Good morning.
Welcome to Inquisition Update.
My name's Tom Friess and I'll be your host for the next hour.
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I'll bet that over the weekend everybody's anxious to return to the book,
A Woman Rides a Beast by Dave Hunt.
I know I am.
And this is a book that's been out for a number of years.
And as I pointed out, there's many, many, many important things to talk about
in this book.
One of which is Dave Hunt's futurism.
And it's a struggle to read the book and to disclaim his futurist beliefs.
But that has become the orthodox teaching in Christianity today.
Futurism.
Dispensational futurism.
The belief that the Antichrist is a single individual that comes within seven years
of Christ's return.
And it is not the papacy as it has existed since its founding nearly 2,000 years ago.
But nonetheless, we'll forge along with this book and uncover the futurism as we
go and try to eat the meat and spit out the bones.
Now yesterday, or rather Friday, we concluded on page 46 of this book,
but we'll back up a little bit for continuity purposes.
At the bottom of page 45 it says, The Latin equivalent of the Greek prefix
anti- is vicarious, from which comes the word vicar.
Thus, Vicar of Christ literally means Antichrist.
The official title of the Pope, Vicar of Christ, literally means
Antichrist.
They are the same word.
It's not a trick.
It's the truth.
Now, although the Roman Catholic Popes have called themselves Vicar of Christ,
in other words, Antichrist, for centuries, they were not the first to do so,
but inherited that title from Constantine.
His future counterpart, the coming world ruler, now here's Dave Hunt's futurism
cropping up again, he has just admitted that the title of the Popes is Antichrist.
And yet, he's talking about a future counterpart of Constantine, who also
called himself Vicar of Christ, will be the coming world leader over the
revived Roman Empire, and he will be THE Antichrist.
Now look, first of all, the revived Roman Empire has already been established.
It's already up and running.
It's a matter of daily history.
And to put it off in the future is to simply divorce oneself of the truth and to
hold fast to that phony Jesuit futurism.
The papacy has always controlled the kings of the earth, except for a brief time
after the Protestant Reformation, after the French Revolution, when General
Berthier removed the papacy from his throne and took him into exile,
and then made the government of Rome come under secular control.
The Pope, if the papacy as it existed at that time, had only spiritual power over
the Roman Catholic Church, if he was the head of the Roman Catholic Church,
but he had no temporal power whatsoever.
That is no longer true.
After the Lateran Accords of 1929 with Mussolini, the papacy was restored to a
kingly status.
And that kingly status is exerted by the papacy over all the kings of the earth
again.
The Roman Empire has been re-established.
It's been up and running at least since 1929.
So to look for this union of church and state on a future basis is simply
kowtowing to the Jesuits' deception called dispensational futurism.
And it is ignorant of the plain evidence facts on the ground as they exist today.
As already noted, the ancient Roman Empire, the Emperor, was worshipped as
God.
That is, under the pagan Roman Empire, before the rise of the papacy,
and the Holy Roman Empire as it were, the Emperor was worshipped as a God.
Not just a king, but a God as well.
As such, he was the leader of the pagan priesthood and of the official
state-sponsored pagan religion of the Empire.
An image was made to the Caesars before which the citizens were required to bow
and worship, just like Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon.
Nothing has changed.
And it's as those who refused to acknowledge the Emperor as God were
killed, and so it will be, here's the futurism again, when the Roman Empire is
revived under Antichrist.
When was the pagan Roman Empire revived under Antichrist?
When the papacy replaced Caesar.
Remember Constantine went to Constantinople and left the power vacuum
in Rome?
And the papacy rebelled against Constantine and arrogated to itself both
the title and the jurisdiction and the power of Caesar.
And then it became the so-called Holy Roman Empire.
Immediately when the Restrainer left Rome, Constantine, the Antichrist, arose in his
place.
The little horn.
The Holy Roman Empire is simply the pagan Roman Empire with a thin cloak of
Christianity over it, and then all the power of Constantine vested in the papacy.
