The Whore of Babylon – The City of Prophecy

The Whore of Babylon –

Rev 17:3  So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

cRev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

What does a woman represent in prophecy? 

Scripture teaches us that God’s church is represented by a woman.

Eph 5:23  For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.
Eph 5:24  Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Eph 5:25  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Eph 5:26  That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, Eph 5:27  That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

God’s church is a pure woman.  A virgin. 

2Co 11:2  For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you asa chaste virgin to Christ.

God’s church is symbolized by his bride.

Rev 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Rev 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

Does a godly woman array herself in gold and pearls and jewellery?

1Ti 2:9  In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array.
1Ti 2:10  But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

1 Pet 3:3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
1 Pet 3:4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
1 Pet 3:5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves,

Who is this godly woman in Revelation and who is mad at her seed[children]?

Rev 12:1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon dunder her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
Rev 12:2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
Rev 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

False Churches Represented by a Whore and her Harlot Daughters

A great whore in prophecy, a false church.  She has harlot daughters.  Other false churches which adopt her many unbiblical doctrines.

Rev 17:1  And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Rev 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.
Rev 17:3  So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 17:4  And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication
Rev 17:5  And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THEeMOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

That Great City

Who is this woman?  This woman is a church.  But how else is she identified in prophecy?

Rev 17:18  And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

This woman is identified also as a city in prophecy.  That had power over the kings of the earth.   This is identified in Revelation 18:3 the bible says she commited fornication with the kings of the earth.  We will find out what this means shortly.  Let’s identify firstly who this city of prophecy is.

fSource: The New College Latin and English Dictionary, revised and enlarged, by John C. Traupman, Ph.D., published and copyrighted by Bantam Books, 1995, ISBN 0-553-57301-2, page 437

Notice the word “Vatican”.  It actually is defined as “Prophecy”.  So “Vatican City” actually means “City of Prophecy”.  The word “Vatic” can be found in a standard English dictionary and is identified with Prophecy.

 

gSource:  Webster’s II New Riverside Dictionary, Home and Office Edition, published in 1995 by Longmeadow Press, Copyright 1988 by Houghton Mifflin Company, ISBN 0-681-20227-0, page 458.

So the name “Vatican City” actually means “City of Prophecy”.

Rev 17:18  And the woman which thou sawest is that great city

Notice these coins.

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This woman is pictured as holding a golden cup in her hand.  Underneath her feet is the word “fides” which means “faith” and encircling her are the words “CITTA DEL VATICANO”  which means “City of Vatican” or “City of Prophecy”. [Rev 17:18]

A Church and State Union

Rev 17:3  So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

What’s is a beast in prophecy?

A beast is a Kingdom.

Dan 7:23  Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth

Daniel predicted a fourth world power.   This fourth kingdom became a divided Kingdom which was to remain divided till the second coming of Christ.  Please see our study on Daniel 2 and Daniel 7 for further study on these four kingdoms.   These four beasts in Daniel 7 are identified as Babylon, Medo Persia, Greece  and  this fourth Kingdom in Daniel 7 had 10 horns which were known as the divided Roman Kingdom.

The horns on the beast represent the  divisions of that Kingdom that ruled the earth.

Dan 7:24  And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:

So this church in Revelation 17 sits on a beast.  This is also signified by a woman going up to the Kings of the earth.

Rev 17:18  And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

Rev 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.
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Notice this woman is sitting on the earth.  The beast of Revelation 17 represents all the divided kingdoms of the earth. 

Rev 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.

“When the inquisitors swept into a town an “Edict of Faith” was issued requiring everyone to reveal any heresy of which they had knowledge. Those who concealed a heretic came under the curse of the Church and the inquisitors’ wrath. Informants would approach the inquisitors’ lodgings under cover of night and were rewarded for information. No one arrested was ever acquitted.

