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Some Protestant comments on the Beast and Great Babylon.
Quite astute, when taken together the pagan world is indicated as are Apostates from covenant with God by references to those things associated with Babylon and 666.
From:
Title: Smith's Bible Dictionary
Creator(s): Smith, William
Print Basis: 1884
Rights: Public Domain
CCEL Subjects: All; Dictionary; Reference
LC Call no: BS440 .S6
LC Subjects:
The Bible
Works about the Bible
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Smith's Bible Dictionary
William Smith
1884
666 in the Old Testament
In reference to the king's finances, the first impression of
the facts given us is that of abounding plenty. Large
quantities of the precious metals were imported from Ophir and
Tarshish. (1 Kings 9:28) All the kings and princes of the
subject provinces paid tribute in the form of gifts, in money
and in kind, "at a fixed rate year by year." (1 Kings 10:25)
Monopolies of trade contributed to the king's treasury. (1
Kings 10:28,29) The total amount thus brought into the
treasury in gold, exclusive of all payments in kind, amounted
to 666 talents. (1 Kings 10:14)
Adonikam, Or Adonikam
The sons of Adonikam, 666 in number, were among those who
returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Ezra 2:13; Nehemiah
7:18); 1Esd 5:14 (B.C. 506-410.) The name is given as
[63]Adonijah in (Nehemiah 10:16)
[According to the Bible, Solomon fell into apostasy and built altars to
Chemosh, Moloch, and Ashtoreth, pagan gods to whom human sacrifices were
made. (See 1 Kings 11:4-8.)]
666 in the New Testament
Lastly, the mystic number 666. (Revelation 13:18)
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From: THE REVELATION OF JOHN,
WITH NOTES,
CRITICAL, EXPLANATORY, AND PRACTICAL,
DESIGNED FOR BOTH PASTORS AND PEOPLE.
REV. HENRY COWLES, D. D.
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"Understandest then what then readest? And he said, How can I unless some man should guide me?"
ACTS VIII: 30, 31.
NEW YORK: 1871
[Concerning Chapter 17 of the Apocalypse in reference to Great Babylon]
5. But should these considerations seem insufficient to obviate the objection now in hand, it remains to say that Old Testament usage amply sustains the application of these terms to the heathen, who were never in special covenant with God.—As to the term "whoredom," note what was said of Jezebel, a Zidonian princess "What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?" (2 Kings 9: 22.) Or what is said of the Babylonians (Ezek. 23: 17): "The Babylonians defiled her with their whoredoms." Or what is said of Nineveh in a very striking passage (Nahum 3: 4), which seems to have given shape to these expressions in the Apocalypse: "Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredom and families through her witchcraft."—As to the kindred term, "abomination," wrought here into the very forehead name of this mystic Babylon (v. 5), "The mother of harlots and abominations of the earth," Old Testament usage appropriates this word more thoroughly than any other to express precisely the idolatries and associate practices of real heathenism. The Mosaic law has it (Dent. 18: 9): "Thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations;" and (Dent. 20: 18) "Thou shalt utterly destroy those nations of Canaan that they teach you not to do after all their abominations which they have done unto their gods." The word became a name for the central and chief idol, and we read of "Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites" (1 Kings 11: 5); of "Chemosh, the abomination of Moab" (v. 7); of "Ashtoreth, the abomination of the Zidonians" (2 Kings 23: 13). See also I Kings 14: 24, and 2 Kings 16: 3, and 21: 2, and 2 Chron. 36: 14.—And finally it is squarely in point that Jesus himself, speaking of the Roman legions and their idolatrous standards approaching Jerusalem, as the signal to his people for flight from Jerusalem, says (Mat. 24: 15, and Mk. 13: 14), "When ye shall see the abomination that maketh desolate," etc., "then flee to the mountains." Of this word "abomination" in this passage, Dr. Alexander says, "It is specially applied to every thing connected with idolatry and heathenism."—With these words of his Lord not improbably familiar and perhaps present to his mind, John might very naturally speak of the same Rome at the same age as the mother of abominations.—I must therefore conclude that the objection raised against the reference of these terms to Pagan Rome is without adequate foundation.
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The full consensus of the Church Fathers makes it very clear that when Rome returns to idolatry then it becomes Babylon the Great and hosts the False Prophet who goes before the Antichrist.
This is obviously being fulfilled during and since Vatican II.
Saint
Irenaeus Against Heresies
Book I
Book
I
1.
Inasmuch
1 as
certain men have set the truth aside, and bring in lying words and vain
genealogies, which, as the apostle says,
2 "minister
questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith," and by means
of their craftily-constructed plausibilities draw away the minds of the
inexperienced and take them captive, [I have felt constrained, my dear
friend, to compose the following treatise in order to expose and
counteract their machinations.] These men falsify the oracles of God,
and prove themselves evil interpreters of the good word of revelation.
They also overthrow the faith of many, by drawing them away, under a
pretence of [superior] knowledge, from Him who rounded and adorned the
universe; as if, forsooth, they had something more excellent and sublime
to reveal, than that God who created the heaven and the earth, and all
things that are therein. By means of specious and plausible words, they
cunningly allure the simple-minded to inquire into their system; but
they nevertheless clumsily destroy them, while they initiate them into
their blasphemous and impious opinions respecting the Demiurge;
3 and
these simple ones are unable, even in such a matter, to distinguish
falsehood from truth.
2. Error, indeed, is never set
forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at
once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress,
so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced
(ridiculous as the expression may seem) more true than the truth itself.
One
4 far
superior to me has well said, in reference to this point, "A clever
imitation in glass casts contempt, as it were, on that precious jewel
the emerald (which is most highly esteemed by some), unless it come
under the eye of one able to test and expose the counterfeit. Or, again,
what inexperienced person can with ease detect the presence of brass
when it has been mixed up with silver? "Lest, therefore, through my
neglect, some should be carried off, even as sheep are by wolves, while
they perceive not the true character of these men, -because they
outwardly are covered with sheep's clothing (against whom the Lord has
enjoined
5 us
to be on our guard), and because their language resembles ours, while
their sentiments are very different,-I have deemed it my duty (after
reading some of the Commentaries, as they call them, of the disciples of
Valentinus, and after making myself acquainted with their tenets
through personal intercourse with some of them) to unfold to thee, my
friend, these portentous and profound mysteries, which do not fall
within the range of every intellect, because all have not sufficiently
purged
6 their
brains. I do this, in order that thou, obtaining an acquaintance with
these things, mayest in turn explain them to all those with whom thou
art connected, and exhort them to avoid such an abyss of madness and of
blasphemy against Christ. I intend, then, to the best of my ability,
with brevity and clearness to set forth the opinions of those who are
now promulgating heresy. I refer especially to the disciples of
Ptolemaeus, whose school may be described as a bud from that of
Valentinus. I shall also endeavour, according to my moderate ability, to
furnish the means of overthrowing them, by showing how absurd and
inconsistent with the truth are their statements. Not that I am
practised either in composition or eloquence; but my feeling of
affection prompts me to make known to thee and all thy companions those
doctrines which have been kept in concealment until now, but which are
at last, through the goodness of God, brought to light. "For there is
nothing hidden which shall not be revealed, nor secret that shall not be
made known."
7
3.
Thou wilt not expect from me, who am resident among the Keltae,
8 and
am accustomed for the most part to use a barbarous dialect, any display
of rhetoric, which I have never learned, or any excellence of
composition, which I have never practised, or any beauty and
persuasiveness of style, to which I make no pretensions. But thou wilt
accept in a kindly spirit what I in a like spirit write to thee simply,
truthfully, and in my own homely way; whilst thou thyself (as being more
capable than I am) wilt expand those ideas of which I send thee, as it
were, only the seminal principles; and in the comprehensiveness of thy
understanding, wilt develop to their full extent the points on which I
briefly touch, so as to set with power before thy companions those
things which I have uttered in weakness. In fine, as I (to gratify thy
long-cherished desire for information regarding the tenets of these
persons) have spared no pains, not only to make these doctrines known to
thee, but also to furnish the means of showing their falsity; so shalt
thou, according to the grace given to thee by the Lord, prove an earnest
and efficient minister to others, that men may no longer be drawn away
by the plausible system of these heretics, which I now proceed to
describe.
