Uh, the beast would receive a deadly wound, and then it would be healed. The papacy is so back on center stage that we've got flippin Jesuits and Catholics everywhere - SCOTUS, Congress, even your President went to a Jesuit school. "And all the world wondered after the beast" is being fulfilled before our eyes if we but open them.
Yes, the pope is so yesterday's news that all the religious leaders of the world went to the Vatican and bowed down before him just a few years ago...he's regarded as the spiritual leader of the world. Kenneth Copeland all but had an orgasm after catholic-wannabe Bishop Tony Palmer told the world during that live Pope/Protestant debacle, "LUTHER'S PROTEST IS OVER...IS YOURS?" Copeland spoke in tongues, prayed for the Pope, alongside James Robison and company, and then after they all sign the "Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification" in which they all agreed with the heresy of Catholicism...the pope's back bro