EARNESTLY.CONTENDING.FOR.THE.FAITH. CONNERSVILLE.IN 53-0614A
§ 69 The animal represents a beast, of course, a beast of burden, which means « power » in the Bible.
SEAL.OF.GOD. JEFF.IN V-26 N-4 54-0514
§ 73 Now, we find out that the first thing that ever raised up to from any form of the beast, at all, or… The « beast » means a « power. » We went through all the symbols and everything, last night, to prove that the beast was a power. And it did not come out of Russia. It come out of Rome. That’s right. It came from Rome.
And it was not, it was not a group of men. It was not a political organization. It was a religious institution. It was a church that set on seven hills, with one man who had controlling power over all the world, in there. Exactly right. And we find out it was a woman, and pictured her up just as plain. Not taking my own interpretation, just reading the Bible, that there’s no other place in the world, no other city in the world rules over all the earth. In every nation that streak of Romanism goes out like in the ten toes of Daniel’s vision. And we find out that that was the Vatican City.
SPOKEN.WORD.ORIGINAL.SEED. JEFF.IN V-3 N-2 62-0318E
§ 16 All right, I predict that the two denominational groups, Pentecostal and the Evangelical groups, will work together in a denomination, will unite themselves together, and will become a member (all of them) of the Federation of the Council of Churches or the Council of Churches. They already belong to it–all of them. And there will come through them a forcing or a boycott, that’ll stop everything but what belongs to that union of churches. That’s what a… The Bible said that there would be a boycott, even to such a way it would cause people to not buy or sell unless they had received this, the mark of the beast, which is Romanism, and the image of the beast, which is Protestantism, that the image… The beast had power, authority to give the image life to speak, and it did. And that’s the Confederation of Churches, when they confederate themselves together.
WHY.ARE.WE.NOT.A.DENOMINATION? JEFF.IN V-11 N-7 58-0927
§ 36 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman setting upon a scarlet coloured beast,… « Scarlet, » in the Bible, represents « royal. » The color « scarlet » means « red. » And « beast » represents « power. » Did you notice the beast come up out of the sea; that was in the Revelation the 13th. And when you see the beast coming up out of the sea, it’s meant that this power was raising up among the people. But in Revelation 13, when this lamb came up, he came up out of the earth, no people: United States. But then after he had two little horns: civil and ecclesiastical powers. And then he received power and spoke like the dragon did before him. So you just got to mark it down; we are coming into a religious persecution with the same things that they did in pagan Rome many years ago, for it’s THUS SAITH THE LORD. Now, what is it, « setting upon a beast, a power. »
SEAL.OF.GOD. JEFF.IN V-26 N-4 54-0514
§ 79-81 Watch, there he said, « Let us… » In the United States they said, « Let us make an image unto the beast. » If the beast was a power, and the power was an organization… Not taking theory now, that’s the Word of God. The organization of the Catholic church organized themselves together and made a–agree, and they accepted what they call the early fathers together, and organized the Catholic church, and made a ritual, and what they believed, and what they would teach, a universal belief. And they forced it to people by punishment.
And then, when Martin Luther come out, seeing the Spirit of God lead him out, instead of letting the people stay free, he organized the church, « an image likened unto the beast, » a political power likened unto it. Instead of letting the people walk as God gives Light, they organized under a discipline, and they have to stay to that discipline.
God moved right out into the Methodist church. The Methodist had a revival that swept the world, the Holy Spirit with them, teaching sanctification. And the first thing you know, when they did that, then they organized a church, made an image unto the beast (That’s right.), a political, organized power to bind the people of God to a creed, instead of being free to worship and walk in Light as Light was throwed on their path.
QA.IMAGE.OF.THE.BEAST. JEFF.IN 54-0515
§ 45-48 And now, the next beast… Or, the next thing is this here: What does the image of the beast mean?
