Understanding Babylon, the Fallen Church
Revelation 14:8 And another angel, a second one, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who has made all the nations drink of the wine of the passion of her immorality
This passage is the message of the 2nd angel (of three) as recorded in Revelation 14. These three angels and their three respective messages essentially give us the headlines of the eternal gospel of Jesus Christ. The Scriptures contain the eternal gospel which these three angels summarized in their three messages. This is the gospel the true disciples of Jesus Christ need to be taking out to the world.
1. Fear God and give Jesus glory by true worship of Him.
2. Beware man’s false religion and vain worship of the fallen church of Babylon.
3. Anyone who doesn’t do #1 or gets caught up into #2 will be eternally condemned.
The messages are then concluded with the bottom line about following Jesus.
Revelation 14:12 Here is the perseverance of the saints who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
For further details we need to consult the Scriptures and seek the whole counsel of God and more importantly follow the voice of the Holy Spirit who will guide us into all truth.
Babylon has figured out a different way to get to heaven than obeying the eternal gospel of Christ. It is called religion and is based on man-made traditions and doctrines of demons. It is a false way, the wrong way and the vast majority of professing Christians are on this broad road to destruction.
Matthew 7:13 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
The original Babylonians tried to build their own tower into heaven. This was recorded back in Genesis 11. God was not pleased with their fleshly attempts at being religious and seeking Him and He scattered them to the ends of the earth.
Genesis 11:4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
Jesus builds His church, the spiritual city of Jerusalem. He chooses us, we cannot through the strength of our flesh put on a religious facade and become the church by our own choosing. Yet that is what Babylon did then and has us doing today, all in the name of Jesus with the wrappings of religion. Man’s religion is all based on selfish ambition, once you peel the onion back and find the root. This is how the false prophets come, looking like lambs but speaking religious lies.
Revelation 13:11 Then I saw another beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon.
What is Babylon
The majority of Christians have no idea or a totally wrong idea of what the Babylon spoken about in the book of Revelation is speaking about. Very many believe it is the USA or western society in general; but Scriptures tell us clearly, it is the fallen away church.
Revelation 14:8 And another angel, a second one, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who has made all the nations drink of the wine of the passion of her immorality
Wine is an allegory to religious doctrine as a quick study of Scripture will show. Immorality refers to sin. So Babylon simply put is RELIGION that peddles doctrine that says it is okay to live and practice sin. Our flesh loves to hear this doctrine as it makes the road to eternal life very easy to follow. But it is all a lie. Babylon produces harlots that do not die to their flesh and claim to be married to Jesus.
All who follow this system of religion, no matter what “church” they go to drink judgment upon themselves and actually worship the image of Satan, who is the God and the spirit behind this gospel.
Babylon has nothing to do with politics, countries or nations the way we think of nations today. I see people advocating moving to Europe or some far away place to escape the judgment that is coming upon Babylon. From my eyes, this is pure folly and is based on a natural discernment of the Scriptures and the signs of the end versus a spiritual discernment. People that believe Babylon is the USA or some political entity, almost universally see the modern-day nation of Israel established in 1948 as the Israel of God. This country is not God’s Israel and the Israel spoken about in the Scriptures. The fig tree nation represents the people on this planet who believe on the Lord Jesus and have had their hearts circumcised by the finger of God. Everything else is just part of Satan’s big deception to deceive the whole world thru false religion. Did God Really Say? To stay on target, I will refer you to this post if you want to see who is the TRUE ISRAEL OF GOD.
Babylon is a church built via the works of the flesh, by men. Babylon simply put is man’s church. Anotherwords, it is RELIGION. This includes churches of all types and all denominations that mix with the world and walk after the flesh. It most certainly includes the Roman Catholic church but it does not stop there, it includes ALL “christian” churches and denominations that share a common set of characteristics that we are going to look at below. I speak in general terms to the system, not the individuals that may be members of these systems. God judges each individuals hearts and He saves individuals that love Him with their whole heart even if they had membership in a false church. Still we are called to come out and be separate and touch not what is unclean.
