You saying this is a red flag to me that you don't know what you're talking about. None of this is "easy peasy". It takes effort and prayer to understand these things we're talking about.
It is easy to me because I already put in the effort. I had a heart attack about 7 years ago and thus God slowed me down a wee bit, so I was at home praying, fasting, seeking the Lord, as usual, but more so eating my chicken noodle soup and vegies. As one called to prophecy 37 years ago now (30 years then) I asked the Lord one day,
"Lord why is it that we as a church are so al over the place and confused, we have 100s of interpretations of what/who Babylon is, who the 144,000 are, what the Beast and 10 horns mean, how the Raptures timing unfolds etc. and yet there is only one truth, and Lord you told Daniel that in the very end times all of these things would be revealed, so why is the church still confused Lord?"
And I got this
"Ron, you guys already know it all" and I knew in an instant what the Holy Spirit was saying. He was telling me, that like the Pharisees, we were relying on other men's interpretations (Traditions) therefore our understandings were blocking God from revealing His truths unto us, especially those truths that He only intended to reveal at these end times !! In other words, as young Christians we all saw the Book of Revelation, Prophecy, Daniel, Ezekiel as way over our heads so we read other men's ideas, or listened unto them, like Hal Lindsey (good man) or others, and we never did the simple thing which is "ASK God" what does this mean Lord? as we did when reading the four Gospels or Paul's epistles. So, we got understandings like the 144,000 are Super Preachers which is found nowhere in the bible, at all. Or stuff like the 10 tribes are scattered around the world and lost. Not true. So, understanding that God simply needed me to put off old understandings (unless 100 percent proven of course, like Daniel's four beasts which are Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome...............well, it is really 5 Beasts including the A.C., but lets leave that for another time) and to simply ask God to show me His truths on any and all things, and that God wanted me to never just accept old beliefs without putting them to the test, and finally, God wanted me to be able to hear His voice when He was saying, "Ron you are wrong". So, my prayer was that I would always hear when I am wrong on anything, and that I would always put things to the test when they seemed to contradict scriptures, even if everyone in the world had bought into it as "truth". So, off I went on my journey.
I spent a few weeks writing this blog about how the Harlot in Rev. 17 really meant Rome was THAT CITY in verse 18, and the Holy Spirit honored my prayer, I heard him say, "Ron, you are wrong,
look at verse 18 again", so I did.
18 And the
woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
I did not get it at first, I was like Lord, Rome was over the earth at the time John wrote this, and the coming Anti-Christ must be European. Then I saw it, God told John that Woman you SAW is that Great City, so I knew God wanted me to GO LOOK at the verses where John SAW the vision. To my astonishment, only verses 3-6 were about what John actually saw in his vision, so God wanted me to LOOK VERY CLOSLEY at this section. Hmmm. (I will add in verse 7 for transitional context).
Rev. 17:3 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. (But NO CROWNS !!)
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(COMMA), 1.)
Babylon The Great, 2.)
The Mother Of Harlots And 3.)
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.(Really means Great Wonderment)
7 And
the angel said unto me, (WHY)Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the
seven heads and ten horns(no crowns here).
So, God got me to pay close attention to what John SAW.........So I knew He wanted me to analyze this passage deeply for a reason. I saw that it was never Mystery Babylon, verse 7 helps out via what the Angel said to John, the Angel said COME, I will show you the MYSTERY (Musterion is Secret by God's silence) of the Woman and the Beast she rides. So, from this point on I knew that it was never Mystery Babylon, because the Angel just stated he was going to reveal this Mystery (Secret) unto us, but we just all missed that clue somehow. So, I now knew it was not Mystery Babylon, so I looked, and looked and I realized God was showing us who the Harlot was, not who Babylon was !! Look at the word Mystery as a HEADER or a question mark like this below, and the three names as
Descriptors of who the Harlot is, then it all adds up.
MYSTERY (?) this is a Header so to speak, saying MYSTERY? and here is your descriptive answer below:
1.) Babylon the Great ( Babylon was associated with false gods and
FALSE RELIGION )
2.) Mother of Harlots ( Who could this be? The original Harlotry on earth was what?
FALSE RELIGION )
3.) Abominations of the Earth (God is a Jealous God, thus He hates what?
FALSE RELIGION on Earth )
So, who is the Harlot that great women in verse 18? Well, she is described by these three descriptors as
ALL FALSE RELIGION of All Time !! Babylon was a city of Harlotry, False Religion and Babylon are associates of course. So Rome was not that Great City as I had thought, God not only told me you are wrong Ron, but then showed me what all of this actually meant !! Wow, simply asking God still works (lol) I thought to myself, of course it does !! We just thought Prophecy was over our heads as young Christians, so we allowed other men's ideas to seep in, and therefore to block out God's truths in full. We therefore Got Satan's half truths at times, he is good at that. So I went back over it all with a fine tooth comb, now that I knew the Harlot was All False Religion of all time I could see other things that backed this truth up.
Notice, the Harlot has the
Blood of the Saints AND the Martyrs of Jesus on her hands. John is telling us False Religion is responsible for deaths of the Jewish Saints of old, the Prophets etc. (Paul, Peter, John, Daniel etc. saw Saints as a general term for Israelites see Dan. 12:7), even the Man in Linen in Dan. 12:7 calls them Saints (Pre incarnate Jesus). Then John makes sure to call the Church the Martyrs of Jesus, so this Harlot has blood on her hands on both sides of the cross !!
This equals ALL FALSE RELIGION of All Time.
She's a Harlot with Scarlet and Purple sitting on a Scarlet Colored Beast (Apollyon with NO CROWNS) thus she was False Religion riding Government Beasts back throughout history, they were always intermingled, of course, Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome they always worshipped false gods !! So, when I googled Purple and Scarlet I was stunned, those two colors were very expensive to create in olden times, they had to crush a certain rare bugs and certain seeds from a certain flower if I recollect correctly. So, only Religious Orders and Royalty could afford to wear those colors, even the High Priests of Israel wore purple. So, its not a hint per se at the RCC, but it is telling us this Woman was a False Religious Harlot, and she was associated very closely unto Government Beasts (Royalty). See how Gods truths can be twisted by Satan? It has to be the RCC !! No, it is all False Religious Orders, be they Mormons, SDA, Jupiter, Zeus, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism etc. etc.
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