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Del

Based on thorough study of the Book of Revelation chapters 12, 13 and 17, and a vision in a dream I had in 1999, I now go public with some information from the Bible that will stagger your mind and make you more prepared for the terrible events that lie ahead.

Please read the following article under much prayer that the Lord will lead you to the truth. If anything of what you read should appear unbiblical to you, please let me know. I only answer serious addresses.

The Judgement Over Babylon

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The prophet John received several visions regarding the beast with seven heads and ten horns identified as the Roman Catholic Church. He had been told that the beast after it's heyday of 1260 years would lose it's power and influence, but that it again would come into a position of power in the endtimes.

"The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is." (Rev 17:8)

In the final phase of the endtimes, once again the persecutional power, known and identified as the beast in Revelation chapters 13 and 17, will come into the position of power that it had previously during the Middle Ages. A surprising and massive change in it's peculiarity gradually takes place, as the woman - The Catholic Church - whom previously had been the "face" for the display for the beast's power, is destroyed and the power is transferred to a coalition between exclusively the restitutionalized beast and the ten horns:

"And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire." (Rev 17:12-16)

The ten horns are the ten tribes that constitute the european peoples, a conclusion that is supported by the prophecy of the four World Empires that Daniel received a few hundred years before John. In this prophecy Daniel got to see four beasts, whereof the fourth and last had ten horns (Dan 7:7,8). The beast that John saw in Revelation chapters 12, 13 and 17 is in accordance with the beast that Daniel saw. One knows this based on the characteristics of the beast and it's place in the sequential row of worldpowers that was prophecied. Daniel was told that these ten horns were ten kings that would arise from this empire (Dan 7:24), and that three of these kings would be removed to make way for the papacy. This is exactly what history has shown has taken place. The fact that three tribes were "plucked up" as the papacy grew forth as prophecied in the book of Daniel 7, does not mean that they are extinct. Actually it has been more or less confirmed that the three tribes which are mentioned here, the vandals, the heruls and the east-goths, are to find in the scandinavian countries.

When it comes to the destruction of the Catholic Church, the Bible explains more thoroughly about this in Revelation chapter 18:

"And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more." (Rev 18:9-11)

Because of the destruction that strikes the Catholic Church, the whole global economic apparatus including all business-connections, economic alliances and financial enterprises on earth will suffer from this, because the ruin of the papacy results in a complete stagnation of their operations. This destruction comes in one hour, which corresponds to about 14 days in prophetic time reckoned using the day-year-principle (Ezek 4:4-6; Luk 13:32,33), and most likely occurs simultaneously with the peoples of Europe receiving authority as kings together with the beast. There is ground to conclude with this, as this event also takes place in one hour.

What specifically takes place here?

With the exception that Europe changes the multipolitical body of cooperation that they have worked up throughout the latest decades, and introduces a completely new body for their common european vision, there is good reason to draw the conclusion that it is the EU that is the main tool for the ten horns. It says about the ten horns - which also are defined as ten kings - that they haven't received any kingdom yet, but that they work to achieve this. Even if the nations that comprise the EU still has national sovereignity, the EU in many ways is already to be regarded as a kingdom, as it has common laws, rules and regulations/directions for it's members, - something that also includes the european nations outside of the EU - and has also worked to make a common constitution. The Bible says that the ten horns already are kings - that is they have individual kingdoms - but that they still have no kingdom. Out of this one sees that they try to form a common kingdom crosswise of their nationalities. This is very similar to the work that happens in the EU.

When it comes to the beast, something extraordinary is in the works.

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So far in history the beast in Revelation has been personified through the papacy, and this is the way it will continue to be also in the future. Still towards the end of the endtime a change in it's appearance occurs. Throughout it's entire history the ideology of the papacy has been expressed through the Catholic Church as an organization. In it's last phase, this ideology will be collected in one specific leader, which the Bible describes as the personified version of the beast:

"And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition." (Rev 17:9-11)

Here we see that the seven heads of the beast comes into focus, and give us more information about the beast in it's last stage. We get to know that the seven heads of the beast are seven mountains. It is very well known that the city of Rome, which also houses the Vatican and is the mainseat of the papacy, was built on seven hills. We also get to know that the seven heads are seven kings. These have to be seven concrete, individual leaders, as we already have been told that the heads are placed on the one and the same beast. Therefore one has to exclude the possibility of interpretation that these are kingdoms. Kingdoms cannot be heads upon another kingdom, as this would be self-contradictory. These kingdoms would not fulfill the criterias to be defined as kingdoms. If the eighth king was a kingdom, he would have to be a head upon himself, as the eighth also is defined to be the beast, which represents a huge logical flaw. When the kings mentioned here cannot represent kingdoms, the Bible gives no other foundation to conclude with other than that they are concrete, personified figures of leadership. These figures of leadership also have to belong to the same power, because otherwise this would contradict the information given in Daniel chapter 7 where it says that there would not be any other worldpower after the fourth that Daniel saw. This fourth worldpower was known as the Roman Empire, whose power was gradually taken over by the papacy. And when the eighth of the kings in Rev 17:10 is defined to be the beast itself, there is ground to conclude with that this king has to be the personification of everything that the beast stands for. Perhaps some will argue that it is a good reason to believe that the eighth must be a kingdom as he is called the beast, but this cannot be the case as the eighth in the startingpoint is not a beast but a head that is given the characteristic the beast. Additionally the angel underlines in his explanation to John that the beast, that is the power of persecution that the Catholic Church exercised during the Middle Ages, on the given point in time in the context, that is after 1798, no longer is (Rev 17:8). Therefore the papacy as an organization cannot possibly be symbolized through any of these seven kings, as one of them - the sixth - "is" after the papacy lost it's influence and position in 1798, and also before the beast has been rehabilitated. This more than indicates that the seven kings are not symbols of kingdoms, but rather of concrete figures of leadership. What the Bible seems to do in proclaiming the sixth king as the one that "is", is underlining that this was a leader that there was something significant with. In the original text the word that is used here, means "dure for a while" and "consisteth", which may underline the influence of John Paul II and also his long reigning period compared to all the popes after 1929.

