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186Official Statements - Trinitybecause of the Doctrine of the Trinity. However, after the Heruli in 493, in 534the Vandals and in 538 the Ostrogoths, were eliminated before the pope, the roadwas paved to full sovereignty. The famous Decree of Justinian made the bishop ofRome the “head of all holy churches and all holy priests of God.” In March 533AD, where Justinian destroyed the Ostogten and vandals by his commander, “heproceeded without delay to the full establishment of the Catholic Church.’(SeeGuinness “The approaching end,” Vol 2, p. 296; Gibbons Roman Empire,chapter 41, p. 21) This happened in 538, and thus we can set this date as afoundation day of papal power.“Therefore the pope is an earthly God, a supreme majesty and the only bigpowerful man in the world, over all kingdoms, above all the earth and people,all goods, spiritual and earthly, and therefore everything is in his hands, boththe secular and the spiritual sword. This definition, which does not rhymewith right churches, however well rhyming with the Roman pope being, canbe found not only in books of canon lawyers. Daniel, the prophet, paints theAntichrist in this way.” (Apology of the Augsburg Confession, Article 7, 8 [4].) (toDaniel 7:24 and Revelation 13:7)“The current Roman Papacy is the beast.” “The pope is Roman, and Romeis papal, already long and yet really.” (Bengel, to Revelation 12:1)“The fall of the empire was an essential tool for the rise of the Romanbishop, first of all [first], the Caesars were put away. An invisible hand, ‘saysDe Maistre, drove the Emperors out of the eternal city in order to give thesame to the head of the Eternal Church.”- Secondly, this overthrow forced theRoman bishops, who were deprived of the influence by imperials, who so farstrongly supported them in their struggles for supremacy , to come back toanother element ... namely to the assertion that he is the successor of Peter,the prince of the apostles, and was by virtue of this fact the representative ofChrist on earth. Due to this claim, he swung himself all at once on the throneof kings to the seat of God (the Lord). Rome has become the world’s masteragain and the Popes - the drivers of the earth. “(Wylie,” The Papacy, “p. 35)“There are enough popes who have expressly blasphemed God’s name,from the elevation of their hearts, due to their great power, such as Julius IIIhas done several times. But it is also that a blasphemy of God’s name, whatthe Pope has ever appropriated to himself under the guise and abuse of theHoly God’s name. “(Bengel, to Revelation 13:6)The Pope is called “The governor of Jesus Christ.” Leo X. assumed thistitle at “The Lion of the Tribe of Judah.” Leo XII. let people call him “The Lord,our God”. Martin V, assumed following titles: “The holiest and happiest, thearbitrator of heaven and Lord of the Earth, the successor of St. Peter, theanointed of the Lord, the ruler of the universe, the father of kings, the light ofthe world.” During the pope’s anniversary following sayings fell of Leo XIII:“He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah, he is the star out of Jacob “; “He is asimmutable as God “; “As the Eternal Father, who said: Let there be light”; heis “The visible God on Earth “, the “Vice-Dio”. (Theological Quarterly, Vol 10,No. 1.)“He declares himself infallible, he dares to put his decrees, even onthe word of his God, he pretends to absolve people of their commitmentto the commandments of their Creator! He claims that only he canchoose priests who alone by themselves create God in a piece of bread