1 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
It's obvious in the Old Testament that Israel was a woman, she was the bride to God, who later played the harlot. Revelation speaks about the bride of the lamb as well, so we can think of a woman as a church. That definition is a bit narrow for Revelation since we have the woman not only in this chapter, but the harlot and the Woman in chapter 17, as well as the queen in chapter 18. These are all separate mindsets, like wisdom is a mindset, as well as folly and wickedness. In this chapter, the woman here is the Protestant Church, or the Reformation Church, which was formed with the teachings of the two witnesses, and spread through the European nations through men like John Wycliffe (1320–1384), Jan Hus (1369–1415) as well as other pre-reformers in the 1400s.
Wisdom is a woman. There are many examples in Proverbs, here are two: Proverbs 1:20 Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice; and also Proverbs 3:13 Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding, 14 for the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold. 15 She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. 16 Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. 18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called blessed.
Those were examples of women that are connected to God. There are also examples that a woman can be godless, for example, folly is a woman as shown in Proverbs 9:13 The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing. 14 She sits at the door of her house; she takes a seat on the highest places of the town. Wickedness is a woman in Zechariah 5: 7 And behold, the leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the basket! 8 And he said, “This is Wickedness.” And he thrust her back into the basket, and thrust down the leaden weight on its opening. This definition will certainly pertain to the Woman in chapter 17, and the queen in chapter 18.
In Ezekiel 16 we see how God clothed his bride 8 “When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine. 9 Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil. 10 I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk. 11 And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck. 12 And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. 13 Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. 14 And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord God. When God clothed her, he gave her status, protection, prosperity and identity. The woman here is clothed with the sun. The sun in previous chapters would have been an emperor. This chapter takes place after the inquisitions, so this sun is a king. This church, or mindset, would be clothed with or by the king so her favor, protection, prosperity and identity is that similar to a king.
There is a crown of twelve stars called a dodeka, which is the same word that the 12 disciples are called. Stars can be interpreted as God's elect, and they adorn the woman's head. The early reformers focused on translating the New Testament into their languages, and later translated the Old Testament. William Tyndale had a New Testament bible that was mass-produced starting in 1525 which was more widely circulated than the Old Testament he started 5 years later. It's interesting that the moon is under her feet, so she has authority of the lesser ruling powers of government, such as a senate or co-regent. The English kings, starting in the 1530's, robed the woman and made a church with authority over all other governmental power. King Henry VIII broke away from the Roman Church, creating the Church of England, and by law, instituted rules of worship that governed his land. This land would then become the largest empire on the earth by the 1900s, and another king would also translate their own version of the bible, the King James Bible. This book is still the most widely printed bible and best-selling book ever in over 400 years.
2 She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth.
Here is a good explanation of the woman, the Protestant church, or pre-reformation church, while she was in the travail of birth pains. (greatsite.com/english-bible-history/) Before the church in earnest was born, the birth pains and agony were those who stood up to the Catholic Church and were executed because of it. The Pope was so infuriated by the teaching of Wycliffe and his translation of the Bible into English, that 44 years after Wycliffe had died, he ordered the bones to be dug-up, crushed, and scattered in the river! One of Wycliffe’s followers, John Hus, actively promoted Wycliffe’s idea that people should be permitted to read the Bible in their own language. This was in opposition to the tyranny of the Roman church because they threatened anyone that possessed a non-Latin Bible with execution. Hus was burned at the stake in 1415, with Wycliffe’s manuscript Bibles used as kindling for the fire. The last words of John Hus were that, “in 100 years, God will raise up a man whose calls for reform cannot be suppressed.” Almost exactly 100 years later, in 1517, Martin Luther nailed his famous 95 Theses of Contention (a list of 95 issues of heretical theology and crimes of the Roman Catholic Church) into the church door at Wittenberg. The prophecy of Hus had come true!
Here's another perspective (greatsite.com/thomas-linacre/) - In the 1490’s another Oxford professor, and the personal physician to King Henry the 7th and 8th, Thomas Linacre, decided to learn Greek. After reading the Gospels in Greek, and comparing it to the Latin Vulgate, he wrote in his diary, “Either this (the original Greek) is not the Gospel… or we are not Christians.” The Latin had become so corrupt that it no longer even preserved the message of the Gospel… yet the Church still threatened to kill anyone who read the scripture in any language other than Latin… though Latin was not an original language of the scriptures.
3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems.
We can again connect this red dragon to the beast that comes out of the abyss in Revelation 11:7. This verse shows us that the dragon is different than the beast in Chapter 13 that rises out of the sea. That beast, the European sea beast, has 10 horns, 7 heads and 10 crowns on his horns. This dragon has 10 horns, 7 heads but only 7 crowns, and each head has a crown as opposed to the horns having crowns. The description of the horns and heads is in chapter 17, which are also 7 hills that the Woman also reigned on.
