William Branham believes that the Catholic Church is the church that will enforce the mark of the beast?!?

Question

Has anyone heard this before?? About the inscription written above the head of the Pope’s crown? It has “VICARIUS FELII DEI” written on it, and I read somewhere that it adds up to 666 like this!

V = 5
I = 1
C = 100
A = 0
R = 0
I = 1
U = 5
S = 0
---------
112

F = 0
I = 1
L = 50
I = 1
I = 1
---------
53

D = 500
E = 0
I = 1
---------
501

112 + 53 + 501 = 666

And the Bible says that that number is the mark of the beast?! Has anyone heard about this before, and do u believe it?? Any ideas at all?? Thanks!

i dont know whether its on the crown...but its on his throne or sumthing...or that's wat i was told anywayz

look it up on the internet...there's sooo many sites on it?? wat's the significance??

Answer 1

Hi Victory, Vicarius Filii Dei has been around for well over 100 years and is supposed to be an inscription on the pope's triple crown. However, there is no proof that it is and questions to the Catholic Church on the issue have always received a negative reply and the VFD is not a title commonly used by the pope.
The Books of Daniel & Revelation indicate that there will be a ruling religious power just before Jesus returns read Daniel 7 & Revelation 13.
In Revelation this power is also referred to as Babylon.
If you look up as many references to Babylon in the Old Testament you will find that its meaning is "confusion" taken from the Tower of Babel when God confused the tongues of the builders. It was Babylon that took God's people captive and John (the author of Revelation) uses it symbolically to represent a religious organization that opposes God's true followers.
For centuries many Biblical scholars have equated the Catholic Church with Babylon, but modern scholarship suggests something much larger.
Christianity is in a very confused state with this denomination believing this and that denomination believing something else. In other words it is in a confused state but in Revelation 12:17 we find that God has a remnant of true believers right at the end of time who "have the spirit of prophecy and the testimony of Jesus"
This will be a relatively small group compared to Babylon but these are assured eternal life and the first resurrection see Revelation 20. Whilst those in the Babylon confederation will be destroyed and receive God's wrath or death eternal.
The mystery number 666 can be applied to many other names so it is hardly convincing just to label VFD. The number 6 in Biblical numerology is representitive of man falling short of God's perfect numbers 7, 10 & 12 and multiples of 12 such as 24 and 144,000.
When God gave Moses 10 Commandments on Mount Sinai these were not supposed to be treated as the 10 suggestions!
The first 4 are to do with man's relationship to God; the last 6 are dealing with our relationship to each other. The principles contained in the 10 Commandments form the basis of our moral laws.
Unfortunately various churches have tampered with the first 4 commandments over the centuries and have made "tradition" paramount in their theology!
I hope that this has gone some way to answering your question.
Regards, H'chat.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

William Branham Predictions

Answer 4

I had always heard the phrase was inscribed in the headband of the Pope's mitre, but I don't see how the Catholic Church could enforce the mark without the assistance of the Antichrist, for there is NO WAY the Pope could "rein in" the Hindus, Muslims and etc. from such HUGE religions and MAKE them take the mark. When one takes the mark, they are not only buying into the new economic system of the day, they're buying into the new religious order as well! Without some sort of supernatural force behind such control, no mere mortal could make the planet take the Mark and ENFORCE it! For that reason, I feel that Vicarius Filii Dei IF it's describing the Pope is only a coincidence.

Answer 5

good morning..

hey this thing's getting worse..(it hurts us)
but Branham, i think as a man, also makes mistakes
actually check this link.
He's once a follower and see what he says.
http://people.delphiforums.com/johnk63/home.htm
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okay, back to your question.
the catholic church is built under "the inspiration of Christ"
so why would it enforce the sign of the beast?
the catholic church, are the apostalate, namely called to suffer and prepared to suffer under Christ's name. So, if
ever the sign will be unleashed, then we're all prepared to die rather than accept it.
also check out the first answerers before me, they tell you the truth.
Please, you can believe other teachings made by Branham, but not this..
or i kinda mean, don't take this thing too hard.

