with hired assassins while the virtue of pilgrims was violated.

  Clement II (1046-1047) was appointed Pope by Emperor Henry III of Germany because no Roman clergyman could be found who was free of pollution of simony and fornication.

  Innocent III (1198-1216) was the most powerful of all the Popes. He claimed to be “Vicar of Christ,” “Vicar of God,” “Supreme Sovereign over Princes; and that “all things on earth and in heaven and in hell are subject to the “Vicar of Christ.” He ordered two crusades, decreed transubstantiation, confirmed auricular confession, declared that Peter’s successor “can never in any way depart from the Catholic faith,” Papal infallibility, condemned the Magna Charta, forbade the reading of the Bible in the vernacular, ordered the extermination of heretics, instituted the inquisition, ordered the massacre of the Albingenses. More blood was shed under his direction and that of his immediate successors, than in any other period of church history, except in the Papacy’s effort to crush the Reformation in the 16th and 17th centuries.

  Boniface VIII (1294-1303), in his famous bull, “Unam Sanctam,” said, “We declare, affirm, define, and pronounce that it is altogether necessary for salvation that every creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” However, he himself was so corrupt that Dante, who visited Rome during his pontificate, called the Vatican a “sewer of corruption,” and assigned him, along with Nicolas III and Clement V, to the lowest parts of hell.

  John XXIII (1410-1415) was called by some the most depraved criminal who ever sat on the Papal throne; guilty of almost every crime; as cardinal in Bologna, 200 maidens, nuns and married women fell victims to his amours; as Pope he violated virgins and nuns; lived in adultery with this brother’s wife; was guilty of sodomy and other nameless vices; bought the Papal Office; sold Cardinalates to children of wealthy families; and openly denied the future life.

  Nicolas V (1447-1455) AUTHORIZED THE King of Portugal to war on African peoples, take their property and enslave people.

  Pius II (1458-1464) was said to have been the father of many illegitimate children, spoke openly of the methods he used to seduce women, encouraged young men to, and even offered to instruct them in methods of self-indulgence.

  Sixtus IV (1471-1484) sanctioned the Spanish Inquisition. Decreed that money would deliver souls from Purgatory. Was implicated in a plot to murder Lorenzo de Medici, and others who opposed his policies. He used the Papacy to enrich himself and his relatives. He made eight of his nephews Cardinals, while as yet some of them were mere boys.

  Innocent VIII (1484-1492) had 16 children by various married women. He multiplied church offices and sold them for vast sums of money. He decreed the extermination of the Waldenses, and sent an army against them. He appointed the brutal Thomas of Torquemada Inquisitor General of Spain and ordered all rulers to deliver up heretics to him. He permitted bull fights on St. Peter’s Square and was the background for Savonarola’s cry against Papal corruption.

  Alexander VI (1492-1503) called the most corrupt of the Renaissance Popes; licentious, avaricious, depraved; bought the Papacy; made many new cardinals for money; had a number of illegitimate children whom he acknowledged and appointed to high church office while they were yet children, who, with their father, murdered cardinals and others who stood in their way. He had for a mistress a sister of a Cardinal, who became the next Pope, Pius III (1503).

  Julius II (1503-1513) as richest of the Cardinals, with vast income from numerous bishoprics and church estates, bought the Papacy. As a Cardinal, he had made a sport of Celibacy. Involved in endless quarrels over the possession of cities and principalities, he maintained and personally led vast armies, thus, he was called the Warrior Pope. He issued indulgencies for money. Luther visited Rome in his day and was appalled at what he saw.

  Leo X (1513-1521) was Pope when Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation. He was made an Archbishop at 8; a Cardinal at 13; was taught to regard ecclesiastical office purely as a source of revenue; bargained for the Papal chair; sold church honors. All ecclesiastical offices were for sale and many new ones were created. He appointed Cardinals as young as 7. He was in endless negotiations with kings and princes, jockeying for secular power, utterly indifferent to the religious welfare of the church. He maintained the most luxurious and licentious court in Europe. His Cardinals vied with kings and princes in gorgeous palaces and voluptuous entertainment, attended by trains of servants. Yet this voluptuary re-affirmed the Unam Sanctam, in which it is declared that every human being must be subject to the Roman Pontiff for salvation. He issued indulgences for stipulated fees; and declared burning of heretics a DIVINE APPOINTMENT.

