Number Of His Name

Revelation 13:17 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.

Revelation 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.


These protestant bible scholars believed that the pope is an antichrist or that the antichrist would be the last pope:
Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley, Cotton Mather, John Knox, Wycliffe, Tyndale, Finney, Moody, Spurgeon, Sir Isaac Newton, and Fox.

During the Reformation, Martin Luther noted that "Benediktos" added up to 666 in Greek gematria, and he thought it might refer to a Pope named Benedict or to Benedictine monks.

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Benedict xvi is the pope now.
However I believe from what the bible says that the Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 prophecy must happen before antichrist comes to power over the 10 nations of the EU, the revived Roman empire. The Ezekiel prophecy is about nations, Russia, Iran/Iraq, Ethiopia, Germany or France uniting in a coalition to attack Israel. That is not about to happen yet, although the middled east is moving in that direction. Recently Israel threatened by a military exercise to attack Iran's nuclear facilities and Russia warned them to back off. If Israel does attack Iran, this could make Russia angry enough to form the coalition to attack Israel in just a few years, while Benedict is still pope. This guy pope Benedict was a Hitler youth and grew up in a country where the catholic Govt. of Germany was murdering people of other religions in the holocaust. [I read that the third reich was the most catholic controlled Govt. Germany ever had.] Before he became pope, he was the head of the modern "office of the inquisition" which now has another name, something like the society for the propagation of the faith or something like that. Seeing his background it seems to me that he could have the mentality of the antichrist.
The antichrist is supposed to obtain the kingdom by flattery, Dan. 11. Is pope Benedict using flattery on the leaders of the European Union? If the Ezekiel prophecy happens soon enough, he could be the antichrist.!! We will need to wait and see. I know he is an old man, but aging can be greatly slowed down by vitamins, calcium and alot of sleep. He could last a long time.

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The real antichrist cannot be assassinated. According to the book of Revelation the beast and the false prophet are going to be cast alive into the lake of fire.

Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

 

The catholic vote is what swept Hitler into power when the pope said he was backing Hitler. See google for online book, The vatican in World politics by Avro Manhattan and read the chapters about Hitler, Germany and the vatican; it's all documented. Hitler was a born catholic.
The holocaust was against the members of the Jewish religion, not the Jewish race. General Milch of the SS was Jewish, but not the Jewish religion. Goebbles and Eichman were Jewish descent but not Jewish religion. Thousands of Jews were in the German army; Jewish descent not Jewish religion. It was the religion of the Jews that was persecuted in the holocaust. Race was the cover story that was to be put out if Hitler lost the war.
Get on Google and read The vatican's holocaust online: The persecutions in Catholic croatia were purely because of religion; race had nothing to do with it.
Heindrich Hemler's uncle, the Jesuit father Himler was a high ranking member of the SS. He was found dead in the cell at Nuremburg before he could go to trial.
Monseignor Tiso, of Slovakia was hanged as a war criminal because he supplied the first contingent of Jews from his country to Auscwitz.
Check the sources you have been reading, since the vatican has been trying to cover their involvement with Hitler ever since he started losing to the Russians, around 1941 or 1942.
Buy book, The secret History of the Jesuits; there is a website with excerpts from it online.
Vatican hid 1000 catholic Jews, in the vatican for the duration of the war, so that they could say they also helped the Jews. ---They were roman catholic Jews.
Then there is the high ranking arch bishop that provided money for the SS members to escape to catholic countries of South America after the war to escape prosecution. the ratline

 

