The Harlot and the Beast

Who is the Antichrist, and what exactly is the "temple of God" Paul mentions in 2 Thes. 2:3? In this message we identify the two "beasts" in Revelation 13, which are the same two entities seen in Rev. 17; the whorish woman named "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH" (the Roman Catholic Papacy), drunken with the blood of the martyrs, riding and controlling a scarlet-colored beast, the Roman Empire, "which was, and is not, and yet is" - and (yet) IS being rebuilt today through the Vatican's vassal state, the American empire. And because that beast will eventually hate the whore and burn her with fire, the Pope of Rome CANNOT be the Antichrist - who will be a political/military ruler rather than religious...