THE
BOOK OF REVELATION
By:
Bertrand L. Comparet
Lesson
#10 Of A Series Of 14, Transcribed From Audio Tapes
Transcribed
By:
Clifton
A. Emahiser’s
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[Unless
in brackets, all of the message is by Bertrand L. Comparet.]
We’re getting now to the 10th installment of our study of the Book of
Revelation. Up to this point we’ve covered topics through Revelation chapter 13,
verse 10, which is the vision of a beast’s rising out of the sea and which
obviously includes all of the four beasts that Daniel had a vision of, all
rolled into one, because it has the characteristics of all four. It says that
this beast, which had seven heads, one of the heads was wounded with what
appeared to be a deadly wound, but that the deadly wound healed. In checking
this out the last time, we found that that particular head which recovered from
the deadly wound was the Roman Empire, which came to what appeared to be a
complete and permanent end in 476 A.D. For a period of three centuries it stayed
dead and in chaos. Then in the year 800 Charlemagne really revived the Roman
Empire, because he conquered practically all the European territory that had
been part of the old
Of
course, we know who it was that was trying to murder the infant Christ. That was
Herod, the Edomite Jew. As a further identification here, remember, that word
“
Throughout
the Bible, waters are symbolic of people. That’s further confirmed here, because
the angel telling John about this says that “the waters on which the whore sits
and rules are people, races, and nations ....” “With whom the kings of the earth have
committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk
with the wine of her fornication. 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
of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.” [See
note #2 at end of lesson.]
Fittingly,
the dragon is emblematic of satanic power – it says he gave his power, throne
and authority to the beast, and the beast carries the same marks of satanic
leadership as these seven heads and ten horns. Hence, John said that he looked
at this and was astonished, and marveled at what he saw. Following up at
Revelation chapter 17, verses 7 to 11: “And the angel said unto me, Wherefore
didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast
that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.” We now come to a
portion which has tripped up most of the people who try to interpret the Book of
Revelation. This originates chiefly by people who have been taught the old
theory; you must blame everything on the Catholic “Church.” Presumably, the
serpent that deceived Adam and Eve was the Pope, and undoubtedly the
You
find things here which cannot possibly be accounted for by the Catholic
“Church”, except that the Catholic “Church” was only a part of what is described
here, and corrupted by the same satanic influence and working for the same
satanic purposes as the rest. But the
“The
seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.” In the Bible a
mountain is the symbol of a nation. Your King James Version says “there are seven
kings”, but that’s pure mistranslation, because even the marginal notes in the
Scofield edition corrects it. The original says “and they (referring to these
seven mountains) are seven kings. Really, kingdoms would be a more accurate
English translation. Now up to – oh, three hundred years ago or less – very few
people conceived of the existence of a nation as such. It was simply the
territory ruled by a particular king. Whenever he was able, by conquest, to take
over other territory – or by marriage, or by inheritance get other territory –
they never considered that to be something distinct. That was always part of his
same kingdom. Hence, in speaking of a king, you’re speaking here of a monarchy,
a nation governed by a king. “And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and
one is, and the other is not yet
come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.” I have read books
full of utter rot. They’re all trying to make this simply the
Nearly
everything that you find written about the Book of Revelation you can throw in
the trash can without bothering to read it. I have seen one that was
surprisingly good by [something that sounds like
Farris] an Australian, with two little paperback volumes about a quarter
of an inch thick each, and very condensed. It simply states what happened and
will give you a date and no details. If you want to find out whether it’s right,
you’ve got to go look it up in an encyclopedia or history book and find out for
yourself. But he’s right to a surprising degree. We are dealing at Revelation
17:9-10, with “seven heads” or “seven mountains” – “seven kings, five already
fallen” when John wrote this in 94 A.D. “One is (existed at that time), and the other is not yet come; and when
he comes, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not,
even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into
perdition.”
Let’s
now start unscrambling this. The beast can’t be
Daniel
got a vision of only four world empires, beginning with
[Transcriber’s
Note: At this point on the tape, it has all the earmarks of the original master
tape being damaged, then having the damaged portion being cut out and then
spliced together again with a portion of the message missing. However, this will
not be problematic as we can be quite sure of the point Comparet was about to
make. He had just named five beast empires in the paragraph above, then to this
he added the
It
is apparent that these are not petty kingdoms, rather they are all empires which
ruled pretty much all the world they knew in their day. So the seventh, which
had not yet come, has to be of the same kind. From the time of the fall of
But
in Europe, where John’s visions apply – in
This
revived Roman Empire was ruled usually from
Then
there appeared on the scene Napoleon Bonaparte. He was a French army officer
from 1785. He continued in the service after the French Revolution in 1793.
