Last Days Timeline, A literal interpretation of biblical prophecy, second edition by Gregory Supina - HTML preview

Thus, clearly, not one of God’s elect children, neither His Jewish nor Gentile elect, can ever be snatched out of God’s hand and thrust into hell. Nor will any elect soul ever be permanently cast out of God’s true church. Literally all elect spirits will end up serving as members of God’s eternal family priesthood in heaven. When Jesus leads His church of elect human beings into the New Jerusalem after the judgment day, not one elect child of the Father will be missing. Not one elect soul will ever be lost to the fires of hell. If not while dwelling in flesh on earth, then in heaven on the judgment day, every elect soul will see their Father and their oldest Brother, Jesus, then embrace Him with overwhelming joy. Only now, on earth, while God’s work of teaching and training elect spirits is taking place, can elect spirits be suppressed by their minds of flesh and temporarily stall the growth of their spirits into maturity. But even that delay serves a purpose, because the experience of that loss will teach those elect to love and value God and His truths much more on the judgment day.

Now we know God hardened the hearts of most elect Jews, in a way that does not allow their elect spirits to overcome the delusions in their minds of flesh, for a good reason. So most Jews are being deceived by false doctrines, by humanistic traditions gleaned from Satan’s four religious kingdoms of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. So most, by God’s will, now reject Jesus as their Messiah, but only until the appointed time for them to receive Him. And the appointed time for literally all the remnant of Jews still living on earth on the day Jesus returns, will be after Jesus has gathered the full number of elect Gentiles into His church of Israel. Then both those elect Jews and their elect Gentile siblings will embrace Jesus as their true Messiah, as Yahweh in a body of human flesh. And we know the full number of Gentiles will not be gathered into Israel until the day Jesus returns because most Gentile elect will not enter the revived true church until the sixth seal’s era and the beginning of the seventh seal’s era. Therefore, we know that not many Jews will accept Jesus as their Messiah

 

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until a time after the seventh seal’s era begins. Until then, the number of Jews who accept Jesus as their Messiah is limited by God for His own purposes, so they may know that God, not man, is God.

When the armies of the beast prepare to march through the valleys of Armageddon during the last weeks before Jesus returns, the last of the elect Gentiles will repent and pray for Jesus to save them. Then Jesus shall appear in the sky, strike down the beast’s armies and all the wicked non-elect on earth. On that day, Jesus will remove the hardness which He Himself caused in the hearts of the elect Jews who have not yet repented to Him. And only those elect Jews will survive as the whole remnant of natural Israel on earth. The removal of hardness will cause those Jews to look upon the One whom their humanistic false church pierced and cause them to repent through an epiphany of godly sorrow.

That last remnant of hardened Jews will not repent in fear at the sight of Jesus descending from the sky, since physical miracles never convict the spirit into true repentance. Rather, their repentance will be the work of Jesus’ almighty Holy Spirit in their hearts. The personal works of Jesus Himself will make their spirits fully loving, just and righteous. And this repentance definitely will not be the work of a fictitious Platonic “free will” through “sincere” emotions of their flesh. For the Scriptures clearly state that the Deliverer, Jesus Himself, “will banish ungodliness from Jacob.” All those elect Jews will be Christ’s workmanship, not man’s workmanship. “All Israel will be saved” by our God Jesus. All will be forgiven all sins and taught God’s fulfilled Law by our God Jesus Himself. This is Yahweh’s New Covenant promise, which Jesus ratified for Israel at His first advent, when He came to the Jews as a man born of a woman. And His will cannot be altered or nullified by human works.

Paul stated this immutable fact in the clearest way he could. Yet most churches today still deny it and babble on about an Aristotelian kind of autonomous “free will,” a doctrine which they weaponize to blame the Jews for a hardness caused by God alone, so those fake churches can esteem themselves, so they can pretend that they are somehow superior to all Jews. Let us remember that this doctrine of “free will” was also taught by pagan Middle Platonists in Paul’s day, while Paul, John and all the other true apostles were preaching against that same false doctrine. For it was due to those pagan “free will” doctrines that the false and unjust humanistic doctrines of blame for “choosing sin” arose, along with other lies like replacement theology. Rome’s Satanic principles of ruthless blame and revenge were all based on the same biases derived from the Platonic, pagan, Roman culture in those days, which has been perpetuated to this day, largely through false churches, especially by the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters created during the first seal’s era. And a principal aspect of that false blame and revenge is the teaching that humans harden their own hearts through a “free will.”

Is it not terrifying to see how God utterly blinded the Great Prostitute and all her daughters? God sold them all to Satan, to be fettered in unbreakable chains of delusions within his unjust, thoroughly self-destructive, factious world order. Being handed over to these kinds of delusions is God’s worst punishment, reserved for those who do not love His truth, for those who love the darkness of lies and delusions far more than the light of His just, equitable, loving truths. All who hate God’s truths are handed over to delusions and manipulations worked by Satan. So let all the elect pray that God will awaken, teach and train their spirits, that He will guard the minds of their infantile spirits from all tempting lusts of the flesh and all deceptions, since we are all far too weak to guard ourselves from falling into such delusions. Let the elect learn to place their saving faith in God, not in themselves.

Now look again, a little more closely, at these words of Paul. Here (in Rom. 11:28), he declares: κατὰ μὲν τὸ εὐαγγέλιον ἐχθροὶ διʼ ὑμᾶς, κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἐκλογὴν ἀγαπητοὶ διὰ τοὺς πατέρας. In this text, the particles μέν and δέ indicate a contrast between the two clauses, between the concepts they express. So the contrast between the two clauses can be indicated with phrases something like this:

 

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“On the one hand ... On the other hand ...”. Then also notice the articles before the objects of the three prepositions, which are all deliberate and should be interpreted with appropriate meanings in context. Therefore, Paul was declaring: “On the one hand, [the hardened Jews] are hostile among you because of thee one and only Gospel. On the other hand, they are truly loved [i.e., this refers to God’s kind of agape love] among thee [biblical Jewish] forefathers because of their election” (ALT).

Regardless of how one honestly interprets this declaration of Paul into English, it indicates that at least a significant portion of Jews who have been “hardened” by God, who have rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ’s salvation, are indeed God’s elect and, therefore, will be saved into heaven on the judgment day. If anyone is honest enough to admit the consistent and harmonious meaning of God’s Word, one must admit that Paul is here proclaiming God’s election of the Jews who are “hardened” by Himself, and this is also proclaiming that God loves them. This cannot be rationally or honestly disputed by anyone, nor by any other honestly interpreted quotes from anywhere else in the Bible.

Then Paul affirms this by further declaring: ἀμεταμέλητα γὰρ τὰ χαρίσματα καὶ ἡ κλῆσις τοῦ θεοῦ. This clause begins with a form of the adjective ἀμεταμέλητος, which literally means, “not among things that matter, not regarding things one should care about, not a bad mistake.” So this word came to mean: “not to be regretted, without regret; [to] have nothing to regret, irrevocable; feeling no remorse, having no regret” (BDAG3). So its area of meaning in biblical (Koine) Greek remained within the boundary of its literal meaning. As for the noun χάρισμα, when found in the Greek New Testament and other ancient Christian literature, it can only refer to “gifts of divine beneficence” (BDAG3), free gifts from God, those God gives through His unmerited favor, through His grace, and always for the eternal benefit of the elect spirit, although such gifts often might not benefit the flesh.

Since the subject of this sentence (verse 29) is the Jews whose hearts God has hardened, it is actually telling us why God continues to love these “hardened” Jews, even as His elect children: “For the free spiritual gifts [including salvation] and the calling of God [to be His elect children] [are] irrevocable [without God’s regret, since they are not God’s mistakes, not errors which God might have made about such important matters, not God’s bad mistakes regarding anything that anyone needs to care about].” When God chose the elect among the Jews, those elect souls were all common sinners, exactly like all Gentile elect souls God gathers into Israel. But their sins cannot possibly nullify the fact that God chose and called their spirits for Himself, as His elect children, and that His Holy Spirit would continue to tell the elect spirits of those Jews to heed His words. And God’s one and only holy Spirit is Christ’s Spirit. God is one Spirit out of time, not multiple spirits. So it was our God Jesus who created and now shapes all elect spirits for their eternal and irrevocable salvation. And, from the beginning of time, all the sins of all His Jewish and Gentile elect in history were completely forgiven through the blood of Jesus. The eternal New Covenant of God, like the eternal Abrahamic Covenant, cannot be revoked by God. For God is omniscient and omnipotent. Therefore, it is impossible for Him to make a mistake and regret His decisions. If God could make mistakes, His omnipotent power worked through even the smallest contradiction would instantly tear apart all His creations, even His own Being. Thus, even when we think God has made a mistake or failed, we will always find out later that God did not actually make a mistake or fail at all. In time, we will discover that all we thought to be God’s mistakes and failures were actually God’s works to produce a greater good for the eternal spirits of His beloved children.

Even God’s creation of the incomplete spirits of demons and non-elect human beings, who all lack the ability to love, was not a mistake. For their creation, and God’s act of casting those spirits upon His temporary earthly creation, will work an eternal spiritual good for all who love God.. Some may deny this, then use false logic to reason that this must have been a mistake or failure of God. But, in a truly rational and logical way, it is easy to see that God created the earth as a temporary training

 

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ground for His elect children, where they could experience evil and good at the same time, so they could learn to appreciate God’s just and loving ways more by also experiencing unjust and unloving ways of demons and Satan’s non-elect children. Then God predestined literally all spirits of life in earthly bodies to die, including humans. And God irrevocably “appointed human beings to die once, but after this a judgment” (Heb. 9:27), a biblical judgment for the further teaching and training of their spirits. By creating the earth, where all spirits of life could experience that which is God-like, while also experiencing that which is not God-like, all those spirits would learn to love God more. Then all elect humans, who could also learn to discern between good and evil, would learn to love God the most, because they would learn to highly value and appreciate all His holy, loving attributes.

Jesus once showed us a woman whose many sins He had forgiven, and pointed out how she overtly expressed her deep, pure, respectful love for Him with unrestrained zeal. But others in the room, including esteemed religious leaders, did not love Jesus nearly as much. Some even hated Him. So Jesus declared, “he who is forgiven little, loves little” (Luke 7:47). He noted how the others—filled with a false self-esteem built upon delusions regarding their own abilities and goodness—took Him for granted, and how some did not even address Him with the kind of common respect due to every ordinary human being, because they hated Him. Did Jesus not utter the truth? How much more do we love our family members and friends who know our worst failures and faults, yet spontaneously forgive our faults as we repent, who cherish us and love us intensely, regardless of all the shameful realities they know about us, which they have seen with their own honest eyes. These are our closest, dearest ones. But the self-righteous, deluded ones, who look down on us and all other souls, are our enemies, and God’s enemies too. It is when we are honest enough to realize that we are all wretched and ignorant sinners, when have been humiliated enough to realize that we must be humble, that we begin to love those who forgive our very real sins, including our forgiving God. And it is our honest confession and repentance from our real sins that restores our good relationships with our forgivers.

God’s Word told us the reason for His temporary placement of our infantile, ignorant spirits on earth in these unruly bodies of flesh. It is so we will eventually learn to love in the same way that He also loves. To each elect spirit, God whispers His own right interpretations of His Law, and all His laws are about love, either love for God or love for those whom God places in the spheres of our lives. And now that everyone in the whole world can communicate instantly with one everyone else, the spheres of our lives have become very large. Then Jesus trains each elect spirit how to apply God-like love rightly, but He only trains the minds of our spirits, never our minds of flesh. And our new-born spirits can seldom gain enough lasting and complete control over our minds and bodies of loveless and amoral flesh. Thus, our spirits are seldom able to fully express true, wise, humble and God-like love through our flesh. Nevertheless, our God’s Holy Spirit keeps on teaching our ignorant, infantile spirits how to love, and lends us His power to apply that love through our rebelling minds and bodies of flesh. That is why we trust and love Jesus so much. That is why we choose Jesus as our only Teacher of life and faith, and as the only one worthy to be our Teacher. For only His flesh was not ruled by a human spirit, but entirely governed by the Spirit of God, 24/7/365. Only Jesus controled His flesh from birth, causing His whole being to love rightly and remain sinless from birth.