In the article "Spiritual War", we saw how the papacy lost it's influence and position in 1798 after it's 1260 year heyday. The papacy did not achieve status as an independent kingdom until 1929 through the Lateran Treaty where the Vatican state was established, and the papacy was defined as a nation. This event is of essential importance in this context, because it is not up until this point in time that the papacy is to be regarded as a complete beast again in a prophetic connection. And before the papacy was an official nation, they also did not have any official kings. It is only after the papacy receives a registrated kingdom that the terminology "kings" can be applied to it. And who are the ones thay most naturally appears as kings in the Catholic Church? This is of course the popes.

Since 1929 there has been 6 popes. The present pope, Benedict XVI, is the seventh in line. This means that the next king, the eighth, has to have been one of the seven previous kings and at the same time be the personification of the beast's characteristics.

In Revelation 13:3 it says that one of the beast's heads received a deadly wound. This event can only be applied to one of the heads, namely pope John Paul II, who famously got shot in 1981 but survived. Succeeding the healing of the deadly wound, the popularity of the papacy increases greatly in the years to come, as predicted in the prophecy "and all the world wondered after the beast" (Rev 13:3). No pope after 1929, including the present pope, comes anywhere near pope John Paul II in popularity. The Catholic Church experienced a strong wave of prosperity all over the world during his reign, even in muslim countries. It says in Rev 13:2 that the U.S.A. will exercise the power that the papacy had, and makes the entire earth worship the first beast that had this deadly wound healed. It is worth noticing that the Bible shifts between applying the deadly wound to both the beast and one of it's heads. We already know from Revelation 17, that at this time we are talking about a personified version of the beast. Who can this be other than John Paul II? But, may some say, pope John Paul II is dead. He cannot possibly come into power again. This is correct. But there is nothing that stands in the way for the devil to make it look like pope John Paul II is ressurrected, because as the Bible says in 2 Chorintians 11:14, Satan transformes himself into an angel of light. Demons are capable of imitating the physical characteristics of human beings. In the book of Samuel chapter 28, is is thoroughly described how the devil made such a good job in imitating the prophet Samuel after his death, that even king Saul, who knew him well, could not see the difference. So called reunions with dead relatives and other people will be one of the main deceptions/villfarelser that Satan will use in the endtime to deceive people with to deliver false reports and messages. Through imitating the physical appearences and characteristics of loved ones that has passed away, Satan makes it seem like it is actually them that visits people. But the Bible is clear that after death and before the bodily ressurrection at the second coming of Christ, the dead are in a dreamless sleep. They are no more. Satan and other fallen angels will use their supernatural power to appear in different human shapes, and this method will also be applied regarding the eighth king. In this way the eighth will be the one that "is" and "is not" at the same time (Rev 17:8), because it looks as if it is John Paul II that has returned, but it is not him, only an imitation. After a while the ten horns get rid of the Chatholic Church as an organization, and reigns independent of it together with the personified beast.

Jesus gave us a prophecy in Matthew 24 that becomes very current in this connection:

"Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." (Matt 24:23-27)

Here Jesus describes a time when Satan will imitate the coming of Christ to earth in an attempt to deceive the peoples. Will this be the eighth king, or will the personified false Christ be someone in addition to this figure? It is difficult to say at this time, but what is absolutely for certain is that there are troublesome times ahead of us with great deceptions and seductions from the devil's side. But those that stick to God's word will reveal the reveal the deceit. When Christ comes, there will be no doubt that it is Him:

"Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen." (Rev 1:7)

Still, there is no reason to underestimate how enormous this deception will be. Only if one is based in God's word and is strengthened by the power of God will one stand against this that will be the masterpiece for Satan in his plan to destroy mankind, and shut it out from the salvation in Christ. Most people will fall for Satan's deceptions and believe that it is Christ that has returned. But we have been warned against this in advance, and those who stick to the Bible and Christ are safe.

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When the cup of sin is full, a total destruction will come upon Babylon:

"And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all." (Rev 18:21)

"And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath." (Rev 16;19)

This takes place shortly before the second coming of Christ. Before this has happened, all the believers that are in Babylon will have been called out of there, and the world has seen an even greater awakening than the one that the congregation experienced during the first century, by the sounding of God's last warning to a lost mankind through His servants, the holy, who are completely and fully surrendered in His hands.

"And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." (Rev 18:1-4)

This is the last call from God to people to repent to Him. Everyone that belongs to Him come together as one people, and testify mightily for the Lord. The return of Jesus is just around the corner. Before this happens, it is necessary that each and everyone has taken a complete stand against everything that has to do with Babylon in their lives. To be able to stand in the storm of evil that is about to break loose, it is necessary to have gone through a complete settlement with all babylonian values and the babylonian culture in our lives. One cannot call people out of something that one is a part of. To be able to do this, one has to be surrendered to the Lord daily, because it is only Him that can give us power to have this experience in our lives. On our own it will be completely hopeless. We can only pluck down and throw away the bad fruit from the tree, while the tree still is bad. And bad trees, said Jesus, will be burnt up (Matt 7:16-20) Only the Lord can change the tree to become a good tree. Only the Lord can change the human heart so that it is in harmony with His will and intensions.

It is our choice here today, here and now, whether we will have this experience with the Lord, and be part of the movement that will represent Him in the final phase of this world's history.

Written by Gisle Pedersen, 2009

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