Babylon is referred to in the angel’s message as a SHE. Babylon is later shown to be a woman and a mother in the Book of Revelation. A woman is a type and allegory to CHURCH, it is never a type for a nation or a political organization. Babylon is CHURCH, it is RELIGION. The Apostle John shares his vision with us.
Revelation 17 - Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. 4The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. 5This title was written on her forehead:
Mystery Babylon the Great, The Mother of Harlots and of the Abominations of the Earth
6I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.
Sin is the abomination. Babylon promotes and accommodates sin. Its congregations never purge sin, they are not sanctified. The false shepherds feed off the sin of her people. This system produces harlots, hence Babylon is a mother of harlots. Harlots are people who do not die to their flesh and claim to also be married to Jesus. This religious system deceives Christians into practicing sin by perverting and doing violence to the truth about God’s Word.
The wine in her cup is religious doctrine that gets people spiritually drunk and makes them blind to the truth. The program is all about having a cup that is clean on the outside and promotes doing works of the flesh in the name of God. Yet the hearts of the people are not with God, they remain in love with sin and the pursuits of the lusts of the flesh.
This church sheds the blood (spiritually speaking) of the its members, sending them to eternal death. The priests have done violence in the sanctuary.
Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean
In Babylon people are taught to put on forms of godliness. Forms of godliness are not godliness. These religious facades deny the power of Christ to transform us into a new creation. It teaches unbelief.
Why Babylon Falls
We simply need to go back to Daniel Chapter 5 to see how Babylon fell the first time to see how Babylon is going to fall again. You might just be amazed at the similarities. In both cases of Babylon falling, the sanctified vessels of God are filled with wine and defiled. In modern day Babylon, the wine is the false doctrines of the false gospel that leads to another Jesus.
Daniel 5:1 King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them. 2 While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them
Babylon fell the first time because it took the sanctified and holy things of God’s temple and mixed them with things of the world and the flesh. The silver goblets were sanctified vessels from the Holy Temple of God and when Belshazzar brought them into an unclean and sinful environment at his “worldly” party, God got angry. These golden goblets are types and allegories to the true treasures of God. We are the temple of the living God and our souls are the treasure of God’s temple today. When God’s temple is plundered, it is souls that are taken captive.
Once Belshazzar served the worldly wine (religious doctrine) into the sanctified vessels, a very wierd and scary thing happened. A vision of a hand appeared and this hand wrote an inscription on the wall which terrified the king and all that were attending. To cut to the punch line, Daniel was called to come interpret the inscription and here is what he was given to say by God.
Daniel 5:27 This is the inscription that was written: Mene , Mene , Tekel , Parsin
26 “This is what these words mean: Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end. 27 Tekel : You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting. 28 Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”
If you read on in Daniel 5, this king was soon thereafter killed and Babylon quickly fell into the hands of an invading army. The reason the angel says Babylon is fallen twice is to indicate that Babylon will fall again. It has already fallen. An invading army, the powers of darkness, have completely surrounded the church and religious systems and have come inside its gates and occupy the dwelling places of God which is our hearts, minds and souls. Please wakeup to the truth. Many religious kings are doing the same thing Belshazzar did.
Lamentations 4:12 The kings of the earth did not believe, Nor did any of the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem. Because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed in her midst the blood of the righteous
Like Belshazzar’s Babylon, our modern-day Babylon church has mixed with the world, inviting it and its sin to come in and fellowship with it and thereby spoiling the sanctified vessels of God. We are to come out and be separate and touch not what is unclean. Babylon walks after the flesh and looks no different from the world. Awaken O’Sleeper and repent.
How We Arrive In Babylon?
If we truly come to know God and remain faithful to Him, we will not be taken captive to Babylon. But we are not once saved always saved, we can fall away, we can be deceived, we can return to Egypt. We must remain faithful to God and if we do so, nobody or nothing will snatch us out of His hands. We are taken captive when we let idols creep into our lives that get us to pursue to lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life; anotherwords SIN. The deceitfullness of sin takes root in our hearts and we are unwittingly led astray into Babylon or we never really escape to begin with.
