Chapter 1

Behold, I have told you before.
Matthew 24: 25

I have been studying the 13th and 17th chapters of Revelation, and have some very important news for all. Many theologians have gone before and have tried to solve the meaning of the prophecies given in these chapters, and much of what they have to say is correct, while at the same time, there are passages which still elude them. But as the time comes nearer to the end, these elusive truths must come to light. Otherwise, if we go through the time of the end, and have not gained the truths that are intended for the end, then it will have all been written in vain.

This research uses the exact data derived directly from the Vatican's own Lateran record of popes, as was dedicated to John Paul II when he took the office of the Papal Chair. It is demonstrated here, that it forms an exact match with the prophecies written in the Bible. Albeit, the very spoken word of God which openly speaks of the mark of its identity; the number 666, may be the only source from God's word that makes this identity provable.

The seven headed beast of Revelation chapter 13 and in chapter 17, is the papacy, I introduce additional confirming evidence, that the world has not yet seen. So compelling is this evidence, that once you are able to grasp the significance, and understand it all, you will be amazed that it fits so perfectly and has been there all along, yet it is only in these last few years, that it has been first introduced. No one before this time (1997) has ever seen this evidence, though it has been present with us all for the last 19 - 26 years.

The Number Count of the 666 Beast

The beast is the papacy, and the number 666 is the number of this beast. This number is derived from the beast. Or I could say; This number is derived from the papacy. I ask; Where upon the papacy are there numbers found, which can be counted?

The interpretation in Daniel 7, of the leopard beast that has four heads. Alexander the Great ushered in the Grecian empire. A rapid conquest that is shown by a fast beast with four wings. When Alexander died, the kingdom was divided among his generals. Ultimately Grecia was divided into four parts. These four are Lysemachus, Ptolemy, Seleucid, and Cassandra. The four heads of the Grecian beast are the four Grecian divisions. It is shown as a Grecian beast with Grecian heads. Therefore, if the beast that has seven heads is the papacy, then the seven heads must also be papal.

The beast has seven heads, therefore, for the papacy to be the identity of this beast, the papacy must show seven heads. Who is the head of the papacy today? Wouldn't that be John Paul II? I think it is the most straightforward interpretation of this symbol; to conclude that the popes are the heads of the Catholic Church, and these are the heads of the beast.

A theologian writes thus; "Since the word "mountains" is obviously symbolic in (Rev) 17: 9, proper principles of interpretation would require that we look for the scriptural usage of the term `mountain' in cases where the term is employed as a symbol. When we do so, we never find `mountain' used to symbolize an individual monarch or ruler." Symposium on Revelation, book 2 pg. 186

A single person cannot be a mountain. A mountain is a head that is comprised of two or more kings.

Applying the seven heads as seven mountains to the papacy and the popes, works like this; There are seven different names that have been used by the popes since 1798. Each different name comprises one of the seven heads and are also mountains. All the popes that use the same name are a mountain. John Paul I was not a mountain, nor was he a part of a mountain, until John Paul II arrived, then the head name John Paul becomes a mountain. A mountain then is the line of popes that all bear the same name, differentiated by a number. Pope 1, Pope 2, Pope 3, etc. It is these numbers that are derived from the popes themselves, that are used in the counting of the number of the beast. There is no dispute regarding the conversion of letters into numbers, because these are already numbers ready to be counted.

The beast is comprised of seven heads, which are seven mountains, and are the last seven kings that precedes the eighth which is destroyed at the end.

We then must identify the seven heads, and then count up all the numbers of these seven head/mountains, then we have the total for the beast.

The chapter that defines the outline of how these seven heads appear, is written in Revelation 17: 8-11. This outline must be able to be aligned with the seven heads of the papacy, if the papacy is the identity of the beast.

Chapter 17 of Revelation has been also noted by several theologians, that it portrays the papacy after 1798. Having this clue, we examine the papal record from 1798 to the present;


1. Pius VI (1775-99)
1. Pius VII (1800-23)
2. Leo XII (1823-29)
1. Pius VIII (1829-30)
3. Gregory XVI (1831-46)
1. Pius IX (1846-78)
2. Leo XIII (1878-1903)
1. Pius X (1903-14)
4. Benedict XV (1914-22)
1. Pius XI (1922-39)
1. Pius XII (1939-58)
5. John XXIII (1958-63)
6. Paul VI (1963-78)
7. John Paul I (Aug-Sep1978)
7. John Paul II (1978-2003+)

It becomes obvious that there are only seven different names, and all are mountains, that is; having several popes that are using these same seven names. Pius appears six times, easily seen as a mountain. In order that Gregory and John and Paul are to be mountains, requires that the entire time of the beast is considered. There, the total papal record displays them all as mountains. It is precisely that verse (Rev. 17: 9) which introduces the symbol of a mountain, that is linked to the verse (Rev. 13: 18) which gives us the number 666. The numbers of these mountains are what is counted.

Compiling all the numbers of all these seven papal names will produce the count of the beast, up to the current point in time. As of John Paul II, from 1978 to 2003, the cumulative total of all the numbers of these seven mountains is now 665.



Mountain........Legitimate.....Adds to the count
Pius ....................12.....................78
Leo......................13.....................91
Gregory...............16....................136
Benedict..............14....................105
John....................21....................231
Paul.....................6.......................21
John Paul............2.........................3
7 heads.......................................665
8th head..............+1....................666


Anyone capable of performing accurate math calculations, can confirm from the papal record, that this count is correct. The facts hold up against all scrutiny.

Since John Paul is the seventh head, and seventh mountain, and the count has been taken to the last single number possible (exactly 665, no more, and no less,) before reaching the total of 666, it coerces the conclusion that the next legitimate pontificate must introduce a new name, and add only one to the count.

Revelation 13: 18 confirms that the number 666 is both the number of a man and the beast. Revelation 17: 9, and 10 confirm that the eighth head that arises after the seven, is the beast, and is only one person, who is alive to the end and is destroyed by the second coming of Christ. He is the eighth in the sequence of the seven, but not included in the list of heads that are also called mountains. The eighth is not a mountain.

There is only one more space to fill to make the count complete. There is however, the possibility of an interim antipope, preceding the Antichrist. The number of an antipope cannot count toward the total, because an antipope counts as a zero. Only a legitimate pontificate can contribute to the count of the number.

There is yet more to be seen in this chapter that confirms this papal line-up; The outline includes that the first "five are fallen," and the sixth being the "one is" making Pope Paul VI as the point of perspective from which John the Revelator is perceiving this line-up, and John Paul as the seventh head that "is not yet come." Only a new name as John Paul had introduced could fit between these three requirements; 1) the count must not have exceeded 666, and 2) the name must be new, not having existed before the sixth, and 3) it must still be a mountain requiring at least two pontificates of this new name. John Paul fits all three of these elements.

Thus the papal record very neatly matches that of the outline of the prophecy.

The head that was wounded and healed:

This interpretation comes late within the perspective of this research. While many people realize that the wounding and healing of one of the beast's heads, has been fulfilled by the events of 1798 and 1929, This same papal record reveals that it also applies to the same head of Pius. Pope Pius VI was the head of the beast that was wounded, and it was the same head/mountain of Pius that was healed; pope Pius XI was the head that was healed in 1929. The beast has since been ever rising in power.

The papal record matches the wounding and healing of one of its heads. It matches the line-up of the seven kings with an eighth, and the numbers of all these heads of these seven mountains add up to 665. We await for the final 1 to complete the count. At that time, the count of the beast is complete and the 666 man is revealed.