If you read my post you'll see what I said. As to the founding of the Papal RCC? That occurred in 590 AD under Pope Gregory I.
[sic]"...325 CE: The First Council of Nicaea converged by Roman Emperor Constantine I. The Council attempted to structure church leadership around a model similar to that of the Roman system, and also formalized key articles of faith.
551 CE: At the Council of Chalcedon, the head of the church in Constantinople was declared to be the head of the Eastern branch of the church, equal in authority to the Pope. This effectively was the start of the division of the church into the Eastern Orthodox and
Roman Catholic branches.
590 CE: Pope Gregory I initiates his papacy, during which the Catholic Church engages in widespread efforts to convert pagan peoples to Catholicism. This begins a time of enormous political and military power controlled by Catholic popes. This date is marked by some as the beginning of the Catholic Church as we know it today. ..."
Trace the History of the Roman Catholic Church
While there is some truth to that history, I would like to go back to something I spoke to you previously about. Prophecy, and the waymarks that give authenticity to identifying Antichrist.
KJV Revelation 13:2
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and
the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
That dragon was the same dragon that stood before the woman to destroy the child; that dragon stood there in the guise of the Roman puppet king, Herod. That same Roman power in later centuries in the guise of the emperor Justinian, gave the bishop of Rome his official sanction to rule over all the churches. This power... This Roman seat... This papal throne... Was granted to the bishop of Rome by Justinian as part of what became known as Justinian's Code, a rule of law that would dominated European politics and religion for over a 1000 years. More on that shortly. This took place in 533ad. While the Catholic power in Rome wanted back and forth over the centuries,
Justinian's Code laid the legal and prophetic
foundation for the rise of the Papacy.
AD March 533: Justinian's letter to John reads:
"Justinian: victor, pius, fortunate, ever Augustus, to John, the most holy Archbishop and patriarch of the noble city of Rome. Paying honor to the Apostolic See and to Your Holiness, as always has been and is our desire, and honoring your Blessedness as a father, we hasten to bring to the knowledge of Your Holiness all that pertains to the condition of the churches , since it has always been our great aim to safeguard the unity of your Apostolic See and the position of the holy churches of God which now prevails and abides securely without any disturbing trouble. Therefore we have been sedulous to subject and unite all the priests of the Orient throughout its whole extent to the See of Your Holiness. Whatever questions happen to be mooted at present , we have thought necessary to be brought to Your Holiness' knowledge, however clear and unquestionable they might be, and though firmly held and taught by all the clergy in accordance with the doctrine of Your Apostolic See; for we do not suffer that anything which is moored to Your Holiness, however clear and unquestionable, pertaining to the state of the churches, should fail to be known to Your Holiness, as being the head of all the churches. For as we have said before, we are zealous for the increase of the honor and authority of your See in all respects."2 Croly quotes a letter of March 25, 533 from Justinian to Epiphanius where Justinian repeats the parts of the statement above, which had been sent earlier in March, that the Bishop of Rome is: "head of all Bishops and the true and effective corrector of heretics [sic]."
Justinian's Code in the edicts of the "Novellae;" in the preamble of the ninth it states:
"that the elder Rome was the founder of the laws; so was it not to be questioned that in her was the supremacy of the pontificate." In the 131st; chap. II, on the ecclesiastical titles and privileges it states: "We therefore decree that the most holy Pope of the elder Rome is the first of all the priesthood, and that the most blessed Archbishop of Constantinople, the new Rome, shall hold the second rank after the holy Apostolic chair of the elder Rome."
Pagan Rome, not the Apostles not Christ, laid the legal political and prophetic foundation for the establishment of the Papacy. 533ad was the date of the legal granting of civil and religious power to the bishop of Rome.
There is a twist to all this however, because Rome at that time was under an occupying power, and enemies to the Byzantine emperor, it was necessary that the city be liberated before the pontiff could exercise his new found authority. Legal authority is issues unless it could be put into effect right? This is where prophecy comes to the fore. This took place in 538ad when Bellisarius defeated the Goths and that Arian kingdom could no longer exercise power over the bishop, for until that time the Gothic king Theodosius had the final say on appointing bishops. So you can mark 538ad on your prophetic calendar.
Prophecy gives us however a clue that history attests to as a remarkable confirmation of the identity of the beast.
KJV Revelation 13:5
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue
forty and two months.
The above time span is repeated 7 times in scripture in the form of 1260 days, times, time and half a time ( 3 and half years), and 42 months. (
Daniel 7:25; 12:7 Rev. 11:2,3; 12:6, 14; 13:5.
)
Not only in reference to the life of the Antichrist, but also to the time when the church is persecuted by the Antichrist and is therefore in survival mode in the wilderness, Revelation 12:6.
So, the question, did anything happen to the Papacy 1260 days, 42 months, or times time and half a time later,? No. Not if you take those times as literal. But if you use scripture to interpret scripture, precedent reveals that one prophetic day equals one literal year. Then the question is, did anything take place 1260 years after 538ad? And the answer is an emphatic yes.