1 Chronicles 1:9 The people of Judah were taken captive to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.
When we compromise with the world and sup with them in fellowship, eating at the table of God and the table of demons, we pour water on the truth. We begin to listen to the liars that say Did God Really Say? You Shall Surely Not Die if you sin…….. When we practice sin or never purge it, God sends the enemy to take us captive and they carry us off into exile into Babylon. The few that speak the true gospel are despised and hated, scoffed at and mocked just like happened to Jesus, the Prophets and the Apostles. We are promised it will be the same for us. THE WORLD WILL HATE YOU.
2 Chronicles 33:16 But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the LORD was aroused against his people and there was no remedy. 17 He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians… He carried to Babylon all the articles from the temple of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the LORD’s temple and the treasures of the king and his officials.
People want to believe that Christians cannot have demons. I see a different reality that says the people in Babylon all have demons. People practicing sin and following the teachings of Babylon are in bondage. The real Jesus, sets us free from these captors, but we need to submit ourselves to God, resist these lying spirits, stand in the furnace and God will deliver us. It takes a little more than saying some words with our lips. Deliverance is the children’s bread, it is God’s purpose to deliver and set free those that are truly His children. His children are those born of the seed of Isaac and not the children that walk after the flesh.
2 Kings 2:17 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD. 17‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and all that your fathers have laid up in store to this day will be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,’ says the LORD. 18‘Some of your sons who shall issue from you, whom you will beget, will be taken away; and they will become officials in the palace of the king of Babylon.‘
Egypt is a type and allegory to the WORLD. All that is in the world is under the dominion of Satan. Anyone who makes themselves a friend of the world is an enemy of God is readily taken captive into Babylon. Babylon is the mixture of Christianity with the world.
2 Kings 24:7 The king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.
Jeremiah 20:5 ‘I will also give over all the wealth of this city, all its produce and all its costly things; even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give over to the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away and bring them to Babylon
The Wrath Against Babylon
Jeremiah 51:14 The LORD of hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will fill you with a population like locusts, And they will cry out with shouts of victory over you
The locusts are the enemy, the demons that come to kill, steal and destroy a walk of faith. God sends them. I encourage you to read Jeremiah 51, which speaks to the judgment against Babylon. These words were written to us today and are being fulfilled before our very eyes, if you see it. Locust devour trees and all vegetation and bring famine in the land. We are the trees, our congregations are the forest and the famine is not a famine of food but a famine of hearing the true gospel and true word of God.
A voice is heard by the Apostle John warning us to flee from Babylon so we will not be partakers of her plagues. This plagues are already being poured out.
Revelation 18:4 Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according to her deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her
I am terrified about staying in Babylon. We cannot continue to elevate the encouragement to fellowship with others above the clear and persistent warnings to not fellowship and hang out with professing Christians that practice sin. Paul told us to not even eat a meal with such a person, yet our modern-day churches have ignored the truth. Are you beginning to see this?
God will have vengeance for His Temple and its defilement. We are the virgin daughter of Babylon. Babylon will fall again. The harlotry of this religion (skirt) will be stripped away and the sin (nakedness) will be exposed and judged by the Lord. No one will be spared.
Isaiah 47 - Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no longer be called tender and delicate. 2“Take the millstones and grind meal, remove your veil, strip off the skirt, uncover the leg, cross the rivers. 3“Your nakedness will be uncovered, Your shame also will be exposed; I will take vengeance and will not spare a man
Psalm 137 – O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is He who repays you for what you have done to us - He who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks. Nursing babies in Christ are even dashed against the rocks, which are the false gods that run this religious system that deceives the whole world.
Isaiah 13:19 Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the glory of the Babylonians’ pride, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah
I hope your fear of God has been enhanced. He is a very serious about our walk of Holiness with Him and in His jealousy demands our whole heart. We need to keep our covenant with God to stay under His hedge of protection and be spared the wrath that is coming upon Babylon.
There is much to say about Babylon and its judgment but for brevity let me end this post with a recap of some (but not all) of the key characteristics of Babylon. There will be much more to be said about the topic of Babylon.
Key Characteristics of Babylon
1. Babylon is a “she”, a woman, and a MOTHER, which is an allegory to a church.
Revelation 17:5 And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
Of course this is the wrong “mother” and represents the covenant with Hagar and results in children of the flesh like Ishmael.
Galatians 4:24 These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar.