Unquestionably a very brilliant officer, his strategy was so much better than
that of any competitor that he almost never lost a battle, till it came to
Finally,
in 1799, by a swift military coup d’
état, Napoleon overthrew this old government. They established the new
government, governed by a triumvirate who were called “consuls.” But the other
two were non-entities. Napoleon was at the head of it, and in August, 1802 he
was made consul for life, and in May, 1804 he proclaimed himself emperor of the
French. Then, the Pope thought, “Well now, here again I will declare ‘the crown
is mine to give or withhold’ as I choose, and he (the king) has it only by my
sufferance.” When Napoleon told the Pope to come there to his coronation, and
when the Pope stepped up holding the crown, Napoleon grabbed it out of his hands
and put it on his own head, that there might be no doubt as to the source of
Napoleon’s authority.
The
year 1804 began Napoleon’s empire. Let’s now take a look at what he did in this
very short space that was allotted to him. Before this, under the old Communist
government,
In
1807 he defeated the forces of
In
1809 he annexed the
The
greatest military disaster that the Romans ever suffered was the battle of
Cannae, when they suffered a terrific defeat at the hands of
This
hundred days’ attempt to regain his throne is no part of his empire, time-wise.
He never succeeded in gaining the throne, so the end of it would be 1814 rather
than 1815. They then banished him again to the
Now
the final re-appearance of this beast, as the eighth, cannot be a revival of the
Roman Empire under Mussolini, to rule three and a half years, as so many of
these well meaning but stupid people have preached for a long time. As you know,
that was Herbert W. Armstrong’s great theme song – that Mussolini was going to
revive the
Before
any of these empires were in existence, it goes back to the old, direct satanic
rule that was enforced in Adam’s time. You’ll remember, Adam wasn’t up against a
great world empire that he had to contend with. He was up against the world
empire of Satan himself. Now John was told, in his time, “it is not”, because at
that time Satan was not ruling directly. He was ruling through the series of
world empires to whom he’d given his authority.
Remember
– you read that Satan took Yahshua the Christ up onto a mountain and he showed
Him, in a moment of time, all the kingdoms of the earth, which included the
empires, and said “These are mine and I give them to whom I wish, and if you
will fall down and worship me, I’ll give all these to you.” And you’ll remember,
Yahshua the Christ did not deny that. He didn’t say “Are you trying to kid Me? –
You don’t have any power over these.” He told Satan, “Get thee behind me Satan,
and it is written, thou shall worship only Yahweh thy Elohim.” But it’s
recognition nevertheless, even by Yahshua the Christ Himself, that all these
world empires were examples of the satanic power.
After
the end of these world empires, the direct satanic rule of the world is then to
re-appear. Napoleon is past history for a century and a half. The seven were
bad, but the eighth would be worse. There is one little parenthetical thing we
might throw in here. The beast, it says, in the 17th chapter of Revelation,
“will finally destroy great
We
are told: “The beast had seven heads with ten horns.” The woman riding on the
beast “had a name written on her forehead, ‘Mystery Babylon the Great’.” Thus,
the whole Babylonian system, religious, economic and political, is summed up in
this woman.
Again,
you know how many of these fanatics not only say the beast was the
We
now see this same thing, which is the only civilization we have at the moment,
which makes us nervous when it’s threatened. We see it now threatened by
destruction from within. Right now, with
In
this 13th chapter of Revelation, verses 11 to 17, we run into another beast. It
is a little tougher to figure this one out: “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.”
Absurdly,
the same people who have decided that the first beast was the
The
first beast arose out of the sea. The sea would be symbolic of the great mass of
non-Israel people in general. Out of them rose the empires of
So,
obviously this is an image, a copy of the ancient empires that ruled on just
that basis, incorporating brutal force to compel complete conformance. The first
beast was symbolic of our concentrated worldwide power. Each of the heads, or
empires, ruled substantially all the world that it knew. Hence, we’re seeing the
copy, the image of that prepared. This second beast, while pretending to be a
lamb with the two horns, spoke as a dragon, saying to them that dwell on the
earth, “they should make an image of the first beast.” At the present time,
we’re getting all this propaganda from so many sources to brainwash us into
believing that only a one-worldwide-supreme government, with limitless power,
can produce peace. You see that written continually in all sorts of newspaper
and magazine articles. Our politicians are telling us the same thing. We’re
getting it from many sources in
It
said that this image of the beast speaks, and it does. It speaks through the
various resolutions and so-called conventions and treaties of the United
Nations. But you notice that it rarely speaks for good, but nearly always for
evil. When it does speak anything that is faintly good, it is ignored and
nothing comes of it. We should have remembered Isaiah, chapter 8, verses 9 and
10: “Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and
give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in
pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. Take counsel
together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand
...” Isn’t that a perfect thumbnail sketch of the United Nations to date?