Of all the human beings who ever walked on earth, Jesus was, by far, the most beautiful. He alone is the perfect example of a human being to us all, which is why we study and seek to emulate Him only, not anyone else. For literally all the rest of the elect children of God are born into a state which resembles the spiritually dead, since all the elect lack mature, wise, loving spirits that are able to control the inclinations and impulses of their flesh. Literally all the elect begin life without the ability to apply spiritual truths in a wise enough way that can produce abundant life. We all start out

 

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by walking in overt disobedience to God, in extensive ignorance and blindness, in trespasses and sins, “following the course of this world [Satan’s world order], following the prince of the power of the air [who is Satan], the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience” (Eph. 2:2, ESV). All the elect are created on earth with weak little spirits, and not one knows anything about just love.

But this disobedience of literally all God’s elect children serves a purpose. Through God’s mercy towards our disobedience, He and His loving agents, educate us and forgive our spirits until we grow mature, humbled and better able to love. And soon we will learn to love more than even the greatest elect angels in heaven. This salvation of God, this teaching and training of our spirits to love in the same just way that God Himself loves, stands at the heart of all that the prophets and apostles of God wrote in the Scriptures. These are also the very “things into which angels long to look” (I Peter 1:12, ESV). To the heavenly angels, who have never endured ignorance or bodies of earthly flesh, it is a great mystery to see God’s most beloved elect children lie and sin, yet also see God continuously educate and forgive His heirs, knowing that He shall soon further judge (teach and guide) them at heaven’s gate. To the heavenly angels, it is also a wonder to see how the elect in the flesh can go from hating their heavenly Father to loving Him even more than they do. And it is indeed wondrous.

God is entirely capable of ultimately causing His sinning elect children to love and serve Him even more zealously than than the elect angels do. All the other spirits destined for life in heaven, all the spirits of plants and animals who dwelt on earth, also have never sinned since their birth, and never will sin, since they are not able to sin. So they need not go to the judgment day. None but human sinners, because they could discern between good and evil, because they could deliberately intend to sin with evil motives, will be judged on that last day. And our wise God had a very good reason for not making His most beloved human elect spirits like all the other elect spirits, not like the spirits who cannot discern between good and evil, who are never able to intentionally sin and will never need to be judged or forgiven, who simply do whatever they were born to do. God forgives all the lies and sins of His most cherished and highly esteemed elect human children to fully restore His deeply loving relationship with them, thus causing them to love Him even more, and to love His ways even more. All this is astounding and fascinating, incomprehensible to elect angels in heaven.

The Creator God never calls any other spirits the heirs of His creations, and never created any other spirits in His own image, from His own “breath,” from the essence of His own Spirit. God sanctified sinful elect human beings above and apart from all His other elect creations, so they might soon be transformed into His faithful children, so they might experience love built on a foundation of all His created realities, in the very same way His Spirit built His own love. Elect humans will know exactly and precisely what is good and what is from His essence, as well as what is not, in the very same way that God Himself does. In each individual elect spirit’s brief earthly life, God may only build up a little love for other human souls and for His other creations, since all His beloved elect begin their earthly lives as infantile, ignorant and almost entirely loveless sinners. Yet His incessant, faithful, patient, wise teaching and training of their eternal spirits to love, will eventually be completed and perfected by the end of the judgment day, and He will make all their spirits just like His utterly holy and loving Spirit. But, for now, elect spirits make advancements through earthly failures and errors, through disobedience, through lies and sins that rip their hearts in two and tear life from their flesh. Our relationships with God and His creations are frequently severed, but also grow the fastest and strongest in those humbling disasters, and through our spirits’ subsequent efforts to restore those relationships which we ourselves caused to be lost or destroyed. Our spirits gain through our loss.

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we sinned, and long for an even more perfect, holy, just, equitable state of our personal lives and the whole world than we ever did before. Consequently, we more zealously strive for that more holy and loving state, after we have failed, and no longer take our half-hearted relationships with God and with others for granted. Yes, our lies and sins cause pain to others, and to our own spirits too, since the innate attributes God formed in elect spirits were created to react in that way. But, when our Teacher’s Spirit approaches our spirits, our errors make us far more eager and willing to hear Him and repent into His truths. We then desperately heed every word He whispers in our hearts. Our elect spirits also learn from the sins of our brothers and sisters. For the sins of loved ones pain us almost as much as our own sins. If we let our elect spirits fulfill this process in Jesus, our spirits will mature.

Lastly, Jesus will choose, call and send some of His more mature elect disciples to teach other elect sinners like themselves, to humbly serve Him as His rather inept assistant teachers. But those men all lead their equally weak and sinful elect siblings to Jesus, for repentance into the truth. And, when those assistant teachers teach, they only teach what Jesus taught them, for repentance into the truth. Then they only forgive repentant intentional sinners. For our Lord Jesus, after their spirits committed intentional sins, or unintentional sins that became intentional as soon as they learned the truth, only forgave them when they repented from those intentional sins, into the truth. It is only repentance into holiness which can restore the relationship of a sinner with the utterly holy God. Thus, it is only by the works of the one and only Teacher of truth that any elect are saved, since all of His agents and instruments, all His teaching and judging elders, are His works of teaching for repentance and only pass on what they have received directly from Him. In this way, the elect are being prepared for their tasks in heaven, to judge (teach and guide) the angels and all the non-human spirits living in heaven.

All tribulations on earth conform the elect into the image of Jesus, so they will be able to labor together with Him for all eternity in heaven. However, on this earth, none of God’s elect will ever reach a state of sinless perfection, since that would defeat the whole purpose of being on this earth. Until Jesus completes and perfects all His elect on the judgment day, after granting us new, spiritual bodies which our spirits can rule infinitely better than our earthly bodies of flesh, all the elect will continue to sin on earth. All the elect, while living in earthly flesh, will always fall short of the good opinion (glory) of God. For, while the elect are on earth, their spirits remain ignorant and infantile, needing to be taught and trained for their eternal occupations in heaven. And this kind of teaching and training of elect spirits on earth necessarily involves learning through errors and failures. All this can be summarized by the saying: “For those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose” (Rom. 8:28, ESV). And this is also explained by Paul’s words: “God has consigned all to disobedience, that He may have mercy on all” (Rom. 11:32, ESV). When we begin to comprehend these “secret” purposes of God, which are openly “hidden” on every square inch of the entire earth and in the plain words of the Bible, yet are discovered by so few human beings, what have we left to say but: “Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how inscrutable His ways!’ (Rom. 11:33, ESV).

The Word of God, in no uncertain terms, tells the Gentiles that most elect Jews remain “enemies of God for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved [i.e., loved by God] for the sake of their forefathers” (Rom. 11:28, ESV). For “He caused a partial hardness in Israel and it now remains [i.e., γέγονεν is a third person singular perfect indicative active form meaning: ‘he caused it and it now remains’] until the full number of Gentiles might enter her” (Rom. 11:25, ALT). This is a “partial hardness” (πώρωσις ἀπὸ μέρους). So all the elect among these “partially hardened” Jews still possess spirits which bear a longing for their Messiah and God Jesus. Their elect spirits love Jesus although their minds of flesh rant against Him. And it is God who hardened elect Jewish hearts, for the sake of the Gentile elect,

 

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so that the spirits of all the elect Gentiles could eventually be joined to Israel and “enter her” through Jesus. This hardening of Jewish hearts against the Gentile elect brought into Israel through their Messiah Jesus is one of the greatest works of God during the first seal’s era because He would not remove this hardening until after the sixth seal’s revival, thus causing a solid, deeply ingrained and unalterable distinction between His entirely unconditional promise of salvation through His eternal New Covenant, and His very conditional promise of salvation through His temporary Old Covenant.

By the time Jesus gathers all the Gentile elect into Israel, and revives His church during the sixth seal’s era, there will be no way for the Jewish elect to cling to the totally ineffective method of seeking salvation through works of the Law. And that is a strong inclination among all the elect, while they live in flesh upon this earth. For all flesh relies on flesh to save itself. But true salvation, for both the flesh and the eternal spirit, can only be worked by God Himself, through His loving grace, by Him teaching and training our spirits to understand and apply His created spiritual and physical realities. There were multiple good reasons for God’s hardening of elect Jewish hearts, until all the Gentile elect enter into His eternal priesthood in the church of Israel, but true salvation is the primary one, and all the other reasons are also directly related to His work of true, eternal salvation.

Furthermore, if all this hardening is through Jesus, then none is directly caused by works of flesh or wills of flesh in any of those elect. Rather, all those useless works of the flesh (rituals, traditions of men, etc.) are the effects or results of this hardening by God. For the sakes of the Old Covenant branch of Israel, the Gentile elect must become citizens of Israel, members of God’s true and eternal church, only through Jesus the Messiah. After Jesus has brought the full number of Gentiles into Israel, and after He has revived that New Covenant church, and trains them to serve the world in the very way He intended to serve the world since the days of Abraham (which is a process that will only be completed during the era of the seventh seal, after the sixth seal’s revival), God will remove hardness from the descendants of Abraham. Then His natural branches of Israel will no longer fall into inclinations of carnal pride, will stop seeking salvation through meaningless works of the flesh.

In Romans 11:25, the perfect tense of the third person singular form of γίνομαι indicated two things: (1) God caused this hardness in Israel at some time prior to Paul writing this letter to the Romans, and (2) the effects of this hardening were still current and ongoing. So this was an event which had occurred during the first seal’s era and would continue for some time into the future. And Paul also specified how long that hardening of the natural branches in God’s tree of Israel would continue. It would last until the full number of elect Gentiles entered God’s true, invisible church of Israel. And all the elect Gentile elect would not enter Israel until the dichotomizing effect of the last days had finally separated all the elect from all the non-elect, and until all elect Gentiles truly served Jesus, which would only happen after the great revival of His true church during the sixth seal’s era. Then He will remove the hardness from all the elect descendants of Israel. Then all Jews will turn to Jesus.

Paul also explained that these elect physical descendants of Israel can be likened to the branches grown by a cultivated olive tree, where this tree represents God's church of Israel. And, of course, the natural branches can bear the best fruit. Then Paul compared the elect Gentiles to the branches of a wild olive tree grafted into the cultivated tree which represented God's church of Israel (Rom. 11:11-24). After the Gentile elect are grafted into the cultivated olive tree, their fruit will become as sweet as the natural olives, and they will bear a much richer fruit than they could otherwise. Yet they cannot bear the same kind of fruit as the best natural branches. Nor will their spirits want to bear the same kind of fruit, because God created each elect spirit for a different purpose and destiny, with a desire to bear a unique kind of fruit. So, at times, the pride of flesh may sinfully covet a different

 

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kind of ministry, so it can produce a different kind of fruit. But that is all the nonsense of the flesh, and the elect spirit itself never really wants that. For God created each to be a unique kind of servant.

Consequently, when Jesus finally returns, both the Jewish and Gentile elect will permanently and thoroughly joined together in His priesthood of Israel, all serving their one and only Head as with one mind. And both will discover pure joy in fulfilling the destinies of their eternal and abundant lives, where all shall be equally loving, faithful and trustworthy servants of all the others, where there will be no humanistic hierarchies of elite “superiors” lording it over those artificially deemed to be their “inferiors.” There will be no delusional “status” from Satan’s world order for those who serve in the “higher” offices of Jesus’ administration, because Jesus will utterly destroy that order.

Also, we should not think this grafting in of Gentiles is a new thing that began only after Jesus ascended into heaven. For God’s Word says many elect Gentiles were grafted into Israel during the millenniums before Jesus’ first advent. And it is interesting that most of those Gentiles seem to have been joined to the tribe of Judah, which is the tribe of David and Jesus. In Scriptures, we saw Caleb and his whole tribe, then Rahab and her whole family, then Ruth the Moabite, as well as many other Gentiles, all brought into Israel, as members of the church of Israel, counted as full members of the tribe of Judah. And Caleb was even a chosen representative of the tribe of Judah during the days of Moses. Then we see how both Rahab and Ruth became the ancestors of David the king. The very body of Jesus descended from them. So Israel, from the beginning, always consisted of both natural and grafted-in branches. Then, when Jesus returns, “all Israel will be saved” (Rom. 11:26)—all the remnant God leaves alive at that time, all the natural Jews and all the Gentiles in its tribe of Judah.