Torture was considered to be essential because the church felt duty-bound to identify from the lips of the victims themselves any deviance from sound doctrine. Presumably, the more excruciating the torture, the more likely that the truth could be wrung from reluctant lips. The inquisitors were determined that it was “better for a hundred innocent people to die than for one heretic to go free”.

“Heretics” were committed to the flames because the popes believed the Bible forbade Christians to shed blood. The victims of the Inquisition exceeded by hundreds of thousands the number of Christians and Jews who had suffered under pagan Roman emperors.(Dave Hunt; A Woman Rides the Beast (Harvest House Publishers; Eugene, Oregon; 1994)

“It had been decreed by Napoleon [in 1809] that Inquisitions and Monasteries should be suppressed, but the decree was not executed. Months had passed away and the prisons of the inquisition had not been opened” (The Convent Horror, Barbara Ubryk, 103)

The centuries record the martyrs that this woman had slain up until 1798 the Papacy’s church and State union and persecution was halted by the capture of the Pope by General Berthier.  This ended the Church and State Union which existed for over 12 centuries.  See more about this in our the study on Daniel 7.

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In the photo above we see a Roman soldier with angel wings, and a cross and sword in his hand.  With many of the saints, victims or heretics laying on the ground. 

The Fall of Jerusalm[Fornication]

The actual fall of Jerusalm was signaled by her unity with Caesar.  They commited fornication with the Kings of the earth, and at this point they chose their King.  The leaders of the Jewish church by doing this unchurched themselves.  And 50 days later on the day of Pentecost the new apostolic church was being assembled.  And they were told by Peter that they were partakers of her sins in the crucifixion of Jesus if they failed to be baptized into the new church.

Act 2:36  Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
Act 2:37  Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Menand brethren, what shall we do?
Act 2:38  Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost

3000 souls were added to the new church that day.

Act 2:41  Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Act 2:42  And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

So the order of events is described.

  1. Fornication with the Kings of the earth.[No King but Caesar][Church and State]
  2. Unchurched
  3. God’s people called out
  4. If they stayed in they would remain guilty of the crucifixion[partaker of her sins]

Rev 18:2  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.
Rev 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.
Rev 18:4  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.

If your still in that church.  The call is “Come out of her my people”.   Deut 24:1-4 tells us God cannot take her back.  She is defiled.

This Church was arrayed in Scarlet and Purple 

Rev 17:4  And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color…..
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The church in 2000 seeking forgiveness for the mass murders of countless Christians during the dark ages.  Wearing it’s prophesied colors of “Purple and Scarlet”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rev 17:4  … and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls,

 

At left is a jewel encrusted gold and silver triple-tiara of Pope Pius IX.  One of many of such like crowns.

 

Rev 17:4  ….. having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

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We have seen the images.  What do these things mean?  Is it just the visual that identifies this whore.  Orv is there an actual spiritual meaning to all these symbols?

 

Let’s carefully analyze the symbols one by one.  

Purple and Scarlet [A missing color?]

Let’s look at what the bible say’s about the missing color.  In the Old Testament priesthood had specific colors.  And the colors were symbolic.

Exo 28:3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
Exo 28:4 And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
Exo 28:5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
Exo 28:6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
Exo 28:7 It shall have the two shoulder pieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
Exo 28:8 And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Of gold, blue, purple and scarlet.  So we have four colors.  What is this woman[church] missing?
Rev 17:4  And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold

She’s missing the blue.
What does the missing blue signify?
The blue represents the law of God.  Notice what is written about the blue.

Num 15:38  Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribbon of blue: 
Num 15:39  And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
Num 15:40  That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.

So the blue is symbolic of the commandments of God.  The Catholic Church has actually changed Gods times and laws[Daniel 7:25].

It’s actually believed that God cut the tables of stone out of clear blue sapphire stone.

Exo 24:10  And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Exo 24:11  And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
Exo 24:12  And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

So God has said that the missing blue is likened to going a “WHORING” after our own hearts and forgetting his law.

