There is no "The Antichrist". There are many

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Antichrist is a spirit and there are many antichrists

Men die but spirits do not die.

Thus these many antichrist spirits from 2000 years ago are still around in the churches today.

But they have used various men in the past to achieve their unscriptural aims.

They are all over the place and their main function is to influence people, especially church people, into believing unscriptural things.

These many spirits have also, with ruthless efficiency and incredible perseverance, built up a worldwide unscriptural Roman Catholic denominational system over 2000 years that obeys a human leader. Now they are influencing the Protestant and non-Catholic church leaders to establish a similar structure as the image of the Catholic beast.

One of the very effective methods whereby these wrong spirits influence modern day church leaders is to inspire them to produce a totally wrong interpretation of Bible prophecy. 

Thus church leaders look outwards for a non-existent "The Antichrist" amongst political rulers and are scared to actually look inwards for the "man of sin" or the "son of perdition" who is actually amongst the church leaders. The greatest hijack in history is the antichrist spirit that infiltrated the church leadership.

The prophecy that the churches have really got wrong is in Daniel Chapter 9:27

DANIEL 9:27   And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,

Church-goers assume “he” is the Antichrist who will “make” a covenant with the  Jews for 7 years.

The Bible never says "the antichrist". That is a wrong expression.

There are many antichrists and they have been present in the church for 2000 years jumping from person to person or from one person to a group of persons, because antichrist is a spirit.

But the spirit world is very difficult to describe.

Jesus spoke to an unclean spirit (singular) but got the answer "we are many". (Plural).
MARK 5:8   For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.

:9   And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

There were many spirits in the madman Legion that went into the herd of pigs. Many spirits are able to be in one person and yet be referred to as "thou unclean spirit" (singular).

So the spirit world is very different from what we are used to.

I JOHN 2:18   Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

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.

So, antichrist is a spirit.

Thus antichrist is not a certain person but rather a dangerous spirit that goes far back in time and has possessed different people at different times.

Please remember that there is not just one antichrist.

Spirits are difficult to describe but there are many of them.

There are many antichrists, many spirits, that have been influencing church-goers for 2000 years, so they have a long history.

What religious system acts as a link that can connect the errors of today back to the errors of the first church age when John wrote about that antichrist spirit and the many antichrists of his day?

We are looking for a long chain that goes back 2000 years and involves many different people who were inspired for their day by these evil spirits.

The spirit of antichrist was and still is a well-hidden secret that fooled and is still fooling the churches. This cunning trick is because antichrist can be regarded as one spirit or many spirits.

This is why the Trinity Godhead is so baffling. How can the Spirit of God be the Spirits of three People?

REVELATION 6:2   And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

The antichrist spirit started 2000 years ago on a white horse of religious deception. A bow without an arrow means he is bluffing. He is a deceiver. He tells lies that are not written in the Bible.

JEREMIAH 9:8   Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit:

The antichrist spirit will go forth conquering until he turns the church world away from Scripture. Christians today can no longer prove what they believe just from the Bible. Nobody realizes that the church leaders are to blame because the church leaders now preach doctrines that are not written in Scripture.

Then the Pope was crowned with a triple crown by 1315.

This strange blending of one spirit and many spirits that were present in Legion was the main idea behind the development of the Trinity that took hundreds of years to try to explain.

How is God one Spirit if God is present as three People? This is an endless puzzle that cannot be clearly resolved and still causes confusion.

Spirits jump from one person to another. Especially from a person in authority to those below him.
65-0429 THE  CHOOSING  OF  A  BRIDE
The same applies by choosing a church. Now, you must pray over the church that you are fellowshiping in. Remember, churches carry a spirit.
 Now, I don't want to be critical. But I realize that I'm an old man, and I got to leave here, one of these days. I've got to answer at the Day of the Judgment for what I say tonight or any other time. And I, therefore, I got to be dead earnest and truly convicted.
But, you go into a church, and if you'll watch the behavior of that church, you just watch the pastor awhile, and you'll usually find that the church acts like the pastor.

Sometime, I wonder if we just don't get one another's spirit in the stead of the Holy Spirit.

You get to a place where a pastor is real radical and carrying on, you'll find out the congregation is the same way. I'll bring you to a church where I see the pastor stand, jerk their heads back and forth. You watch the congregation, they do the same thing.

You take a pastor, just gulp down anything, usually the church will do the same thing.

So, if I was choosing a church, I'd choose a genuine, fundamental, Full Gospel, Bible church, I was choosing one to put my family in.

