Prophecy is very clear about this transition where Paganism gave way to Papalism and there's a direct relationship that goes on between Paganism and Papalism as this unfolds as Papalism is rising and beginning its time period, the rule of the world in 538. The prophetic history associated with this tells us that the dragon in Revelation 13, the dragon gave its seat and authority and great power to this beast, to Papalism. So there's a direct relationship between these two powers and what I want you to see here, if you will, is that prior to the rise of the Papacy, the power, the one power that was in the world opposing God and his people was the dragon power of Spiritualism, of Heathenism, of Paganism, of any of the isms that ultimately are nothing more than the worship of Nimrod and his wife. This was the main opposer, the only opposer to God and his truth, but there came a time in history when Papalism rose to power and Paganism took a secondary seat to the role that Papalism would play in resisting God and his truth. And during this time period, God and his truth suddenly had two powers. Paganism took the ascendancy, but Paganism did not die. And during this time period of history, up to 1798, there were suddenly two powers that were opposing God and his truth. But in 1798, when the deadly wound was healed, we see another power coming on the scene of history and the scene of Bible prophecy. And this third power is the United States of America, which we can mark its beginning at 1776. And prophecy states that in time, there will come a point when the United States speaks as a dragon at the passage of the Sunday Law in the United States. And during that same time period, the United States will use its power to force the whole world to worship the beast of Catholicism. But even in that chapter where it says that the United States will force the whole world to worship the beast of Catholicism, it also says that the whole world will worship the dragon. And what I want you to see is that when the United States begins to ascend into its role of this third power that's going to resist God and his people, that suddenly, here at the end of the world, we have a threefold makeup of modern Babylon, of the power that will ultimately stand here at the end of the world to oppose God and his people. It began as one, it increased to two powers, and in our day, it's three powers. And we know that the United States begins as a lamb, but it ends