We have the dragon being present in several chapters of Revelation and the Jesuits are the only group that fits the entirety of all verses that describe the dragon. In regards to the Protestant Reformation the Jesuits were the force that tried to stop the progress of the Church of England, and later the King James Bible. They were considered the “secret arm of the papacy.” The Jesuits further fulfill prophecy in chapter 17 where they hate the prostitute, and consume her flesh. This is shown in chapter 17 when the Jesuits start investing in property previously owned by the papacy, after their fall in 1800. The Jesuits at that point were suppressed on a world-wide level, they were sent to the pit. They later rose to power, and became their own sovereign entity, closely connected with the papal Woman, when the Vatican became a sovereign city-state in 1929, housing both the Jesuit Order and the Papacy. Since that time, the black popes, and the white popes, are aligned with Mystery Babylon, the mother of all secret societies. If you do enough digging on the internet, you find the Jesuits were the fore-runner of ALL secret societies, the Illuminati, Freemasons, Modern Kabbalistic Judaism, The Bohemian Grove, the Bilderberg Group through the Knights of Malta, and highly influential to multiple three-letter government agencies. If you see your enemy, and know their agenda, it will prepare you for the hard times ahead.
4 His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.
The tail was described in chapter 9 as the false teaching of Islam, see Isaiah 9:15 “the prophet who teaches lies” as “the tail.” It is this tail, that the Jesuits use in order to conquer their enemies. The order was started in the 1500s with Ignatius Loyala, who had a vision of Mary and a child, and later received mysteries concerning her and wrote a pamphlet called Spiritual Exercises. He gained 6 followers, they took vows of poverty, chastity and spiritual service, then were appointed by the pope as their own Society of Jesus. This Order would later span the planet with missionaries primarily to indigenous people to convert them to Catholicism. They would also insert themselves in the educational and political realm by forming schools that educated the nobility. They even inserted their tail into the prophetic realm when a Jesuit author first wrote about end-times, which become a foundational teaching for Darby and Scoffield, turning the earth beast in chapter 13 into the false prophet beast. A dragon is an entity that defies God's command, as Leviathan does in the Old Testament. Red is bloodshed, great is expansive, as in the great chain in chapter 20.
5 She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,
The best interpretation I could find for the male child, is in Enoch’s Animal Apocalypse where the white bull turns into a man describing Noah, who "was taught a mystery, trembling as it was." This mystery was the revelation of God's wrath, the destruction of the Nephilim by the flood. The chapters describing Noah also describe the angel who turned the watchers to evil, and Michael who cast him into the abyss. It’s an interesting read but will be covered in chapter 20. The male child here is described as ruling all the nations, like Noah was the patriarch of all post-flood mankind. The newly formed church or ideology will influence all the earth. The child was caught up to God which is similar to the "Come up here!" in chapter 11, where God promotes His church. England had its own reformation, called the English Reformation, which started in 1534 when King Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church. He also declared himself head of the Church of England, the Supreme Governor, after the Pope refused to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. The Act of Supremacy in 1534 was passed by the Parliament, the moon, and later they instituted the Book of Common Prayer in 1549. These laws legislated how the Anglican Church was to conduct their services by passing the Act of Uniformity in 1558, using the Book of Common Prayer as the basis of the services. There would be many more laws, fulfilling the rod that crushed the pot into pieces as told in Revelation 2:27. Not only did they have the rod of law to crush the papacy, their King James Bible was used in all protestant churches, not just the English Anglican church. See the Wikipedia page Timeline of the English Reformation to see how the English monarchy overcame the papacy starting in the 1300s going to almost 1700.
6 and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days. 7 Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back,
The woman fled to the wilderness, an uninhabited land. In the early 1600s, the Protestant Church was facing persecution in most of Europe. The Pilgrims and the Puritans sought refuge in the early American Colonies of England. See the fulfillment in verse 14.
The Catholics and Jesuits fought back against the Reformation in the 1500s but when they decisively lost the 30 Years’ War in 1648 they knew they needed to change tactics. They would now use spiritual thought as a way to conquer. They promote piety to others to cause submission, while themselves seeking their spiritual truth from angelic sources that are not God. This piety is not done out of love or obedience to God, it's a form of godliness that denies the power of God that’s received through true repentance. From the Wikipedia Counter-Reformation page: The effort produced apologetic and polemical (controversial rhetoric) documents, anti-corruption efforts, internal reform, spiritual movements, the promotion of new religious orders, and the flourishing of new art and musical styles. War and discriminatory legislation caused large migrations of religious refugees. Such reforms included the formation of seminaries for the proper training of priests in the spiritual life and the theological traditions of the Church, the reform of religious life by returning orders to their spiritual foundations, and new spiritual movements focusing on the devotional life and a personal relationship with Christ, including the Spanish mystics and the French school of spirituality. It also involved political activities and used the regional Inquisitions. A primary emphasis of the Counter-Reformation was a mission to reach parts of the world that had been colonized as predominantly Catholic and an attempt to reconvert nations such as Sweden and England that once were Catholic from the time of the Christianization of Europe, but had been lost to the Reformation. Various Counter-Reformation theologians focused only on defending doctrinal positions such as the sacraments and pious practices that were attacked by the Protestant reformers up to the Second Vatican Council. This change in tactics will tie into Mystery Babylon, and how the dragon controls society as shown in chapter 18.