  Paul III (1534-1549) had many illegitimate children. He was a determined enemy of the Protestants and offered Charles V an army to exterminate them.

  Gregory XIII (1572-1585) celebrated in solemn mass, with thanksgiving and joy, the news of St. Bartholomew’s Massacre wherein 70,000 Huguenots, including most of their leaders, were massacred.

  Urban (1623-1644) with the aid of the Jesuits, blotted out Protestants in Bohemia.

  Clement XI (1700-1721) declared that kings reign only with his sanction. He issued a Bull against Bible reading.

  Pius VII 1800-1820) issued a Bull against Bible societies.

  Leo XII (1821-1829) condemned all religious freedom, tolerance, Bible societies and Bible translations; and declared that “everyone separated from the Roman Catholic Church, however unblameable in other respects, has NO PART in eternal life.”

  Pius VIII (1829-1830) denounced liberty of conscience, Bible societies and Freemasonry.

  Gregory XVI (1831-1846) an ardent advocate of Papal infallibility, condemned Bible societies.

  Pius XI (1846-1878) lost the Papal States; decreed Papal infallibility; proclaimed the right to suppress heresy by force; condemned separation of church and state; commanded Catholics to obey the head of the church rather than civil rulers; denounced liberty of conscience, liberty of worship, freedom of speech and freedom of the press; decreed the immaculate conception and deity of Mary; condemned Bible societies; declared that Protestantism is no form of the Christian religion; and that every dogma of the Roman Catholic Church has been dictated by Christ through His viceregents on earth.

  Of his own sovereign authority, and without the cooperation of a council, Pius IX proclaimed the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, as a sort of feeler to the Roman Catholic Word, on the question. Its reception emboldened him to call the Vatican Council (1870), for the express purpose of hiving himself declared infallible, which, under his skillful manipulation, they did. The decree reads that it is “divinely revealed” that the Pope, when he speaks “ex cathedra,” is “possessed of infallibility in defining doctrines of faith and morals,” and that “such definitions are irreformable.” The Eastern Orthodox Church considered this the Papacy’s crowning blasphemy.

  Pius IX ruled Rome with the help of 10,000 French troops. On the outbreak of the war between France and Germany (1870), these troops were recalled. Victor Immanuel, King of Italy, then took possession of Rome and added the Papal States to the Kingdom of Italy. The vote of the people transferring Rome from the Pope to the Government of Italy was 133,648 to 1,507. Thus, the Pope not only lost his earthly kingdom, but he, himself, became a subject of another king, which was deeply humiliating to he who claimed to be ruler of all kings.

  (NOTE: Do you not see the hand of Yahweh in this? The same year that the Pope had himself to be declared “infallible” through the Vatican Council, is the same year (1870) that he lost the power of his own kingdom and was forced to submit to another king.)

  Leo XIII (1878-1903) claimed that he was appointed to be head of all rulers, and that he holds on the earth the place of Almighty God. He emphasized Papal infallibility; pronounced Protestants “enemies of the Christian name;” proclaimed the only method of cooperation to be complete submission to the Roman Pontiff; denounced “Americanism,” and the Masonic Order.

  Pius X (1903-1914) denounced leaders of the Reformation as “enemies of the cross of Christ.”

  Pius XI (1922-1939) in 1928 re-affirmed the Roman Catholic Church to be the only Church of Christ, and the re-union of Christendom impossible except by submission to Rome.

  There is much more wickedness and evil that will be focused on in this treatise, but the situation that is extant in the Catholic priesthood and Church is nothing new. The Popes, Cardinals and other church officials have long established the use of money in order to pay for or purchase “indulgencies.” In these last days, a 660 million buy-out or pay-off is nothing short of a continuation of these “licentious excesses.”

INQUISITION

  The Inquisition reveals the fulfillment of the Scriptures that declare this harlot woman to be “drunk with the blood of the saints.” (Rev. 17:6). It is also stated, “And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth,” Rev. 18:24.

