Why Faith Doesn’t Work for Everyone

  The real reason faith fails for many believers. In this message, discover how faith works by law, not luck, and what you must know to make it work for you.

Have you ever wondered why faith seems to work powerfully for some people while for others it feels like shouting into a void?

You pray, you believe, you confess, and yet nothing changes. You fasted, you've declared God's promises, but the breakthrough never comes. It can make you question whether the problem is with you or worse, whether this whole faith thing even works at all. But what if I told you the issue is not that your faith is broken.

The Problem with Faith

It is that most Christians are trying to use faith like a magic formula instead of living in it as a divine law. Here, I am going to show you why faith does not work for everyone and how to make sure it actually works for you. We're not talking about hype, emotion, or wishful thinking. This is about understanding what faith truly is, how it operates, and why I taught that faith is not a mystery. It is predictable, dependable, and built into the spiritual laws of the universe. And the cool part is once you get this, you'll stop struggling, striving, and guessing. You'll start operating in the kind of faith that moves mountains quietly, confidently, consistently.

The Problem with Your Faith

Now, let us be real. If you've walked with God for any amount of time, you've probably felt this quiet frustration. You believe God's Word is true. You read it, speak it, and try to apply it. But when things do not change, you wonder if you're missing something. And here is the part that stings. We've been told that if our prayers are not answered, it is because we did not have enough faith.

That statement has crushed people. It has made them feel ashamed, inadequate, or worse, abandoned by God.

But let me tell you something. The problem is not with your faith. It is with the foundation you're standing on.

The modern church has reduced faith to emotion, to desperation, to pleading.

But true Bible faith is not emotional. It is legal. It is spiritual law. It works the same way every time when you apply it properly.

Faith is governed by laws

"Faith is governed by laws. It is not a mystery. It is not something that cannot be understood. It is not a spiritual shot in the dark.

That changes everything.

Think about it. You do not feel gravity for it to work. You do not need goosebumps to know a seed will grow if you plant it in the right soil. These are laws, unchanging, dependable, set by God.

And faith works exactly the same way. But if you do not know the law or you violate the law, you won't see the result, even if your heart is sincere.

That is why so many believers are frustrated. They're sincere, but sincerely misaligned with how faith actually functions.

Let us look at Hebrews 11:1. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Did you catch that?

Faith is not hope. It is not a vague wishful desire. It is substance.

Faith is substance

It is evidence. That means faith is tangible in the spirit realm. It gives shape to what does not yet exist in the physical. But here is where it gets deep.

You can't operate in real faith if you're unsure of your position in Christ. That is why so many Christians shortcircuit their own faith because they do not understand righteousness.

They think God's blessing is based on behaviour instead of position. But you cannot have bold, mountain moving faith if you still see yourself as a beggar, a sinner, or someone trying to earn favor.

You must see yourself as a son or daughter of God, already accepted, already seated with Christ, already qualified.

The normal condition of the believer

"Faith is the normal condition of the believer who knows what he is in Christ." That's huge. If your faith is not working, it may be because your identity is still rooted in religion, not relationship.

You can't confess the Word with power if you still see yourself as unworthy.

That is why Satan works overtime to accuse you, shame you, and keep you focused on your failures. He knows that a believer who understands their righteousness is unstoppable.

Faith comes by hearing

That is why the message of righteousness is not optional. It is foundational to faith. Romans 10:17 says, "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God."

But the Greek word used there is rhema, the spoken, revealed word.

This is not just about reading scripture.

It is about hearing what God is saying to you personally. It is revelation truth. And that is where many believers miss it.

They try to operate in borrowed faith. They repeat things they've heard others say, but it has not become alive in them yet.

Faith only works when the Word has been revealed to your spirit. Until then, it is just information, not transformation. It is just information not transformation

I taught that sense knowledge cannot give faith.

Faith is a product of the recreated human spirit. In other words, you can't reason your way into faith. You can't analyze your way into breakthrough.

Faith does not come from your head. It comes from your spirit.

