Msg #2342 The Whore, The Beast, and the Ten Kings

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

The Revelation of Jesus Christ is not allegorical, it is sometimes metaphorical, but God says what he means and means what he says. The accounts of the seven seals, the seven trumpets, and the seven vials are intermittently interrupted with what have been called seven parentheticals. The last one describes a great whore riding on a scarlet colored beast (17:1-4). Britannica says ancient Rome was the city built on seven hills, and that accords with “the seven mountains on which the woman sitteth” (17:9). The Holy Roman Catholic Church herself (which is not holy nor catholic), trying to claim Peter's first epistle addressed Rome, and Peter as their first pope, they, ignorant of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, ironically assigned themselves the title “Mystery Babylon.” However the shoe-fits, the woman is a one world religion, and the beast, a one world government. The beast is the abomination of desolation (Mat.24:15, Rev.13:1-2). The ten kings which “have one mind and shall give their power and strength unto the beast”(17:13), “these shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled (17:16-17).

Students of this parenthetical keep supposing who the ten kings might be, but all of us can safely suppose three things that the apostle John knew; 1) the words of God shall be fulfilled (17:17) and 2) “the woman is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth” (17:18), and 3) these shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb, the Lord of lords and King of kings, shall overcome them” (17:14). Praise his Holy Name.

An Essay for week #42 - Oct 15, 2023

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