THE KINGS OF THE EARTH
"And I saw three unclean spirits like
frogs come out of the mouth of the
dragon, and out of the mouth of the
beast, and out of the mouth of the
false prophet; for they are the spirits
of devils, working miracles, which go
forth unto the kings of the earth, and
of the whole world, to gather them to
the battle of that great day of God
Almighty. Behold I come as a thief.
Blessed is he that watcheth, and
keepeth his garments, lest he walk
naked and they see his shame. And
He gathered them together into a
place called in the Hebrew tongue;
Armageddon"!
Revelation 16: 13 - 16
These are awesome and dreadful words!
Let us examine them more closely.
"three unclean spirit's like frogs" .... for
they are the spirit's of devils".
We do not need to guess do we?
We are told they are the fallen angels
with the devil himself leading them.
The dragon represents Satan in Bible
Prophecy. Here is the verse:
"And the great dragon was cast out,
that old serpent, called the devil and
Satan, he was cast out into the earth,
and his angels were cast out with him."
Revelation 12: 9
"out of the mouth of the beast"?
In Bible Prophecy, nations are very often
symbolized as various animals. Daniel the
Prophet was given visions and dreams
which portrayed the history of nations
as "beasts" rising up "out of the sea".
In Daniel 7: 2 & 3 we read >
"Daniel spake and said; "I saw in my
vision by night, and, behold the four
winds of the heaven strove upon the
great sea; and four great beasts
came up from the sea, diverse
one from another...."
Daniel saw a "lion", a "bear", a
"leopard" and a "terrible beast
with great iron teeth"!
Daniel 7: 17 says;
"These great beasts, which are four,
are four kings which shall arise out
of the earth..."
No guessing here, The Bible tells us
the beasts represents four kings.
In Danel 7: 23 we read: >
"Thus he said, the fourth beast,
shall be the fourth kingdom upon
earth, which shall be diverse from
all kingdoms, and shall devour the
whole earth, and shall tread it down
and break it in pieces"...
History records that those, "four
kingdoms" that followed each
other were; Babylon, Medo-Persia,
Greece, and Rome. These
beasts also symbolize the main
characteristics of these empires. We
are told the "fourth kingdom" was
represented by a beast with
ten horns and "great iron teeth"....
The Roman Kingdom conqured all
the territory of the nations that came
before it plus other lands to the west
and north.
The "fourth beast" representing the
Roman Empire had "ten horns".
Horns also symbolize kingdoms.
In Daniel 7: 24 we read >
"And the ten horns out of this kingdom,
are ten kings that shall arise and another
shall rise after them, and he shall be
diverse from the first, and he shall
subdue three kings...."
Daniel 7: 25 >
"And he shall speak great words
against the Most High, and shall wear
out the Saints of the Most High, and
think to change times and laws: and
they shall be given into his hand,
until a time and times and the dividing
of time..."
Who is represented by this;
"little horn"?
History shows that when Rome fell
to the invasion of the Germanic tribes
from the north, The Roman Emperor,
Constantine moved his seat to
Constantinople, and gave the
Bishop of Rome the seat of
power in the west. From these
events from 476 AD and onward
we have the rise to power of the
Catholic Church also called;
The Papacy !
The Catholic Church is represented
by another symbol in Revelation. In
chapter 13, The Papacy is represented
by a beast also.
Revelation 13: 1 & 2.
"And I stood upon the sand of the sea,
and I saw a beast rise up out of the sea,
having seven heads and ten horns, and
upon his horns ten crowns, and upon
his heads the name of blasphemy.
"And the beast which I saw, was like
unto a leapord, and his feet were as
the feet of a bear, and his mouth
as the mouth of a lion; and the
dragon gave him his power,
and his seat, and great
authority."
Look closely at this beast described in
the 13th chapter of Revelation. It has
"seven heads" and "ten horns" the
same as the red dragon of chapter
17. It is like a leopard, but it has
heads like a lion, and the feet of
a bear. It is a composite of the
three beasts of Daniel 7 and
tha means it has in it the
characteristics of the
nations before it.
