• Pope Benedict XVI is the seventh king of the Vatican, the Papal Kingdom, since it returned to its status as a sovereign nation in 1929 due to the the Lateran Treaty.
• One of the first seven heads of the Papal Kingdom, Pope John Paul II, suffered a mortal wound from which he was healed. In 1981, he survived an assassination attempt where he was shot multiple times at close range, and lost 3/4 of his blood. That is arguably a mortal wound, yet he recovered, and became the most popular pope in history as the world marveled after him.
• Pope Francis is an eighth king of the Vatican, but he is “of the seven” before him.

Pope Francis appears to be the second beast.

• Everyone says he is so “Christ-like” because he is humble and approachable, but he teaches the same papal error as the prior popes. In this sense, he has two horns like a lamb (horns representing attention and power, per the expression “raise a horn” in the Old Testament); the lamb represents Jesus everywhere else in Revelation. But he speaks like a dragon; the dragon represents Satan, per Revelation 12.
• He literally exercises all of the authority of Pope Benedict XVI while Pope Benedict XVI is still alive and present. (“It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence…”) This has never happened before; the last time there were two popes alive at the same time, they were trying to kill each other.
• He elevated Pope John Paul II to sainthood, fulfilling this: “…and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.” Pope John Paul II is the sixth head of the papal kingdom, the one whose mortal wound was healed. The term used here for “worship” is proskyneo, which doesn’t mean to regard as God, or to worship as a god. (The term is used of those made to bow down before the church of Smyrna whom they persecuted in the letters to the seven churches.) The term has as one of its meanings “used of homage shown to men and beings of superior rank” (See this: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/g4352/kjv/tr/0-1/ ) Paying homage to a person who has been canonized as a Catholic saint fits this definition.

That’s up to Revelation 13:12. He hasn’t fulfilled the rest of Revelation 13, but I am expecting him to. If Francis calls down fire from heaven in the sight of people (Revelation 13:13) you can be sure he is the one.

Keep in mind, both the first and second beast get captured alive at the return of Christ (Revelation 19:20), and Pope Benedict XVI is 94 years old right now, with Pope Francis 84 years old. If this interpretation is correct, expect major milestones to start happening very soon. Add seven years to Benedict’s age, and he would be 101 years old by the time all this is done. So something big has got to begin soon; there’s still the seven year covenant with the many, mid-way through marked by the Abomination of Desolation.

Brother LK, is that in GC?
God bless

Certainly different from our traditional interpretation of this scripture

Sorry about that. I meant Revelation 18:13

Romans 18:13. “slaves and the souls of men”. The merchants of the earth are in partnership with the RCC in not only sale of material things but also complicit in slavery…a joint venture!!!

Amen!

We have a zealous enforcer of masks at our NCC church…he is trying to abide by NCC policy statements in regards to covid that align with local and state guidelines… I realize this but I am sick and tired of being told what I am to do with MY health! MY BODY MY CHOICE!!! If a woman can purposely take the life of a helpless child (of which I don’t agree) because it is HER body and HER right then how is it that it is now everyone else’s decision on what you will or will not do with YOUR body.

Whether c19 mandates or whatever is next we are being groomed to accept the perversions of the RCC.