Don't look in the future for Antichrist because you'll be deceived.
If you understand, as the Protestant Reformers did, the papacy was,
is, and always will be the Antichrist, then you're on the right track and you
won't be deceived by dispensational futurism.
Again, he says, and so it will be when the Roman Empire is revived under Antichrist.
This fact is clearly presented in the extensive vision Christ gave John.
Here's what he said, and he causeth the earth and them that dwell therein to
worship the first beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should
make an image to the beast, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of
the beast should be killed.
Revelation chapter 13, verse 12 and 15.
And so this concludes where we ended up Friday on the broadcast.
Now we'll continue.
He's talking about the paganization of Christianity here.
He says, When Emperor Constantine supposedly became a Christian in 313 AD,
which was nothing but a clever political maneuver, Constantine was not a Christian.
He died a pagan.
Even it is believed that his mother was the source of the Christianity in
Constantine's house.
And we know from history that Helena, as you might pronounce her name,
was neither Christian.
She simply went down to Jerusalem and collected as many so-called Christian
artifacts as she could.
And she was nothing but an idolater, typical of paganism.
We've heard all the stories about the pieces of the true cross and all the
so-called holy grail and all these so-called Christian artifacts that she
brought back to Rome.
It's simply, well, it's not Christianity at all.
It's more consistent with the paganism that dominated both the pagan Roman Empire
and the Holy Roman Empire.
It still goes on today.
You have to realize, and most people don't, that mass cannot be said on a Roman
Catholic altar unless it has been consecrated by a priest, a Roman Catholic
priest, and it must have some quote-unquote holy relic buried in the
floor beneath that altar.
So it's just a Christianized or a baptized paganism is all it is.
And this is what the Protestant Reformers understood.
Again, he says, when Emperor Constantine supposedly became a Christian in A.D.
313, which was nothing but a clever political maneuver to unite church and
state, he gave freedom to Christians as well as official status alongside paganism
to the Christian Church.
And he calls it again, Christian Church.
We have to get out of the habit.
It's the Roman Catholic Church.
It's the synagogue of Satan.
In no way can it be described a Christian Church.
And despite his knowledge of this, not only this author, Dave Hunt,
but many other authors make the same mistake.
And we have to acknowledge it for what it is, the synagogue of Satan led by
Antichrist himself.
He says, since the church was now a recognized religious body in the empire,
Constantine as emperor had to be acknowledged as its de facto head.
So this pagan became the head of what we know today as the Roman Catholic Church.
As such, he convened the first ecumenical council, the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D.
He set its agenda and gave the opening speech and presided over it, just as
Charlemagne would over the Council of Chalon in 500 A.D.
or rather, excuse me, 500 years later.
Interested, not in the truth of the gospel, but in unifying the empire,
there's your political motive for this union of Christianity, so-called,
and the Roman state, Constantine was the first ecumenist and introduced that error
into the persecution-weary church.
And who was it that persecuted the church?
Rome!
They simply couldn't destroy the gospel, they couldn't destroy all the believers in
Jesus Christ, all they could do was absorb it into the empire, and acknowledge it
officially, and make it part of the government.
In other words, by flattery, he conquered what was then the early church,
or at least a portion of it, and put it under the state.
Now, we have to understand that not Constantine, not the Pope, not anyone else
but Christ is the head of the church.
The church, as established by Christ, was an independent church.
It never united with the state.
It never even sought state approval.
With Christ the head of the church, the churches were independent and separate
from the state.
The heavenly never mixed with the earthly, and it continued to worship, just as
instituted by Christ and the apostles.
And it never became slaves of the state.
It remained loyal to Christ, never allowing itself to be enslaved.
When we think of the example of the Waldenses, who were holed up in the Alpine
hills, and farmed the valleys, and simply would not come to mass,
would not confess their sins to the Roman Catholic priests, would have nothing to do
with the Roman Catholic Church, and went about everywhere they went,
preaching that the Pope was the Antichrist.
So, the church of Jesus Christ existed completely separately from Constantine and
the Popes.
