Daniel 9:27 - The angel tells John in Rev. Ch. 17 "a mind with wisdom" is needed to understand the meaning of "the Great Prostitute," a symbolic picture of this future false one-world religion. A careful study of the history of the Roman Empire through its various phases: its western and eastern leg, the rise of the Holy Roman Empire, and finally the Roman Catholic Church itself, conforms well to the descriptions Rev. Ch. 17 provides. Of particular note, the inquisitions of the Roman Catholic Church uniquely fit the explanations which the angel provides to John.