1) You keep trying to tag the label to one specific individual/group, when that is not the correct interpretation.
2) Your subsequent logic also does't make sense either
How do you know what the correct interpretation is
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1) You keep trying to tag the label to one specific individual/group, when that is not the correct interpretation.
2) Your subsequent logic also does't make sense either
How do you know what the correct interpretation is
1) You keep trying to tag the label to one specific individual/group, when that is not the correct interpretation.
Are you talking about the LDS belief that each seal is 1000 years in the harlot is in the seventh seal in the false religion, not specifically Rome?
If the whore of babylon is ancient pagan rome it means the events of revelation were meant to have taken place in the days of the Roman Empire meaning revelation is wrong
I was reading this from another thread, and I think I see what you are trying to say. See, there are multiple positions within Christendom on the subject of prophecy, and one is called Preterism. Preterism holds that all of the prophecies in Revelations actually were fulfilled during New Testament times, all except the ones about Christ's return. And to their credit, there are indeed a number of things that happened back then that can make it appear that way. I'm not a Preterist, I'm a Futurist, which means I hold that nearly all of it is yet to be fulfilled, but if you are trying to prove the veracity of the Bible one way or another from anything stated in Revelation, you're kinda barking up the wrong tree so to speak. There are mountains of different positions on the question, so at best you would prove your point to one group but not prove it to many others. And with those you proved wrong, if you did so convincingly they would change their position to one that accounted for things actually happening back then like Preterism does, so you'd be back to square one.
What nearly all Christians have in common is faith that the Old and New testaments are indeed the word of God, so it's really just a matter of if our interpretations are correct that is at issue.
If the whore of babylon is pagan rome then it means the events of revelation were supposed to have happened in ancient roman times
Hi,I've been told multiple times that the whore of babylon from revelation is the Roman Catholic Church and the vatican yet I have read revelation 17 and 18 multiple times and a better match seems to be pagan rome which took place in the time revelation was written, why do people keep claiming that the whore of babylon is the catholic church when alot of the evidence suggests pagan rome
Hi,
Most biblical scholars believe the whore was either the Roman Empire or Jerusleum. Well before the Reformation, which is when this theory became more popular, it was believed to be the Roman Empire or Jerusalem. The theory that it is the CC is a recent theory that is easily debunked and not accepted by serious scholars. Revelation 18:20 and 18:24 show that the whore had to be a creature of the 1st century.
Historical Mary
Hi,
Most biblical scholars believe the whore was either the Roman Empire or Jerusleum. Well before the Reformation, which is when this theory became more popular, it was believed to be the Roman Empire or Jerusalem. The theory that it is the CC is a recent theory that is easily debunked and not accepted by serious scholars. Revelation 18:20 and 18:24 show that the whore had to be a creature of the 1st century.
Historical Mary
Bible symbolism reveals that women represent churches. A chaste woman such as in revelation 12, God's church. Prostitution throughout scripture is depicted as spiritual adultery... Idolatry... Falling away from faithfulness to God in favour of another. Babylon the great, the mother of harlots is one such example of spiritual adultery. But not solely the Catholic church. Joining with her are daughters... Those Protestant churches who rejoin her in her apostasy.
"Get out of her my people" .... so whoever she is, she contains God's people today...
That is an injunction to all believers to separate themselves from any kind of false Christianity."Get out of her my people" .... so whoever she is, she contains God's people today...
I've been told multiple times that the whore of babylon from revelation is the Roman Catholic Church and the vatican yet I have read revelation 17 and 18 multiple times and a better match seems to be pagan rome which took place in the time revelation was written, why do people keep claiming that the whore of babylon is the catholic church when alot of the evidence suggests pagan rome
Related question what does it mean when they describe the beast as once was, now is not, and yet will come.
Depends on who you ask. Revelations 17:8 is generally understood to refer back to Revelations 13:3. "One of the heads of the beast appeared to be fatally wounded. But the mortal wound was healed, and the whole world was astonished and followed the beast."
A knee jerk reaction would be to assume the Lord was telling those during the time Revelation was written that the beast was (i.e. it already existed), now is not (currently no longer does), but will again (but will return again in the future). But that's an inference. Separated out from any specific time period, all it probably simply means is that it will exist, then not exist, but then exist again, because the wound to one of its heads (i.e. one of the nations that comprises it) will be restored from what appears to be a mortal wound, possibly nuclear devastation or some other catastrophe that makes the world think the nation has surely been destroyed forever.
Please answer i'm very scared
Is the beast a revived roman empire