Okay, I've challenged my old views, dug up new research, and I might be coming to a different conclusion about mystery Babylon and the beast she rides.
"Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, 'Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.' And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns." (Rev. 17:1-3)
I don't have the reference that I got part of my new interpretation from immediately available, but if you want it, I'll send it tomorrow when I get to it.
Anyway, the reference said that Mystery Babylon is not just one city, but has been many. She represents all the false religious orders whose popular influence with the masses enabled them to accrue wealth and prosperity from the kings who wanted the support of the masses. Now, while this seems far-fetched, it will be simple to bring down to earth.
Let's start with mystery religions. As far back as Nimrod and the Sumerian occult, astronomers have been predicting signs in the heavens, such as lunar eclipses and solar eclipses. However, instead of making that information public, they kept it a secret. So, if a priest wanted someone's daughter to satisfy his sexual desires with or to have treasures laid at his door, he would warn the people that the gods would make the skies dark on a certain day unless said request was fulfilled. When the sign appeared to be true, the masses feared that the gods would smite them and yielded to the priests' demands. The kings, seeing this influence, wanted the allegiance of the masses to support their imperial campaigns.
You really don't think the Egyptians build the pyramids because it was agriculturally beneficial, do you? And should we think that the Egyptians were foolish enough to think that their kings were gods because they shot fireballs out of their fingers? This mystery Babylon used mystery religions to dupe the masses into following false religions, giving up their liberties, performing atrocious acts to other people, and treating kings as if they were the embodiment of the gods themselves.
To support this initial claim, we can see that Emperor Domitian campaigned with a priest of the imperial occult on his left and right. This imperial cult was also holding tribunes to the worship of Caesar that led to the deaths of many Christians. This is likely the inspiration behind John receiving the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
If we track the Biblical progression of Mystery Babylon, we can find her at every major imperial metropolitan in history. She influenced the Egyptians to oppress the Israelites, caused the Assyrians to sacrifice their firstborns into the fires for Marduk, led the Babylonians to blaspheme the true LORD God, conspired against the Jews to the Persians, Hellenized the Greek world, and eventually led the Romans to persecute the Christians. This leads me to the beast of Revelation 17.
This beast is not the same beast as mentioned in Revelation 13. The beast in Revelation 13 did indeed have seven heads and ten horns, but, unlike the beast of Revelation 17, it also had crowns on each of its horns. The beast of Revelation 17 is also one that did not exist when John received the vision. It says that the beast has seven heads, being seven mountains and seven kings. This would easily lead anyone to assume that the woman that rides the beast is Rome. At John's time, she was. But before John's time, Mystery Babylon had rode the Egyptian Empire, the Assyrian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, and the Grecian Empire. That makes up the five that had fallen. Rome was the head that 'is.' There was to be another empire after the Roman Empire that would be influenced by the occult. The beast itself, however, is an eighth empire, which is formed when the ten kingdoms receive power and give that power over to it.
The seventh empire is the United Nations, whose headquarters are found in New York City, home of the World Trade Center. This empire was formed after World War II, as a replacement of the League of Nations. Eventually, this empire was hijacked by Central Banks that funded sides of the wars that would follow.
Far-fetched? Let me explain:
Since science has been elevated to such great heights in the academic, economic, political, environmental, and social realm, it has made it virtually impossible for anything to remain a secret. Well, almost anything. There is the stock market; that force of nature that is as unpredictable as the weather and cosmos. Wall Street Insiders, however, are the occultists of this new elite and the banks are their temples. Before the WTC was bombed on 9/11, certain individuals pulled out their investments and relocated them. Before the recession of 2008, the same thing happened. Before the explosion of Deepwater Horizon oil rig owned by BP, the same thing happened. In fact, Haliburton purchased the company that cleaned up the oil leak. The whole stock market reacts to every major event that happens. The place they gather to place their bets on the gods? Wall Street.
Because of this shift in power from kings to banks, the poor have been exploited by federal organizations that answer to nobody and jack up interest rates to sap the poor and middle class. The resolution to these atrocities? War. Everybody knows that 9/11 was an inside job that was hidden by a false flag in effort to destroy traces of the 2.3 trillion dollars that had been reported missing the day before (and the records stored in the area of the Pentagon that was destroyed in the explosion.) The banks got their hands into the Middle East while covering up a major movement of money to an undisclosed location.
However, the beast that was, is not, and will rise is the empire that will rise once Wall Street falls at New York City's destruction. I don't know when or how this would happen, but Revelation 17 and 18 show that it happens suddenly and violently.
I did notice that 5 megaton nuclear weapon disappeared in a busy harbor in Germany today. I don't know how a nuke that was under UN surveillance could have 'disappeared' other than them 'letting' it disappear.
If all this is true, then people need to get out of New York City. Can others test this interpretation with sound eschatology and research to see if it applies? I don't like making huge claims like this. I don't think this event would be the end either. As I said, I believe another empire (IMO, the New World Order) will arise from this.
Let me know what you think. I can handle sharp criticism, but please try and not be rude. I am a brother in Christ, not a lunatic looking for a thrill. Thanks.
"Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, 'Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.' And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns." (Rev. 17:1-3)
I don't have the reference that I got part of my new interpretation from immediately available, but if you want it, I'll send it tomorrow when I get to it.
Anyway, the reference said that Mystery Babylon is not just one city, but has been many. She represents all the false religious orders whose popular influence with the masses enabled them to accrue wealth and prosperity from the kings who wanted the support of the masses. Now, while this seems far-fetched, it will be simple to bring down to earth.
Let's start with mystery religions. As far back as Nimrod and the Sumerian occult, astronomers have been predicting signs in the heavens, such as lunar eclipses and solar eclipses. However, instead of making that information public, they kept it a secret. So, if a priest wanted someone's daughter to satisfy his sexual desires with or to have treasures laid at his door, he would warn the people that the gods would make the skies dark on a certain day unless said request was fulfilled. When the sign appeared to be true, the masses feared that the gods would smite them and yielded to the priests' demands. The kings, seeing this influence, wanted the allegiance of the masses to support their imperial campaigns.
You really don't think the Egyptians build the pyramids because it was agriculturally beneficial, do you? And should we think that the Egyptians were foolish enough to think that their kings were gods because they shot fireballs out of their fingers? This mystery Babylon used mystery religions to dupe the masses into following false religions, giving up their liberties, performing atrocious acts to other people, and treating kings as if they were the embodiment of the gods themselves.
To support this initial claim, we can see that Emperor Domitian campaigned with a priest of the imperial occult on his left and right. This imperial cult was also holding tribunes to the worship of Caesar that led to the deaths of many Christians. This is likely the inspiration behind John receiving the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
If we track the Biblical progression of Mystery Babylon, we can find her at every major imperial metropolitan in history. She influenced the Egyptians to oppress the Israelites, caused the Assyrians to sacrifice their firstborns into the fires for Marduk, led the Babylonians to blaspheme the true LORD God, conspired against the Jews to the Persians, Hellenized the Greek world, and eventually led the Romans to persecute the Christians. This leads me to the beast of Revelation 17.
This beast is not the same beast as mentioned in Revelation 13. The beast in Revelation 13 did indeed have seven heads and ten horns, but, unlike the beast of Revelation 17, it also had crowns on each of its horns. The beast of Revelation 17 is also one that did not exist when John received the vision. It says that the beast has seven heads, being seven mountains and seven kings. This would easily lead anyone to assume that the woman that rides the beast is Rome. At John's time, she was. But before John's time, Mystery Babylon had rode the Egyptian Empire, the Assyrian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, and the Grecian Empire. That makes up the five that had fallen. Rome was the head that 'is.' There was to be another empire after the Roman Empire that would be influenced by the occult. The beast itself, however, is an eighth empire, which is formed when the ten kingdoms receive power and give that power over to it.
The seventh empire is the United Nations, whose headquarters are found in New York City, home of the World Trade Center. This empire was formed after World War II, as a replacement of the League of Nations. Eventually, this empire was hijacked by Central Banks that funded sides of the wars that would follow.
Far-fetched? Let me explain:
Since science has been elevated to such great heights in the academic, economic, political, environmental, and social realm, it has made it virtually impossible for anything to remain a secret. Well, almost anything. There is the stock market; that force of nature that is as unpredictable as the weather and cosmos. Wall Street Insiders, however, are the occultists of this new elite and the banks are their temples. Before the WTC was bombed on 9/11, certain individuals pulled out their investments and relocated them. Before the recession of 2008, the same thing happened. Before the explosion of Deepwater Horizon oil rig owned by BP, the same thing happened. In fact, Haliburton purchased the company that cleaned up the oil leak. The whole stock market reacts to every major event that happens. The place they gather to place their bets on the gods? Wall Street.
Because of this shift in power from kings to banks, the poor have been exploited by federal organizations that answer to nobody and jack up interest rates to sap the poor and middle class. The resolution to these atrocities? War. Everybody knows that 9/11 was an inside job that was hidden by a false flag in effort to destroy traces of the 2.3 trillion dollars that had been reported missing the day before (and the records stored in the area of the Pentagon that was destroyed in the explosion.) The banks got their hands into the Middle East while covering up a major movement of money to an undisclosed location.
However, the beast that was, is not, and will rise is the empire that will rise once Wall Street falls at New York City's destruction. I don't know when or how this would happen, but Revelation 17 and 18 show that it happens suddenly and violently.
I did notice that 5 megaton nuclear weapon disappeared in a busy harbor in Germany today. I don't know how a nuke that was under UN surveillance could have 'disappeared' other than them 'letting' it disappear.
If all this is true, then people need to get out of New York City. Can others test this interpretation with sound eschatology and research to see if it applies? I don't like making huge claims like this. I don't think this event would be the end either. As I said, I believe another empire (IMO, the New World Order) will arise from this.
Let me know what you think. I can handle sharp criticism, but please try and not be rude. I am a brother in Christ, not a lunatic looking for a thrill. Thanks.