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(sorry, if I can't control my feelings against what he said. I would likely to believe him, but to think that
Christians are ought not to condemm others. In short, he's telling that the world would be destroyed by the Catholic Church, which is..a "lie")

Actually there are some "flaws" made by him..(eg wrong predictions)..the ..California thingy he told his followers
that it'll sink including Los Angeles, 95% of his believers did went out, but until today, California stood up together with L.A.
how could he give specific values to each character on what you added?
popes never wear a crown.

and here's one more (which never ever happened):

William Branham spoke of his prediction of "1977" many times, but he placed it in printed form when he
published his book An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages in 1965. The following quote was taken from this
book and represents his last (therefore definitive) statement regarding his view of "1977":

"Based on these seven visions, along with the rapid changes which have swept the world in the
last fifty years, I PREDICT (I do not prophesy) that these visions will have all come to pass by
1977 . And though many may feel that this is an irresponsible statement in view of the fact
that Jesus said that 'no man knoweth the day nor the hour.' I still maintain this prediction
after thirty years because, Jesus did NOT say no man could know the year, month or week in
which His coming was to be completed. So I repeat, I sincerely believe and maintain as a
private student of the Word, along with Divine inspiration that 1977 ought to terminate the
world systems and usher in the millennium."

~An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, page 322(he wrote this)


Although Mr. Branham stated that his prediction of the end of the world was not a prophecy, there are a
couple of problems with his "prediction" when viewed in light of his supposed role as a prophet.

First, we must ask, "What is the difference between a prophecy and Mr. Branham’s prediction based on
‘Divine inspiration?’" If this prediction was Divinely inspired, it can only mean that God told Mr. Branham to
make it. That, by definition, is a prophecy.

Second, Mr. Branham implied that, although he did not know the day or hour of the end, he did know the
year because, "Jesus did NOT say no man could know the year, month or week in which His coming was to be
completed."
Since the end of the world and the 2nd coming of the Lord did not come in 1977, we can only conclude that
this Divinely inspired prediction was another of Mr. Branham’s "false prophecies".

..and many more..

---hey don't be offended. Because that's a truth I'm telling you. Sometimes truth can be hard to believe.

Answer 6

Firstly, it's Vicarius Filii Dei.

Secondly, no such tiara exists. That phrase has never appeared on anything the pope has worn. Or at least there is no evidence beyond fervent Protestants driven by an agenda.

This claim goes back hundreds of years. It was an organized effort (i.e. smear campaign) perpetrated in an effort to discredit the Catholic church.

Finally, this is post hoc reasoning. If you assign some arbitrary number system that corresponds with letters and then farm every phrase in the Catholic church (or anywhere else) you're probably going to find something that supports the conclusion you drew before you even started looking for it.

Answer 7

William Branham taught so much off-the-wall doctrine that the Assemblies of God formally repudiated him as a false teacher. He died in the 1960s. He had told his handful of followers that he would rise from the dead, so they left his body out in a field ... reluctantly conceding after 40 days that maybe he'd been mistaken about this.

All in all, not exactly a reliable source of information.

Answer 8

The Pope doesn't wear a crown. haven't you ever seen his picture? He wears a miter, and it has no inscription on it whatsoever. The phrase you listed does indeed add up to 666 (if you are into pagan numerology), because it was specifically designed to do so, by the 19th Century anti-Catholic bigot who designed it. The phrase has never been used in any official capacity by the Catholic Church. The Pope's title is "Vicarius Christi", Vicar of Christ. But that is of no interest to such anti-Catholics since it doesn't add up to 666. If you want a REAL name that adds up to 666 when subjected to such numerology, try this one - Ellen Gould White. I assume you are familiar with that name? Could she have been the Beast of Revelation?

Answer 9

It never ceases to amaze me the amount of superstition christians have about that number. It's fairly certain that 666 was a reference to Nero Caesar who's name added to 666 in the Hebrew numerology system, and who was Caesar when John wrote Revalations.

Answer 10

The problem is that “VICARIUS FELII DEI” is not the pope's title: It is "VICARUS CHRISTI" - Vicar of Christ. That is the goofiest lie I've ever heard. Anti-Catholic groups will stop at nothing.

In 1 John 2:22–23, we read, "Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also." The pope has never denied that Jesus is the Christ. You may not agree with the pope's teaching's, but you can't pin THAT on him.