That is why feeding on the Word is not just a habit. It is a necessity. When the Word gets planted deep enough, it produces faith automatically. You don't have to strain or sweat. It grows like a seed. That is how the law of faith works.

So, let us get practical. If faith has not been working for you, do not despair.

Three key areas

Let's examine three key areas where the connection might be broken.

First, check your identity. Do you truly believe you are righteous in Christ apart from works? Or are you still trying to earn what Jesus Christ already gave you?

Second, check the source of your faith. Are you acting on head knowledge, or has the Word become real to your spirit? Are you confessing what you heard someone else say or what God has spoken to you?

And third, check the soil. Are you meditating on the Word daily, letting it sink deep, or just grabbing verses when you're in crisis?

Faith is not a panic button. It is a lifestyle.

Faith is a lifestyle

Faith is not something you try when all else fails. It's the way we're supposed to live. Galatians 2:20 says, 'The life I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, not faith in the son of God, faith of the son of God.

That means we're not even operating in our own strength. His faith is in us, but it only flows when we're connected to our identity in him. When you know who you are, you won't beg, plead, or panic. You'll speak, stand, and expect results just like Jesus Christ did.

And here is where everything changes.

Faith is not trying to get God to move. It is aligning with what he's already done. Faith is the hand that reaches into the spirit and brings what's already yours into manifestation.

You're not trying to convince God to bless you. He already has. Ephesians 1:3 says, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in Christ." Past tense, already done.

Faith simply lays hold of it. So let's stop treating faith like a lottery ticket and start treating it like a law. A law that works when you work it. A law that flows from identity, not effort. A law that is predictable, powerful, and completely yours in Christ.

You do not need more faith. You need clearer revelation. And that comes from time in the Word, time with the Spirit, and a heart anchored in righteousness.

"The heart faith that brings results is the result of the Word

dwelling richly in you."

You need clearer revelation

So if your faith has not been bringing results, do not get discouraged. Get planted. Get rooted. Let the Word go deep. Let the Holy Spirit show you who you are. And then speak not with fear, but with the authority of a son.

Now, if this message helped you, the next one will blow your mind. Because if faith is a law, and we now know it is, then what happens when you become a new creation? What actually changes at the spirit level?

Most Christians have no idea what truly happened the moment they got born again. So, in the next message, we're going to unpack exactly what it means to be a new creation in Christ. You'll see why your old limitations no longer apply, why your past has zero authority, and how to live from your spirit instead of your struggle. Don't miss it.

Pray with spirit and truth ...

 Teachings reveal the difference between praying like a beggar and praying like a son. 

In this message, discover how to approach God with confidence, authority, and identity in Christ.

The mindset of prayer

   Have you ever felt like your prayers just bounce off the ceiling? Like you're crying out, hoping God hears you, but deep down you're not sure he will? 

What if I told you that this feeling comes from praying the wrong way? Not because you're sinful or not spiritual enough, but because you've been trained to approach God like a beggar instead of a son, a daughter, a beloved child. In this message, we're going to break that mindset. You're going to learn how to pray not as someone hoping to be heard, but as someone who's already accepted because that's who you are in Christ. And when you truly grasp this, your prayer life will shift from desperation to confidence, from striving to resting.

Prayer should not be a begging for favors. It should be an exercise of our legal rights in Christ.

Today, you'll discover how to make that shift. You'll learn why most Christians still beg God even after receiving  sonship, what it means to pray from your position in Christ, and how to approach God the way Jesus Christ did with boldness, not fear. 

By the end of this message, you won't just understand prayer, you'll experience it differently. 

You'll take away knowing how to pray like a son, a daughter, a child of the Father, not a slave. 

Old versus new covenant prayer

Let's face it, most of us were taught that prayer is pleading. We've heard phrases like storming the gates of heaven, bombarding heaven with prayer, or crying out until God hears us. 

We say things like,"Lord, if it's your will, please just hear me this once. I'm not worthy, but maybe you'll have mercy."