The New Testament never placed a Pastor as the head of a church. Because of this spirit-catching tendency in people as they take their eyes off Jesus, Who is the Word as written in the Bible, and begin to be influenced by some human leader.

The antichrist spirits come in the different forms of religious deception, political involvement, and Big Business demonology with its endless accumulation of money as its "sign of success".

Ever wondered why the churches got so rich? "Pastor" is a well-paid job. One of the few careers where you start at the top. But so do grave-diggers.

Churches today want a one-man leader but the early church had elders in charge of each local church.

Why this complete change? Something is wrong.

Especially for those Christians who want to be restored back to the early beliefs of the apostolic fathers.

The Antichrist is called the man of sin in the Bible

There is no "the antichrist" in the Bible.

Yet this is the man that the churches claim will come at the end.

So who are we to look for?

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;

When Satan enters his final superman at the end he will be "the son of perdition", also called "the man of sin".

That makes him a difficult person to spot because he is cloaked in a mystery. The mystery of iniquity. Iniquity is when we know something is wrong but we do it anyway.

Evil attains its greatest height when it simulates the appearance of the good.

The last place that people think of looking for error would be in the church leaders.

II THESSALONIANS 2:7   For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

Our biggest iniquity is believing something that is not written in the Bible because we know that we should never do that. But when a charming, well-spoken one-man church leader tells us something that is unscriptural, we are scared to question him. Scared not to be accepted by the church. But the churches lull us into complacency until we feel that it is alright to believe what is not in Scripture. After all, the rest of the churches are doing the same thing so it must be alright.

We were never asked to celebrate Christ's birth in the Bible. Yet today, it is the biggest Christian festival of the year.

25 December is not in the Bible. But that date is faithfully celebrated every year.

So, something is very wrong but we never question it. That is iniquity. Doing what is not written in the Bible and pretending that it is a Christian requirement.

Believing different from the Bible was not acceptable at the beginning of the church ages.

What cloaked or hid this iniquity? The fact that some of the antichrist spirits sneaked in and took over as church leaders. That is the last place that people would look for the enemy.

Church leaders tell us to celebrate this unscriptural Christmas and we do it without thinking. And then we usually attack those poor souls who try to point out our error. As such, we attack the truth. Thus we are in a worse condition than what we realize.

The son of perdition will be a church leader

"Son of perdition"means a child from hell.

Judas the apostle, a church leader, was the only man in the Bible to be called "the son of perdition". The son from hell.

JOHN 17:12   While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

Jesus is referring to Judas Iscariot as the "son of perdition". How did Judas achieve that awful state?

The spirit of Satan entered Judas.

This drove Judas to betray Jesus, Who is the Word of God.

LUKE 22:3   Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.

:4   And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.

Sadly, there are all too many preachers and church leaders who are influenced by these antichrist spirits to change, deny, ignore, or contradict the Word of God. This betrays the Word because Scripture is meant to be obeyed.

Church people do not like to admit this because then they have to look for the "final bad man", the end-time "son from hell", from amongst the church leaders.

Church leaders themselves prefer to desperately duck and dodge by pretending that it will be a politician from somewhere in or around Europe. Notice how vague that is. But it keeps the church-goers looking in the wrong direction. They look outside the church for a mystery politician instead of looking inside the church for corrupt and unscriptural leadership. Iniquity. Deceived by the church leaders that the Bible is trying to expose. Deceived by church leaders who cannot prove their beliefs from Scripture.

The New Testament never put a pastor in charge of a church. But this unscriptural church-structure is essential for the spreading of error. This wrong church leadership system means that the people have no real interest in being Scriptural. They prefer to conceal the error and will oppose any effort to reveal the error.

Church leaders do not want to label their "the Antichrist" as the  "man of sin" or as the "son of perdition" because that means their so-called "the Antichrist" is a church leader. That points a finger at themselves.

Only churches deal with "sin" and "perdition" which means "hell". Politicians don't speak like that.

So church leaders, to cloak the iniquity of their unscriptural beliefs, prefer the unscriptural term "The Antichrist" because that could mean anyone as the Bible never mentions the term. Very cleverly, they distract the church-goers by pointing outside the church at various politicians in and around Europe. Notice how communists, when they are guilty, always deflect the blame to somebody else.

China tried to accuse America of starting the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

Church leaders have also caught that spirit.

The real bad guy at the end will be a church leader.

