Rev 13: 5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking "great things" and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.	  Mouth The mouth gives orders and makes laws. 

Great things .... blasphemies We know that blasphemy is speaking or acting in the place of or against God. The "great things" would be political control. 
  Forty and two months A period of oppression mentioned by Daniel and several more times in Revelation. 

It seems like our church leaders are fulfilling the prophecy of Rev 13.