Slaves are people in bondage to sin and demons. They have not been set free by Jesus. I tell you the truth that what Paul says here in Galatians 4, will instantly wake you up if God reveals this truth about two covenants to your heart. I encourage you to go study it. There are very many descendants of Abraham but very few children of Abraham from the seed of Isaac.
2. Babylon Lives With a False Security and Self Exalts Itself
Zephaniah 2:15 This is the exultant city which dwells securely, who says in her heart, ”I am, and there is no one besides me “ How she has become a desolation, a resting place for beasts!
Daniel 4:27 “Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?”
Revelation 18:7 In her heart she boasts, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow, and I will never mourn.’
Babylon is indeed a widow. She and her followers are lost. They are not married to Jesus, they never died to their old man. They are harlots and adulteresses in God’s eyes. They provoke God to jealousy with this idolatry. Babylon will indeed mourn, it will be astonished and stunned when the Lord returns.
When men go off in the strength of their own flesh (riding horses) and try to build God’s Church, create religion, doctrine, and build a name for themselves they are readily deceived. The root of all of this RELIGION is pride, the very thing that got Satan kicked out of heaven. Pride is of the flesh and is often shown via the allegory of horses or horsemen in the Scriptures.
Church and religion become idols in people’s hearts and while they think they are serving God and while they may well be doing good things that God uses, God brings judgment upon them because He said He was a jealous God and wants ALL of our heart.
Zechariah 12:4 In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will strike every horse with bewilderment and his rider with madness. But I will watch over the house of Judah, while I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness
3. Babylon is a religious system organized into churches but is actually a dwelling place for demons
Babylon has become a dwelling place for demons. The fact demons exists is ignored but the real horror is that the demons, the spirits of antichrist actually run the churches, they are in charge. The people worship the image of the dragon, a false God, a God that only loves and does not judge. A god that does not want you or expect you to fear him. This is the wrong god. The whole world has been deceived.
Revelation 18:2 She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird. You see God actually sends the demons in there. God is the one that pours out the deception and brings about the delusion. You see this throughout Scripture but here is God speaking an oracle against Babylon thru the prophet Isaiah.
Isaiah 13:3 I have commanded My consecrated ones, I have even called My mighty warriors, My proudly exulting ones, To execute My anger. These are the demons, they work for the LORD, the creator of ALL THINGS. Babylon lives in total ignorance to the devil, how the enemy works and why God sends them. I have a 30 minute video called OUR ENEMY on my blog header that will give you a solid introduction of truth about our enemy.
Babylon ignores the devil and the devil does not flee. God’s people are destroyed for lack of knowledge and there is no knowledge where there is no fear of the Lord. That is why Babylon sits securely saying peace and safety, but destruction will come on Babylon suddenly and those in this system of deception will not escape.
4. Babylon glorifies herself and lives sensuously
Revelation 18:7 To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning
Living sensuously is walking after the flesh. Walking, talking and acting just like the world. This is the MARK OF THE BEAST, walking after the FLESH as a harlot. There is no spiritual discernment in Babylon, men trust in their physical discernment and carnal minds to know the things of God. Many in Babylon are ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. The religious works that get done are done with secret motives for gain, approval, and esteem. Love and grace are perverted. Torment is already here. I see many religious esteemed falling and being cut down by the enemy as I write this post. I pray God will wake them up before it is too late.
5. There is a spiritual famine and the millstone that produces food is tossed into the sea
Revelation 18:21 Then a strong angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “So will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down with violence, and will not be found any longer.
Spiritual Jerusalem is the true city of God and contains the true church of God. Babylon is also referred to as a city, but it contains the false church. It is full of many tares.
This system of religion and church, referred to as a millstone above, has already been tossed into the sea. As many of my posts have shown of late, the sea is an allegory to the powers of darkness (the demons). The clouds of judgment for sin have already take away the true light and true food that feeds our spirits in Babylon. This is why we must flee from this system and sup and fellowship with the relatively few that are seeking God with their whole heart.
God’s judgments upon Babylon are righteous. It is right in God’s eyes for sin and rebellion to be punished and eternally condemned. Violence is the perverting of the gospel and that is how Babylon is thrown down, down, down. Fearing God and obeying His commandments is not heard in Babylon anymore.