It’s–it’s a joint question to that, and the person who asked it has a good question. What make now, if… The Bible clearly teaches that the Catholic church is the–the beast. The Bible said that a « beast » means « a power. » Is that right? A beast, the Bible says that the beast meant a power. And the beast was the Vatican City, the Catholic hierarchy. All right. And now, that was the power of the church that was the beast. Then the Protestant church come out of the Catholic church, and organized themselves a little power. That is a image.
If anything… If something was made in my image, it’d have to look like me. If something made in the image of this church, it’d have to look like the church. Something was made, a beast–made a image unto this beast, which was Lutherism, Methodistism, Baptistism, Pentecostalism, Holinessism; all them isms formed up into an organization and made an image just like the beast. There it is.
TEN.VIRGINS. JEFF.IN ROJC 425-492 60-1211M
§ 247 « And now, let’s make a image unto that beast. » And over in this country they made a image: a confederation of denominations together, the Nicolaitanes getting together and denominated themselves; and finally will unite this brotherhood, not come in as Catholics, but they’ll be united as a brotherhood to try to stamp out Communism.
And the Bible said that God raised up Communism to get revenge upon the nations for what they’ve done to the children of God. Exactly right. He said, « And they–they–they give their power and everything to the beast for one hour, and to revenge the people, the… of the blood that they had shed. » And when that atomic bomb or whatever it is will strike that Vatican City, and the Roman hierarchy will be no more, it said, « And in her was found the blood of every martyr that ever was killed in the world. » There she is. And here’s the image to it, a confederation of churches. Won’t be long till we’ll have to close them doors out yonder, that’s right, or either take a denominational mark. And we’ll close the doors. That’s right. We’ll… We know better than that.
FIRST.SEAL.THE JEFF.IN 63-0318
§ 367-368 Now, remember, the antichrist and the beast is the same self spirit. There’s the trinity. Yes, sir. It’s three stages of the same devil power. Remember, Nicolaitia (See?), it had to be incarnate before it could be crowned. See? Now, watch this. Three stages: first stage he’s called antichrist; second stage, he’s called the false prophet; third stage, he’s called the beast. Notice, Nicolaitia, the antichrist teaching that started in the days of Paul against God’s Word: antichrist… Then he’s called again the false prophet, which when the teaching become a man, he was a prophet to the teaching of the hierarchy of the–the hierarchy of the Catholic church. The Pope was the prophet to the false word, and that made him a false prophet. The third stage is a beast, a man that’s crowned in the last days with every power that pagan Rome ever had, because the seven-headed beast, dragon, was cast out of heaven and come incarnate in the false prophet. Here it is; he had seven crowns, and he was cast out and throwed into the earth and the sea. All right. What are we saying? Who is this rider, this horse rider? You know what it is? It’s Satan’s superman.
MARK.OF.THE.BEAST. JEFF.IN V-26 N-3 54-0513
§ 124-125 What is blasphemy? It’s « to make fun of, ridicule, talk about. » Now, watch. He had seven heads, ten horns. And watch when he come up out of the sea. Now, Revelations 17, you that’s putting it down, 17:15, said that the–that the waters represent « thickness and multitudes of the people. » So this beast represents power, ungodly power. … beast of prey raised up out of the people, and he stood upon the sands of the sea. And I saw the beast. And the beast which I saw was like… a leopard,… his feet was the feet of a bear,… his mouth the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and… seat, and great authority. (The dragon.)
We got two things under consideration now. Watch this beast. It had four different characters in it.
And if you’ll take Daniel 7, you who are marking it down, Daniel 7, Daniel saw the same vision eight hundred years before this, saw the vision. He saw those beasts, separate one from another in the beginning of the Gentile ruling. And here they are, John seeing it, and the end of the Gentile ruling, all four of those beasts represented in one. Them same old devils, demons that possessed each kingdom of the Romans down through, and the Greeks, and so forth on down through the Gentile dispensation, has come right down and all met up in one beast. We’ll find him directly and see who he is. Right. All those, leopard, lion, all that, the dragon… How many knows what the dragon is? The dragon represents Rome.