9
The
Future Apostasy in the Time of Anti-Christ, and the End of the World. - Foreseen
by Saint Irenaeus and the Apostolic Tradition he upheld, here:
Book
V.
Chapter
XXVIII.-The Distinction to Be Made Between the Righteous and the
Wicked. The Future Apostasy in the Time of Anti-Christ, and the End of
the World.
Chapter
XXVIII.-The Distinction to Be Made Between the Righteous and the
Wicked. The Future Apostasy in the Time of Anti-Christ, and the End
of the World.
1. Inasmuch, then, as in this world (
aeon) some persons betake themselves to the
light, and by faith unite themselves with God, but others shun the
light, and separate themselves from God, the Word of God comes preparing
a fit habitation for both. For those indeed who are in the light, that
they may derive enjoyment from it, and from the good things contained in
it; but for those in darkness, that they may partake in its calamities.
And on this account He says, that those upon the right hand are called
into the kingdom of heaven, but that those on the left He will send into
eternal fire for they have deprived themselves of all good.
2.
And for this reason the apostle says: "Because they received not the
love of God, that they might be saved, therefore God shall also send
them the operation of error, that they may believe a lie, that they all
may be judged who have not believed the truth, but consented to
unrighteousness."
242 For
when he (Antichrist) is come, and of his own accord concentrates in his
own person the apostasy, and accomplishes whatever he shall do
according to his own will and choice, sitting also in the temple of God,
so that his dupes may adore him as the Christ; wherefore also shall he
deservedly "be cast into the lake of fire: "
243 [this
will happen according to divine appointment], God by His prescience
foreseeing all this, and at the proper time sending such a man, "that
they may believe a lie, that they all may be judged who did not believe
the truth, but consented to unrighteousness; "whose coming John has thus
described in the Apocalypse: "And the beast which I had seen was like
unto a leopard, and his feet as of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of
a lion; and the dragon conferred his own power upon him, and his
throne, and great might. And one of his heads was as it were slain unto
death; and his deadly wound was healed, and all the world wondered after
the beast. And they worshipped the dragon because he gave power to the
beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto this
beast, and who is able to make war with him? And there was given unto
him a mouth speaking great things, and blasphemy and power was given to
him during forty and two months. And he opened his mouth for blasphemy
against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, and those who
dwell in heaven. And power was given him over every tribe, and people,
and tongue, and nation. And all who dwell upon the earth worshipped him,
[every one] whose name was not written in the book of the Lamb slain
from the foundation of the world. If any one have ears, let him hear. If
any one shall lead into captivity, he shall go into captivity. If any
shall slay with the sword, he must be slain with the sword. Here is the
endurance and the faith of the saints."
244 After
this he likewise describes his armour-bearer, whom he also terms a
false prophet: "He spake as a dragon, and exercised all the power of the
first beast in his sight, and caused the earth, and those that dwell
therein, to adore the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he
shall perform great wonders, so that he can even cause fire to descend
from heaven upon the earth in the sight of men, and he shall lead the
inhabitants of the earth astray."
245 Let
no one imagine that he performs these wonders by divine power, but by
the working of magic. And we must not be surprised if, since the demons
and apostate spirits are at his service, he through their means performs
wonders, by which he leads the inhabitants of the earth astray. John
says further: "And he shall order an image of the beast to be made, and
he shall give breath to the image, so that the image shall speak; and he
shall cause those to be slain who will not adore it." He says also:
"And he will cause a mark [to be put] in the forehead and in the fight
hand, that no one may be able to buy or sell, unless he who has the mark
of the name of the beast or the number of his name; and the number is
six hundred and sixty-six,"
246 that
is, six times a hundred, six times ten, and six units. [He gives this]
as a summing up of the whole of that apostasy which has taken place
during six thousand years.
3. For in as many days as
this world was made, in so many thousand years shall it be concluded.
And for this reason the Scripture says: "Thus the heaven and the earth
were finished, and all their adornment. And God brought to a conclusion
upon the sixth day the works that He had made; and God rested upon the
seventh day from all His works."
247This
is an account of the things formerly created, as also it is a prophecy
of what is to come. For the day of the Lord is as a thousand years;
248 and
in six days created things were completed: it is evident, therefore,
that they will come to an end at the sixth thousand year.
4.
And therefore throughout all time, man, having been moulded at the
beginning by the hands of God, that is, of the Son and of the Spirit, is
made after the image and likeness of God: the chaff, indeed, which is
the apostasy, being cast away; but the wheat, that is, those who bring
forth fruit to God in faith, being gathered into the barn. And for this
cause tribulation is necessary for those who are saved, that having been
after a manner broken up, and rendered fine, and sprinkled over by the
patience of the Word of God, and set on fire [for purification], they
may be fitted for the royal banquet. As a certain man of ours said, when
he was condemned to the wild beasts because of his testimony with
respect to God: "I am the wheat of Christ, and am ground by the teeth of
the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God."
249
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Simon
Magus and the rest of the Gnostic heretics descended like swarm of
locusts upon the church at Rome, Italy and infested it with all the
heresies that St. John the Apostle and Evangelist warned of here:
The
Fall of Babylon
Revelation
18:
1 ¶ And after
these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great
power: and the earth was enlightened with his glory. … Scripture
reference – Rev.: 10:1; Ezek.: 43:2
2 And he cried out with a
strong voice, saying: Babylon the great
is fallen, is fallen: and is become the habitation of devils and the
hold of every unclean spirit and the hold of every unclean and hateful
bird: … Scripture reference – Rev.: 14:8!; Isaiah: 13:21, 22!
3
Because 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 have been made rich by the power of
her delicacies. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 14:8; 17:2; Jer.: 51:7!;
Rev.: 18:9, 15
Her Sins
and Punishment
4
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her, my
people; that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not
of her plagues. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:45!; 2 Cor.: 6:17!;
Eph.: 5:7!; 1 Tim.: 5:22
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven:
and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities. … Scripture reference –
Jer.: 51:9
6 Render to her as she also hath rendered to you: and
double unto her double, according to her works. In the cup wherein she
hath mingled, mingle ye double unto her. … Scripture reference – Jer.:
50:29!; 2 Thess.: 1:6
7 As much as she hath glorified herself and
lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her. Because
she saith in her heart: I sit a queen and am no widow: and sorrow I
shall not see. … Scripture reference – Isaiah: 47:8
8 Therefore,
shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning and famine. And
she shall be burnt with the fire: because God is strong, who shall
judge her.
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To have anything to do with the heresies or any of
that is to be damned by God forever. In the first two centuries A.D.
the church successfully repulsed these heresies, in the largest part due
to the witness of Saint Irenaeus.
Saint Irenaeus (180
A.D.) fought against the heresies at Rome knowing they were
precursors of the Antichrist, which now at the council of Satan -
Vatican II have come to pass.
NOW THAT THE FINAL
APOSTASY AT ROME, ITALY - THE VATICAN HAS COME TO PASS, we are to obey
the voice from heaven, which is JESUS CHRIST IN THE HOLY SPIRIT,
comanding us to HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ROME, THE VATICAN, SINCE VATICAN
II - AND ALL CONNECTED TO IT.
This is the root of all
heresies as Saint Irenaeus tells us, which
have their fulfillment in the Antichrist as St. John and St. Irenaeus
warn us, above.
Chapter XXIII.-Doctrines and Practices of Simon Magus and
Menander.
1. Simon the Samaritan was that magician of
whom Luke, the disciple and follower of the apostles, says, "But there
was a certain man, Simon by name, who beforetime used magical arts in
that city, and led astray the people of Samaria, declaring that he
himself was some great one, to whom they all gave heed, from the least
to the greatest, saying, This is the power of God, which is called
great. And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had
driven them mad by his sorceries."
