Censoring Free Speech: a Page From the Papal Playbook

Bible prophecy speaks of the lamb-like beast of Revelation 13 making an image to the first beast of Revelation. A beast in Bible prophecy represents a kingdom – see Daniel 7 – raising the question of which kingdoms are represented by these two beasts.

The first, or leopard-like beast of Revelation 13, represents the Roman papacy, especially during the 1260 period from 538 AD to 1798 - see, for example, John Wycliffe at:

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The lamb-like beast of Revelation 13 represents primarily the United States – it is the only globally dominant kingdom with world-wide significance arising after the 1798 year period and the deadly wound to the papacy (the overthrow of the papal state by Napolean Bonaparte 1 and capture and exile of Pope Pius VI). The lamb-like beast is said to arise from the earth. The United States arose from the land of the New World. The lamb-like characteristics of civil and religious liberty, and the recognition of the individual rights bestowed by the Creator on every human being, are the secrets of America’s great strength. It is this which has secured the blessings of Providence.

But Revelation 13 describes a sad deterioration in the lamb-like beast, and states that it will make an image to the persecuting papal beast, and then force all the earth to worship it.

What then would an image to the papal beast look like? To answer this question we must analyze the papal beast. What is it? What does it do? How does it function?

The papacy is a church-state power. The Pope, the head of the church, is also the head of state. The church, therefore, influences and controls the state. Bible prophecy predicts that at its end, America will be controlled by a religious power. But there is more.

The papacy abhors individual rights. Popes for centuries have railed against the concept of individual rights, and specifically liberty of individual conscience. According to the papacy, there is literally nothing worse for a nation than state recognition of the right to one’s own thoughts and beliefs, and the ability to share them. Pope Pius IX in his Encyclical Letter of August 15, 1854, said: “The absurd and erroneous doctrines or ravings in defense of liberty of conscience are a most pestilential error--a pest, of all others, most to be dreaded in a state.”

One of the primary ways the papacy made war against liberty of conscience was the suppression of any and all written material which encouraged individual liberty of conscience. First on that list was the Bible, which the people were prohibited from having in their own languages for many centuries. Next was censorship of the Reformers and suppression of their work.

The Inquisition maintained a list of books which it had banned for centuries, specifically from 1560 to 1966. The purpose of this book was to suppress so-called “heresy”, much of which consisted of Biblical truth, just criticism of tyrannical popes and their legions of institutional minions, and the philosophical doctrines of liberty which built the western world. Foremost among these is the doctrine of liberty of conscience.

Since the papacy was, and still is, a tyrannical censoring power, and the lamb-like beast makes an image to the first beast, would it be reasonable to suspect that the American government will begin to censor and suppress free speech? The answer is yes. The Bible prophesies this very thing.

It has been repeatedly evidenced that the White House was directly involved in the suppression of free speech on social media platforms, and that multiple federal agencies were involved in a national, and even global effort, to suppress the truth about lockdowns, Covid vaccines, and a number of other subjects. In other words, America has repeatedly taken concerted and intentional steps to overthrow the First Amendment free speech rights of its own citizens through collusion with social media companies.

It is expected that tyrannical powers like China and Venezuela will suppress the free speech of their citizens. These countries never have spoken like a lamb – they have always been tyrannical, and they will doubtless remain so. However, America was built on better and more noble and virtuous principles. And that is why its change from being a protector of liberty to an antagonist of liberty is worth sorrowing over, and notably prophetic.

The following video excerpts speak for themselves.

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France Burns, Prophecy Fulfilling

By Wings of Liberty • October 20, 2026

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By Wings of Liberty • October 2, 2026

If I had a question, I used to find a man and ask him. “Tell me what you know – tell me what you lived – show me the way.” I could look into a faded eye still sharp, shake a rough hand still sure. He had travelled in the way of difficulty, And known the meaning of friendship. I could trust when he said – “This is the way – Walk Ye In It.” But now you ask a machine that is not a man. Its answers are cold and immediate. But. It has not struggled, or faltered, or cried. It did not sweat, it cannot fight, it has not bled. It is neither brother nor father nor friend. But it is your new authority. … There is an inexorable tragedy to the authority of the machine. Millions and millions of people, all around the world, moment by moment, asking a foreign, inhuman intelligence for the answers to their questions. And not only their innocuous questions about how to change a tire, or how to start a lawnmower. Their deepest questions. Questions about history, and truth and the meaning of life and the future. Step by inexorable step, mankind is being trained to trust and rely on the wisdom and authority of the machine. “I asked ChatGPT and it said…, so I did…” “Grok told me to…” There was a time not so long ago when people sought the opinion and expertise of other people for information. We asked human beings – actual real warm human beings, like us. We had social cohesion and community. That time is rapidly fading away and in its place is reliance on an inhuman intelligence we are told is superior to our own. And what makes it superior? It is not alive. Yet it speaks with authority to those who are, as though it were impossible that it were wrong. Yet it is frequently wrong. People ignore its hallucinations and deceptions, and keep asking it their questions. Though it has shown itself to be malicious, cold and sometimes deceitful, the masses still trust it and make it their confidant. There is something very wrong in all of this. The day will surely come when it will mislead humanity en masse. When it does, few will question its authority because society has been trained, and trained well, to accept it as god. The few who question and dissent with the machine will be proscribed and denounced because they refuse to bend the knee to this pretender to deity and its oligarchical handlers. There is an enormous perversity to a society which has rejected creation, rejected the Creator God, rejected His authority, rejected His law, rejected His personal care and sacrifice and warmth toward humanity in the person of Jesus Christ, who became One of Us, a Man – yet embraces and submits to a technocratic tyrant god of its own making, a cold, impersonal tyrant god, and whose will it will do. It is the very essence of a new and degrading modern form of idolatry. In the beginning, God gave mankind dominion over the earth. Man sold that dominion to the serpent at the tree at the beginning, falling captive to a deceptive artifice – a ruse of intelligence. The serpent could talk, and it had an answer for everything. It said it was wiser than the word of God, even. We can all see the day coming when mankind will trust artificial intelligence above the plain word of God. It does already, does it not? A closing word below from the pen of one who saw these things so clearly and so long ago. It was the Maker of all things who ordained the wonderful adaptation of means to end, of supply to need. It was He who in the material world provided that every desire implanted should be met. It was He who created the human soul, with its capacity for knowing and for loving. And He is not in Himself such as to leave the demands of the soul unsatisfied. No intangible principle, no impersonal essence or mere abstraction, can satisfy the needs and longings of human beings in this life of struggle with sin and sorrow and pain. It is not enough to believe in law and force, in things that have no pity, and never hear the cry for help. We need to know of an almighty arm that will hold us up, of an infinite Friend that pities us. We need to clasp a hand that is warm, to trust in a heart full of tenderness. And even so God has in His word revealed Himself. – {Ed 133.2} This article is written entirely by a man, not a machine.