Welcome back to our continued study of the three powers that make up modern Babylon, and we're looking at the spirits that are guiding them and the world to Armageddon. In our last presentation, we finished looking at the political aspect of the dragon and looked at the spiritual aspect, which today we know is the New Age movement, but which encompasses all the religions that go to make up spiritualism today, and we identified that there are miracles presently happening within the realm of spiritualism that are preparing its adherents and others for the deceptions and the end-time events, which we've so clearly been warned about in the spirit of prophecy, and in this portion, we're going to look at the spirit that is guiding the forces of the beast power, Catholicism, and we'd like to remind you that one of the quotes we began with in this study was found in the Upward Look, page 277, where it says, "...all are to hear the last message of warning. The prophecies in the book of Revelation chapters 12 to 18 are being fulfilled. In the 18th chapter is recorded the very last call to the churches. This call is now to be given. In the 19th chapter, the time is pictured when the beast and the false prophet are taken and cast into a lake of fire. The dragon, who is the instigator of the great rebellion against heaven, is bound and cast into the bottomless pit for a thousand years, then follows the resurrection of the wicked and the final destruction of Satan and all the wicked and the final triumph and reign of Christ in this earth." We want to emphasize one more time that spirit of prophecy has identified chapters 12 through 19 as the chapters in Revelation that are present truth unto us today, and it's there where the focus of our study should be as we compare the events around us with the prophetic word in order to identify that we're here at the end of the world. To start this particular study into the spirit that's guiding the beast of Catholicism, we would like to read a passage from Manuscript Releases, volume 18, pages 29 to 31. "...as we near the close of time, there will be greater and still greater external parade of heathen power. Heathen deities will manifest their signal power and will exhibit themselves before the cities of the world, and this delineation has already begun to be fulfilled." And if you're not aware of it, then I don't know where you've been, but around the world today, these heathen deities are appearing and manifesting, and some may not.