- 1798: Pope Pius VI taken prisoner by the armies of Napoleon I, dies in captivity in France.
Prophecy from
Jesus-
Joh 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe
in God, believe also in me.
Joh 14:2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if
it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Joh 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I
WILL COME AGAIN AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF THAT WHERE I AM THERE YE MAY BE
ALSO.
Joh 14:4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye
know.
Joh 14:5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not
whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
Joh 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the
truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Joh 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my
Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Joh 14:8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the
Father, and it sufficeth us.
Joh 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long
time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me
hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Joh 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father,
and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself:
but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
Joh 14:11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the
Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
Joh 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, HE THAT
BELIEVETH ON ME THE WORKS THAT I DO SHALL HE DO BECAUSE I GO UNTO MY FATHER.
Joh 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that
will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Joh 14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will
do it.
Joh 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Joh 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall
give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world
cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know
him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Joh 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I WILL
COME TO YOU
Joh 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me
no more; BUT YE SEE ME BECAUSE I LIVE, YE SHALL LIVE ALSO
Joh 14:20 AT THAT DAY ye shall know that I am in my
Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Joh 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth
them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me SHALL BE loved of my
Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Do you believe this
prophecy? Do you? You should.
And just as you may
find it very easy to believe the above prophecy, you should believe all the
other prophecies as well.
Let's continue our study from yesterday and several days now. May God bless us and keep us in HIM, enlightening our spiritual insight with ONLY HIS truth! Please, Lord, without Your guidance we are only blind and living in our own delusions. Help us, teach us in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ, our LORD!
******* Continuing
our prophecy study-- Please GO back
several days and read the study from the beginning to gain full understanding
of where we are, if you haven't been following this study daily. *******
The Little Horn
Why is this little
horn so big? A contradiction, no, not
at all, not really. Many little things have huge impacts upon our lives.
Dan 7:8
I considered the
horns,
and, behold, there
came up among them another little horn,
before whom there
were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots
and, behold,
in this horn were
eyes like the eyes of man,
and a mouth
speaking great things.
Dan 7:21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with
the saints, and prevailed against them;
Dan 7:22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment
was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints
possessed the kingdom.
Dan 7:23 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.
Dan 7:24 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.
Dan 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.
Dan 7:26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall
take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
Dan 7:27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the
greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people
of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and
all dominions shall serve and obey him.
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Dan 8:9 And out of one of them came forth a little
horn
which waxed
exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the
pleasant land.
Dan 8:10 And it waxed great, even to the host of
heaven and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground and
stamped upon them.
Dan 8:11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince
of the host and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away and the place of his
sanctuary was cast down.
Dan 8:12 And an host was given him against the daily
sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it
cast down the truth
to the ground and it practised, and prospered.
Dan 8:13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another
saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision
concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give
both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
Dan 8:14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and
three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Dan 8:20 The ram which thou sawest having two horns
are the kings of Media and Persia.
Dan 8:21 And the rough goat is the king of Grecia:
and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
Dan 8:22 Now that being broken, whereas four stood up
for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.
Dan 8:23 And in the latter time of their kingdom,
when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and
understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
Dan 8:24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by
his own power
and he shall destroy wonderfully,
and shall prosper,
and practise,
and shall destroy
the mighty and the holy people.
Dan 8:25 And through his policy also he shall cause
craft to prosper in his hand
and he shall
magnify himself in his heart,
and by peace shall
destroy many
he shall also stand
up against the Prince of princes
but he shall be
broken without hand.
Do you see? There
is so much to study! So much to contemplate and understand by the grace and
mercy of God.
We've talked of the
possibility of the 1260 days rather than being a mere 3 and 1/2 years that the
little horn would wear out the saints of the most high, rather than this
amazing power thinking to change times and laws in such a short period of
time, that Biblically this could possibly mean 1260 years.
We know from
studying history and applying it to the prophecy that the little horn is the
Papacy (Papal Rome) and we know that the Papacy has had great influence in our
history not for a mere 3 1/2 years but for many, many, many more.