And we think that this is humility. But in reality, this kind of prayer reveals something deeper. A mindset that sees  ourselves as outsiders trying to earn God's attention. It's the voice of an orphan, not a son. This is not how Jesus Christ  prayed. It is not how apostle Paul prayed, and it is not how you're meant to pray either. So, where did we get this idea?

It comes from mixing the old covenant with the new covenant. Under the old covenant, people did not have the Spirit living in them. They did not have access to the Father the way Jesus did. They approached God with fear and distance.

They needed human priests, animal sacrifices, and rituals. But under the new covenant, everything changed. Know that the instant a person is born again, he becomes a son of God. The same rights and privileges Jesus Christ had when he walked on earth now belong to the believer. 

So why do so many believers still pray like they're outside the family of God? Because religion teaches us to do before we can receive. But sonship teaches us to be.

 Praying from your identity

  And from that identity, we receive everything freely. 

Let me show you the shift. In John 17, Jesus prays what's often called his high priestly prayer.

But what's striking is how intimate it is. He does not beg the Father. He speaks of someone who knows he is heard. Listen to this. Father, I thank you that you have heard me and I know that you always hear me. John 11:41-42.

Jesus Christ did not doubt. He was not hoping God might listen. He knew because he was a son. Father's son. 

Now watch this. Galatians 4:6 says, "Because you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying out, Abba, Father." Notice it does not say trying to become sons. It says because you are sons. That means your prayer life does not start from earth trying to reach heaven. It starts from heaven already inside you crying out through your spirit. You do not pray to get close to God. You pray because you're already one with Him.

I said, "Prayer is the voice of the child to the father, the call of love to love." So here's the question. Are you still praying like a stranger or like His child who knows they belong? 

Let me ask you something. If a child is hungry, do they write a formal letter to their parents asking for permission to eat? Of course not. They walk to the kitchen and grab food because they know they're part of the family. 

Now, imagine that same child standing outside the house knocking, crying, pleading to be let in.

That would break your heart, right? That's how many Christians approach Father God. Not from inside the house, but as if they're on the outside hoping to get in.

Legal rights in Christ

But Jesus said in John 15:7, "If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire and it  shall be done for you." 

That is not a maybe. That is not a Lord, if you're in the mood today, that is a son level promise.

I constantly emphasized our legal standing in Christ. I said, "Lord Jesus Christ gave us the legal right to use his name in prayer as though he himself were praying." That is not wishful thinking.

That is delegated authority. When you pray in Jesus' name, you're not just tagging a religious phrase at the end.

You're stepping into his position, his righteousness, and his access to the Father. You're not knocking on heaven's door. You're already seated in heavenly places with Christ. And from that position, you speak.

Steps to pray with authority

So, how do you actually pray like a son, not a beggar? Here's how. 

Step one, start with identity, not need. Before you ask for anything, remind yourself who you are. You're a child of God.

You're righteous. You're loved. You're not trying to get God to move. He already has in Christ. 

 The prayer problem is largely a problem of the believer's lack of knowledge of what he is in Christ. So fix that first.

Speak it out loud if you have to. I'm not a slave. I'm a son. I'm not far. I'm near. 

Step two, pray with confidence, not hesitation.

Hebrews 4:16 says, "Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, not timidly, not anxiously, boldly."

 If God is your Father and you are his child, then boldness is not arrogance, it is trust. 

Step three, use Jesus's name properly.

When you pray in Jesus' name, you're not just closing a prayer. You're standing in his authority. You're saying, "This is not based on my goodness. It is based on his finished work."

 Step four, thank before you see the outcome. Sons know the Father's heart. That is why Jesus Christ thanked the   Father before Lazarus resurrected and came out of the grave. He was not waiting for the miracle to start thanking. He knew it was done.

So instead of begging, start thanking. 

Father, I thank you that you've already provided. I thank you that healing is mine. I thank you that peace belongs to me. I receive it in Jesus's name.

 That is sonship language. 

Praying from possession

 Step five, stop praying for what you already have. Many people are still asking God to give them what he already placed inside them. 