Paul told us about a man of sin in 2 Thessalonians he wrote:

[NIV] [2 Th 2:3, 7] Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction….For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.

Who is this power Paul is speaking about?  It’s the Papacy which came out of the fourth kingdom in Daniel 7.  Paul knew these prophecies.

Dan 7:25  And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Dan 11:36  And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.

2Th 2:4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

Now what does the bible say about the true church in contrast to this church of lawlessness?

Rev 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Gods true church has not left out God’s commandments.

Blasphemy

Rev 17:3  So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

“We [the popes] hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.”Christopher Marcellus, Oration in the Fifth Lateran Council, Session IV (1512), manuscript SC, Vol. 32, col. 761 (Latin).

“The pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ, Himself, hidden under the veil of flesh.” Catholic National, July 1895.

“Does the Priest truly forgive the sins, or does he only declare that they are remitted? The Priest does really and truly forgive the sins in virtue of the power given to him by Christ.”Joseph Deharbe, S.J., A Complete Catechism of the Catholic Religion (New York: Schwartz, Kirwin & Fauss, 1924), p. 279.
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Children praying to the Pope.  The bible teaches us there is “one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ”[1 Tim 2:5].  Seeking worship is what caused Lucifers fall. 

Isa 14:12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Isa 14:13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Isa 14:14  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Isa 14:15  Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

This church is fallen.

Rev 18:2  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.

According to God this church is filled with devils and if we are in it.  We are to come out of it.  If we are out of it.  We are to cry with a loud voice “Come out of her my people”.

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This is only a small sample of this blasphemous church.

 

Decked with Gold and Pearls

1Ti 2:9  In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array.
1Ti 2:10  But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

This woman likes to put her own clothes on.  Christ gave her a white robe, but she refused it.  Adornment in scripture represents the character of Christ versus the character of self.

Isa 64:6  But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;

Isa 61:10  I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness,

Of ourselves we have filthy rags on.  In Isaiah chapter 3 are described women of Zion wearing a long list of jewellery.  And it goes into chapter 4 it tells us about these clothes that these women wear.

Isa 3:17  Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
Isa 3:18  In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and theirround tires like the moon,

The list goes on in Isaiah 3.  But the idea is that these women want to wear there own clothes.  But these clothes are not the righteousness of Christ.  They have not let God clothe them with robes of righteousness.  What does God say of these women?

Isa 4:1  And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Sounds like the whore and her harlot daughters. They think they are justified in their own clothes.  There is a parable of a wedding Jesus tells us.  And he talks about those who come to this wedding with their own clothes on.  Those who refused to put on that robe of righteousness that God has given.  What happens to them at the wedding?

Mat 22:11  And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
Mat 22:12  And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
Mat 22:13  Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

This is what will happen to many who are in these false churches in that day wearing there own apparel.  There righteousness is filthy rags and they must empty themselves of self.  So in this church and her harlot daughters are found spirits of devils.

Holding a cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication

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Jas 4:4  Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

To love the world is spiritual adultery.  But what is in that cup?  What is it that is making the people of this church so drunk.

In Daniel chapter 5 the night Babylon fell.  King Belshazzar had a party.  He brought out all the cups from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and placed the unholy wine inside the holy cups.

Dan 5:3  Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
Dan 5:4  They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
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They were mixing pagan worship with the true worship of the only true God.

The people in Babylon were so drunk they didn’t know that they were worshipping false Gods.  But the leaders had caused them to err.  The night this happened is the night that Babylon fell.

Pro 23:27  For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
Pro 23:28  She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
Pro 23:29  Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Pro 23:30  They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Pro 23:31  Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
Pro 23:32  At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Pro 23:33  Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

If you have been in Babylon for a long time, you have woe, sorrow, contentions, babbling, wounds without2 cause, and you can’t see straight.  You are drunk.  You think your ok.  Just as this woman thinks she is riding the beast right into paradise.