MARK.OF.THE.BEAST. JEFF.IN V-26 N-3 54-0513
§ 183 It’s the Devil’s at the beginning… And I can prove to you that the Bible said here, « All the world wondered after this beast power, which was, which is not, yet it is. » How could it be, was, and is not? Said, « All whole world wondered about it. » When pagan Roman become papal Rome, it never ceased. The system of Romanism ceased; when a new king come in, he just set up a new order. But when it come into pagan Roman through the Catholic church, through papalism, it never ceases. If one pope dies, they set up another one; one pope dies, they set up another one. « The beast which was, which is not, yet is; which is not, which yet is; which… and shall go into perdition. » THUS SAITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, through the Scripture.
FOURTH.SEAL.THE. JEFF.IN 63-0321
§ 206 He had three powers or three–three jurisdictions: the earth, heaven and purgatory. He is himself a trinity. That’s what he’s made up of, and he rides in a trinity. His power’s in a trinity. His crown’s in a trinity. His horse is in a trinity. That what he is? A trinity, a power of trinity, a crown of trinity, a horse riding of trinity (That’s of offices.) a four again (See?), a four again.
All right, three stages of his ministry makes him one person, Satan incarnate, three stages of the mini… Antichrist, false prophet, and beast, them three typing… See, now there’s three types, now, that makes him. God–or God makes Himself known too, in water, blood, spirit. Makes a Christian a son of God by the Word of God. See?. And these three powers makes him a devil. See? Oh, this here is water, blood, and spirit which is of God. And that’s politics, religion, and demon power mixed together makes him the devil.
Christ’s first coming, a mortal. He comes three times. Christ is in three. See? Watch how he comes, he’s a four.
IS.YOUR.LIFE.WORTHY. JEFF.IN V-5 N-5 63-0630E
§ 62-64 Now, somebody said, « Now, there’s going to be a–a mark of the beast; it’s going to come someday. » Let me tell you; it’s already come. See? As soon as the Holy Ghost begin to fall, the mark of the beast begin to take place.
See, you only have two things: One of them is, accept It, takes the Seal of God; to reject It, takes the mark of the beast. To reject the Seal of God is to take the mark of the beast. Everybody understand? To reject the Seal of God is to take the mark of the beast, for the Bible said all that was not sealed by the Seal of God took the mark of the beast.
When the trumpet sounded and all wanted to go free could go, them that didn’t was marked. Now, you see, the mark of the beast, if we talk about it in the future, is when it’s going to be made manifest, when you realize it’s what you’ve already done. See? And so is the Holy Spirit; It’s to be manifested when we see the Lord Jesus coming in glory, and feel that transforming power, and see the dead rising out of the grave, and know that in a second longer we’ll be changed and have a body like His. It’ll be made manifest. Then to see those who rejected it, will be left down–out–out.
ANGEL.OF.THE.LORD. LA.CA 51-0502
§ 22 The word of the little lamb that rose up in Revelations 13, a lamb. Two little… Probably a little horn–civil and ecclesiastical power. But after is lamb, freedom of religion and so forth. But after while, he spake like a beast, like the dragon, and exercised all the power the dragon did before him, a bitter religious persecution. We’re nearing that time.
LOOK.AWAY.TO.JESUS. JEFF.IN V-2 N-17 63-1229E
§ 45 – 48 There’s coming a time upon–in this nation, to where this nation is going to exercise all the power that the beast had before (which was pagan Rome, when it become papal Rome. See?) that this nation will do that. Revelations 13 plainly explains it. The lamb came up out of the earth. The other beast came up out of water, thickness and multitudes of people. This lamb came up where there was no people.