What we are seeing here is the erection of a counterfeit, quote unquote,
Christianity, that deceives and enslaves the whole world, and persecutes the saints
of God.
Now, while heading this so-called Christian church, Constantine continued to
head the pagan priesthood, to officiate at pagan celebrations, and to endow pagan
temples, even after he began to build Christian churches, that is, Roman
Catholic churches, not Christian at all.
As head of the pagan priesthood, he was Pontifex Maximus, that was his
title, and needed a similar title as head of the Christian church.
The Christians, rather than Catholics, honored him as Bishop of Bishops,
while Constantine called himself Vicarious Christi, in other words, the Vicar of
Christ, the replacement of Christ on earth.
So, before he was a pagan, but when he became a Christian, so-called,
he became a blasphemer.
That is typical of the papacy.
See, the papacy today has all the power, strength, and title, and jurisdiction,
and immunity as did Constantine.
When the Restrainer left, the man of sin arrogated to himself all the prerogatives
of the pagan emperor that he replaced, and stood up in his place.
So, all the power now is vested in the Pope, and he holds the office of Pontifex
Maximus, Caesar, the King of Kings.
And he also, as Bishop of Bishops, he claims the power of Christ.
Okay, head of the church.
This is very Antichrist.
It says the Christians, the so-called Christians, honored him as Bishop of
Bishops, while Constantine called himself Vicarious Christi, Vicar of Christ.
He meant that he was, quote, unquote, another Christ, acting in the place of
Christ.
When translated into Greek, however, as we have seen, Vicarious Christi
literally means Antichrist.
They are the same word, just different spellings.
Constantine was the prototype of the Antichrist prophesied in Scripture,
and who is yet to come, says Dave Hunt.
No, he came 2,000 years ago.
He's the one who replaced Constantine, the Restrainer.
Okay, we don't look into the future for Antichrist.
He's been with us all along, persecuting God's people and fulfilling all the Bible
prophecies regarding Antichrist.
Continuing, he says, In the Middle Ages, the bishops of Rome began to claim that
they were the sole representatives of Christ upon the earth.
Demanding that the entire church worldwide be subject to their rule, they forbade any
other bishops to be called Papa, or Pope, or Father, and took to themselves
the three titles of Constantine, Pontifex Maximus, Vicar of Christ,
and Bishop of Bishops, which they retained to themselves to this very day.
Antichrist just simply can't change his spots, can he?
He's been with us all along.
It's uncanny to me to read, as much as Dave Hunt knows, and then to go to his
grave still confused about who Antichrist is.
Anyway, he says, As the Pope's claim to absolute power over kingdoms, people,
and property were realized, great corruption entered the Roman Catholic
Church.
The Protestant Reformers and their creeds were unanimous in identifying each Pope as
the Antichrist.
That's what I believe.
Every Pope is an Antichrist.
Every Pope is a successor of Antichrist.
It is the dynasty of Antichrist.
Remember, Satan is a spirit, and he rules through a human agency, just as Christ is
evident in the world through the human agency of his people, called the Body of
Christ.
Satan has a counterfeit.
It's called the Papacy.
And since, being human, they're blessed to live no more than 70 years, then Satan
rules the world through this human agency in a line of successors.
Each Pope is a continuation of the office of the man of sin, the son of perdition.
So, the Protestant Reformers were correct in saying that each Pope is an Antichrist,
is the Antichrist.
Now, here's Dave Hunt's Futurism again.
He says, Scripture, however, does not support that claim.
The Antichrist is a unique individual without predecessors or successors.
He will be the new Constantine, the ruler of the revived worldwide empire.
It's going to be difficult to address every instance of Dave Hunt's Futurist
beliefs.
But the Bible speaks of the Papacy.
It does not speak of a single man of sin, a son of perdition, that comes seven years
before Christ's return.
Listen, Dave was corrupted by dispensational Futurism.
He did not understand verse 27 of Daniel chapter 9 was fulfilled by Christ.