So, if you want to expose corruption and error in the churches, you must start with the church leaders.

In AD 312 Emperor Constantine stopped the Roman Empire's persecution of the church that started with the Emperor Nero in AD 64 when he blamed and killed Christians for the fire that destroyed much of Rome. The Christians were so grateful to Constantine that they permitted him to take control of the church and allowed him to dominate the Council of Nicaea that forced the Trinity doctrine onto the church.

Constantine forced Trinity onto the church in AD 325

Roman Emperor Constantine forced Trinity onto the Roman Catholic church

This was the cleverest move of the antichrist spirits. Getting into the church and changing its beliefs to accept an unscriptural word like Trinity.

Then followed a stream of unscriptural beliefs:

Trinity, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, Father and Son are of the same essence, Eternal Sonship, First Person of the Godhead, Second Person of the Godhead, Third Person of the Godhead, One God in three Persons, Three in One, Jesus is in the Godhead, Etc.

The antichrist spirits were at their most dangerous. They injected all these unscriptural terms into the church and then blatantly began to contradict Scripture.

"Jesus is in the Godhead" contradicts "The fullness of the Godhead dwells in Him bodily" (Colossians 2:9).

Then began the attack on God's name.

Three People cannot have one name. Thus the Trinity or Triune God has no name. So the antichrist spirits pulled off the greatest robbery in history. They robbed God of His name and totally fooled the churches into believing that three titles are a name.

"Thou unclean spirit". "We are many". These two statements are a strange mixture of singular and plural when spirits are involved.

Equally strange, they claim that the three titles of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is somehow a name (singular).

Baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. (Matthew 28:19). But they cannot tell us what this name is. Titles are not a name.

Then comes the dangerous denial of Scripture which is what the antichrist spirits endlessly seek to achieve.

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,

Faced with a baptism in the name of Jesus (which is a name) they immediately reject this verse as a mistake. That reveals the antichrist spirit as it condemns this Scripture for being wrong.

The church believed the Trinity of Constantine and lost the name of God.

Then they began rejecting Bible verses as wrong, just because those verses contradicted their ideas.

AMOS 6:10  Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.

1700 years later the churches still do not know the name of God, because they think God is a Trinity.

So, the Trinity churches just ignore the name of God. And the church-goers fall for this.

The antichrist spirit took over the church leadership which led to the Dark Ages.  It was the most successful hijack in history.

The first step to fool people away from the true Bible is to print a changed Bible. By producing over 100 different versions of the Bible and condemning the King James Version, these spirits have successfully stopped a huge number of people from finding the true Word.

Today there are about 450 different versions of the New Testament as the churches claim that it is impossible to have a true and accurate translation.

But Jesus is the Word of God. So by criticizing the King James Bible as flawed, the churches are actually claiming that Jesus is flawed. Only an antichrist spirit would dare to say that.

So they betray the Word by teaching people a corrupted version of the truth. The people prefer to believe the changed version of the Bible rather than the true King James Version. Thus preachers exalt their changed versions of the Bible above the King James Version which is the true Word.

Even message preachers today claim that there are faults in the King James Bible.

The antichrist spirit or spirits will never admit that the King James Bible is the Absolute, the infallible Word of God. 

The antichrist Beast is a Succession of Popes

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;

The Dark Ages was the time when there was a great falling away from the Bible truth.

The man of sin was exposed by Martin Luther in the 1520s as the Pope who claimed to forgive sin if you paid him money. This was called the sale of indulgences which collected enough money to build the Sistine Chapel and Saint Peter's church in the Vatican.

They claim this is the temple of God because the Pope is "Vicarius Christi" which means that he is "in the place of Christ". And they also claim that the Pope can thus forgive sin, which only God can do.

But instead of collecting money from the people, Christ threw the religious money-makers out of the Temple three times. Making money out of religion made Jesus very angry.

He knew what demons inspired that greed for religious wealth.

Jesus threw them out on Palm Sunday and again the next day, Monday. Interfering with the religious leaders' income was going too far. They killed Him on Thursday.

Don't interfere with a church leader's money. Then things can get nasty.

So, the final "bad person" should be called "the man of sin" or "the son of perdition", just like the apostle and church leader Judas, who held the money bag. Preachers do not want to admit this because that means that the betrayal of Bible truth is happening in the church with unscriptural doctrines like Trinity, Christmas, the seven-year tribulation, the pastor is the head of the church, Good Friday, Etc. Not to mention all the wealth that the churches have collected.