The times and laws
this little power would think to change didn't occur instantaneously but
rather during the course of its history and NO ONE can dispute that the Papacy
has literally changed times and laws, even the Papacy itself knows it has done
this as no other has. The Papacy knows that it has taken upon itself to be a
power of influence, an authoritative power claiming to have authority over all
others, claiming to be the only ones who can truly interpret even the Bible
correctly. I don't lie! This is fact!
Read this excerpt--
From Cardinal Merry
de Val, "Forward," in the Index of
Prohibited Books, revised and published by order of His Holiness Pope
Pius XI (new ed.; [Vatican City]: Vatican Polyglot Press, 1930), pp. ix-xi:
[p.
ix] What many, indeed fail to appreciate, and what, moreover non-Catholics
consider a grave abuse — as they put it of the Roman Curia, is the action of
the Church in hindering the printing and circulation of Holy Writ in the
vernacular. Fundamentally however, this ac- [p. x] cusation is based on
calumny. During the first twelve centuries Christians were highly familiar
with the text of Holy Scripture, as is evident from the homilies of the
Fathers and the sermons of the mediaeval preachers; nor did the ecclesiastical
authorities ever intervene to prevent this. It was only in consequence of
heretical abuses, introduced particularly by the Waldenses, the Albigenses,
the followers of Wyclif, and by Protestants broadly speaking (who with
sacrilegious mutilations of Scripture and arbitrary interpretations vainly
sought to justify themselves in the eyes of the people; twisting the text of
the Bible to support erroneous doctrines condemned by the whole history of the
Church) that the Pontiffs and the Councils were obliged on more than one
occasion to control and sometimes even forbid the use of the Bible in the
vernacular...
[p.
xi] Those who would put the Scriptures
indiscriminately into the hands of the people are the believers always in
private interpretation — a fallacy both absurd in itself and pregnant with
disastrous consequences. These counterfeit champions of the inspired
book hold the Bible to be the sole source of Divine Revelation and cover with
abuse and trite sarcasm the Catholic and Roman Church.
Far from
championing the spread of the Bible, and the translation into the vernacular,
the Catholic Church has a history of repression and censorship in this regard.
It was really the combination of the reformation and the advent of the
printing press that "let the cat out of the bag." It seems that
Bibles could be printed faster than they (and their authors or owners) could
be burned. Since Catholicism could no longer contain the Bible and keep it out
of the hands of the laity, the issue has become one of authority to interpret.
For those Catholics
who continue to maintain that the Roman Catholic Church was justified in
seizing and burning "faulty" vernacular Bibles, and that grave
errors in translation were the primary reason for destroying them, I offer the
following challenge:
Tyndale's Bible has
recently been republished by David Daniell and Yale University Press and can
still be found at some bookstores. Tyndale's New Testament is 0-300-04419-4
for the hardback and 0-300-06580-9 for the paperback. Tyndale's Old Testament
in hardback is ISBN 0-300-05211-1. Mr. Daniell has updated the spelling but
remained faithful to the original text.
The Geneva Bible's
1602 New Testament has also been reprinted in facsimile by Pilgrim Classic
Commentaries in 1989 from an original in the Cambridge University Library. The
ISBN is 0-8298-0789-6 for the hardback and ISBN 0-8298-0785-3 for the
paperback.
The 1611 Authorized
Version (King James) Bible has also been reprinted word-for-word with original
spelling by Thomas Nelson Publishers in 1993.
In addition, to my
knowledge, the Roman Catholic Church was unsuccessful in completely destroying
all copies of any "heretical" reformation era vernacular
translations of the Bible. Despite their diligence, there are surviving copies
existing today that can be studied. I therefore challenge Catholics to produce
Catholic documents from the reformation period that cite and explain in detail
the grave "errors" in vernacular Protestant Bibles, that warranted
not only their destruction, but also frequently the death of the author, as
well as those found in possession of said Bibles. It would seem that any
charge of grave translation "errors" can still be verified by almost
anyone today from either original editions or facsimile reprints. So mere
claims of faulty vernacular Bibles proves absolutely
nothing without providing citations of the exact verse and Bible
edition where the alleged error occurs.