This is the same as the seventh church. The Laodicean church.  God has words for her.

Rev 3:17  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Rev 3:18  I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, that thou mayest see.

The wine is representative of the pagan and unscriptural doctrines which make it hard to discern the truth.  Or even believe there is a truth.
Isaiah speaks of this wine as false doctrine.

Isa 28:7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophethave erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Isa 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
Isa 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine?

Notice that Isaiah confirms to us about this false doctrine in the cup.

Isa 29:9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
Isa 29:10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
Isa 29:11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
Isa 29:12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
Isa 29:13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
Isa 29:14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

Who hath believed our report? Isaiah wrote.  Isn’t it the same today? They think they are increased with goods.

Act 28:26  Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:

Rev 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.

Are they really rich?  Or do they think they think they are rich like Laodicea? They are definitely drunk.

The Mother of Harlots

Rev 17:5  And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

“Furthermore, to check unbridled spirits, it [The Council of Trent] decrees that no one relying on his owno judgment shall, in matters of faith and morals pertaining to the edification of Christian doctrine, distorting the Holy Scriptures in accordance with his own conceptions, presume to interpret them contrary to that sense which holy mother Church, to whom it belongs to judge of their true sense and interpretation, has held and holds, or even contrary to the unanimous teaching of the Fathers, even though such interpretations should never at any time be published. Those who act contrary to this shall be made known by the ordinaries and punished in accordance with the penalties prescribed by law”. Source: The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, English Translation, by Rev. H. J. Schroeder, O.P., Copyright 1941 by B. Herder Book Co., Copyright 1978 by TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., Library of Congress Catalogue Number: 78-66132, ISBN 0-89555-074-1, pages 18-19.

… “It must always be clear, when the expression sister churches is used in this proper sense that the one, holy, catholic and apostolic universal church is not sister but mother of all the particular churches.”[Note on the Expression Sister Churches by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, SDB, June 30, 2000.

In the recent document Memory and Reconciliation, where the Roman Catholic Church discusses its asking forgiveness for its past sins of persecution, section 3.4 specifically addresses “The Motherhood of the Church”: The conviction that the Church can make herself responsible for the sin of her children by virtue of the solidarity that exists among them through time and space because of their incorporation into Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit, is expressed in a particularly effective way in the idea of “Mother Church” (“Mater Ecclesia”), …

She is the mother.  The protestant churches who have adopted many of her false doctrines such as the Trinity, the counterfeit Sabbath, sprinkling for baptism, Idolatry,  the consciousness of the dead and eternal life in misery are drunk and are merely the harlot daughters of this whore to whom she is the mother.

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT

The word Babylon is derived from the Hebrew word “Babel” which means “Confusion”.  The title here is saying “This is a mystery and great confusion”.  This is what the people in Babylon say when they read the scriptures.  They say “This doesn’t make any sense” or “This is not what the priest says.”  This is written on the whores forehead.

What does the forehead symbolize?

Deu 6:8  And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

In speaking about the commandments of God.  They were to be sealed in the mind.

Isa 8:16  Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Eph 4:30  And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Php 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

It is the Holy Spirit of God that seals us.  It is his character that is to be in our mind.  On this whores forehead is written “MYSTERY, Babylon the great”.

There are many mysteries in the Catholic church.

The Catholic is also well familiar with many “mysteries” through the recitation of their Hail Marys and the rosary. There are 15 decades of prayer (150 recitations) and during each decade of ten recitations, the Catholic contemplates on one of the “mysteries” of the church, which are as follows:

The Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary are divided into three groups: the Joyful, the sorrowful and the glorious.