He believed that verse 27 was talking about the Antichrist.
That the Antichrist would cause the sacrifices and oblations to cease.
And therefore, Dave Hunt is looking for a future Antichrist who will cause Jewish
sacrifices and oblations to cease.
When the Bible doesn't speak of it.
Verse 27 is about the Messiah, Jesus Christ, 2000 years ago.
And every time we turn around, David's Futurism crops back up and will
push it back down where it belongs every time it comes up.
Now he continues discussing a staggering new insight.
He says the final revelation of the fourth beast comes in the vision which God gave
John as recorded in Revelation chapter 17.
This time, in a staggering new insight, a woman sits astride this horrible
creature.
That this is the same beast which Daniel saw and which is represented to us in
chapters 12 and 13 of Revelation is quite clear.
For it has the now familiar 7 heads and 10 horns.
See verse 3.
One other identifying feature is recorded.
The beast is full of names of blasphemy.
An obvious elaboration upon what was seen in chapter 13.
And upon his head the names of blasphemy.
Now what is blasphemy?
Calling oneself vicar of Christ.
The replacement of Christ.
There is no replacement of Christ unless of course we acknowledge the Holy Spirit
whom Christ sent after he returned to his Father.
If there is a vicar of Christ, if there is a replacement of the Son of
God on earth, it is none other than the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit.
And to arrogate to a human being that agency is blasphemy.
And that's what the papacy does when it calls itself Antichrist.
When it calls itself the vicar or the replacement of Christ on earth.
As a matter of fact, every pope holding to that title, every pope acting in that
office, which is every pope throughout history, has blasphemed the Holy Spirit.
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Now, Dave Hunt says the final revelation of the fourth beast in the Bible comes in
the vision which God gave John as recorded in Revelation chapter 17.
But this time, in a staggering new insight, a woman sits astride this
horrible creature.
Okay, for the first time, the beast referred to in Daniel's visions,
this one by John in Revelation 17, this same beast is controlled by a woman.
Now, what is this woman?
Well, in the Bible, we all know the beast represents Gentile nations, or kingdoms.
Abusive, tyrannical, God-man kingdoms, for lack of a better term.
That's what Nimrod was, a God-king.
That's what Nebuchadnezzar was, a God-king.
That's what Caesar was, a God-king.
They were blasphemers.
But this time, this beast power is being ridden and controlled by a woman.
Now, in the Bible, women represent churches.
God uses the example of a woman to describe churches.
And when Israel was obedient to God, kept His commandments, and worshiped Him
according to spirit and truth, he regarded Israel as a chaste virgin.
Okay, the feminine, a woman.
Likewise, when Israel was apostate and disobeyed the commandments of God and fell
into idolatry, he called her a harlot.
She went a-whoring after other gods.
Accused Israel of fornication and of adultery.
Okay, a whore or a harlot is an adulterous woman.
So now we have a woman, or rather a church, controlling this beast power.
It literally represents a union of church and state, where the church dictates to
the state what shall be done.
This is the description of the Roman Catholic Church, which is a church state.
The Vatican is a church state union.
The Pope is not only the head of the church, but he is the head of the papal
state.
Vatican City.
And he claims his jurisdiction not over just Vatican City, but over the whole
world.
So this is what is described in Revelation chapter 17.
A global government persecuting power.
A global civil government controlled by the Roman Catholic Church.
That's the New World Order.
There's nothing new about it at all.
History is just dominated by the Old World Order.
And to describe the Old World Order was a union of church and state, the Roman
Catholic Church, over the governments of the world.
Okay, I hope I made that clear.
Now it says that this is the same beast which Daniel saw, and which is presented
to us in chapters 12 and 13 of Revelation is quite clear.
For it has the now familiar seven heads and ten horns, and one other identifying
feature is recorded.
The beast is full of names of blasphemy.
An obvious elaboration upon what was seen in chapter 13, upon his heads the names of
blasphemy.
We've already determined what blasphemy was.
Irrigating to oneself the prerogatives of God.