280 This
Simon, then-who feigned faith, supposing that the apostles themselves
performed their cures by the art of magic, and not by the power of God;
and with respect to their filling with the Holy Ghost, through the
imposition of hands, those that believed in God through Him who was
preached by them, namely, Christ Jesus-suspecting that even this was
done through a kind of greater knowledge of magic, and offering money to
the apostles, thought he, too, might receive this power of bestowing
the Holy Spirit on whomsoever he would,-was addressed in these words by
Peter: "Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the
gift of God can be purchased with money: thou hast neither part nor lot
in this matter, for thy heart is not fight in the sight of God; for I
perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of
iniquity."
281 He,
then, not putting faith in God a whit the more, set himself eagerly to
contend against the apostles, in order that he himself might seem to be a
wonderful being, and applied himself with still greater zeal to the
study of the whole magic art, that he might the better bewilder and
overpower multitudes of men. Such was his procedure in the reign of
Claudius Caesar, by whom also he is said to have been honoured with a
statue, on account of his magical power.
282 This
man, then, was glorified by many as if he were a god; and he taught
that it was himself who appeared among the Jews as the Son, but
descended in Samaria as the Father while he came to other nations in the
character of the Holy Spirit. He represented himself, in a word, as
being the loftiest of all powers, that is, the Being who is the Father
over all, and he allowed himself to be called by whatsoever title men
were pleased to address him.
2. Now this Simon of
Samaria, from whom all sorts of heresies derive their origin, formed his
sect out of the following materials:-Having redeemed from slavery at
Tyre, a city of Phoenicia, a certain woman named Helena, he was in the
habit of carrying her about with him, declaring that this woman was the
first conception of his mind, the mother of all, by whom, in the
beginning, he conceived in his mind [the thought] of forming angels and
archangels. For this Ennoea leaping forth from him, and comprehending
the will of her father, descended to the lower regions [of space], and
generated angels and powers, by whom also he declared this word was
formed. But after she had produced them, she was detained by them
through motives of jealousy, because they were unwilling to be looked
upon as the progeny of any other being. As to himself, they had no
knowledge of him whatever; but his Ennoea was detained by those powers
and angels who had been produced by her. She suffered all kinds of
contumely from them, so that she could not return upwards to her father,
but was even shut up in a human body, and for ages passed in succession
from one female body to another, as from vessel to vessel. She was, for
example, in that Helen on whose account the Trojan war was undertaken;
for whose sake also Stesichorus
283 was
struck blind, because he had cursed her in his verses, but afterwards,
repenting and writing what are called
palinodes, in which he sang
her praise, he was restored to sight. Thus she, passing from body to
body, and suffering insults in every one of them, at last became a
common prostitute; and she it was that was meant by the lost sheep.
284
3.
For this purpose, then, he had come that he might win her first, and
free her from slavery, while he conferred salvation upon men, by making
himself known to them. For since the angels ruled the world ill because
each one of them coveted the principal power for himself, he had come to
amend matters, and had descended, transfigured and assimilated to
powers and principalities and angels, so that he might appear among men
to be a man, while yet he was not a man; and that thus he was thought to
have suffered in Judaea, when he had not suffered. Moreover, the
prophets uttered their predictions under the inspiration of those angels
who formed the world; for which reason those who place their trust in
him and Helena no longer regarded them, but, as being free, live as they
please; for men are saved through his grace, and not on account of
their own righteous actions. For such deeds are not righteous in the
nature of things, but by mere accident, just as those angels who made
the world, have thought fit to constitute them, seeking, by means of
such precepts, to bring men into bondage. On this account, he pledged
himself that the world should be dissolved, and that those who are his
should be freed from the rule of them who made the world.
4.
Thus, then, the mystic priests belonging to this sect both lead
profligate lives and practise magical arts, each one to the extent of
his ability. They use exorcisms and incantations. Love-potions, too, and
charms, as well as those beings who are called "Paredri" (familiars)
and "Oniropompi" (dream-senders), and whatever other curious arts can be
had recourse to, are eagerly pressed into their service. They also have
an image of Simon fashioned after the likeness of Jupiter, and another
of Helena in the shape of Minerva; and these they worship. In fine, they
have a name derived from Simon, the author of these most impious
doctrines, being called Simonians; and from them "knowledge, falsely so
called,"
285 received
its beginning, as one may learn even from their own assertions.
5.
The successor of this man was Menander, also a Samaritan by birth, and
he, too, was a perfect adept in the practice of magic. He affirms that
the primary Power continues unknown to all, but that he himself is the
person who has been sent forth from the presence of the invisible beings
as a saviour, for the deliverance of men. The world was made by angels,
whom, like Simon, he maintains to have been produced by Ennoea. He
gives, too, as he affirms, by means of that magic which he teaches,
knowledge to this effect, that one may overcome those very angels that
made the world; for his disciples obtain the
resurrection by
being baptized into him, and can die no more, but remain in the
possession of immortal youth.
SAINT IRENAEUS
Spiritual
Bouquet: He who loves his life shall lose it; and he who hates his life
in this world, keeps it unto life everlasting. St. John 12:25
Doctor
of the Church, Bishop and Martyr
(120-202)
Saint
Irenaeus was born in the year 120; he was of the Greek tongue, and
probably a native of Asia Minor. His parents, who were Christians,
placed him while still young under the care of the great Saint Polycarp,
Bishop of Smyrna. It was in this holy school that he learned the sacred
science which later made him a great ornament of the Church and the
terror of her enemies. Saint Polycarp cultivated his rising genius and
formed his mind to piety by his precepts and example, and the zealous
young scholar was careful to reap all advantages offered him by the
solicitude of such a master. Such was his veneration for his tutor’s
sanctity that he observed all the acts and virtues he saw in that holy
man, the better to copy his example and learn his spirit. He listened to
his instructions with an insatiable ardor, and so deeply did he engrave
them in his heart that the impressions remained vivid even in his old
age. In order to confound the heresies of his age, this Doctor of the
Church acquainted himself with the conceits of the pagan philosophers,
and thereby became qualified to trace every error to its sources and set
it in its full light. By his writings he was already known to
Tertullian, Theodoret and Saint Epiphanus, who speak of him as a
luminous torch of truth in the darkness of those times.
After
Irenaeus had spent a number of years in combat against the eastern
gnostics and philosophers of error, Saint Polycarp determined to send
him to Gaul, where many of the heretics of Asia Minor had already
migrated to pursue the Catholic religion, which was beginning to find
roots there. With a company of about forty Christians, the valiant
soldier of Christ ascended the Rhone to Lyons to rejoin and aid Saint
Pothinus, its bishop. Saint Pothinus was already advanced in age, and
his church’s neophytes could not always distinguish truth from the
gnostic aberrations. Saint Pothinus received the apostles with joy and
soon ordained Saint Irenaeus.
A hundred times he
exposed himself to martyrdom by his zeal, acting as the right arm of the
aging bishop, but God was reserving that crown for him twenty-five
years later. When Saint Pothinus had glorified God by his splendid
martyr’s death in the year 177, Ireneus was chosen to be the second
bishop of Lyons. The persecutors imagined that Christianity had been
stifled in Lyons, and they ceased their pursuits for a time.
This
great Doctor of the Church wrote many important works, of which the
most famous is his Adversus Haereses, Against the Heresies, in
explanation of the Faith. By his preaching, Saint Irenaeus in a short
time converted almost the whole country to the Faith; the Christians of
Lyons became models by their candor, their estrangement from all
ambition, their poverty, chastity and temperance, and in this way
confounded many adversaries of their religion. Saint Irenaeus continued
to imitate what he had seen done by his beloved master, Saint Polycarp,
himself the disciple and imitator of Saint John the Apostle. One can
readily imagine the excellence of the administration and the breadth of
charity reigning in the Church of Lyons.
Finally he
suffered martyrdom there, with many others, in the year 202, under the
Emperor Septimus Severus, after eighty years spent in the service of the
Lord. The imperial decrees renewing the persecutions arrived at Lyons
at the time of the celebration of Severus’ tenth year of reign; the
pagans found amid the celebrations an opportunity to take vengeance on
the Christians, who refused to participate in the debaucheries which
accompanied these feastings. Assassins armed with daggers, stones and
knives filled the city with blood, and thousands of Christians won, with
their bishop, the crown they had always admired as the greatest glory
God could grant His servants.