Five Joyful Mysteries
The Mystery of Annunciation
The Mystery of Visitation
The Mystery of the Birth of the Lord
The Mystery Of the Presentation in the Temple
The Mystery of Finding Jesus in the Temple

The 5 Sorrowful Mysteries
The Mystery of the Agony in the Garden
The Mystery of the Scourging Pillar
The Mystery of the Crowning with Thorns
The Mystery of Jesus carrying his Cross
The Mystery of Crucifixion

The 5 Glorious Mysteries
The Mystery of the Resurrection
The Mystery of the Ascension of our Lord
The Mystery of the Descent of the Holy Spirit
The Mystery of the Assumption Of the Blessed Virgin
The Mystery of the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin as Queen of Heaven

These are some of the Mysteries of Babylon.  But there is a Mystery upon which all these Mysteries are based.  There is a Mystery that is the root of all the wine in Babylon.

“The Mystery of the Trinity is the central doctrine of the catholic church.  Upon it are based all the 3teachings of the church”[Handbook for todays Catholic Page 16]

According to the Catholic church the Mystery she bases all of her false doctrines on is the “Mystery of the Trinity”.

Could this name in the forehead represent the name of her God?  Let’s look at God’s true bride.  The 144,000.  What is written in their foreheads? Contrasting spiritual Israel with spiritual Babylon we find:

Rev 14:1  And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.

It is the name of their God?

1Co 8:5  For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
1Co 8:6  But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

The bible speaks of “One God the father” and no other God but he.

Eph 4:6  One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Jesus said his God and our God is the father.

Joh 20:17  Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

The title “God” is used 1,394 times in the New Testament and refers almost exclusively to the father, except when speaking of Christ’s nature as Christ was in the form of God and equal with God.[John 1:1, 14, 18] and [Phi 2:6,7].  Sadly many don’t understand this concept and wrest the scriptures to there own destruction.[2 Pet 3:16]  Jesus told us it was eternal life to know his father the only true God.

Joh 17:3  And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Christ also told us that he was the son of God.  And upon this rock is the true church built.  The first and great commandment is the Lord our God is one Lord.  And he sits on his throne in heaven.  His son at the right hand.  This is obviously not a minor doctrine.

Heb 1:3  Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

The Majesty on high is his father.  This is a picture of the sanctuary in heaven.  One God and one mediator on his right hand.  It’s been said that the doctrine of the trinity destroys the sanctuary message.  In analyzing the scene of judgment there is no room for the Trinity.

Dan 7:13  I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

Daniel sees in vision God on his throne.  The only true God the father.  But what is this MYSTERY on the forehead?  Can we be sure this represents a false God?

Let’s take a look at some further passages.

Rain withheld because of a whores forehead.

Now it is said in Deutoronomy that if we follow other Gods’ that it would not rain in the seasons.

Deu 11:16  Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
Deu 11:17  And then the LORD’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

So if we worship other God’s there will be no rain.  Also in Elijah’s day there was no rain for 3 and a half years because all Israel was worshipping BAAL and Ashtoreth.[1 Kings 18]

Notice this prophecy about the whores forehead in Jeremiah 3.

Jer 3:3  Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

Now we see scripture says “if we follow other God’s there will be no rain”.  Here it is said that the church has a “whores forehead” and there is “no rain”.   So the whores forehead could only signify that she is worshipping other God’s.

And isn’t it right that God should mark Babylon with the very name of her God?  He seals his people in there forehead with his own name.  Therefore for him to mark the whore in the forehead with the name of her God.  “The Mystery of the Trinity” marking is rightly where it is supposed to be.

Let’s look at 2 Thess 2 and compare it to it’s parallel in Daniel 11.   Both of these passages are references to the Papacy.

2Th 2:3  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;
2Th 2:4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
2Th 2:7  For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

Here above we have another Mystery.  The mystery of iniquity.  Notice this man of sin who exalts himself above God.  He even shows himself that he is God.  We’ve seen already how he says he is “God on earth”.

Dan 11:36  And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
Dan 11:37  Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
Dan 11:38  But in his estate shall he honor the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.