Totally helpless for any good, but powerful enough for a great deal of evil. It
said the image of the beast also causes that as many as would not worship the
image of the beast should be killed. In Africa, the only civilized portion of
the so-called nation of the
Hence,
those who wouldn’t worship the image of the beast are caused to be murdered. If
they ever get us to disarm and turn what weapons we have over to the U.N., we’ll
be treated with equally bestial brutality. It goes on with another thing here,
that “no man might buy or sell save he that had the mark or name of the beast or
the number of his name.” Everyone had to receive a mark, either in his forehead
or in his right hand. It has been pointed out that it was customary back in
John’s time to brand slaves either on the forehead or the right hand. Also, it’s
been pointed out that this might well be symbolic; the mark on the forehead, the
seat of intellectual achievement – that all mental products would have to be
subject to their rule; and on the right hand – that material products likewise
should be governed thereby. [See note #14 at end of
lesson.]
So
without the mark of the beast you couldn’t either buy or sell. The people who
want to blame everything on the Catholic “Church” have said, “Well, you see,
there were times when the Catholic ‘Church’, in the middle ages, used the power
of interdict with a particular village who had some Protestants among it. They’d
put the whole village under the interdict. No Catholic could have any dealings
with them whatsoever. They couldn’t be married in the ‘church’, they couldn’t be
buried in the ‘church’ cemetery, but even more than that, no Catholic could buy
any of their products they had for sale. No Catholic could sell to them anything
that they needed.” But this was on a little dime store scale that was used a
very few times, and insignificantly small where it was used that way, and that
is now permanently ended. But as an example of this in the present day, you
notice the United Nations has already gotten all the nations, except
They’re
trying, of course, to get American military forces to make war against
[Transcriber’s
Note: I find, at this point, that I must break into this message of Bertrand L.
Comparet to make a short comment. Evidently, at the time he was giving these
messages, Nixon was president in either his first or second term sometime
between 1969 and 1973. The fact that Comparet speaks of Lyndon Johnson in
retrospect may help date the timing of these lessons. Now back to Bertrand L.
Comparet.]
How many of you heard Richard Cotton a
few weeks ago when he broadcast that fable of the Temple of the Thirteen Sons [or maybe Suns]? It was excellent. He was
entirely correct in his analysis. It might be well to write to him and get a
copy of that. Incidentally, he needs some support. He’s in some pretty desperate
straits financially in order to stay on the air. Our whole economic system is
being brought to the point of complete collapse now, due to the Federal Reserve
Bank. We are told this is being done to prevent inflation, which is a deliberate
lie, and told knowingly as a lie by 99 and 99/100ths percent of the officials
who say it. They know better. They describe an imaginary situation that hasn’t
existed in the past century. They say “The whole trouble that brings inflation
is that there is more money in circulation than there are goods to be bought
with it, and so that causes inflation.”
Correctly
replying to such a faulty premise, it must be pointed out that in times of great
scarcity, more or less approaching famine, where you don’t have enough products
to go around, it’s very true that if somebody has to go without, the man with
enough money to bid high, says, “I’m going to get it anyway; I’ll get my share.”
But that situation doesn’t exist. There is no shortage of anything the American
people want. You can’t show me one major industry in this country running –
well, go back a year before they started bringing this catastrophe on us, when
employment was a little bit higher, but even then, you can’t show me one major
company which is running close to 80% of its present day productive capacity,
and they’re not producing more because they can’t market it. Rather, it’s
because they can’t find people with enough money to buy the diminished output
that they’re producing. There is no shortage of goods and there is no surplus of
money.