".....and the dragon gave him
his power,and his seat, and
great authority."
Pagan Rome, who was under the
control of Satan, gave unto this
beast, pictured in Revelation 13,
which is the Catholic Church;
his power and authority!
So John saw an evil spirit that was
symbolized in this prophecy as a
frog, coming out of the mouth of
the head of the Catholic Church,
which is called a pope!
This fellow looks like he is up to
some kind of mischief don't you
think!?
Now we must decide who is the
third member of this evil trio,
whom The Bible calls the
False Prophet!
There are some clues in the
17th chapter of Revelation.
"And there came one of the
seven angels which had the
seven vials, and talked with me,
saying unto me,
"Come hither; I will show unto
thee the judgment of the
great whore that sitteth upon
many waters; with whom
the kings of the earth
have committed fornication,
so he carried me away in the
spirit into the wilderness: and
I saw a woman sit upon
a scarlet colored beast,
full of names of blasphemy,
having seven heads and
ten horns. And
the woman was arrayed in
purple and scarlet color, and
decked with gold and precious
stones and pearls, having
a golden cup in her hand full
of abominations and
filthness of her fornication:
And upon her forehead was a name
written, Mystery, Babylon The Great,
The Mother of Harlots and
abominations of the earth."
This verse above tells us that
BabylonThe Great, which is The Papacy, has
"harlot daughters". These
"daughters" are the churches
that came into being as one
after another arose in the
Catholic Church
exposing and condemning the
corruptions that existed in the
Vatican, and resulted in the
great Protestant Reformation!
Martin Luther, John Calvin,
and others separated from
the "Mother Church"
and became known as,
"Protestants"!
But, The Bible says that these
"daughters" would "lose their
first love" of the pure truth
given in Scripture and become
corrupt like their mother,
the Catholic Church!
That prophecy is fulfilled and now
through the ecumenical movement
pushed forward by the Catholic Church,
many meetings between Catholics and
Protestants have taken place since
Vatican 2 and many Protestant churches
have joined with Catholicism in many
different projects. They have come to
the incredible conclusion that there
really isn't that much difference between
Roman Catholicism and Protestantism
and are worshiping the Pope as the
head of all Christians!
This action is a fulfillment of the prophecy
of Revelation 13: 3 which says:
"........and all the world wondered after
the beast."
175 countries now have an ambassador
to the Vatican, that is almost every country
in the world ! There are, according to;
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_countries_are_there_in_the_world
196 countries. And Vatican News says
175 have ambassadors to the Vatican.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0700092.htm
Not only are countries in political affilation
with the Vatican, but Protestant Churches
have joined "Mother" in "spiritual association"
and are even teaching Catholic doctrine!
As we have already learned, the Papacy received
it's power from The Dragon - Satan, therefore
the "doctrines" of Roman Catholicism are the
"doctrines of devils", spoken of in
1 Timothy 4:1.
So, the Protestant Churches are no longer true
Protestants, and have become, False Prophets,
who no longer believe in "Sola Scripture" the
great principle of True Protestantism!
They are without question the third
entity named in Revelation 16: 13
called: "The False Prophet"!
Since all the mainline churches and
the so called; "Mega Churches", are
teaching Roman Catholic Mysticism,
called: "Spiritual Formation", we
illustrate this False Prophet of
fallen Protestantism in the
following manner!
For they are the spirit's of devils
working miracles, which go forth
unto the kings of the earth, and
of the whole world...."
God's Faithful People are very few.
Jesus told us that few would be
saved. He said:
"7:13 Enter ye in at the strait
gate: for wide is the gate, and
broad is the way, that leadeth
to destruction, and many there
be which go in thereat:
7:14 Because strait is the gate,
and narrow is the way, which
leadeth unto life, and few
there be that find it."
Matthew 7: 13 - 14.
God tells who His people are just
before the coming of Christ, He
says they are the people who:
"Blessed are they that do His
Commandments, that they may
have right to the tree of life,
and may enter in through the
gates into the city"
Revelation 22: 14
