Pope Leo 14 is a sign of the End Times

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Brief Summary

2025 saw the winds of change blowing through the world's economic realities. America was $37 Trillion in debt and perceived as declining as a world power. President Trump introduced painful and disruptive corrections.

We must cut through the untrustworthy and biased press newnoise and identify the Bible-signal.

Roman Catholicism is Mystery Babylon, waiting for enough money and military power to enforce their beliefs on everyone.

America has been too powerful. So, the Catholics never dared choose a Pope from there. Even they knew that would give the Pope too much power.

The 2025 trade wars were a big disruption. The Vatican was short of money. A peace-loving American was rapidly chosen as they need to raise funds from wealthy Catholic Americans.

An American, Pope Leo 14, now controls the biggest church (modern-day white horse).

Another American, President Trump controls the biggest economy (modern-day black horse)

and by far the strongest military (modern-day red horse).

America is destined to unite the 3 horses by enforcing a Confederation of churches (the future pale horse) to be submissive to the Pope’s denominational church system and produce Death.

Mystery Babylon hides dark forces that will impose a One-World Church under the final Pope who will rule the world as the vile man of sin.

A sad irony. The pleasant Pope Leo 14 (leo means a lion) is the mouthpiece of the roaring lion of religious deception.

The Pope is considered to be infallible by his followers who regard him as the "Voice of God".

Message-people claiming to follow William Branham, corrupt his Bible teachings by calling him the infallible Voice of God. But there is no “Voice of God” in the New Testament.

Fanciful but mediocre interpretations of quotes that can’t be proven from Scripture are just a big bloated cloud of useless rhetoric floating around in the media space.

Mixing up the Catholic church power and American money power is a dance of spiritual death.

When some natural disaster collapses America the Catholic church will rule America.

Consider 7 Popes named LEO

Babylon enforced their religious beliefs with military and financial power.

Nebuchadnezzar wanted to kill three Jews who refused to bow to his massive golden Idol.

Babylon was the head of gold in Nebuchadnezzar's Gentile image. Money has always been the Gentile's goal in life.

The beast is the spiritual power of the Roman Catholic church.

The Vatican is the nerve centre of the Catholic church. Vatican Bank has been accused of money laundering and fraud.

Vatican Bank worked with Roberto Calvi (known as God’s Banker) but he was also involved with the Mafia in a complex web of international fraud and intrigue. His body was found hanging under a bridge.

Pope Francis’ sweeping reforms cleaned up some of the fraudulent mess at the scandal-plagued Vatican Bank, but his management also left its coffers severely depleted. Considering the Holy See’s murky financial future, choosing a successor to Pope Francis came at a critical time for the Catholic Church. The new Pope’s election depended mainly on his ability to be a fund-raiser from America which is the wealthiest nation. In 2025, a high-speed election by the Cardinals chose this American Pope to hopefully raise big money from the American Catholics. Modern-day churches are all about money.

The Vatican needs America's massive economic power as the modern-day black horse. America will also give financial life to the image of the beast, the Confederation of non-Catholic churches.

America is the strongest military power as the modern-day red horse. If they give their military power in support of the Pope, nobody will then dare attack the Pope.

REVELATION 13:4  "Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?”

The curse of modern-day Christianity is wealth. Christians are secure in their wealth as their faith is in their bank balance not in the King James Bible.

REVELATION 3:14  “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; 

REVELATION 3:17  “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing;

A Pope from America puts too much power into the hands of one country.

Church power and political power should be kept separate.

An American Pope and an American President rule the biggest church and the strongest country.

The beast from the sea and the beast from the earth in Revelation 13, are starting to merge.

This is an ominous sign of the end-times.

In 1933, William Branham saw his sixth vision which showed Vatican City, the nerve centre of the Roman Catholic church, as a beautiful but cruel woman who would eventually rule and ruin America.

Pope Leo 14 chose the name of Leo. 

Consider the track record of six previous men who called themselves Pope Leo.

We can see a pattern emerging.

Pope Leo 1 (AD 440 – 461) made a bad start when he demanded that the Pope be head of all the churches and he condoned killing dissenters to achieve this aim.

Thus he claimed that the Pope takes the place of Christ.

EPHESIANS 5:23  “… even as Christ is the head of the church:”

Christ never killed anyone.

It was during Leo's papacy that the term "Pope", which previously meant any bishop, came to exclusively mean the Bishop of Rome.

Pope Leo 1 made the earliest moves to establish the Pope as the head of all the churches.

Pope Leo 1 commended the Roman Emperor for torturing and executing heretics on behalf of the Church.

By 447, Leo 1 declared that heretics deserved the most severe punishments. The Pope justified the death penalty declaring that if the followers of a heresy were allowed to live, that would be the end of human and Divine law.

The legacy of Pope Leo 1 is that the Pope must be the supreme head of all the churches, even if it means killing dissenters. 

A bad start.

Only Jesus is the Head of the church, no man. Jesus loves even His enemies.

LUKE 6:27  “But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,”

Pope Leo 4

Pope Leo 4 (AD 847 – 855) built a wall around the Vatican to protect it and make it Vatican City.