A lamb represents religion–the Lamb of God. And remember, it spoke like a lamb; it was a lamb, and then after while it received power and spoke like a dragon, and exercised all the power the–the dragon–power the dragon had before him; and the dragon is Rome always. So don’t you see, Roman denomination, a marked Protestant denomination, an image unto the beast, making a power that’ll force all Protestants like a union. You’ll have to be into this council of churches, or you won’t be able to have fellowship or to–to… Well, it’s–it’s practically that way now. You can’t go to a church and preach, ‘less you have a fellowship card or some identification.
WORLD.AGAIN. FALLING.APART. SHP.LA V-17 N-4 63-1127
§ 161-162 That denominational system is the mark of the beast. You’ve knowed it. You never heard me say it before; that’s the reason I’ve racked it so hard. Because now I think the time’s just about finished, so might as well let it come forth and tell the Truth about it. There she is. That’s the marking of the beast, exactly. Rome was the beast, and she was denomination, the first organization.
And we come out of her, we Pentecostal people, to not be partakers of it; and turned right like a dog to its vomit, and a hog to its wallow, right back in. No wonder our Pentecostal system is done, and so is the Methodists, Baptists, World Council of Churches, and all. They’re being swallowed up in the Council of Churches, making a mark or–or an image unto the beast to give it its power. « And it had a head wounded unto death, and then live, » pagan Rome to papal Rome. Oh, my, how blind has Protestants been. And here you are, right now setting right in the midst of it. And there’s nothing you can do now. The system’s done formed. They’ll take it and don’t know they’ve took it. They’ll just be in there; that’s all. They can’t get out of it. It’s already done.
FEAST.OF.THE.TRUMPETS. JEFF.IN V-3 N-16 64-0719M
§ 204-205 The hour that we’re living, the ecclesiasticals, the spirits uniting together now and bringing them all to this big one slaughter to blot out; it’s already in writing here in this nation now. And these churches has to be closed, unless you’re with the organization. It’s a union; it’s a boycott, just like the mark of the beast. And now you see what the beast is, don’t you? It’s a power. And a power, a ecclesiastical power, Jesus said it’d be so close like the real thing, it’d deceive the very elected, if it was possible. But He promised to have something here for us in that day, that we wouldn’t be deceived, and that’s the Word, and Christ to make It manifest to us.
They’re supernaturals devils unseen to the eye, but you can see what they’re doing. See?
BROKEN.CISTERNS. JEFF.IN V-5 N-13 64-0726E
§ 43 – 47 There’s only two classes of people will be on the earth; those with the Seal of God, and those with the mark of the beast, only two classes. So you’ll have to have one or the other. And it’ll be an apostasy, a–a mark of–of religion, apostate religion. And it’s going to have a image unto the beast. As we study we find out that Rome was, is, and always will be the–or the beast. Exactly. There’s no way to get anything else. Rome…
And what did Rome do? Was converted from pagan Rome unto papal Rome and organized a system, a universal system, that forced everybody to that one religion or be put to death.
And it’s a strange thing that this United States appears on the scene, and it’s a–like a lamb. And a lamb has two small horns, civil and ecclesiastical rites. And after while when that was a lamb, we found out that it spoke then like a dragon and exercised all the power the dragon had before it. And the Bible tells us that they said, « Let us make a image unto the beast. » A image is something like something else. And we can see it right now that in its apostate condition the church is forming the World Council of Churches, which is the image to the power of Rome, and will force upon the people the same thing that pagan Rome done–or papal Rome did. So there’s no other way, no other thing, but that is the Truth. And that’s why I’m striking it in my age, in my time, is because it’s got to be struck at. The call come to « Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins. »
PERGANEAN.CHURCH.AGE – CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.5
§ 195-1 People look at Rome. They look at the nation of Italy. And as they look they do not realize that Rome with her strict confines where the pope has an actual area as his domain is literally a nation within a nation, and she has ambassadors and receives ambassadors. PAPAL FALSE CHRISTIAN ROME (she is even called the eternal city–how blasphemous) NOW CONTROLS BY RELIGION EVEN MORE ABLY THAN WHEN PAGAN IMPERIAL ROME CONTROLLED BY THE PURE IRON OF FORCE. Rome took on a new lease of life when Constantine joined church and state and backed the union by force. The spirit that motivated pagan Rome is the same spirit that now motivates false Christian Rome. You can see that is so because you now know that the fourth empire never went out of existence; it just changed in its outer texture.
