In a recent previous article I suggested that leftist permissiveness has gone too far and there could be a purge coming from the religious right. What I did not say is that I think much of this purge will take place because of the influence of the Roman Catholic Church.
There may be a war with Islam to bring about the rise of Rome, or it could come about through Marian deceptions, or through some other means, but I am convinced that the whore of Revelation 17 is the Roman Catholic Church. It is this woman that rides the Beast/Antichrist into power.
Both Israel and this Rome based institutional Christianity has committed fornication with the satanic pagan world. Both are harlots and both receive similar fates in the last days. The second whore is the one that confirms the covenant with the first whore.
For centuries after the reformers departed from Roman Catholic controlled Christendom, they identified the Roman Catholic Church as being the whore of Revelation 17. In recent days some have claimed that the whore is Islam. That is not likely. This woman is an adulterer. She claims to have a husband but she fornicates with the satanic world system. Islam never knew God or Christ. Islam cannot fulfill the role of adulterous Christian identity posing as Christianity.
Only the Vatican in Rome qualifies as the whore of Revelation 17. Rome sits on seven hills. Rome was the city that ruled the world in the time that John received the prophecy. It was Rome that killed the apostles and the saints. The scripture says the woman has blasphemous names, the “Holy” Roman Empire existed but it was evil. The Roman pontiff claims to be the vicar of Christ but he is not. The Roman church claims that a man-made wafer becomes Christ and can be consumed. Those are just three of the many blasphemous names claimed by Roman Catholicism.
The Vatican has diplomatic relationships with most nations on earth and has historically fornicated with the secular leaders of the world. The Vatican now has a seat at the UN. She is the whore fornicating with the kings seen in Revelation 17.
The Roman Empire destroyed the second Temple. And it will be Rome that rides in the Beast that confirms the seven year covenant with Israel, but then defiles the rebuilt Temple a few years later. The Beast will stand in the holy place in the Temple and claim to be above anything called God (2Th 2:4).
The Roman Catholic Church claims to be the only true Church on earth, but it mixed in Babylonian pagan practices and doctrines just as Israel did and received condemnation from God. The Roman Catholic Church way of salvation is in direct contradiction to the gospel delivered by the apostles.
In the Roman church, salvation comes by obedience to their religion. In reality, keeping religious decrees to earn your own salvation is an insult to God. Works based religion cannot save anyone.
I won’t get into the specific details of the many heresies of the Roman Catholic Church here. It would take a book to explain them all. I recommend that Christians read these articles by Mike Gendron.
For detailed information on why the Roman Church is the whore of Revelation 17, I recommend a very detailed book on Roman Catholicism written by the late Dave Hunt. It is titled A Woman rides the Beast.
I don’t know how anyone calling themselves Christian can accommodate the damnable heresies of the Roman Catholic Church as if they teach the gospel of salvation of scripture. In the Roman Catholic religion, salvation comes through earning merits. God’s grace is something you must earn by keeping the church sacraments, traditions, rituals and by doing good works. Those that say that salvation comes just by faith in Jesus are condemned by the Roman Catholic Church.
The priests of the Roman church are said to be successors of the apostles and said to have all of Christ’s authority on earth. Roman Catholic priests act as God’s grace dispensers. The Roman church is said to be infallible. They teach that if you confess your sins to a priest and accumulate enough merits through obedience to the church you may eventually go to heaven. Those that have venial sin and not enough merits will pay for their sins in Purgatory. Those that have unconfessed mortal sin will go to Hell for eternity. They teach that Jesus only made it possible for you to be saved. You still must earn salvation.
Many of the church’s traditions and practices are contrary to scripture proving that this church is not infallible. It is full of abominations. Satan with his wolves in sheep’s clothing infiltrated this church and corrupted it. The Catholic Church has become as evil as the corrupted Judaism that Jesus condemned. It is a church led by religious Scribes and Pharisees who continue to stumble over stumbling stones laid by previous demonic men. It is a church of blind ritual — a church of idolatry, rote prayer and man-made traditions.
My point in this article is that something is going to happen that allows the Roman Catholic Church to fully take over Christendom again. It will be a form of Dominion Theology that will spread worldwide after great wars and plagues threaten the survival of humankind.
