THE
HARLOT
The Harlot of Babylon is described as a desert
location
Revelation 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.”
Jesus Himself warned us that religious
imposters would be in desert Matthew 24:26 “Wherefore if they shall say unto
you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, [he is] in the secret
chambers; believe [it] not.”
The Harlot is a woman, a city and is a spiritual driver
of politics. She is Seen sitting on many waters and a Spiritual source that influences
the people. City, waters, desert matches Isaiah 21 in which
Babylon is called the desert of the sea. All of the biblical descriptions must be met. Saudi Arabia fills these descriptions
of mystery Babylon exactly. Wee need to apply literal findings to allegorical statements
Revelation 17:2 “With whom the kings of
the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have
been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.” this provider of wine
intoxicates the nations. Many in the west see this wine as Catholic Church
communion.
Revelation 17:1-6 “And there came one
of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto
me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that
sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed
fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the
wine of her fornication. 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. 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:
And upon her forehead [was] a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE
MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 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.”
Revelation17:18 “And the woman which
thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.”
Two important descriptions stand out
1:exists in geographically in a desert
region
2:”Kings of the earth ”figuratively
commit adultery with her in order to obtain her “wine” in exchange for
betraying God’s people.
What desert wine intoxicates the earth
and causes a region to grow rich? What false religion teaches that blood of
Christians and Jews should be shed? What desert nation today is the
geographical womb from which this false harlot religion was birthed?
Joel 3 talks about this wine and the
harlot, and the reason for God’s judgment against the nations. Joel 3:1-3 “For,
behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity
of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them
down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my
people and [for] my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the
nations, and parted my land. And they have cast lots for my people; and have
given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.”
It is sad most claiming Christians
don’t know the division of Israel and treatment of Israel will be what Christ
judges the nation for. Many will bear shame for ignoring this most important
text. Among various crimes against God and his people is dividing up God’s
land. Israel is constantly pressured to carve out Judea for a Palestinian state.
The price paid for sale of Israel Joel 3:3
Nations will sell out Israel in order
to coddle the harlot and obtain her wine. Joel 3:1 is time context. The Harlot uses
both Islam and oil as wine, through which she seduces nations of the world
compromising Israel. In the east new converts to Christianity get all this quickly. Revelation 18:3
“For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and
the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants
of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.” this is
not a small issue. Babylon’s maddening influence of oil is seen throughout the world. If you are tracking what the Muslim Brotherhood has been doing since 1981 following their document and plan known as the Project, it should scare you. They are successfully about 3/4 of the way through this slow, methodic plan to slowly invade and overtake the west. There are so many people with ties to extreme Islam working in our government it is scary.
When one becomes a Christian and
receives the Holy Spirit, we see the fruits: Love, joy, peace, patience etc.…We see the opposite in converts of
Islam murder, rape, pursuit of self and flesh…and the financial dimension Oil is used to pressure and blackmail
nations. Oil will be as a carrot in front of a horse. Saudi Arabia refuses to
increase oil production, should we be surprised that after OPEC came OAPEC (organization
of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries) whose purpose is to exert pressure on the west and its
support of Israel. What Arab Islamic nation is most likely to use oil to influence
the foreign policy of other countries, exports Islam, Oil net exports and
production are higher than any other member of OPEC? Revelation 18:3Just yesterday we read that the U.N. is pushing for the boycott of American companies that work in Israel. This is being led by the Human Rights Council which President Bush refused to join, but Obama quickly joined. Who is on this panel? Mostly Islamic countries and countries known for their respect of human rights such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Libya, China, and Cuba.
The merchants of the earth have grown rich due
to her abundance of oil Jeremiah 51:13 “O thou that dwellest upon many waters,
abundant in treasures, thine end is come, [and] the measure of thy
covetousness.”
Many may still argue the wine in Rev 17 is
allegory of something spiritual. Isaiah 34 will remove this thought.
Isaiah 34:8-10 “For [it is] the day of
the LORD'S vengeance, [and] the year of recompences for the controversy of
Zion. And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof
into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not
be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from
generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for
ever and ever.”
Incredibly 3 millennia before discovery
of fuel oil, Isaiah predicted burning of the very thing that was used in Babylon to
build a name for rebellious ones that is pitch. Pitch is butamin and tar or oil,
technically crude oil. Do you wonder why God calls antichrist Nimrod in Micah 5? The roots
go back to Babel. The land is not like but actually becomes burning pitch. This could
only be an oil rich land. The word for “streams” (Nachal) is not
water streams but “torrent, wadi, valley, mine or tunnel” Obviously water would
never burn like pitch. A land that burns, burning tunnels of petroleum.
Revelation 18:9 “nd the kings of the
earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall
bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,”
Revelation 18:18 “And cried when they
saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What [city is] like unto this great
city!”
Remember the oil fields during the first gulf
war, even during the day the skies were black with smoke. Isaiah describes this.
Revelation 18:4-7 “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of
her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not
of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered
her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double
according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and
sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow,
and shall see no sorrow.”
Chalice of Mystery Babylon is the same as
Jeremiah 51:7 “Babylon [hath been] a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made
all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the
nations are mad.”
When God issues judgment he gives her
the same cup she used to establish herself and power. Burning her with it, Radical Islamists will
turn on Saudi Arabia and give her something twice as bad as any other nation
has seen. She will be burned in one hour, she will fall, Kings will weep for
their oil.
This cannot be ancient Babylon. This same
rendering is in Jeremiah 59:11 “Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king
of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in
prison till the day of his death.” this judgment is from Teman to Dedan. Ezekiel
25:12-13 “Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the
house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged
himself upon them; Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out
mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it
desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.”
This destruction of Arabia is complete
and fits the description of prophecies that correlate with Isaiah 34
Revelation 18:8-10 “Therefore shall her
plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be
utterly burned with fire: for strong [is] the Lord God who judgeth her. And the
kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with
her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her
burning, Standing afar off for
the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that
mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.”
17-18 “For in one hour so great riches
is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and
sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, And cried when they saw
the smoke of her burning, saying, What [city is] like unto this great city!”
Ships on the red sea can easily see the harlot’s
destruction, she will be consumed with fire and it is permanent. Apart from
Sodom and Gomorrah this type of destruction has never been seen. Revelation 18:1-2
“And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great
power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a
strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the
habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every
unclean and hateful bird.”
This is in line with ancient eastern
perception that desert wastelands are habitations for demons and spirits. Jeremiah
agrees in 50:39 “Therefore the wild
beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell [there],
and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever;
neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.”
Isaiah confirms this 34:14 “The wild
beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and
the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and
find for herself a place of rest.”
The destruction is absolute
Broom of destruction, could this be
describing nuclear explosion
Joel 2:30” And I will shew wonders in
the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.” Could pillars of smoke be scene of mushroom
cloud?
Revelation 17 tells us the beast hates the
harlot, and will turn on her, killing her and devouring her. 17:16-18 “And the
ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and
shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with
fire. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and
give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the
kings of the earth.”
How can this be? Some may argue Muslims
would never attack such Islamic holy sites. But, many Muslims have
attacked the city of Mecca. The First world war, Saudi Arabia was occupied by ottoman Turks.
The Turks hated the Arabs and to this day they hold this disdain. The Turks bombarded mosques of Kahba. Prophecies of Islam
dictate such an event. Thus if the day comes when this happens radical Muslimswill be emboldened because by fulfilling prophecy they are carrying out
Allah’s plan.
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