The wound inflicted upon Pope John Paul II in 1981 from which he recovered. These and many other points of views must be unlearned. Since verse 14 says the wound is by a sword, this relates the sword to the capture and killing of a man. The capture and killing of the pope was a preventive against the possibility that he might attempt to violate the legal decree already in place 5 days before. So I never stopped to ask the necessary and important questions like “what was the purpose of the 1929 event between the Vatican and the state of Italy? The wound was by a sword as this illustrates. One of the heads on the beast is the Christian head or in other words Christianity. In both instances the corrections are inadequate. And later, another Pius was elected to the throne and this healed the head wound. Georges Santayana In other words, it did not take until 1929 at the signing of the Lateran concordat between Italian Prime Minister Mussolini and papal ambassador Gaspri for the papacy to recover from its setbacks of 1798. [13] In 612 B.C. 87 1 August 2002, Samuele Bacchiocchi, Ph. It is after Feb. 15, 1798, that the head wound occurs At one blow Assyria disappeared from history. The problem here however, is that it doesn’t take a theologian or bible scholar to clearly notice that there is nothing in Revelation chapter 13 that even hints to a possible connection, direct or indirect, between the forty-two months of verse 5 and the deadly wound of verse 3. They are completely ignored by the prophecy and are totally irrelevant. In February, 1798, Berthier entered Rome at the head of the French army, and taking Pope Pius VI prisoner, established a republic in Rome. It neither added to nor subtracted anything at all from the authority the pope possessed on Feb. 19, 1798, (the day before his capture) because the capture and killing did not involve a decree regarding his authority as pope. This rule is simply named for him and nothing more. Pope Eugenius IV approved of the Council of Basel. He demanded that Pope Pius VI renounce his authority as temporal or political leader of Italy.   The body represents the 1260 year power of the Papacy. So, why was he taken prisoner? At the end of the negotiations and the signing of the Lateran Concordat between the papacy and the state of Italy, the papacy had lost far more than it gained. In his descriptions of the activities of the beast, the prophet informs his readers that this beast would be given a time period of forty-two months to carry on all that is described in the chapter. The temporary humiliation, or deadly wound as it has been called, of 1798 did not last for over 131 years as it has been traditionally taught. Now, Napoleon had a choice. Pius. ν εἰς θάνατον is “having been slain to death”. They see Revelation 13:10 (capture and killing by sword) as explaining Revelation 13:3 (head wound), so there is no additional information to be gained in the head wound itself since the event is explained to be a capture and killing by the sword. The mission of T.U.R.N. A man who suffered a "non-survivable" execution-style gunshot to the head during a mugging in Cleveland has had a "miraculous" recovery possibly due to the intercession of Pope John Paul II. Note that this rule is NOT taken from any of Miller's Bible study rules - don't mix them up as they are not the same. Kings 25:1-11. Lord Acton The illustration above clearly indicates that the head wound had to be an event that occurred AFTER the end of the church-state combination that existed for 1260 years because (1) the wound is to the head and not to the body of the beast and (2) Daniel instructs us that the heads represent powers that come AFTER the power represented by the body of a beast. 3. The Fatal Wound Healed. That is what the pope was left with in 1929, plus he had to renounce all civil and political claims. Number 1) it lost forever its temporal power as the papal states were never restored, 2) the pope had to renounced its claims over most of the city of Rome and all temporal claims and 3) all that it was left with was a sovereign state confined to a small 109 acre property within the city of Rome called the Vatican City. He ruled a political kingdom. This removal of his kingship under God's definition had everything to do with the decree and absolutely nothing to do with the capture of the pope 5 days later and his subsequent death because the decree had already removed his authority over God's people.