Irrigating to oneself the power to forgive sins.
And that's what the papacy does.
Calls himself the Vicar of Christ, blaspheming the Holy Spirit.
And this is the Antichrist, the papacy.
The Roman Catholic Church is the woman that rides the governments of the world
and controls the governments of the world.
Now he says this is a remarkable change of perspective this last time the beast is
seen.
The woman riding it rather than the beast itself is now the focus of attention.
The focus of attention in Revelation chapter 17 is this woman, this church.
The description of the beast is brief, only sufficient to let us know that it is
the same one we have seen before.
No further insights into the nature or meaning of this horrible creature are
given.
Why?
Because we should be able to recognize it by now, throughout history.
Now it says a new figure has taken center stage.
And two entire chapters of Revelation chapter 17 and 18 are devoted to detailed
discussion about this woman.
Far more space than has been given to the beast itself in all prior appearances in
the Bible.
Now John has never indicated in any of the three times he has seen the frightening
creature that he was shocked or even amazed by it.
But now at last he expresses great astonishment.
Not for the beast, however, but for the woman on its back.
It is the sight of her that staggers John.
How did this woman mount such a fearsome creature?
Why should it allow her to sit on its back, holding the reins and controlling
it?
Obviously, she will play a key role in the revival of the Roman Empire, the reign of
Antichrist, and future world events leading to Christ's second coming.
What will that role be?
When will it be revealed?
Who is this woman?
To answer such questions and more is the purpose of this book.
And let me tell you, the Protestant Reformers revealed all of this 500 years
ago.
If we would return to Bible Protestantism, we wouldn't need such books as A Woman
Rides the Beast, and none of us would be deceived about dispensational futurism as
was Dave Hunt.
And before my listeners become critical of my assailing of Dave Hunt's futurism,
I will confess once again for the record, for 50 years of my life, I have believed
that deception just as Dave Hunt did.
But I have repented, and I hope my listeners will be led by the Spirit of God
to do the same and return to true Bible believing Protestantism.
Now chapter 5 is entitled Mystery Babylon, but Dave gives us a portion from
Revelation chapter 17 verse 5.
He says, Upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery Babylon the Great.
And the diabolical Antichrist, Pope Innocent III, who reigned from 1198
to 1216 said, Thus, as the moon receives its light from the sun, so the royal
power, that is the state, derives from the pontifical authority the splendor of its
dignity.
The state of the world will be restored by our diligent care, for the pontifical
authority and the royal power, that is the church and the state,
fully suffice for this purpose.
So Antichrist Innocent III revealed nearly a millennium ago how the papacy would
control the entire world by controlling the governments of the world.
The woman riding the beast.
Chapter 5, Mystery Babylon.
Why mystery?
That Babylon, an ancient city whose ruins have been covered by the desert sands for
at least 2300 years, should be mentioned so prominently in prophecies pertaining to
the last days, does indeed seem an enigma.
It is popularly taught that the woman represents ancient Babylon revived.
The fact that Iraq's sadistic ruler, Saddam Hussein, began Babylon's
reconstruction some years ago, is therefore seen as contributing to the
fulfillment of this vision.
Ancient Babylon, however, even if it again becomes an inhabited and functioning city,
could not possibly be the Babylon to which the writing on the woman's forehead
refers.
Saddam's rebuilt Babylon simply doesn't meet the criteria that John sets forth.
Those criteria, which we will be examining in detail, establish the woman's identity.
And as we shall see, she is not ancient Babylon.
And I agree with Dave Hunt on this.
Saddam Hussein worked for the papacy.
And I believe Saddam Hussein was simply rebuilding Babylon as a diversion from any
focus of the people of the world upon Rome as the new Babylon, as fulfilling the
prophecies regarding mystery Babylon the Great.
And there are still hosts on First Amendment radio who swear that ancient
Babylon in Iraq will be rebuilt.
It will become a center of commerce in the world.
And if it is, and I do not believe God will allow that city to be rebuilt,
but if it is, it will simply be a diversion away from the papacy.