Sources: Little Pictorial
Lives of the Saints, a compilation based on Butler’s Lives of the
Saints, and other sources by John Gilmary Shea (Benziger Brothers: New
York, 1894); Les Petits Bollandistes: Vies des Saints, by Msgr. Paul
Guérin (Bloud et Barral: Paris, 1882), Vol. 7.
See these:
Traditional
Catholic Prayers: Sorcery is forbidden by God and will always be
punished by Him. WE ARE TO HAVE NO PART IN IT UPON PENALTY OF ETERNAL
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION DAMNED FOREVERMORE
Traditional
Catholic Prayers: The First Amendment: The First Amendment: Look up,
your redemption is at hand: The return of ancient murdering lies
Traditional
Catholic Prayers: The Rebuilt Temple of Remphan in Jerusalem and the
Armour Bearer of the Antichrist, the False Prophet
The abomination of desolation to which the false prophet is taking
people just like the Judas goat that he is, in order for them to be
slaughtered by Satan.
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Satan
is a real fallen angel. Totally evil and means nothing but utter evil
and harm and damnation to people. Satan is represented in the Bible by a
worm or serpent, coiled - the worm ourobouros. See picture below. Below
that is Isis - the worst of the worst in triple goddesses with the
Intaglio - the Sorcerer's looped wand of black Satanic magic (Hebrew
'nachash' from naas - serpent).
Babylon is
fallen. See the dire warning, at the bottom of this article, from God.
Take heed!
Marks of
damnation the false prophets seek to mark men with.
The
Name and Number of the beast.
The Name and Number of the beast.
Greek is in Isopsephia, Hebrew in
Gematria, Italian and English names (JOHAANNES PAOLO II and BENEDICT) are with the
Greek below them.
Pundarika is from Sanskrit and is
transliterated exactly to the Greek with the exact English equivalent
to the Sanskrit and Greek.
Pundarika is
given in the Greek under the English. Hammelek el Israel (king of
Israel), the name or title, that in all probability, the Antichrist will
claim for himself, is given in Hebrew under the English.
The Cosmic Christ – Cosmocrator (the
Gnostic name for the False-Christ the Gnostics worshipped and which
was actually Satan as immanent god of the universe) and the fruits of
that bad tree.
P U N D A R I K A
P U N D A R I K A
80+ 400+ 50+ 4+ 1+ 100+ 10+ 20+ 1=666
Note: pundarika
in Sanskrit (the above English and Greek are direct transliterations
letter for letter from the Sanskrit) is literally “the great white
dragon in the abyss” which is the core and basis of the whole esoteric
tradition, priesthood, and the dainichi nyorai (the head of the
diabolic trinity of the dragon in Buddhism). The dainichi nyorai is also the exact
very basis for their magic/sorcery with it’s six elements they
manipulate. Elements here are exactly the
stoichea in Col. 2:8.
False prophet
and Satanist John Paul II with his deluded fools at Assisi.
Windswept
House
The Enthronement
of the Fallen Archangel Lucifer
by Malachi Martin
June 29, 1963
"The Enthronement of the Fallen Archangel Lucifer was
effected within the Roman Catholic Citadel on June 29, 1963; a
fitting date for the historic promise about to be fulfilled.
As the principal
agents of this Ceremonial well knew, Satanist tradition had long
predicted that the Time of the Prince would be ushered in at the
moment when a Pope would take the name of the Apostle Paul.
That requirement -
the signal that the Availing Time had begun - had been accomplished
just eight days before with the election of the latest
Peter-in-the-Line."
[P. 7]
This Pope who would take the name of the Apostle Paul,
was none other than Pope Paul VI, who became Pope on June 21, 1963.
He was
followed by John Paul I who was murdered immediately and then by John
Paul II, see below with the Broken Cross, the
sign of the Sorcerer's service to their master Satan.
English transliteration (of how the
crowds in Italian used to chant antipope John Paul II’s name) to Greek
(with the II added).
J O H A A N N E S
I O H A A N N E S
10+ 70+ 8+ 1+ 1+ 50+ 50+ 5+ 200 = 395
P A O L O II
P A O L O II
80+ 1+ 70+ 30+ 70+ 10+10 = 271
= 666Destiny of all
who follow the false prophets
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Today Benediktos
holds the position of chief false prophet and Satanic sorcerer.
(False pope "Benedict XVI" Benediktos.
Note the apostate Jews' sorcerous 6 and 7 pointed star of Magen-Remphan
on his hat, just one sign of many of his complete Satan worship and
total eternal apostasy from God and Christ - like all Satanist
apostates he is damned to hell forever.)
English to Greek
B E N E D I C T
B E N E D I K T O
S
2+ 5+ 50+ 5+ 4+ 10+ 20+ 300+ 70+ 200=666
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THEREFORE,
PRAY AGAINST THIS EVIL.
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picture
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Below: Father Sloet of Holland’s
solution to the final name of the Antichrist (who will be a Jew) with
medial kaph so the reign of this false “ ‘king’ of Israel” will be
temporary, i.e. short.
(Note in the below that the Hebrew
characters read in reverse order than the English letters) Numbers are
under the English equivalents.
Hammelek l Yisrael
H M L K L Y S R A L
ה מ ל כ ל י ש ר א ל
5+ 40+ 30+ 20+ 30+ 10+ 300+ 200+ 1+ 30 = 666
See link for full
work. Excerpts below.
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1 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 11:7!; Dan.: 7:3; Rev.: 12:3;
17:3
2 … Scripture reference –
3 … Scripture reference –
Rev.: 13:12; 17:8
4 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 13:12; 17:8
5
… Scripture reference –
6 … Scripture reference –
7 …
Scripture reference – Rev.: 11:7!; 12:17
8 … Scripture reference –
Rev.: 17:8; 20:15!; 21:27; Ps.: 68:29!; Rev.: 14:12
9 … Scripture
reference – Rev.: 2:7!
10 … Scripture reference – Jer.: 43:11;
Mt.: 26:52; Rev.: 14:12
11 … Scripture reference –
12 …
Scripture reference – Rev.: 13: 3,4
13 … Scripture reference –
14
… Scripture reference –
15 … Scripture reference –
16 …
Scripture reference – Rev.: 14:9; 20:4
17 … Scripture reference –
Rev.: 14:11!
18 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 17:9
The Beast
of the Sea
Rv:13:
1 ¶ (12-18) And he stood upon the sand of
the sea. (13-1) And I saw a beast [1] coming up out the sea, having
seven heads and ten horns: and upon his horns, ten diadems: and upon
his heads, names of blasphemy. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 11:7!;
Dan.: 7:3; Rev.: 12:3; 17:3
2 And the beast which I saw was like
to 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 own strength and
great power. … Scripture reference –
3 And I saw one of his heads
as it were slain to death: and his death’s wound was healed. And all
the earth was in admiration after the beast. … Scripture reference –
Rev.: 13:12; 17:8
4 And they adored the dragon which gave power to
the beast. And they adored the beast, saying: Who is like to the
beast? And who shall be able to fight with him? … Scripture reference –
Rev.: 13:12; 17:8
5 And there was given to him a mouth speaking
great things and blasphemies: and power was given to him to do, two and
forty months.
6 And he opened his mouth unto blasphemies against
God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in
heaven.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints
and to overcome them. And power was given him over every tribe and
people and tongue and nation. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 11:7!;
12:17
8 And all that dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names
are not written in the book of life of the Lamb which was slain from
the beginning of the world. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 17:8; 20:15!;
21:27; Ps.: 68:29!; Rev.: 14:12
9 If any man have an ear, let
him hear. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 2:7!