When a wall was put up around buildings, the buildings were called a City.

A church is symbolized by a woman. The woman (church) of Revelation 17 is a City.

Thus Vatican City, as the nerve centre of the Roman Catholic Church, will finally rule the world.

REVELATION 17:18  “And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.”

A bad end.

Vatican City is the City-church, established by Pope Leo 4, that is condemned in Revelation 17.

Then comes a bad Pope. Leo 10.

Pope Leo 10 (1513 -1521) violently opposed the Reformation of Martin Luther and greedily sold forgiveness of sins.

His greed to raise and collect money sparked the Reformation. Accumulation of wealth was his obsession.

The name Leo: especially Leo 10—is not just a name; it’s a dark echo of papal arrogance and the violent suppression of the true Gospel.

The pope who excommunicated Martin Luther and sold salvation to fund the building of St. Peter’s Basilica (fancy big church) and paint the Sistine Chapel with its obsessive and corrupt focus on nude men and women.

The black lines in the next diagram represent the wall that Pope Leo 4 built around Vatican City.

Leo 10 claimed that St Peter’s Basilica (shown in red) symbolizes the keys that Jesus gave to Peter.

Basilica comes from Basilisk, also known as the king of serpents. He could kill you just by looking at you, they claimed.

Notice how the hidden outline of a king serpent wearing a crown on his (imagined) triangular head with two eyes, is hidden away in the aerial view of St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.

Leo 10 was designing a complex of buildings to hide a dark truth of the “trail of the serpent”.

The modern-day Pope’s Audience Hall is designed to look like the serpent’s head.

This is the view from inside. Notice the two snake teeth on the stage between the two snake eyes.

For 500 years the Vatican has had an obsession with the head of the king serpent.

Leo 10  was the first Pope described as a child rapist. He was notoriously corrupt.

Thus, he effectively declared himself in the place of God because only God can forgive sins.

His greed made him a huge money collector.

In 1516 Pope Leo 10 issued a papal bull which forbade preachers to touch on the subject of the antichrist in their sermons

(M’Crie, Reformation in Italy, p. 20)!

Forbidding people from teaching certain parts of the Bible.

Hiding bits of the Bible is a successful form of deception that is very misleading.

DANIEL 11:26  “Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him".

Leo 10 was scared of what Revelation 17 said about the church (woman) on seven hills.

Pope Leo 10 condemned Martin Luther in 1520 for daring to say that burning heretics was against the will of God. Pope Leo 10 condemned the idea of salvation by faith alone.

The worst crime of Leo 10 was that he claimed that if you bought an indulgence then you were forgiven from your sins because you had paid money to the church. This left the people unsaved, and poorer.

His legacy was for the Catholic church to condemn certain Bible truths and rely on the accumulation of huge wealth so that the Pope could take God’s place on earth by selling salvation.

Pope Leo 11 died after 27 days in 1605.

A very short Papacy. A future preview?

Pope Leo 12 (1823 - 1829) had a bad ambition for world dominance.

Leo 12 believed that the Roman Catholic church should rule the whole world. That remains their basic goal.

Leo 12 struck this following Medal in 1825.

The Catholic church offers the same cup of doctrine that the whore of Revelation 17 offers.

REVELATION 17:4  “And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:”

This Medal seems to be prophetically accurate.

REVELATION 17:1   "I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:”

REVELATION 17:15  “And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.”

The waters are the nations of the whole world that the Roman Catholic church dominates.

The seven spikes on her head represent the seven church ages that the Catholic church has tried to dominate.

Pope Leo 12 said that there is no salvation outside the Roman Catholic church.

“We profess that there is no salvation outside the Church. …For the Church is the pillar and ground of the truth. With reference to those words Augustine says: `If any man be outside the Church he will be excluded from the number of sons, and will not have God for Father since he has not the Church for mother.’”

(Encyclical, Ubi Primum)

The Statue of Liberty in America has 7 spikes on her head (representing sun rays). Copied from the Medal of Leo 12.

This shows the link between the Pope and America has a long history.

The Catholic church realized long ago that they would need the rising power of America if they were to rule the world.

The Capitol Building is the seat of the USA Congress where American Law is passed.

The Capitol has copied the dome and the pillars from St Peter's church in the Vatican

to again demonstrate a link between America and the Vatican.

The Capitol in America and the Capitoline Hill in Rome. Again, an obvious link in the spelling.

The Capitoline Hill is one of the seven hills on which Rome was built.

The Capitoline Hill was seen as the epicenter of the Roman Empire.

Because of this, the Romans named the hill "caput mundi", meaning ‘head of the world’ in Latin.

Hence their obsession with the head of the serpent king too.

This statement below is carved on the Lateran Palace, the official headquarters of the Roman Catholic church.

“Sacred Lateran church. The mother and head of all churches of the city and of the world.”

A mother is linked to seven heads (seven hills) in Revelation 17.

REVELATION 17:5  “And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

The Protestants are the daughter churches of the mother Roman Catholic church. Both mother and daughters are harlots.