I maintain that the
objections of the Catholic church to the various attempts to produce a Bible
in the vernacular, were not that of faulty translations (although that claim
was made), but rather that of "unauthorized heretical"
interpretations that resulted from widespread publication and the laity
finally being able to read the entire Bible for themselves in their own
tongue, as noted in the various items above. The laity was then able to
discern the truth for themselves, and the biblical truth was often at odds
with Catholic teaching. Dissent flourished with the availability of the Bible,
and so persecution of these heretics increased as well, in an attempt by the
church to maintain control and assert her presumed authority. It is a sad chapter
in history that is quite well documented.
Pasted
from <http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/banned.htm>
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This is our
history! This isn't some made up story, but truth as it happened. The Papacy
today can apologize all it desires but it cannot wipe out the facts of its
behavior over the many, many year it has been in existence. Was it a one year mistake on their part? No,
more years than we can truly fully fathom as reality the Papacy used the
authoritative power it was given not by God but by worldly men in worldly
power, to bring abuse after abuse, corruption after corruption of God's truth
to people trying to force it upon them.
But there was a people- the few among the many- who stayed to the
narrow path Jesus implemented and these people were abused but kept alive, not
totally wiped out which would have suited the Papacy just fine. In fact today the Papacy claims to be the
head of the ONE TRUE CHURCH and all other are called to join her. Yes, the
Papacy would love unity but in truth, only fully by all others converting to
her religion.
So seriously, we
can honestly say there would be a 1260 year period in which the Papacy would
hold sway, even against those of the wilderness faith- God's true people as
they- in the minority by far, would hold fast to truth over error. But there
would come a time when the full force of military power would be stripped away
and the influence of the Papacy would begin to wane until we come to our
current place in time where the Papacy while having great power and influence
does not have what it once had that power to condemn men to death on their
word. That power was cut down, a death
blow was struck that would reverberate onwards to affect the course of the
Papacy's history, shaping it into what it is now. That wound is healed now,
but the change was made and God's wilderness people, His true people were
allowed to flourish and after this death blow- knowledge began to increase and
the little book of Daniel was eventually to be opened for comprehension.
During the various
Papal reigns there were many events to take place, the head of the Papacy
would be relocated, he would excommunicate people who would go on to form
religions without him being in authority.
People would be unhappy with Him and yet to actually take a Pope
captive and strip him forcibly of his power, making him powerless to lead as
if he were truly dead - unable to communicate with any of his priests, his
bishops, his cardinals, all those who looked to him… well this only happened
one time that I can ascertain.
In 1798 this happened--
General Berthier
marched to Rome, entered it unopposed on 10 February 1798, and, proclaiming a
Roman Republic, demanded of the Pope the renunciation of his temporal
authority.
Upon his refusal he
was taken prisoner, and on 20 February was escorted from the Vatican to Siena,
and thence to the Certosa near Florence. The French declaration of war against
Tuscany led to his removal (he was escorted by the Spaniard Pedro Gómez Labrador,
Marquis of Labrador) by way of Parma, Piacenza, Turin and Grenoble to the
citadel of Valence, the chief town of Drôme where he died six weeks after his
arrival, on 29 August 1799, having then reigned longer than any Pope
Pasted
from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_VI>
So a blow is struck
here against the papal idea of supremacy, something it had for so long it was
all but incomprehensible to people that it could ever be touched. Touched it was. Some might argue the papacy
wasn't down for the count long, and they'd be right. The deadly wound would
begin to heal and as mentioned before the power it would have would be
ultimately much different than what it once held.
If we are to take
the 1260 days and make them prophetic years and then take the date history
provides as the date the Papacy was dealt a severe, deadly blow (the Pope did
die in captivity after being pulled from power), then we are left with the
date 538 AD as the date the Papacy began to wield its strange power over the
governmental forces. Can we find any
historical significance to this date, to this year?
The man in civil
power was Justinian this is said about
him-
Justinian was one
of the first Roman Emperors to be depicted wielding the cross on the obverse of a coin.