10 He that shall lead
into captivity shall go into captivity: he that shall kill by the
sword must be killed by the sword. Here is the patience and the faith
of the saints. [2] … Scripture reference – Jer.: 43:11; Mt.: 26:52;
Rev.: 14:12
The Beast of the Earth
11 ¶ And I saw another
beast coming up out of the earth: and he had two horns, like a lamb: and
he spoke as a dragon.
12 And he executed all the power of the
former beast in his sight. And he caused the earth and them that dwell
therein to adore the first beast, whose wound to death was healed. …
Scripture reference – Rev.: 13: 3,4
13 And he did great signs, so
that he made also fire to come down from heaven unto the earth, in the
sight of men.
14 And he seduced them that dwell on the earth, for
the signs which were given him to do in the sight of the beast: saying
to them that dwell on the earth that they should make the image of the
beast which had the wound by the sword and lived.
15 And it was
given him to give life to the image of the beast: and that the image of
the beast should speak: and should cause that whosoever will not adore
the image of the beast should be slain.
16 And he shall make all,
both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a
character [3] in their right hand or on their foreheads: … Scripture
reference – Rev.: 14:9; 20:4
17 And that no man might buy or sell,
but he that hath the character, or the name of the beast, or the
number of his name. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 14:11!
18 Here
is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the
beast. For it is the number of a man: and the number of him is six
hundred sixty-six. [4] … Scripture reference – Rev.: 17:9
(DRV)
[1]
-Ver. 1. The picture of the first beast is based on the seventh
chapter of Daniel. This beast is the figure of the kingdoms of the
world, kingdoms founded on passion and
selfishness, which in every
age are antagonistic to Christ and seek to oppress the ,servants of
God. Imperial Rome represents this power.
[2] -Ver. 10. The
weapons of the saints are faith and patience; they must accept
sufferings and persecution as Christ did His cross.
[3] -Ver. 16.
Character (mark): as slaves received a brand or a mark in their flesh,
indicating to whom they belonged, so in the spiritual conflict there is
on the side of good and of evil a
brand or mark. St. Paul spoke
of such marks in his own body that proved him a slave of Jesus Christ
[Gal. 6, 17]. So the false prophet seeks to, impress a mark on all.
What this mark is will be manifested in its time.
[4] -Ver. 18.
Six hundred and sixty-six: the original type of the number is that it
represents the name Caesar Neron, which in Hebrew characters make up
the number 666. (Hebrew words read right to left) — Hebrew letters for
Kaiser (Caesar) Neron (Nero) = nrwn ksr = (Hebrew in parentheses) 100
(Kop)+ 60 (Samek)+ 200 (Res)+ 50 (Nun)+ 200 (Res)+ 6 (Waw)+ 50 (Nun) =
666. {Additional source for nrwn ksr and each numeric equivalent: The
Anchor Bible Dictionary volume IV – page 1145.} The final
Gematria/Isosephia alpha-numeric name is known to God. It symbolizes
extreme imperfection, for each digit is one short of seven, the number
that signifies perfection; it tells us, as the Church Fathers and
Doctors all agree, prophetically, of the name the Antichrist will bear.
The Fathers concur emphatically that the number is 666 and not 616 as
some corrupt manuscripts mistakenly read.
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1 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 15:1,6; 21:9; 19:2
2 …
Scripture reference – Rev.: 18:3, 9; Isaiah: 23:17; Rev.: 14:8
3 …
Scripture reference – Rev.: 12:3; 13:1
4 … Scripture reference –
Rev.: 18:16
5 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 19:2
6 …
Scripture reference –
7 … Scripture reference –
8 …
Scripture reference – Rev.: 17:11; 11:7!; 13:3, 8!
9 … Scripture
reference – Rev.: 13:18
10 … Scripture reference –
11 …
Scripture reference – Rev.: 17:8
12 … Scripture reference – Dan.:
7:24
13 … Scripture reference –
14 … Scripture reference –
Rev.: 19:16; 1Tim.: 6:15!
15 … Scripture reference –
16 …
Scripture reference – Rev.: 19:20; Dan.:7:11
17 … Scripture
reference – Prv.: 21:1
18 … Scripture reference –
VI:
BABYLON THE GREAT
The Woman on the Scarlet Beast
Rv:17:
1
¶ And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials and
spoke with me, saying: Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of the
great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters: … Scripture reference –
Rev.: 15:1,6; 21:9; 19:2
2 With whom the kings of the earth have
committed fornication. And they who inhabit the earth have been made
drunk with the wine of her whoredom. … Scripture reference – Rev.:
18:3, 9; Isaiah: 23:17; Rev.: 14:8
3 And he took me away in
spirit into the desert. And I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet
coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten
horns. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 12:3; 13:1
4 And the woman
was clothed round about with purple and scarlet, and gilt with gold and
precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, full of
the abomination and filthiness of her fornication. … Scripture
reference – Rev.: 18:16
5 And on her forehead a name was written: A
mystery: [1] Babylon the great, the mother of the fornications and the
abominations of the earth. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 19:2
6
And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the
blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And I wondered, when I had seen her, with
great admiration.
The Angel’s Explanation
7 ¶ And the
angel said to me: Why dost thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of
the woman and of the beast which carrieth her, which hath the seven
heads and ten horns.
8 The beast which thou sawest, was, and is
not, and shall come up out of the bottomless pit and go into
destruction. And the inhabitants on the earth (whose names are not
written in the book of life from the foundation of the world) shall
wonder, seeing the beast that was and is not. … Scripture reference –
Rev.: 17:11; 11:7!; 13:3, 8!
9 And here is the understanding that
hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, upon which the woman
sitteth: and they are seven kings. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 13:18
10
Five are fallen, one is, and the other is not yet come: and when he is
come, he must remain a short time. … Scripture reference –
11 And
the beast [2] which was and is not: the same also is the eighth, and
is of the seven, and goeth into destruction. … Scripture reference –
Rev.: 17:8
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings,
who have not yet received a kingdom: but shall receive power as kings,
one hour [3] after [with] the beast. … Scripture reference – Dan.: 7:24
13
These have one design: and their strength and power they shall deliver
to the beast.
14 ¶ These shall fight with the Lamb. And the Lamb
shall overcome them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings: and
they that are with him are called and elect and faithful. … Scripture
reference – Rev.: 19:16; 1Tim.: 6:15!
15 And he said to me: The
waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples and
nations and tongues. … Scripture reference –
16 And the ten horns
which thou sawest in the beast: These shall hate the harlot and shall
make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and shall burn her
with fire. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 19:20; Dan.:7:11
17 For
God hath given into their hearts to do that which pleaseth him: that
they give their kingdom [4] to the beast, till the words of God be
fulfilled. … Scripture reference – Prv.: 21:1
18 And the woman
which thou sawest is the great city which hath kingdom over the kings of
the earth. [5] … Scripture reference –
(DRV)
[1] -Ver:-5. A
mystery: the name is not literal but symbolical and its meaning is
that it will be revealed in due time. (mystery in Greek is musterion,
that is “revealed”). In the final ‘universal recapitulation of evil’
(St. Irenaeus’ expression) the “woman” who is the “great harlot” will
be the recapitulation of all the diabolic, demonic, gnostic, infidel,
false religion of the world since Adam. In short, today it is the
Pan-heresy of the Ecumenical movement (utterly opposed by Mortalium
Animus, Pius XI, 1928), which is the culmination of modernist
Judeo-Mason blasphemy of: the True God and His Christ and the Holy
Spirit. This Pan-heresy is centered at Rome in the Vatican since 1958
especially, and has permeated all churches; this is the great apostasy
that St. Paul the Apostle warned us about (see: 2 Thess.2:3, 6, 7). He
who holds the great apostasy back (2 Thess: 2:6, 7) until the appointed
time is Jesus Christ Himself, according to St. Justin Martyr. The
beast that the woman rides is the world’s political-religious systems
opposed to the True God, the Trinity, Who is the Creator and Ruler over
all. These taken together are the precursor of the final beast of
verse 11 which includes all the former systems within it.
