And what interpretations are those?
The Bible interprets its own symbols!
If we want the truth, we must be guided solely by the Bible interpretation, not man's interpretations and imaginations.
Did I write the verses in the Book of Daniel ? NO !
Did I form Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom, the Chaldean Empire (the first Kingdom), the Medo-Persia Empire (the second kingdom), or Macedonia under Alexander the Great (the third kingdom), or the Roman Empire (the fourth kingdom) ? NO !
Did I write Revelations 13, verses 3-5 ? NO !
Did I cause the Vandals to "sack" Rome? NO !
Did I cause Justinian, Emperor of the East, from Constantinople to create his Imperial Legate at Ravenna, Italy, and bring forth the "Imperial Restoration" of the Roman Empire ? NO !
What has Revelations 13:5, and Ezekiel 4:4-6, and Numbers 14:34, all of them, taught you through your
"ACCLAIMED EDUCATION" ?
How many years were there from Napoleon's defeat. back to Augustus Caesar's rule in A.D. 554 (West's Modern History, page 337) ?
Remember Revelation 13, verse 5
"CONTINUE FORTY AND TWO MONTHS", or have you forgotten ?
What....
NO ANSWERS ? ! ?
Has Satan got your tongue ?
Now go to Revelation 17 verse 8, and look at the rise of Fascist rule of Mussolin.
Did I cause that ? NO!
The Bible interprets its own symbols !
Where, then, did human church government derive its present form? "The first pope, in the real sense of the word, was Leo I (440-461 AID.)," says the Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, volume 7, page 629.
To him the form of government of the Roman Empire was the most marvelous thing on earth.
He applied its principles to the church, organized the church into a government, forming the papacy.
This church government or organization is the image of the beast.
Says Myers' Ancient History:"During the reign of Leo I, the Church set up, within the Roman Empire, an ecclesiastical state [government] which, in its constitution and its administrative system, was shaping itself upon the imperial model."
This church government, then, according to this historical authority, is in fact a model, a counterpart, an image of the beast which is the Roman Empire government.
The Britannica calls it an ecclesiastical world empire!
This image — man-designed and man-ruled church government — compelled people to worship the church!
And since the church was organized into a worldly government, this was worship of the image — false worship — idolatry!
But this church became a mother, and daughter churches came out of her in "protest," calling themselves "Protestant."
And all have worldly, political church government.