I'm going to try to take a backseat for a bit. I don't want the discussion to become an attack on my belief, and I don't want to be on the defensive. I want to learn how others regard this information and how we will gain victory over the beast. Here is the scenario once again... If the beast of Revelation 13 is revealed to have the name the Lord Jesus Christ, how do we gain victory over him? How does that affect salvation? If it is the one name whereby we must be saved and is also the name of the beast, then how do we get our names written in the right book? Please don't attack me or ask for me to answer the question, because I don't have all the answers.
To repeat; false religions, starting with the RCC and controlling the harlot daughter churches become the synagogues of satan. VICARIUS FILII DEI = 666 ; it is a claim over the people and a claim to be Christ on earth or little God's. It is similar in meaning to Nicolaitanes and to lordship salvation preachers.
Having revealed them (more hints in earlier posts) the ' secret ' to overcoming them is to leave the churches taking their power and revealing them to the world by living and teaching truth. Martin Luther perhaps was an example that triggered a reformation that must continue til believers are Called Out to become the true church - the Ekklesia, not churchians ...
Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees ...
Unless your righteousness exceeds these (scribes and Pharisees) you will not enter the kingdom ...
Scribe = media, publishers, new bible translators ...
Pharisee = preachers, secular law (senators, congress, governors, mayors, school boards, lawyers, judges, district attorneys, cops and perhaps teachers), etc.
Jesus confronted them, taught and rebuked them, warned and reprimanded them. At the same time he was teaching the people, calling to repent - and for solidarity and unity of the 12 tribes. He called out the end of the temple as building worship and declared a new testament Ekklesia.
I can go on and deeper but it has to start somewhere ...