That tells us something about the state of the churches today where people gather, hoping for safety from God's wrath.

Pope Leo 13 had a bad and blasphemous concept of salvation.

True Bible salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone as we repent of our sins.

No church can save you and no person can save you, only Jesus.

Leo 13 claimed that you can only get saved in the Roman Catholic church. The Roman Pontiff or Pope is the person who enables you to get saved.

“This is our last lesson to you: receive it, engrave it in your minds, all of you: by God’s commandment 

salvation is to be found nowhere but in the Church;

the strong and effective instrument of salvation is none other than the Roman Pontificate.”

(Pope Leo XIII, Allocution for the 25th anniversary of his election, February 20, 1903; Papal Teachings: The Church, Benedictine Monks of Solesmes, St. Paul Editions, Boston, 1962, par. 653).

 65-0220 — GOD'S CHOSEN PLACE OF WORSHIP

They say, today. I’ve had people to tell me. A man called me not long ago, in Beaumont, Texas. He said, “Mr. Branham, if your name is not on our church book, you cannot go to Heaven.” Would you ever think of that? Don’t you believe such a thing as that.

They think you have to belong to that certain church or you cannot go to Heaven. That’s wrong. To believe that, is antichrist. I say this: If you believe such a spirit, you’re lost.

That’s a good sign you are lost, because it’s taking away from what God did. God never put His Name in any church. He put It in His Son, Christ Jesus, when He and His Son became One.

That’s the genuine place of worship. No other foundations was laid, no other rock.

Pope Leo 14. (2025 -  )

By accepting the position of Pope, Pope Leo 14 has become the only Dictator in Europe.

Pope Leo 14, an American, will set things in motion for the Roman Catholic church, somehow, eventually to rule America as a key step to ruling the world.

He will orchestrate the first tremors of a huge impending shockwave that will finally lead to Armageddon.

The Roman Catholic church is Mystery Babylon. Rome hides a dark mystery.

Leo 14 is not the last Pope as the last Pope will not be elected by the Council of Cardinals.

DANIEL 11:21  “And in his estate shall stand up a vile person,

to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom:

Babylon had always used dictatorial force to impose their own version of religious belief.

The beast from the sea is the succession of Popes.

REVELATION 17:8  "... when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.”

Catholics claim Peter was the first Pope. Thus there always "was" a Pope.

The Pope dies "and is not".

"And yet is" as a new Pope is elected to succeed him. The SUCCESSION of Popes will survive to the end.

The final Pope, the man of sin, will rule the world as a vile person.

This succession of Popes looks like the "trail of the serpent" waiting for their evil head, the final Pope.

When you deal with a snake, you are only concerned with one part of the snake: its head.

That is the dangerous part because it has poison in its mouth. (preaching unscriptural beliefs).

The power of the Catholic Church will increase until it has the power to kill dissenters, as revealed in the Fourth Seal where the antichrist-spirit-rider is revealed as Death.

REVELATION 6:7  “And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.”

:8  “And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. 

Consider Moses in the First Exodus

EXODUS 4:3  “And he [God] said, Cast it [his rod] on the ground. And he [Moses] cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.”

This serpent was very scary. The enemy is frighteningly strong. We will often feel scared.

What produces this horribly frightening and deadly spiritual snake.

PROVERBS 22:15  “Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.”

The Bible is our rod of correction.

When we throw down the Bible by ignoring parts of it we make a dangerous mistake. We unleash an unseen frightening enemy of poisonous error.

When we deviate from Scripture and stop repeating what is written in the Word of God, then we create a powerful enemy. One that will destroy us.

EXODUS 4:4  “And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:”

First, the Bride has to grasp the tail or tale of the enemy.

What are the main errors in the Message churches today that claim to follow William Branham?

The former rain is a teaching rain from Scripture, it is not run by Pastors with their quotes.

The former rain is not a rain of Pastoral opinions as they try to interpret the quotes of brother Branham into different versions of man-made Messages.

Pastors claim that brother Branham is infallible. Yet he predicted that America would be destroyed by 1977. Brother Branham had tremendous insights, but he also made mistakes at times.

CAB-09 — 9 - The Laodicean Church Age

Please remember, a statement he made is not necessarily true just because he said so.

The vision is true. America will be destroyed. But the date he predicted was wrong.

Mistakes in Message-churches:

The early church never had church buildings.

Mercy cannot be over until we are in our glorified bodies that will not need a Saviour.

Thus, you will never know the new name of Jesus while you are still in a sinful body.

Only the name of Jesus can forgive you of sin. No new name can forgive your sin.

ACTS 4:12  “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”

The New Testament never had a Pastor as the head of a church.

The Word cannot be replaced by quotes. There is no “Voice of God” in the New Testament.

Christ is revealed in His Word, not in His prophet.

The 1963 supernatural cloud just north of the City of Flagstaff was never at Sunset Peak. There was no face in the cloud. It was only seen for 28 minutes after dark.

Only six of the Seals have been revealed. The Seventh Seal, the Coming of the Lord, is a total mystery.

The Seven Seals will only open after you have been caught up to heaven.