To divert everyone's eyes away from the true antichrist onto a false antichrist.
Thus opening the way for the papacy to seat itself in the world as the
replacement of Christ or Christ in the flesh.
And that's what the papacy's goal has been all along.
To elevate itself to global supremacy both over spiritual things and temporal things.
The God King.
The Antichrist.
Now, Saddam imagines himself to be a modern Nebuchadnezzar.
Perhaps even the reincarnation of that emperor of ancient Babylon.
What Saddam admires most about Nebuchadnezzar is that he destroyed
Jerusalem and killed or carried away captive Israel's inhabitants into Babylon.
Leaving the land of Israel desolate.
Now let me say before we even go on.
The whole object of the papacy today is to re-fulfill the 70th week of Daniel.
And to take the world's eyes away from what Rome has endeavored to do.
To put the focus on a boogeyman.
Like Saddam Hussein.
Another thing the papacy has done is prevent Christians from realizing who the
true Israel is.
Those who belong to Christ are Israel.
Spiritual Israel.
And the Vatican is focusing the world to believe in a physical Israel.
A physical earthly Israel.
A physical earthly king.
A physical earthly antichrist.
And again, I will recommend the book, Exploding the Israel Deception by Steve
Wolberg.
If you want to understand the truth.
If you don't want to be misled by this phony futurist recreation of the ancient
Jewish nation of Israel.
That we see today.
And all the focus on Babylon.
And away from the papacy.
Simply read the book, Exploding the Israel Deception by Steve Wolberg.
And your eyes will be opened as to what Israel is according to the scripture.
Who is Israel?
Is it a bunch of disbelieving Jews?
Living in a land created by the governments of the world?
By the papacy itself?
As a stage upon which the papacy hopes to re-fulfill the phony, Jesuit, futurist
interpretation of Daniel chapter 9 verse 27.
The deception is elaborate.
And it required a great deal of cooperation with the papacy.
By the kings of the earth.
But they want an earthly kingdom.
And to get it done, they must deceive the Christian world.
And that's what they've done.
And they've partly deceived David Hunt.
Rather, Dave Hunt.
And they've deceived me for 50 years.
I don't want my listeners to fall for this deception.
Now, it is true that Saddam Hussein imagined himself to be a modern
Nebuchadnezzar.
There were even articles written in mainstream media reports about Saddam's
supposed visions of being a modern day Nebuchadnezzar.
And he believed he was even a reincarnation of Nebuchadnezzar of ancient
Babylon.
What Saddam admires most about Nebuchadnezzar is that he destroyed
Jerusalem and killed or carried away captive Israel's inhabitants into Babylon,
leaving the land of Israel desolate.
So you have to understand that it is the Vatican who has taken advantage of this
and who would also like to destroy all the Jews, as they have done throughout all
history and leave that place, Israel today, open for a papal rule.
Now, as the new Nebuchadnezzar, Saddam Hussein dreams of wreaking the same
destruction upon today's Israelis whom he sees as his chief enemies.
Of course, Babylon itself was then conquered by the Medes and the Persians
and for that depredation, Saddam views Iran, that is the successor of the ancient
Persia, as his other great enemy and fought an eight year war against her.
So Saddam thinks that history is repeating itself.
And he is the new Nebuchadnezzar and his nemesis is Israel and his kingdom will be
eventually replaced by the Medes and the Persians if he doesn't destroy them.
Now, Saddam has proudly imprinted his name on every brick being used in the
reconstruction of ancient Babylon.
As much hated and feared by his own people, one day Saddam will be deposed,
as eventually happens to all tyrants.
It would not be surprising if the Iraqis, in order to erase the last vestige of
Saddam's loathsome memory, thereafter bulldoze the proud structures he has
erected at the site of ancient Babylon.
Whether that happens or not, there is no way that this city, rebuilt after lying in
ruins for more than 2,000 years, could be mistaken for the Babylon which
the major subject of Revelation chapter 17 and 18 is written.
