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The Beast from the Sea:
Roman Catholic Church in Prophecy
The Book of Revelation provides information of coming events that will affect everyone on earth. This
information is presented in the form of prophetic symbols. Using these symbols, Heaven warns that one of the
greatest persecuting powers known to history will again arise to prominence and take an active role in
persecuting the elect of Yah.
For over 1,000 years, the Roman Catholic Church was the main instrument of persecution wielded against the
faithful, those who wanted to worship Yah according to the dictates of their consciences.
Revelation 13 contains a prophecy covering the span of past history as well as looking into the future when this
once-great power will again seek to trample the rights of Yahuwahs people:
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. 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. 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 [Elohim], to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them
that dwell in heaven. 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. (Revelation 13:1-8, KJV)
In prophecy, beasts are symbols of world-wide powers that persecute Yahuwahs people. John sees this beast
arising out of the sea. In the Bible, the sea is a symbol for a greatly populated area:
The waters . . . are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. (Revelation 17:15, KJV)
This is the first identifying characteristic that ties the beast of Revelation 13 to the Roman Catholic Church: it
arose in the Old World a place heavily populated and it was there that it exercised its power.
The beast from the sea that John saw had the body of a leopard, the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion. This
is significant because these very beasts were used in Daniel to represent the three world-wide powers that
persecuted Yahs people before the rise of Rome. Johns beast is an amalgamation, combining the
characteristics of the three preceding world powers.
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The Roman Catholic Church, which took over from Pagan Rome as a persecuting power, contains the
humanism of Greece (the leopard), the exaltation of Sunday from Medo-Persia (the bear) and worship
calculated on a continuous weekly cycle from Babylon (the lion).
Scripture states the beast from the sea receives his power from the dragon, which is a symbol both of paganism
and Satan himself:
The great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the
whole world . . . . (Revelation 12:9, KJV)
To a great degree, Roman Catholicism received its power from paganism. By adopting and accepting pagan
practices into the Church, Catholicism gained in power and popularity, extending her reach, literally, around the
globe.
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In no other area is this seen more clearly than in the modern
calendar, devised for and named after Pope Gregory XIII. The
entire world is united in the use of this counterfeit calendar
with its counterfeit days of worship.
Catholics even boast that the sign of their authority is the fact
that they changed the Sabbath to Sunday.
Who Do We Reverence and Pay Homage to by
Keeping Sunday Holy? From this we may understand
how great is the authority of the church in interpreting
or explaining to us the commandments of God an
authority which is acknowledged by the universal
practice of the whole Christian world, even of those
sects which profess to take the holy Scriptures as their
sole rule of faith, since they observe as the day of rest
not the seventh day of the week demanded by the
Bible, but the first day. Which we know is to be kept holy, only from the tradition and teaching of
the Catholic church. (Henry Gibson, Catechism Made Easy, #2, 9th edition, vol. 1, pp. 341-
342.)
At the Council of Nica, the Biblical calendar was abandoned and the pagan Julian calendar was adopted for
establishing times of worship.
This fact is symbolized by the amalgamated beast having seven heads on which are ten horns. The Church of
Rome rejected the ancient luni-solar calendar in favor of the pagan planetary week of seven days with its
continuous weekly cycle.
To conciliate the Pagans to nominal Christianity, Rome, pursuing its usual policy, took measures to get the
Christian and Pagan festivals amalgamated, and, by a complicated but skilful adjustment of the calendar, it
was found no difficult matter, in
general, to get Paganism and
Christianity now far sunk in
idolatry . . . to shake hands.
(Alexander Hislop, The Two
Babylons, p. 105.)
This amalgamation of Christianity
with paganism is further identified
in Revelation 17:5 as: MYSTERY,
BABYLON THE GREAT, THE
MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND
ABOMINATIONS OF THE
EARTH.
In Scripture, a woman is used as a
symbol of a church. A "harlot,"
therefore, stands for a corrupt
church.

Pope Gregory XIII, best known for commissioning and being the
namesake for the Gregorian calendar, which remains the
internationally accepted civil calendar to this date.
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The Roman Catholic Church is the mother because all other religions, not just Christian
denominations, calculate their worship days off of the calendar created by the Catholic Church.
Sunday is a Catholic institution and its claim to observance can be defended only on Catholic
principles...From beginning to end of Scripture there is not a single passage that warrants the
transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first. (Catholic Press,
Sydney, Australia, August, 1900.)
But the beast John sees has received a deadly wound. This occurred in 1798 when the dominating power of
the Catholic Church was taken away by a quick series of events. In February of 1798, that power which had
caused kings to tremble under the power of its interdict was humbled to the dust when French General Louis-
Alexandre Berthier, a Huguenot, took Pope Pius VI prisoner on Napoleon Bonapartes orders.
Two months later, on April 3, the French government enforced the use of its own calendar, consisting of 10-day
weeks.
This realignment of the calendar destroyed the papal day of worship. By removing Sunday from the week, it
struck right at the papacys claim of authority: the change of worship day to Sunday from the Biblical Sabbath.
This was the deadly wound, received by the papacy.
The timing of this series of events happened exactly according to the prophecy which stated that power was
given unto him to continue forty and two months.
In prophetic time, one day equals one year and each month has 30 days in the majority of cases. I have
appointed thee each day for a year. (Ezekiel 4:6, KJV) This Biblical principle applies to all prophetic time-
periods within the 2300 year prophecy, the longest time prophecy in the Bible. The fulfillment of this time
prophecy in 1844 marks the commencement of "time of the end." The principle of one day equals one year
cannot apply to time prophecies that will be fulfilled during the "time of the end." For "time of the end is too
short to accommodate this principle.
This began in A.D. 538 when General Belasarius, acting for the Byzantine emperor, Justinian, freed Rome from
the power of the Arian Ostrogoths after a siege lasting a year and nine days.
While the power of the Ostrogoths over northern Italy was not immediately broken, the acceptance of
Belasarius by Pope Silverius and the subsequent freeing of Rome from the Ostrogoths paved the way for the
Roman Catholic Church to enforce their pagan doctrine of the trinity a doctrine the Christian Ostrogoths
vehemently rejected.
This despotic iron rule extended 1,260 years during which millions of true-hearted Christians were martyred for
their faith. It ended, right on time, in 1798, with the capture of the pope and the removal of Sunday, the sign of
papal power, as a holy day.
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The vision does not end there, however. Yahuwah reveals that this same persecuting power shall again exercise
power over all the earth. John states:
His deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. (Revelation 13:3,
KJV)
This has been done as the entire world regulates its work days and holy days by a creation of the Roman
Catholic Church. Since World War II, the entire world has been united in using Pope Gregory XIIIs calendar.
The Roman Catholic Church may have been largely absent from world events since receiving the deadly
wound, but the sure word of prophecy warns:
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. (Revelation 13:7, 8, KJV)
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All who seek to honor the
Creator by returning to worship
on the seventh-day Sabbath of
the ancient Biblical calendar,
will incur the wrath of the
dragon and the beast. But
Yahs eye is upon His people
and His ears are open to their
cry.
The passage ends with a
promise for the faithful:
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 13:10)
All powers that persecute the
righteous will, in the end, face
divine justice. Here is the patience and faith of the saints, the promise that holds them strong in the face of the
fiercest persecution which is yet to come!
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but Yahuwah upholdeth the righteous and forsaketh
not his saints; He shall help them, and deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because
they trust in him. (See Psalm 37.)


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