Pasted
from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinian_I>
And of the pope -
On 29 June, 538, a
decretal was sent to Bishop Profuturus of Braga containing decisions on
various questions of church discipline. Bishop Auxanius and his successor,
Aurelian of Arles, entered into communication with the pope respecting the granting of the pallium as
a mark of the dignity and powers of a papal legate for Gaul; the pope
sent suitable letters to the two bishops.
Pallium-
As early as the 6th
century the pallium was considered a liturgical vestment to be used only in
the church, and indeed only during Mass, unless a special privilege determined
otherwise. This is proved conclusively by the correspondence between Pope
Gregory I and John of Ravenna concerning the use of the pallium
Pasted
from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallium>
History --
Siege of Rome (537–538)
The First Siege of
Rome during the Gothic War lasted for a year and nine days, from 2 March 537
to 12 March 538.[1] It was fought between the defending East Romans, under
general Belisarius, and the Ostrogothic army under king Vitiges. The siege was
the first major encounter between the forces of the two opponents, and played
a decisive role in the subsequent development of the war.
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In 538 AD there are
a few notable events. Just as in 1798
the Pope was pulled from power and exiled until he died in 1799, events can
begin that continue on, or events and culminate. The importance of something begun can't be
overlooked. We are looking at the little horn power and at this time in
history papal and military we can see the influence of the two combined and
separately. The intertwining of the
Papal influence with things secular, things military can't be denied.
'After Agapetus's
death on April 22, 536, Vigilius returned to Rome equipped with letters from
the imperial Court and with money. Meanwhile Pope Silverius had been made pope
through the influence of the King of the Goths. Soon after this the Byzantine
commander Belisarius garrisoned the city of Rome, which was, however, besieged
again by the Goths. Vigilius gave Belisarius the letters from the Court of
Constantinople, which recommended Vigilius himself for the Papal See. False
accusations now led Belisarius to depose Silverius. Owing to the pressure
exerted by the Byzantine commander, Vigilius was elected pope in place of
Silverius and was consecrated and enthroned on March 29, 537.
Vigilius brought it
about that the deposed Silverius was put into his keeping where the late pope
soon died from the harsh treatment he received. After the death of this
predecessor Vigilius was recognized as pope by all the Roman clergy. Much in
these accusations against Vigilius appears to be exaggerated, but the manner
of his elevation to the See of Rome was not regular.'
Pasted
from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Vigilius>
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One Pope- Silverius
was established but another man desiring to be pope used false means (secular
means-governmental not religious means) to dispose of Silverius. He didn't kill him outright, in fact the
exact date of his death is unknown. Vigilius the man who was instrumental in
this deception had the disposed pope treated very harshly until he did die and
then Vigilius became the Pope- all
because of the mingling of the religion with the politics of the time. This is important to note, because in 1798
when the Pope was torn from power by the military authority it is very, very
similar to Pope Silverius' disposal.
Torn from power by deception, in exile they both died. This
is a connection we cannot fail to make.
While it began in 537, again, the exact date of the pope's death isn't
know and it's definite that in 538 the successor pope was in charge having
begun fully and completely leaving NO
doubt that the papacy had been gained through deception, it was
thoroughly corrupt … this man's
'elevation to the See of Rome was not regular'. No, it was far from regular but it was right
on time to usher in the evil mingling fully that had been slowly creeping into
play. I read somewhere, but it's too
late for me to look for it now and I'm tired (maybe tomorrow hehe) that Pope
Silverius was one of the last genuinely good Pope's that would exist for a
long, long time. Of course we know the
whole of it, the man of sin was at work right away guiding things to suit
himself and in 538 AD we are left with NO doubt that the corruption was sealed
and would only continue on and on growing over time- history proves this without a doubt.
Only those with
willing eyes will see, only those with willing ears will hear… only a very small group will accept truth
where it is exposed. I pray to God we
are among those elect. Please God help us to hear and see all that we need to,
all according to Your righteousness not because any of us have any
righteousness in and of ourselves. We are only deserving through Christ,
because He is deserving and it's through Him we pray, live, and love.
All glory to God!
Thank you Jesus!
Amen.
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