  The Inquisition, called the “Holy Office,” was instituted by Pope Innocent III, and perfected under the second following Pope, Gregory IX. It was the church court for detection and punishment of heretics. Under it everyone was required to inform against Heretics. Anyone suspected was liable to torture, without knowing the name of his accuser. The proceedings were secret. The inquisitor pronounced sentence, and the victim was turned over to civil authorities to be imprisoned for life, or to be burned. The victim’s property was confiscated, and divided between the church and the state.

  In the period immediately following Pope Innocent III the Inquisition did its most deadly work against the Albigenses, but also claimed vast multitudes of victims in Spain, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands.

  Later on the Inquisition was the main agency in the Papacy’s effort to crush the Reformation. It is stated that in the 30 years between 1540 and 1570 no fewer than 900,000 Protestants were put to death in the Pope’s war for the extermination of the Waldenses.

  Think of monks and priests, in (so-called) holy garments, directing with heartless cruelty and inhuman brutality, the work of torturing and burning alive innocent men and women and doing it in the name of the Christ, by direct order of the “Vicar of Christ.”

  The Inquisition was the most infamous and devilish thing in human history. It was devised by Popes, and used by them for 500 years to maintain their power. For its record none of the subsequent line of “holy” and “infallible” Popes have ever apologized.

THE JESUITS

  Rome’s answer to the Lutheran secession: the Inquisition under the leadership of the Jesuits, an order founded by Ignatius Loyola, a Spaniard, on the principle of absolute and unconditional obedience to the Pope, having for its object the recovery of territory lost to Protestants and Mohammedans, and the conquest of the entire heathen world for the Roman Catholic Church. Their supreme aim, the destruction of heresy, that is, thinking anything different from what the Pope said think; for the accomplishment of which anything was justifiable, deception, immorality, vice, even murder. Their motto, “For the greater glory of God.” Their methods; schools, seeking especially the children of ruling classes, aiming in all schools to gain absolute mastery over the pupil: the confessional, especially with kings, princes and civil rulers, indulging them in all kinds of vice and crime, for the sake of gaining their favor: force, persuading rulers to execute inquisition sentences.

  In France they were responsible for St. Bartholomew’s Massacre, persecution of the Hugenots, revocation of the Toleration Edict of Nantes, and the French Revolution. In Spain, Netherlands, South Germany, Bohemia, Austria, Poland and other countries, they led in the massacre of untold multitudes. By these methods they stopped the Reformation in Southern Europe, and virtually saved the Papacy from ruin.

  (Note: Notice their use of deception, immorality, vice and murder. Isn’t it interesting that we have a modern-day Senator David Vitter of Louisiana, who is being excoriated by the press because of sexual liaisons with a prostitution ring in Washington DC.

  Let’s see if we can make some heads or tails out of this issue. Vitter is a Republican. He has made a stand for an amendment for the BAN on “SAME SEX MARRIAGE.”

  But Sen. Ted Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, denounced the proposed amendment as "an instrument of bigotry and prejudice," which he said was designed by the GOP leadership "to try to bring Republican senators out of the ditch of disapproval."

And Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said that "the reason the Senate Republicans are pushing this marriage amendment is because they don't want to address the real issues of this country."

  Ted Kennedy is also a Catholic! Do you think that he might be a tool of the Jesuits to overthrow and destroy “Americanism” which the Popes have denounced? Harry Reid also?

  What about the sexual escapades of the former President Bill Clinton? His despicable actions were actually suppressed by the media until it simply couldn’t be hidden anymore. But when it was made public, the media and Democrats made light of it proclaiming, “Let him get on with the people’s business!”

  Look at the statements made by these two men. Kennedy says that an amendment banning same sex marriages is bigoted and prejudiced. According to the Scriptures that I have on hand, Yahweh, Himself, placed a BAN ON SAME SEX MARRIAGE. As a matter of fact, Sodom and Gomorrah both were destroyed because of homosexual activity. Thus, a person who supposedly is a Christian, yet supports same sex marriage, either doesn’t know the Scriptures, or has an agenda for destruction, because most assuredly if homosexuality continues to abound, then the morality of our people, which is already extremely low, will sink to the morass and decay of total destruction from on high.