Already, liberal Protestants, Word of Faith and half of those calling themselves Evangelical Christians are calling for unity with Rome as if Jesus wants the institutional churches of Christendom to unite on lies. The actual takeover by the Roman church probably will not occur until after the Rapture of true Christians.
I think during a period of world war, a demonic deception posing as the Queen of Heaven (Mary) will come with a message declaring that world peace will only come if people convert to the Roman Catholic Church and do what she says. Because of the supernatural nature of the message It will be convincing to religious people. Then the Roman Church in true form of its wretched history will persecute anyone that opposes her.
This persecution of believers in the true Christ by the whore is what is spoken of under the fifth seal of Revelation. Keep in mind that I believe the seals will begin to play out before the final seven years for Israel.
The first four seals speak about a time of great war and troubling events on earth, but these are not yet the judgements of Christ and the Father. The four horsemen events brings the Roman whore to its full power. The last seven years is the time of Jacob’s trouble. That period starts with the confirming of the seven-year covenant with Israel by the Roman Prince. That is when God will deal with the Jews again for their final week of years before the restoration of all things. This seven-year period begins after the sixth seal is opened.
The rise of the whore into the limelight again and the persecution of those that reject the whore is likely to take place after the Rapture. At that time Christendom on earth will become controlled by the Roman whore.
It seems to me that a pseudo Christian Dominion Theology will be ruling on earth from shortly after the Rapture until the mid-point of the seven-year tribulation. Then comes the rise of the lawless one. In the first half of those seven years the Roman Catholic Church and the Jews will get the Christ/Messiah that they want, but in the second half of those seven years their anointed one will turn on them and persecute them. That is the end fate of the two whores.
As those that identified with the whores persecuted true believers, she will be persecuted by the Beast system when the lawless one rises out of the abyss. At that time each individual in the two whores can still be saved because they did not deny the Lord’s name, but it will cost most of them their lives.
Rev 2: 22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
Those who are obedient to the two witnesses in Israel can escape death if they flee to the mountains when the false Messiah enters the Temple. People outside Israel must reject the lawless Beast and endure until the end of the age.
In the last days, religious dominionism led by the Roman Catholic Church will be saying peace and safety can be found through the message that they promote. Before the lawless Antichrist even takes power a purge will come on earth through Roman based self-religious religion. When the false Christ that the Roman Church advances takes power, sudden destruction will come upon the whole world. If Jesus coming is soon, the rise of the whore will occur even sooner. It would be wise not to get caught up in the whore’s self-righteous purge.
Hi all,
Don, I agree that Islam is not the Harlot. God speaks of only one sixth of those who come against Israel will be left in the aftermath of a great war (Ezekiel 39:2). With Islam greatly reduced numbers, many May fall for a demonic deception of a message from Mary, as she is revered in Islamic teachings. Those who refuse, will be persecuted along with true believers in Christ. This makes it more easy for the Harlot to put forth a covenant with Israel.
As for the evil perpetrated by the Catholic Church down through the centuries, the two best books I’ve ever read cover their pagan beliefs, and the second, how they persecuted the Jew’s virtually from their inception.
I’ve posted links to this book on another forum here, but it easy to find free copies in any format online. “The Two Babylon’s” by Alexander Hislop 1916
https://archive.org/details/theTwoBabylons
And, this lengthy read,
“Constantine’s Sword” by James Carol written in last decade or so, was a former Catholic priest.
https://www.amazon.com/Constantines-Sword-Church-Jews-History/dp/0618219080
Thanks for the article. Very interesting. I clicked on “articles by Mike Gendron” but it took me to No Page Exist. Thanks
Hi George,
Guess I put in a bad link. It works now.
Don,
I really like this article, I like thought provoking, hardcore, to the extreme point Biblical Facts especially about the End Of The Age Prophecy.
Very well and strongly said which is why you have a small remnant following.
How I do wish you had a bigger following…a mainstream following, but for many reasons, I understand that is not going to happen.
I will read this article again tonight.
Hi all,
I remember seeing in a documentary that the Catholic church was involved in hiding Nazi war criminals. The book A Woman Rides the Beast probably talks about that in Ch. 19 The Vatican, the Nazis, and the Jews. I’m guessing I haven’t bought it yet.
But I bet like u eluded to the rapture happens then the cards really began to fall into place. We can certainly see the alignment of the cards already.