The Angel of Revelation 10 only comes down when the Resurrection happens.

The 7 Thunders only utter after the Resurrection to produce the Latter or Harvest rain that changes our bodies. Our sinful bodies cannot be raptured.

The Harvest is when the seed is pulled off the dead plant. When you are pulled off the Earth and the dead church systems to meet the Lord in the air.

Life leaves when the Holy Ghost catches the Bride up to Heaven. Only when Life has left can Death enter in the form of the final Pope. (Probably Pope Peter 2).

REVELATION 6:8  “And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was DEATH, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”

He kills a quarter of the world. That is 2 billion people. And he has to do it in 3½ years.

That will be a wholesale massacre on a frightening scale that has never happened before, caused by the Roman Catholic snake-spirit that produced the Succession of Popes.

2025 is the Chinese Year-of-the-Snake as China and America are locked into a deadly trade war.

But Moses also had to face Pharoah, who was the head of the evil system.

EXODUS 2:15  “Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.”

Facing Pharaoh was dangerous.

Pharaoh’s face  wore the head of two snakes on his forehead.

Pharaoh’s thinking was dominated by the snake-spirit of Satan in those days as well as being symbolic of the great future battle Moses would have against the antichrist snake-spirit of  Satan indwelling the final man of sin, the vile last Pope.

A burial mask of a dead Pharaoh.

A sign that the Satanic snake-beast aims to control human thinking.

Symbolizing he mark of the beast in our forehead.

The mark of the beast in our right hand is when we throw down the rod of correction (the King James Bible) and refuse to obey parts of it.

After that, Moses never threw down the staff again.

Moses got Aaron, the High Priest, to throw down the staff because the High Priest Caiaphas would ultimately reject that Jesus was the Son of man.

MATTHEW 26:64  “Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.”

Rejecting a verse of Scripture means casting down the rod of correction of our thinking.

MATTHEW 26:65  “Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.”

Rejecting a Bible verse tears up the Plan of God.

Never call William Branham the Son of man. That is Jesus.

A prophet is a son of man.

There have been many prophets in history but only one Messiah.

Moses started the Exodus by dealing with the tail of the snake.

But eventually, he had to deal with the fearsome head of the snake.

This was a preview of the final ministry of Moses in great tribulation.

Again, in the 3½ years of great tribulation, Moses will face the head of the real spiritual snake which is the Succession of Popes.

The final frightening head of the One World Church System will be “the man of sin”, the last Pope.

That means the Bride will be caught up to Heaven before the man of sin is manifest as the final Pope.

God does not deal with the Jews and the Gentiles at the same time.

Thus, the Bride will not be in great Tribulation where Moses has to oppose the enemy.

The final Pope will only be manifest after the Bride has been caught up to Heaven.

God has a mystery plan with Israel

The Star of David is Israel’s national flag.

What do the six points signify?

The six ways that God has dealt with the Jews.

1. The Exodus under Moses
2. The Judges
3. The Kings
4. The Prophets
5. Messiah
6. The Dispersion amongst the nations.

But here is the mystery.

7 is the number of completion. Like 7 days completes a week.

So, what is God’s complete Plan with Israel?

How can God deal with Israel in 6 steps and yet have 7 steps to complete the system?

Use Moses a second time.

The numbers associated with Moses are 1 and 7.

That gives us the number 17.

17 was the day of the month when the Flood of destruction started that destroyed life on earth.

The second ministry of Moses which is God's seventh way of dealing with the Jews, will start as great Tribulation pours out its Flood of destruction upon the earth.

GENESIS 7:11  “In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.”

But Noah was safe in the "ark of safety" for the 5 months that the waters covered the mountains.

GENESIS 8:4  “And the ark rested in the seventh month,

on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.”

GENESIS 7:19  “And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.”

:20   “Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.”

A mountain represents a kingdom.

The water of God’s Word had complete dominance over all human kingdoms.

A stone (representing the Coming of Jesus) that destroyed Nebuchadnezzar’s Gentile image, grew into a mountain that represents the 1000-year Kingdom of the Millennium.

DANIEL 2:35  “… and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.”

DANIEL 2:44  “And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.”

On day 17 the ark landed safely on the mountain, having suffered no harm from the Flood that killed everyone else.

17 associated with Moses means that he will keep the 144000 Jews safe as he brings them back to Israel and then leads them to Christ during great Tribulation.

Their "rest" will be the Holy Ghost baptism.

REVELATION 12:5  “And she (the nation of Israel) brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.”

Christ will not throw down the rod of correction. He strengthens it from a wooden rod to an iron rod. Obey the Word or else!

REVELATION 12:14  “And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.”

The face of the serpent is the final Pope.

Two wings of the eagle are the two great prophets Moses and Elijah.

Wilderness. No friends. The Jews will be rejected by all nations.

“A time” is one year.

“Times” are two years.

“Half a time” is half a year.     Adds up to 3½ years, the time of great tribulation.

REVELATION 12:15  “And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.”

A flood of people. A flood of false doctrine. Satan’s main method of influencing us to believe error.

REVELATION 12:16  “And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.”

Moses knows how to deal with deep water having crossed the Red Sea.