8 but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
These phrases about the dragon, also called Satan in chapter 20, are misconstrued to say that Satan was cast out of heaven with a third of his angels. Once you are familiar with prophetic terminology, you can see that's not the case at all. Reading Enoch will give you a good understanding of the 200 angels that fell, and not 1/3 of God's heavenly army. Thrown down means to lose authority. See Luke 10:1-19 where Jesus commends his disciples when they came back from casting out demons and healing the sick. This defeat after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 that ended the 30 Years’ War, is the 1260 days prophesied in Daniel concerning Nicene Christianity. The beginning of the prophecy began in 388 with the defeat of Maximus who ruled the western Roman Empire. With his defeat, the Theodosian Decrees, which labeled non-Nicene Christians as heretics, were enforced to squash the growth of Arian Christianity. See the fulfillment of Daniel 7:25 He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time. 26 But the court shall sit in judgment, and his dominion shall be taken away,
The archangel Michael contended over a principality in the book of Daniel. Strong's has a good write-up about him, and they summarize it here: Strong’s 3413 presents Michael as the archangelic champion whose humility, courage, and loyalty advance God’s kingdom and protect His people from Genesis to Revelation’s consummation. The Suppression of the Jesuits was not a physical battle, but a battle of thought, covering many principalities, because Michael had help from his angels. This is fulfilled with the suppression of the Jesuits that occurred with many monarchies of Europe in the 1700s. From the Suppression of the Society of Jesus Wikipedia page, "The Jesuits were serially expelled from the Portuguese Empire (1759), France (1764), the Kingdom of Naples and Kingdom of Sicily, Malta, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, the Spanish Empire (1767) and Austria and Hungary (1782). This defeat of the Jesuits was not because of a fall of an empire, or the loss of a battle or war. The hearts of the kings were spiritually turned against the Jesuits as in Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.
Here the dragon is described with "serpent," "devil" and "Satan." The dragon is a political entity, like the ram and shaggy goat were in Daniel 8. The serpent represents both cunning and wisdom, be wise as serpents. Remember how Jesus called the Pharisees a brood of vipers and the serpent deceived Eve of the words of God. Devil is called a father of lies, as in John 8:44, and that compares to Leviathan in the Old Testament, who is king over the sons of pride spoken of in Job 41:34. The tares were sown by the devil in Matthew 13:39 and interestingly, the seed heads of the tares stay upright even to the end of the harvest, unlike wheat who bows the head when it's full of grain. Satan is a principality that rules over others, both demonic and human. He sends messengers to do his work, for example when Jesus rebuked Peter in Matthew 16:23 and Paul mention that Satan sent a messenger to torment him in 2 Corinthians 12:7.
10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. 11 And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
This might be the most important verse in all of Revelation. His coming is not a one-time event. There is a quick study of that shown in chapter 1, even though there are verses in the New Testament that say so, such as in Hebrews 9:28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. That "second time" is described in Revelation 21 with the new heavens and the new earth. We can call that the final coming and not take any word out of context. I believe it is important to do so because Jesus' coming is much more complex than a one-time event. What is his coming? What happens at his coming? Why did he come? What are the tools involved in making his coming possible? The entire book of Revelation is the mission statement of the work of Jesus. It is our purpose in life to be the body of Christ, and to usher in the kingdom of God, not sit as a lukewarm church waiting for the final coming. Jesus will spew us out of his mouth if we do that.
WHAT IS HIS COMING:
In context of the kingdom and authority, it is a revealing, or Jesus manifesting himself to his followers. 2 Corinthians 4:10-11 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. / For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body. John 14:18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you...21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” John 17:6 “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
WHAT HAPPENS AT HIS COMING:
Salvation - Hebrews 9:28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. Isaiah 52:10 The LORD has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. Luke 19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost. Titus 2:11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.,"
Power - 2 Corinthians 12:9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Ephesians 3:16-17 I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, / so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Colossians 1:10 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy;
Kingdom of God - Mark 1:14 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, 15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel. Matthew 12:28 But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. Colossians 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
WHY DID HE COME:
His manifestation to his followers throws down the accuser of the brethren - Psalm 110:1 The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool. Psalm 91:13 You will tread on the lion and the adder; the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot. Luke 10:19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Remember the words of Jesus, seek first the kingdom of God that's in Matthew 5. Reading the book of Revelation with kingdom mindset allows God to reveal the mysteries of the Kingdom, and strengthens your authority in Jesus. Reading Revelation to set dates or to beat other believers over the head with your knowledge will shut the door of God's grace to understand all that he has for you. Remember the admonishment Jesus gave in Luke 12:45 But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, 46the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful. 47And that servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. 48But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more...
