1 ¶ And there came one of the
seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me,
Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth
upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings
of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have
been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the
wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names
of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and
scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a
golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name
written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF
THE EARTH. 6 And I saw the woman drunken
with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and
when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
From the time of the Emperor
Vespasian, in the era of the fall of Jerusalem to and destruction of the temple
by his son and general and future emperor Titus, there are coins still existing
that show the goddess Roma as a woman seated on seven hills. Rome, as an
entity, spiritual or temporal, spiritual or political, has existed from the
eighth century BC onward and exists now as the Roman Catholic Church.
The Pope represents the ancient Emperor,
the Cardinals the Senate, on down to the Priests representing the lowest level
magistrates of Rome. The ancient pagan title of chief of priests the pontifex maximus is the Pope’s title now
as Supreme Pontiff.
Jerusalem has also said to be a
city set on seven hills.(19)
The rulers of the earth have
committed spiritual fornication with this mystery and the people of the earth
have been made drunk with it. The imagery is stark. The woman rides the beast,
is decked with scarlet and purple, and adorned with gold and precious stones.
She is wealthy and regal. Mystery means that what she is really is hidden and
unknown although only thinly so.
1Corinthians 2:7 But we speak
the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained
before the world unto our glory:
The essence of the Babylonian impulse in is idolatrous ecumenism, hypocritical double-standards, and a union of church and state. From Babylon’s earliest
manifestation in the Bible we have the desire to unite the people of the earth
in assailing heaven in opposition to God.
Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go
to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and
let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole
earth.
Babel, or Babylon, same word,
means, according to Strong’s dictionary, “confusion by mixing.” Babylonian type
religion is the source of all religious corruption, bringing the defiled
together with the pure, bringing error together with truth, all for a purpose
not in God’s directive will.
Worldwide conferences of religion
where every religious impulse is glorified as an aspiration on the part of man
to the divine even if they are completely against the standards laid down by
the God of the Bible are an example of this. The ecumenical Babylonian says, “it’s
all good,” and, “it doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you believe in
something.” God defines religion very carefully in the Bible, giving us the proper
expression of our faith.
James 1:27 Pure religion and
undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows
in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
He shows us the proof of our
indwelling of the Holy Spirit of God.
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of
the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such
there is no law. 24 And they that are
Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
…and He shows us that there is
only one truth and that is Christ.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him,
I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by
me.
The embracing of any spiritual
desire of man, no matter where it leads him, is an example of this neo-pagan
ecumenism, this Babylonian impulse in unregenerate man. They will say, “we are
all God’s children,” when in reality…
John 8:44 Ye are of your father
the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the
beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When
he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of
it.
As Peter acknowledged….
Acts 4:12 Neither is there
salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among
men, whereby we must be saved.
Jesus remarks about this woman
mixing in leaven, or corruption, in three measures of meal until the whole was
corrupted in a warning. Could this refer to the three main branches of
Christianity; Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestantism, mixing in
pagan and secular with worship?
Matthew 13:33 Another parable
spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman
took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Luke 12:1 In the mean time, when
there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that
they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all,
Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
The Vatican in Rome embraces this
corruption when they embrace other religions as being God-acknowledged “aspirations
to the divine,” and criticizes people of wealth while it is incredibly wealthy
and criticizes building walls to protect a nation when it’s administrative
center is also protected in a likewise manner. The Protestant fundamentalist
embraces this corruption when he insists you have to long for a time in America’s
history that never existed where citizens were faithful, church-going
Christians who lived right and pure before God and loved their fellow man and
that one political party has a lock on God’s approval simply because it’s
candidates say, “God,” every other sentence. The Protestant mainline church
embraces this Babylonian mixture when it says that it is okay for someone who
rejects God’s standards of morality to be a priest in their denomination.
The uniting point of all of these
faith traditions is that the church can make it up as it goes along and God, or
the God they have created in their minds, must accept what the people decide,
the Laodicean, or people judge, church. To these wicked religionists God’s word
was only given by inspiration at one time in history and He was unable to preserve
it. God’s word to them is of no more importance to them than their traditions,
fears, cultural preferences, bigotry, or worship of self.
Under the power and authority of
the beast who is under the power and authority of Satan, they will slaughter
believers who come to God with an open heart desiring to be taught by the Holy
Spirit, and eventually demand that the believer reject Christ or die. This is
the eventual outcome of all human-centered religion; Christian, Muslim, Jew, or
other just as the culturally dominant and accepted form of Christianity in
nineteenth century America led directly to the unbelief of the twentieth. As
the Greek philosopher, Protagoras said, “Man is the measure of all things.”
This Babylonian religion ultimately unites church and state in a humanistic combination
that throughout history has proved most deadly and filled with the most error. Through
the state man magnifies himself above God.
Babylonian religion claims to be
of God but elevates man to His position. As Richard T. Ely, mentor and teacher
of President Woodrow Wilson said,
Now, it may rationally be maintained that, if there is
anything divine on earth, it is the State, the product of the same God-given
instincts which led to the establishment of the Church and of the Family. It
was once held that kings ruled by right divine, and in any widely accepted
belief, though it be afterwards discredited, there is generally found a kernel
of truth. In this case it was the divine right of the state.(20)
The false prophet who comes out of
the earth in Revelation 13:11 looks like a lamb but speaks like a dragon. Until
the beast declares that he himself is God this Mystery Babylon is most useful
in bringing the world together under a one-world church and state tyranny,
rejecting the Bible statements that Christ is the only way to God.
This Mystery Babylon will be
responsible for blood of millions of martyrs shed by the beast who supports her
as long as she is useful.
(19) Ernest L. Martin, “The Seven
Hills of Jerusalem,” on Associates for Scriptural Knowledge, http://askelm.com/prophecy/p000201.htm.
(updated February 1, 2000).
(20) Gary M. Pequet and Clifford
M. Thies, “The Shaping of a Future President’s Economic Thought: Richard T. Ely
and Woodrow Wilson at “The Hopkins,” The
Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy 15, no. 2 (Fall 2010):
262, 266. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed August 2,
2011).
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