Adolph Hitler said, "I reject that book by Rosenberg. It was written
by a protestant. It is not a party book... as a catholic I never feel
comfortable in the evangelical church or its structures... as for the
Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the catholic
church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it has regarded the
Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos, etc., because it knew
what the Jews were like. I don't put race above religion, but I do see
the danger in the representatives of this race for church and state,
and perhaps I am doing christianity a great service." ( "The Nazi
Persecution of the Churches," by J. S. Conway, pp. 25, 26, 162)
Adolph Hitler was catholic until the day of his death.
Former Pope orders persecution of Jews:
"We decree and order that from now on, AND FOR ALL TIME, Christians
shall not
eat or drink with Jews; nor admit them to feasts, nor cohabit with
them, nor
bathe with them. Christians shall not allow Jews to hold civil honors
over Christians, or to exercise public office in the State. Jews
cannot be merchants, Tax Collectors, or agents in the buying and
selling of the produce and goods of Christians, nor their Procurators,
Computers or Lawyers in matrimonial matters, nor Obstetricians; nor
can they have association or partnership with Christians. No Christian
can leave or bequeath anything in his last Will and testament to Jews
or their congregations. Jews are prohibited from erecting new
synogogues. They are obliged to pay annually a tenth part of their
goods and holdings. Against them Christians can testify, but the
testimony of Jews against Christians in no case is of any value. All
and every single Jew, of whatever sex and age, must everywhere wear
the distinct dress and known marks by which they can be evidently
distinguished from Christians. They cannot live among Christians, but
in a certain street, separated and segregated from Christians, and
outside which they cannot under
any pretext have houses"
[Pope Eugenius IV, A.D. 1442, Bull. Rom. Pont., V.67]
The Jewish holocaust was a Roman catholic inquisition that was done
under cover of the Nazi party.

Hitler was carrying on with catholic policy of persecuting Jews. Mein Kampf was written by a Jesuit priest named Staemfle that was killed in the night of the long knives. Hitler just endorsed the book. Look up Staempfle on google or read the book THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE JESUITS, by catholic French historian Edmond Paris. Paris said that.

You say Hitler was an atheist. Charles Chiniquy in his book, 50 years in the church of Rome said that over 50 popes were atheists and infidels.
The catholic church is full of atheists. That is what happens when babies are baptized. People belong to the organization that never did believe in God.
I was catholic; grade school, high school college. Many of my catholic friends were atheists. I am not catholic anymore.

 

You want some facts?

Martin Luther
(1483-1546) (Lutheran)
"We here are of the conviction that the papacy is the seat of the true and real Antichrist...personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist." (Aug. 18, 1520)

John Calvin
(1509-1564) (Presbyterian)
"Some persons think us too severe and censorious when we call the Roman pontiff Antichrist. But those who are of this opinion do not consider that they bring the same charge of presumption against Paul himself, after whom we speak and whose language we adopt...I shall briefly show that (Paul's words in II Thess. 2) are not capable of any other interpretation than that which applies them to the Papacy." Taken from "Institutes" by John Calvin.

Cotton Mather
(1663-1728) (Congregational Theologian)
"The oracles of God foretold the rising of an Antichrist in the Christian Church; and in the Pope of Rome, all the characteristics of that Antichrist are so marvelously answered that if any who read the Scriptures do not see it, there is a marvelous blindness upon them." Taken from "The Fall of Babylon" by Cotton Mather
John Knox
(1505-1572) (Scotch Presbyterian)
Knox wrote to abolish "that tyranny which the pope himself has for so many ages exercised over the church" and that the pope should be recognized as "the very antichrist, and son of perdition, of whom Paul speaks." Taken from "The Zurich Letters" pg. 199 by John Knox.

Thomas Cranmer
(1489-1556) (Anglican)
"Whereof it followeth Rome to be the seat of antichrist, and the pope to be very antichrist himself. I could prove the same by many other scriptures, old writers, and strong reasons." (Referring to prophecies in Revelation and Daniel.) Taken from "Works" by Cranmer, Vol. 1, pp. 6-7.

John Wesley
(1703-1791) (Methodist)
Speaking of the Papacy he said, "He is in an emphatical sense, the Man of Sin, as he increases all manner of sin above measure. And he is, too, properly styled the Son of Perdition, as he has caused the death of numberless multitudes, both of his opposers and followers...He it is...that exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped...claiming the highest power, and highest honor...claiming the prerogatives which belong to God alone." Taken from "Antichrist and His Ten Kingdoms" by John Wesley, pg. 110.