His name Moses means he was drawn out of the water. Satan’s flood of people and false doctrine cannot stop Moses. He will find a way through every flood.

REVELATION 12:17  “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”

Satan is angry with the Jews. The woman's seed is the body of Christ which is the church. Saved Christians are like a roll of material. The pattern of a dress has to be cut out of the material for the Bride of Christ. This pattern was caught up to Heaven for the Wedding Supper.

What stayed behind was the remnant of the material, the saved Christians, who did not fit into the pattern.

They are the foolish virgins who, though saved, do not qualify for the Rapture as they never understood the revealed mysteries of Scripture and thus will perish in great Tribulation. The Devil goes after them because they are an easier target than the Jews who are protected by Moses and Elijah.

PHILIPPIANS 2:12  “Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”

We cannot work out our salvation from hell. This verse tells us that we have to understand the revealed mysteries of Scripture to avoid modern-day Message-church errors. We have to be Scriptural if we want to make the Rapture and thereby be saved from the awful great tribulation.

God has to use the seven Thunders with their tremendous supernatural power to interfere with Nature’s normal forces.

JOHN 14:12  “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”

The 7 Thunders utter both to the living Bride and to the two Jewish prophets, Moses and Elijah.

The seven Thunders will change our bodies into eternal bodies. Jesus never did that when He was on earth. That will take incredible supernatural power.

62-1230 — IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END, SIR?

Is that really them Seven Thunders, fixing to utter out something, that the little group that is gathered together will receive a Rapturing Faith, to go in the Rapture when He comes? “For we’ll be changed,” as quick as those Angels come, “in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye; and shall be caught up together with those that had sleep, to meet the Lord in the air.”
You cannot be Raptured in your sinful body.

You cannot be Raptured in your sinful body.

In addition, the two Jewish prophets will be given incredible supernatural power over Nature.

63-0321 — THE FOURTH SEAL

“God’s Word, sharp, two-edged sword, slays him, puts him right down.”

God’s two-edged sword applies to two groups, the Bride and the Jews.

63-0321 — THE FOURTH SEAL

“Wait till them Seven Thunders utter Their voices to that group who really can take the Word of God and hand It there, It’ll slice and cut. And they can close the heavens. They can shut this, or do that, whatever they want to.

Glory! He’ll be slayed by the Word that proceeds from His mouth, is sharper than a two-edged sword. They could call for a hundred billion tons of flies if they wanted to. Amen. Whatever they say, is going to happen, because It’s the Word of God coming from the mouth of God. Yeah. Amen. God, always, It’s His Word, but He always uses man to work It.

God could have called for them flies, down there in Egypt, but He said, “Moses, that’s your job. I’ll just tell you what to do, and you go do it.” He fully done that. See? He could have chosen the sun to call them, He could cause the moon to call it, or the wind to call it. But, He said, “Moses.” He chooses man. All right.

Now we find out here, that this Satan, after being kicked out of Heaven, incarnates himself in the beast.

And now he is a beast; antichrist, false prophet, and now beast. And given the name of Death! And Hell follows him! Fully Satan, on his throne! Oh, my! On the earth, he is Satan, representative, on the earth, that he now is head of the kingdoms of the world, the very same kingdoms that he offered to the Lord Jesus in Matthew 4. Satan now becomes a full king.”

The man of sin, the last Pope, only appears after Satan has been kicked out of Heaven.

Consider the Fourth Seal.

REVELATION 6:8  “And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”

A fourth part of the 2025 world population of 8 billion is 2 billion.

2 billion killed in the 3½ years of great tribulation by the Catholic church.

That means 1½ million have to die every day, on average.

The final head of the snake will be deadly.

Only the Bible is the Voice of God. The Bible never says, “The antichrist”.

The Bible speaks of "the man of sin".

II THESSALONIANS 2:3  “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;”

Merchandise is to buy and sell goods for self-gain

2020 saw the COVID-19 pandemic or pestilence break up world supply chains.

2022 saw Russia attack Ukraine.

2023 saw Hamas attack Israel and Yemen attack ships in the Red Sea.

2025 saw huge trade wars break out starting with America and China.

Much financial insecurity threatens the world.

International trade and the buying and selling of goods now occupies the headlines.

Speaking of Lucifer, the greatest angel originally in Heaven, who was dissatisfied despite having more talents than the other angels. Obsessively greedy for gain, he wanted to take God’s place.

EZEKIEL 28:16  “By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned:”

Merchandise is the buying and selling of goods for self-gain. That is the mentality that enabled sin to enter.

Giving to a greedy person is just putting dry branches on a flame. The flame of greed burns more intensely and easily ignites violence.

ISAIAH 14:12  “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!”

:13  “For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:”

:14  “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.”

Lucifer’s big sin. Pride. Ambition. Trying to be like God.

Pope Leo 1 trying to be the head of the church. But Jesus is the head of the church.

So, Leo 1 was trying to be like the Most High God.

Pope Leo 10 selling indulgences as if he were able to forgive sins. Only God can forgive sins.

II THESSALONIANS 2:4  “Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God,

shewing himself that he is God.”

Roman Catholics believe that the Vatican is the Temple of God.

Only God can forgive sins.

By selling forgiveness of sins, Pope Leo 10 was exalting himself that he was God.

In the beginning, Lucifer was in the business of hunting souls to uplift him with their praise and adoration.

Created beings love self-glorification and being elevated as better than others.

In the end, during the 3½ years of great tribulation, merchandising of the manufacturing industry will be the centre of world trade.

Everyone will have to belong to the image of the beast (the Confederation of churches) if they hope to be part of the One World economic system that the final Pope, the man of sin, will set up.

DANIEL 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:

“Craft” is handicraft. Manufacturing.

Error starts with peace. Mistrust worldly peace. We drop our guard and are easily overcome by the Devil, who is unscriptural.

Be very careful when worldly peace is declared in these end times, it is often just the calm before a more violent storm.

63-0318 — THE FIRST SEAL

“And now, when she does this, and makes this covenant, we notice, in Daniel 8:23 and 25, “he will cause craft to prosper,” and craft is manufacturing, “in his hand.”

And, the midst of this, three-and-a-half years, he breaks his covenant, as soon as he gets the thing wrapped up, and gets the money of the Jews tied up. And when he does that…Oh, my! Oh, my!”

The Vatican will make a Covenant with the Jews for their Stock Exchange money.

In 1933, brother Branham from America saw 7 visions. The sixth vision saw the Catholic church, as a beautiful woman, ruling and ruining America.

A woman symbolizes a church. A beautiful woman is attractive. The Catholic church is very attractive as it has attracted 1.4 billion converts.

61-0312 — JEHOVAH-JIREH

“And I said, “Then I seen some great, powerful woman rise in the United States.”
… “And I seen a great woman rise up, beautiful to look at, but a cruel, wicked heart.” And that’ll be a church, and she’s on her road now.”

CAB-09 — 9 - THE LAODICEAN CHURCH AGE
“Then in the sixth vision there arose up in America a most beautiful, but cruel woman. She held the people in her complete power.

I believed that this was the rise of the Roman Catholic Church,

though I knew it could possibly be a vision of some woman rising in great power in America due to a popular vote by women.”

61-0806 — THE SEVENTIETH WEEK OF DANIEL

Now, I predicted, and have said, “I saw a great woman stand up, beautiful-looking, dressed in real highly royal-like purple.” And I got little parenthesis down here,

“(She was a great ruler in the United States; perhaps the Catholic church.)”

A woman, some woman; I don’t know it’ll be the Catholic church. I don’t know. I can’t say. Only thing I seen, I seen the woman, that was all.

60-1211 — THE LAODICEAN CHURCH AGE

But there’ll be a powerful woman! Now, remember! This is on tape, too. A powerful woman, great woman, she’ll either be President,

or it’ll be a woman representing the Catholic church (which I think it is)

will take over here someday and she’ll rule this country. This nation is a woman’s nation. 

64-0112 — SHALOM

“… until a woman ruling this nation, which, perhaps, is the church. And then the end come.”

The Roman Catholic church will rule America before the end comes.

60-1113 — CONDEMNATION BY REPRESENTATION

“Then when these women help elect the wrong person, then I seen a great woman rise up in the United States, well-dressed and beautiful, but cruel in heart. She will either guide or lead this nation to ruination.” I got, in parenthesis, “(Perhaps, Catholic church).

The Bible never says, “The antichrist” (antichrist is a spirit not a man).

I JOHN 4:3  "... and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.”

By saying “the antichrist” the churches waste their time looking for some political ruler.

“That spirit of antichrist” lived in each Pope and when the man died, the spirit jumped into the next elected Pope.

The “man of sin” is religious, a church leader like Judas Iscariot.

The Popes carry the title of Pontiff which makes each Pope the High Priest of the Babylonian Mysteries.

The Jews dominate the world’s Stock Exchange.

And the final Pope makes this covenant with the Jews to obtain their Stock Exchange wealth.

DANIEL 11:22  “And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.”

With the massive wealth of the Jewish Stock Exchange in his grasp, he sweeps all before him.

Money talks. Lots of money shouts.

DANIEL 11:23  “And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.”

The final Pope will be a master of financial deception. Fooling everyone out of their money.

Pope Leo 14 is not the last Pope

How will we know this final man of sin?

Revelation 13 unites Roman Catholic Church and America

The biggest church with 1.4 million members is the Roman Catholic Church.

The most influential church leader is the Pope. All he needs is military power (and more money) to enforce his beliefs on the whole world.

That is where America is prophesied to step in.

REVELATION 17:2  “So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names [plural] of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.”

The woman is the Roman Catholic Church, ruled by the Cardinals in their scarlet robes.

The cup of doctrine she holds out is her claim that you cannot be saved unless you agree with her (unscriptural) Catholic beliefs like Trinity, Christmas, 25 December, Good Friday, be in submission to the Pope, the Priest is the head of a local church, etc.

Protestants copy this by saying the Pastor is the head of a local church.

