The Seven Hills the harlot Sits on

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You are thinking way too small thinking the US is Babylon. Babylon is global.

So the entire world is going to weep because the entire world is going to be destroyed in one day?

And, the entire world is going to mourn specifically because the entire earth won't be able to trade goods with the entire world?
 
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It is my belief that the AC is here and has been for quiet some time, God just hasn't "named" him yet.

Well at least he wasn't there when the verse was written. I personally believe the AC is a role Satan will play, pretending to be God so Satan has always been "here" in various ways, but the actual appearance of the AC would still be future...only after the global government rises in the start of the GT, then will the AC rise up and take control of it all.
 
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So the entire world is going to weep because the entire world is going to be destroyed in one day?

No, they will weep at the loss of the religion they were a part of, and the loss of the god they worshiped. They had it all for a short time but will weep when it all crumbles.
 
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Well at least he wasn't there when the verse was written. I personally believe the AC is a role Satan will play, pretending to be God so Satan has always been "here" in various ways, but the actual appearance of the AC would still be future...only after the global government rises in the start of the GT, then will the AC rise up and take control of it all.
Here is the one thing I know for sure, I know I'm thankful that we are not required to fully understand Revelation. That being said, I do enjoy the study of it. I'm of the opinion that there's more symbolism in Revelation than many think.
 
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Here is the one thing I know for sure, I know I'm thankful that we are not required to fully understand Revelation. That being said, I do enjoy the study of it. I'm of the opinion that there's more symbolism in Revelation than many think.
If you read Ezekiel, Daniel, the Olivet Discourse, that will help with it think.

Most of it is written in OT symbology the Hebrew Jews would be familiar with [we can't ask them because they don't read the NT of Jesus]

Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament


THE SYMBOLISM IN BOOK OF REVELATION
The key to interpreting the Revelation is, for the most part, the Old Testament. Period.

And you apply these symbols used in Revelation that were taken from the Old Testament to the life of Jesus and the early church. You find the stories of the Old Testament, from which Revelation takes references, actually PARALLEL Jesus and the early church!

Futurism contends that the church could never know what Revelation’s mark of the beast really was until thousands of years after it was written, when we now have computer technology. Think about it! What relevance did the book have to the early church to whom it was first given? NONE, if futurism is right! Not only that, but NOTHING in Revelation was of any value to the early church, because none of those events listed would ever take place in their lifetimes, nor for the lifetimes of the next 2000 years of believers.

One man studied and found 348 allusions (not illusions, Light) in Revelation from the Old Testament. You see the similarity in wording and the context mirrored in Revelation and the particular Old Testament story, and immediately can recognize the reference source!
That's IF you know the bible well enough to even notice that.

95 of the 348 plain references used in Revelation as taken from the Old Testament are repeated in Revelation.
That makes about 250 Old Testament passages are cited. How many chapters are in Revelation? 22. That makes about TEN OLD TESTAMENT REFERENCES FOR EVERY CHAPTER!
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Parallel verses from the OT I have found [please feel free to add ones that you know of]

Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
Books in Daniel Daniel 7:9 and 11:10.
Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
Cried and joy Temple/City: Ezra 3:12,13 and Reve 18:18, 19:4
Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
Ear to hear: Isaiah 6:9,10 and Matt 13:15, Reve 2,3,13
Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
Holy Holy Holy Isaiah 6:6 and Revelation 4:8
Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
Jericho, Priest and Trumpets: Joshua 6:4, Hebrews 11:30, Matt 24:31, Reve 8:6
Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
Lift hands to heaven and swore..: Daniel 2:7 and Reve 10:5
Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
Light Revelation to Israel and Nations: Isaiah 9:2, Luke 2:32, Reve 1:1
Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
Moses and Elijah, fire falling, as is also seen in Revelation.
Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
Moses and Elijah
https://www.christianforums.com/thr...om-old-testament.7588850/page-6#post-73140020
Mountain of fire cast into Sea
Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
Pierced: Zech 12:10 and Reve 1:7
Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
Sacrifice/Supper of God: Ezek 39:17 and Reve 19:17
https://www.christianforums.com/thr...om-old-testament.7588850/page-6#post-72893026
Sanctuary/Tabernacle filled with smoke
Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
https://www.christianforums.com/thr...ion-from-old-testament.7588850/#post-58432014
Silence/Hush: Zech 1:7, 2:13 and Reve 8:1
Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
Sodom and Egypt: Matt 2:15, Reve 11:8
Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
Song of Moses: Exodus 15:1 and Revelation 15:3
Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
Spirit lifting, taking Ezekiel and John
Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
Stars 7
Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
Tree of Life and Garden: Genesis 3:24 and Reve 2:7
Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
Whip.........Nahum 3:2, John 2:15,
 