When will God shut the door to the ARK (Jesus is the ARK) and the period of abundant mercy end? I do not know. None of us know that day or the hour. But time is getting short. Those of us that by God’s grace been shown some light about this religious deception need to step out in faith, risk everything, the approval of men, even our families, our very lives potentially to snatch our brothers and sisters from the fire that will soon follow the flood of deception (God sent delusion) which has already come to Babylon.
May God Bless You Richly!
For more information on this topic, I encourage you to read Brother Neal’s post on the institutional church of today. CLICK THIS LINK http://letspleasegod.com/institutional-church/
Awsome that was touching thaxs for sharing that.
‘Babylon’ refers to the now fallen and apostate evangelical church, which has been swayed and lulled into idolatry and spiritual harlotry by the heathen within her doors.
Pete,
Thank the Lord for revealing His mysteries to you and to all those reading your site. I believe He has a great purpose for you and is continuing to unravel these truths before you, that all men may know the times we are living in and what we must do to get out of Babylon and receive the Seal of God, rather than the Mark of the Beast.
Like you, the Lord has revealed to me, in his Word, the mysteries of the “Three Angels Message”, the final call to God’s people, to prepare for his coming. As it says in Isaiah 8:20, “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” And as Jesus said it so perfectly to the devil, when the truth was tested, “it is written”. For indeed it was written, with great precision, who Babylon and the Beast are…for it requires “Wisdom” and “Understanding” – Revelations 13:18.
Using scriptures, I would like to identify the obvious points, which when put together, are a clear identification of Babylon. You are correct when you said, it is a “fallen away church” and “man’s church”. But there’s more to the picture which you will find enlightening, opening new doors to the great controversy before us. I’m counting on you to read the finer details in the verses and chapters I quote, there’s just too much to go over all at once.
First step. One must understand the prophetic insight of Daniel, who stated in Dan 2:22, that God reveals “the deep and secret things: he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.” Daniel, interpreted the kings dream of a great statue, representing kingdoms; he told the Babylonian king in verse 37-38, “you oh king are a king of kings, which the God of heaven gave you power, strength and glory…you are the head of gold”. He then revealed the second kingdom representing silver, then brass, then the fourth of iron with mixed clay and iron toes. History supports the following kingdoms as Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome in succession. When looking at verse 40-43, we see how perfectly Rome is described as “iron” which “breaks in pieces and subdues all things”. But as the prophetic timeline moves on to the toes of the statue, we see the same element of Iron, but this time mixed with clay. There is no other kingdom past Rome, but a mixing, melting pot of Roman ideologies and “subdued” kingdoms. Verse 42 says, “And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom will be partly strong, and partly broken.” History once again proves this to be true as we see Western culture develop today, from the tribal lands of Europe, who succumbed to the might of Rome.
Second step. Daniel chapter 7, reveals four beasts which came out of the sea. What could they be? Daniel was confused, “grieved in his spirit”, verse 15, but the Angel of the Lord revealed the meaning of this vision to him. The Angel said, in verse 17, “These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which will arise out of the earth.” Remember Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar, that he was that head of gold, for he represented the kingdom of Babylon. Four kings, four kingdoms, ruled by “king of kings” or emperors who ruled over the nations. Verse 19-20, focuses on the forth beast, as being more “diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, with teeth of iron and nails of brass”…it had ten horns in his head. Remember again, the forth kingdom in the prophetic statue, it was made of iron and continued to the toes, the ten toes. The Roman empire was influenced by the Hellenistic Greeks, who were represented on the statue as brass, they subdued ten of the major European tribes, but as Daniel 2:43 stated about the ten toes, they mingled with the seed of men and did not mix together well. But what does the Bible say about horns, what do they represent? Daniel 7:24, says “And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that will arise: and another will rise after them; and he will be diverse from the first, and he will subdue three kings.” So this lines up perfectly with the ten toes and the ten horns, representing the kingdoms of Europe, subdued under the Roman empire.