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;

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.

"Many antichrists". The spirit of antichrist has always been present for over 2000 years in a long chain of Roman Popes that have spread over the centuries.

"Sitting in the temple of God". The Pope resides in the Vatican.

His first title is Bishop of Rome. His second title is Vacarius Christi which means "In place of Christ". That means he is God on earth while Christ is in Heaven.

The prophecies in Scripture deal with the history of this evil system that the antichrist spirit (or spirits) have built up over the centuries.

The centralized control of a man-made denominational organization that is ruled by an elevated Nicolaitan man who acts as a dictator. He makes the rules that he needs to run the system. All opposition is brutally crushed and silenced.

The system is maintained by a select group, the Council of Cardinals,  who alone can appoint the next dictator when the present dictator or Pope dies.

The Pope is the only dictator in Europe.

This long line of dictators started with Julius Caesar who ended the Roman Republic and ruled as Dictator for life. He was also the Pontiff, the High Priest of the Babylonian mysteries. The Pope is still the Pontiff and Dictator, just like Julius Caesar.

At first, the Roman Emperors kept the title of Pontiff.

Then, in AD 382, the Roman Emperor Theodosius rejected the title of Pontiff and passed it on to his uncle Damasus who was the Bishop of Rome. Damasus murdered more than 200 supporters of his rival in order to ensure that he was elected as Bishop Of Rome. The mysteries of Babylon thus officially took over the Roman Catholic church. The Babylonian priesthood got promoted to high positions in the Catholic church.

We need to look at the succession of Popes who have opposed the truth throughout the 7 church ages and who are teaching Protestants to do the same thing. The "man of sin" will arrive as the final Pope.

This long succession of Pontiff rulers of the church that goes all the way back to the pagan Roman Julius Caesar is called the Beast.

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

The succession of Popes.

The many antichrist spirits in the Popes have produced a long "trail of the serpent" as they go back to the first church by claiming that Peter was the first Pope.

Pope Gregory in A.D. 597, condemned the exalting of the Popes.  "I say with confidence that whoever calls or desires to call himself 'universal priest' in self-exaltation of himself is a precursor of the Antichrist."

Yet in AD 606 Pope Boniface 3 declared himself Universal Bishop.

The beast represents a powerful spirit. The power of uplifting a man or woman until he or she is worshiped. That bad spirit makes people worship or hero-worship a film star or rock star or sports star or church leader.

This spirit entered the Western world when Alexander the Great demanded to be worshiped as a god in the East as well as in Greece. Then the city of Pergamos built a temple to the Roman dictator and Pontiff, Julius Caesar who was worshipped as a god. The Roman Emperors carried on with that tradition of Caesar worship. This antichrist spirit was outside the church but wanting to get in.

The Catholics say the Pope is infallible. But only God is infallible. So infallibility promotes the Pope to the Godhead. You can't get much higher than that. The antichrist Nicolaitan spirit uplifts a holy man above the people.

That is why Catholics pray to Mary and believe that she has been lifted up to Heaven. Woman worship. Another antichrist spirit.

Message people now claim that William Branham is the infallible Voice of God. This is the same Catholic spirit. The Protestant daughters are returning to the mother Catholic church.

The beast is the denominational organization that crushes the people until they submit to human leadership and are then fooled or forced into believing unscriptural doctrines. A man is lifted up to be the head of the church. He then makes the rules that allow him to rule the church.

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

"The beast that was". This crushing power of man-made denominational religion always "was" going right back to the start of the church, because they falsely claim that Peter was the first Pope.

So, there always "was" a Pope.

"And is not". The Pope dies.

"And yet is". A new Pope is elected to make the Succession of Popes the longest line of rulers in the world.

The Roman Catholic church is the only enemy of truth that has been around for all seven church ages, since the church began.

"The beast that was" means we must search for the origins of the beast system of power in the past.

The rise of denominational Christianity.

A small Catholic church grew into a huge denomination

MATTHEW 13:31   Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:

The original churches were small local churches that were run by a group of elders. There was no one person who was the head of the church. Only Christ was the Head of the church.

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Show me by the Bible what's greater, in the Bible, than a local elder to a local church? That's right, yes, sir, the sovereignty of the local church, each church in itself.

MATTHEW 13:32
Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

LAODICEAN  CHURCH  AGE - CHURCH  AGE  BOOK CPT.9

This evil-spirited church, full of iniquity, will be revealed as the mustard seed that grew into a tree wherein lodged the fowls of the air. At her head will be the antichrist, the mystery of iniquity.