WHAT TOOLS WERE INVOLVED IN MAKING THIS POSSIBLE
Blood of the Lamb - 1 Peter 1:18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. 20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you, Hebrews 9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. 1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. Matthew 26:(27) he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, 28 for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Word of their testimony (proclaim, witness) Matthew 24:14 This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. John 1: 7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. 1 Corinthians 2:1 And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. 2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, 4 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
They love not their lives even unto death - Luke 14:26 If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus told His disciples, If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. 25 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Hebrews 10:2 behold I have come to do your will" 12 Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”
Great wrath is shown in Isaiah 13:9 "Behold, the day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it". This foretells the coming day of the Lord, where Jesus comes as a thief. WWI, the Spanish Flu, the great depression and finally, WWII will devastate Europe. This also ties in to the description of the beast, false prophet and the dragon releasing the frogs in Revelation 16:13. The dragon knows his time is short and, by the time the wrath is poured out, the dragon has changed the earth beast to the false prophet.
13 when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. 14 But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time. 15 Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away in the torrent. 16 But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.
This prophecy is nearly identical to the phrases in verse 6. The start of the prophecy is in verse 6, during the English Reformation. The fulfillment of this time, times & half a time is fulfilled in verse 16. This timeline is a bit harder to find since it's not an obvious 1260 years, or 350 years like in chapter 11. The wilderness is the English colonies in America, and the two wings of the eagle are the Puritans and Pilgrims who sailed there. This long voyage fulfills the word "great". The timeline starts with the mapping of Jamestown, which we see from the Wikipedia page "Pilgrims." The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who travelled to North America on the ship Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony at what now is Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. John Smith named this territory New Plymouth in 1614, sharing the name of the Pilgrims' final departure port of Plymouth, Devon, England. The Pilgrims' leadership came from religious congregations of Brownists or Separatists who had fled religious persecution in England for the tolerance of 17th-century Holland in the Netherlands. If 40 is used for a "time," similar to the 40 years of wilderness in Exodus, then they would be nourished for 140 years. This puts us at 1754, which is the start of the French and Indian War also called the 7 Years War.
The dragon is called the serpent in chapter 20, so using the term serpent needs another look. Strong's defines serpent as an artfully malicious person, and the French used Jesuit spies and intelligence before the war. The Jesuits also influenced the Native American tribes on both sides of the war, so losses were guaranteed no matter which side won. Not only that, but I found that George Washington, who started the French and Indian War, also has Jesuit influences. His unprovoked 1754 ambush on a French diplomatic party at Jumonville Glen and the subsequent surrender at Fort Necessity in western Pennsylvania was the trigger for this war, which turned into a global conflict. Washington's Jesuit background was his adherence to the Jesuit code of piety, called 110 Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour. He also had Father Leonard Neale, a local Maryland Jesuit priest, summoned to Mount Vernon to spend several hours with him on his death bed. The Jesuit spies are likely the one God wants to warn us about, but Washington's Jesuit connection also fulfills Revelation 13:11 where the United States earth beast looked like a lamb, but spoke like a dragon. This war ended their nourishment because of the attacks on Protestant British and American frontier settlements, leading to devastating raids and the capture of civilians. Soon after this war was the Revolutionary War, which gave rise to the earth beast in chapter 13.
The bible refers to wars as floods, as in Psalm 124:1 If the LORD had not been on our side—let Israel now declare—2 if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us, 3 when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive, 4 then the floods would have engulfed us, then the torrent would have overwhelmed us, 5 then the raging waters would have swept us away. The mouth is the part of the body that decrees, so this is fulfilled by a decree or law from someone in government. The war was stopped by a decree from the earth. In Revelation 10 and 11 France is the earth, and in 1763 the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian war in America.
17 Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.
The Jesuits were restored in 1814, and had changed their war tactics. They participated in slavery by twisting the bible to say that slavery could be pious as long as you teach them Christianity. They started schools, colleges, and other institutions of higher learning to control the thought of those in power. The were missionaries to the indigenous, forcibly removing children from their families in order to convert them. They built hospitals, the sorcery that profits off the sick. The earth beast did not participate in the Suppression of the Jesuits, so the dragon operated in the Americas on a mighty chain, as shown in chapter 20. We meet this earth beast in the next chapter.
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