  Furthermore, Harry Reid, another Democrat, belittles the Republican’s stand on the ban saying that they don’t want to address the real issues of the country. Oh really!? A ban on same sex marriage isn’t a real issue of the country? If homosexuality is one of the special issues that will bring the destruction of the country, then isn’t that truly a real issue?

  There is a battle that is going on behind the scenes. This author finds it very interesting that an alcoholic and womanizer like Democrat Ted Kennedy gets off unscathed, while certain Republicans are demonized in the media all across the country for their mistakes, which are not nearly as great in nature. [I’m not trying to make excuses for wrong doing here, just wondering why wrong doing is okay for some, but not for others.]

  What about Democrat Barney Frank? He is a practicing homosexual and had a prostitution ring of young boys working out of his own house at one time. When discovered, it was still kept hush-hush in the media and then blamed on his live-in lover.

  What about the Democrat from Louisiana who was discovered with 10’s of thousands of dollars (payola) in his possession? Jefferson is his last name, I think. Another soft pedal and pass by the media.

  The Jesuits and others [Note that I say “and others.”] know the weakness of man. Yes, there is a lust for illicit sex and also a love of money, wealth and riches. The love of money is a root of all evil. Such are politics, because big business certainly does its share of buying out and making big pay offs for special favor from our senators and congressmen. All of these weaknesses of the flesh should point us to the fact that we need Yahweh’s governmental body ruling this earth rather than weak-kneed men.)  

PICTURE PROOF  

The Vatican’s own Secret Archives of artwork exposes much about her true spirit. Of course, the works and fruits discovered in her history is quite revealing.  The tree is corrupt.  The fruit inedible.  Consider the following pictures on the next page and see for yourself:.)

Figure 1. Rodolfo I, King of the Romans (1273-1291) takes an oath to Pope Nicholas III (1277-1280)

Figure 2. Donation by the Emperor Constantine I (306-337), to Pope Sylvester (314-335)

Figure 3. The Emperor Henry II, (1014-1024), confirms to Benedict VIII (1012-1024) the donation made by his predecessors and adds some more to them.

Figure 4. The Emperor Ludwig I, the Plus (814-840), confirms to Pasquale I (817-824) the donations made by his ancestors.

Figure 5. Otto I the Great, Emperor (962-973), confirms to John XII (955-964) the donations of his predecessors and returns to the Holy See the territories previously occupied by Berengario II, Marquis of Ivrea.

Figure 6. Frederick II (1220-1245), crowned Emperor by Honorius III (1216-1227) confirms the previous donations and swears allegiance to the Holy See.

Figure 7. Charles IV (1355-1378) crowned by the legates of Innocent VI (1352-1362).

Figure 8. William, King of the Romans (1248-1256), sends a charter to Pope Innocent IV (1243)-1254) where he confirms the donations made to the Holy See by his predecessors.

Figure 9. In the convent near Spira, the Emperor Otto IV of Wittlesbach, (1209-1218), in his own handwriting confirms to Innocent III (1198-1216) the donations granted by his predecessors to the Holy See.

Figure 10. The legate of Albert I of Hapsburg, King of the Romans (1298-1308), confirms the rights of the Holy See to Boniface VIII (1295-1303).

Figure 11. The coat of arms of Paul V (Camillo Borghese, 1605-1621) with the crowned eagle and the winged dragon.

  If you will notice in each of the artworks, there is either one or two women with bared breasts pointing to something over their heads. What they are pointing to is either the crowned eagle or the winged dragon as is depicted in the coat of arms of Paul V.

  The eagle may have been a representation that was utilized by Yahweh when He delivered Israel out of Egypt, but it also represented Zeus of the Greeks and Jupiter of the Romans. And that is the indication here because the western half of the Roman Empire was Latin whose chief deity was Jupiter, while the eastern half was more of a Greek nature whose chief deity was Zeus. The dragon is the underlying spirit.

REVELATION 12

  The book of Revelation chapter twelve reveals a woman who is clothed with the sun having the moon at her feet. She has a crown with twelve stars. This is typology of Israel with her twelve tribes. She is with child and travailing in pain to give birth.