No
such thing existed at all. The trouble was not too little goods and too much
money, but the other way around. Then they shut off credit. Of course, no
economy should be running on credit anyway, it should be running on money. I
studied economics in college, and a textbook written by Towsig [or a name that sounds somewhat like that] – he was a
pretty reputable economist. He states the quantity theory of money this way:
“That there should be enough money in circulation to commit the purchase of all
property, real or personal, that can be bought and sold.” In other words, if you
are an automobile dealer, for every automobile in your stock, there should be
money enough, someplace or other, to buy it. Likewise, there should be enough
money available for your home if you want to sell it. A man I know was getting
into financial difficulties and he offered his home for sale for 30 thousand
dollars. They were in a little town 20 some miles out of
You’ve
already seen published the first trial balloons put up to see if they can get
people to accept the idea that we have a United Nation’s world currency.
Naturally, it hasn’t gone over very well because nobody wants United Nation’s
funny money if we can have American money with any value. Therefore, they’ve got
to bring upon us total ruin, which they’re deliberately trying to bring upon us
in order to get us to accept that idea. The U.N. world money, I’m told, has
already been printed and is in storage. How might they distribute it? The United
Nations will presumably issue it and the United Nations will determine how much
money is issued to any one particular nation. Remember, in the United Nations we
will be out-voted something over one hundred thirty to one. Just the cannibals
of
[I
break into this paragraph for a transcriber’s note: Although the enemy has not
as yet issued a world currency to date, at 2005, he has developed many other
evil schemes to redistribute our
wealth to the “beasts” within our borders, and export our jobs to third world
“beast” countries.]
When
this is done under the fiction “that we need to cut down inflation”, we would be
issued barely enough money for the people of the
If
this happens, the only money available will be the U.N. money. If you still have
some of the by-then-repudiated Federal Reserve Notes, who’s going to take them?
You won’t be able to go to a bank and trade a Federal Reserve Note for another
Federal Reserve Note, which is all you can get presently for it. You’ll
remember, the paper money used to have the statement on it “redeemable in gold”,
or as the case may be “redeemable in silver dollars at the U.S. Treasury upon
demand.” Some of you, no doubt, save trading stamps. You’re told you can redeem
them for various things. Suppose you went to the trading stamp office with ten
books of trading stamps and they said, “The only thing we can give you in
exchange for these are more trading stamps”, would you consider that redemption?
But you go to any bank, including the Federal Reserve Bank itself, with some of
their “funny money” Federal Reserve Notes, and all they’ll give you in exchange
for them is more Federal Reserve Notes.
You
can see they’re only one short step away from the point where our whole money
system will be dropped down in wreckage, and we will have the United Nations
world currency – that is, if we behave. It would be a socialist thing, and you
notice that wherever there has been socialism, the first step is always to start
rationing something-or-other. That is the only reason for the existence of
socialism. It is its major purpose. If there were such a surplus of wheat that
the daily ration per person was 35 hundred loaves a day per person, they would
still put you on a ration. The point being, that if you are not politically
reliable when this month’s ration card expires, how are you going to get next
month’s ration card? There is some talk of trying to do away with money and
substitute a mere bookkeeping operation through a sort of credit card, in which
a very elaborate system would have to be set up. Say you wanted to buy ten
gallons of gasoline, or eight dollars worth of groceries, or whatever it might
be, they would be able to telephone a central computer office which would tell
them whether you had enough credit in your account. Whether they do it one way
or the other, the result is going to be the same – you won’t be able to buy, nor
will you be able to sell, unless this mark of the beast or the number is
there.
Remember
all the hullabaloo they put out about the adoption of the postal zip code that
is going to make it possible now to expedite the mail, where they just dump the
letters into an electronic machine which would read the zip code and send it
right off to the proper branch post office? None of them believed that. The only
way you can get any of this electronic scanning to work is to have the thing
laid out with perfect precision, because your machine is only set to scan a
certain particular place. On your bank checks you will probably find, in
magnetic ink, there are certain figures there which are magnetically scanned by
a machine so that it posts the operation to the right account. But if by some
error in printing those numbers, happen to be a sixteenth of an inch to the
right or left, it wouldn’t work. Now, you take envelopes addressed by hand, some
in tiny little precise writing and others in great sprawling letters that spill
all over, the zip code not in magnetic ink but merely in illegible hand writing
in places that probably vary anywhere within a two inch square. No human science
today is capable of making a machine that can read that zip code. They never
thought they could. It was simply a lie to have one
swallow.
