A few thoughts:
Rome, the Vatican sits on seven hills. The popes, claiming to be vicars of Christ have committed spiritual fornication with the kings of the earth by their unholy religious/political alliances with world leaders since the time of Constantine. The Roman Empire will be revived and this unholy religious/political system will bring in a one world religion united with global government under the final antichrist world leader.
“The woman in Revelation 17 can only be Rome/Vatican City. No other
city built on seven hills wields such authority, exchanging ambassadors with
nations. Nor does any other city claim to represent Christ, and thus no other could stand accused of spiritual fornication due to unholy alliances with earth's rulers. Neither can any other city rival the blood of both Jews and Christians which pagan Rome and later the Vatican have shed.”
The Christian church, after being granted recognition and freedom by Constantine, soon became the persecutor of all those who did not submit to its doctrines. Like
Islam a few centuries later, Christianity was imposed upon the entire populace of Europe under the threat of torture and death. Christ told His disciples that whosoever would be the greatest must be the servant of all.
Instead, the popes aspired to be masters of the world. Church and state joined in adulterous partnership to expand the "Holy Roman Empire" by enforcing conversion with the sword.
“The Roman
Catholic Church began to believe it had replaced
Israel as God's chosen people. That land, promised by God to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, now belonged, for new and holier reasons, to "Christian" Rome, the new Zion. The pagan empire had become the Holy Roman Empire, the "Kingdom of God" on earth. The hope of its revival was the dream of all Europe during the Middle Ages––a goal which will be accomplished at last by
Antichrist. The revived Roman Empire over which he will rule, with enthusiastic Vatican support as in the past, will encompass the entire world.”
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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets,...how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not! Luke 13:34 I will shew
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“If that seven-headed beast with ten horns, the revived Roman Empire, is to appear, then the "woman"
must hold the reins once again. While the Roman
Catholic Church, since the Reformation, saw its supreme power challenged, it has regained much. The Vatican is a sovereign state like any nation. It exchanges ambassadors with the world's nations and participates in international politics. The NCR boasts, "No other church has such privileged access" to top political gatherings.”
And in the days of these [ten] kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed.... Daniel 2:44 After this I saw...a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible...and it h
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