Revelation 13:6-7

6 And he opened his mouth to speak slanders against God, blaspheming His name and His abode, [even vilifying] those who live in heaven. 

The last Pope will claim that he has done miraculous things. He will claim that only through him can the world survive. He will always talk about what man must first do for our Father to then act. His focus will always be on our responsibilities and human free will. It will all sound very religious. It will have a form of godliness, but it will deny our Father's power that is working through us and praise man's power of working for God. 


When it is brought to his attention what the Bible teaches, he will vilify those who the Holy Spirit used to write it. People will listen, and they will flock to him, praising his wisdom, and worshipping him, and killing those who oppose him. They will do it all in the Name of God! Just as they did during Jesus' time, the Dark Ages, and just as the radical Muslims do now! The anti-christ will teach that the Bible was mistranslated and that we are taking God’s Word out of context. This is how he will attempt to maintain a form of godliness. 

7 He was further permitted to wage war on God's holy people (the saints) and to overcome them. And power was given him to extend his authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.

Who permitted the anti-christ to wage war? Our Father did! Our Father will give the anti-christ power over every tongue, nation, and tribe. Think of how the anti-christ will try to make people worship? He will demand that people pray to and bow down to graven images, priests, Mary, and false teachings that are ordered from his throne and not from the Bible. Everything that he does will look religious too. So of course he will come after the woman, the true Church, for preaching the Truth. He will have an army and governments supporting him that can reach the world. We will be hated by every nation, but victorious everywhere our Father leads us.

Our Fathers Word is eternal, it never passes away, Mark 13:31. So even during this time, we are more than conquerors through Christ Who loves us, Romans 8:37. Even during this time our yoke is easy and our burden light, Matthew 11:30. Jesus will never leave us or forsake us, Hebrews 13:5, and our Father will never allow us to be tempted above that which we can bear, 1 Corinthians 10:13. The power of our Father will be mighty in us during the end times. Our Father will be using us to do greater works than He used Jesus for, John 14:12. Our Father’s strength is perfected in us when we are our weakest, so just think of how great the power of the church will be during this time, 2 Corinthians 12:9 ! 

Also we can see that once again, the Church is mentioned here before Chapter 20. It is a flat out lie that teaches the church is not mentioned from Chapter 4 of Revelation until Chapter 20 as those who believe in a pre-tribulation rapture teach. You may have never heard this teaching, but I sure have. I have heard it a lot and it is wrong! Our Father uses us greatly during the last 3 1/2 years of this earth's history and millions upon millions are born again.  

We have seen that the Church is kept safe and fed for the three and a half years of the anti-christ’s rule. So how is it that we are allowed to be overcome? Christians have always been allowed to be martyred, but death where is thy victory and grave where is thy sting, 1 Corinthians 15:55? The grave has no victory over us, for us to be absent from the body, is to be present with Christ, 2 Corinthians 5:8! So what we have seen all fits together. We may be killed, but we will never be lost and Jesus will always be victorious through us, even during the Great Tribulation.