Chapter 17 (pdf)
Download1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.”
The woman here is an ideology or religion (see chapter 12), but a harlot in the Old Testament is described repeatedly as the religious leaders of Israel who worship God but also worship idols. This religion is seated on the many waters. The seat is the Papal States, right by the many waters of the Holy Roman Empire. There are many books and websites and social media influencers that have information on how the Catholic Church is full of idols. They worship Mary and the saints, the popes are called the “vicar of Christ,” and they actually removed one of the commandments out of their version of the Bible so they could put idols in the churches.
The kings committed sexual immorality with the popes because the kings were declared chosen by God by the popes when they were coronated. This was called the “divine right of kings” in the medieval period before the Reformation.
3 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman (gyne: woman, wife, lady) was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. 5 And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.” 6 And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly.
The wilderness here is Rome in the 1700s, once having 1.5 million people at the height of the Roman Empire, dwindled down to less than 20,000 during the Middle Ages. Here we see a woman seated on the red beast. In chapter 12 we were introduced to the red dragon, here it is a red beast. The dragon is a sovereign version of the red beast, coming out of the abyss in chapter 20, and ruling with horns of leadership. The dragon in Revelation 12 showed the dragon had seven heads, 10 horns, and seven crowns on its heads. It became a beast when the Vatican became sovereign in 1927. See the Daniel 7 & 8 worksheet listed in Chapter 13.
The Woman is arrayed in purple, which was the color given exclusively to the emperors of Rome, and red is again the color of blood, so she would receive her garments from the blood of the saints. Gold is a reminder of the testing of the saints, the jewels are as of the precious stones on the ephod of the priests, and pearls denote wisdom. She has in her hand a cup of wine, the fruit of the vine, the blood of grapes. We know that believers are part of the vine, and their precious blood was sacrificed to give her the drink of abominations. She will become drunk on the power of that cup instead of repenting, assuming that she will not suffer for her abominations.
The papacy, and the beast, follow the mysterious Babylon religion. From biblehub, mystery also means secret..."from a derivative of muo (to shut the mouth); a secret or "mystery" (through the idea of silence imposed by initiation into religious rites)." They are secret religions, or what we call today as secret societies. Babylon is the beginning of this pagan religion, or mother of all the secret societies. It was started with Nimrod, Asherah and Tammuz and the many secret societies that have come and gone are the offspring of this false religion.
7 But the angel said to me, “Why do you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her. 8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come. 9 This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated; 10 they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while. 11 As for the beast that was and is not, it is an eighth but it belongs to the seven, and it goes to destruction.
Review the Daniel 7 & 8 worksheet. Concerning the seven heads/seven kings of the dragon, the bible shows that Egypt (King/mountain 1) is a serpent in several books of Isaiah, and that Babylon (king 2) is the serpent in Jeremiah 51:34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his stomach with my delicacies; he has rinsed me out.” Assyria (king 3) is the serpent against the Philistines in Isaiah 14:29. Greece (King 4) is the serpent in Revelation 2:13 in reference to the church of Pergamon which is where the throne of Satan is, and Pergamon was a Greek city in Turkey, and also in Isaiah 14:29. Rome (king 5) is the devourer through Herod because of his slaughter of Hebrew infant sons, like Egypt did when Moses was born. The Holy Roman Empire (king 6) is the current head of the serpent in this description and was responsible for the slaughter of reformers as quoted from. The Vatican (king 7) which is of the 7 heads of the European beast, and is an 8th head of the European beast when it becomes a city-state in 1927. This also shows that the Vatican is the red dragon, because the Vatican will be ruled by Jesuits. Pope Francis is the fulfillment of the Jesuit pope in 2013.
(static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/827989/15116787/1321289366180/50+million+protestants+killed.pdf) Pope Pius VII completely restored the Jesuits throughout the world in August 1814.
However the Pope had his own inquisition at Rome. He ruled what is known as the Papal States of Central Italy directly from 756 to 1870. So the responsibility for the persecution and destruction of "heretics" in that region rested with him. When he was finally deprived of these states in 1870 it was thrown open to the inspection of the public. Letters appeared in the London Daily News at the time. The Daily News correspondent himself, visited Rome only to discover the grim truth of those horrors imposed by the Papal authorities. He reports to have seen skeletons and human remains in huge underground vaults, as they were removing masses of decayed and stinking animal matter. Attached to some of this decaying flesh, he saw silken hair clearly identifiable as human. He reports to have been thoroughly sickened by the sight. A report of his newspaper article was given by Robert Roberts of Birmingham in 1893 in the course of four town hall lectures.
12 And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast. 14 They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.”
Ten horns are kings that have not received power yet but will rule with the beast and hand their power over to the beast. The European beast when it came out of the sea had 10 horns, which at the time were 10 family monarchies that survived the fall of the Roman empire. The horns here are still those ancient families, ruling with the Jesuit/Vatican red dragon. The horns worship mystery Babylon, meaning they follow the old secret societies, and worship the image of Babylon - Nimrod, Horus, etc. All 10 horns will give their authority to the Dragon at the end. Look carefully at the secret societies at work even in the earth beast of the US. We know that these horns have players behind the scenes making decisions on our fiscal, military, medical and moral laws that don’t agree with the masses. If the beast is truly in charge, then we should see the ideology of the Jesuits being honored and revered. There will be a war on the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer. In the past the red dragon made war on the lamb but was conquered, now WE conquer! Put on your armor, learn the Word and get ready to be victorious. Pick up on this beast by going to Revelation 20.
15 And the angel said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages. 16 And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire, 17 for God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by being of one mind and handing over their royal power (kingdom) to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.
We see here the need to separate the woman from what’s commonly called “The Whore of Babylon” into two separate eras of the papacy. First the harlot, then the Woman who is a follower of Mystery Babylon. John sees the papacy now under the influence of Mystery Babylon and riding the Jesuit dragon. In Revelation 18:9 we see the kings who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning. But that's not at all what this verse says. See the difference here in how the kings treat the papacy? When we separate out the harlot vs the Woman, these verses also make sense. Here the kings hate the prostitute (v16), which is seated on many waters. The many waters speaks of the popes when they were ruling from the Papal States and the Holy Roman Empire. The kings hated these popes and made her desolate. Think of Bonaparte stripping the popes of their power, and the end of the Papal States. They burned her with fire by speaking condemnation against the papacy starting in the 1600s with the Act of Supremacy. The kings devoured her flesh by taking back the property of the Catholic Church, and cathedrals and monasteries, destroying churches and abbeys starting with King Henry VIII. These old monarchy families of Europe will later be unified in their loyalty to the Woman riding the Red Dragon Beast, after their desolation of the harlot. The Jesuit Beast devoured the harlot's flesh by overtaking the entire papal system. As Christians, we consistently eat the flesh of Jesus, and that is the process of becoming of one mind with him (1 Corinthians 2:16 and Philippians 2:5) and living our life as he lived. Our efforts are to become as he was so people can see Jesus through us. The Woman on the Jesuit beast in fact has become as the harlot was, with the first Jesuit pope in 2013. The Jesuits consumed all the power, money, influence and authority of the papacy.
18 And the woman you saw is the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth.”
In Revelation 11:13, the great city was Europe. The Woman is on the Beast at the height of Imperialism. The Europeans spread their Babylonian tendencies to the farthest reaches of the earth. The obelisks and temples (Asherah groves) that are prominent in these countries show their allegiance to Babylon.