This is the third parable representing the third church age of Pergamos.

This was the age of the AD 325 Council of Nicaea where the Trinity was established in the Roman Catholic church. The Emperor Constantine had given the Bishop of Rome the beautiful Lateran Palace and much wealth. The Roman Catholic church now was in the pay of the Emperor to do his bidding. Constantine wanted the Christians and the pagans to unite by absorbing pagan beliefs and giving them Christian names. (The sun god became the Son of God. The statue of Jupiter became the statue of Peter. Ishtar became Easter. An Egyptian sun-god obelisk (tall column of rock) was erected in the Vatican. Etc.)

The Lateran Palace was given to the Pope and became the "Seat of Saint Peter" which represented the supreme authority of the Pope as the Successor of Saint Peter. Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Bald in AD 875 then gave a wooden chair to the Pope to act as the Seat of Saint Peter.

REVELATION 13:2   ... and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

REVELATION 13:3   And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

The 7 heads were the original 7 hills that Rome was built on. The Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill was the centre of the pagan Roman Empire. Its authority was destroyed when the barbarians destroyed the Western Roman Empire in AD 476. Then the Roman Catholic Church, with its official headquarters in the Lateran Palace on the Caelian Hill grew in power as it gained the authority and prestige that the Roman Emperors had lost.

Thus the beast is a combination of pagan Roman cruelty and Roman Catholic denominational deception.

Believing the same thing was more important than believing the truth so the Catholic church began to give Christian names to pagan beliefs and traditions.

That way the church grew outside the limits of the Bible, but the church grew in numbers as unsaved pagans joined the church.

A big reason for their successful growth was the rule that priests could not marry. It is cheaper to support a single man than to support a man with a family. Thus more priests could be sent out. If a Pope died then he had no sons to take over from him. Thus the Cardinals were free to choose the best man to take his place.

Recently we have seen Pope John Paul 2 and Pope Francis as two very strong leaders that were elected. It is not very likely that a family can keep producing strong leaders over many generations.

But God hates the idea of forcing men not to get married.

I TIMOTHY 4:1   Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

I TIMOTHY 4:3   Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats,

For many centuries, Roman Catholics made a rule about not eating warm-blooded animal meat on a Friday. This rule was only relaxed (but not removed) in 1966.

They changed the crucifixion day from Thursday (named after the god Thor) to Friday to celebrate the goddess Freya, goddess of fertility, whose symbol was a fish as fish produce more young than any other species. Then they made the rule to eat fish on Friday as if that was to remember the sacrifice of Jesus, when it was actually to remind them of the only woman goddess who has a day of the week named after her. When the other churches accepted the Friday crucifixion and the Friday fish-eating, it gave the Roman Catholic church authority over the other churches. Rome was making the new rules and was setting the new dates. Rome was taking control. The antichrist spirits were still riding and conquering the churches.

DANIEL 7:25   ...and think to change times and laws:

To this day, Friday is still a day where people prefer to eat fish which is an ancient pagan custom.

Over the centuries the Roman Catholic church swelled to a worldwide church. There are more Roman Catholics than Muslims today. There are Roman Catholics are as numerous as the Chinese.

This massive international religious organization requires a structure that has grown outside the limits of the Bible. Every Christian in the New Testament is a priest. Nobody is above a priest except the High Priest Jesus Christ. But look at all the unscriptural ranks in the Catholic church.

In the first parable, the birds gobbled up the seeds of God's Word before they could have any effect on the people. These birds were the antichrist spirits.

By this third parable the antichrist spirits had not only entered the Roman Catholic church but had taken it over and emerged as the leaders.

We see this when the title of Pontiff or High Priest of the Babylonian mysteries was rejected by the Roman Emperor Theodosius in AD 382 and given to the Bishop of Rome, Damasus.

The antichrist spirits had many other unscriptural tricks to undermine people's faith in the Bible.

"Petr Roma" was the pagan "Grand Interpreter" who the pagans believed would arrive to teach them the will of the gods. This became "Peter of Rome" when the Catholic Church launched a campaign to claim falsely that the apostle Peter had been in Rome. Antichrist spirits thrive on fake news. Anything that is not written in the Bible.

Soon the Catholic church was claiming that only Peter had the keys to Heaven so the pagans had to be in submission to Peter's successor, the Bishop of Rome who became the Pontiff in AD 382. Damasus was the first man, in AD 382, to claim that the Bishop of Rome was the Successor of Peter. That was the same year that he accepted the pagan title of Pontiff.