[2]
-Ver. 11. The beast spoken of here seems to be the Roman Empire, as in
chapter 13. At the end of days it will be the final world system
opposing Christ and His Church. This world system will be, according to
the Church Fathers and Doctors of the Church, the one world empire of
the Antichrist who is the son of perdition, headquartered in the rebuilt
Solomonic temple in Jerusalem. See 2 Thessalonians 2nd chapter. This
is the ultimate Babylon and is utterly damned by Christ and His Church.
“Such a secular, earthbound state [Israel] could easily become the
political and military power base for the Antichrist when he comes. For
the Antichrist will be in perfect accord with the ideals of such a
Zionist state. Moreover, the State of Israel has demonstrated that it
has the will and ability to go to war and win the secular goals to which
its heart is attached. Thus when the Antichrist comes to power as head
of such an efficient, superbly equipped, scientific State, founded on
nationalism, race and blood, he will be able to conquer the rest of the
world. He will be the first, the only Jew to reign with political,
economic, military power over the whole world from his capital city,
Jerusalem, the city in which Our Lord was crucified” (Fr. Vincent
Miceli, S.J., The Antichrist, p. 152).
[3] -Ver. 12. One hour: ten
other kingdoms are allies of the beast and battle against the Church.
But their dominion is short; typified as an hour. These occur at the
same time and not in succession.
[4] -Ver. 17. The Greek text
reads: “. . . to
do his purpose and to make common cause and to
give their kingdom. . . :”
[5] –Ver. 18. …great city which hath
kingdom over the kings of the earth.: at the time that the Apocalypse
was seen and recorded by St. John the Apostle, that city was Rome,
Italy, of the seven hills (1 – Janiculum with the Vatican on the lower
slope today, 2 – Aventine, 3 – Palatine with the Capitoline and the
Tiburtine oracle, 4 – Caelian, 5 – Esquiline, 6 – Viminal, 7 –
Quirinal), in the future it will be Jerusalem of the seven hills (1 –
The Citadel, 2 – Acra, 3 – Temple Mount, 4 – Mount of Olives, 5 – Mt.
Scopus, 6 – Mt Zion, 7 – Golgotha) when the Antichrist rules from
there. The eighth head which is a king and has dominion over the
kingdoms of the earth and therefore is identified with that world wide
(ecumenical in the narrow sense) kingdom as well, was Caesar, in the
days of ancient Rome. Caesar was ruler over Rome, the Pontifex Maximus
(head of all Roman religion) and Princeps Senatus – first member by
precedence of the Roman Senate (therefore functional dictator without
the title); and also the Emperor (Imperator) over the Roman Empire. In
the future the eighth head ruling over Jerusalem and having world wide
dominion for a short space will be the Antichrist. The exact
arrangement of how that will be enacted is known to God.
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1
… Scripture reference – Rev.: 10:1; Ezek.: 43:2
2 … Scripture
reference – Rev.: 14:8!; Isaiah: 13:21, 22!
3 … Scripture
reference – Rev.: 14:8; 17:2; Jer.: 51:7!; Rev.: 18:9, 15
4 …
Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:45!; 2 Cor.: 6:17!; Eph.: 5:7!; 1 Tim.:
5:22
5 … Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:9
6 … Scripture
reference – Jer.: 50:29!; 2 Thess.: 1:6
7 … Scripture reference –
Isaiah: 47:8
8 … Scripture reference –
9 … Scripture
reference – Rev.: 18:3; 17:2; 18:18
10 … Scripture reference –
Rev.: 18:15, 16, 17
11 … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27;32!
12
… Scripture reference –
13 … Scripture reference –
14 …
Scripture reference –
15 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 18:3, 10
16
… Scripture reference – Rev.: 17:4
17 … Scripture reference –
Ezek.: 27:29, 30!; Rev.: 18:10
18 … Scripture reference – Ezek.:
27:29, 30!; Rev.: 18:9
19 … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27:29,
30!, 32, 33!
20 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 12:12
21 …
Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:63, 64
22 … Scripture reference –
Ezek.:26:13!; Jer.: 25:10!
23 … Scripture reference – Jer.: 25:10!
24
… Scripture reference – Rev.: 16:6!
The Fall of Babylon
Rv:18:
1
¶ And after these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven,
having great power: and the earth was enlightened with his glory. …
Scripture reference – Rev.: 10:1; Ezek.: 43:2
2 And he cried out
with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen:
and is become the habitation of devils and the hold of every unclean
spirit and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird: … Scripture
reference – Rev.: 14:8!; Isaiah: 13:21, 22!
3 Because 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 have been made rich by the power of her delicacies. …
Scripture reference – Rev.: 14:8; 17:2; Jer.: 51:7!; Rev.: 18:9, 15
Her
Sins and Punishment
4 And I heard another voice from heaven,
saying: Go out from her, my people; that you be not partakers of her
sins and that you receive not of her plagues. … Scripture reference –
Jer.: 51:45!; 2 Cor.: 6:17!; Eph.: 5:7!; 1 Tim.: 5:22
5 For her
sins have reached unto heaven: and the Lord hath remembered her
iniquities. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:9
6 Render to her as
she also hath rendered to you: and double unto her double, according to
her works. In the cup wherein she hath mingled, mingle ye double unto
her. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 50:29!; 2 Thess.: 1:6
7 As
much as she hath glorified herself and lived in delicacies, so much
torment and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart: I
sit a queen and am no widow: and sorrow I shall not see. … Scripture
reference – Isaiah: 47:8
8 Therefore, shall her plagues come in
one day, death and mourning and famine. And she shall be burnt with the
fire: because God is strong, who shall judge her.
Dirge of the
Kings
9 ¶ [1] And the kings of the earth, who have committed
fornication and lived in delicacies with her, shall weep and bewail
themselves over her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning: …
Scripture reference – Rev.: 18:3; 17:2; 18:18
10 Standing afar
off for fear of her torments, saying: Alas! alas! that great city,
Babylon, that mighty city: for in one hour is thy judgment come. …
Scripture reference – Rev.: 18:15, 16, 17
Dirge of the Merchants
11
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her: for no
man shall buy their merchandise any more. … Scripture reference –
Ezek.: 27;32!
12 Merchandise of gold and silver and precious
stones: and of pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet:
and all thyine wood: and all manner of vessels of ivory: and all manner
of vessels of precious stone and of brass and of iron and of marble:
13
And cinnamon and odours and ointment and frankincense and wine and oil
and fine flour and wheat and beasts [2] and sheep and horses and
chariots: and slaves and souls of men.
14 And the fruits of the
desire of thy soul are departed from thee: and all fat and goodly
things are perished from thee. And they shall find them no more at all.
15
The merchants of these things, who were made rich, shall stand afar
off from her, for fear of her torments, weeping and mourning, …
Scripture reference – Rev.: 18:3, 10
16 And saying: Alas! alas!
that great city, which was clothed with fine linen and purple and
scarlet and was gilt with gold and precious stones and pearls. …
Scripture reference – Rev.: 17:4
17 For in one hour are so great
riches come to nought.
Dirge of the Mariners
And every
shipmaster and all that sail into the lake, and mariners, and as many
as work in the sea, stood afar off, … Scripture reference – Ezek.:
27:29, 30!; Rev.: 18:10
18 And cried, seeing the place of her
burning, saying: What city is like to this great city? … Scripture
reference – Ezek.: 27:29, 30!; Rev.: 18:9
19 And they cast dust
upon their heads and cried, weeping and mourning, saying: Alas! alas!
that great city, wherein all were made rich, that had ships at sea, by
reason of her prices. For, in one hour she is made desolate. …
Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27:29, 30!, 32, 33!
20 Rejoice over
her, thou heaven and ye holy apostles and prophets. For God hath judged
your judgment on her. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 12:12
The
Angel’s Promise
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone, as it were a
great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying: With such violence
as this, shall Babylon, that great city, be thrown down and shall be
found no more at all. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:63, 64
22
And the voice of harpers and of musicians and of them that play on the
pipe and on the trumpet shall no more be heard at all in thee: and no
craftsman [3] of any art whatsoever shall be found any more at all in
thee: and the sound of the mill shall be heard no more at all in thee: …
Scripture reference – Ezek.:26:13!; Jer.: 25:10!