You do not need to pray, "God, please be with me." He already promised, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." 

You do not need to pray, "God, give me peace." You already have peace with God through Christ.

 Romans 5:1, "Pray from possession, not from lack." 

Here's the truth most Christians miss. Prayer is not about changing God's mind. It's about aligning your heart with what is already true in Christ. You do not need to gravel. You do not need to plead. You're not some outsider hoping to get a hearing. You're not a beggar waiting for crumbs to fall off the table. You are a son, a daughter seated at the table, invited into the conversation, empowered to speak the language of heaven. And if you'll begin to pray from that place, if you'll stop asking like a servant and start declaring like a son, a daughter, your prayer life will never be the same. 

Now you know how to pray like a son, a daughter, not a beggar. But there is one more key to unlock. 

Conclusion and next steps

If you've ever wondered why your faith still doesn't work despite believing, praying, and confessing, it may be because you're treating faith like a mystery instead of a law. Law of faith. In the next message, we'll expose why faith fails for most people and how Bible taught us to work it like a law that always produces results. So, don't miss it.

Everything changes when you stop treating faith like a gamble.

1Corinthians 15:51-57 look at Lord Jesus Christ, you're seeing your true identity.

 1Corinthians 15:51-57

 - 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

When you look at Lord Jesus Christ, you're seeing your true identity.

Chapter 1: The mirror of God

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Most people see their past, their flaws, their failures. They see someone who's trying to follow God, but still feels like they're falling short. But what if I told you that God has a mirror, too? And when you look into it, you don't see who you used to be. You see who you've become in Christ. 

You don't see sin. You see righteousness. 

You don't see weakness. You see power. 

You don't see distance. You see union. 

And more importantly according to scripture the moment you accepted Jesus Christ your identity changed and when you truly look at Jesus Christ not just as your saviour but as your reflection you'll stop striving to become someone and start living as who you already are.

We're going to unpack a powerful truth most believers never fully grasp. We'll talk about what it means to see yourself in God's mirror, how looking at Jesus Christ reveals your true identity, and how this simple revelation can completely transform how you think, pray, and live.

Chapter 2: Beholding to be transformed

Because until you see yourself the way heaven sees you, you'll live beneath your spiritual rights. But once you do, everything changes. 

Let's start with a verse that's easy to miss, but impossible to ignore once it sinks in. 2 Corinthians 3:18 says this, "But we all with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory." Did you catch that?

Apostle Paul says, "When you behold Jesus, you're actually looking into a mirror." Not a religious telescope, not a stained glass portrait, a mirror. That means what you're seeing in him, you're also seeing in you. 

Not because of your performance, it is because of your position.

You are in Christ and he is in you. You reflect him. And the more you look at him, the more you become like him. 

Now, this is not self-help. This is not ego.

This is not about looking within and finding some vague inner power. 

This is about identity in Christ, rooted in the finished work of the cross. When you accepted Lord Jesus Christ, your old self died. Your spirit was recreated. You were joined to the Lord and became one spirit with him.

That is 1 Corinthians 6:17. 

So when Father God sees you, He sees Jesus Christ. And when you look into the Word, you're supposed to see the same thing. 

The Bible is not just a book of commandments. It's a mirror. And every time you read it, God is revealing truth to show you what you now look like in the spirit. 

But here's the problem. Most Christians read the Bible through the lens of who they used to be, not who they are.

Chapter 3: Correcting spiritual vision

They read it and say, "That's beautiful, but it does not feel like me." And that disconnect creates confusion. They know what the Bible says, but they do not see it in their lives. So, they assume it's just poetic or symbolic or something reserved for the super spiritual. 

But I taught that the New Testament is a revelation of the believer's rights. And when you read it correctly, you're not just reading about historical Jesus Christ. You're reading about you in Jesus Christ. 

Let us take an example. When the Bible says, "As he is, so are we in this world." 1 John 4:17.

