Jesus Christ, The only begotten Son of God, The King of Kings and Lord of Lords and our own Lord and Savior, was crucified and buried and was raised again the third day by God. He was caught up to God and his throne, where he rules all the nations with a rod of iron.  (Revelation 12:5).  All Christians believe this has already happened.

        The rest of the church, those who have the testimony of Jesus Christ and keep his commandments, fled into the wilderness after Jerusalem was destroyed by Rome after three and a half years as Jesus had prophesied. This is New Jerusalem which comes down from above as Revelation puts it (Revelation 21), or spiritual Sion.

        Rome, that city of seven hills the ruleth over the kings of the earth, continued to attack the Christian church (and apostates as well), after the destruction of Jerusalem. There were ten persecutions, well known in history. The first of the ten persecutions happened under Nero, the 6th king of Rome. After a brief dispute of succession of the Caesars, Jerusalem was destroyed after being attacked for three and half years by the seventh ruler.

        The ten persecutions continued until Constantine stopped them after the tenth persecution because of a vision he claimed to see in what is described as a "miracle" by the Catholic church. He moved the capitol of Rome to Byzantine (also called Constantinople after Constantine, giving the Catholic church its power, and seat and great authority. And the whole word wondered at the Catholic church that was almost killed by the sword and yet lived.

        Rome only moved its capitol once in history, which exactly places this event in history, when Rome gave its seat to the Catholic church. Under Rome, the Catholic church grew into the first state church, still persecuting believers, with the pope becoming the head of the catholic church by virtue of being specifically the bishop of Rome according to its teachings.

        Much more can and should be said, but I wanted to mention the seven hills of Rome. There are seven hills of Rome, for which Rome, that city which ruleth over the kings of the earth, was known. It is mentioned in stories, poems, coins, and there is even a festival at Rome based on it. There were seven hills, and their names were: 1) Palatine, 2) Aventine, 3) Quirinal, 4) Viminal, 5) Esquiline and 6) Caelian and 7) Capitoline.

        Capitoline is where the government and religion of Rome was centered. It contrasts Sion, the one mount frequently identified by the Holy Bible, and many times used interchangeably with Jerusalem. Capitoline is where our word capitol  and capital comes from. It is also related to the Latin word Head, as are many other words similar such as captain, which comes from the Latin capit- or caput, which means head. The capitol of the church supposedly "moved" from Jerusalem to Rome, and its deadly wound was healed. The prophecy of God is literally fulfilled in the smallest details, and the seven hills of Rome are even intimately linked to head in the Latin language itself.

        Rome is a counterfeit Christian religion that claims that the Christian church moved from having Jerusalem as its capitol to Rome, which healed it's deadly wound. But, Jesus Christ still rules the church from New Jerusalem and he always has (Revelation 14).

      So while the excerpt of the book "A woman rides a beast", which is available online many places and "for free", points in the general right direction, it is not nearly as specific and literally and wonderfully fulfilled as the actual prophecy. (Nor is the whole book nearly as free as this free message.) While there might not be anything wonderful seen about the prophecy of the anti-christ being fulfilled, there is far more of the prophecy not mentioned here. Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, rules on Sion now, and is coming back soon, and that is wonderful. Amen.

Some Notes:

1) You can find some notes on my website linking and contrasting the bible on Sion, New Jerusalem and church history, which you can find on my website under Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, and Mount Sion. The following verses are helpful: Hebrews 12:22,23, Galatians 4:26, Ps 2:9, Re 2:27, Acts 1:9-11, Col 1:18, Eph 5:23, and Revelation chapters 12 14; 17.

2) Caesar is a term the bible uses for king, as in 'we have no king but Caesar'. Numeration of the Caesars is commonly done from the first Caesar, Julius Caesar, (Fox's Book of Martyrs lists them this way) but sometimes you will see lists done from the Roman Title Emperor, which wasn't used until the second Caesar. Also, after Nero there was a war for succession, and sometimes all four are listed on lists, instead of Vespasian, who actually won out. Coincidently, the son of Vespasian, Titus, the 8th ruler of Rome, also had a hand in the destruction of Jerusalem. The seven Caesars were: 1) Julius Caesar, 2) Augustus, 3) Tiberius, 4) Gaius Caligula, 5)Claudius the last of the five 6) Nero (first persecution), there followed a brief war of succession, followed by 7) Vespasian under which Jerusalem was destroyed after 3 1/2 years.

3) The names of the ten kings who persecuted the early Christians (and apostate Christians with the great whore) for a brief hour with Rome were: 1) Nero A.D. 67, 2) Domitian A.D. 81, 3) Trajan A.D. 108, 4) Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A.D. 162, 5) Septimius Severus A.D. 192, 6 Maximinus, Gaius Julius Verus A.D. 235, 7) Decius A.D. 249, 8) Valerian A.D. 257, 9) Aurelian A.D. 274, 10) Diocletian A.D. 303

4) The ten persecutions resulted in Martyr worship. The Catholic church literally worshiped the martyrs, made statues of them, prayed to them, and put their bones in their altars and rededicated the temple of the Roman pantheon to them, replacing the Roman pantheon with a pantheon of saints. All the martyrs from the ten persecutions were also said to have martyr crowns. This is where the saint worship of the Catholic church originally came from. And every other aspect of the beast, including the ten persecutions, are literally worshiped in some way by the Catholic church.