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I'm keeping the timeframe correct in my interpretation of Revelation. The people of the old covenant were apostate long, long before Paul foretold of the falling away. It was impossible for Paul to "foretell" of that which has already occurred. I am also aware of the FACT that there are those who can not accept the TRUTH in this matter (and many more) and, at the same time, keep that ball rolling.
Therein lies the problem though. They had not rejected Christ as their messiah. God had made many efforts through the prophets to call Israel back. After Christ came that was His last call to Israel. Christ instituted the New Covenant and Israel rejected it. That is where they truly became apostate. Furthermore Paul is predicting the apostasy of those who would fall away before Jerusalem fell.

Christ pronounced His judgment would come to Jerusalem at Matthew 23:33-37...and it did in 70AD. That's truly what most of Revelation is all about. That is the *FACT* of the matter...and many will be alarmed to see Christ returning with none of what they think will happen coming to pass.
 
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I think you have seen many responses that believe the woman of Revelation 17/18 is:

1.) Rome
2.) Jerusalem

They are incorrect.

The name Babylon is a "title" bestowed upon her by God to properly indicate her character (a house of bondage and abominations). In other words, the unfaithful Church has "spiritually" become as Babylon. And she is a mystery or secret [musterion] because how many people do you think recognize that this fornicating woman called mystery Babylon is the unfaithful Church? ..it's a secret to all except those whom Christ has given to know Spiritual things. There are not many who will see that this is spiritually earth's representation of the holy city Jerusalem, the Lord's assembly. To most professing Christians, the Church is an untouchable entity that the gates of Hell shall never prevail against. But what they don't "SEE" is that there are two Churches spoken of in scripture. The external Covenant church, and the indivisible (not invisible) eternal Church comprised of all the true saints. One goes forth preaching and the gates of Hell won't prevail over as it builds God's Church. The other is masquerading as a Church, the bride of Christ, but will come under judgment as unfaithful. This is just as the external Old Covenant congregation Israel did in Old Testament times. For the congregations today are no better, and God is no respecter of persons. Read Ezekiel chapter 16 for great insight into this principle. Also:

Mark 13:14
  • "But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:"
The answer to "when" is that it will happen near the Lord's second coming. That event is preceded by a great Apostasy in the Church, which is spiritually speaking, Judaea. The answer to "how" is that it is by those in the Church that are unfaithful that they become unequally yoked together with unbelievers, posing as believers. And the answer as to "why" is because those in the Churches have compromised and fallen away from holding fast the word of God and have adulterated His word to do man's will instead of God. the man of sin rules in God's place. Thus as judgment, they will have famine and be given to serve a false god in the Holy temple.

2nd Thessalonians 2:3-4
  • "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
  • Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God."
The purpose of Revelation chapter 17 is that by the Spirit of God, John (and indeed all the elect) would show God's people the judgment of the great harlot, the unfaithful woman that sitteth upon many waters. Even as by the Spirit John saw it, so by the Spirit the elect will have revealed the mystery/secret of the harlot. To the rest, Babylon will remain a mystery/secret, as they are oblivious to the destruction going on in their Churches. Because their conscience is seared.

..without the Spirit, it's just another cryptic and mysterious page of Revelation that is out of the grasp of their understanding.