What happened to the Roman empire? History shows an empire in decline, as new ideologies threatened it’s existence. Emperors Nero to Galerius, reportedly killed the Christians, to prevent further decline, but in the year 303 AD Galerius admitted that the, “policy to eradicate Christians wasn’t working”. Not long after, the four rulers of the empire” Galerius, Licinius, Maximinus Daia and Constantine, made a plan to stop this threat more effectively. Galerius died from bowel cancer before it could be implemented, but Constantine and Licinius entered a pact to issue an edict, known as the Edict of Milan, which made Christianity a legal religion. Then Licinius battled against Maximinus Daia and won, but later Constantine battles Licinius to take the empire as the sole ruler of Rome. In 325 AD, Constantine forms the first council of Nicaea, setting the order of the Christian bishops around the world. If you can’t beat them, join them; Constantine sat as an observer to the council, but he set his personal friend, Sylvester I, as the Bishop of Rome, giving ” exceptional authority” to the bishop of Rome, which would later be known as the Pope.
As time went by, the emperors of the west and east, Rome and Byzantine, fought among themselves; politics and religion collided and over 475 years later, church and state reached new heights, as Charlemagne, conquers Europe in the name of the Pope, and was crowned as Holy Roman Emperor, by the Pope. With the contributions of the church, the Holy Roman Empire, squashed the opposing kingdoms. Three kingdoms were uprooted from existences, they were known as: Heruli, Vandals and the Ostrogoths. This new ruler, called pope, had from that moment, great powers over kingdoms and men; inquisitions in the name of the church were set out, as all who opposed her doctrines were burned at the stake. The saints were martyred yet again, since the days of the Roman Caesars, the Pope reclaimed the lost title the Caesars took, which was Pontifex Maximus, which meant, the bridge builder across the river Styx…meaning the mediator from the earthly to the eternal. Today the Pope, still uses this blasphemous title, for only Jesus Christ is the mediator to the heavenly.
And we can go on and on, but that’s just enough now to get an understanding of Revelations 17. We see another beast, it’s scarlet in color, having seven heads and ten horns…a woman sits on top of the beast, and as you pointed out, she is a church, with the description of being full of blasphemy. She made the nations drunk, so they commit fornication with her. Verse 9, the angel reveals that the 7 heads represent, “seven hills of the city”. As the encyclopedia Britannica, states, Rome sits on seven hills. But that’s not all, this beast (empire), is represented by ten horns (ten kingdoms), once again Rome comes to view. And as far as the kingdoms not mixing well, verse 16 says, “And the ten horns which you saw upon the beast, these will hate the whore, and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.” Verse 18, further reveals how this beast power (kingdom) and whore (corrupt church) rule over the nations of the earth. No other kingdom in history match so perfectly with the Vatican today. It is both a country and a church, with a history of ruling kingdoms and killing the saints. For as verse 6 says, the woman was “drunk with the blood of the saints, with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus”. While the church performed its inquisitions to the faithful, it’s rulers arrayed themselves in lavish gold and jewels. A visit to the Vatican will show the immense riches this church, state has amassed. Verse 4, of Revelations, says, “the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls”, such a far example of Jesus, who lived modestly, riding a donkey…the Popes today, wear shoes of Gold, custom made robes of purple and scarlet and living far beyond modesty.
If you made it this far, then good, because now you have the tools to understand Revelations 13, the beast with seven heads, ten horns and upon his head the name of blasphemy. It was part, leopard, bear and lion…same influence from the four beast in Daniel. It is the mixing of iron and clay, the ten toes, the ten horns, the Roman empire, who couldn’t beat them, so he joined them, but this time, Revelations 13:2, reveals the real source to this church, state power…the dragon, the Devil. There is much, much more, but I will leave only those who are interested to study chapter 13 with greater depth. Pay close attention to the number 666, it is both the number of a man and the beast; both the Papacy and the transformed kingdom of Rome. Take a look at this link and consider the Roman numerals, do you see anything interesting? http://maryt.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/roman_numerals_complete.jpg
There is much more light, but it’s too much to go over now. Hopefully, this will open new doors for you and all those who hear the three angels message
1. Preach the gospel to all them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, language and people. Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters
2. Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.(This is a call to understand who Babylon is)
3. If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same will drink of the wrath of God….Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. This is a call to worship God, not this false system. God “seals” his people on the “head” Revelations 9:4, but the beast issues his mark in peoples heads and hands. With God, one must believe with the mind, but with the mark of the beast, one may believe in the mind or merely keep the systems laws for fear of persecution.
