And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. -- Rev 17:9-10
Many find themselves troubled in mind and spirit by the fast approaching and unavoidable chaos planned for us by Mystery Babylon, the spirit within the money and power loving elite driving the course of this world toward its perditious end. They, elevated above us by an ancient gnostic belief that their special knowledge and oath to ‘the craft,’ will soon transform them to godhood, and allow them to escape the prison that this world has evolved into.
But who really believes them as they newspeak monotonously about bringing useful bug eaters into a worldwide coexistence of peace and security, once they methodically wipe out every last terrorist who refuses their safe and effective prescription for utopian tyranny?
For those of us who believe the inspired words of the King James Bible, we know that very little time remains before we hear that shout from our Lord himself as he descends from heaven, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, to awaken those who sleep in Jesus, and to bring us who are alive and remain up together into the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord!
This is our blessed hope for which we are to be looking up daily, not only in anticipation of our new heavenly bodies, but to rule and reign with God as King over the whole earth at his second coming. Yet it follows, we will have our own judgment at the seat of Christ first, to receive the things done in our body, whether they be good or bad, to receive or lose reward, thereby settling our inherited estate. But that is also a part of God’s justice. What? Take on the free gift of salvation but stay conformed to this world, not willing to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service? As it is written…
Study to shew thyself approved of God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. -- 2 Tim 2:15
… but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. -- Rom 12:2b
But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
If a man therefore purge himself from these (acts of iniquity), he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work. -- 2 Tim 2:20-21
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. -- Col 1:12
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. -- Col 3:23-24
Exiled to the Isle of Patmos during Emperor Domitian’s reign, John - presumed the last to survive the original twelve apostles - records for us his vision, in which he captures in vivid and extraordinary imagery the final days of how this third of five worlds will end.
Seven angels are seen in one unveiling, each having one of seven vials which contain the last of the plagues of God’s wrath that he visits upon man. We might take notice that the plagues and wrath of God against the rebellion and wickedness of men mentioned throughout the Bible, are conspicuously missing from the Pauline epistles. Could this be due to the fact that to this Apostle to the Gentiles was given the mystery revelation that God sent his Son into the world, not to condemn it, but that the world by his grace and longsuffering might be saved? And this, in addition to confounding the works of the devil, as I’ve written afore.
One of the angels approaches John:
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. -- Rev 17:2
So John gets carried in the spirit into the wilderness to catch a view of this woman 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. She has upon her forehead a name written:
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH
With wonder and great astonishment he sees that she’s drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. Wherefore didst thou marvel? the angel asks. Then he proceeds to tell John the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, having the seven heads and ten horns.
The beast we’ll return to. The seven heads, we learn, are seven mountains, on which the woman sits; and seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he comes, he must continue a short space.
Now I’m no theological scholar, but I do enjoy digging in and cross-referencing Scripture, and learning all I can… until I’m in the company of my young grandchildren, and then I’m lost in their little world of giggles and curiosity, giving mom a break. The point? I believe if one spends time in the Book, and considers the things written, living words that are preserved forever and ever, wisdom and understanding is given unto the mind of that student by the Spirit of Truth.
As I see it, the woman is a one-world, idol worshiping religious system crafted into a sacred art mixed with concupiscence, by guidance of spirits and devils. She sought recognition during the mighty reign of Nimrod, who began to build a city and tower in the land of Shinar, east of the garden of Eden, whose top would reach unto heaven, when the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech… “Lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” I’ll give him credit for acknowledging the level facial geography of earth’s surface. To hear of a Deluge that covered a flying ball-earth would have caused a ruckus of laughter to these master builders who intended their ziggurat to be a ladder to reach the divine realm above them.
With Nimrod’s project axed by reason of their tongues strangely babbling to one another, the people of Mesopotamia were then forced to spread out to obey God’s earlier command to “be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.” The woman migrates to Egypt, her head fully visible now, where she creates a “state religion” as a model for developing civilizations of men. The Egyptians didn’t meet a god or goddess they could refuse.
Meanwhile, God calls one man out of Ur of Chaldea to advance his will and purpose in reestablishing order and righteousness both in heaven and earth, in due time, through the seed of another woman. As Babylon, in Scripture, represents the mystery harlot religion associated with the angels which kept not their first estate, and by its sorceries keep the nations deceived, so we have the New Jerusalem, the city of God, come down from heaven and the nation of Israel, Jacob’s descendants, as the bride of Christ depicted as a theme throughout the Bible (not to be confused with the political converts to Rabbinic Judaism in the State of Israel today).
Then there’s Joseph’s dreams in Genesis 37 about the sun, moon and stars that John follows up with in Revelation, chapter twelve:
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as it was born.
And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
Keeping that in mind, we now view the second head of the woman making her appearance in Assyria. Speaking of heads, one of the four river heads parting from the river leaving Eden went directly through Assyria, where we are told the sons of Ishmael built their towns, and their castles; twelve princes according to their nations, in Genesis 25.
These are the times when the nation of Israel, by its twin sisters Aholah (Samaria) and Aholibah (Jerusalem) enamored with the sons of the idolatrous nations around them, particularly Assyria, played the harlot and took up the worship of their gods and did wickedly in the sight of God. Not good times for Jacob’s children. It is because of these rebellious years and their rejection of the prophets sent by God, that trouble is declared against them seventy weeks, with that final week (seven years) of great tribulation yet to come.
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. -- Daniel 9:24
But there are five more heads, five more ruling thrones of authority, to arise before the final battle involving two women, jealous of each other.
Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. -- Deut 5:8-9
So the whorish woman continues her promiscuous reign over the thoughts and actions of men as she “heads” into Babylon and moves King Nebuchadnezzar against the other woman. First Judah is captured, then Jerusalem is besieged, the temple, walls and gates destroyed by fire, the treasures removed, and the people are taken captive into the Babylonian Empire.
Daniel and other prophets foretell the future of Israel and of the end of the world, and the people of the Book sorrow for seventy years in exhile before Belshazzar sees the writing on the wall in 539 BC, and falls into the silver breast and arms of Medo-Persia.
In the same year, after freeing the Jewish people from captivity, King Cyrus, demonstrates his policy of religious and cultural tolerance by soliciting all Jews to return to Jerusalem to rebuild, even allowing the vessels of gold and silver stolen by Nebuchadnezzar’s troops to be returned to reestablish the House of God.
This no doubt was by direct influence of the LORD God, who stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, King of Persia to act judiciously toward the Jewish people, ruling over his empire by peaceful means rather than brute force. With the triumph of Cyrus, a new race, the Indo-European, came into world dominion and the political destiny of the world would thereafter lie in the hands of that race.
The woman, after focusing her attention on the prophet/priest, Zarathushtra (Zoroaster), who she uses by cleverly infusing the earlier gods into a subtle, new monotheistic religious system with dualistic features (think two sides of the same coin), then turns to this rising new star, Alexander the Great, and settles for awhile in Greece, in ecstacy, amused how quickly the Greeks take to Zoroastrianism.
Thoroughly inspired, these cultural giants begin to have a field day with all the gods, fancying new accounts of the genesis of creation and the subsequent history of man, spreading Greek art, philosophy, literature and their new religion ‘mythology’ all across the western world, until the eventual subjugation by their most ardent admirers, the Roman Republic.
At the Battle of Corinth in 146 BC, Rome takes the lead role of world victor and breaks Greece apart into multiple provinces, governed by a Roman proconsul, who reported directly to the Roman senate and later to the Roman Emperor. But you know all this.
How is Rome, our “legs of iron” connected to the woman riding the beast with seven heads? We know the seven heads are seven mountains, or world kingdoms. Five are fallen when John writes his book; one is, and the other is not yet come. Then, it can only be the controlling Roman Empire, that is. The other, not yet come, must continue a short space.
Here we have some figuring to do. What world power came after Rome fell? We see the feet and toes of iron mixed with clay, where (King Neb’s) body stands weakest: an indication we are certainly not more advanced in our time, but diminishing in strength and beauty. There’s nothing new under the sun Solomon told us. And as you may have read it my recent piece, we have the Club of Rome (aptly named) to applaud for divvying up the world into ten kingdoms and bringing us closer to the end of this troublesome existence.
But what are the feet? Comment if you think I’m wrong, but I think it’s the League of Nations morphed into the United Nations; this international powerhouse proposing to unite all nations of the world under the false religious system world peace and security (represented by the woman), who has been guiding humanity to its conclusion through its rituals and sacrifices to Satan and his legions, overtly and covertly, shaping the religious beliefs, practices, and traditions we can trace back to the Roman era.
In a pagan sort of way, the nature of these practices, rituals and sacrifices we cling to in holidays, celestial bodies, the worship of science and education, bread and circus entertainment, music, art, literature, church, you name it, all play a crucial role in our society dividing and conquering our souls, yet at the same time providing a sense of purpose, meaning and, ironically, spiritual cohesion in a world waaay off its course.
But that bond is cracking. It’s cracking beneath the weight of overt lies and deception by those who politicize us. The larger divide is between those of us who refuse to go along with it, whether the cost, being clothed in Christ’s righteousness, from those who seek “their truth” through any other way. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Finally, the beast is a man that will arise out of the ten kingdoms, being reserved until the time appointed. He is the eighth head, that is of the seven, as declared in Rev 17:11. He will be an intellectual genius, outstanding speaker, master politician, military mastermind, and commercial giant with satanic supernatural power. He carries (supports) the woman (false religion) for a while, then he and his ten kings will destroy her because the beast (Antichrist) wants to be the only one people worship (Revelation 13:1-8).
The ten toes/horns, or ten kings as I’ve mentioned, which have received no kingdom as yet, as far as having supreme authority over a given region of the world, will receive power as kings one hour with the beast, or a very short time (still working that one out), before they make war with the King of Kings and be overcome.
Don’t believe it? If your name’s not written in the Book of Life, you will just have to find out the hard way.
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. -- Rev 13:8
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom, Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six (666). -- Rev 14:16-18
If any man have an ear, let him hear.
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Excellent analysis
All belief is a graven image. Insanity. Believe nothing. Make no false idols. Never consider your creation equal to God’s creation