The Vatican Will Accept a World Dictatorship
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The Vatican is the harlot who rides the beast. When you understand that, everything the pope is doing makes complete sense.
Says who? You? What authority do you have to make that claim?
Easy on the propaganda, Luther.
That was the conclusion reached by most, if not all of the reformers. It aligns with the prophecy of Daniel. Specifically his description of the little horn power, and it aligns with the descriptions of the harlot.
Tell me something. What's the second commandment?
Also
https://convertjournal.com/2011/08/myth-whore-of-babylon/
The relatively clear books of the Bible are interpreted in hugely different ways by various Christian communities. This is an obvious problem for those professing sola scriptura (the false belief that the Bible is EXCLUSIVELY the authoritative word of God and that it is somehow “self-interpreting”). The symbolism of Revelation makes personal, non-authoritative interpretation that much more difficult.
So, who is the harlot referred to in Revelation? Probably pagan Rome or apostate Jerusalem. That is what St. John may have envisioned when he wrote it and that is historically the view of Catholic (and many Protestant) theologians. (See the Further Reading notes below for a thorough exploration.)
To entertain that it could be the Catholic Church, one would have to believe that somehow this chapter slipped by Holy Mother Church’s attention when she canonized the Bible, that Sacred Tradition vanished and her authority ended at that moment. Also, that her own Apostle (and a first bishop) John indicts the Church created by Jesus himself in favor of “churches” to be created against unity 1,400 years later.
Those who believe that are indeed susceptible to wild tales spun by others (the Jack Chick tracts come to mind), while denying the need or existence of any true authority to interpret the Bible (unlike every other word ever written). None-the-less, these many clever story tellers implore you to interpret it THEIR way (which they insist is correct). Unfortunately, good people can be misled.
Jesus didn't create the Roman Catholic Church. The true church is in Christ Himself and not the work of Peter. Christ is the cornerstone, the mountain upon which the church is built.