What
they want it for is to make it part of your computer record so that they can
make sure, when they refuse to issue next month’s ration card, that they’re
withholding the correct ration card. Most names are common enough that there
will be some duplication, if not of the same town, at least here and there over
the
As
part of these steps to force us into this kind of slavery, note some of the
steps our own government has already taken: Public law number #774 of the
81st-82nd congress, entitled The Defense
Production Act of 1950, public law #920 of the 81st-82nd congress, entitled
the Federal Civil Defense Act of
1950. These provide for a degree of tyranny which would make any Oriental
monarchy look like the extreme of liberty; a degree of tyranny, heretofore,
totally unknown in human history. The Civil Defense, as they call it, Master Plan Manual of October 1958,
though a good deal of this was issued under our President Eisenhower. This
manual has 42 annexes and supplements (at least it had that many when I wrote
this down) and it contains the plans of a total takeover of all labor and
property. A Civil Defense office booklet of December, 1958 frankly states, “The
extent to which control of the economy will have to be exercised will go far
beyond any previous emergency”, and it states some of them. There will be a
total control of money matters, particularly actions to re-establish a
dependable medium of exchange under a credit structure.
If
this were a defense production thing – if the defense were any part of this, why
would you have to abandon our money system and set up a new one just because the
Russians bombed a few of our cities? It couldn’t serve any purpose. It couldn’t
help defense in any way. In fact, it would make defense nearly impossible by
making such a state of confusion that nothing would follow. This is never
intended, in spite of the lying title, for use as a defense measure in time of
war. It was intended for use as a measure of tyranny in time of peace. It says
there will be complete control of production – complete control over
distribution of goods and services – and complete control over consumption of
goods and services. In other words, the government will decide just how many
suits of clothes you can get in a year, just how much food your family can get
per month, and such like. All this tyranny comes into effect, not upon a
military attack, not upon an outbreak or attempted revolution, but it says it
should come into effect whenever the President shall proclaim an emergency,
which is whenever Kissinger commands him to. Kissinger is not tricky Dicky’s
advisor – he’s his master. In President Kennedy’s first two years he issued over
60 executive orders specifying powers and regulations of the bureaucracy.
President Johnson added a great deal more. I don’t have the number of them, and
presumably tricky Dicky has added some more since then.
One
of the interesting things that came to light was when a congressman produced and
read into the Congressional Record an official F.B.I. memorandum which spoke of
“the necessity of brainwashing the citizenry.” The F.B.I’s activities against
the Mafia are merely to suppress competition, that’s all. The F.B.I. today is a
minor branch of the K.B.G. of
You
can see what the mark of the beast is developing into and exactly how it will
come about, that no man can buy what he needs to eat nor sell whatever his own
products may be, unless he has the mark of the beast, the name of the beast, or
his number. This was a long way in the future when John wrote this, A.D. 94, but
we don’t have long to wait for this.
[Note:
It is your humble transcriber’s opinion that the interdict by the Pope did indeed
historically fulfill Revelation 13:16 concerning the mark. It should be noted that the total
numerical value of “Vicar of Christ” adds up to 666 in Latin. It must be
remembered that this is a number relating to a man. At the time John wrote his
Revelation, the 10th century Arabic numbers which we use today had not yet been
invented. Before the Arabic numeral system, various numerical values were
assigned to several letters of the alphabets of different languages. And indeed,
VICARIUS FILII DEI (Vicar of Christ) in Roman numerals adds up to 666. There are
several instances in which various names of persons can add up to 666, but the
man at Revelation 13:11-18 is a two-horned beast. Two-horned because he ruled
over governments, both ecclesiastical and civil. And when the history of
Revelation 13:11-18 is properly identified, none other but the office of the
Pope can qualify. It might parallel in some manner the United Nations interdict called “sanctions”, in which
trade between nations is restricted. But surely the United Nations is not the
two-horned beast at Revelation 13:11-18! Therefore, the taking of the “mark of
the beast” is past history and we should not be concerned with that during our
present time period. We should not yield to the scare tactics being promoted
today by uninformed and unqualified propagandists. C.A.E. – End of Comparet’s Lesson
#10.]
CRITICAL
NOTES ON LESSON #10
Comments
by William Finck initialed W.R.F.
Comments
by Clifton A. Emahiser in brackets in lesson text as “your
transcriber”
or
initialed C.A.E. in critical notes.