Roger William
(1603-1683) (First Baptist Pastor in America)
He spoke of the Pope as "the pretended Vicar of Christ on earth, who sits as God over the Temple of God, exalting himself not only above all that is called God, but over the souls and consciences of all his vessals, yea over the Spirit of Christ, over the Holy Spirit, yea, and God himself...speaking against the God of heaven, thinking to changed times and laws: but he is the son of perdition (II Thess. 2)."
You can add to those names these men that thought the pope is an antichrist:
Wycliff, Tyndale, Sir Isaac Newton, Fox, Finney, Moody, Spurgeon.

"It is the bounden duty of every Christian to pray against Antichrist. And as to what Antichrist is, no sane man ought to raise a question. If it be not Popery in the Church of Rome, there is nothing in the world that can be called by that name. . . . Popery is contrary to Christ’s gospel and is the Antichrist and we ought to pray against it." ~Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1873 England’s Prince of Preachers Quoted by Ireland’s Ian Paisley Protest of the Pope in Parliament

Pope's title vicar of Christ means antichrist by definition.
JESUS CHRIST HAS NO VlCAR. Vicar, from the Latin "vicarius" means "in the place of" e.g. vicarius sacrifice of Christ being His sacrifice in the place of the sinner. Papal claims such as infallibility, Head of the Church, Holy Father, all seek to put the Pope in the place of Christ, which place only the Living Christ can have. This false assumption of Rome is expressly put forward in the Papal title "Vicar of Jesus Christ".
The New Testament was written in Greek, and the Greek translation of " vicar of Christ" is "Anti (instead of)-christos", or in our English Bible, "Antichrist". The word "Antichrist" is not just a word of wild insult, but is a Bible warning of the false role assumed by the Popes of Rome as supposed vicars of Christ, (See 1 John 2:18 D.V.).
The Greek word for "Vice President" is "Anti-Proedros"; Because Anti, which means opposite, also means "replacement" or "instead", as in Vicar or Viceroy or Vicarious.

Anyone pretending to be a substitute for Jesus Christ on the Earth is by definition an antichrist. There is only one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. He does not have a substitute, though some pretend to be.

1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
The office of Pope does not come from the bible. Roman Pontiff comes from the old pagan Roman religion. All of the Roman emporers following Julius Caesar were chief Roman Pontiff.

The office of pope itself pretends to be a substitute for Jesus and therefore any pope is an antichrist.

The Bull Unam Sanctam... Issued by POPE BONIFACE VIII reads as follows: "The Roman Pontiff judges all men, but is judged by no one. We declare, assert, define and pronounce: to be subject to the Roman Pontiff is to every human creature necessary for salvation that which was spoken of Christ 'thou has subdued all things under his feet' may well seem verified in me... I have the authority of the King of Kings. I am all in all and above all, so that God himself and I, the vicar of God, have but one consistory, and I am able to do all that God can do." "Christ entrusted His office to the chief pontiff;... but all power in heaven and in earth has been given to Christ;... therefore the chief pontiff, who is His vicar, will have this power." Corpus Juris chap. 1 column 29, translated from a gloss on the words Porro Subesse Romano Pontiff "We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty" ...Pope Leo XIII "All the names which are attributed to Christ in Scripture, inplying His supremacy over the church, are also attributed to the Pope." Bellamin, "On the Authority of Councils," book 2, Chapter 17. "For thou art the shepherd, thou art the physician, thou art the director, thou art the husbandman, finally thou art another God on earth." Labbe and Cossart's "History of the Councils." Vol. XIV, col. 109 The title "Lord God the Pope" can be found within a gloss of Extravagantes of Pope John XXII, title 14, chapter 4, Declaramus.