That is not exaggeration. That is not metaphor. That is reality. In your spirit right now, you are righteous, holy, loved, accepted, powerful, and filled with the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead. But if you do not look in the mirror long enough, you'll forget.

James 1:23-24 says that the person who hears the word but doesn't do it is like someone who looks at himself in a mirror then walks away and forgets what he looks like. 

That means your spiritual memory is tied to your spiritual reflection. If you do not keep looking, you'll go back to acting like the old you, the one that died. 

Note here, "The word is the mirror of the recreated spirit. When we look into it and see what we are in Christ, then we act accordingly. That is the secret.

Transformation does not come from trying harder. It comes from looking longer.

You become what you behold. And when your eyes are fixed on  Lord Jesus Christ, not just as your saviour, but as your reflection, you start thinking like him, speaking like him, loving like him, walking in power like him. You start thinking with him, speaking with him, loving with him, walking in power with him. Not because you're copying him, but because you're connected to him. 

So, how do you live this out? 

How do you actually see yourself in  Jesus Christ every day? I

Chapter 4: The Word as your reflection

It starts by looking in the right mirror. Most people look in the mirror of the world.

They see their job, their past, their struggles, their failures, or they look in the mirror of their feelings. How they feel that day becomes their identity. But the only mirror that tells the truth about who you really are is the Word. 

The Word shows you what your spirit looks like now that Jesus Christ lives in you. And that is why reading the Bible is not about checking a box ✅.

 It is about seeing your reflection. 

When you read, "You are more than a conqueror." Do not just quote it. 

See it, picture it, believe it. That is you. 

When you read, "You are the righteousness of God in Christ," don't shrug it off. That is the mirror talking. 

When you read, "The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you," let that hit you. That is not hype. That is your new normal. That is God's mirror reflecting back your new nature. 

Chapter 5: Living as a new creation

Now, let's talk about Jesus Christ.

Because when we look at him, we're not just looking at God. We're looking at God's will for man. Jesus Christ is the prototype of the new creation. He is the blueprint. He shows us what life looks like when a man is filled with the Spirit and completely surrendered to the Father. 

That is why the gospels are not just stories to admire. They're models to imitate. When Jesus Christ healed the sick, it was not just to prove he was divine.

It was to show what spirit-filled humans could do. When he walked in peace, when he forgave quickly, when he prayed boldly. That is the mirror. That is what you now have access to because he lives in you. The more you look at Lord Jesus Christ, not just as your example, but as your reflection, your life rises to match that image. 

You stop saying, "I'm just a sinner," and start saying, "I'm a son of God." "I'm a daughter of God." 

You stop saying, "I'm weak," and start saying, "His strength is made perfect in me." 

You stop begging God to come near and you start enjoying the fact that he already lives inside you. 

This is what it means to walk in Christ. Not trying to become but being who you already are through him. 

And I want to warn you, religion hates this. Religion is comfortable with effort, with performance, with guilt. But grace introduces a mirror that says you are who Jesus Christ says you are, whether you feel like it or not. 

And that kind of truth threatens systems built on shame. But once you've looked into God's mirror, you can't go back to spiritual amnesia.

You've seen yourself in Christ and nothing else will satisfy. 

So here is what I want you to do today. Start your morning by looking in the right mirror.

Chapter 6: Practical application

Open the Word not to study, but to see.

Find verses that describe your identity in Christ and read them slowly. Speak them out loud. Let your mind catch up with your spirit. And every time you are tempted to look at your old reflection, remind yourself that person is dead.

I've been raised with Christ. And when I look at him, I'm looking at me because I'm in him and he's in me. If this truth opened your eyes to who you really are in Christ, then you're ready for the next revelation. 

In the next message, we're going to talk about prayer, but  not in the way you've probably heard it before. It's called How to Pray Like a Son, Not a Beggar. Because if you still think prayer is about begging God to show up, you're going to keep praying like a slave. 

But once you understand sonship, your entire prayer life will be marked by boldness, love, and power.

Do not miss it. Until then, keep looking in the mirror and above all, stay in Him.