I’m still reading THE POST RAPTURE / PRE-TRIBULATION THESIS By Bill Salus that’s extremely good! Thanks David L for posting that last week.
Don
I agree that much of the swing back (many in the world have swung too far towards evil, now others are beginning to swing society back towards the good) will come from the Roman Catholic Church. After all, on their long term key issues – clerical abstinence, marriage between one man and one woman (neither of whom is confused about their gender identity) and encouraging the family to have children – the Roman Catholic Church stances cannot be further from the vile behaviors that the “modern” world is advocating.
However, I see the RCC as being ONE of the players in the end of the age conglomeration of evil. There are about 1.2 billion RCC members and about 5 billion non Christians in the world (leaving 1.2 billion non RCC Christians). The RCC Pope coming out as THE head won’t do much to swing the other 5 billion who don’t believe in the real Jesus.
I am under the school of thought that 1 of 2 “Christians” will be taken in the rapture. That follows the parables of Jesus in Matthew about the end of the age – 1 in the field taken, 1 left, etc. That is much higher than the % you think will go – but we don’t need to be Holy in the eyes of God to go, we just need to be Righteous in His eyes (right about Jesus as our Lord & Savior). That means much of the RCC and the Orthodox Christians will probably be left behind AND some of the Protestants and Independents will be left too. In other words, there are enemies of the body of Christ in EVERY denomination around the world – just more in certain areas such as the RCC.
I take the whore of Babylon as sitting on 7 mountains of deception – not just the 7 hills of Rome. That means she is the spiritual head over all the enemies of Christ (not just the ones inside the RCC). These 7 mountains include: ethno / folk religionists (676 million); Hinduism (982 million); Buddhism (510 million); Agnostics (684 million); Atheists (136 million); Cultural Christianity (1.2 billion) & Islam (1.6 billion). This accounts for 98% of all the people on earth who are eternally perishing!
This then means that the “City of Babylon” becomes more like St. Augustine’s 5th century book “The City of God” – in which he showed all true Christians on earth are citizens of the City of God (the body of Christ is how the Bible puts it). Babylon can then be headquartered in a city and it can also be surrounding us wherever we born again believers live. This earth is NOT our home.
Bottom line – I think limiting Babylon and Satan’s strategies to being led by the Roman Catholic Church is just too small a model to work for Satan’s agenda of trying to fool the “whole world”.
Maranatha!
Hi Fount,
I do not think algorizing prophetic scriptures gives answers on anything. The prophecy really explains itself. The seven mountains in Revelation 17 are not world religious the prophecy says that they are seven world kingdoms.
Nothing said in Matthew is about the Church. Matthew gives the gospel of the kingdom to the Hebrews.
The Rapture is not about holiness, it is for people that Jesus is talking to in the letter to the Church at Philadelphia. It will come to those that kept His word and look for His coming. Only people born of the Spirit will be going in the Rapture. Christian identity is not enough. That disqualifies most in Christendom.
If there was a demonic deception like the Queen of Heaven giving a message, most of the world would believe what that entity said. That would even be more likely during a time of world war. Just look at how many Catholics and non Catholics in the world still follow the Fatima deception. And now what happens will be instantly broadcast all over the world.
Don,
I am also of the belief that the Pope is going to be the false prophet. However, I think that part, most, or all of the deception is going to come from the fallen angels. I believe they could present themselves as saviors and or our creators. I think you have offered this theory before.
Anyway, it’s the one thing that seems to make sense when it talks about deception so great that it would turn the elect if it were possible. Now I’ve heard all kinds of possibilities regarding the fallen angels, including the Antichrist being one, but maybe there is a female entity or angel that is worshipped? Or, maybe one of the angels is the false prophet/Pope? Being an angel, it would seemingly be able to show great wonders etc. The Marian commonalities between the religions seems to certainly play a part as well. Anyway thanks for your blog. I look forward to the posts each week.
Hi Steve,
I am suggesting that the Marian deception will come at least a few years before the last seven years. I agree that there is likely to be an even greater deception from the fallen angels but that happens after the Beast rises out of the abyss and takes power. Keep in mind that the ten kings that align with the Beast persecute the harlot. There won’t be any Marian deception in the time of the Antichrist because people won’t be joining with Roman Catholicism anymore they will be persecuting it at that point.