As Pontiff or High Priest of the Babylonian mysteries, Damasus gave high-up positions in the Roman Catholic church to the pagan Babylonian priesthood. The Roman Catholic church became Mystery Babylon. Ishtar eggs became Easter eggs. Ishtar bunnies became Easter bunnies. The Council of Nicaea introduced the pagan idea of the 40 days of Lent and Ash Wednesday.

The Roman Catholics made the Thursday crucifixion become a Friday crucifixion.

The Pope then called the day "Good Friday" (an unscriptural term) and changed the date of Easter to always be on a Friday, rather than on a full moon which could be any day of the week.

This contradicted the Scripture that Jesus would be in the depths of the earth for three nights.

Thursday night. Friday night. Saturday night. Then He arose early Sunday morning.

If He died on Friday then He was only buried for two nights.

Dying on Friday contradicts Scripture but even the Protestants bow down to this unscriptural Catholic Friday. Such is the mystery of iniquity. Makes us all break the Scripture. We know that a Friday death only means two nights in the tomb. But we do not care. Such is the power of the Babylonian mysteries.

Not to mention their Zodiac sun signs with "Your stars foretell" that people still stupidly want to read in every newspaper and magazine.

Vatican city is the little horn

The "little horn" is Vatican City, the smallest country on earth

DANIEL 7:8   I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn,

The little horn is a little power in size. Vatican City is the world's smallest country. Only one square kilometer in size and less than 800 people have a Vatican passport. Yet it is the world's wealthiest organization and by far the world's biggest church group of 1.4 billion people.

DANIEL 7:25   And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws:

"Speak words against the most High". These are unscriptural statements like Trinity, Christmas, Good Friday, Easter Monday (when nothing happened), Etc.

"Wear out the saints". The Roman Catholics have repeated their unscriptural errors for so long that the Protestants have given up arguing with them and just accepted their errors.

"And think to change times". We do not know when Jesus was born but the Pope changed it to 25 December. So Protestants just follow this. Too weary or lazy to argue.

Jesus died on a Thursday but they changed it to Friday. Easter should be any day of the week when the moon is full. The Pope fixed it on a Friday only.

The Pope changed the  Sabbath day from Saturday to Sunday.

Communion or the Breaking of Bread was changed from after Dark (the Lord's Supper) to in the morning (the Lord's Breakfast).

The pagan Roman dictator Julius Caesar changed the calendar year to 365.25 days.

The Roman Catholic Pope Julius 13 in 1582 fine-tuned the calendar to 365.2425 days.

So Rome in the form of Caesar and the Popes has changed many "times". Either dates or lengths of the year or times of the day.

They changed many laws. Communion in the morning instead of at night. Easter on a Friday instead of when the moon is full. They made a new rule of celebrating Christ's birth when the Bible never asked us to do so. Then they fixed a false date of 25 December.

They introduced a Trinity which took away the name of God.

They rejected the Scriptural baptism in the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 2:38) and insisted on baptizing in the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost which are titles, not a name. They do not know what that name is.

They claimed that the wafer bread is the actual body of the Lord. They claim that eating this is what actually saves you.

They baptized babies who cannot first repent, by sprinkling. Then they confirmed them later in this error.

They turned pagan idols into statues of saints. Etc. Etc.  They have certainly introduced many new laws that are not found in the Bible.

The Pope introduced the pagan idea of Lent and Ash Wednesday as well as the rosary of prayer beads.

All these ideas helped to paganize Christianity which thus became more acceptable to the heathen.

The many antichrist spirits have built up the formidable worldwide Roman Catholic Church organization which is the beast from the sea, the restless masses that gave Rome its power during the Dark Ages in Europe. Then the Spanish and Portuguese empires spread the Pope's power around the world to establish the first and the biggest worldwide church denomination. Ruled by one man, the Pope. The only dictator in Europe.

Protestants follow their example to build up their smaller denominations and churches that also depend on a one-man-church-leader.

The Protestants are pulling together to form the image of the beast.

The mark of the beast is to be brainwashed with man-made denominational religion and follow your one-man church leader. You serve your church and ignore or change or contradict sections of the Bible.

Step one towards resisting the floodtide of the influence of these many antichrist spirits is to believe that the King James Version of the Bible is the Absolute and infallible truth.

If you cannot see that, then keep praying for eyesalve until you can see that.