16 secondsyou don't see who you used to be. You see who you've become in Christ. You don't see sin. You see righteousness.

16 seconds you don't see who you used to be. You see who you've become in Christ. You don't see sin. You see righteousness.

Pope Leo 14 is a sign of the End Times

Catholicism Pope Leo 14 is a sign of the End Times

Pope Leo 14 is a sign of the End Times

Pope Leo 14 is a gentle man but sadly, he serves a deceptive religious system as a puppet of Catholic church destiny

• Brief Summary
• Consider 7 Popes named LEO
• Consider Moses in the First Exodus
• God has a mystery plan with Israel
• Merchandise is to buy and sell goods for self-gain
• Pope Leo 14 is not the last Pope
• The final man of sin comes after a great money raiser
• Revelation 13 unites Roman Catholic Church and America
• The Vatican is the Little Horn

Brief Summary

  1. 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 news noise 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.

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Consider 7 Popes named LEO

2. 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 Word of God.

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 Christ is the Head of the church, no man. Jesus Christ 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. But it is only a single key.

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 ex-Catholic monk, 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 Christ can save you. 

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

The last and seventh vision was wherein I heard a most terrible explosion. As I turned to look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all over the land of America.

Based on these seven visions, along with the rapid changes which have swept the world in the last fifty years, I PREDICT (I do not prophesy) that these visions will have all come to pass by 1977.

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 sins.

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. The apparent face was seen in a faulty photostat or duotone facsimile.

The original cloud photograph just north of Flagstaff city in Arizona.

The faulty duotone facsimile or photostat with the land cut off.

Only six of the Seals have been revealed. The Seventh Seal, representing 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 caught up to meet the Lord in the air.

The Harvest is when the seed is pulled off the dead plant. This represents 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 is a frightening slaughter of about one-and-a-half-million people being killed every day.

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 will 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 the 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 rents or rips 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 be part of the Bride and thus be caught up to meet the Lord in the air 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 caught up to meet the Lord in the air 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 wanted 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 sold 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. The 7 vials of judgement will disrupt our food supplies and governments will struggle to feed the people.

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

Pope Leo 14 will help to set the stage for the final take-over of the world’s economy by the final future Pope.

REVELATION 17:10 "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."

[Pope Leo 11 may be a hint or preview. He only ruled for 27 days.

Each Leo tells us something about the last Pope.] These first 7 men set the pattern for the end of the succession of the Popes.

The final Pope follows this pattern and has a short reign. Only 3½ years.

REVELATION 17:11 "And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition."

The "beast" is the succession of Popes. They are of the nature of the first 7 Dictators who destroyed the Roman Republic and set up the Roman Empire.

7 completes a system (like there are 7 days in a week.) 8 represents a new system.

This is the succession of Popes to rule the Catholic church and finally the whole world.

The first six men were all family of Julius Caesar by adoption except for number 5, Claudius, who was uncle of Caligula (number 4).

Julius Caesar changed the Roman Republic into a military dictatorship.

But this rulership as Emperor because of family ties did not work for long.

It just lasted for six members.

The sixth member was Nero who had no children, but killed Christians.

Then the 7^th man, general Galba, had nothing to do with the family of Julius Caesar.

Galba usurped the position and held it by military might for 7 months.

Notice, the 7 is repeated, giving it emphasis.

7 represents completion.

A complete system.

The system of how that spirit of antichrist sets up the rulership by a SUCCESSION of Dictators that would be called Popes.

That Catholic system would install Dictators for almost 2000 years.

FIRST, the Dictators were installed by family succession as Roman Emperors from Julius Caesar.

The 7th man, Galba, ended this system.

LAST, a succession of Dictatorial Popes of the Roman Catholic church from the FIRST to the LAST (or 7th) church age.

The beast, the succession of Popes, even he is the eighth (a NEW SYSTEM of spiritual church Dictators), and is of the seven (the Catholic church is of the same cruel, money-grabbing, child molesting, Christian-killing nature of the first family of Roman Empire Dictators).