And as for your question about the blood of the Saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus that the woman drunk with. For example, we read in Revelation 17:6:
  • "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.
To be drunken is allegorically speaking of those whose awareness is impaired so that they are without sober spiritual perception. People who are deceived are those who are spiritually drunken. In this manner, it is this woman that causes professing Christians to act without sound judgment, having their faculties impaired by reason of the spirit of Satan that empowers her. These professing Christians are seduced so that by her seduction they are made spiritually drunken whereby they forsake sober or sound teachings for hose catering to the lusts of the flesh. Not unlike God compares the fool (those acting unwisely or imprudently) in Isaiah to being drunken.

Isaiah 19:13-14
  • "The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
  • The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit."
It is illustrative of those without bearing who are spiritually intoxicated by her false teaching so that they are under Satanic influence. Just as someone would be under the influence of alcohol so that they begin to make poor decisions and to act foolishly. This is the analogy being drawn here. The people stagger to and fro as they have unsure footing and are thus unable to soberly find the way. Spiritually speaking, as drunkenness their eyes are darkened, their paths blurred, and their mind is unsound.

Job 12:24-25
  • "He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
  • They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
Again, the portrait is of a confused and unsound mind. The power or capacity of him to think soberly is gone causing an altering of his behavior in a negative fashion. In a phrase, spiritual drunkenness.

You might also do a study of how Christ said Jerusalem was drunk with the blood of the prophets. Because Jerusalem is a synonym for the church and their drunkenness was symbolic of their error and lack of sober judgment to discern truth.

The Woman is not Rome. Is not Jerusalem. Is not the United Nations. She is the one turns the new testament congregation away from serving God faithfully. That is the nature of spiritual fornication. This church (of which they are a part) has committed spiritual fornication with the world. Their false prophets and christs are out there to appease the sinners with their kool-aid Jesus doctrines. Just as Israel did with the nations around her, and yet there was a remnant according to Grace, who was still within her, but who ultimately came out.

For example, do you really feel comfortable going into Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church and listening to his abominations? Or do you need to leave the church to avoid being deceived? Yet Joel Osteen is one of MANY false prophets and there are many churches like his. Collectively, they are Babylon the Great.

Yours is the only post that makes a modicum of sense.

There are four beasts in the Revelation, one of which is the image of the sea-beast (Revelation 11–20): first, the sea-beast (Revelation 13:1); second, the lamb like beast (Revelation 13:11); third, the image of the sea-beast; and the fourth, the scarlet-colored beast (Revelation 11:7: 17:8, 11). One of the beasts is resurrected, which reveals that two of the beasts are actually the same dynastic kingdom that has a “is not” span, making but three beasts to determine. Considering Daniel’s little horn is John’s sea-beast we are left with but two beasts in the Revelation to identify, in addition to Daniel’s five beasts, which comes to seven, the exact number of kings in Revelation 17:10.

The only determination that works is that the five fallen kings commenced with Babylon, which makes Rome the fourth king/kingdom and the papacy the fifth king/kingdom—the sea-beast in the Revelation. Certainly, the papacy followed Rome—and “was” prior to the sixth king when determining the papacy as the fifth, one of the five that were fallen. History affirms that the wounding of papacy occurred with the rise of America and its advancement of disestablishment, making America the sixth king, the lamb like beast–confirming that John was taken into the future, our time, to see the judgment of the harlot Babylon, apostate Protestantism, prophesied as the great falling away in the New Testament.

As I stated in my post on historicism, I’ve published a book that maintains the synchronization of the autumnal festivals with the seven seals and the exposé that the first horseman was fulfilled by Protestant missionary imperialism at the time of the Laodicean church, Daniel’s “time of the end” and “cleansing of the sanctuary.” I document the exploitation of the true church by apostate Protestantism, Babylon, that fulfills the denunciation that Babylon is “drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus,” and this is the source of the torment of the souls in the sixth seal. Protestant missionary imperialism led to the wars for the resources of the world, the first attempt at globalism (the red horseman), the ending of their churches’ intercession in commerce (the black horse), and the famines and death that followed by their attempts at globalism (the pale horseman).
 
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No, they will weep at the loss of the religion they were a part of, and the loss of the god they worshiped. They had it all for a short time but will weep when it all crumbles.