Note
#1:
It should already be evident from the notes in Lesson #9, that there is no room
in the 1260-year time frame for this first beast, given at Revelation 13:5, to
reckon the
Note
#2:
Comparet has misquoted Revelation 17:15 here, which clearly says “people,
multitudes and nations”, rather than “peoples, races, and nations”
in the A.V. and in Greek. I suspect that he wished that his reading were so to
better support his view that the “sea” were simply “non-Israel masses.” It is
not meet to read into Scripture what we think it should mean, only
because it better fits our interpretation. That is what Catholics and
Evangelicals (etc.) do, and we want not to be as they! W.R.F.
Note
#3:
The first clause of Revelation 17:10 may say in Greek either “And there are
seven kings”, a very natural reading, or “And they are seven kings”, although
Greek words such as autos (846) or houtos (3778) are used to refer to
something already mentioned (such as the seven mountains), which is not the case
here. So the A.V. did not mistranslate this clause, for it is correct regardless
of Scofield’s marginal notes. The word “kings” here can not properly be written
“kingdoms”, however, that these seven kings are symbolic of seven kingdoms (i.e.
Daniel 7:17) should be manifest. W.R.F.
Note
#4A:
I am perplexed that Comparet should write that “the Book of Daniel ... didn’t go
beyond
Note
#4B:
While adding
Note
#5:
Note
#6:
Figures I’ve seen estimate that approximately 1 million men died in all of
Napoleon’s wars, 40% of them French, and so the number of deaths estimated in
this one Russian campaign – although it was devastating – seem to be
exaggerated. W.R.F.
Note
#7:
While Comparet seems right to reckon the one king “not yet come” of Revelation
17:10 to Napoleon, he is oblivious that it was Napoleon who was destined to take
away the dominion of the papacy, the second beast of Revelation 13, for which
see Daniel 7:26. Yet Napoleon was not to keep his empire long, for which see
both Rev. 17:10 and Daniel 7:27. It is the Anglo-Saxon peoples of both
Note
#8:
Through the Medieval period, at the height of the Catholic “church’s” power, the
“church” was indeed the instrument used to manifest all the power and authority
of the beast. With the decline of the “church” authority, the Central Banking
System, which hides behind the scenes in the mechanizations of “western
Democracy”, asserts much of the beast’s power and authority. Yet the Catholic
“church” is but a part of the same system of deception. W.R.F.
Note
#9:
The popes certainly were the “lamb”, in pretense anyway, which “spake as a
dragon”, which exercised “all the power of the first beast” (just examine the
Crusades), ruled over all the kings of Europe, and controlled the hearts and
minds of most of the people of
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#10:
The pharaohs of Joseph’s
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#11:
Now, if the United Nations were the second beast, we’d have 1260 more years
(from 1948) of this mess that we are in now, and I don’t think we could bear
that! (see Daniel 7:25). If the United Nations were the second beast, how could
Comparet explain Anglo-American hegemony since the defeat of Napoleon at
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#12:
Much of what people feared from the United Nations we are instead getting from
our own government, in the forms of NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, the World Bank, the
IMF, the import/export bank etc., where the U.N. itself only seems to be a
distraction! We should make no covenants at all with heathens, and this trend
has far transcended the U.N. Most of these pacts have rather been for the
benefit of the international business community, Wall Street and multinational
corporations, all beyond the notice of anyone who would only watch the U.N. W.R.F.
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#13:
I must state that somehow this concern for the people of
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#14:
I must venture, the statement here, that if Revelation 17:10 intends Napoleon as
“the other” who “is not yet come”, then the eighth of Revelation 17:11 – which
is a beast but not necessarily a king – may well be with us today, our current
world system ruled not by a king but by the bankers and all sorts of treaties
and agreements between nations. Yet only Revelation 13:16-17 talks about the
ability to buy and sell only with this “mark” of the beast, and then 15:2 tells
of “those who had gotten victory over the beast”, and so with the second beast
of Revelation 13 properly identified as the papacy – with the help of Daniel 7 –
we see that this is in the past – for as Comparet himself explains, even German
kings would starve amidst their own wealth lest they obeyed the Catholic pope.
Comparet downplays this only because he did not understand what these notes
hopefully have already illustrated. With this I would also venture to say that
the fulfillment of Revelation 17:12-18 is not yet evident. Of course Revelation
18 is not yet fulfilled. W.R.F.
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#15:
Books concerned with the evils of massive databases, transaction tracking,
cashless society etc. are a cottage industry. Many Christians are concerned with
these things but seem to miss the obvious evils. Perhaps the Christian shouldn’t
even be using a credit card or a checking account! And these are but a sampling
of many ways that even the “best” Christians contribute daily to the Babylonian
system. We are given one most important warning in these times: “Get out of