  The Israelites were the children of the Almighty Great Elohim Yahweh. They were to be the crowning kingdom on the earth, but they needed the true Messiah Yahshua to become their King, Priest and Ruler. She is travailing in pain to bring forth the birth of this Messiah.

  A great red (fiery) dragon is also awaiting this birth because he wants to destroy this coming Great Ruler.

  We know the story of the birth of Yahshua and the attempt to destroy Him by Herod, a Roman vassal, when He was born. Of course, it was the Roman military machine that eventually slew Him at the behest of His own people.

  The dragon, of course, is that old serpent called the Devil and Satan who deceives the whole world (Rev. 12:9). His kingdom is Rome. Rome is the fourth kingdom of Daniel chapter two and the fourth beast of Daniel chapter seven. The Roman beast is the fulness of the manifestation of the spirit of the dragon.

  The dragon has seven heads and ten horns, with seven crowns on the seven heads. A crown is for rulership, a king or a kingdom. We can begin to understand what is taking place here if we utilize the book of Daniel as a basis, a foundation.

A PROPHETIC DREAM

  King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream that was greatly disturbing. The problem is that he couldn’t remember the dream and didn’t know what it meant. So he called for his magicians, astrologers, sorcerers, and Chaldeans to show him what he had dreamed and its interpretation. They were greatly perplexed. They told him to tell them what he had dreamed and they would then interpret it to them, but he told them that he couldn’t remember what it was. When they told him that no one could do such a thing, he threatened to destroy them, their families and make their houses into latrines (restrooms). (Dan. 2:1-12)

  One of the Jewish captives, Daniel, saved the day for them all. Yahweh revealed the meaning of the dream to Daniel who, in turn, revealed it to King Nebuchadnezzar. When he explained it to the king, he fell on his face and worshipped Daniel commanding that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours (incense) to him (Dan. 2:46). Nebuchadnezzar declared, “Of a truth it is, that your Elohim is a Elohim of elohim, and a Sovereign of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret,” Dan. 2:46.

  Nebuchadnezzar had seen a great image in his dream that had a head of gold, breasts and arms of silver, belly and thighs of brass/bronze, legs of iron and feet part of iron and part of clay. (Dan. 2:31-33)

  This statue continued to stand until a stone was formed without hands that smote the image on its feet and the whole image was destroyed becoming like the chaff of wheat. (Dan. 2:34-35)

  Nebuchadnezzar was shown a prophetic dream of the world ruling kingdoms until the stone (Yahshua) from heaven would come to establish the kingdom of heaven on the earth. Whether you realize it or not, the fourth kingdom is still ruling in this world.

  Nebuchadnezzar was shown that he and his kingdom of Babylon were the head of this image, he being a king of kings and that three other inferior kingdoms would follow his. Scripturally and historically, the next three world ruling kingdoms were Persia, Greece/Macedonia and Rome.

DANIEL SEVEN

  In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel was shown another vision. He saw the four winds of heaven strive on the great sea and four beast kingdoms, diverse from one another arose from the sea. (Dan. 7:1-2)

  The sea is termed “the great sea,” which identifies the location, the center of their great power. Formerly, the Mediterranean Sea was called “The Great Sea.” Mediterranean simply means “middle of the earth.” Historically, the Mediterranean has been the center of control over the earth, even though there have been great kingdoms elsewhere in the world. This is because, Jerusalem, the city of the Great King Yahweh is located on the eastern rim of the Mediterranean Sea in an area called the Levant.

  While Daniel 2 gave a metallic nature  for the four kingdoms, Daniel 7 gives a beastly nature. It is the same four kingdoms because they continue in power, diverse from one another, until the kingdom of heaven is established (Dan. 7:9-14).

  The fourth kingdom is the terrible beast kingdom that originally has ten horns, the same number of horns that the dragon of Revelation 12 possesses and the same number of horns that the beast of Revelation 13 possesses.

  The fourth kingdom of Daniel two is primarily iron. The beast kingdom of Daniel seven has great iron teeth. The iron ties the fourth beast in with the fourth kingdom of Daniel two. There is hidden meaning in the image and the metals of Daniel two as well as the beastly natures in Daniel seven, but we will save that information for a later time.