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Decline and Fall of the Roman Church, he records similar history but with greater detail. He calls
Marozia “The Nymph who made popes.”

This same history of moral and political corruption is more briefly but accurately recorded
by Butler, another Catholic author, who wrote an account of the Vatican Council 1869-1870. This
book has an Imprimatur and a Nihil Obstat -- which means that Roman Catholic authorities had de-
clared the book has no doctrinal errors. He writes –

In 1044 the condition of the Papacy had become so scandalous that the emperor Henry III
intervened...[to lift the Papacy] out of its state of prostration and degradation in which it
had lain for well nigh two hundred years” (The Vatican Council 1869-1870, p. 12).

Butler, a confirmed Papist, also gives the history of the Donation of Constantine -- a fraud-
ulent set of decrees which were knowingly used by the Vatican to justify holding temporal power.
Says Butler,

it was believed that the first Christian emperor had, in the plenitude of his power, handed
over to the Pope...the power to rule over Italy, the Islands, and in a vague way all the West.
It was on the strength of the Donation that the Popes gave authority for the Norman invasions of
England and of Ireland, and many similar assignments of territory” (ibid., p. 17).

There are still the same stains of blood, money manipulation, alleged assassinations, and
political intrigue which causes the sufferings of countless victims -- all done in the name of the
Messiah. Yes, it is historically right to call the Roman Catholic Church a whore. Yes, it is histori-
cally correct to see the Roman Catholic Church as a political power that looks like Yeshua but
which talks like Satan. At least one Papal insider sees the same thing.

The Number 666

The number 666 obviously refers to the name “Roman.” The Bible says so. It is the NAME
OF THE BEAST. Notice Revelation 13:17 –

And that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast,or
the number of his name.

The number 666 refers to the name Roman. The reason for this arises from the incredible
prophecies of Daniel where he clearly predicts four world empires and proceeds to name three of
them. In Daniel 2, Nebuchadnezzar’s empire begins the new world order of one nation ruling all the
other civilized nations around the Mediterranean. The next three are describes but not named here.
The first is named the Babylonian Empire, and it is the head of gold –

You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power,
strength, and glory; and wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and
the birds of the heaven, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over
them all -- you are this head of gold. But after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to
yours; then another, a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth. And

The Berean Voice July-August 2002