REVELATION 13

The Beast, the

Image, & the
Mark
“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the
sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns,
and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw was
like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth
as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat,
and great authority.” Revelation 13:1, 2.
Here comes a beast up out of the water! Remember when Daniel saw
beasts coming out of the water? We are continuing on from Daniel’s
prophecies here in the book of Revelation.
Look at this beast; he has parts of all the other beasts!
‘Like a leopard’ Greece; ‘Feet as a bear’ Medo-Persia;
‘Mouth of a lion’ Babylon; ‘Dragon gave him seat, power,
and authority’ Pagan Rome and also Satan. Rome has
beliefs and practices that come from each of these Pagan
powers.
This beast is coming up out of the ‘sea’, which means it
comes to power in a well-populated area. It has ten horns
and ten crowns, so we know it is in the area that once was
ruled by the Roman Empire, which was broken up into ten
parts. And it has seven heads, three of the original nations
that took over the Roman Empire were destroyed, which
leaves seven heads left of the ten nations.
On these heads we see the name of blasphemy; by claiming
to be God on earth; by claiming to have power to forgive sins;
by claiming to change God’s law; and many other ways, this
Roman beast is a blasphemous beast and the heads, (rulers
and nations) by accepting and honoring this power, also bring
blasphemy on themselves.
“And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly
wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.”
Revelation 13:3.
The deadly wound to this Papal beast was given to it in 1798, when
Napoleon sent his general, Berthier, into Rome to remove the pope from
power and throw him into prison. He died in captivity and it seemed for a
brief time that the papacy was dead forever. The original wording for
‘wounded’ actual means ‘killed’, it was ‘killed to death’.
It is very interesting that the order to remove the pope was given more than
a year before 1798, but, somehow, it didn’t get done until 1798. We know
why, don’t we? Because the prophecies said he would rule for 1260 years,
not 1259! God’s word never fails!
As soon as another pope was placed on the throne, this power began to
work to ‘heal its deadly wound’. The text says it WILL be healed. What has
to happen before the wound is healed? Well, first we have to look at what
ended at the end of the 1260 years. The Roman church did not cease to
exist, and shortly after, a new pope was elected; was the wound healed
then?
No, it wasn’t; you see, the ‘Beast’
power is a combination of church
AND government. It is when the
church has full control to use the
government to force people to
obey it, and to persecute
dissenters.

After 1798 the Roman church

continued as a church, but it no
longer had power to rule the
governments and force them to
work for it. It is trying to get this
power back and it is getting very
close to it!
All the world will wonder after the Beast! Do you see people all excited
whenever the Pope comes to visit? Do you see people, even non-
Catholics, admiring him? When we try to show the world what this Power
is intending to do, people get mad at us; the world is ‘wondering after
him’.
“And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and
they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able
to make war with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking
great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue
forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,
to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in
heaven.” Revelation 13:4-6
Prophecies are like a puzzle, God gives us clues, and when we put them
together, carefully following what the Bible says the clues mean, we
can see what He is telling us. These verses give more ‘clues’.
They worshipped the ‘dragon’; Pagan leaders were worshipped as gods.
Their head priest was called Pontifex Maximus, the 'Great Bridge
Builder', this name was passed on to the Roman emperors and later,
when one of the Roman Emperors decided that he did not feel right to
take this title, as it claimed control of the souls of men, the Bishop of
Rome snapped it up, and the popes have been called 'Pontiffs' ever
since.
 Also Satan, who is also the Dragon, is worshipped either directly or
indirectly by all Pagan religions. So we see a power that had been
worshipped, giving authority to another power, which is also worshipped,
that is Papal Rome.
‘Who is like unto the beast’? The kings of Europe during the dark ages
well knew the power of the Papacy. They were afraid to oppose her. In
fact, once, when a king had offended the pope, the poor king stood
barefoot and hatless for days outside the pope’s palace in the winter-time,
so he could beg forgiveness from the proud pontiff. How different from the
meek and lowly Jesus, Who washed the feet of even Judas!
 1260 YEARS!

“And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and
blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two
months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme
his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.” Revelation
13:5, 6.
 1260 YEARS!

‘Given unto him…A mouth speaking blasphemies’; to have a ‘mouth’ in

prophecy means to be able to pass laws. The papal power passed many
wicked and blasphemous laws during her time ruling the world. Ordering
the Bible to be burned and anyone who loved it, to be burned also, was
one of these laws.
‘Forty and two months’; this is another 1260-year prophecy.
He ‘blasphemes God’s name; In Bible, God’s Name represents His
character, what He is really like; the Papacy, through her ideas of
purgatory and eternal hell fire, made millions look upon God as a monster,
instead of the loving Father He really is.
 1260 YEARS!
‘God’s Tabernacle’; By setting up human priests and telling everyone they
could only be saved through the church and its ceremonies, Rome spoke
against the ministry of Jesus for us in the Heavenly Sanctuary. The church
leaders stood like a wall stopping the people from coming straight to
Jesus.
‘Them that dwell in heaven’;
there are so many weird and
wicked stories told to the
people by the Roman church
that say false things about
angels, Jesus, God, the Holy
Spirit and so on. They also tell
the people that all these old
dead church leaders are now
‘saints’ in heaven and the
people should pray to them.
To pray to the dead in any
form is to worship demons!
“And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome
them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and
nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names
are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of
the world. If any man have an ear, let him hear. He that leadeth into
captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed
with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.”
Revelation 13:7-10
Here again we have more clues, so many in fact that there just is not ANY
other power on earth that this can be but Papal Rome! Here again we see
it persecuting and killing the true followers of Jesus during the 1260 years
of rule.
 1260 YEARS!

‘Power was given him’; during the 1260 years, this wicked power was
allowed to do pretty much do what it wanted to. Satan can never say to God
and the universe that his religion would have worked, but God didn’t give
him a chance to prove it. No, indeed, for 1260 years that religion ruled, and
the effects on the world and on people and nations are written in history
and in the books of heaven with letters of blood!
Then we are told that ALL on earth shall worship him, whose names are
NOT written in the Book of Life. This is very solemn; unless you have
really given your whole heart to Jesus and serve Him only, you WILL end
up worshipping the Beast! There is no other choice, and it is now that we
better decide for the right; the time will come later we will no longer have
the choice.
‘Captivity and sword’; Here is a warning from God; too bad the haughty
popes did not spend much time reading the Bible, they could have been
warned what would happen to them if they kept doing their wicked and
cruel deeds.
‘He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the
sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of
the saints.’
It is also giving us more clues; for centuries, Rome threw the people of God
into prisons, she sent armies with swords to kill them and drove them into
hidden places of the earth; then in 1798, armies were sent against her, and
a military power threw the pope into prison. In the upheavals during the
French Revolution, the Roman priests and leaders were slaughtered by the
people, just as formerly the church had slaughtered God’s children.
The people of God
did read the Bible,
during those 1260
years of cruel
persecution; many
were encouraged by
God’s promise that
the persecuting
power would have
an end. This did give
them patience and
faith.
“And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two
horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.” Revelation 13:11-13
Here comes another Beast! But this time it comes out of the ‘earth’. Now if
the ‘seas’ mean areas where there are lots of people, ‘earth’ would mean
where there was not many people. Did a new power arise near the close
of the 1260 years, around 1798, in areas where there was not many
people?
Yes, it certainly did! And where these other beasts arose in the ‘winds’,
that is with war and strife, this power just quietly arose and grew into
power in the late 1700s. It is the United States of America.
‘It had two horns, like a lamb’; These horns were the secret of his power
and glory and represent the principles of civil and religious liberty.
“Republicanism and Protestantism” are also an equivalent expression. It
means that the power of church and state are separate powers; the
church is not able to use the state to enforce her decrees and the state is
not allowed to interfere with the free exercise of conscientious worship. It
is like a lamb, this means it is gentle, not harmful and cruel like the other
beasts.
Strangely enough, it is these very same two horns, civil and religious
freedom, that keep the wounded head on the leopard-like beast from
healing, and it still isn't healed to this day, not completely. How do they do
this? Well, the concept that every man has a right to freedom, and to be
able to exercise his religious beliefs freely without hassle, was a very new
idea in the world in the late 1700s; but it is just taken for granted now,
because it has spread throughout the world, and this belief in the rightful
freedom of man, prevents the Roman beast from starting to slaughter
heretics again as it would like to.
Instead it has to pretend to go along with the freedom idea, and it yells the
loudest about freedom when its own 'rights' are interfered with. But it really
hates this idea that people should be free to serve God or not serve Him
as they see fit. During the Dark Ages, people accepted the idea that popes
and kings had the 'Divine Right' to force people to do whatever they
wanted to! No one ever thought to question this; but now because of the
two horns of the American Lamb-like Beast, the world sees things
differently.
In order to come back into the despotic power she had before in the
middle ages, the Roman power has to play a very different game of
strategy.
‘Like a DRAGON”; but something happens, this helpful, gentle beast with
its amazing two horns, begins to ‘speak like a dragon’! To ‘speak’ means
to pass laws, this means this power will eventually pass laws ‘like a
Dragon Power’.
“And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and
causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first
beast, whose deadly wound was healed.” Revelation 13:12
Did you know that the power that
the Dragon represented, besides
Satan, was Pagan Rome, and
that power, under Constantine,
passed the world’s first
SUNDAY-LAW?

Yes indeed, in the 300s, before

Papal Rome had received the
seat and authority from the
dragon, Pagan Rome passed six
Sunday Laws after Constantine
declare himself to be a
‘Christian’. When the Lamb-like
beast speaks 'like the dragon' it
will pass laws to force all to keep
the Sunday also.
“And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from
heaven on the earth in the sight of men,” Revelation 13:13.
Now we see this lamb-beast working to force people to worship the
leopard-beast of Rome. It does this by passing laws which honor
Rome, such as forcing people to worship on Sunday, which Rome claims
is its ‘mark’ of authority.
This lamb/dragon power does great wonders; the USA has great
technology and does wonders in the use of atomic power and so on. Also
there are many people arising in USA that are performing miracles by
means of demon spirits, but they think the power is from God!
It is interesting that the USA is promoting the ideas of evolution and
rejection of the Biblical record of Genesis throughout the world, while at the
same time pointing to its scientific progress as evidence that she is right
about this. America's brand of 'Protestantism' is a mixture of evolution,
pantheism, spiritism, humanism and situation ethics. This is why the lamb-
like beast is also the ‘False Prophet'!
How do we know for sure the
power behind these miracles
is demonic? Well, the Bible
tells us ‘if they speak not
according to this Word, there
is No light in them’. Isaiah
8:20. When these ‘miracle
workers’ tell people to keep
the Sunday, and that they
don't need to keep God's Ten
Commandments, they show
they are from the darkness.
 Many people think that when
anything happens that looks
like a miracle, it has to be God
who is doing it. Sadly they
don’t read their Bibles, for we
are told clearly that in the last
days miracles are going to be
the sign of the false power that
seeks to force all to receive the
Mark of the Beast!
“And deceiveth them that
dwell on the earth by the
means of those miracles
which he had power to do in
the sight of the beast; saying
to them that dwell on the
earth, that they should make
an image to the beast, which
had the wound by a sword,
and did live.” Revelation
13:14.
These miracles and deceptive
philosophy are what will convince
many people that this movement is
right, and they will follow it blindly,
and hate all who speak against it,
and who seek to show from the Bible
where it is wrong. If you get people
coming to you all excited telling you
about miracles; watch out! There Will
be true miracles, But when people do
miracles and then tell you that God’s
law has been changed or doesn’t
matter, or that we can’t keep it
anyway, or we have to keep sinning
until Jesus comes, they are doing the
devil’s work whether they know it or
not!
“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image
of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not
worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Revelation 13:15.
So here we see this power, now speaking as a Dragon and it is saying to
all the world, ‘Let’s make something that is a copy of the beast that was
wounded; let’s make a copy of the Papacy.’ What would be a copy, ‘image’,
of the Papal Beast? It would be when the USA starts to use government
power and laws to Force people to obey religious laws just like Rome did
in the 1260 years.
Can USA tell the world what to do? We see many examples lately that it is
starting to do exactly that. Since Sept 11, 2001, USA has been rising up
and talking more proudly than ever before, just like the proud Papal Beast
before it, it is exulting itself. Now it is getting ready to push its weight
around, and it has a lot of weight!
It is going to pass laws to force all people to not only keep Sunday, BUT to
also break the 7th day Sabbath of the Lord. And those who won’t obey
these laws, will not be able to buy or sell. This is the very method that
USA has been using for many years now against countries it doesn’t like;
it makes ‘economic sanctions’ and stops them from buying and selling,
until they have to ‘give in’.
But God’s true people won’t ‘give in’. God helps them, and they stand firm
for His Sabbath. So then the lamb/dragon says they are all to die. A death
decree is passed that on a certain day all the Sabbath keepers are to be
killed. At that time, God closes probation on this earth and the plagues begin
to fall on the wicked. Always remember, God’s obedient people have nothing
to fear, as He will help them and protect them. Even those who die as
martyrs will be given all the courage and help they need. Jesus will hold
their hand!
 “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,
to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no
man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the
beast, or the number of his name." Revelation 13:16
IS IT A TATTOO?

A MEMORY CHIP?

A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER?

MAYBE EVEN A BAR CODE??

What a lot of funny ideas people have about this ‘mark’ on the hand or
forehead. It is no mystery; the MARK of Rome’s authority is Sunday-
keeping enforced by law. This is the mark of the beast. People get it in
their hand when they agree to obey the power, not because they believe
in it, but just so they can buy and sell and not be persecuted. They get it in
their forehead when they really believe in it, because of all the miracles
Satan is doing to fool them. It isn’t a visible mark.
‘And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the
name of the beast, or the number of his name.’
Notice the three groups, those who have the ‘mark’; that means those
who keep Sunday; the protestants; those who have the ‘name of the
beast’; the Roman Catholics; and those who have the ‘number of the
beast’s name; 666’, this represents the pagan religions and the new age
movement, all of which have the number 666 somewhere in their
ceremonies or worship. All three unite to persecute the true Sabbath
keepers.
“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 13:16.
Then here we see the number 666; many people get mixed up and
think that 666 is the ‘mark’ of the beast but it isn’t, it is another clue.
I’ll show you how it works:
In Latin, Roman language, letters are also used for numbers, so a persons
name can often have a number by adding up what the letter/numbers mean.
A documented Roman Catholic source states, "The letters inscribed in the
Pope's miter are these 'VICARIUS FILII DEI', which is the Latin for 'VICAR
OF THE SON OF GOD.' Catholics hold that the church, which is a visible
society, must have a visible head...., as head of the church, was given the
title, 'VICAR OF CHRIST'." Our Sunday Visitor, (Catholic Weekly) "Bureau
of information," Huntington, Ind., April 18, 1915.

When you take the letters that are also numbers in this name
and add them up it comes to 666.
V.... 5, I... 1, C.... 100, A... 0, R... 0, I.... 1, U.....5, S .... 0 = 112
F.... 0, I... 1, L... 50, I... 1, I.... 1 = 53
D.... 500, E.... 0, I..... 1=501
112 + 53 + 501= 666
 A ‘vicar’ is someone who take another’s place; vicar of God,
means he takes God’s place. In Greek the word ‘ANTE’ or
ANTI means ‘to take the place of’. So ‘Antichrist’ is not
someone who is against Christ, or a non-Christian power, it
really means someone who claims to ‘take the place of’
Christ; or to stand in His place. That is exactly what the
Roman power claims to do!
CONTINUED IN REVELATION 14