Once the Nicene Council had swung the power of political Rome to the church, it seemed that there were no limits to which this First Christian Church would go. The name, Christian, which originally brought persecution, now became the name of the persecutors. It was in this age that Augustine of Hippo (354-430) set forth the precept that the church ought and MUST use force if necessary to bring her children back into the fold, and that it was in harmony with the Word of God to kill the heretics and apostates. In his controversy with the Donatists he wrote… « It is indeed better that men should be led to worship God by teaching than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain, but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved and are daily proving by actual experience) in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, so that they might follow out in act what they have already learned in word… whilst those are better who are guided aright by love, those are certainly more numerous who are corrected by fear. For who can possibly love us more than Christ, Who laid down His life for the sheep? Yet after calling Peter and the other apostles by His words alone, when He came to summon Paul, He not only constrained him with His voice, but even dashed him to the earth with His power; and that He might forcibly bring one who is raging amidst the darkness of infidelity, to desire the light of the heart, He first struck him with physical blindness of the eyes. Why therefore should not the Church use force in compelling her lost sons to return? The Lord Himself said, `Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in.’ Wherefore if the power which the Church has received by divine appointment in it’s due season, through the religious character and faith of kings, be the instrument by which those who are found in the highways and hedges–that is in heresies and schisms–are compelled to come in, then let them not find fault with being compelled. »
376-1 RESUME.OF.THE.AGES – CHURCH.AGE.BOOK.CPT.10
The false church groups will come together in a world council of churches. This world council of churches is the IMAGE ERECTED TO THE BEAST. Revelation 13:11-18, « And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred three score and six. » Now remember, it was Imperial Pagan Rome that fell by the sword. But she was healed of her death stroke when she joined to the nominal Christian church of Rome and incorporated paganism and Christianity, and thereby became the Holy Roman Empire which was to endure until Jesus came and destroyed her. But Rome is not going it alone. Her daughters are right with her and she will take over absolute authority by the World Council of Churches. This may seem far fetched to some but actually it is very plain for all to see because right now the churches are controlling politics and at the opportune time will manifest exactly how great is that control. This ecumenical move will end up with Rome at the head even though the people did not envision it that way. This is so because in Revelation 17:3-6 it states that the whore, Mystery Babylon is seated on the beast. She is controlling the last, or fourth empire. This Roman Church is doing that. With the world church system under her Rome will be controlling, and this image (church system) will be obedient to Rome because Rome controls the gold of the world. Thus all the people have to belong to the world church system or be at the mercy of the elements for they cannot buy or sell without the mark of the beast in the hand or head. This mark in the head means that they will have to take the doctrine of the world church system which is trinitarianism, etc., and the mark in the hand which means to do the will of the world church. With this great power the church systems will persecute the true bride. This image will try to keep the bride from preaching and teaching, etc. Her ministers will be forbidden to give comfort and truth to the people who need it. But before the antichrist (in person) takes over this complete world system of churches the true church will be taken away from this world to be with the Lord. God will catch away His bride for the great Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
QA.ON.GENESIS. JEFF.IN COD 53-0729
§ 67 And you take the Holy Spirit off of a man, he’s lower than the animal; he’s worse than the animal. That’s a hard thing to say. But you take a man that’s unregenerated in his mind, without the Holy Spirit to direct his thoughts, and–and things like that, he would throw a baby out of a mother’s arms and ravish her for beastly lust. That’s exactly.