God did not forsake the elect physical descendants of Israel, “for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable” (Rom. 11:29, ESV, cf. Rom. 11:11). The only distinction existing between most of the elect physical descendants of Abraham and most elect Gentiles brought into the true church of Israel, is that each group now belongs to a different branch of the same church. For both a New Covenant branch and an Old Covenant branch of the church of Israel now exist. But both of these old and new branches belong to God. Both are His one and only true church consisting of only His elect. And, when Jesus returns, all His children will be brought into the eternal New Covenant branch, while the temporary Old Covenant branch will pass away completely. Although most of the natural Israel still clings to a partial and fleshy Old Covenant relationship with God, and often accepts a very corrupt interpretation of His law, we must realize that this is because God hardened their hearts and caused them to do so for the present time. Regardless, most Jews are indeed God's elect, loved by God as true members of His eternal church. And all these will be perfected and completed on the judgment day. In the end, all the elect Jews will serve Jesus in heaven. For a time, God expelled Israel from their land because they corrupted His law so much. Yet the New Covenant branch became far worse, as all must admit. Both branches of the church have severely and wickedly slandered God’s name for many centuries, over all the earth. Neither branch has ever truly allowed their spirits to hear much of God’s rebuke or counsel, and neither has even the slightest right to call itself better than the other.

Even during the era of first seal, and even while some true apostles were alive, the Gentile church was corrupted, just like the Jewish branch of Israel was. For, if we read Jesus' words to the seven churches (Rev. 2:1 to 3:22), which all existed while the apostle John was alive and writing the Revelation, we see how Jesus was rebuking some severely, while He also praised some. And Jesus mostly praised the most persecuted churches. This is natural, because loveless non-elect deceivers flee from churches during persecutions, because they can gain no material power or money during a persecution, only a share in those persecutions from Satan’s world order. Only some truly elect will refuse to forsake Jesus during a persecution, even some of the immature elect who blindly tolerated

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some fake teachers and their false doctrines in previous times. Thus, we saw more faithfulness in persecuted churches, but also saw less faithfulness in materially well-off churches who were not being persecuted as much. Nevertheless, the corruption of the universal church had already begun by then, by the end of the first century. Many were already forsaking their “first love,” Jesus the Christ (2:4). Many were beginning to follow false teachings and immoral practices (2:14-15, 20). Many somehow thought they were spiritually alive while they were actually almost totally spiritually dead (3:1). Through materialism, many churches were growing repulsive and “lukewarm” in Jesus' eyes, thinking they were rich when they had actually become spiritually impoverished; lacking loving righteousness, having become blind to His truth and to the created realities existing all around them, rejecting the spiritual blessings that Christ might have granted to their elect spirits (3:15-18). In other words, many began to worship man and Mammon, just like almost all churches do to this very day.

The first century churches were becoming humanists. And surely Jesus intentionally granted us these letters to John’s seven current churches for a good reason, before He began to reveal the future of the entire world. As mentioned, the last days began when Jesus’ body of flesh died, rose and ascended. And all seven of those churches existing at the beginning of the last days seemed to represent the completion or whole of all churches which would exist until the sixth seal’s great revival. So what had been occurring in those seven churches represented what would be occurring in the whole universal church throughout history, until the end times. When Jesus wrote about these seven churches, He was revealing how all the churches on the earth were already beginning to decay, at the very beginning of the last days. Jesus was showing us how deceivers had already begun to “lead many astray,” just as He had previously prophesied they would (Mat. 24:4-5). And these deceivers were not merely corrupting His true church, but destroying it, in order to build the false humanistic churches related to the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters, which Jesus also prophesied about.

Jesus warned us about false local churches (i.e., the word “synagogue” referred to a local church). He prophesied that many of these would persecute His people in future times. Jesus was implying that His prophecies were already being fulfilled, in His letters to the seven churches. For those letters to the seven churches were about “things ... that are,” not about “things ... that are to take place after this” (Rev. 1:19). So He the false church began then, at the end of the first century. Jesus also wrote about the seven churches to warn the churches in the future, because that was what the entire book of the Revelation was about. He had a purpose for explaining how those churches were falling into deep corruption. His letters to those seven churches were to announce the birth of the false church called the “Great Prostitute” in His Revelation to John. The Revelation told us that this great false church was to exist until the end times, until the beast would destroy her during the last hour of his reign—just before He would also destroy that same beast at His second coming. We were to learn something from His letters to these churches, to heed His warning about false churches and repent.

Still, we were told very little about the growth of the false church called the Great Prostitute, and nothing about the existence of her harlot daughters, until His prophecies in chapter 17, about the humanistic beast during the end times. Only in His description of the end times, about the era of the seventh seal, do we begin to find out more about the false churches throughout history, which also suggests that the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughter churches would exist throughout history, until the end times begin during the era of the sixth seal. But, once Jesus did provide us with a description of the Great Prostitute, He portrayed her as an old, world-wide institution. Thus, if she was old enough to have done evil with past kingdoms, and old enough to bear harlot daughter who matured enough to do the same evil works in many kingdoms, then the Great Prostitute could not possibly have formed during the end times. It formed long before the end times, in the first century.

 

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Revelation 17:1-18 (ESV): “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.’”

I am exegeting this chapter of the Revelation here, in this section about the era of the first seal, since it describes the Great Prostitute, the great false church which began to form in the first century. At this point in the Revelation, Jesus sent a messenger to show John the final judgment of that false church, because John and the other true apostles had been so concerned as they saw it forming near the end of the first century, when they watched its birth and rapid growth. The messenger whom Jesus sent to comfort John about that great false church was one of the seven angels who poured out the seven bowls of God’s wrath during the era of the seventh seal, just before Jesus returned, one of the angels who helped Jesus kill and destroy that false church just before the beast also perished.

All seven angels who poured out these bowls of wrath during the period of the seventh trumpet, which occurs in the era of the seventh seal, were chosen to administer the final judgment upon the devil’s fourth kingdom of Rome. So these seven angels knew all the terrible sins of that religious Roman kingdom and its great false church, and judged them without mercy, but only at that time, almost two millenniums after its rampage against God’s truths began. This judgment of the Great Prostitute shall not occur before the end times, just a few weeks or months before Jesus will return.

The angel’s first words tell John that this Great Prostitute will be sitting on “many waters.” Later we discover that being “seated on many waters” is a figurative way of saying that she is raised up over a vast sea of people, that she influences countless souls around the world, that many thousands of lives are carried along by the “currents and waves” of her false teachings and precepts. Some versions say something like: “the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality” with that false church. But John definitely was not referring to physical “sexual immorality.” Rather, John was employing an obviously figurative reference to the Great Prostitute committing spiritual adultery with rulers and whole nations through her immoral political and financial relationships with those secular powers. A massive false church does not commit “sexual immorality” with kings and kingdoms, although her individual members often do. Also, the word “kings” is translated from the Greek word βασιλεύς, which refers to “one who rules as possessor of the highest office in a political realm” (BDAG3), and its meaning is not restricted exclusively to those who take the title of “king.” It can refer to a king, emperor, president, prime minister or any kind of ruler of any kind of state, to the chief authority of any kind of domain, small or large, a nation, subject kingdom, province, territory, city, ethnic group, gang or other kinds of groups which submit to human authority. And, when a body of people claims to worship Him, yet seeks to please secular political, economic or military powers more than Him, when a church strives after the material rewards of Satan’s world order instead of seeking the rewards of God and His truth, God calls that church a spiritual prostitute.

As for these kings, when they commit spiritual adultery with a false church, it means that they also falsely claim to serve God, while they are actually exploiting and abusing the people and resources of that false church. Those kings are duping the people who trust that their church is feeding them God's Word through God’s authority, while the kings and the false church are actually serving only themselves and using those dupes for their own personal purposes. The false church us using its strong influence over its dupes to help secular kings gain power and income, so the elite in the false church can take a cut of that profit for themselves. What that utterly holy angel is saying about this Great Prostitute, is that she spiritually prostitutes herself to secular authorities for her own benefit.

 

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Both those “kings” and the Great Prostitute claim to act on God's behalf, but merely use the religion of this false church for their own carnal and sinful purposes. And, especially from the days of the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century, we have always seen “the kings of the earth” commit spiritual adultery with the Roman Catholic church, as well as with her humanistic harlot daughters. For there were also many Protestant churches who also committed spiritual adultery with “kings” like Hitler and Trump. And all those “kings” were made drunk with power through the “wine” they drank while committing the spiritual adultery with those false churches.

Naturally, real “wine,” like all alcoholic beverages, will dull, slow down and confuse the thinking process. So here the angel and John use the analogy of alcohol to indicate what the liars in the false churches, and their controlling demonic spirits, do to the “kings” and kingdoms they manipulate for their own benefit. Those fake churches dull and confuse the thoughts in the spirits of those “kings” and their people through their false reasoning, superstitions, false doctrines, flattery, fear mongering, slander, deceptions, other lies, other delusions and so on. Then Satan also sends his confusing and depressing demons to reinforce the false teachings and other lies of the false church, to cause the “kings” and their people to become spiritually drunk, unable to think clear and rational thoughts through the minds of their spirits. And this kind of spiritual drunkenness has caused so many utterly stupid wars, rebellions, persecutions, exploitations and other evils throughout history that it makes one wonder how humankind could have possibly survived all these years. Yet, somehow, the people still remain so drunk and stupid that they continue to follow those false churches and drunken kings into destruction and death, for other innocent souls and for themselves. And none seem to get sober.

This angel spoke about “kings of the earth” and the people who “dwell in the earth.” So this angel was talking about a world-wide negative influence of this Great Prostitute, presumably over a very long period of time. Rulers and their people have become spiritually immoral and spiritually drunk on the lies of this false church, even with an impairment of their spiritual thoughts which has proven to be extreme and life-threatening. And, clearly, such a extensive world-wide evil influence must be long-term , one which was developed, nurtured and cultivated over period of many centuries, until it could gradually spread over the entire earth. So this Scripture definitely suggests that the Great Prostitute is a very ancient false church by the time that the seven angels receive the seven bowls of Gods’ wrath in the days of the seventh trumpet and in the era of the seventh seal, at the end of the beast’s seven-year rule. Daniel’s fourth kingdom, the Roman Empire ruled by the beast, has existed for more than two millenniums now, and will exist until Jesus returns. Then this great false church, which rides on the back of the fourth kingdom, must be almost as old. Many tend to think the beast and the Great Prostitue will be formed in the end times. But that is not what the prophecies say. In reality, the Great Prostitute is the humanistic Platonic church which was born while John still lived.

“And he [i.e., one of seven angels who poured out a bowl of God’s wrath] 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 [the beast] had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and

scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of

abominations and the impurities of her [spiritual adultery].”

Since John’s beast is the same beast that Daniel also prophesied about, and John saw this “woman” sitting on the beast, she was sitting upon the fourth kingdom that Daniel prophesied about, that is, she was sitting upon the Roman Empire. And this “scarlet beast” is indeed the beast that both Daniel and John described in their prophecies about the end times, that is, when both described the days shortly before Christ’s return. And this beast becomes “scarlet” through the deaths and bloodshed resulting from his sins (since this is the symbolic meaning of the colour scarlet, defined by God, see

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Is. 1:18). That beast is also “full of blasphemous names,” which means that he shall possess all kinds of slanderous attributes (e.g., Dan. 11:36-38; Rev. 13:6). Also, he has ten horns on seven heads (Dan. 7:7,24; Rev. 13:1), which indicates seven sovereign nations led by ten principal rulers. So, by telling us that the Great Prostitute was sitting on the beast, it means that: (1) the Great Prostitute is not the beast, since she sits on the beast; (2) she relies upon the beast, Rome, to take her to the same places that the beast himself goes; and (3) she is both physically and spiritually, close to the beast, working as one with him, joined to the fourth kingdom of Rome, partaking in the beast’s evil, unjust deeds.

Of course, if that false church sits on the beast, she also goes wherever the beast goes. Thus, she is spiritually following the beast’s ways. And, since all the beast’s actions and ways are guided by his religion, which the prophets all describe as the kind of self-worship that we now call humanism, this Great Prostitute must be a humanistic false church too. But, as a false church, she would be a theistic humanist, not a secular humanist like the beast. For, if she was a secular humanist, she would not be sitting upon the beast, but would be a limb or head or horn of the beast himself, a member of the beast’s body. For the beast’s kingdom is all the secular humanists within his spiritual Roman Empire.

Still, as a theistic humanist, the Great Prostitute and the secular beast would both walk according to the same core beliefs of humanism, especially the worship of human beings. That is, both would highly esteem and serve humans beings in artificially created hierarchies, and force all their people to do likelwise. Later John also indicates that this Great Prostitute is a physical place, a city on seven hills. And there was only one great city on seven hills, which has been associated with the fourth kingdom, with the realm of the beast for more than two thousand years now. That is the city of Rome. So, when we look for the Great Prostitute, we must look for a great and ancient false church “riding on” the physical city of Rome, that is, a false church on or near to the ancient city of Rome.

Then we should realize that purple and scarlet not only suggest pride and sin, but also indicate wealth, since cloth in either of these two colours was very expensive back John’s day. And we need to interpret those words about purple and scarlet garments from John’s perspective. Still, by telling us that the Great Prostitute is dressed in purple and scarlet, while she is also adorned with gold, jewels and pearls, as she is holding a golden cup, John not only indicates her wealth, but also her great arrogance as well. Naturally, the rich are usually arrogant, but John emphasizes her extreme arrogance here. And all these things, not just the golden cup, are associated with her being “full of abominations and the impurities of her wine used in her spiritual adultery. Remember, abominations are things which are loathed and abhorrent to God. For instance, the “abomination of desolation” (Mat. 24:15) referred to the act of a human beast attempting to replace God as the owner and ruler of the world, especially when he set up an image of himself up as the god of Israel’s temple (Dan. 9:27; 11:31; 12:11). That Satan-possessed man wanted all the people of the world to worship him instead of God. Likewise, the “abomination” of the Great Prostitute would involve her religious leaders also attempting to become the gods of the people, even while she falsely claimed to worship the real God.

Then the “impurities” of the Great Prostitute’s spiritual adultery would refer to her adulteration or corruption of God’s Word. Whenever men are served and esteemed as the saviours and heads of the people, that kind of idolatry is what we now call humanism. And when they do this in churches that falsely claim to worship the real God, it is called theistic humanism. This is not only an abomination in the eyes of God, but also a form of incredibly impure spiritual adultery. For, while a humanistic kind of church claims to be the bride of God, it actually serves only the egos and the flesh of its esteemed human gods, instead of the good, just, loving precepts of the Husband it claims to have wed. These are the kinds of things John is describing here for us, if we take the time to examine the ancient terms he was using here. John was describing a false church that practises theistic humanism.

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“And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: 'Babylon the great, mother of

prostitutes and of earth's abominations.' And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the

saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marvelled greatly.”

In ecclesiastical language, when a group of people is called a “prostitute” it means that those people falsely claim to worship the real God, but are completely unfaithful to Him and worship other gods with far more zeal than the real God. God’s Word did not use the word “prostitute” (or its synonyms) to describe any other kinds of people, such as a secular nation which had never claimed to worship Him. All the prophets and apostles reserved that word for people groups who abused God’s name by committing spiritual adultery. So, when the Jewish apostle John wrote about a great prostitute who is the mother of other prostitutes, he is describing a great false church propagating other false churches.

Here (Rev. 17:5-6), God named this mother of the false churches “Babylon,” because Daniel had prophesied that Babylon would be the founder and head of the beast’s fourth religious anti-Yahweh kingdom of the Roman Empire. “Babylon” also describes the nature of this great false church. Her main identifying characteristic is her enmity with Yahweh the Creator God and the Messiah He sent to save His elect children on earth. The existence of this great false church is defined by this evil cause. Just as Daniel prophesied that the four secular kingdoms founded in Babylon would be the greatest enemy of Yahweh in the Messiah, so would this great false church riding on Rome’s back.

This Great Prostitute is also the “woman” of iniquity or false church whom Zechariah saw in a prophetic vision, the woman he called “Wickedness,” a very evil and spiritually corrupt false church (Zech. 5:5-13). This false church, witnessed by Zechariah, was carried to Shinar, to a region within Babylon. And these prophecies of Zechariah came immediately after the prophecies of Daniel, in a way which built upon them. So first Daniel very accurately prophesied about the four kingdoms of the beast, whose head was Babylon. Then Zechariah added this prophecy about a false church placed in Babylon. And that false church began in Babylon because the deceiving religion of humanism also began there, the religion which worshiped human gods above all the other gods a people worshiped.

The four kingdoms of Daniel’s secular beast would be Babylon, Greece, Persia and Rome, with Rome being the culmination and combination of the previous three kingdoms. But none of the subsequent empires could possibly exist or become so great without their spiritual head, Babylon. None could have become so blindly ambitious and ruthless if their spiritual head, Babylon, had not first declared that a man was his own god who ruled his own destiny. So, from the days of Daniel and Zechariah, believers who knew their Bible knew that Babylon, Persia and Greece would merge into one great enemy of their Messiah, into a nation with an ultimate human head who was simply called “the beast.” And, like the statue in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, Babylon would always remain the head of that fourth kingdom (e.g., Dan. 2:32,38), that is, Rome’s guiding and directing influence.

The more biblically oriented Jews and apostles sometimes even used the name of Babylon when they referred to the spiritual and religious essence of Rome. For all four kingdoms were driven by the same humanistic spiritual principles which were formed in Babylon. All four kingdoms taught the belief that a human man, especially one of the elite in their steep hierarchies, was his own god who creates his own destiny. And the prophecies declared that all four kingdoms would exist on earth until the Rock, representing the Messiah, would destroy all four kingdoms in the end times, at His second coming. Thus, all four kingdoms, as humanistic spiritual or religious entities, exist to this day, all incorporated into one huge factious religious kingdom of Rome that we now call humanism.

Also, as Zechariah’s and John’s prophecies told us that there would be a false church within this Babylon and its final form of Rome. Originally, that false church was Jewish, a false church that had

 

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adopted Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman doctrines of humanism. But it later matured into a full-grown, Gentile, humanistic fake church falsely claiming to worship the Messiah of God’s eternal New Covenant salvation. Thus, that final Roman form of the false church left behind any semblance of the true, biblical God of Israel, who temporarily gave His natural church a lesser and temporary Old Covenant. But when that false church abandoned Yahweh, they also abandoned Yahweh in their true Messiah Jesus, although that fake church still claimed to worship Jesus. Furthermore, a faction of humanism still maintained its corrupting influence in the Jewish church, while its Gentile factions were also physically persecuting and murdering the Jews. So she fought against God on every side.

John saw this Great Prostitute sitting on the beast, on Rome, in the future, during the seven-year reign of the beast, which occurs just prior to the Messiah’s return. But Zechariah told us when she began to sit on the beast. She did not climb onto the beast shortly before God was about to pour out the seven bowls of wrath. Rather, she was placed in Babylon from very early times, and had been sitting on the beast a very long time before John was even born, even before the days of Zechariah. From the prophecies of Zechariah and John, we know that the Great Prostitute was a false church associated with Babylon long before Rome rose to power, and also before the beast’s second kingdom of Persia as well as before the beast’s third kingdom of Greece. Of course, the Great Prostitute could not begin to sit on the beast’s fourth kingdom of Rome until Rome existed and became a dominant world power. So that false humanistic church, pretending to be the Israel of God, simply moved from the seat of the beast’s power in Babylon, to Persia, then to Greece and finally to Rome. Throughout those many centuries, it corrupted the Israel of God with humanistic traditions.

Since the Messiah Jesus came only a couple of centuries after the Roman Empire began to become a dominant world power, this fulfilled Daniel’s prophecy. For Daniel prophesied that the Rock (the Messiah) would be “cut out” after the fourth kingdom (the ‘legs of iron’) were formed (Dan. 2:34-35,44-45). And the fourth kingdom is Rome. So this Great Prostitute began as a false Jewish church. But God’s ever-growing and eternal Messianic spiritual kingdom of the Rock was the real target and worst enemy of the Roman beast. Thus, that prostitute became a corrupting false Christian church as soon as it could, although it still maintained its faction of a fake Jewish Old Covenant church too.

Both Zechariah and John described this wicked spiritual prostitute as an entity that would be partly separate and distinct from the beast, although always associated with the beast, always dependent upon that beast. For Zechariah saw her carried to Babylon and John saw her sitting on the beast. So she is not the body of secular humanism in the Roman Empire, Greece, Persia or Babylon. She is not the secular beast, not to be identified as one and the same entity as the beast. In the Scriptures, God simply named her “Babylon” because she is deeply associated with Babylon, as Zechariah declared. She is a deceiving church, claiming to worship the God of the Bible, who began her existence when she was placed in the land of the head of the four kingdoms, Babylon. This false church began to be corrupted by humanism while in Babylon, but she was not in the secular religion of its humanism.

Just as Jews and the apostles called Rome by the name of Babylon, because its head is Babylon, they also called this false church “Babylon” because she originated in Babylon. In the vision God granted to John (vv. 17:5-6), we also see that she is also physically located within Babylon’s fourth kingdom, since she sits on the seven hills belonging to the city of Rome. Then we are also told that this Great Prostitute killed the “saints,” who are the elect sanctified by God. Therefore, we know that, during an unspecified period of time before the seven bowls of God’s wrath are poured out, the Great Prostitute will have killed many sanctified souls set apart for God’s purposes. John did not specify when she did this killing, but the eternal stain of the saints’ blood upon that unrepentant fake church shall be one of her identifying attributes, along with her arrogance of not repenting from the false

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teachings she used to cause those murders. And she seems to have been murdering God’s elect, those set apart for God, from the beginning, before she matured into a Gentile false church in the Roman Empire. In fact, it was that false humanistic church who had murdered Jesus and His true disciples.

The final and mature Roman fake church also became the “mother” of the earth’s abominations, as well as the “mother’ of many harlot daughters, that is, the founder of other false churches who also followed the beast’s religious doctrines of Roman humanism. And these evil works must have also begun fairly early in the lifespan of that false church. History records that, during her time in the fourth Roman kingdom, a few centuries after Christ’s first advent, she actually did corrupt the whole Roman Empire with her abominations of paganized fake Christianity. Since she was to become the “mother” of many evil beliefs and false churches before the seven bowls of God’s wrath were poured out, she would need to be very old by those days of the seven bowls of wrath. She would even need be fairly mature before she gave birth to her first humanistic “daughter,” but far older by the time she gave birth to the last of many harlot daughters, because it takes some time to give birth all of them.

So, when the Revelation identifies a great false church which gave birth to multiple abominations and harlot daughters, it is describing a very old false church, which has grown large enough to exert a world-wide influence over many kings and kingdoms over a period of many centuries. And remember, all her daughters had to also have existed long enough to mature into harlots themselves, before the time of the beast’s seven-year reign. So John saw a very old, mature false church in the days just before the seven bowls of wrath would be poured out, and all seven of those bowls would be emptied during the last months of the beast’s seven-year reign. Consequently, those who say that this Great Prostitute will be an individual or institution created or born in the end times are wrong.

The Great Prostitute will already be an ancient false church when the end times begin, before the sixth and seventh seals are opened. Then, we also need to ask why John prophesied that other false churches (harlots) would be born as the “daughters” of this Great Prostitute. The reason that he told us about other false churches identified as “daughters” of the Great Prostitute is because he wanted to warn us that those other false churches will be much like their mother, yet bear a few different attributes. Those “daughter” will inherit her “genetic” spiritual attributes, her core humanistic genes, and will teach similar false doctrines while practicing similar false traditions. But those “daughters” will have different names and outwardly look a little different. But false religion of all those “harlot daughters” will perpetuate the same kind of spiritual adultery which is practiced by their mother.

Likewise, the religion of those harlot daughters and their prostitute mother must be closely related to the religion of the Roman beast. Since the prophets and apostles very clearly identified the religion of the beast as the religion we now call secular humanism, the religion of the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters must be a form of humanism, but a theistic form. Since the mother is called a harlot principally because she sits on the beast, because she shares the same religion—which Daniel and others had clearly described as the religion we now call secular humanism—her religion must be a form of fake Christianity which has been thoroughly corrupted by Roman humanistic traditions.

Through logic and history, we conclude that this false religion, related to the beast’s religion of secular humanism, must be theistic humanism which is falsely called Christianity. History affirms that the religion of theistic humanism began to corrupt the Jewish churches very early. Jews began to syncretize the humanistic doctrines and customs of Babylon almost immediately after their captivity began in the sixth century BC, especially by adopting their hierarchical systems of human authority, including the use of head coverings to demonstrate their obedience to human gods. Then they were further corrupted by Persia, Greece and Rome. Then New Covenant church syncretized the doctrines

 

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and customs of Rome during the first century, and did so even more extensively. By the fourth century, Constantine, a high priest of the pagan Roman cult of the Unconquered Sun god to his dying day, brought the fake Gentile so-called ‘Christian’ church into full maturity as the Great Prostitute.

By the fourth century, the Great Prostitute was already thoroughly corrupted by theistic humanism. But Constantine, by his cunning and brute force, helped that false church crush all opposition, the remnant of true church and all the other rival false churches. So this was when the Great Prostitute became great, and when she actually began to ride on the back of the beast, permanently. She made her home on Constantine and his Roman Empire. Then she continued to dwell upon the power and spiritual influence of humanistic Rome, where she remains to this day. Of course, Constantine was not the man called the beast, since the beast will be born in the end times. But Constantine’s Roman Empire was indeed the fourth kingdom of Satan’s “beast.” Later, this first and great false church split into countless other sects, especially in latter years, after the Reformation. She spawned thousands of harlot “daughters” and granddaughters, an endless array of false churches. And all bear the same spiritual “genetic” attributes of their mother, the Great Prostitute. All cling to the core doctrines and traditions of humanism, and most have similar externally appearances, since they practice the same pagan cultic practices that their mother has diligently preserved throughout the last two millenniums.

It is obvious that the “mother” and literally all her “daughters” worship human beings as gods, lords and heads in their humanistic hierarchical systems. None worship Jesus as their only God, Lord and Head, but censor Christ’s words and persecute His true disciples instead. All those false churches worship (esteem and serve) man, just like secular humanists do. All their doctrines are created by men, not by God. And the authority bearing up those doctrines is man, not God. They all live and worship through man-made teachings, laws and systems. And, just as their mother sits upon the beast, depending solely upon Satan’s hellish world order for her life and livelihood, as a demonic religious kingdom built on a foundation of Platonic humanism, literally all her daughters climb onto the back of that serpent behind her. Also, look at the beast’s humanistic financial systems—how he uses wealth to subjugate souls, to force others to serve him for his evil purposes and for the glory of his chosen human lords, in his war against God. Clearly, the wealthy Great Prostitute uses that same demonic financial system too, while she sits on the beast. And so do all her harlot daughters. In fact, it is virtually impossible to find a church which believes in God’s financial system, the one described in His Law and in the New Covenant Scriptures, the system of equality which Jesus fulfills in all.

Still, these false churches are not called “prostitutes” solely because they preach to gain money, but primarily because they pretend to be God’s bride, the church, while they are actually worshiping and striving to please human gods. Since they are the illegitimate lovers of other gods, from whom they seek their wealth. They are spiritually adulterous prostitutes. They work for those human gods and do none of their works for the real God. They ignore the real God’s teachings of true and effective principles, while they diligently heed every lying and destructive word whispered by their human gods. They receive support from and provide support to the beast’s spiritual kingdom, but attack and persecute God’s kingdom. They are as false and unfaithful as a bride of God could possibly become.

Fake New Covenant churches began doing all this in the first century, shortly after the Roman Empire became a dominant world power. But the Great Prostitute only became truly great a few centuries after John wrote the Revelation. For John was amazed by how wealthy and powerful it had become when he saw in the distant future. He was stunned by how God allowed the false church to gain such power and wealth. This prostitute was born long before John wrote about her, since John obviously recognized who she was. John had definitely seen this false church before, since he said, “When I saw her, I marveled greatly.” And it is not very likely that, if John had never seen her

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before, he would have “marveled greatly” at how great and influential she had become by the end times. After all, John also saw how the beast and other evil powers became even more powerful and opulent than the Great Prostitute, but did not marvel at them. So why would he be so greatly amazed by this prostitute becoming so “great,” unless he had known her as the wretched little church of the itinerate Platonists whom he had been warring against, and easily defeated, during his own lifetime.

John was utterly shocked by the world-wide influence of that fake church, and by how she somehow succeeded in corrupting the masses all over the world, because John had seen her when she was a weak and struggling harlot, when the humanistic Jewish and Christian heresies had very little wealth or influence at all. In John’s day, even false churches were persecuted by secular Rome, or at least ridiculed, including the humanistic Jewish sects who rode on the back of Rome. None were world corrupters of that magnitude. So, when John saw how she would later be seated regally upon the fourth kingdom of Rome, and how the beast let her do this, he was stunned. From the letters Jesus wrote to the seven churches, we know that John certainly knew how a false, corrupt churches had risen up even among the New Covenant churches of Israel. And he knew they were gaining members before he penned the Revelation. Still, from John’s other letters, we saw how he had hoped that Jesus would silence those false churches, so that only the true church could grow to become a world-wide influence. Instead, to his horror, John saw how Jesus had allowed a great, vile, corrupting, false church to remove and replace the true church, then totally silenced the preaching of the real Gospel.

John saw the false church “seated on many waters,” which was his way of saying that it presided over millions of souls all over the world, leading those masses into sin and destruction. And this is why he “marveled greatly.” Therefore, we can logically conclude that the Great Prostitute was born long before the end times, even during John’s lifetime, at the very beginning of the first seal’s era. But the Great Prostitute did not become great until a few centuries after the Roman Empire became a dominant world power, which was when that fourth kingdom was still quite young, and not too long after John wrote the Revelation. For she surely would require several centuries to: (1) set herself up as the greatest and most influential of all false churches; (2) develop, establish and disseminate her abominations throughout the earth; and (3) give birth to many other false churches who themselves would require some time to mature into harlots. And the Great Prostitute is the false church of Rome.

“But the angel said to me, ‘Why do you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman ,

and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her. The beast that you saw was,

and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers

on earth whose names have not been written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the

world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.”

John began to “marvel” (θαυμάζω, “to be extraordinarily impressed or disturbed … the context determines whether in a good or bad sense,” BDAG3) at how God allowed a false church to gain such great external power and influence in all the earth. But John had temporarily forgotten that the main purpose of Jesus was to build up a spiritual kingdom, where elect spirits work together in one mind and for one purpose, as their spirits are being counseled, directed, taught and trained by Him. Jesus did not come to create a visible church, especially not a wealthy, worldly, visible church like the Great Prostitute, with a hierarchy of human lords worshiped like gods. Because John forgot this, and marveled in jealous horror because the loving real visible church, which had been established by Jesus and His true apostles, was entirely replaced by this worthless, humanistic, visible fake church sitting on the demonic beast and corrupting masses of gullible souls over all the earth. But, while that prostitute had replaced and destroyed the true visible church, Jesus had been busy growin His true invisible church of truly just and loving elect souls throughout the world, along with the just

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principles of His kingdom. Jesus’ kingdom could not be seen, yet it was even more real and much stronger by that time than this Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters were. And this is why the angel, and Jesus, were a little upset with John when he became so amazed by the Great Prostitute.

Yes, that false church was outwardly impressive, but not nearly as beautiful, wondrous, great and powerful as Christ’s ever-expanding and powerful inner kingdom on earth. For the biblical truths of loving, equitable justice and His real New Covenant salvation had been advancing mightily during the two millenniums since His first advent. Also, by the time when John saw the Great Prostitute, in the days of the seven bowls of wrath, he also saw how even the visible true church had been revived, although it would have been more impoverished and persecuted church than the Great Prostitute. Nevertheless, by that time, which was just before Jesus would return, Jesus true elect on earth will no longer be so easily duped by either the harlot churches or the factions of secular Rome. In fact, since the elect will have grown stronger by then, whole nations will be ruled by them, as true biblical democracies which allow an orderly and harmless freedom of conscience, because the true Christian authorities will live by the maxim, “what have I to do with judging outsiders” (I Cor. 5:12, WEB).

Next, we are told that the beast, whom the Great Prostitute sat upon, “was, and is not, and is about to rise.” This beast “was” because it was the combination and culmination of three previous kingdoms, and because it began to exist in the past, long before John penned the Revelation. But the angel also said that the beast “is not” because, in John’s day, the ultimate and final human king of the fourth kingdom had not yet come in the flesh to inherit that fourth kingdom of Rome. Then the angel said this human king, the beast, “is about to rise” because the beast will rise up in the end times, long after John’s lifetime, just before Jesus returns. So that angel was personally speaking to John, and relating information about the beast to him, as he perceived the future beast then, in the first century.

The beast’s kingdom developed in four stages, and all four will continue to exist until Christ’s return: In the beginning, the simple but core doctrines of humanism invented by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, caused that king to become the head of the beast. Nebuchadnezzar believed he could shape his own destiny for his own glory (Dan. 4:30), which formed the entire foundation and framework of humanism. This is the principal doctrine that drives the senseless, murdering ambitions of all humanistic kingdoms. All humanists have used this delusion of being one’s own god to falsely justify the slaughtering and enslaving of other nations, as they ruthlessly gratified their greed and lust for power. For, through this self-worship, man began to see himself as the “first cause” of all that pertained to his own destiny and, more importantly, as his own principal judge.

Humanists condoned or condemned whatever they chose to condone or condemn, and no longer recognized the universal principles of justice and equity which God revealed in His creations and in His Word. Man began to worship himself as his own chief god, as the only one who had the right to choose his own ways and create his own laws. He no longer served or esteemed any external god, not even the pagan demon gods of the past, but worshiped himself as his own chief god, as his god of gods. Humanists see no greater authority than themselves, and do not submit to the laws of any gods other than themselves. Yes, theistic humanists might acknowledge the existence of other gods, and even esteem other gods, especially if they want the help of other gods. But all those other gods are secondary gods, under the authority of human gods. And this Great Prostitute practices theistic humanism. So it sees the God of the Bible as one of its secondary and lesser gods, but otherwise remains the same as secular humanists, because its principal gods are human beings. And, since the secular humanists worship themselves, they go out to conquer and enslave for their own benefit, and do not fear that other gods might condemn their evil, self-serving greed and merciless lust for their own glory. And the Great Prostitute, as a theistic humanist, also did exactly the same kinds of evil.

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But the humanism developing in Babylon and Persia differed a little from Roman humanism, since only the nobility ever considered themselves to be their own gods. Their brand of humanism did not think it was even possible for common men to become their own gods. It was not until the Greek and Roman brands of humanism formed that this false religion understood that they could more violently condemn their opposition if they treated them as gods who made wrong choices. Still, even then, the Greeks and Romans only permitted a few of the more serious threats to their god-like esteem, power and wealth to be condemned as evil gods. For the ruthless elite could easily dehumanize and utterly oppress their “inferiors” through ruthless terrorism. So the Greeks and Romans were still forming psychopathic oligarchies which defined women, slaves and the lower class, all whom the elite worked very hard to keep poor and uneducated, as sub-humans who must obey their human gods.

But make no mistake, to this day neither the secular nor theistic humanists ever want a genuine democracy, since that is only possible in truly biblical societies, where all are considered to be equal sinners, and where all considered to equally obligated to obey universally acknowledged principles of justice, equity and respect for all God’s creations. And a true democracy can only function when the sinners of the land vet all their governing authorities, and only elect those whom God has chosen to rule over them, that is, only the men whom God has gifted with the spiritual attributes of honest, just, equitable love. And, lastly, the people must cast out or expel any authority that proves to be rebellious against God, by acting in a loveless, exploitative and lawless way to God’s creations.

So the first and primary stage of humanism involves the worship of self, as Nebuchadnezzar did, for one’s own glory and profit. Then, the humanism of Persia evolved in way that caused the people to become far more materialistic, which helped the elite force the masses to worship them even more blindly, since the elite controlled all the money of the land. So the people had to serve and esteem them, if those people wanted to eat. Persia, with the help of money, also perfected rule through terrorism. They made the people so afraid to displease their human gods that they became irrational and would automatically believe anything those human gods said. The people would do absolutely anything their human gods commanded, even torture to death siblings in the family of humankind.

But humanism needed to grow even more powerful. So Satan did that through his third kingdom. A far more sleek, sophisticated, deeply systematized humanism began to develop in Greece. The Greeks never really invented anything new. They specialized in stealing concepts from others and packaging them together into a massive, twisted lump of pseudo-rational nonsense, in order to appease their delusional pride and make themselves falsely believe that they were superior to those who actually did the work of creating what they stole. They were very good at embellishing this kind of lie, and very adept at convincing the people that the most empty and useless psychopaths ruling over their very steep hierarchical systems were actually vastly superior to all the others. And this was the power of Greek humanism. Since they prevented their people from discovering the ineptitude of their psychopathic human gods, the people never saw how weak, sinful and utterly dependent all sinners are upon the various gifts God granted to each individual. The people became incapable of respecting the equal worth of their siblings in humankind, but murdered, plundered and enslaved their bothers and sisters in the names of their human gods, all because those able to buy or earn “citizenship” among the other human gods believed lies of the priests of Greek secular humanism.

So the Greeks were the first to dupe the people into unconditionally worshiping the worst of the psychopaths among them as their chief gods, without placing any restraints on the power of those self-serving despots, not even the laws of the divine, non-human gods they worshiped, and certainly no limitations from the real God or His laws written in all His creations. But, since there were many psychopaths among them, and only one could be the chiefest god ruling all the people, the Greeks

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developed an a very steep hierarchical system which allowed every male Greek psychopath to rule as a fake god over at least a few people, although only one male Greek psychopath ruled as the god of all. And any common man could become one of these human gods, as long as he became as psychopathic and deluded as the other human gods. Naturally, this caused a few minor problems, since the human gods were constantly murdering one another and causing devastating wars, in order to gain just a little more status and wealth. But they accepted this as the mere cost of doing business.

This refinement of the justification of human worship was a major step in advancement of the evil, injustice, oppression and slavery that the religious humanistic kingdom of the beast desired. Also, the formalized Greek hierarchical systems helped the ruling human gods to more effectively apply their terrorism and justify it in the eyes of their people, since they duped the people into thinking their human gods worked together for their good, to maintain their chaotic “order” and constantly warring “peace,” although all the plain realities existing all around them proved otherwise. Because the Greeks now allowed the most psychopathic common men to become gods too, the people somehow thought this Greek system was far more just and equitable. Thus, the people blindly trusted those human gods, granting them the right to torture and kill any lesser mortals for any reason and at any time they chose to do so. So it was during this Greek phase in the development of humanism that the masses became most thoroughly duped, blind, silenced, unthinking worshipers of human gods, setting them on high pedestals. But, after fully deluding the people into believing that the unjust rule of their psychopathic human gods was actually just, right and rational, it was time to combine and perfect all three stages of humanism into one perfect system of merciless destruction.

Finally, in the fourth and finishing stage of its development, the doctrines and methods of all the previous three kingdoms were combined in a very simple, powerful, efficient, homogeneous and totally ruthless system. It was time to establish a solid foundation of elite, psychopathic, human lords commanding all men through an extremely steep and Roman hierarchy. Human gods had to be more than mere rulers. Now they had to become God-like owners of the people and all God’s other creations. They had to be perceived as the gods who provided all things for their people, although the people did literally all the work while those gods did nothing but bully them according to their own carnal, painful and deadly whims. But the extreme terrorism of those Roman psychopaths stabilized and united their vile empire, enabling Rome to accomplish their evil purposes through the power of great numbers who were thoroughly obedient to their human gods, and who granted their human gods the “right” to dictate literally all matters of life and faith. At the same time, like Greece, Rome let the most cunning and psychopathic men, even slaves, become their own gods who supposedly could shape their own destinies, but only if they remained deluded, only if they agreed to be lesser human gods under the rule of greater human gods. In many ways, this final form of humanism was a perfect lie, the ultimate false religion. Of course, those Roman humanists still murdered one another, for the entertainment of their hellish father. However, it did eventually spread literally everywhere. Roman humanism has become the national religion of every state in the entire world, although it is now losing some of its power to delude, since biblical truths are also spreading everywhere as well.

Now, as we look at all four spiritual kingdoms, we see how all four still exist to this day, and all four derived from one another. In fact, all are descendants of Assyria. It all started when the king in Nineveh repented into the truths of God through the preaching of God’s prophet, Jonah. And God sent Jonah to these Gentiles because He loved the elect among them, and called those elect His own people. But the Assyrian kings and people soon committed spiritual adultery and turned away from their Creator God. But so did Israel. Both began to trample the poor among them. But God blamed His priesthood of Israel more, because they had His Scriptures, promises and calling to represent

 

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Him to the world, yet neglected God and their priestly duties. So God handed over His apostate church of Israel to Assyria. Then ceaseless conflicts continued between the prostitute people groups in the same way, to rebuke Israel. And Babylon was a kingdom in Assyria, Persia was a kingdom in Babylon, then Greece was a kingdom in Persia. Lastly, Rome was a colony and kingdom in Greece.

All four of Satan’s humanistic kingdoms are related to Assyria, who played the harlot by worshiping unjust false gods after it had once repented to the real Creator God at one time. All are related and all were used by the loveless demonic spirits whom God cast down to earth, so the devil could develop a religion against the one Creator Spirit. But, since all the world is now Satan’s final Roman Empire, including Israel, and all the elect on earth have been exposed to Satan’s unjust religion of humanism, whose systems trample the poor, the whole world has witnessed truths from God and the devil’s worst lies. So it is time to separate the Jewish and Gentile elect from the world’s non-elect, so the whole world may be judged. Then God will destroy the lying kingdom and come to rule all the earth.

Most people of the world today are Roman humanists in Satan’s fourth Roman kingdom, although some are more like the humanists of one of the first three kingdoms. We have the superstitious humanists, who practice witchcraft like the Babylonians. We have the hedonistic, very physical and bullying humanists, like the Persians. And we have the scholarly humanists who invent pseudo-rational lies, like the Greeks. But the majority belong to the fourth kingdom—as blind drones who are a combination of those three, who mindlessly obey the psychopathic human gods who rule the financial, military, political and religious institutions and sub-kingdoms in Satan’s spiritual Rome.

Of course, in John’s day, all four of the beast’s spiritual kingdoms also existed, and three of them were still physical nations with physical borders. But Rome had not yet spread its spiritual cancer into all the world. Now it has and its physical borders are no longer needed, since Roman humanism is everywhere. Still, the demonic messiah, called the beast, has not yet arrived either. So the beast’s four religious kingdoms were becoming physically dominant world powers long before John’s day, and have now become the sole dominant power of the world, where Rome has surpassed anything that Persia, Greece and Babylon could have imagined, all through its core spiritual power of ruthless deceptions through its religion of humanism. But all four are actually one entity which is resisting God’s efforts to disseminate His loving, just, equitable truths, out from Israel into the entire world.

In the very beginning, God chose one priest from each generation of elect humans, after He had granted humankind the knowledge of good and evil, after He made human spirits like His own Spirit. Each generation’s priest, only one man descended from Adam and Seth, was called, taught, trained and sent by God to expose and reveal the eternal truths that God had written in His spiritual and physical creations. So God has always provided His truths to all humans on earth through various chosen servants since the beginning, and exposed more truths to each generation, but with resistance from demonic spirits. And God has allowed real spiritual evil on earth so each of His truths can be refined and experientially fulfilled in each of His elect by the end of the judgment day. Then God created a whole nation of His priests through one of those solitary priests descended from Seth, through Abraham. And, in the days Jonah, God began to reach out to the Gentiles of the world through His priesthood of Israel, although Israel resisted it then and continues to resist it now. Yet God has not stopped revealing His truths through His very faulty, sinful and carnal Israel, nor through His Gentile elect servants, whose spirits resemble those of the Gentiles like Abraham and all the other solitary priests in the line of Seth. If the eyes of our spirits are opened, we can see how the kingdom of God has also been growing exponentially on earth, not just the opposing kingdom of the devil. In fact, Satan’s kingdom, especially his Roman kingdom, is merely a reaction to the growth of

 

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God’s kingdom on earth. But God’s kingdom will never stop growing, while Satan’s kingdom is destined for destruction. So let the elect see this, and live in God’s spiritual kingdom of just love.

The physical borders and “greatness” of all four kingdoms of the beast are gone, but none of them need those past borders or identities, since all four have become so spiritually great and extensive, as the one dominant political, moral, spiritual kingdom ruling over all of Satan’s world order in our day. Now it can be said of all four that they physically “were and are not.” And all four are “about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction,” seven years after the human beast arrives. That is, all four kingdoms will rise up through Rome’s hellish, demonic power to become physically great again, in the end times, but only so they can then be destroyed by our God Jesus. The king and messiah of the beast’s kingdoms will likely arrive in less than a hundred years, to restore his kingdom’s unity and physical borders for a time. But that beast will not take his throne and inherit his physical kingdom until seven years before Jesus returns. And, when he does, all spirits born of Satan will marvel at him and worship him, granting blind obedience to him. So he will fully restore his physical kingdom for seven years. Yet, after that, Jesus will destroy both him and his kingdom.

“‘This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the

woman is seated; they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has

not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while. As for the beast that

was and is not, it is an eighth but it belongs to the seven, and it goes to destruction. And the

ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to

receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast. These are of one mind and

hand over their power and authority to the beast. They will make war on the Lamb, and the

Lamb will conquer them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with Him are

called and chosen and faithful.’”

John’s words in this part of this prophecy (Rev. 17:9-14) may seem cryptic to us in our day. And, actually, God intentionally caused this prophecy to be so figurative and disguised, to be written in an ecclesiastical language which only a few could comprehend. However, these figures of speech were understood by many knowledgeable Christians and Jews in John’s day and, since we now have now discovered much more about the terms they used back then, it is now possible for us to figure out most of what John was expressing through this figurative language. Here it says the “woman,” the Great Prostitute, the mother of countless false churches, sits on “seven mountains.” This last phrase can also be translated as “seven hills,” and should be. For, in John’s day, everyone knew that the city of Rome was built upon seven hills. Thus, John is referring to a false church near the city of Rome.

Since John was prophesying about Daniel’s fourth kingdom, the Roman Empire, he was definitely referring to the city of Rome. Then John prophesied that these seven hills represented “seven kings.” But these “seven kings” actually represented seven kingdoms or sovereign nations. Just as the seven hills represented seven lands, so do those “seven kings,” since a king represents his entire kingdom and each was considered to be his whole kingdom, at least in the minds of first-century men like John. Then this future beast will also have a council of ten “kings,” that is, ten rulers bearing great authority, and might be called by any title (such as president, prime minister, etc.). The beast and these ten “kings” shall rule the seven lands adjacent to the beast’s capital city of Rome, will belong to the beast’s physical city of Rome. So those seven lands will almost certainly be contiguous lands in Europe, since they become one united kingdom ruled by the beast. That is, it is almost definite that all seven of the beast’s nations will be allies of Italy. For Italy is the homeland of Daniel’s fourth kingdom (the Roman Empire) and the homeland of the future beast, who will be a fascist humanist.

 

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Also, all seven of these sovereign nations ruled by the beast shall be typical humanistic lands, ruled by steep hierarchical systems with the beast as their ultimate human god. And, since the “woman” called the Great Prostitute is with them, there will be many Roman Catholics in those seven lands, since all seven will be bound together through the religion of secular humanism and the theistic humanism of the Great Prostitute is closely related to their secular denominations of the seven lands.

Then we must keep in mind that John was not talking about seven artificial political boundaries. Rather, these seven kingdoms would be seven people-groups, where each land’s people are defined by a shared language, culture and customs. Naturally, the first of the seven lands definitely must be Italy, the heart of the Roman Empire, the homeland of the beast’s fourth kingdom which Daniel and John describe in their prophecies. So now we can look for clues that identify these seven kingdoms.

When John said “one is,” he was saying that one nation that belongs to the beast’s fourth kingdom in his day and will remain the fourth kingdom of the beast until the end times, until the demonic beast comes in a body of flesh seven years before Jesus will destroy him and that kingdom. And only Italy has never ceased being a nation belonging to the city of Rome. It has remained the vestige of the Roman Empire throughout its entire history. Most of the other lands in the physical Roman Empire had “fallen” when the western half of the Roman Empire fell in about 476 BC. Then all those other nations became empires of their own, just as the prophecy about the first seal’s era indicated. Italy fell at that time as well, but to Roman humanists whom they had taught and trained. Thus, Italy has always remained Roman, and will remain Roman until the beast inherits it during the end times.

So Italy is the “one” that “is.” Then John said “five ... had fallen.” Thus, five of the seven kingdoms belonging to the beast had been parts of the Roman Empire at the time when John wrote down this prophecy, but had ceased to belong to Rome between the days of John and the end times. All five had “fallen” and cease to be parts of the fourth Roman kingdom during the interim. Only later, just before or as the beast is returning in the end times, will those five nations join the beast’s Roman Empire once more. So those five would almost definitely include the lands and empires of Spain and France, possibly Austria, Slovenia and Croatia as well, although nothing precise can be concluded with certainty yet. Still, knowing this will help us identify the lands of the beast before the end times.

Lastly, John claimed that one of the seven “has not yet come, and will remain only a little while.” This would refer to a nation that did not belong to the Roman Empire in John’s day, but will belong to the kingdom of the beast during the end times. But this land or people-group will only become a sovereign nation for a short time, only during the beast’s seven-year reign, since it will “remain only a little while.” This could be Germany, since it did not belong to Rome in the first century. And, after it does join the beast’s kingdom, it may decide to amicably withdraw a few years later, after “a little while.” So it may not share the devastating end assigned to the beast. On the other hand, the way this prophecy is worded, it seems that this seventh land will perish along with beast’s other six kingdoms.

Now John had this vision of events that will occur after the human beast inherits and rules the fourth kingdom, the Roman Empire. Thus, in the end times, we should look for five nations who once belonged to the Roman Empire in John’s day, as well as one nation that had not belonged to the Roman Empire during John’s lifetime, to make an alliance with the beast’s homeland of Italy. We are watching for seven European nations who will attempt to make the Roman Empire into a dominant world power, to make Rome great again—although Rome was a just a wretched, unjust slave society from its beginning, with the vast majority of its people living in extreme poverty, so it had never actually been “great” in any sense of the word. Still, although this alliance of seven nations will become the dominant world power while the beast is ruling them, all seven nations will perish after

 

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the seven years of the beast’s rule have ended. Jesus will destroy all their lands with the seven bowls of wrath. Then, after all the elect have fled from those seven nations, Jesus will kill all their people.

Next, remember that the beast “is an eighth [kingdom] but it belongs to the seven.” So the beast will form his own personal state or kingdom within the seven kingdoms. And we can make a reasonable guess as to what that eighth kingdom will be like. The beast will probably make Rome into a distinct sovereign nation where he can assemble all the rulers of his seven allied nations on a supposedly “neutral” ground, where they can meet with him and a few of his closest “international” advisors to coordinate all the policies and decisions of those allied nations. This eighth land will be the hub of the seven allied nations, where the beast can influence and even dictate all the power of those lands.

Also consider how the beast hates the God of the Bible and wants to replace God with himself, how the beast will long to be worshiped as the sole source of all laws in all lands, and as the only one in charge of fates of all who dwell on earth. Then look at how, in 1929, the Vatican City became an independent nation or city-state within Italy, surrounded by the secular city of Rome. Thus, it seems likely that the beast would declare the secular part of the city of Rome, surrounding the Vatican, to be a city state dedicated to himself and his religion of fascist humanism, to spitefully mock the Vatican. For he could then claim the Vatican’s spiritually adulterous worship of God to be the worship of himself, figuratively, after he attempts to make himself the god of God. Thus, when the Roman Catholic church refuses to transfer their false worship to the beast, because its pope will still want to proclaim himself to be the vicarious God Jesus on earth, the beast will destroy the Vatican by burning it to the ground. Something like this will occur, because the prophecy of John clearly states that the beast will burn the Great Prostitute during the days of the seven bowls of wrath, only a few weeks or months before Jesus returns to kill all the non-elect in the beast’s kingdom and on earth.

The next part of this prophecy reveals that the “ten horns” are the “ten kings,” the ten rulers, which is also what Daniel’s prophecy declared (Dan. 7:23-25). Of course, none of those ten would have lived in John’s day. All ten will be born during the end times, and shall rule over the seven nations together with the beast, even with “one mind.” This also suggests a fascist form of humanism, since fascism always worships only one human god, and all fascists blindly hand over their wills, minds and reasoning to that one human god, so that human god can define all “truths” and all “realities” for them, so none will ever need to do any critical thinking for themselves. All ten will completely submit to the beast and worship him as their final decision-making authority in all matters of life. All ten will “hand over their power and authority to the beast,” and become his mindless little puppets.

These ten kings and seven kingdoms, together with that human man called “the beast,” shall “make war on the Lamb,” which means they will make war on Jesus. But, they will not likely overtly attack the name of Jesus because, like Hitler and Trump, they will still court the favor of the people in the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters, who worship the name of Jesus but not the real Person of Jesus. Instead, the beast’s kingdom will begin by lying about God’s laws and ways, and by changing “the times” by rewriting history in order to justify his lies and sins. His Roman kingdom will make war on Jesus by slandering the Bible and by trying to kill the true body of Christ, the people of His true church. And, if the beast’s kingdom makes war with Jesus, it also implies that, by that time, there will be a true, visible body of the real Jesus on earth at that time, that is, a true, visible church serving as His faithful priests to the world. For this prophecy also actually states that some elect souls will be “called and chosen and faithful,” and that the beast will make war on them by killing some of them, and more specifically by beheading them. So this is yet another prophecy that seems to confirm the imminent world-wide revival of the true Christian church, during the sixth seal’s era.

 

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Obviously, there is no such thing as a true visible church now, since it is clear that very few of the elect are not truly “called and chosen and faithful.” All we see in our day are false churches and the extreme scattering of the elect into all kinds of institutions belonging to Satan’s world order. Yet this one, true, faithful and united church will be created through the sealing of the saints, that is, through the elect who will be sanctified and set apart by God during the era of the sixth seal. And, yes, these awakened elect will be persecuted by the beast, but only in his seven nations, and in all the other humanistic nations who will all join the beast in his war against our God Jesus in the very end, just days before Jesus destroys them all. But also remember that a large remnant of these elect will be alive and well on the earth at the moment Jesus’ feet land on the Mount of Olives, and many will be kept safe in overtly Christian nations during the beast’s persecutions. For the beast will only be the dominant world power in those days, and will not gain absolute power over all the earth. Only our just and loving God Jesus bears power over all the earth, now and at all times, and will do so forever.

The beast’s kingdom will most severely persecute the true church during the last half of his seven-year reign. However, since the false church of the Great Prostitute sits on the beast’s back, she will not be persecuted by the beast. Only the true church will be persecuted. The beast will not destroy the Great Prostitute until after the seven angels have begun to pour out the seven bowls of God’s wrath, but before they pour out the last of those bowls of wrath. Then the beast will see that the last of the true elect have been awakened by the Holy Spirit of Jesus and have been called out of that false church. Thus, the Great Prostitute will have become weak and useless to the beast, unable to dupe and enslave God’s elect any longer. Therefore, together with his council of ten kings, the beast’s secular humanists will burn and annihilate the theistic humanist within that Great Prostitute.

So the secular beast will wait until the last hour of his reign to destroy the Great Prostitute. Then, within days after the beast burns her to ashes, angels will pour out the last of the seven bowls of wrath upon the beast’s kingdom. Once the last of these bowls are emptied, Jesus will suddenly return to “conquer” and cast the beast into hell, then put to death the ten horns and all the non-elect still remaining in his seven kingdoms, as well as all the non-elect dwelling throughout the entire earth.

By the way, notice how it tells us that the “called and chosen/elected” are “faithful.” This means that the elect will do the works of Jesus willingly, rightly and diligently. And this also means that those truly “faithful” elect will not first choose Jesus or first call to Jesus. The truly “faithful” chosen ones will be chosen by their Lord Jesus, and will not make themselves into faithful “Christians” (i.e., the term “Christian” refers to a family members and slaves in Christ’s household, where only Christ has the authority to determine who will dwell with Him). All real Christians are those created with elect spirits, whom Jesus chooses, calls, teaches, trains and sends out to do His works. Elect spirits taught and trained by His Holy Spirit to do His works rightly, wisely and through love, in a “faithful” way. After Jesus calls and chooses them, after His many works inside them, they begin to respect and love Him. Then they spontaneously choose Him and call out to Him. It is this process which causes them to become truly faithful. And this can never happen until after Jesus has already begun to save them.

“And the angel said to me, ‘The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are

peoples and multitudes and nations and languages. And the ten horns that you saw, they and

the beast will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, and devour her

flesh and burn her up with fire, for God has put it into their hearts to carry out His purpose by

being of one mind and handing over their royal power to the beast, until the words of God are

fulfilled. And the woman that you saw is the great city that has dominion over the kings of

the earth.’”

 

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This (Rev. 17:15-18) defines the figurative term “waters” as “peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.” Because the Great Prostitute is seated over this incalculable number of souls everywhere on earth, she is clearly a world-wide deceiver, not just a false church with a deluding influence over a limited number of people. She not only convinces the members of her own false church to believe her lies, but also the members of the false churches called her harlot daughters, as well as the secular Roman beast and his people. While she sits on the beast and the seven hills of Rome, she seduces him. Historically, the secular humanism of that beast was even preserved and disseminated around the world through the help of that Great Prostitute. And, during all this time, since the early days of the first seal’s era, she has also received her illicit payment for her harlotry from those “peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.” In fact, as mentioned, she became extremely wealthy through her seducing harlotry with secular kings and multitudes speaking many languages in many nations.

To correctly identify this false church of this prophecy, we must look at all the details John provided for us, because God wanted us to recognize her. We must not ignore God’s words for political and financial reasons, or through personal biases, but actively seek to correctly identify her using all of the information describing her. Since she is called a “prostitute,” this ecclesiastical language clearly identifies her as a spiritually adulterous entity, as a false church that claims to be the people of God but worships false gods. And she is an international false church associated with Rome. She is also extremely wealthy and brought her wealth back, from all over the earth, to “the great city,” which John clearly identifies as Rome, since Rome is the only “great city” known by John that was famous for sitting on seven hills. Therefore, it is time for us to all agree that John could only be describing one great false church, the human-worshiping Roman Catholic church created in the first seal’s era.

Now, since the group entities that were called prostitutes in the Bible were false churches (people groups falsely claiming to worship God), John is clearly talking about a false church here. But he certainly is not prophesying about a new false church rising up in the end times. For one thing, John told us that she rides on the back of the beast, going everywhere that Satan’s religious kingdom of humanistic Rome goes, everywhere that the doctrines of human worship are established upon the earth. Think about this. The Roman beast was prophesied to form long ago, through Babylon, Persia and Greece, after the four principal Greek kingdoms had formed, which occurred after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. And that fourth kingdom of the beast only rose up when it usurped the third kingdom of Greece in the second century BC. Then we know from Zechariah’s prophecies that and early form of the Great Prostitute was associated with all four kingdoms, and existed in Babylon. But she did not become “great” until Satan’s religious kingdom of humanism also became great, until the fourth and Roman part of Satan’s kingdom spread out into all the world. So this prostitute rode on the backs of all four kingdoms, and was with Rome from its beginning. It began as the false Old Covenant humanistic church of Israel in Babylon, with its steep hierarchical system of worshiping human gods. But it only became “great” after it became the humanist New Covenant church that falsely claimed to be Israel. Therefore, the Great Prostitute is a very ancient false church.

Since this Great Prostitute rode on the backs of all four kingdoms of the beast, it definitely is not any kind of entity which suddenly formed and gained world-wide popularity just a few years before the Satan-possessed human beast comes to inherit his fourth Roman kingdom. In the global context of the whole Bible and all its prophecies about the last days, she is a false church that has been with the kingdom of the beast for a very long time. And she reached her maturity at the same time that the fourth Roman humanistic kingdom did, just after Rome “cut off” the Messiah and destroyed God’s temple in Israel, according to the biblical prophecies. So this Great Prostitute began to become “great” after about AD 70, after she became a false church of the Messiah, which was still within the

 

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lifetime of the apostle John, when John penned this Revelation from Jesus. And this is why John was so amazed that she had grown so great, since he thought such a stupid, humanistic church like that could never deceive so many people, not after God had sent the elect the counsel of His Holy Spirit.

This ancient false church sits on the seven hills who are also seven kingdoms, five of whom were part of the kingdom of the beast (Rome) in John’s day. The five fell and rose up to join the beast’s kingdom again, through events taking place over a long period of time, stretching from John’s day in the first century to the future time of the beast. And, since the Great Prostitute seems to sit on that Roman beast while all this falling away and rejoining occurs, it also implies that she is at least as old as those five nations, who were parts of the ancient Roman Empire before they fell. Then there is the fact that she must be an ancient false church because she gave birth to other false churches, whom God calls her “harlot daughters.” All the prophecies suggest that this Great Prostitute existed in the first seal’s era, and lived for a very long time before the end times of the sixth and seventh seals.

Still, the secular beast, with all his worshiping kingdoms and kings, will hate this Great Prostitute. Secular Rome has always hated her. Although she has always helped Rome gain power and spread its core demonic religion, which is the source of all its power, secular Rome began to see that false church as a parasite riding on its back, feeding off its strength. From the beginning, almost every kind of secular humanist in Europe has hated her, and still hates her to this day. So, at the very end of the beast’s seven-year reign, they will utterly destroy her, and burn the Vatican city to the ground.

But John’s prophecy said this Great Prostitute “is the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth.” And John used the present tense here. So, in his day, in the first century, the Great Prostitute already existed and was in the city of Rome. Yet the secular beast is also Rome, both its capital city of Rome the whole Roman Empire. Therefore, the Great Prostitute is merely associated with the city of Rome and cannot be the city itself. The Great Prostitute rides on the back of the Roman beast, as a mere part of Rome. She is the false church seated upon or near the city of Rome.

Thus, when the beast burns the Great Prostitute, he will burn only her part seated in or upon the city of Rome, only the part of Rome which is owned by the false church called the Great Prostitute. And the demonic beast will do so according to God’s will. God Himself will manipulate the beast and his counsel of “ten kings,” causing them to burn this great false church. So she will exist for a very long time, until her purpose is fulfilled in the very last days of the Roman Empire, until her wickedness has completed the greater good it was destined to produce in God’s true elect. And, of course, God’s purpose for that great false church will be what God’s prophecy, through Daniel, said it would be: “And the wise among the people shall make many understand, though for some days they shall stumble by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder. When they stumble, they shall receive a little help. And many shall join themselves to them with flattery, and some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, purified, and made white, until the time of the end, for it still awaits the appointed time.... Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand” (Dan. 11:33-35; 12:10, ESV). In other words, the true elect of God’s Old and New Covenant Israel, especially after the sixth seal’s revival, will begin to understand that the humanism and the sins of the false church are destructive, then realize what a true worship of Jesus looks like.

God has a purpose for allowing the deception of the elect, and their great tribulation. For, on the final day of judgment, our God Jesus will use those experiences to illustrate the profound and expansive differences between the worship of the spirit in truth, and the worship of the flesh in lies, between the love of the real God and the love of false gods. Then, when this understanding is also brought to

 

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the elect still living upon the earth, during the sixth seal’s revival, it will completely polarize the people of the earth, separating those with non-elect spirits born of Satan from those with elect spirits born of God. After that revival, the understanding of the difference between true and false worship by the elect will create an irreconcilable dichotomy upon the earth. Those with spirits born of God, the true elect, will be purified. But spirits born of Satan will continue in evil, and go from very bad to worse, even becoming psychopathic. The true nature of every human spirit will be fully revealed.

Most preachers and authors throughout history have described the Great “Prostitute” (or “Harlot” or “Whore”) in many varied and extremely contradicting ways. Some have even said that the Great Prostitute and the beast are the same entity, then declared it an American president, a certain pope, a first century Roman Emperor some other man who fits their own religious or political agenda. So they do not even superficially read the text, and are not much help. Most refuse to honestly examine the Scriptures to determine what God Himself said about this Great Prostitute. They simply let their uninformed imaginations invent whatever nonsense might appeal to their egos or that will sell their books. And the Great Prostitute herself naturally will not admit that this prophecy from God refers to her. She will not incriminate herself. So you must carefully examine the biblical evidence yourself.

To begin, let me repeat that she is a “great city” seated on or near the “seven mountains” or “hills” of Rome (i.e., ἑπτὰ ὄρη should be translated as “seven hills,” since ὄρος refers to any mound of earth or rock rising above ground level). Since this is definitely a first-century reference to Rome, the Great Prostitute is on or near the ancient city of Rome. And she is an evil entity, who commits spiritual adultery by claiming to worship the real God while she actually worships false gods. So she is not merely the physical city of Rome. She is a spiritual corrupter like the Satanic beast, and seated on the “beast,” which means that she is right next to the beast, so close to the beast that she is touching him.

Biblically, the word “beast” can either refer to an individual human being or the entire kingdom he rules. The beast is the demon-possessed human king who arrives near the very end of the end times, but he is also the fourth kingdom that Daniel prophesied about, to the true Roman Empire, the evil religious that Satan formed through Babylon, Persia and Greece. And that fourth kingdom came after it usurped the rule of Greece. So it has existed for more than two millenniums. Furthermore, the beast’s spiritual home and capital always has been the city of Rome. Since the city of Rome cannot possibly sit on the beast, either figuratively or physically, definitely not in the way these Scriptures portray the Great Prostitute sitting on or riding on the beast, this Great Prostitute cannot be simply be the physical city of Rome, the beast’s capital city. Rather, she is on or near that city. Then, since this Great Prostitute sits upon many waters, upon the different people groups dwelling everywhere on earth, and corrupts souls everywhere on earth, luring many kings and nations on earth into a deep spiritually adultery committed with her, she is a “living,” wailful, cunning, malicious, spiritual entity with international influence, riding on the fourth Roman kingdom. And the prophecies also said that the secular Roman kingdom would become the dominant world power in the end times. So the Great Prostitute on its back must also be a truly international, world-wide false church with that evil beast.

Again, since we know that most of John’s figurative terms used in the Revelation were borrowed from other Scriptures, we can learn something about this Great Prostitute if we look at exactly how the Bible most often employed the word “prostitute” as a figurative term describing a corporate body of people. If we do this, we find the Bible figuratively used the words meaning “prostitute” (also translated as “whore” or “harlot”) as ecclesiastical terms referring exclusively to false churches, to spiritually corrupt identifiable groups of people falsely claiming to worship God and falsely claiming to be God’s people. But entirely secular nations or pagan religions were never called “prostitutes,” only the people-groups falsely claiming to worship God. So we cannot say she is a secular entity.

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For instance, when God’s church of Israel became a false church, by worshiping demon gods while still claiming to worship Yahweh, God then called her a “prostitute” (Is. 1:21; Jer. 3:1,3,8; chapters 16 and 23 of Ezek.; throughout Hosea; and Micah 1:7). For Israel was committing spiritual adultery. When His church of Israel adopted pagan false teachings, while still claiming to heed Him as His people, God called their sins a form of spiritual infidelity. At one time, God even called the Gentile city of Nineveh a “prostitute,” since Nineveh had previously repented through the preaching of Jonah, but later returned to its idolatry and evil ways (Nahum 3:4). Of course, many in Nineveh still claimed to worship Yahweh as one of its many Gods, even while they ignored God’s teachings. But these false worshipers believed that Yahweh, the God of Israel, was just another name for one of their demon gods, Baal. So they forgot all that the prophet Jonah taught them, as spiritual adulterers.

Yet syncretizing the false teachings of demons and practicing their evil, unjust ways was exactly what Israel and Judah did when God called them “prostitutes.” It was because of this spiritual adultery that Nahum prophesied the doom of Nineveh, and why many of God’s true prophets also prophesied about the destruction of Israel and Judah. Any way we look at it, the Bible’s figurative use of the term “prostitute,” when it refers to any identifiable group of people, always indicated a false church, a body of people falsely claiming to have a relationship with God. Whenever we see a people figuratively called a “prostitute,” “whore” or “harlot” in the Bible, it always means they are a false church—a people who may have previously worshiped God, but became evil and corrupt, even while they still claimed to maintain a relationship with the real God. So the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters must be false churches, falsely claiming that they worship God and belong to God.

Also, if the Great Prostitute is not a false church, why will God later call His people out of her (Rev. 18:4)? The only reason God would call His people to come out of her would be to prevent them from her religious corruption, from partaking in her sins of false worship, from worshiping false gods such as the human gods which the humanistic Roman Catholic church serves and esteems. So, when God will call His people out of her, it implies that the Great Prostitute was seducing God’s people, the true elect, into her through religious lies. And what kind of entity could most effectively lure God’s elect into her? Well, if we consider how the elect all have an innate desire for God, because their spirits were created by God with this desire, then the Great Prostitute must lure them into her with some kind of false promise to fulfill their desire for God. Therefore, she must be a false church.

Now this Great Prostitute must be an identifiable group of people, a nation, organization or church. It is an evil institution of some sort. But what kind of group or institution would be striving to draw in and attract God’s elect? Of course, secular institutions tend to deceive the elect, so they can enslave those useful souls for their own profit. Still, secular institutions also persecute and reject the elect specifically because of their innate desire for God. Secular bodies only want the elect who remain completely dead inside, who have spirits that have been completely silenced by their minds of flesh. Only because some elect individuals possess certain unique physical attributes and qualities, such as more honesty, faithfulness and a work ethic, will secular institutions accept them. And this is why Satan’s world order created false churches, to lure in God’s people into them, so they will falsely perceive some kind of fleshy relationship with God to satisfy their inner cravings, yet still labor as slaves for the profit of Satan’s world order. Therefore, since the Great Prostitute draws in God’s elect solely to benefit Satan’s world order, to enslave them through the control of Satan’s invention of money and by commanding them to blindly obey exploiting secular and religious human gods, then she must be a false church belonging to Satan’s humanistic kingdom in his world order. She falsely claims to worship the God, even as servants of the real God Jesus, and puts on a good show of it. So the immature spirits of the elect are deceived into thinking that they too can worship God within her.

 

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Therefore, to get those infantile, ignorant elect out of the Great Prostitute, God will not free them in the same way He freed them when they were slaves in Egypt, through displays of His great power and with commands to obey His laws. Instead, God will simply “call” them out of their slavery to that false church, with a warning, “lest [they] take part in her sins, lest [they] share in her plagues.” Thus, we must conclude that God’s Holy Spirit will speak directly to their elect human spirits when He calls them out of her. The elect will want to remain in her and will not want to leave her, but only because their minds of flesh have been deceived, and because their flesh has silenced the voices of their spirits. But God’s Holy Spirit will go directly to their elect spirits, wake those sleeping spirits, open the eyes and ears of those spirits, and call those dupes out of the Great Prostitute, into the true church which He revived during the era of the sixth seal. God Himself will personally save each one.

That final call of God, to come out of the Great Prostitute, will be in the same way God has always called His people out of false churches, even the elect who wanted to remain in them. Whenever God’s church was corrupted, God sent prophets to warn the elect that He would punish them, together with their corrupters, if they did not repent into the truths He proclaimed. And God warned the false churches before He sent punishments, because He was able to awaken some elect spirits in those false churches, causing them to repent into the truth before He poured our His wrath. Then the repentant ones would either reform the church or leave it, so they could labor faithfully with God’s servants, with His true prophets for His kingdom. For the last thing God ever wants to do is punish His own beloved elect children. But God will seldom put on a grand, physical display of impressive miracles to convince the minds of flesh in a false church to fearfully obey Him. For God never wants the obedience of the flesh through fear. Rather, God desires the love of the spirits in His elect, so that His careful teaching and training of those spirits will produce the effects of spontaneous good works.

Then also notice how, throughout the Bible, God seldom called His people out of secular lands or organizations, especially those which allowed His people to freely worship Him. For instance, the only reason He called His people out of the secular kingdom of Egypt was because Egypt refused to allow His people to freely worship Him. At times, God might call His people out of a secular land or organization which is excessively spiritually corrupting, or even call some home to heaven out of such lands, through the deaths of their flesh, if the corruptions become too harmful to their spirits and that whole land must be destroyed. But the Great Prostitute is not a secular land. She is a false church who is practicing a very deeply corrupting form of spiritual deception that attacks the spirit.

The reason God will be calling His elect out of the Great Prostitute, but not out of the beast’s secular Roman lands, is because that false church is even spiritually worse than the beast’s secular Roman government, although both forms of humanism hate God and both are holding the elect captive. For the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters are not relatively neutral secular institutions, but are false churches practicing a form of religious deception in God’s name. Secular humanists cannot slander God’s name, and all that God represents, nearly as badly as a false church can, which is why Satan created false churches. Only false churches can convince even the elect that the defining attributes of God and His children are the same kinds of deception and murder that the human gods ruling over those false churches, although God’s Word only ever calls Satan and his children liars and murderers. No secular humanist would ever be able to dupe the elect into believing such a wild discrepancy between the Scriptures and what those false church teach. The elect will only believe those who claim to be sent by God. Only those fake servants of God can convince the elect that Satan is God, that good is evil and evil is good. Only a fake preacher can make the elect believe that the flesh is spiritual and all spiritual matters originate from the mind of flesh. Only false churches can effectively nullify the possibility of earthly salvation for the elect, prevent the elect from serving

 

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