The Three Blasphemies of Satan Revelation 13:6: And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. : The Three Blasphemies of Satan Revelation 13:6 provides additional details about the blasphemies of Satan and the mouth of the First Beast during the Great Apostasy.¹ In Revelation 13:5, Satan spoke three kinds of blasphemy through the mouths of his earthly agents² within the Roman Empire.³ Many refer to the Roman Empire, or First Beast, as antichrist.⁴

The Three Blasphemies of Satan Earthly agents of the First Beast committed blasphemy against God and his name when they claimed to possess God's attributes and power.⁵ This blasphemy occurred when the Roman emperors⁶ and then the popes⁷ claimed to possess divine attributes and infallibility.⁸ In 1073 AD, for example, Pope Gregory (VII) published the Dictatus Papae, which declared the infallibility of the papacy⁹ and the supreme power of the popes over all earthly kingdoms.¹⁰ The Roman Catholic Church adopted this edict as an official doctrine of the church at the Vatican Council of 1870.¹¹

The Three Blasphemies of Satan Agents of the First Beast also blasphemed God's tabernacle or tent.¹² The tabernacle‒ and the temporary tent used by Israelites before the tabernacle‒represents the place where God meets his people.¹³ It is, therefore, a symbol of the ancient church that Christ organized on earth.¹⁴ The First Beast committed a blasphemy against Christ's ancient church in the time of Constantine when unconverted pagans entered the church in large numbers¹⁵ and their rituals replaced many of Christ's pure doctrines and practices early in the fourth century AD.¹⁶ The Christian church of Constantine was an apostate organization¹⁷ that blasphemously imitated Christ's true church in false and unholy ways.¹⁸ The blasphemies include the false doctrines of transubstantiation,¹⁹ the forgiveness of sins through the sale of indulgences,²⁰ as foreseen by the prophet Moroni,²¹ and a host of other false doctrines.²² Martin Luther protested these blasphemous doctrines in 1517²³ when he nailed his ninety-five theses to the door of Wittenberg Castle Church in Germany.²⁴ His attacks on the doctrinal abuses within the Catholic Church was a catalyst for the Protestant Reformation.²⁵

The Three Blasphemies of Satan The third blasphemy of the First Beast was directed at them that dwell in heaven.²⁶ This blasphemy began to occur when dead saints became the object of worship,²⁷ rather than, or in addition to, the worship of God.²⁸ Them that dwell in heaven includes righteous saints of Christ's true church that died as martyrs.²⁹ They had many blasphemous wrongs committed against them in life and then they became the objects of blasphemy in death.³⁰ Their righteous spirits dwell in heaven in the paradise of God awaiting the resurrection,³¹ but they are not to be worshiped and it is blasphemy to do so.³²