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.

And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:

The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,

And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.


And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.

The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,

And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!

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!

And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

America is the harlot; its the only nation that would cause the world to be scared of its destruction - the only place that trades all manners of fornication, goods and humans so much so that the nation going under would be a great loss. It holds the reserve currency of the world. It is the only nation with all of these attributes PLUS could see serious destruction not only from burning from within, but also destruction from an "asteroid"/meteor hit. West or east coast gone would mean about 100 million people gone in a flash, and all financial, military and technological centers in the states gone.

It sits a queen (harlots aren't usually royalty - denoting influence and power), but is not a widow (how America came to be a nation). It got (and will get) drunk off of the blood of the saints.


This prophecy... is pretty straight forward.
 
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Like a banking institution or false religion?

False religion. She is the opposite of the bride of Christ. The Rev 13:1 beast controls political, military and financial aspects of government.
 
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False religion. She is the opposite of the bride of Christ. The Rev 13:1 beast controls political, military and financial aspects of government.
Hi ewq

See we can agree:).............a False Religion
Was it a false religion back in the days of Jesus and the Apostles that their City and Temple had to be destroyed?

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Therein lies the problem though. They had not rejected Christ as their messiah. God had made many efforts through the prophets to call Israel back. After Christ came that was His last call to Israel. Christ instituted the New Covenant and Israel rejected it. That is where they truly became apostate. Furthermore Paul is predicting the apostasy of those who would fall away before Jerusalem fell.
Israel was, for all intents and purposes, set against God from day one and God was to the point of eradicating them on numerous occasions. The Israelites have absolutely nothing to do with Pauls warning in 2 Thessalonians nor are they, as a "chosen" people, the subject matter in Revelation; all must come to God through Christ. Thankfully, the ground at the foot of the cross of Calvary is completely level. Paul is clearly talking about the second coming of Christ. Furthermore, Paul is speaking/writing to the saints at Thessaloniki and he says the church will be led astray by lies. That is the fact of the matter.
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; - 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3
Christ pronounced His judgment would come to Jerusalem at Matthew 23:33-37...and it did in 70AD.
There are zero prophecies, predictions or anything of the sort in Matthew 23, Jesus is simply condemning the "elite" Scribes and Pharisees. Those claiming to be the "most" religious but in reality were just the opposite.

That's truly what most of Revelation is all about. That is the *FACT* of the matter...
The fact of the matter is all of Revelation is directed to the church and most of Revelation subject matter is the church gone astray.

and many will be alarmed to see Christ returning with none of what they think will happen coming to pass.
Yes THEY WILL and it would behoove US ALL to think long and hard about that fact!!
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
1 Cor 10:12
In Him
 
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Was it a false religion back in the days of Jesus and the Apostles that their City and Temple had to be destroyed?

That has nothing to do with the Olivet discourse or Revelation. The Roman's punishing rebels Jews has nothing at all to do with Satan persecuting Christians in the end times.
 
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The problem with that is the Rev 13:1 beast has all 7 heads intact so they clearly cannot be successive Caesar's. The 7 heads are mountains, which are areas of land. They are not kings or Caesars.

Rev 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

"having seven heads" not having one head with 6 dead heads. The kings are the horns not the heads.


Rev 17:12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
Rev 17
9This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. 10They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for only a little while. 11The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction.

12“The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast. 13They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast. 14They will wage war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will triumph over them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings—and with him will be his called, chosen and faithful followers.”
Revelation was written about 66 AD under Emperor Nero during his persecution of Christians.

The 7 heads plus the beast Representing 8 Kaisers represents the dynasty of Julius Caesar. Although Rome survived the Jewish rebellion the Caesar Dynasty died out with Nero, Galba, Otho

so the Jewish war Destroyed both Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified as well as the dynasty of Julius Caesar. Which. Had authorized in carried out the crucifixion.

The 10 horns and 10. Subsequent Kings represent all of this Caesars, which ruled Rome after the Jewish war. Up until The Empire was converted to Christianity.
 
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