May God bless you and continue to reveal the mysteries of his kingdom.
God has been opening all this up to me over the past several months and sometimes leads me to others who are also in this truth so that I can glean from what he has shown them. I find your articles very helpful and easy to read and understand. Of course understanding is contengent on the lord opening our eyes. Cindy
I wondered where you got the excellent picture of Babylon in your article ‘Understanding Babylon, the Fallen Churchhttp://truthinscripture.com/2010/06/06/understanding-babylon-the-fallen-church/’ Is this available for others to use and, if so, who is the copyright owner. Are there other pictures like this avaiable for use?
I THINK THE BEST WAY IS OUR HEARTS TO MAINTAIN HOLYNESS.ANYBODY WHO CLAIMS IS SAVED BUT STAYS PRODUCING EVIL FRUITS IS PART OF THE CHUCH OF BABYLON
Thanks for the encouragement and the blessings. My family sure needs it. I have struggled with the carnal logic that I am focused on “negative” things, but that is where God has me. Some blow trumptets, some sow seed, some water, we all have different ministeries and all play a part in the Body. I appreciate the fellowship I have started with many in cyberspace, I only wish I knew more “locals” that could see the truth. Sadly, the Scriptures tell us only a remnant will escape Babylon.
Pete
Your post and video’s are so much a wake up! we could only bow down to Jesus and say thank you for waking us up! my sheep hear my voice and follow! now we need to strive to the end !
GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
I searched long and hard to understand this Mark of the Beast. I am learning more about it every day and at some point want to update and make a new and more concise post on the topic. I will post a link to the MARK OF THE BEAST here in case anyone is led to read it. We do not want to be found buying or selling Babylon’s religion was Jesus returns.
http://truthinscripture.com/2010/03/05/taking-the-mark-of-the-beast/
Our dear departed brother MILTON GREEN is the man that spoke the word of God that helped open my eyes to even begin to understand this. I have a link to 100+ of his teachings which will bless anyone who takes the time and seriously wants to know the truth.
Scratch that..I just found your ‘Many have taken the mark of the beast’ article. Good work….I have searched the Bible for many years over this issue…and the internet and I have not found anything this clear.
In Jesus
Intresting article.
With reference to the Mark Of the Beast. I have long thought that this mark is spiritual. However I always come unglued with the buy or sell comment. I have spent along time looking in the Bible about buying and selling, all I can see this that it refers to buying the truth. I would be very interested in your view of this.
In Jesus.
Those who come out of the fake corrupted church call this church the “Institutional Church” or the “I.C.”. That track-back article was a very old article I wrote. At the time I didn’t identify the Institutional Church as God labeled it: “Mystery Babylon, Mother of Harlots”. So I decided to link to your article as it is correctly labels this corrupted church through the word of God.
Neal. God Bless you brother. This is so difficult to do, come out of Babylon. It is a huge test of our hearts. Jesus said if you love your wife, your family, your whatever, more than me, you are not worthy of me. Babylon takes the love of God and replaces it with a big fat lie. It is reassuring to know others see it and more see it every day. But the horror of the deception remains to be revealed to the MANY. I look forward to checking out your article you posted the link to in the second comment.
I agree totally. This is what God has revealed to me as well. We as real Christians must cut ties with those who stay in Babylon, even those who are blood family members. The trick of the enemy says, “you can fellowship with them, they are your family, maybe you can witness to them”. But if God didn’t tell you to do so, then you’ve got no business fellowshipping or even preaching the gospel to them. Most of these people are full of and controlled by demons. All you’re doing is putting yourself in danger through fellowship as they secretly try to impart a demon unto to you and lock you into their world. This is why we must not even eat with them as Paul said. We must be and stay sanctified. This is a lesson I’m learning: if they aren’t with Christ, they’re of the devil and I shouldn’t have any part with them. It’s hard to drop your family but it’s either Jesus Christ or my family – I choose Jesus. My family can only damn me, but Jesus Christ can save my soul.