Dave Hunt knows that the Babylon of the Bible, as we see it today in the world,
is not in Iraq, it is in Italy.
Rome is the new Babylon, Babylon the Great.
She is the woman riding the beast and in control of all the governments of the
world and making slaves and martyrs of God's people.
Now, the Babel connection.
There is, of course, a connection to ancient Babylon.
The name on the woman's forehead establishes that fact.
What could that name mean in the world of the last days, just prior to the second
coming of Christ?
Obviously, it must refer to a dominant feature common to all four world empires.
A major element of the first empire, Babylon, which is still dominant in the
fourth empire, Rome.
A paramount feature common to all was the unity between the throne and the altar,
between the prince and the priest.
In other words, what was common among them all is that church and state were united
and the church controlled the state.
Separation of church and state was yet unheard of.
In fact, the opposite was true.
The pagan priests, the astrologers, magicians, sorcerers and soothsayers were
the emperor's close advisers and often the hidden influence controlling the empire.
Thus, a principal characteristic of this woman, who is both a city and a spiritual
entity, will be her adulterous relationship with secular governments.
And we've spent all of our time here at Inquisition Update showing every day how
the papacy controlled the governments of the world.
The union of church and state.
That's what defined the old world order.
That is what is being restored in the new world order.
The unity of church and state, the union of church and state persisted
from the days of Babylon until beyond the ascendancy of Rome, the fourth world
empire in Daniel's vision.
As we have seen, Roman emperors, like other ancient rulers, headed the
pagan priesthood and were worshipped as gods.
That's where we get the concept of the God-King.
Look, if you don't believe in the God of the Bible, then you have to make your own
God.
And hopefully it's a man that you can worship as a God, right?
So all the power, all the antichrists of the world struggled for that position.
To be both a king and a god.
That defines all of history.
And the papacy is simply the current emanation of that ancient God-King.
Now, inasmuch as religion was the dominant factor in every empire, we do well to take
a closer look at the religion of Babylon.
Now he's going to talk about ancient Babel, tower to heaven.
Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon was built around the ruins of the Tower of Babel,
which was erected shortly after the flood by the descendants of Noah under the
leadership of Nimrod.
See Genesis chapter 10 verse 8 through 10 and Micah chapter 5 verse 6.
Now, Nimrod was the first post-deluvial, that is, post-flood God-King.
It was simply a restoration of what took place before the flood.
Idolatry.
Nimrod declared himself a God-King and demanded worship and obedience by the
people.
He held the people captive in walled cities and set them about building a
tower.
That tower represents the religion of Babylon or Babel.
Now, its original purpose was clearly stated by its builders.
Let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make
us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
See Genesis chapter 11 verse 4.
The city, Babel, was a political civil union of earth's inhabitants at that time.
The tower, as opposed to the city, was clearly a religious enterprise,
the means of reaching heaven.
So there you have church and state.
Now, Babel thus represents the unity of church and state, involving the entire
world in an attempt to elevate man to God's level.
That this would be accomplished through a tower built by human genius and energy,
obviously represents man's religion of self-effort.
Or salvation by works.
Which is just exactly what the Roman Catholic Church does.
Salvation by works.
By sacraments.
By baptism.
By participating in the mass.
That abomination called the mass.
In Roman Catholicism, grace is infused by participating in these works of the Roman
Catholic Church.
Now, in as much as the entire world was united in this effort, we have the first
example of world government and world religion joined as one.
Babel was simply a microcosm of the current global macrocosm.
And it says, as man began in this unity, so he must end in it as well.
Such is the clear message on the woman's forehead.
The tower was the obsession of the city's inhabitants.
The purpose of life that both united and enslaved.
Thus, religion dominated the partnership of church and state.
That such will be the case in the New World Order of Antichrist, at least for a
time, is clearly depicted by the fact that the woman rides the beast.
A global union of church and state, just like the one that existed before the
Protestant Reformation.
We'll continue with the reading and discussion of A Woman Rides the Beast by
Dave Hunt on the program tomorrow.
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