You only see the truth when you are in the wilderness. Unpopular. Rejected by all the churches, including Message-churches that claim to follow William Branham.

The church's nerve centre is Vatican City, right next to the original Seven Hills (the 7 heads) that formed the ancient City of Rome. A church that goes back 2000 years as they falsely claim that Peter was the first Pope. The Roman Catholic Church is the oldest church in the world today.

The pagan Roman Empire had its Headquarters in the Temple of  the trinity god-and-two-godesses of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva on the Capitoline Hill. This authority was destroyed by the Barbarians who conquered Rome. Over the following centuries, the succession of the Popes of Rome managed to pick up the power that the pagan Roman Caesars lost.

The Headquarters of the Roman Catholic church was, and still is, the Lateran Palace on the Caelian Hill, where they serve the nameless Trinity God of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

The Popes rose up and ruled Europe by AD 1200.

Around AD 1400 the Popes moved to Vatican City.

Today the Pope rules 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide.

A “beast” is a spiritual power. A church has spiritual power over people.

“Scarlet coloured” refers to the scarlet robes of the Cardinals who run the Catholic church.

“Full of the names of blasphemy”.

This is very ominous.

"Full" means a lot of being eaten up and being swallowed has happened to the non-Catholic churches. Forcing people into a man-made Confederation of churches that has to bow to the interests of the Roman Catholic Church.

The early church of the apostles was never given a human name as they were just called Christians because Jesus was the Head of the church. Then, error crept in with human leadership and they became Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, Methodists, Baptists, Pentecostals, Message-believers, etc.

These are blasphemous names as the New Testament never gave these names to churches.

“Full” of the names of blasphemy means that this evil beast-denominational-spirit has swallowed up all the churches, including Message churches, and forced them into a Confederation of churches.

Unknowingly bonded together by having the same Pastor-dominated church structure

that preaches the pagan Trinity doctrine.

This Confederation believes unscriptural ideas on various topics but they vigorously condemn any Bible-truths that oppose their man-made opinions. Such as water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ.

ACTS 2:38  “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

Catholics claim that Peter is the first Pope. But they never obey him concerning the water baptism.

The election of an American Pope is a sign that these times will intensify and the King James Bible will be even more rejected. The church has fallen away from the Bible faith.

Jesus is the Word of God (the Bible), and He stands rejected outside today's churches.

He knocks on the door of the church from the outside.

REVELATION 3:14  “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write;

REVELATION 3:20  “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.”

Every church is destined to be spewed into great Tribulation.

Jesus can only appeal to an individual who is not scared to disagree with the church.

REVELATION 3:16  “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”

Churches have a lot of Scriptural error but just enough truth to be a deception.

DANIEL 11:25  “Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him,"

Preaching from part of the Bible and leaving out other portions, is deception.

Muslims are cold, but they fool nobody with their errors because they have no truth.

Thus they are less of a problem to God than the fooled Christians in the churches who fool others.

Unscriptural errors spread like a virus in the churches.

54-1219  — ACTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

“I believe, one of these glorious days, when this united confederation of church goes together, and the new pope is brought out of the United States and put over there according to prophecy, then they’ll form an image like unto the beast. And I tell you, the true Church of God will be drove together. The real, true believers out of Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, whatever they’ll be, will go together, and cemented by the love of God, that’ll make the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, all the believers. And agnostics and shallow-minded will be cast to one side; they’ll go right on into the confederation of churches.”

The new Pope in 2025 is Leo 14.
In 1963, brother Branham revealed six of the Seven Seals to enable us to understand the mysteries of Scripture.

That revealed Light was so intense that the Roman Catholic Pope died and the Roman Catholic President of America, John Kennedy, also died. The most powerful spiritual leader and the most powerful political leader.

The Devil reacted by choosing a new Pope (Paul 6) who would travel to all six continents and begin to unify all the churches into a confederation of churches as they forsook Scripture and accepted certain Catholic beliefs.

The Catholics invented Trinity, Christmas, 25 December,  Good Friday, the Priest or Pastor is the head of a local church, the belief that the main leader is Infallible and is the Voice of God, building faith on the quotes of a man rather than the written Word of God, etc.

63-0630 — THE THIRD EXODUS

And even our new pope [Pope Paul VI], his main purpose is to unite the brethren together. And, to the natural eye, it’s the thing to do. But, in the eyes of God, it’s contrary to the Holy Spirit. We can’t mix up with that. And every church will be called into that federation. Get out of that thing, as quick as you can. You’ll take the mark of the beast, not knowing what you’re doing. Get out of it.

REVELATION 13:1  “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and 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 [singular] of blasphemy.”

The same beast with seven heads but no colour was the pagan Roman Empire ruled from the Capitoline Hill.

“The name [singular] of blasphemy" is saying that “the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost” is the name of God.

The name of God is Jesus Christ.

By removing Jesus as the name of Almighty God, the Catholic church was able to unite with pagan trinity doctrines and other pagan beliefs.

REVELATION 13:2  “And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, 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.”

The leopard is quick. Christians are quick to pick up wrong ideas. Christmas. 25 December. Good Friday.

Trinity. William Branham is the Voice of God.