This man of sin who exalts himself above God speaks marvelous things against the God of gods.  And he honors in his state the God of forces.  A God that the bible doesn’t speak about.  It is said that this God was established 400 years after the New Testament was written.

“The mystery of the Trinity is the central doctrine of the Catholic Faith. Upon it are based all the other teachings of the Church… The Church studied this mystery with great care and, after four centuries of clarification, decided to state the doctrine in this way: in the unity of the Godhead there are three Persons,—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit…”[Handbook for todays Catholic Page 11]

400 years after Christ is how long it took for the church to figure out who God is?  These are new gods.
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The three esoteric “6”‘s separated.
Plainly displaying the interlocked “666”.
The TRINITY symbol

Deu 32:16  They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
Deu 32:17  They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

Who represents these Gods?

2Co 4:4  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Rev 13:2  And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

Rev 12:9  And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

The Dragon is the God of this church. Which is Satan.   He represents himself in the form of a Trinity.  And those who worship this god take his character which is symbolized by the forehead.  Let’s look at Hosea 4 and what it says about “whoring after other gods”.

Hos 4:6  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:

What knowledge are they lacking?

Hos 4:1  … there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

What happens when there is no knowledge of God in the church?

Hos 4:2  By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Hos 4:3  Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Hos 4:4  Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
Hos 4:5  Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

Swearing, lying, killing, stealing and the church falls.  Furthermore God talks about this worshipping of other Gods.

Hos 4:10  For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
Hos 4:11  Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Hos 4:12  My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath causedthem to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Hos 4:13  They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
Hos 4:14  I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

What should we do that we might receive the rain that has ceased due to following false Gods?

Hos 6:3  Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Hos 6:6  For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

We must turn from the false God of Babylon.  The Trinity. [Rev 17:5] To the true God of the bible.  The father.[Rev 14:1].  The Trinity is a mystery that cannot be understood.  Therefore knowledge of God in Babylon cannot be had.  God desires knowledge of him.  That he is a father.  The father of the son.

2Jn 1:3  Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

When the fire came down from heaven Elijahs day in front of the 450 prophets of BAAL and all of Israel.  And they all turned back to the true God.  It rained.

1Ki 18:39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he isthe God.
1Ki 18:41 And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain

The Jezebel Connection

The name Elijah means [God is YAH].  YHWH is the only true God.  The name Jezebel means [Woman of Baal].   This woman led Israel into national apostacy.  To follow other Gods.  There was no rain in Israel for 1260 days.[James 5:17].  Just as prophecied by Moses should Israel go after other gods.[Deu 11:16,17].

1 Ki 16:30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him.
1 Ki 16:31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
1 Ki 16:32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
1 Ki 16:33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

The church in Thyatira has a problem.  But they are given time to repent of it.  It is the doctrine of Jezebel.  Following other Gods.  This is again prophetic of the Trinity.

Rev 2:20  Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Rev 2:21  And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
Rev 2:22  Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

As we learned it was her Gods.  She was “whoring after other Gods”.  It’s the Trinity.

This doctrine is the central doctrine of the Catholic Church upon which all other abominations are based.  By looking at the evidence and pictures.  This Jezebel claiming to be a prophetess.  Has she not prophecied of herself.  Look at what she has spoken through her words, the pictures.   God has revealed this beyond any shadow of a doubt.

“And another serious question is this, whether we ought not to be very sure before we assert that a branch of Christ’s Church, not merely has evil extensively prevailing within it, but is actually the kingdom of evil, the kingdom of God’s enemy; considering that, if it be not the kingdom of darkness, it is the Church, the dwelling-place of the Most High. The question really lies, be it observed, between those two alternatives, either the Church of Rome is the house of God or the house of Satan; there is no middle ground between them. “Source: Cardinal John Henry Newman, Essays, Critical and Historical , Volume II, Tenth Edition, London, Longmans, Green & Co., and New York, 15 East 16th Street, 1890, pgs. 115, 116.

Hath she not prophecied?