23 And the
light of the lamp shall shine no more at all in thee: and the voice of
the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee. For
thy merchants were the great men of the earth: for all nations have
been deceived by thy enchantments. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 25:10!
24
And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all
that were slain upon the earth. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 16:6!
(DRV)
[1]
-Ver. 9-19. This passage is not an account of a vision but rather a
direct prophecy, after. the manner of the prophecies of Isaias and
Ezechiel concerning Tyre. Tyre furnishes a type of the vengeance of God
upon satanic pride and luxury.
[2] -Ver.13. Beasts [of burden]:
the Greek has “cattle.”
[3] –Ver. 22 The city had boasted
previously of her craftsmen, skilled in every craft.
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1
… Scripture reference – Rev.: 9:1
2 … Scripture reference – Rev.:
12:9!; Tobias: 8:3!
3 … Scripture reference –
4 … Scripture
reference – 1 Cor.: 6:2; Rev.: 1:2, 9; 6:9; 14:9, 11; 19:20; 13:16
5
… Scripture reference –
6 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 2:11;
5:10; Isaiah: 61:6!; Rev.: 22:5
7 … Scripture reference –
8 …
Scripture reference – Hab.: 1:6
9 … Scripture reference – 4 Rg.
(2 Kings): 1:10!
10 … Scripture reference –
11 … Scripture
reference – Isaiah: 6:11; 2 Pt.: 3:12!
12 … Scripture reference –
Dan.: 7:10; Sir.: 16:13!
13 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 2:23!;
Sir.:16:13!
14 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 19:20; 21:8; Hos.:
13:14!
15 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 13:8!; Dan.: 12:1!;
19:20!; Mt.: 13:42!, 50
Satan Chained
Rv:20:
1 ¶ And I
saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless
pit and a great chain in his hand. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 9:1
2
And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil
and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. [1] … Scripture reference
– Rev.: 12:9!; Tobias: 8:3!
3 And he cast him into the
bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him, that he should
no more seduce the nations till the thousand years be finished. And
after that, he must be loosed a little time. … Scripture reference –
Reign
of the Saints
4 And I saw seats. And they sat upon them: and
judgment was given unto them. And the souls of them that were beheaded
for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God and who had not
adored the beast nor his image nor received his character on their
foreheads or in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a
thousand years. … Scripture reference – 1 Cor.: 6:2; Rev.: 1:2, 9; 6:9;
14:9, 11; 19:20; 13:16
5 The rest of the dead [2] lived not, till
the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. …
Scripture reference –
6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in
the first resurrection. In these the second death hath no power. But
they shall be priests of God and of Christ: and shall reign with him a
thousand years. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 2:11; 5:10; Isaiah:
61:6!; Rev.: 22:5
Satan Loosed
7 And when the thousand years
shall be finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and shall
go forth and seduce the nations which are over the four quarters of the
earth, Gog and Magog: [3] and shall gather them together to battle,
the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
8 And they came
upon the breadth of the earth and encompassed the camp of the saints
and the beloved city. 8 … Scripture reference – Hab.: 1:6
9 And
there cane down fire from God out of heaven and devoured them: and the
devil, who seduced them, was cast into the pool of fire and brimstone,
where both the beast … Scripture reference – 4 Rg. (2 Kings): 1:10!
10
And the false prophet shall be tormented day and night for ever and
ever.
The Last Judgement
11 ¶ And I saw a great white throne
and one sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled
away: and there was no place found for them … Scripture reference –
Isaiah: 6:11; 2 Pt.: 3:12!
12 And I saw the dead, great and small,
standing in the presence of the throne. And the books were opened: and
another book was opened, which was the book of life. And the dead were
judged by those things which were written in the books, [4] according
to their works. … Scripture reference – Dan.: 7:10; Sir.: 16:13!
13
And the sea gave up the dead that were in it: and death and hell gave
up their dead that were in them. And they were judged, every one
according to their works. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 2:23!;
Sir.:16:13!
14 And hell and death were cast into the pool of fire.
This is the second death. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 19:20; 21:8;
Hos.: 13:14!
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of
life was cast into the pool of fire. … Scripture reference – Rev.:
13:8!; Dan.: 12:1!; 19:20!; Mt.: 13:42!, 50
(DRV)
[1] -Ver.
2. A thousand years: not to be taken literally. It signifies that,
after the destruction of hostile kings and the chaining of the dragon,
the Church will enjoy a long era of peace. During this era Christ will
reign over the souls of men, and Christians, through their influence
over the world, will reign with Christ.
[2] -Ver. 5. The rest of
the dead: sinners who will not enjoy any kind of resurrection until the
end of time, The first resurrection: the spiritual reign of the
faithful with Christ during the long period of a thousand years. The
general resurrection, on the last day, is referred to in vv. 12 and 13.
[3]
-Ver. 7. Gog and Magog: after a thousand years (figurative: a long
time) Magog the nation, will attack the Church. This nation designated
as Magog is modern “Israel” the AshkeNazi creation of the Zionist
antichrists, Gog is the Jew Antichrist.
The names are taken from
Ezechiel. In rabbinical books the names were used to signify the
nations that would rise against the Messias. The names are to be
understood figuratively and literally (i.e. the Khazar Ashkenazi
Talmudic Zionist Lurianic Cabalist Antichrist Satanism) and signify the
earthly powers that will make the last onslaught against the Church
with their totally false Judaism which is Talmudic satanism. This has
been occurring with increasing ferocity since the “establishment” of
the satanic “state” of “Israel” in 1948. The: “ha maschiach” of the
Talmudic Jews is the Antichrist. The True Maschiach or Messias is only
and can be no other than Jesus Christ.
[4] -Ver. 12. By those
things that were written in the books (scrolls): i.e., according to
their works, a frequent idea in the New Testament.
Type of the Antichrist, ad
-Dajjal, to come.
Daniel Chapter 11
The
angel declares to Daniel many things to come, with regard to the
Persian and Grecian kings: more especially with regard to Antiochus as a
figure of Antichrist.
11:1 And from the first
year of Darius, the Mede, I stood up, that he might be strengthened,
and confirmed.
11:2 And now I will shew thee the truth.
Behold, there shall stand yet three kings in Persia, and the fourth
shall be enriched exceedingly above them all: and when he shall be
grown mighty y his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of
Greece.
Three kings. . .Viz., Cambyses, Smerdes
Magus, and Darius, the son of Hystaspes.--Ibid. The fourth. . .Xerxes.
11:3
But there shall rise up a strong king, and shall rule with great
power: and he shall do what he pleaseth.
A strong
king. . .Alexander.
11:4 And when he
shall come to his height, his kingdom shall be broken, and it shall be
divided towards the four winds of the heaven: but not to his posterity,
nor according to his power with hich he ruled. For his kingdom shall be
rent in peices, even for strangers, besides these.
11:5 And
the king of the south shall be strengthened, and one of his princes
shall prevail over him, and he shall rule with great power: for his
dominions shall be great.
The king of the south. . .Ptolemeus the
son of Lagus, king of Egypt, which lies south of Jerusalem.--Ibid. One
of his princes. . .that is, one of Alexander's princes, shall prevail
over him: hat is, shall be stronger than the king of Egypt. He speaks
of Seleucus Nicator, king of Asia and Syria, whose successors are here
called the kings of the north, because their dominions lay to the orth
in respect to Jerusalem.
11:5 The daughter of the king of the
south. . .Viz., Berenice, daughter of Ptolemeus Philadelphus, given in
marriage to Antiochus Theos, grandson of Seleucus.
11:6 And
after the end of years they shall be in league together: and the
daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to
make friendship, but she shall not obtain the trength of the arm,
neither shall her seed stand: and she shall be given up, and her young
men that brought her, and they that strengthened her in these times.
11:7
And a plant of the bud of her roots shall stand up: and he shall
come with an army, and shall enter into the province of the king of the
north: and he shall abuse them, and shall prevail.
A
plant, etc. . .Ptolemeus Evergetes, the son of Philadelphus.
11:8
And he shall also carry away captive into Egypt their gods, and
their graven things, and their precious vessels of gold and silver: he
shall prevail against the king of the north.
11:9 And the king
of the south shall enter into the kingdom, and shall return to his own
land.
11:10 And his sons shall be provoked, and they shall
assemble a multitude of great forces: and he shall come with haste like
a flood: and he shall return, and be stirred up, and he shall join
battle ith his force.
11:10 His sons. . .Seleucus Ceraunius, and
Antiochus the Great, the sons of Callinicus.--Ibid. He shall come. .
.Viz., Antiochus the Great.
11:11 And the king of the south
being provoked, shall go forth, and shall fight against the king of the
north, and shall prepare an exceeding great multitude, and a multitude
shall be given into is hands.
The king of the
south. . .Ptolemeus Philopator, son of Evergetes.
11:12
And he shall take a multitude, and his heart shall be lifted up, and
he shall cast down many thousands: but he shall not prevail.
11:13
For the king of the north shall return, and shall prepare a multitude
much greater than before: and in the end of times, and years, he shall
come in haste with a great army, and much riches.
11:14 And in
those times many shall rise up against the king of the south, and the
children of prevaricators of thy people shall lift up themselves to
fulfil the vision, and they shall fall.
11:15 And the king of
the north shall come, and shall cast up a mount, and shall take the best
fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, and his
chosen ones shall rise up to esist, and they shall not have strength.
11:16
And he shall come upon him, and do according to his pleasure, and
there shall be none to stand against his face: and he shall stand in
the glorious land, and it shall be consumed by his and.
He
shall come upon him. . .Viz., Antiochus shall come upon the king of the
south.--Ibid. The glorious land. . .Judea.
11:17
And he shall set his face to come to possess all his kingdom, and he
shall make upright conditions with him: and he shall give him a
daughter of women, to overthrow it: and she shall not tand, neither
shall she be for him.
All his kingdom. .
.Viz., all the kingdom of Ptolemeus Epiphanes, son of Philopator.--Ibid.
A daughter of women. . .That is, a most beautiful woman, viz., his
daughter Cleopatra.--Ibid. o overthrow it. . .Viz., the kingdom of
Epiphanes: but his policy shall not succeed; for Cleopatra shall take
more to heart the interest of her husband, than that of her father.
11:18
And he shall turn his face to the islands, and shall take many: and
he shall cause the prince of his reproach to cease, and his reproach
shall be turned upon him
.
The prince of his
reproach. . .Seipio the Roman general, called the prince of his
reproach, because he overthrew Antiochus, and obliged him to submit to
very dishonourable terms, before e would cease from the war.
11:19
And he shall turn his face to the empire of his own land, and he
shall stumble, and fall, ans shall not be found.
11:20 And there
shall stand up in his place one most vile, and unworthy of kingly
honour: and in a few days he shall be destroyed, not in rage nor in
battle.
One most vile. . .Seleucus
Philopator, who sent Heliodorus to plunder the temple: and was shortly
after slain by the same Heliodorus.
11:21
And there shall stand up in his place one despised, and the kingly
honour shall not be given him: and he shall come privately, and shall
obtain the kingdom by fraud.
One despised. .
.Viz., Antiochus Epiphanes, who at first was despised and not received
for king. What is here said of this prince, is accommodated by St.
Jerome and others to Antichrist; f whom this Antiochus was a figure.
11:22
And the arms of the fighter shall be overcome before his face, and
shall be broken: yea, also the prince of the covenant.
Of
the fighter. . .That is, of them that shall oppose him, and shall fight
against him.--Ibid. The prince of the covenant. . .or, of the league.
The chief of them that conspired against him: or he king of Egypt his
most powerful adversary.
11:23
And after friendships, he will deal deceitfully with him: and he shall
go up, and shall overcome with a small people.
11:24 And he
shall enter into rich and plentiful cities: and he shall do that which
his fathers never did, nor his fathers' fathers: he shall scatter their
spoils, and their prey, and their riches, and hall forecast devices
against the best fenced places: and this until a time.
11:25
And his strength, and his heart, shall be stirred up against the king of
the south, with a great army: and the king of the south shall be
stirred up to battle with many and very strong uccours: and they shall
not stand, for they shall form designs against him.
The
king. . .Ptolemeus Philometor.
11:26 And
they that eat bread with him, shall destroy him, and his army shall be
overthrown: and many shall fall down slain.
11:27 And the heart
of the two kings shall be to do evil, and they shall speak lies at one
table, and they shall not prosper: because as yet the end is unto
another time.
11:28 And he shall return into his land with much
riches: and his heart shall be against the holy covenant, and he shall
succeed, and shall return into his own land.
11:29 At the time
appointed he shall return, and he shall come to the south, but the
latter time shall not be like the former.
11:30 And the galleys
and the Romans shall come upon him, and he shall be struck, and shall
return, and shall have indignation against the covenant of the
sanctuary, and he shall succeed: and e shall return, and shall devise
against them that have forsaken the covenant of the sanctuary.
The
galleys and the Romans. . .Popilius, and the other Roman ambassadors,
who came in galleys, and obliged him to depart from Egypt.
11:31
And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall defile the sanctuary
of strength, and shall take away the continual sacrifice: and they
shall place there the abomination unto desolation.
They
shall place there the abomination, etc. . .The idol of Jupiter
Olympius, which Antiochus ordered to be set up in the sanctuary of the
temple: which is here called the sanctuary of strength, from the
Almighty that was worshipped there.
11:32
And such as deal wickedly against the covenant shall deceitfully
dissemble: but the people that know their God shall prevail and
succeed.
11:33 And they that are learned among the people shall
teach many: and they shall fall by the sword, and by fire, and by
captivity, and by spoil for many days.
11:34 And when they shall
have fallen, they shall be relieved with a small help: and many shall
be joined to them deceitfully.
11:35 And some of the learned
shall fall, that they may be tried, and may be chosen, and made white,
even to the appointed time: because yet there shall be another time.
11:36
And the king shall do according to his will, and he shall be lifted
up, and shall magnify himself against every god: and he shall speak
great things against the God of gods, and shall rosper, till the wrath
be accomplished. For the determination is made.
11:37 And he
shall make no account of the God of his fathers: and he shall follow
the lust of women, and he shall not regard any gods: for he shall rise
up against all things.
11:38 But he shall worship the god
Maozim, in his place: and a god whom his fathers knew not, he shall
worship with gold, and silver, and precious stones, and things of great
price.
The god Maozim. . .That is, the god
of forces or strong holds.
11:39 And he
shall do this to fortify Maozim with a strange god, whom he hath
acknowledged, and he shall increase glory, and shall give them power
over many, and shall divide the land gratis.
Crown
of the Antichrist for the Son of Perdition in the future - Book of
Daniel Chapter 11, verse 39
And he shall increase
glory, etc. . .He shall bestow honours, riches and lands, upon them that
shall worship his god.
11:40 And at the time
prefixed the king of the south shall fight against him, and the king of
the north shall come against him like a tempest, with chariots, and with
horsemen, and with a great avy, and he shall enter into the countries,
and shall destroy, and pass through.
The king of the
north. . .Seleucus Callinicus - at the time of the Old Testament.
11:41
And he shall enter into the glorious land, and many shall fall: and
these only shall be saved out of his hand, Edom, and Moab, and the
principality of the children of Ammon.
11:42 And he shall lay
his hand upon the lands: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
11:43
And he shall have power over the treasures of gold, and of silver,
and all the precious things of Egypt: and he shall pass through Lybia,
and Ethiopia.
11:44 And tidings out of the east, and out of the
north, shall trouble him: and he shall come with a great multitude to
destroy and slay many.
11:45 And he shall fix his tabernacle,
Apadno, between the seas, upon a glorious and holy mountain: and he
shall come even to the top thereof, and none shall help him.
Apadno.
. .Some take it for the proper name of a place: others, from the
Hebrew, translate it his palace.