The bear feet crush you. The Pastor is the head of the church and he crushes any opposition.

This pagan beast gets its power when it speaks “as the mouth of a lion.”

Since 1945, after exploding the two atomic bombs over Japan which ended World War 2, America has the military power (Red horse of Revelation 6) and financial power (Black horse of Revelation 6).

Since 2025, America also has the mouthpiece of religious deception, the Pope (White horse of Revelation 6).

I PETER 5:8  “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”

Amazingly, the first American Pope is Leo (the lion).

REVELATION 13:2 "...and the dragon GAVE him his power, and his SEAT, and great authority.”

The Pope gained his early authority when Roman Emperor Constantine gave him the beautiful Lateran Palace on the Caelian Hill as his Headquarters or "Seat of authority".

In addition, Emperor Constantine gave the Pope huge financial gifts which gave the Pope great authority amongst the churches.

When he gains America’s power, the Pope will be able to destroy physically as well as spiritually with his unscriptural beliefs.

America has often used brute force.

America has a long history of using military might to enforce their expansionist ideas.

They pushed the Native Americans off their tribal lands.

In 1812 they pushed the British into Canada. This military strength persuaded Spain to give up their claim to the American Southwest.

In 1823 the Monroe Doctrine gave them unofficial control over the entire Western hemisphere.

In 1898 they took Cuba and the Philippines from Spain.

They won two World Wars of brutal but brave and imaginative fighting.

Then they used economic rather than military strength to dominate overseas and make the American dollar the recognized world currency.

America has established an unofficial Empire.

The biggest Empire in history although the Americans deny that it is an Empire.

Today there are about 800 American military bases in over 70 countries, just in case violence is needed.

An Empire depends on control of the sea routes. The most powerful ships are the 12 nuclear powered aircraft carriers. France has one. America has 11. Thus America rules the oceans to maintain the American Empire.

The Pope would love to have this incredible American strength being used on behalf of bringing all the churches into subservience to Rome.

MATTHEW 10:28  “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”

The Communists and Muslims can only destroy the body, not the soul.

The Roman Catholic church can destroy body and soul.

The aim of an American Pope is to get American money and power to enforce the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church onto the other churches.

Only America will be able to enforce the Confederation of the world churches to serve Rome.

World churches will have to join the church-organizational-image of the beast of Roman Catholicism, by believing unscriptural Catholic ideas and church traditions.

“Leo” is the Latin for “lion”. In the Vatican they speak Latin.

Satan now has a very prominent mouthpiece, an American Pope called Leo 14.

The Vatican is the Little Horn

DANIEL 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.”

A horn is a power. The “little horn” is Vatican City in Rome.

Vatican City rules 1.4 billion Catholics. That represents a lot of power.

Vatican Bank underwrites part of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, the world’s biggest Industrial Development.

Vatican City is tiny as the smallest country in the world, but has huge clout worldwide.

Only 150 residents there have Vatican passports.

The area of Vatican City is about one square kilometre.

The green areas are parks and gardens, which is more than half of the area. Only the grey areas are buildings.

It is the world’s smallest state, yet, when a new Pope is elected the whole world pays attention.

When Pope John Paul II was buried in 2005, it was the biggest gathering of international heads of states that ever happened. The world ignores and opposes much of the Life of the King James Bible but they readily united in the death of the Pope.

When Pope Leo 14 speaks, the world listens.

This is a typical crowd that he speaks to from the balcony of St Peter's Basilica (big church).

Then television takes his message worldwide.

The non-Catholic churches believe in Christmas, 25 December, Christmas tree, Good Friday, Trinity, God the Son, one man is the head of a local church, salvation depends on belonging to a certain church, etc.

All these unscriptural ideas were invented by Roman Catholics.

65-0220 — GOD'S CHOSEN PLACE OF WORSHIP

All other church names, creeds, titles, is death to trust them. You’re trusting the Methodist church to take you to Heaven, you’re lost. If you’re trusting the Pentecostals, the Pentecostal church to take you to Heaven, you’re lost. And the Baptist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Catholic, any other church; you’re trusting their name, or their title, or their creed, you are lost.

Because, you can’t even worship until first you come into the place of worship. Amen. That’s the only place God meets the worshipper, is the place He chose to put His Name. All others, you trust in them, you’ll die.

… A man called me not long ago, in Beaumont, Texas. He said, “Mr. Branham, if your name is not on our church book, you cannot go to Heaven.” Would you ever think of that? Don’t you believe such a thing as that.

They think you have to belong to that certain church or you cannot go to Heaven.

That’s wrong.

To believe that, is antichrist. I say this: If you believe such a spirit, you’re lost.

That’s a good sign you are lost, because it’s taking away from what God did. God never put His Name in any church. He put It in His Son, Christ Jesus, when He and His Son became One. That’s the genuine place of worship. No other foundations was laid, no other rock.

America has military and financial power.

The Vatican in Rome has spiritual or church power.

Pope Leo 14 is well placed to begin merging America’s military and financial power to bring the world into a One World Government or One World Church, under the leadership of the Vatican Pope.