In addition, the Succession of Popes are of this seven, of the nature of the first seven Roman Dictators because the Popes also rule as elected Dictators.

In addition, just as the 7th man, general Galba, usurped power so the last Pope will usurp the position as Pope.

The last Pope will not be elected, but will come in from a small outside group.

In like manner, Galba came in from the outside and was not from Caesar's family.

Jesus is the First and the Last.

REVELATION 1:17 "And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:"

Satan is a copy-cat and tries to do the same.

The FIRST way the rulership of the pagan Roman Empire was ended will also be the LAST way the rulership of the pagan Roman Catholic church will be ended.

By a usurping outsider who has access to military might.

There is an interesting possibility: Jesus is the First and the Last.

Catholics falsely claim that the first Pope was Peter. Thus, it is very likely that the last Pope will call himself Peter 2.

Pope Peter the Second.

The last Pope having the same name as the first Pope.

Romulus was the first king of Rome. Augustus was the first Emperor of Rome.

The last Emperor was called Romulus Augustulus.

The final man of sin comes after a great money raiser

How will we know this final man of sin?

By the actions of his predecessor.

DANIEL 11:20 "Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle."

The kingdom is the church world.

A Pope has to rise up to become a very serious money-collector.

Then he has to die after a short reign.

The present Pope may or may not be that predecessor of the final man of sin.

Time will tell.

But Leo 14 was chosen as an American Pope because the Vatican is hoping that will enable the Catholic church to raise much money from America.

Thus, Leo 14 MAY be this "raiser of taxes" or he may be preparing the scene for the next Pope who will be the raiser of taxes.

The important question is, what gives him the authority to raise all this money?

One possibility is the sinking of Los Angeles into the sea.

Losing Los Angeles and Silicon Valley in a massive earthquake from the San Andreas earthquake fault line and the resulting tidal wave could destroy the American economy because America is so deep in debt.

California is America’s richest State. Losing California would cripple America’s finances.

The Catholic church will then raise the money to pay off America's debt.

Then the Catholic church rules America, according to brother Branham's sixth vision.

The church will then lead America to ruin.

Only when America is ruined can ten military Dictators rise up to give their military power to the last Pope.

Only then will the final or last man of sin rise up.

He bluffs his way in. He will not be given the Papacy by the 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: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries."

"A vile person."

[That does not describe Pope Leo 14. He worked for 20 years amongst the poor in Peru.

His doctrines are wrong but he is a pleasant and considerate person.]

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 comes from a small group of people.

That has not happened.

Pope Leo 14 has the backing of the whole Catholic church because the Cardinals voted him in.

REVELATION 17:12 "And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast."

There are 10 Dictators at the end time who give their military power to the beast to enable him to rule the world.

This cannot be done while America is the world's strongest military, by far.

REVELATION 17:13 "These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast."

The fact that ten Dictators can dominate the world means that America has been destroyed by natural disasters, like earthquakes.

The end time events will be announced by massive earthquakes in vital places that destroy the world economy.

MATTHEW 24:7 "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places."

In 2020 we had the COVID-19 pestilence.

Next in line are massive earthquakes.

A massive earthquake in the future will give the Pope of that future time the excuse to massively collect money to buy up America.

Only after that will the Pope be able to enslave America.

63-0317 — THE BREACH BETWEEN THE SEVEN CHURCH AGES AND THE SEVEN SEALS

"Our national spirit is frolic, jokes. You know why? We were founded upon the Doctrine of the apostles. We were founding upon leadership of great men, like Washington, Lincoln. But we have moved off of that foundation, and we know that we’ve got it coming. We know that a atomic bomb has got our name wrote on it. We know that slavery lays ahead of us. No need of fooling yourself."

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.

It is only God Who can destroy body and soul in hell, but it is the unscriptural doctrines of the Catholic church which deceive us and will thus cause us to be condemned to hell on Judgement Day.

Therefore, we must fear the deception of the Roman Catholic church, which aims to rob us of eternal life.

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.

 THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOU,