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

 

God’s kingdom on earth. Of course, God will correct and save those duped elect on the last day. But those spiritual adulterers in false churches are far more evil than even the worst of secular deceivers.

So God will rid the earth of the worst first. God will cause the secular siblings of the humanistic false church to turn against her. God will manipulate the mind of the beast and his kingdom to hate his sister, the Great Prostitute, and to murder her, to burn her kingdom to the ground. But, before God does this, He will call out the last of the duped elect out of that fake church. And notice how God seems to assume that those duped elect can simply walk away from that Great Prostitute at that time, how those duped elect are not coerced to remain inside that deceiving institution. For the secular beast has made this possible by then. Throughout most of the Great Prostitute’s history, she has indeed been able to force her duped elect to remain inside her prison-like walls, like chained slaves. And, of course, the secular Roman governments have done the same with their own captive elect. Both have had the power to murder defectors, and have used that power to terrorize the elect into remaining with them. But, by the end times, the Great Prostitute will lose the power to do this.

Since the Roman beast definitely will execute defectors from his secular kingdom, just as he has always done in the past, and because the prophecies actually declare that he will be beheading all the elect he can capture, but God will call His elect out of the Great Prostitute in a way where they can freely walk away from her, we can assume this: (1) the Great Prostitute is not merely a secular person or institution belonging to the beast; and (2) the Great Prostitute must be a false church whom the secular Roman beast tolerates, but he has stripped her of her power to coerce membership by those end times, since she freely allows God’s elect to leave, even while she does not allow them to worship God rightly if they remain within her, because she causes those elect to partake in her sins as long as they remain within her. And, actually, this is exactly what we have seen in recent history. The secular humanist Roman governments of the world, even dictators who reject more of God’s just truths than all the rest, have stripped the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters of the power to terrorize their members into remaining in their false churches through death threats. The exception is the false church of Islam, which is destined to perish long before the final beast shall gain his power.

God obviously will be calling His elect out of a false church after the demonic messiah, called the beast, comes to rule over his fascist kingdom of Roman secular humanism (Rev. 18:4). The Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters are clearly and definitely false churches. And there are many Scriptures where God commands His people to leave false churches, to come out and be separate from unrepentant false believers, or to cast out their false teachers and stubborn heretics, to expel all who are trying to corrupt His people. But God has never told His people to come out of a secular land, where they can either secretly or freely worship Him. God has never implied that His elect can partake in the sins of a secular land or organization simply by remaining among its secular people. For all secular powers are culpable for their own sins. Since secular powers do not do anything in God’s name, God’s elect never partake in their sins, not unless some elect deliberately sin in the names of those secular powers. Therefore, since God calls the elect out of the Great Prostitute “lest they partake in her sins,” it means the Great Prostitute is a false church who teaches false doctrines and does evil works in God’s name. Consequently, the elect, who inherently bear God’s name, automatically participate in her sins simply by maintaining their association with that false church.

Being in a physical place or physically among secular people cannot affect one’s spiritual worship or cause one to partake in the sins of those who are physically near them. The elect can only partake in the sins of the Great Prostitute and her daughters if their spirits worship God in a way that somehow endorses their false doctrines and evil deeds. And the only way that elect spirits, or the continued association of their whole physical beings, can endorse the sins of another entity, and thus partake in

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the sins of that entity, is if the elect worship the same false god or gods which that entity worships, the false god or gods which that entity deceptively calls by the name or names of the real God. In other words, the only way that the elect can partake in the sins of the Great Prostitute is if they are worshiping a false god or gods whom that Great Prostitute is calling by the name or names of God.

We need to remember that God, from the very beginning, has commanded us to keep away from false teachers trying to deceive us, and to shun their false churches. And, in His Law, He told us that those deceivers will actually be saying: “Let’s go after other gods” (which you have not known) and let’s serve them” (Deut. 13:2, WEB). Yes, some will pretend to come in Yahweh’s name or in Jesus’ name. But their words will describe the attributes of false gods, and they will call us to worship those false gods, either human gods, non-existent imaginings, or even demons in disguise. But we are not to worship just the physical words “Yahweh” or “Jesus,” even if those names have been given to false gods by false prophets and false teachers, not even if those liars perform miracles in the names of those false gods. Rather, we are to worship the real Creator God Yahweh, who came to us in a body of human flesh, in the Man named Jesus. We are to worship the real God through esteem and service from our loving spirits, and based on all the truths He revealed in His spiritual and physical creations, as well as in His Word. We must test all things, to determine which gods are false gods, and which humans are preaching false gods, then only worship the one real God, and accept into our family of God, into our church, only those who believe in the genuine truths about that one real God.

But God never commanded His people to come out of secular institutions and shun all secular souls, since His people would then need to die and leave the world. We cannot possibly avoid contact with secular souls! If God asked us to leave the secular world, it would be tantamount to asking us to commit suicide. God created His true church as a light to all secular people, for all those outside His church. For, until the day Jesus returns, there will always be some sleeping elect walking among those secular souls. This is why He never tells His people to forsake, abandon, leave or “come out of” them. Only when His elect partake in the worship and works of a false church, can they indeed partake in the sins of that church. For, in doing so, they perpetuate false teachings which cause sins. This is precisely why God always calls all His people to come out of false churches, lest they partake in the sins of those churches. In conclusion, the Great Prostitute is a false church, not a secular entity.

Next, notice how the Scriptures differentiate between the Great Prostitute and the secular ruler called the beast, since she is seated upon that beast (Rev. 17:3). They are two separate entities: a secular power and a false church seated upon it. The beast’s secular power is both physical and spiritual. He has both a physical kingdom of seven nations and a spiritual kingdom that influences their souls through his religion of secular humanism. But the Great Prostitute sits on the beast’s kingdom, and she seems to have no significant physical kingdom which is separate from the beast’s Roman kingdom, although she may have an insignificant one within the beast’s kingdom. So she is merely an evil, corrupting, spiritual influence, a completely separate but aligned spiritual entity, with a humanistic religion supported by the Roman beast, a false Roman church. Her role, as a false church, is to commit adultery with secular powers, not to be a secular power. This Great Prostitute is not just another secular power like the beast. Nor is she defined by the physical boundaries of the city of Rome within the beast’s Roman Empire. For she is the city of Rome, yet burned apart from the secular parts of Rome, because the city of Rome exists as the beast’s capital even after she burns.

Since the Great Prostitute sits on the beast, she cannot simply be the physical city of Rome. For the beast and his core secular people always hate her, but we have never seen a time when all the secular Romans hated the physical city of Rome. Also, if she were just the physical city of Rome, the beast would sit upon her, not the other way around. Because the Great Prostitute sits on the secular power

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called the beast, it implies: (1) She depends on the beast, since she lives near his capital city, in his homeland; (2) Her members must be citizens of the beast’s kingdom, that is, the Roman Empire; and (3) The beast and the Great Prostitute always travel together down the same evil path, indicating that they both share the same false precepts and foundational principles, the same religious belief system.

And this religious belief system, shared by the beast and the Great Prostitute, is clearly described in the Scriptures as the religion we would now call a humanism. When Daniel spoke about the beast, he said: “And the king shall do as he wills [as an existentialist, a type of humanist who does not do as God wills]. He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, [he worships himself, not God] and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods.... He shall not pay attention to any other god, for he shall magnify himself above all” (Dan. 11:36,37, ESV). The beast is one who “opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God” (II Thes. 2:4, ESV). The beast worships himself and absolutely hates any religion that worships anyone other than human beings, especially the true Judea-Christian religion and its God. In modern terminology, his religion is called secular humanism, since he rejects all gods but worships man as the god above all gods, as the only god ruling man’s destiny. Now, since the beast will carry the Great Prostitute and they will go everywhere together, the core doctrines of the beast’s religion—which guide him down all his paths—must also be shared by the Great Prostitute. Still, both must be separate, distinct entities. Thus, the Great Prostitute is indeed a false and highly corrupted church, preaching theistic humanism as she sits upon a secular humanist. This is why God will command all His elect to come out of this false church, the Great Prostitute.

The Revelation said the Great Prostitute would give birth to daughters who would be prostitutes like herself. In other words, God’s prophecies told us that many other false churches would rise up, and all would share their mother’s core attributes, namely her humanistic doctrines. The Great Prostitute corrupts the earth through her false religious doctrines of theistic humanism, and through her deeds related to those doctrines, which are also related to the beast’s doctrines of secular humanism. Her works were to be like the works of secular Rome, like the slave society of Rome, a form of terrorism which oppresses the vast majority to benefit a few elite, who also live in fear of being stabbed in the back by the other psychopathic elite rivals. Both the secular and theistic humanist were alike in this.

This is why God hates the Great Prostitute, along with all her spiritual, religious corruptions, which originate from the beast’s Roman Empire, from Satan’s world order. And it is through humanism that the Great Prostitute and her daughters slander God’s name. For they use God’s name to teach their false doctrines and to do their evil works. Because they are a false church, falsely claiming to serve God, these vile spiritual adulterers lead even God’s own elect children into their delusions, lies, sins, empty lives and futile deaths, whenever the weak among the elect are seeking to find God and are searching for a people belonging to God. These false churches not only corrupt secular rulers, but also the lives of God’s beloved elect children. Thus, God causes the beast’s kingdom to destroy this mother of harlots with fire, because God does not even want to touch their filth with His own hands.

If God creates a true church—whose active members include only the true elect, and where the Head of every man is Jesus—He Himself keeps it pure and faithful, through His own teachings and His own power. Jesus ensures that evil never has a chance to cause extensive harm in His own body, the true church. But, if ambitious liars come to create and lead a church through their own power and by their own man-made traditions, Jesus does not protect it, nor cast the wicked out of it. Rather, Jesus eventually destroys those man-made, false churches, after they have completed their God-given purpose of drawing the non-elect out of His true churches and out of other families or groups of elect souls. And Jesus will soon manipulate the beast, causing him to destroy this most prominent of all

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false churches for Him. The beast will crush this false church, the Great Prostitute. Then we will soon see the demise of all her harlot daughters too, all who will mourn for her death. God’s power will cause the beast and his puppet rulers to serve Him, to exert His wrath against that false church.

Remember how God caused Assyria to crush the false church of northern Israel when she sat on the back of Assyria, when that part of God’s church was syncretizing Assyrian religious doctrines with her own faith, while still pretending to worship Yahweh. Later, God also caused Babylon to crush the false church of Judah when she sat on the back of Babylon, as Judah was syncretizing Babylonian religious doctrines with her own faith, while she still pretended to worship Yahweh. So, near the end of the beast’s seven-year reign, God will cause the Roman beast to crush the false church of the Great Prostitute as she sits on his back, syncretizing the beast’s religious doctrines with her own faith, while she pretends to worship Yahweh Jesus, the one true God. As Assyria and Babylon did, the beast will demand complete control over all who are in the false churches, along with all their money and all their works of service. And, when the false humanistic churches resist, just as Israel and Judah did, God will stir up the beast’s wrath to destroy that Great Prostitute and her daughters.

God has always been angry with false churches who spiritually corrupt others in His name, by telling souls that He said what He did not say, or that He did not say what He actually did say. For, when a church does such things, they slander His name and prevent elect souls from receiving the whole, real, life-giving truth from Him. God is far less concerned about physically harmful things on earth, or about secular deceivers deceiving other secular deceivers—unless they too begin to cause harm to His elect children. This is why God will condemn the Great Prostitute to a terrible destruction, to be burned alive, before He destroys the secular power of the beast. Just as God first destroyed the false churches of Israel and Judah before He destroyed the secular powers of Assyria and Babylon, so too will God first destroy the false church of the Great Prostitute and her daughters, before He destroys the beast’s secular Roman kingdom. He always did it this way. At His return, His judgment will begin with the false church. “For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?” (I Peter 4:17, ESV). Even in our daily personal lives, Jesus is more strict with the Father’s elect children than He is with Satan’s children, because the non-elect cannot be taught and trained, but His elect can be.

Jesus will (1) begin by sending seven bowls of wrath to systematically rebuke and destroy the seven nations which empowered the beast; (2) burn the Great Prostitute, before He appears in the sky; (3) physically descend from the sky to cast the beast and Satan into hell; (4) slaughter the beast’s armies, and (5) put to death all the other non-elect wicked souls on earth who refused to repent into the just, equitable truths of God. That is, Jesus will destroy the most guilty first and the least guilty last. For, if the churches remained pure, as a light to the world, then the demonic world order would have not even had a chance to raise up and support the beast. For God would have empowered His faithful and true church, causing them to overcome the unjust, murdering, exploiting, slandering deceivers sent by Satan, just as He will when He returns to rule the earth, after He revives His true church in the sixth seal’s era. Then, if the world could not support the beast, due to the interference and power of God’s true priesthood of Israel, the beast could never rise to power through Satan’s lesser power.

If Satan and his beast had not lured the elect into false churches, then those elect would have been drawn into true churches which God would empower, to stand against even the gates of hell itself. So the church could have prevented the Roman Empire from luring men into their armies to do their evil works throughout the last to millenniums. Finally, if their armies had not empowered the wicked exploiters and oppressors on earth, but had suppressed them, the civilians of the world would have remained prosperous, free and passive. But, at the same time, no lives on earth during the last two

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millenniums would have learned the lesson that Nebuchadnezzar did after he claimed to be his own god, the one who built his own kingdom through his own power for his own glory (Dan. 4:30), just as all humanists claim to this day. The earth was temporarily created for elect human spirits to experience the fact that “the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He will” (Dan. 4:32, WEB). And, until they learn this, their kingdoms shall be taken away from them, they shall live like beasts and they shall eat the food of the creatures serving as the prey of predators.

God allowed Satan to build up the perfect evil religion through Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, then add vanities to it through Persia, Greece and Rome. And God did this, for one reason, so humankind could learn to become humble, like God, so they could learn to serve His creations in the same way He did, through wise and loving justice. For the prophet told Nebuchadnezzar that the only way to escape his fate was to “break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor” (Dan. 4:27). Likewise, all humankind must learn this lesson, and utterly reject humanism, which is the essence of all the evil practiced since the earth was formed. First let the elect of the earth learn to beg God for this: “Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me lest I be full, deny You, and say, ‘Who is [Yahweh]?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God” (Prov. 30:8-9, WEB). When the people of the earth learn to trust in God, and stop trying to be the gods of their own lives, the gods of other human lives, and the gods of God’s creations, then Jesus will return. Then our God Jesus shall rule the earth in justice, equity and love, with His peace and hope resting in all our hearts.

Because the infantile elect did not learn this, but panted after the lies of humanism, God allowed them to be lured into the false churches belonging to the Roman beast. And that has caused the entire world to suffer the most horrifying negative effects of the devil’s preferred religion of humanism for two thousand years. Yet all those pains have conclusively proved that all human beings are weak, that none can save themselves, that humanism and all other man-made religions are false, that there is no such thing as man’s “free will,” that no man can shape his own destiny, and that salvation is entirely the personal workmanship of God Himself within the hearts of His elect, that only God’s Spirit is able to teach and train our elect spirits effectively, and that only His counsel and power is able to rescue us from self-destruction and make us fit to labor beside Him in His heavenly kingdom.

God will destroy each wicked entity from Satan’s world order in order, according to each one’s guilt, starting with the most guilty, that is, with its false church of Rome. And God will never, ever revive or redeem that false church, since she did not come from Him, but from the self-serving, ambitious humanists who were tempted and enslaved by Satan. Behind what is seen with the eyes of flesh, God had allowed the spirit of Satan to manipulate and delude many souls who did not love the truth. And God created the loveless spirit of Satan to do that deluding, for the destruction of the flesh. Thus, it is ultimately God, through Satan, who created all the deluded institutions of the world order, including the Great Prostitute and her spiritually adulterous daughters, for the education of elect spirits, so they would understand that the purpose of life is to serve in love, not be served. Since the Great Prostitute and all her daughters are run by artificial hierarchies of Satan’s servants who serve Satan’s purposes, and are Satanic in their spiritual desires, nothing good can be found in their cores, nothing to redeem for life’s purposes, that is, after God calls all the useful elect out of them. But even the most wicked of the elect can be redeemed, since their spirits eternally love. For every elect spirit is made in God’s image. Thus, literally all the elect will be saved, but all those churches will be devoted to destruction, and there will never be any true revival from God to reform or redeem the false humanistic churches.

So the false churches are all about becoming gods who are esteemed and served, which is why they love the doctrines about a fictitious “free will” which supp0osedly enables them to create themselves

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and their own destinies. The elite in their humanistic hierarchies like to claim that they serve others, and some fearfully do serve the nefarious purposes through a burdensome sense of duty, as slaves. But none actually serve one another as equal sinners, through their God-given gifts and according to their individual destinies, through love. None of those false churches truly know God, nor anything about what His words through the prophets and apostles are actually intending to teach us. None of those humanistic churches realize the meaning of this earthly life, which God created to teach and train our spirits to serve through love, in exactly the same way that God Himself serves through love.

Thus, I will say again, if you are tempted by humanistic churches to believe that the prophecy about the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters refers to anything other than false humanistic churches, then consider these things once more. (1) God will judge and destroy the the Great Prostitute and her daughters first, even before He destroys Satan and the secular Roman beast. And we know that His judgment begins with the household of God—including the house which falsely claims to be the family of God. For God desires, above all, to purge false doctrines, false leaders, false siblings and false gods out from His family of elect children. Thus, God’s act of judging and destroying that Great Prostitute and her daughters first, just before He physically returns to teach and train His earthly church, seems to indicate that they are indeed false churches, not any other kinds of entities.

(2) God’s wrath against the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters, is very great. For He will cause their physical bodies and buildings to be burned, yet not even by His own hands. He will not even touch their filth Himself, but will leave them to be destroyed by their own psychopathic lovers, just as He left Israel and Judah, who committed a similar kind of spiritual adultery with Assyria and Babylon, to be destroyed by their illicit and demonic lovers. And both Israel and Judah were calling themselves “God’s people,” pretending to worship Yahweh, when God cast them to the demon gods of their lovers. Both Israel and Judah were fake churches, false priesthoods of the one Creator God, when God destroyed them by the hands of the same idolaters they joined and emulated. This is God’s punishment for false churches, to hand them over to the false gods they worship, to be destroyed by the demonic powers they heed and serve more than Him. Thus, when we see how God will hand the Great Prostitute over to the secular Roman beast for her destruction, after she has ridden on its back, after she has served and heeded its human gods far more than the real God, we see the pattern of God punishing a false church, a church pretending to worship Him while she commits spiritual adultery. Her form of demise indicates that she is a fake church, and that all here harlot daughters are like her, committing the same kind of spiritual adultery that she has practiced.

(3) Look at how God devotes so many words of the Revelation to the expression of His wrath against the Great Prostitute and her daughters, not to mention all that God called Zechariah to proclaim about her when she was formed in Shinar of Babylon. Now we know God seldom spends so much time warning His priesthood about evil entities unless they can potentially severely harm the apple of His eye, the souls of His elect children. Since Jesus spent so much time warning about the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters, and He will carry out His sentence of death upon the Great Prostitute first, with the most fury, when He returns, we can safely assume that the Great Prostitute is an entity which can potentially do the greatest harm to His elect children, even more harm than Satan and the beast. Yet Satan and the beast have physically murdered the elect, and will continue to do so until the end! So how could the Great Prostitute do anything worse than murder?

Well, in God’s eyes, there are some things worse than murder, such as stealing the spirit’s honor and respect for the heavenly Father, removing the Sabbath rest of sweet labors for God and replacing that with a slavery to carnal desires, teaching or prophesying lies which lead spirits away from a life of abundant love, creating human and demonic idols for men to serve instead of God, and teaching the

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people to make decisions through their minds of flesh instead of through their spirits in the wise counsel of God. Since God considers all these sins to be more harmful than murder, and because all these sins bear fruits of murder, we must assume that the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters will be committing sins like these, and causing worse harm to God’s elect than their physical deaths.

And how will those false churches be able to commit those sins worse than murder, in a way which will cause more harm to God’s elect than physical murder? The way they will accomplish all this is by pretending to serve God, by pretending they speak on behalf of God, by pretending they are spiritual guides who have come to lead the elect to God, by pretending they are brothers and sisters of the elect. The Great Prostitute and her daughters will cause greater harm than the murdering of elect flesh by pretending to be God’s body, by being false churches. Although those false churches have and will also physically murder the awakened elect true servants of God, they have always falsely claimed to be “Christians” so they can deceive the elect who trust in them to teach them about God and His ways. Then, instead, they lead those elect into the worship of their elite human beings. Thus, those false churches have caused far more harm to God’s elect, and to the whole world, than any of the secular fools who murdered and committed other physical sins in their own names.

(4) Because God clearly considers the Great Prostitute to be the worst evil He has ever allowed upon earth, God warned His elect children: “Come out of her, My people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues” (Rev. 18:4, ESV). Since God has never told His elect to come out of a completely secular land, God was clearly commanding His elect to escape from a false church. At the same time, these words are obviously condemning this Great Prostitute as a false church who is corrupting His elect children. For, when He calls His people out of the Great Prostitute, He is saying that she is sinning so badly and so deliberately, without any sign of true repentance, that He cannot forgive her, and must punish her with deadly plagues. But the only way His elect could possibly “take part in her sins” and “share in her plagues” is if both that Great Prostitute and the elect were doing those intentional and unrepentant sins in God’s name. For God never speaks like this to His elect within a secular land or institution, which does not deliberately sin in His name. For His elect in a secular body do not share in those sins which are committed in the names of other god, not as long as those elect bear God’s name. The elect can only “take part” in the sins of a false church which bears God’s name, as they falsely serve God through that false church. So, when God tells His people to get out of the Great Prostitute, and implies that they must also forsake her harlot daughters as well, this is a definite sign that she and her daughters are false churches, false servants of Jesus.

Let me also repeat, it would necessarily take a very long time to accomplish all the corrupting that is attributed to the Great Prostitute, as well as much time for her to beget corrupting daughters. Thus, we know this Great Prostitute, Mother of harlots, could not be an entity that will be formed in the end times, in the latter years just before Christ’s return. To be an entity which has seduced multiple kings and has long since grown rich from their bribes, she could not an entity created during the era of the seventh seal, in the approximately twenty years that God will send the plagues of the seven trumpets and seven bowls of wrath. She is not an entity which will exist briefly, for only a few years.

The Great Prostitute will be almost three millenniums old by the time the era of the seventh seal even begins, based on the harmonization of Zechariah’s and John’s prophecies, since she existed and began to corrupt the Old Covenant branch of God’s priesthood of Israel even in the days of Babylon. Yes, it was difficult to recognize her until she more overtly manifested herself in the days of the Roman Emperor Constantine. But she was always there, and is still present, with denominations of both fake Old Covenant Jewish churches and denominations of fake New Covenant Gentile churches. Furthermore, this Roman Great Prostitute is highly factious, just as Daniel prophesied that

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the fourth kingdom would be. In fact, that Great Prostitute has been warring with all her Old and New Covenant fake churches throughout history, causing the people in her lying denominations of humanists to murder one another. So, yes, the Great Prostitute and most of her harlot daughters will have formed long before the brief seven-year reign of the final, demon-possessed, human beast. The birth of this great false church occurred very early in history, to provide her with enough time to corrupt the whole world, and to become mature enough to give birth to other false churches like her.

Yes, John’s prophecy says that she is sitting on the beast. Thus, some think she could not have existed before the beast did. And it is true that she did not exist before the beast did. But the beast is not just one human man living during the era of the seventh seal. The beast is also a kingdom, the fourth kingdom that Daniel prophesied about, the Roman Empire, which began to usurp the power of the previous Greek Empire during the last half of the second century BC. So the kingdom of the beast, which is itself is also called “the beast,” has existed for a very long time, although the man called “the beast” has not yet come to inherit his kingdom. And the term “beast” sometimes refers to all four kingdoms of Satan’s demonic religion as well, including Babylon, Persia and Greece, since all four are one kingdom prophesied to grow into the dominant world power until the Messiah came to crush them all into dust. Then the Great Prostitute rode on the back of the beast even from the days of Babylon, all throughout history, although she is primarily identified with the fourth kingdom in the prophecies of John, and has become the city of Rome sitting on or near that city’s seven hills.

We need to realize that, back in the days of John, Zechariah and Daniel, a king and his kingdom were one and the same. A king was the kingdom and the kingdom was the king. And kingdoms were especially called by the names of their greatest or founding kings. So Nebuchadnezzar was Babylon, Cyrus was Persia, Alexander the Great was the Greek Empire and Julius Caesar was the Roman Empire. And the beast is all four of his kingdoms, but especially his fourth and greatest kingdom of Rome. So the beast existed even before Jesus came to dwell with us on the earth. And the Great Prostitute began to sit on the beast at any time before or after Jesus’ first advent. But, by John’s day, the Great Prostitute became a false “Christian” church that was associated with the fourth Roman Empire, although she definitely was born when humanists began to create their own false churches preaching faith in man, which was even before Babylon conquered Judah and destroyed her temple.

In the Revelation, we see that the Great Prostitute began to destroy the true Christian church and pervert its humble kind of true “Jewish” faith in God. A humanistic church definitely began to sit upon the beast’s humanistic kingdom, the Roman Empire, during the first and second centuries AD. And it was shortly after this that Rome, who preserved the humanism of Greece, let the prostitute sit on its back, to spread humanism over all the earth, as prophesied. This false church built itself upon a foundation of humanistic doctrines borrowed from the beast’s kingdom. It relied heavily upon the beast’s kingdom. Thus, it was indeed sitting on the beast. Clearly, the humanistic false church that was forming in the first century—who later called itself the “orthodox” church, then became the Roman Catholic church—is the Great Prostitute sitting on the beast, as described in the Revelation.

Also, Rome has always been famous for its seven hills or “mountains.” These are the same “seven mountains on which the woman [i.e., the Great Prostitute] is seated” (Rev. 17:9). Likewise, this Great Prostitute “is the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth” (Rev. 17:18, ESV). Since this was written in the present tense, we must ask ourselves which “great city” had “dominion over the kings of the earth” in the first century, when John wrote this. It was Rome. And ecclesiastical writings figuratively called Rome “Babylon,” because Daniel said Babylon is the head of all the beast’s four kingdoms. Rome, the fourth part of the beast, formed the hips and legs of the man which Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream, and that man was the beast. Daniel carefully explained this in

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several detailed prophecies about the beast's origins. So, since the Great Prostitute is also called “Babylon” (Rev. 17:5), she is a world-wide, Roman, false church on or near the city of Rome, who will be very old by the time of the seventh trumpet. For, by that time, “all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her [spiritual] immorality” (Rev. 18:3, ESV), and God will have “judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of His servants” (Rev. 19:2, ESV). Since many kings will have used this church to exploit many people in all the earth, and since it says she also will be guilty of killing many of God's servants, she can only be the Roman Catholic church. There is no other entity in all of history that fits this description.

Then there is also another reason the Revelation called this false church “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.” For the Revelation was talking about the same wicked woman whom Zechariah prophesied about, the evil “woman” taken to Shinar in Babylon during his lifetime, in the sixth century BC. Of course, since the true church was frequently called a woman (i.e., God’s “bride”), the prophecies of both Zechariah and John naturally would have portrayed a false church as a woman too. Thus, John’s prophecy about the Great Prostitute, a woman who would corrupt the world, is about a false church. And Zechariah’s woman of wickedness, who represented iniquities the world, was also a false church. Both were prophesying about a great false church who would commit the same sins that Israel did even before her Babylonian captivity, and would become the corruption of Nebuchadnezzar’s early form of humanistic self-worship formed within Babylon.

Later, this woman was to corrupt a whole sea of people in the world. Zachariah said God placed this wicked woman in Babylon (Shinar) to wait her destined time. And the Revelation called the Great Prostitute “Babylon” because she was this same woman of wickedness, the same false church. Also remember that Zechariah prophesied after Daniel gave his prophesy about the beast. Through Daniel, both Zechariah and John would have known that the beast would be created through four kingdoms, and that Babylon was the head of them all. Therefore—although Zechariah lived during the time of the second kingdom (Persia) and John lived during the time of the fourth kingdom (Rome)—both related this woman, this false church, with the first kingdom, with the beast’s “head,” Babylon. Then John revealed that this woman, called “Babylon,” sat upon the beast in his fourth kingdom, Rome, though Zechariah said God set her in Babylon. But when this false church was transferred to Rome, it remained in Babylon too, since Rome is Babylon. Babylon is forever the spiritual “head” of Rome.

Zechariah 5:1-11: “Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll! And He [the

Angel or Messenger of Yahweh, who must be Jesus] said to me, ‘What do you see?’ I answered, ‘I see

a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits [about 9 meters (30 feet) long

and 4.5 meters (15 feet) wide].’ Then He said to me, ‘This is the curse that goes out over the face

of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one

side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other

side. I will send it out, declares [Yahweh] of hosts, [Here God declares that He will send the giant

scroll at an unspecified time in the future.] and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of

him who swears falsely by My name. And it shall remain in his house and consume it,

both timber and stones.’”

In the context of chapter four of Zechariah, which was about God’s eyes looking upon the whole earth, and in the context of the rest of Zechariah’s prophecy, the last prepositional phrase in verse three might be better translated as, “over the face of the whole earth,” not “over the face the whole land.” The Hebrew word ehrets can refer to either a “land” or to the whole “earth.” But Zechariah is obviously referring to God’s curse against everyone in the world during the end times, against all who are bent on evil everywhere in the world. This clearly is not a curse against merely one land.

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Then the phrase in the same verse, “shall be cleaned out” or “cut off,” is a translation of the Hebrew word nawkaw . In an adverse sense, it indicates that those who steal will “be utterly destroyed,” like weeds being pulled out, roots and all, then burned. That is, on one side of the giant scroll, a judgment with a death sentence was written against all who steal. And remember, in God’s Law, the eighth of the ten archetypal commandments against theft (Deut. 5:19) forbade a wide variety of sins. This not only included obvious theft and fraud, but also price-gouging, by selling goods at inflated prices during famines or when the demand exceeded the supply. Theft also included the exploitation of workers by not paying them fair wages or, worse yet, the stealing human lives from God by enslaving them. God also considered usury to be theft, such as demanding the payment of interest on loans or asking for dividends on stocks and bonds (which are types of loans). Then God also accused His people of stealing from Himself when they did tithe or obey His other laws which provided for the needy and for His faithful priests. All such forms of theft directly or indirectly caused suffering and deaths, especially among the poor, since all forms of theft were attempts by the unjust to make themselves wealthy at the expense of their siblings in the family of God. And, considering the enormous size of this scroll, God will condemn very much theft on the earth during the end times.

In verse four, God also condemned swearing falsely. This is the ninth of the ten archetypal commandments (Deut. 5:20), which forbade a wide variety of sins involving lies and deception, including slander and propaganda, but especially false testimony in a court of God’s Law. That is, the principal kind lie or deception God condemned was a religious or political one, since it was a false testimony in His public “court of God’s Law,” and all God commanded that all His courts of law were to be public and transparent, held in open meeting places like the expansive courtyards at a city’s gates. Since a “court of God’s Law” includes any place that the public can hear testimony and judgment, but swearing falsely perverts justice and destroys the most valuable honest souls in any land, God hated public manipulations through lies more than any other kinds of lies. But God also deeply condemned all the other kinds of lies and deception too, those used for revenge, to acquire personal gain, to further carnal ambitions, to manipulate or exploit, or to steal. And, considering the size of this scroll, God also had very many evil lies to condemn upon the earth during the end times.

So first the thieves are exposed, rebuked and cursed on one side of this scroll. Then liars, especially liars who swear falsely by God’s name, are exposed, rebuked and cursed on the other side of this scroll. This prophecy is a great revelation of God’s real truth to the world in the end times, during the eras of the sixth and seventh seals. And the condemnation of those thieves and liars will begin in earnest shortly after the sixth seal’s revival, when the plagues of the seven trumpets strike the earth.

But mankind is already plagued by thieves and liars. For instance, all who use God’s property and resources for their own pleasures and purposes, while denying necessities to other people and other creatures in God’s creation, are thieves who steal from God. Any who receive profits from usury, by collecting interest on loans or by seeking dividends from investments, are also thieves according to God’s law. Thus, many in the middle class and all the self-indulgent rich are thieves in God’s eyes.

Also, the elect must learn to define those who swear falsely in the same way God defines them. Yes, the Hebrew word shawbah means “to swear, make an oath.” But it literally means “to seven,” and properly means “to be perfect or complete,” or at least to try to do so. So, in biblical terms, it means to speak the truth, the whole of the truth and nothing but the truth, without ambiguity and without any misleading terms. Then those who claim to speak the truth in God’s name include everyone in all the churches today. But all the true churches will all speak one and the same truth, since there is only one perfect and complete reality, while an infinite number of lies and delusions are possible. So, if we see any variations in what any churches claim to teach or prophesy in God’s name, if there are

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any contradictions or differences in any of their testimonies about God or His words, then someone is lying. Then someone is swearing falsely in God’s name, and will be subject to God’s deadly wrath.

In this prophecy, God is particularly condemning the false preachers and false prophets, but also all who claim to worship Him while following false, erroneous or unjust doctrines, while they live by any false values or principles as though these beliefs originated from God or His Word. For, if they do such things, they are not truly hearing God, nor placing any saving faith in Him and His words. Yet, at the same time, by claiming to be Jews or Christians, they are claiming that they do hear God and that they do place saving faith in Him and His words. Thus, they swear falsely in God’s name.

All members of false churches, all who claim to practice any form of Judaism or Christianity, all who claim to worship the God of the Bible, yet also insist that God’s Word means what God did not intend it to mean, remain under God’s extreme condemnation for swearing falsely in His name. Here God is particularly condemning Jews and Christians who intentionally or wailfully maintain any kind of self-serving ignorance of the true meaning of God’s words, especially those who outright lie about His words to maintain incomes, careers, or worldly and unjust lives through false doctrines.

We can be certain that God’s deadly curses will fall upon very many souls who practice very many different kinds of thefts and lies, since this scroll is extremely large. And remember that Zechariah saw this large “flying scroll” come from the heavens, from God. So this was a scroll that bore God’s irrevocable words from heaven since the hour it was set on high above all the earth, meaning that it bears all God’s authority and power to irrevocably condemn the earth in the end times. And these words from God condemned very many sins upon the whole earth, which is why it was so large.

Also notice the other details here. Some are not so clear, such as the scroll being twice as long as it was wide, which might suggest that there were twice as many sins of theft and lying than there were curses or condemnations from God, or something similar. But other details seem to bear more overt meanings. For instance, since God only condemned one kind of sinner on each side of the scroll, yet was condemning all the sinners of the world, He was obviously placing all sinners into only two categories. It seems that all primarily committed either one or the other kind of sin, in a way that caused all their other sins. Thus, we must interpret these two categories in the broadest terms possible, in a way which does not exclude any sinners of any kind at any time in the whole world.

This scroll condemned those who broke only two of the archetypal Ten Commandments. But each of the Ten Commandments is a summary of many other commandments of God, many of God’s 613 commandments in the Mosaic Law, which the rest of the Scriptures expound upon and more clearly define. Furthermore, many of these laws overlap and are extensions of one another. So we cannot say that those who break the other eight of the Ten Commandments are not also stealing or lying. In fact, all ten orders of sins involve either stealing or lying. For instance, murder is stealing the stewardship of bodily life which God gave to the person who is murdered. Thus, murder is a form of theft from both God and the steward of that life. Then murder usually also involves dark delusions, which are forms of lies in the heart of the murderer. So theft or lies or both are actually aspects of murder, and often cause murder. The same is true of sexual immorality, which selfishly steals from the lives of those exploited for one’s own pleasures, and destroys lives too, which is another form of murder. Then lies told to oneself or others are usually involved in sexual sins as well. All 613 laws of God involve some kind of lies and some kind of theft. So this scroll includes literally all kinds of sin.

In this prophecy, we must realize that everyone in the world is a sinner, and everyone in the world is a thief and a liar, especially all who steal lives from God through murder or lie about the covenants their spirits made or should make when they commit sexual immorality. The only difference is that

 

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some are the elect who will repent into the truth and be saved, while are not. But those who repent into the truth will not have their sins counted against them, because God forgives all sins through repentance. And, for the elect named by God, there is also forgiveness for the sins which His elect did not acknowledge or repent from, during their lives on earth, because God’s own body of flesh died for those sins too. Thus, the elect are safe from literally all their sins, and literally all of them will be taught and trained into completion and perfection on the judgment day after their flesh dies.

So this scroll condemns all deliberate, unrepentant, non-elect liars, especially those who lie in God’s name, all who falsely swear that their lies bear God’s authority, all who belong to false churches, all false Christians and false Jews who live according to false doctrines. Then it also condemns all the non-elect thieves, since all ultimately steal from God Himself, by not acknowledging that God is the only Owner of their lives and all that is upon the whole earth, by denying that He alone bears the right to grant the stewardship of anything to anyone, by refusing to believe that He only gives to all equitably and justly, so all can live abundant spiritual lives through His modest but adequate physical providence. But, although not even the most carnal, ignorant, sleeping elect will be condemned to eternal hell, because of Jesus’ sacrifice upon the cross, they too will be condemned to physical death in the end times, if they have not repented into the truth when the plagues of the end times arrive.

So this prophecy of Zechariah condemns all the spiritually dead on earth, and sentences both the elect and non-elect liars and thieves to death in the end times. In context, interpreting the symbols in a biblical way, what else can we conclude? Zechariah saw a future world that was entirely wicked, filled with evil secular people and a very corrupt church, all of whom would be cursed by God. So all who did not repent when this scroll of God’s Word was revealed in the end times, during the revival of the sixth seal, would be “cleaned out,” pulled out by their roots and utterly destroyed. And look at how God was going to destroy them. God will do this by sending the flying scroll, His Word, into their homes, to consume their homes inside and out. In other words, God’s truth will tear down the lies those deliberate, unrepentant sinners built their lives upon, and take back all their stolen lives and goods. All the support beams and exterior stones they used to construct their worldly lives on a foundation of shifting sand will collapse shortly after Jesus revives His true church. All who would not or could not repent will perish by the end of the day that Jesus returns. Their hearts will fail as their delusions and lies crumble around them, as their thefts are returned to God. The Word of God, the great flying scroll, will leave them with nothing, to die. And even the worldly elect who repent from their lies and thefts in the last moment will also lose much, physically, as God burns away their worldly delusions and lies with His truth, then commands them to return all they stole from Him.

“Then the Angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, ‘Lift your eyes and see

what this is that is going out.’ And I said, ‘What is it?’ He said, ‘This is the basket that is

going out.’”

The flying scroll was to be sent out in the future (v. 4), but here (v. 5) Zechariah was granted a vision of something else being sent out at the present time, while he was watching. As Zechariah was still pondering the flying scroll, the Angel (who is obviously God and, therefore, is Jesus) tells him to see “what this is that is going out.” In the same way the flying scroll would be sent out, so would this new thing, which was a basket. For this basket was directly related to the curses of the flying scroll, although the curses of the flying scroll were to be sent out a future time, in the end times, while this basket, containing a wicked woman, was going out in the current time, in the sixth century BC. This ‘basket’ (ayfaw or ephah) would have been a large container used to measure ephahs of grain, a very strong basket that held large quantities of grain. And this one was big enough to hold a woman. An ephah was about 22 liters, and this basket could have been large enough to hold six or eight ephahs.

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“And He said, ‘This is their iniquity in all the land .’ And behold, the leaden cover was lifted,

and there was a woman sitting in the basket! And He said, ‘This is Wickedness .’ And He

thrust her back into the basket, and thrust down the leaden weight on its opening. Then I

lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward! The wind was in their

wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth

and heaven. Then I said to the Angel who talked with me, ‘Where are they taking the basket?’

He said to me, ‘To the land of Shinar , to build a house for it. And when this is prepared,

they will set the basket down there on its base.’”

The word translated as “iniquity” here (v. 6b) also translated as “resemblance,” “appearance” and so on. It is the Hebrew word ahyin, which means “eye” or “countenance.” And, in context, it refers to an evil countenance or a wicked appearance. Then the last prepositional phrase in this same verse would be better translated as “in all the earth,” since this is an end time prophecy about the whole world. So here God was telling us that this basket contained ‘their [evil] countenance in all the earth.’ But who was the antecedent of the pronoun “their” in this phrase? Whose evil countenance does this ‘basket’ represent? Well, God showed Zechariah this vision of the basket immediately after He showed him the vision of the flying scroll sent out “over the face of the whole earth.” And, since both visions bear a world-wide scope, and since no one else is mentioned in this context, there is no other possible antecedent except those same people whom God condemned with the flying scroll.

We are forced to conclude that this ‘basket’ represents either: (1) the thieves of the world, (2) the liars of the world, particularly those who falsely claim to tell the whole truth in God’s name or, most likely, (3) both the thieves and liars. This is saying that the basket contains the outward manifestation of those thieves and liars in all the earth. The thieves and liars are represented by the woman in this basket. So the woman in the basket embodies the attributes of the thieves or as liars, especially those who “swear” falsely in God’s name. And this sounds very much like a false church in that basket.

This basket was sent to Shinar in Zachariah’s day, that is, in the sixth century BC. And Shinar is the plain where Babylon and the tower of Babel were built. It refers to lands owned and ruled by the state of Babylon, not to the city of Babylon itself. So we must ask why God showed a vision of a woman of world-wide wickedness taken to the lands belonging to Babylon, but not to the city of Babylon. And, to answer this, we need to consider how Daniel’s prophecy was written only a few decades before this prophecy from the Angel, Jesus, through Zechariah. Of course, we can be sure that Zechariah very carefully studied Daniel’s prophecy. So it is likely that God granted Zechariah these visions of the flying scroll and the woman in a basket to build upon what Daniel prophesied.

Here God would have compared Shinar, the lands belonging to Babylon, to represent all four of the kingdoms which Daniel prophesied about, all four that belonged to Babylon, since Babylon was the head and owner of all four kingdoms of the beast. For there definitely seems to be a correlation between Shinar and those four kingdoms. Zechariah lived during the time of the second kingdom, Persia, which had four capital cities, including Babylon. Considering this, we must ask why God chose the lands belonging to Babylon. The only logical reason God would turn Zechariah’s focus back to the lands belonging to Babylon during the time when the second kingdom of the beast had already usurped the power of Babylon. With this a world-wide perspective on future wickedness, God must have chosen to send the basket to Shinar because the Babylon of Daniel’s prophecy would forever be the head of the four kingdoms of the beast, of the Messiah’s greatest enemies throughout all future times until the Messiah’s return. Babylon was related to this wicked woman, and a part of all she would do in the future until the Messiah destroyed the four kingdoms during the end times.

 

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By taking this woman of thefts and lies to Babylon, God seems to have been figuratively declaring that she was related to all four kingdoms of the beast, that is, to Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. This woman, who is called “Wickedness,” was not yet ready to be released, not until God made a “house” and a “base” for her. So she was taken to Shinar, the land of the head of the four kingdoms until her “house” and “base” could be constructed, likely in the fourth and final kingdom of Rome. Since she represented the evil countenance of all the people whom the flying scroll would curse and condemn, who are the people associated with the beast and his four kingdoms, it seems reasonable that her house and base would be completed only after all four of the kingdoms would be completed.

Look at the details: First notice that this is a world-wide “countenance” of “wickedness.” For, in context, a better translation of the last clause in verse six would be: “This is their countenance in all the earth.” Therefore, this prophecy is not just about evil people in Israel or in Babylon. It is about thieves and liars, especially spiritual thieves and liars, in the entire world. Therefore, if this evil woman’s “house” and “base” were to be ready in the four kingdoms, at an unspecified time after the days of Zechariah in the second of the four kingdoms, then she would live in ‘house’ at a particular place within the four kingdoms, until the end times, until her wickedness would pervade the whole world, until the giant scroll would be sent out. And the giant scroll will be sent out just before the Messiah comes to judge all the earth, just before the Rock of Daniel crushes the four kingdoms of Babylon into dust that blows away in the wind. So this woman’s “house” and “base” would most likely be in the capital of the fourth kingdom, in Rome, just as John prophesied about the Great Prostitute. Thus, it seems that this woman in Zechariah’s vision is the Revelation’s Great Prostitute.

Second, this wickedness is a woman, not a man. Her two escorts or handmaidens are women too, not men. In biblical language, this implies a specific type of wicked or unrighteous countenance. In God’s Word, the true and faithful church of Israel was represented by a woman, and the false church of Israel was also represented by a woman. So the woman in this vision seems to be some kind of spiritually unfaithful church. Since most women were married in those days, the Bible figuratively called the true church the faithful “bride” of God, but called a false church an unfaithful and wicked “woman,” “adulteress” or “prostitute.” Here, in biblical terms, this woman in the basket clearly represented a seducing kind of wickedness practiced by a false church, not a wickedness through a direct use of a “masculine” power and force. She represents a religious deceiver who lures many on earth into spiritual adultery, not a wicked and idolatrous secular army who is conquering the earth.

Third, this woman was to be held captive in a container with a heavy lead seal over the opening until an unspecified time. But she was definitely alive at the time Zechariah lived, even though she was contained or imprisoned. She was to be prevented from doing her evil works even after she had been taken out of Israel and placed in lands belonging to Babylon (Shinar). She would be limited to her space in her basket until a “house” and a “base” were created for her. And remember that a “house” is what Jews call the physical buildings of their churches or synagogues. Even the temple of God in Jerusalem was called the “house” of God. So this wicked woman’s “house” (bahyith or beth), which would also be her “base” or “particular location” (Hebrew = mekoonah) designated by God, was not to exist until an indeterminate time after Zechariah’s day, and likely during the time of the fourth kingdom. Both a “house” and “base” had to be prepared for her before she would be released.

Does this not describe how the church of Israel became a false humanistic church even during the days of Babylon and Persia, by syncretizing many of the humanistic traditions of human worship in steep hierarchies during that time. Yet the false humanistic church of Israel was kept in a basket, under a heavy lid, suppressed and oppressed by all four kingdoms of the beast. It was not until that false humanistic church faked its worship of the Messiah Jesus, and climbed onto the back of the

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Roman Emperor Constantine, that it was truly freed and unlimited. Then it received a “house” and “base” on the city of Rome, where it remains to this very day, in what is now called the Vatican.

Of course, many Jews were removed from Israel, like prisoners in a basket, to Shinar during their Babylonian captivity. But the main focus of Zechariah’s prophecy, about 70 years later, is not upon all those Jews. Rather, this prophecy focuses only upon the false church in the land belonging to Babylon, and how this woman would not be released until a ‘house’ could be built for her at a “particular location” or “base” in lands belonging to Babylon, so she could use that house as her headquarters for her wicked works. Now we know, in ecclesiastical language, God was telling us that this evil woman was waiting for the kind of “house” which is church or synagogue building. She needed a physical structure to be created for her in an appointed location or “base” within the four kingdoms of Babylon. So how could this woman be anyone other than the Great Prostitute of Babylon, whose “house” and “base” is Rome? This may seem like mere speculation to some, but we must remember that this is a highly symbolic vision, but using common Jewish symbols, where every detail represents something meaningful about world-wide events in the end times. So this is a very plausible explanation of Zechariah’s vision, and no other equally plausible one even exists.

And remember that John clearly seemed to allude to and expound upon Zechariah’s vision of the wicked woman who was set down and temporarily limited in Shinar of Babylon. For who else could John be referring to when he prophesied about “Babylon, the Great Prostitute”? Surely this John’s Jewish reference to Zechariah’s vision of the woman in Babylon. We know that all prophecies of Scripture are completely harmonious, where one prophecy always builds upon another, Zechariah built on Daniel’s prophecy and John built on Zechariah’s prophecy, as God progressively revealed more truth to His servants over time. Looking at these details, we see that this wicked woman of Zechariah’s prophecy came out of the church of Israel, and was sent to Babylon, but was not the true Israel. Then, in the lands belonging to Babylon, she was not the city state of Babylon either. She was placed there to wait for her own “house,” which is not God’s “house,” not a true church. All this helps us figure out who she actually was and now is, why God had sent her to Shinar of Babylon.

Why did God choose to set this woman down in Shinar, the plain of Babylon, the land of Israel’s captivity, which is also the very place where all people on earth were divided into various races with various languages after building the tower of Babel? As a beguiler and seducer, as one who performs a traditionally feminine kind of spiritual adultery as an unfaithful bride or false church who tramples on the poor, she is what the Bible also calls a spiritual prostitute. She represents a fake Israel who is confounding souls with false religion through her false teachings. And since she was taken from Israel to a place in Babylon, where Jewish captives were living at that time, she represented a false Judea-Christian church that originated from apostate Jews in Babylon. Then the two women with her, holding the lid down on her basket seem to be the two future kingdoms coming after the Persian kingdom which ruled in Zechariah’s day. Those other two women seem to be Greece and Rome. And her “house” or church building and base was to be within a place belonging to Babylon, as Persia, Greece and Rome did. So her false religion will be a false form of Judaism and related to Babylon.

Now, historically, we now know that a false form of Judaism began to form through Jews in Babylon, a humanistic form of Judaism with a steep hierarchical structure that made an esteemed rabbi into the head and god of his disciples. Jesus rejected this model, but most rabbis did not. Yet what is in Babylon that made it the wicked woman’s home, her base and headquarters, where all her evil works would originate? We must realize that her “house” and “base” will not literally and physically be in Shinar of Babylon, but in one of the other kingdoms belonging to Babylon. Only her false religion was the religion of Babylon. All the prophets after Daniel, including Zechariah, knew

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that the religion of humanism—where a man deluded himself into thinking he controlled his own destiny and could take all the credit for all his successes—originated in Babylon. For Daniel had clearly defined that religion of the beast’s four kingdoms as humanism (Dan. 11:36-37), although the term “humanism” had not yet been created, of course. They all knew that the religion of humanism would spread into all the earth as well. And it did. In our day, we find that almost the whole world has been deeply influenced by humanism, and almost all so-called Jewish and so-called Christian churches proclaim a fake, dehumanizing, hierarchical, Judea-Christian religion which is actually theistic humanism, a religion that is not even related to true biblical Judaism or biblical Christianity.

Humanism did not originate from Greece, as some like to say. Actually, not much of anything originated in Greece, since the whole objective of their culture was to syncretize what they learned from other nations. To them, it was almost a sin to create something new, to have an original thought which did not have a named human god to praise for it. The source of most Greek doctrines, especially the doctrines of Middle Platonism, began in Babylon and Persia, which also borrowed from India and other places which traded with them. Greece maintained contact with Persia for many centuries and learned its ways from them. Then we need to realize that Persia was once subject to Babylon, just as Babylon was once subject to Assyria. Therefore, many of Persia’s doctrines came from Babylon, and many of Babylon’s doctrines were adopted from Assyria. Then it was actually the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, who invented, believed and practiced the core doctrines of what we now call the religion of humanism. Nebuchadnezzar was the first to reject the idea that a powerful non-human entity, a god, controlled every aspect of a man’s destiny, the first to declare that man is the principal god and creator of his own destiny and should receive all glory for his deeds.

I repeat, Nebuchadnezzar was the first to claim: ‘Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty ?’ (Dan. 4:30, ESV). Thus, Nebuchadnezzar, who represents all of Babylon in the four kingdoms of Satan’s beast, created the foundation and first form of the religion of humanism. It was also Nebuchadnezzar who destroyed the temple in Jerusalem, took Judah captive and taught the Jewish men to wear head coverings as a sign of respect for human gods, to believe that they have no lord and savior but a human authority.

The prophets and apostles described Babylon’s religion, the religion of the beast and his four kingdoms, as the worship of man. Nevertheless, Daniel, the prophets and the apostles, through their descriptions of what the beast’s kingdoms believed and practiced, did indeed define what we now call the religion of humanism. And secular humanism has become the religion of every nation on earth, although the final beast’s form of secular humanism will be most like the fascism of Hitler and Trump. Then every religion on earth has adopted some form of theistic humanism for itself, a system which falsely claims to worship supernatural deities, but actually worships only human gods instead.

Daniel, Zechariah and all the subsequent prophets and apostles knew that Babylon was the first to believe that a human man could create his own destiny for his own glory, and was the originator of the religion of humanism. In addition to this, they all knew that this worship of man, this deluded, human esteeming and human serving religion of humanism, was destined to become the major corrupting influence in all the world, the primary enemy of the real God and His real Messiah on the earth. They all knew that the beast’s kingdom of humanism would conquer the entire world through the four kingdoms of the beast. So, in the vision God granted to Zechariah, we can safely assume that Babylon’s religion of humanism was also to be embraced by this woman of wickedness, since she was placed in a land belonging to Babylon. Since God chose to place her in Babylon during the time of Zechariah and the second Persian kingdom of the beast, this was a sign that the false church represented by her would be in all four kingdoms of Babylon (including Persia, Greece and Rome).

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From this vision granted by God, we know it was not the Greek Seleucid and Ptolemaic Empires that first began to corrupt the church of Israel. They did not create the first humanistic false church of Israel, although they certainly were involved in the corrupting works of their head, Babylon, and definitely helped lead that corrupted church towards Rome. Also, it was not Philo and all the other Hellenized Jews of the Roman Empire in the first century who first corrupted both the Old and New Covenant branches of God’s church. Rather, humanism began to corrupt the church, and began to form a false church, even before the days of Zechariah, before about 519 BC. The spiritually adulterous church already existed during the time of the beast’s second kingdom, in Persia’s day.

In fact, an immature version of a false church with humanistic corruption began when Israel was first taken captive into Babylon. Soon after this, Persia continued to nurture this false church, although it was still contained in a “basket” until the time of the fourth kingdom, Rome. In the meantime, Greece force fed it the mind-bending doctrines of their highly systematized brand of humanism, with its false reasoning, using logic to draw false conclusions from false premises. But only during the time of the fourth kingdom of the beast, in the early years of the Roman Empire’s spiritual rule on earth, was the false church released from its “basket” into its own “house” and “base,” to blossom and spread its evil seeds of theistic humanism in the form of a fake Judea-Christian religion, which replaced both the true Old and New Covenant visible churches of God’s true priesthood of Israel.

So the “house” of the woman called “Wickedness” was not a false Old Covenant church of Jews. Her “house” and “base” was a false Roman New Covenant church, prepared for her in the fourth and final kingdom of the beast. And this “house” was placed in its capital city of Rome, as John declared. And John called this woman “Babylon,” since the head and owner of Rome is Babylon. This woman called “Wickedness” represents all who “who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth,” all who “became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened” (Rom. 1:18,21, ESV). Now the secular spiritual Roman Empire has conquered literally the whole earth and has now influenced the minds of almost all people on the earth. Through the beast’s religion of secular humanism, it established its elitist, unjust legal, economic, political and military systems everywhere on earth.

Now this woman called “Wickedness” or “Babylon” enslaves most elect souls in the world, through her humanistic delusions, causing their spirits to “swear falsely” in God’s name, through supposedly “sincere” thoughts and emotions in their minds of flesh, through physical rituals and form prayers. So, when John the apostle prophesied about “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations,” he was indeed alluding to this woman called “Wickedness,” this woman in the basket that Zechariah prophesied about. But John prophesied about her after she had been released from her containment in her basket. John’s prophecy revealed what she became after she received her own “house,” her physical residence in Rome, as her “base” of operations, as the Roman Catholic church.

Some will object to this interpretation of the fifth chapter of Zechariah, attributing it all to mere speculation. But none of them will actually offer any other reasonable explanations. Most refuse to even attempt to explain Zechariah’s prophecy. For they are not able to offer a biblically sound interpretation of his figurative language, one that harmonizes it with all the other Scriptures, one that interprets its historical, cultural, ecclesiastical language. But, obviously, if we interpret this prophecy just as Zechariah intended it to be interpreted, as God intended it to be interpreted, we arrive at the conclusion that this vision is about a great corruption of all the earth in the end times, and this woman called “Wickedness” must be the very same false church John called the Great Prostitute in the Revelation. Nor can we find any other feasible explanation of these prophecies anywhere else.

 

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Thus, I repeat, the formation of the Great Prostitute was one of the major events in the first seal’s era, if not the biggest and most devastating event of that era. During the first and second centuries, Middle Platonism (a mix of various philosophies from Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and other pagans) were extremely influential in the Roman Empire. Almost every soul in the Empire unconsciously or consciously believed and practiced its religious-philosophical doctrines, just as the majority of the world does today. Of course, the common people did not realize how much the religion of humanism had been brain-washing and indoctrinating them, or how much they placed the trust of their souls in its doctrines. Yet almost all they believed, said and did was through an unconscious absorption of those Greco-Roman doctrines from the beast’s religion of humanism. And the same is true today. The vast majority of the earth’s population blindly believes and practices the religion of humanism.

In John’s day, humanistic doctrines permeated the whole of the Roman Empire, and everyone irrationally believed them without question, just as people do today. This is why, by the second century, most Gentile churches had syncretized those Platonic doctrines with the teachings of the Bible. In fact, most churches viewed the Scriptures as a secondary source of church doctrine, secondary to Platonic doctrines. Then they forced every teaching in the Bible to be interpreted through the popular humanistic doctrines of Middle Platonism. They effectively replaced all truly Christian teachings with doctrines of Middle Platonism. Since Platonism was the only world view they had ever known, the only filter through which they had always viewed existence, they thought it was the absolute truth, just as humanists do today. Roman indoctrination made them believe those destructive, humanistic delusions so blindly that they mocked any non-humanistic views, without realizing that all genuine realities actually existed outside the sphere of their humanistic delusion.

All churches began to automatically assume that Christianity must fit into their humanistic world view. They could not even begin to comprehend the realities God created, that real life actually functioned according to entirely different principles and that their version of “truth” was actually a dark delusion, a lie invented by men and devils to subjugate them, to keep them enslaved by elite humanists. Furthermore, the most selfishly ambitious among the leaders of the false churches loved Middle Platonism so much precisely because it provided the opportunity to totally subjugate the people under them. So the church leaders eagerly pushed the doctrines of Middle Platonism on the people, and warred against the true “Jewish” kind of Gospel with all their might, in a blind rage.

Starting in the first century, the Bible began to be used to merely “Christianize” the terminology of pagan Middle Platonism, and to transform it into a new sect of Platonism, into a means of personally procuring a humanistic, man-controlled kind of “salvation” through one’s own human will, with the help of human lords or heads who could perform magic deeds to facilitate this fake salvation. And it was so successful that secular Platonists invented a secular version of Christianity, but without the “Christianized” terminology. They created Neoplatonism to counter the fake “Christian” influence. But Neoplatonism itself was soon absorbed by the false church and its terms were “Christianized.”

Then, through the machinations of the false church, the true apostolic church was bullied out of existence, causing God’s teachings and His salvation to “go underground.” Of course, a true church continued to exist. For Jesus continued to teach the spirits of His elect to love in a just and God-like way. He continued to build up and shape the inner consciences of elect spirits, throughout the entire world, turning their focus to His true words. By doing this, Jesus has always been saving His elect from condemnation on the judgment day—even though this true church could no longer fellowship in public. It had to become invisible, while Satan’s children could openly rule as the heads of all the visible false churches. Institutions of Satan’s world order had driven all God’s true elect into hiding.

 

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Nevertheless, this world-wide suppression of the truth in those days, and in our time, has been a predestined plan of God. Regardless of how much power those deluding liars may think they have, all their power always hangs by a very thin thread which can be easily cut. So, within a moment, all can come crashing to the ground, where it will be smashed to dust upon rock-hard truth and reality. And Jesus, our God, has His very sharp sword poised inches away from that thread. When the era of the sixth seal begins, that thread will be cut. Then the earth will be split into two opposing groups: (1) the elect, who rationally see and belief God’s Word, with the realities God created, and (2) the non-elect, who continue to blindly believe humanistic lies. Once the two are thoroughly separated and distinct, Jesus will come to destroy the unbelievers. As Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind” (John 9:39, ESV). His main purpose, the principal work of His salvation, is to teach the spirits of His elect to see and cherish Him, along with all the realities He created, which are the truths He also revealed in His Word. But, at this current time, Jesus is letting His elect observe the vile hypocrisy and evil in the false churches. He is allowing them observe how false doctrines are ineffective and cause harm. But soon He will open their eyes to Himself and His beneficial ways, so they can compare these with the lies of the false churches. Through this comparison, they will learn to love Him and His ways more, even as He casts the devil’s children into greater delusions and lies, until they become utterly blind.

The hijacking of the visible, active, true apostolic church, and the replacing of its biblical teachings with the doctrines of Platonism, was prophesied and ordained by God. God never said Christ’s true apostolic church would always be visible, allowed to openly fellowship without persecution until the earth ends. In fact, Jesus taught the opposite, that it would be driven underground and become an invisible church. In every true church, Jesus is each man’s personal and only Head, the one and only final authority in all matters of life and faith. And the prophecies in God’s Word promised that this true church would continuously remain visible only at a time just before He, the Messiah, destroyed the beast and his fourth kingdom, just prior to His return to physically dwell on earth as the visible Head of this true, visible church, and as the King of all the world. The only prophecy of about the revival of His true church states that it will be in the era of the sixth seal. So the hijacking of the true church caused the true church to become invisible and hidden. Even during the Old Covenant times, the true Israel was always hidden within an almost always corrupt physical and visible Israel. For God wanted His elect to know that salvation is a matter of the eternal spirit, not of the visible flesh.

In Old Covenant times, God’s true Israel was basically “hidden” from the world too, even though the only reason God created His church of Israel was so they could be His priesthood representing Him to the whole world, as a blessing for the whole world. So, when God caused His New Covenant church to become invisible too, it was no real surprise. But this New Covenant invisible church had access to far more knowledge and power directly from God’s Spirit, from the Holy Spirit that Jesus sent to us after His death paid for even the unrealized and unrepented sins of His elect, and after He rose from the dead to become each man’s personal Teacher. A true invisible church always existed, even in Old Testament times, created by the internal works of God’s Holy Spirit upon elect spirits. Yet, in Old Testament times, God only granted the spirits of elect Jews, and only a few of them, such as the prophets, enough knowledge to develop an earthly life which genuinely served God through the flesh, and even this was very limited. However, in New Testament times, God allowed the spirits of both elect Jews and elect Gentiles to genuinely learn the truth directly from Him, from Jesus’ Holy Spirit, and to serve Him in a true and almost unlimited loving way, although very few did this.

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while those elect have lived on this earth. But the gift remains, and literally all the elect shall receive it in a complete and perfect form by the end of the judgment day. In the meantime, all the elect on this earth are learning and recording the failures of all kinds of lies, of all that falls short of God’s good opinion. And all those failures will be used to enhance their love of the truth and their love of the real God when they come to heaven’s gates on that last day. Thus, it was absolutely necessary for the elect to experience the predestined eras of the first five seals, as well as the rest of earth’s history.

So it was sad to see the passing of the radiant apostolic true church, the visible manifestation and genuine example of God’s priesthood, the final form of the Israel that God promised to raise up through Abraham. But, after the last of the apostles died, there could be no more identifiable groups of people who remained faithful to Jesus and His words. No true visible churches have ever existed since that time, none that have ever even come close to being like the faithful and honest apostolic church. By the beginning of the second century, not a single trace of a true church could be found. And, by the third century, all churches on earth were blatantly practicing forms of humanism. All of them despised the true, biblical Christianity of Jesus and His apostles, calling its pure, biblical faith “anathema.” Many called themselves “orthodox” and “Christian” churches, but all of these were actually theistic humanists who preached nothing but a dumbed-down form of Middle Platonism, masked with a thin layer of quasi-biblical terminology so they could sell it as “Christianity.” Also, from its earliest years, the “orthodox” false churches tortured and murdered Jews, as well as rival Platonic cults, the rival false so-called “Christian” churches who were almost identical to them.

Until a couple centuries before the Reformation, the Roman Catholic church vindictively and very brutally attacked anyone who openly proclaimed any true biblical teachings which threatened their power and financial income. Then the Protestant churches began to form. A few finally began to escape some of the demonic bonds of that great false church, the Roman church. Still, all Protestant churches were direct descendants of that false Roman church, and most of their initial members were former Roman Catholics. Most of their doctrines were directly derived from Platonic doctrines that were invented by the Roman Catholic church. Almost all Protestants stubbornly clung to teachings of that Great Prostitute, and most also cherished her pagan-like rituals. Thus, most Protestants were spiritual daughters of the Great Prostitute, and most were committing spiritual adultery through their mother’s pagan ways of Platonism and Aristotelianism. Most Protestants did not even try to seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness, much less seek it as the first and foremost priority of their lives. Most superstitiously hated and feared the biblical ways of God. So most Protestants deceived, enslaved, bullied, threatened, imprisoned, tortured and murdered many innocent souls, just as their mother had done and continued to do. Most Protestants were spiritual prostitutes just like their mother. Although some real biblical truths began to surface during the Protestant Reformation, the majority of Protestants nullified most of them and insisted on becoming like their mother church. Most remained as bad as their mother and some grew even worse. To this day, most war against the real Jesus. So these churches are definitely what John called the “daughters” of the Great Prostitute.

The Great Prostitute is clearly the Platonic Roman Catholic Church. It cannot possibly be any other entity on earth. Only the Roman Catholic Church literally fulfills every detail of the Revelation's prophecies about the Great Prostitute. She must be the spiritual prostitute who adulterates God’s truth and persecutes God’s elect over a long period of time, while growing very wealthy and bearing daughters who become just liker her. Not even one single detail in God’s description of the Great Prostitute contradicts anything known about the Roman Catholic church. Thus, almost every honest reader of the Revelation concludes that the first-century prophecy about the Great Prostitute was indeed a prophecy about the Roman Catholic church. The Roman Catholic Church was conceived in

 

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the first century as Platonism was being adopted by the church—although she was not truly effective in her persecution of the “saints” until she received her “house” in the city of Rome. And most of the Protestant churches are indeed her harlot daughters, most of whom were born after the 16th century.

 

Second Seal Prophecies

The Middle Ages, starting in about the 5th century

God created the eras of the first and seventh seals for the most impactful spiritual events in history. During the first seal’s era, God came to us in a body of flesh on earth, to establish the final form of His priesthood to serve humankind, His New Covenant Israel. To build this church, which is the living body of God on earth, our God Jesus did two critical works for the Father’s elect children. First, the actual death of God’s body of flesh on the cross occurred, to pay for all their unintentional sins, which included all their sins done through ignorance or coercion, but also all their intentional sins that were transformed into unintentional sins through their repentance out of the lies causing evil intentions and into the truth causing right intentions. However, we must not make the mistake of thinking that this payment on the cross for our redemption was only for those who lived after that day of crucifixion in AD 28. For we must realize that all past and future time exists all at once, so that all events are predestined. Therefore, the death of our God’s flesh once in earthly time was for every elect human spirit in all of earth’s history, for Adam and Eve and for all born from those two.

All the weak and immature spirits in His elect, while living in flesh on earth, commit sins through ignorance, carnal impulses fear, coercion and plain stupidity. Then their spirits realize some of their sins and repent into some of God’s truths, although their infantile spirits cannot possibly learn all of God’s truths, not until they mature into completion and perfection during the final day at the gates of heaven. So God can forgive those repented sins, as He did even in Old Covenant times, through His body’s death on the cross. Then God can restore His relationship with those repentant souls, and even heal the effects of their sins. But, through the external influences of demonic lies in their cultures and social environments, the elect continue to sin through their flesh in many ways, even in ways that cause the deaths of their siblings in the family of humankind. For all the elect remain far too ignorant to truly repent from all their sins. And this is why our God Jesus sacrificed His flesh on the cross for the forgiveness of all the unintentional and unrepented sins which all elect spirits shall indeed repent from on the last day. And, although His death on a cross was for all time, the flesh of His elect never actually witnessed it until AD 28. But, after AD 28, after seeing this greatest of all God’s works with their own eyes, Jesus opened the first seal to begin the first era of teaching and training His elect spirits for their salvation, first by exposing the lies causing their unintentional sins.

So this was the first and greatest work of God during the era of the first seal, the work which actually initiated the era of the first seal. Now, because our God Jesus did this first work, He could also do His second greatest work, which also enabled the first seal’s era. His first work allowed our God Jesus to forgive literally all the sins which the spirits of His elect did during their entire lifetimes, after He named them all as His sinless flesh died on the cross. So now He could justly and fully restore His relationship with any and all of them, whenever He chose to do so. Thus, our God also raised His body from the dead, and transformed His body of flesh into a body made entirely of the far more real substances in the spiritual space-time continuum. The ascension and transfiguration of His body meant that He had no limitations of this earth’s time or space. Thus, Jesus could spend an infinite amount of time with each individual elect spirit and soul, and all of them at the same time.

 

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So this second work of our God Jesus allowed Him to directly teach and train the spirits of His elect for their salvation while they lived in forgiven flesh, as well as at the gates of heaven during their final day of instructive judgment before they would go home to heaven’s mainland. Through His fully restored relationship with their spirits, the utterly holy Spirit of our God could justly reside in the hearts of His elect without aiding and abetting their already forgiven sins, which their spirits did commit daily through their flesh. The Spirit of our heavenly Father and oldest Brother could now counsel and commune with our infantile elect spirits, in a way that not even the most spite-filled accuser, not even Satan himself, could condemn. And our God Jesus began to do precisely this on the day of the Pentecost in about AD 28. So the era of the first seal was an extremely critical time in the world. That era’s events, especially these two works of our God Jesus, made it possible for God to continue all His other educational works for the salvation of His elect children throughout history.

And God did these two great works at the same time that He allowed Satan to complete his own priesthood of humanism, which that devil created in a vain attempt to kill God and replace God as the owner of the material universe. Satan was so deluded that he somehow thought he had gained a great victory over God during that first era, when his beast’s kingdom murdered the body of God’s body of flesh, then persecuted and usurped God’s body of His visible church. However, God’s true kingdom always consisted of His Spirit inside the hearts of His elect, teaching and training their human spirits for their eternal works in heaven. So God’s personal body of flesh rose from the dead to teach His elect. Then His true invisible church of elect began a long educational journey through the tedious, painful and rewarding eras of the next six seals, which would end with the judgment of Satan and beast dwelling in His manufactured perceptions of this material space-time continuum. And that seventh seal’s era would also see the victory of God’s true church body becoming visible, to openly serve Him. When our God Jesus returns, His church will be a wise and beautiful bride, fulfilling His just, equitable, loving will in the sphere of the spiritual framework He constructed.

But the eras of the subsequent six seals first had to prove God right in the minds of all elect spirits. And those next six eras also had to prove that all deviations away from the pure truths which God revealed in His spiritual and physical creations, as well as all false interpretations of His Word, were not only wrong, but highly destructive and extremely evil. Thus, this era of the second seal began. Its purpose was to expose the horrifying essence of false religion more clearly, so His elect would see how ruthless it could become, more clearly than they had ever seen before or since. The malicious terrorism of the fake humanistic so-called “Christian” church stole all the headlines in all the news outlets of heaven during the days of the second seal, and this entire era was characterized by a total lack of peace. Furthermore, all the wars of this era were useless, for utterly futile demonic purposes.

In the first seal’s era, Satan’s religious Roman Empire was attempting to physically conquer all the nations of the world through violence, to subjugate the entire earth and transform it into one large empire under that devil’s control. In its great and senseless delusions, Rome wanted to somehow own each and every person, animal, plant and thing on earth. Of course, since God created and now maintains all physical realities through His power, and causes our spirits to perceive all material realities, all those ambitions of Rome were senseless, vain, futile and stupid. But the non-elect of the world love lies and delusions like this, and are never brave enough to face the light of any spiritual or physical realities. So the devil’s Roman religion of humanism kept the non-elect deluded enough to expend their entire lives in the pursuit of these delusions. And that false religion was also able to dupe most of the elect in the world as well, by causing their minds of flesh to cast the minds of their spirits out of their souls, to ignore and suppress the inclinations of their spirits, because their elect spirits sought truths from God. Nevertheless, not even the non-elect were ready to worship Satan in

 

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his human form of the secular Roman beast. Thus, the devil began to prepare his children for that day by first attempting to remove every form of true religion, all that enhanced spiritual awareness.

Instead of allowing human spirits to see and worship either the holy or demonic spirits existing all around them, Satan needed to make everyone worship him alone. That was his dream, his sole reason for inventing the Roman religion of humanism, to unite all his psychopathic children into one empire ruled by him, after he entered the world in a body of flesh, as a Roman messiah whom God called the beast. But, back in those days, not even the non-elect were able to stop themselves from becoming aware of their own spirits, nor capable of ignoring the far more powerful external spirits of demons, heavenly angels and God Himself. Nor could they prevent themselves from bowing before the power of those other spirits. Thus, if Satan was going to make them all bow to him alone, he first had to cause everyone to think entirely through their easily manipulated minds of flesh alone, with a total disregard for the very obvious spiritual realities existing all around them. Then he could come to them all in a body of flesh and rule them all through the dictates spoken through his flesh.

So the devil needed everyone to become totally unspiritual. And the best way to do that was to violently force everyone to bow before his most vain and psychopathic human children, to worship those parasites as their only lords and gods. And, when this was accomplished, he himself could come to rule his psychopathic children who ruled the world. So the first step Satan needed to take was to make all human beings completely dead inside, where all had spirits which were entirely suppressed their minds of flesh, to the point where their own spirits refused to even acknowledge the existence of their own spirits, nor God’s Holy Spirit, nor any other spirits, not even the spirit of their owner, Satan. And, since everyone in the world at that time was aware of their own spirits and other spirits, Satan had to use his false religion of Roman humanism to first redefine spirits as mere forces, as inanimate things pulling minds of flesh in various directions. And he had to convince everyone that they had only one mind, which is the mind of flesh. Then he had to get his psychopathic brood to force everyone to believe those lies. His wanted his children to terrorize the people, to make them all terrified of opposing those lies. His Roman children had to convince every human soul to practice his Roman theistic humanism, which would gradually deaden them inside, make them so physically oriented that their spirits became utterly blind and dumb, ready to believe the beast’s lies of secular humanism. And, since the biggest threat to the beast’s delusions of humanism were the religions of the Bible, he had to create fake humanistic Jewish and Christian churches. All the other spiritual religions were easy to corrupt and transform into humanism. But God’s truths were so powerful and real that they required some of his most cunning psychopathic children to distort and nullify them.

Satan’s primary purpose during this era was to focus all eyes upon the human gods of false religion, as a significant step towards causing all to finally worship him in the human body of his final secular beast. Yes, some of the conquering of physical lands continued, and the devil’s works of the first seal’s era were not yet completed. For there were still many land that had not yet been conquered and ruled by the humanistic religion of the Roman Empire. So the horseman of the first seal was still riding upon the earth when the horseman of the second seal came out. But this second era had a different purpose, both for God and for Satan. God used this second era to educate His elect about false religion, to illustrate how false religion destroys and murders the innocent. Then Satan used this second era to spread his Roman religion of humanism into all the known world, in his hopeless and vain attempt to usurp God’s rule over all the earth. This second era mostly saw countless disputes between the small kingdoms of theistic and secular humanists, who were all citizens of the factious Roman Empire. Yet their very limited kingdoms all lacked the ability to fully conquer and engulf the other kingdoms. They could not unite into large empires, as humanists did during the first seal’s era.

 

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During the era of the first seal, until about AD 400, the Roman Empire conquered the entire Mediterranean basin and most of Europe. During the era of the first seal, God saw that most souls refused to love the truth, so He handed over all nations to Satan’s delusions of the Roman Empire, until they became self-destructive, immoral, twisted, arrogant, ignorant, weak and psychopathic. Then, by AD 500, God fractured the Roman Empire into many smaller kingdoms, and forced Satan to adopt his more religious strategies of fake religion, to disseminate his Roman religious Empire into all the world. All that remained of the former physcial Roman Empire was an eastern portion in Greece, Macedonia, Asia Minor and the coastal regions extending south and west to a point just beyond Egypt. Furthermore, this eastern Roman remnant was weakened by constant threats from Persia. Incessant warfare between Persia and the surviving part of the Roman Empire lasted for centuries. Then Satan invented the humanistic church of the Muslims, which God caused to rise up against both the formerly Roman and Persian nations, and even among themselves. This Muslim empire also claimed to be the Roman Empire at times. And it was. But God used it to keep the physical Roman Empire factious, so it would focus on the highly carnal forms of false humanistic religion. Then God used the ruthless sins of all those various humanist false religions to teach His elect to value His truths and Him more, after they witnessed all the horrors of every possible form of false religion on earth. Yet Satan ignored this purpose of God, and forced his humanistic sects upon all the sinners God handed over to him, still hoping to one day rule the earth through those dupes.

Near the end of this second era, God removed peace from the earth for all time, by increasing the enmity between the various sects of Roman theistic humanists. He caused an endless war between the humanistic so-called “Christian” false churches and the humanistic Muslim false churches during the Crusades at the end of this second era. At the same time, God also divided both of these false churches during this second era as well, so that fake “Christians” fought other fake “Christians,” and humanistic Muslims fought other humanistic Muslims. Wars threatened everyone everywhere. All the small and larger kingdoms all over the world were evolving, and all fought each other like rabid cats and dogs. But there were still large parts of earth, such the far east, the Americas, India and many other lands which had not yet been conquered by the religion of the Roman beast, as per Daniel’s prophecy. Thus, the works of the first seal’s era had not yet been completed when the rider of the second seal set out on this bloody mission. And a time would soon come when all four riders of the first four seals would plague the earth, all at the same time. But, until then, only these two riders would make life into a living hell for all who lived in or near the borders of Roman humanism.

Revelation 6:3-4: “When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say,

'Come!' And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from

the earth, so that men should slay one another, and he was given a great sword” (ESV).

Notice that there is nothing in this verse which states that first rider had completed his mission and stopped conquering. In fact, this seems to suggest that all four riders were sent out, one at a time, one after another, to work together for a common purpose, to all continue their individual missions until they fulfilled that one purpose by working together. So the first rider was still promoting the blind ambitions of power-hungry dupes, inciting them to vainly attempt the conquering and subjugation of people and lands, still deluding wretched fools into thinking they could own more and more souls who would worship them as their gods. Then the second rider was sent out to take peace from the earth, to divide empires, nations, tribes and families, to cause them to war against one another for vain and futile causes. And that second rider has been doing this work ever since, to this very day.

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Roman Empire, but were still thoroughly Roman. And those factions of Satan’s Roman kingdom disseminated that devil’s religion of humanism throughout the earth, and primarily through its false churches, namely the Roman Catholic and Muslim churches. The Platonist, Augustine of Hippo, had seduced the adulterous minds of both the Roman church and Roman secular rulers, luring both into oppressive and often violent acts of unbridled, Satanic arrogance. Then Benedictine monks and other monastic movements helped to destroy the tiny remnant of truly spiritual works still existing in that church, thus turning the entire focus of that Roman church towards works of the flesh alone. A central administration and papacy of the Roman church provided an artificial and superficial sense unity in that church, but was actually serving the ever-increasing ambitions of popes who sought to acquire more land, wealth and power. The very corrupt, adulterous and often antagonistic political relationship between the church and state caused immense suffering for the majority, for all the common people. And the Council of Chalcedon defined and permanently established a humanistic fake messiah for the church, in accordance with Plato’s anthropological doctrines, a false “Jesus” who has been worshiped ever since, by both Roman Catholic and Protestant theistic humanists. The church’s adoption of an almost infinite array of pagan myths, cult practices and superstitions derived from ancient Greek, ancient Roman and other pagan sources, proliferated. Therefore, God’s wrath began to fall upon the beast’s fourth kingdom of the Roman Empire during the eras of the first and second seals. God almost entirely handed their hearts and minds over to Satan, so they could be thoroughly deluded and fragmented. But the era of the second seal also continued the educational work of exposing the folly practiced by the beast’s humanism. Still, very few recognized the true nature of the beast yet. God did not begin to reveal the beast’s true nature until the third seal’s era.

Of course, there were many vain, humanistic kings attempting to conquer and form large empires throughout the Middle Ages. The conquests of Islam are a good example. So the era of the first seal was largely overlapped by the era of the second seal. But the futile violence, characteristic of the second seal, only began in earnest after the fifth century. The violence in the religious kingdom of the Roman Empire, which was now physically fractured, noticeably increased. By the fifth century, extremely ignorant persecutions and senseless wars fought over petty personal matters proliferated. The ruthlessly ambitious kings in the various factions of Rome fought against and tried to oppress one another for personal gain. Peace was indeed taken from the earth with a “great sword,” with the kind of weapon used for personal, face-to-face warfare. The sword indicates wars between feudal kingdoms or religious wars, which culminated in the demonic bloodshed of the crusades, along with its inevitably resulting increase in religious persecutions. So the description of the Revelation’s era of the second seal seems to accurately summarize the brutal Middle Ages which actually did not end after those horrific, bloody crusades. The whole world still lacks peace because of that violent era.

Keep in mind that the Revelation, and the other prophecies about the last days, focused on events pertaining to God’s relationship with the world and His outreach to His elect. His works during the last days were primarily to express: (1) His love for both elect Jews and elect Gentiles, for both the potential and current members of His church of Israel; and (2) His hatred of lies and sins, His willingness to war against His enemies, especially against the beast’s religious kingdom, the religion of humanism. So most prophecies are about His universal church of Israel, as well as her allies and her principal enemies. Very few prophecies about the last days were about secular people and nations that would not directly affect His church or the works He would do in the world through His church.

So the prophecies about the last days interest us in all parts of the world because its events radically affect all lives on earth. At the same time, the center of God’s spiritual battle will always manifest in physical ways near the physical borders of Israel, not in the Americas, Africa, India, China or other

 

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physically distant locations. Most of the prophesied physical events will occur in the Middle East and in the beast’s fourth kingdom, the Roman Empire. For the Scripture prophesied that the beast’s kingdom would reach the ends of the earth, and would continuously war against God’s kingdom until the Messiah Jesus returns to utterly destroy it (e.g., Dan. 2:31-45). Therefore, since Jesus has not yet returned, we must realize that all four stages of the beast’s religious kingdom exist today.

The beast’s kingdom began in Babylon, in the sixth century BC, and has consistently grown, prospered and evolved. Through Persia, Greece and Rome, it has now become the dominant religion and primary influence throughout Satan’s world order, in every government and institution on earth, in every false religion and secular power existing on this planet. It is difficult to even find a place where there are no hierarchical systems of superior and inferior human gods striving against one another, wasting their lives to pursue titles of esteem and their own glory, pretending they can create their own destinies and rule over God’s creations as owners His properties, even as owners of other human siblings. Of course, the devil’s humanistic world order is a highly fragmented kingdom, just as Daniel prophesied. Nevertheless, all its secular and theistic factions have always been persistent in their bullying and have crushed every semblance of truth, justice and God-like love throughout the earth. God and His truth are more powerful, but Satan remains dangerous, since he can successfully coerce the cooperation of his brood in his incessant, self-destructive war against God and His elect.

So it is almost time for the elect to become aware of all this. Then we need to pray for our God Jesus to awaken, teach and train our spirits for our salvation, so we might walk in the joy of His abundant life, as we face all past, current and future deceptions and corruptions of humanism. What we need is understanding of the spiritual causes and spiritual purposes of all that is going on around us, of all that affects our lives, so we can effectively do God’s works of nullifying Satan’s works, and building up the just, equitable, sustainable and loving kingdom of God on the ruins of redeemed losses. Now we must learn to serve as His priests to our siblings who are still lost in the darkness of this world.

But one thing we do not need is more lying fear mongers telling us give them our time, energy and money, for their own profit and glory. These may claim to be the only gods who can save us from the plagues of God’s prophecies, but they lie. For there is only one who can save us, our God, Jesus. No human god can save us. Furthermore, our real Savior often saves us by removing our spirits from our bodies of flesh, by taking our spirits home. For He has appointed all flesh to die, and seeks to save our spirits, not our flesh. And all lives on earth will perish, then we will suffer much loss as we enter the gates of heaven, if we forsake our Savior and His immutable truths. Therefore, instead, let us forsake the liars who falsely claim to serve in God’s name, who only love us conditionally, only if we give them money, so they can gain a greater status as gods in Satan’s hierarchical world order.

When world events occur, some might be associated with the prophecies about the last days or the end times, but only in a very general way. For the prophets and apostles were not too concerned about specific physical events, but primarily about spiritual causes and affects. For there will always be events, good and bad, small and large. But literally all events are external effects of good or evil spiritual causes. So it is far more practical and beneficial to study those spiritual causes, as well as to train in the wisdom which can recognize the effects resulting from them and how to apply redeeming solutions. It is futile to focus on the details of physical manifestations of evil spiritual causes, then sensationalize them and profit from the deaths and losses of their causes, without actually studying and addressing the causes, without seeking the power and truths of God which can eliminate causes of loss and destruction, without laboring to cause better, more just, more loving effects for ourselves.

 

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Yes, God did allow the prophets and apostles to see and write about some future physical events, but only while He focused their spirits’ attention on the way in which those events manifested spiritual causes. So the eras of all seven seals of the Revelation focus on and define God’s spiritual purposes, with some relatively minor but accurate information about the physical effects occurring as God fulfills His spiritual purposes. Thus, it is quite foolish to spend all one’s time looking for prophecies of current physical events, so one can sensationalize them. It is true that the prophecies about the last days and the end times, all the eras of the seven seals, have described physical events. But we cannot say things like, “The horseman of the first seal is Adolf Hitler who came to conquer the world. Then, as soon as He died, the second rider, named Mao Zedong came to take peace from the earth …” God did not want us to use His revelations of prophecy in such a carnal and stupid way. And we are not to declare that the time of each seal’s era began at a certain specific time in a certain specific place with a certain specific human being, not unless the prophecy clearly specifies those details. For the eras of the seven seals did not contain very many details like that. So now let us adjust our focus toward God’s spiritual reasons for granting us those prophecies and cast off all that sensationalist nonsense.

All the eras of the first four seals were for God’s purpose of rebuking Satan’s fourth Roman religious kingdom, and to prove to His elect that His just, equitable ways are best. And those first four eras reveal God’s rebukes and educational revelations sequentially, one after the other, but God also keeps the riders of the first four seals upon the earth as long as Satan’s kingdom of the beast remains on earth. The events of the first four seals will continue to occur throughout the the last days, until Jesus returns to destroy the beast’s kingdom. The teaching and rebuking plagues from all four riders will overlap one another, and the fifth seal’s era will be completely within the fourth. The first five eras will not have neat and tidy beginnings and ends. Each era’s spiritual plague will cause physical effects in the next sequential era, but each era occurs within a nebulous, undefinable period of time.

Since the first five eras have no clear and specific starting dates that perfectly coincide with the ending dates of previous eras, we must define them according to their principal spiritual causes and effects. Each era’s physical events and attributes complete the spiritual purpose which defines it, regardless of how long it may take to do so. God’s spiritual purposes cause effects upon the beast’s spiritual kingdom as lessons for the spirits of the elect, events which gradually begin at the time when Jesus opens each seal. But the effects of those plagues will only end whenever that purpose is accomplished, even as the eras overlap one another. And the places where God’s purposes were first accomplished were within the heart of the beast’s religious kingdom, in Rome and Europe. But the purpose of each era will take longer to accomplish in more distant lands. And God does not wait for one era’s purpose to be accomplished everywhere on earth before opens the next seal. So the riders are each sent to all lands on earth, and are doing their works in all lands, throughout the last days, in one land after another. And they ride back and forth throughout all lands, revisiting each land many times. So the rebuking and educating plagues of the first four riders occur repeatedly, everywhere.

The first seal’s era bears characteristics and causes physical effects that can even be seen today, many centuries after that first seal was opened, but to a lesser extent in some parts of the world, and to a greater extent in other parts of the world. For there are still Roman-like human gods trying to conquer religious, political, military and business empires for themselves. Then the second seal’s plagues, which take peace from a land, naturally follow after those events of humanists attempting to conquer. But those second seal events began to occur more frequently and effectively in the sixth and seventh centuries, just after the first seal’s era in the Roman Empire. Thus, we can say that the second seal was opened approximately at that time. For, just after the first seal had done its works in the core of the Roman Empire, we saw humanistic empires fractured, where the people of all those

 

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conquered and distant factions, who were all thoroughly indoctrinated humanists, warred against one another, and are still warring. So they permanently took peace from the earth. But, shortly after, we saw those factious warring empires suffer the effects of the third seal’s famine, then the fourth’s seal’s chaos of increased deaths through multiple causes, followed by the fifth seal’s persecution of the “saints,” of all who stand for the just, equitable, loving truths of God. Soon all the nations of the world will “catch up” to Europe, and all will suffer the effects of all five plagues. Then all will enter the era of the sixth seal together at the same moment, on the day of world-wide earthquakes and meteors striking the ground, when the revival of Christ’s true church will begin everywhere on earth.

When Jesus opened the first seal, we were to “come and see” how arrogant rulers, on white horses, went out conquering, through their selfish ambitions, to build up their own kingdoms at the expense of innocent live. Now,in our day, we are also to “come our and see” that conquering, and how that conquering inevitably leads to the plagues of the next four seals. Then we, the awakened elect who see what they are doing, must then labor together in Jesus to nullify those works of the devil, so we can build up the just, equitable, loving kingdom of God upon the ruins of those Satanic kingdoms.

Near the end of the first era, the thoroughly humanistic despot named Constantine ruled as the emperor of Rome. And his ambitions were to conquer the entire world. All his life he also remained the high priest of a cult dedicated to the demon god Mithra, a popular cult among the ruling class and in the Roman army at that time. Yet the humanistic Roman church called him a “Christian,” bowing before him as the human head of their church, then later canonized him as a “saint,” as one whom God had sanctified for His works on earth. And they did all this knowing that Constantine believed that Jesus was a reincarnation of his Romanized hybrid god called Mithra (or the Unconquered Sun). They all knew that “The emperor ... saw no contradiction between the Unconquered Sun and the Incarnate Son” and “almost to his dying day Constantine continued functioning as the High Priest of paganism” (Gonzalez, Justo;2010; The Story of Christianity, Volume I, second edition; New York, NY; HarperCollins; pp. 140,141). Yet they still call him a “saint” to this day. But, in reality, that head of their Roman church, that emperor Constantine, was one of the chief conquerors which the first seal had prophesied about. And all the plagues of the next four seals were the effects of his works as a conquering king during the first seal’s era, centuries of warring factions, destruction and murders.

The Roman Empire became vast through Constantine’s conquests, and so did the false church. And when he promoted his hybrid form of his false church, a vast number of Roman citizens supposedly converted to “Christianity.” Then those fake “Christians” conquered all other churches and its ruling class became the heads of Constantine’s church. Those Roman humanists dictated church doctrines and practices pertaining to all matters of life and faith, although none comprehended a single verse of the Scriptures. Through this false church, all truly biblical Jewish and Christian doctrines were not only suppressed, but even violently oppressed. Instead of seeking God’s truth and God’s will, the false church chose to believe in the teachings of pagan cults and their traditions. They invented a formal “Eucharist” resembling the ceremony dedicated to Constantine’s beloved pagan god Mithra, constructed grand church buildings modeled after the grand pagan temples of Rome, wore clerical robes exactly like the robes of the pagan Roman priests, developed a pagan-like liturgy, burned incense during their rituals in same way that pagan priests did, created a steep hierarchical structure of inferiors and superiors identical to those found in the pagan Roman religions and governments.

That false church of Constantine became indistinguishable from all the other humanistic institutions which had existed from the days of Babylon to up to that time. To top it all off, they changed the Sabbath day too, which God defined in the very beginning, in the days of Adam and Eve. It had always been the hours between Friday’s sunset and Saturday’s sunset. But that Roman church

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wanted it to be a Roman day, which stretched from midnight to midnight, which began in darkness and ended in darkness. Then they called the first Roman day of the week, Sunday, the new sabbath day, in honor of Constantine’s Unconquered Sun god, who was actually a demon. And that false church also prevented the people from entering into any kind of Sabbath of God, because they did not allow anyone to set aside works of selfish ambition to serve the real God according to the real God’s will, which is God’s definition of a true Sabbath rest. Instead, all members of their fake church had to passively listen to the lectures of their human gods every Sunday, and serve the selfish ambitions of those human gods seven days a week, every week. After this, all other Sabbaths and church holidays also had to coincide with pagan Roman holidays too. So, through Constantine, the very last vestiges of the true apostolic visible church were destroyed, and his false church became the Catholic or universal so-called “orthodox” church, the dominant false church in the world. Thus, the purpose of the first seal was fulfilled through Constantine and the beast’s fourth kingdom. Then God began the plagues of the next five seals, to illustrate how humanism, the rule of human gods, can only produce a futile, vain existence characterized by divisions, wars, devastation and deaths.

The first seal established the spiritual borders between God’s true kingdom and the beast’s kingdom of humanism. It created enmity between the two and began a dichotomizing process, separating the elect from the non-elect. For the elect began to seek out the biblical teachings about God-like, just love while the non-elect sought to become gods in Satan’s world order. Of course, the elect did not quite know how to serve God’s kingdom in same way the true apostolic church did, and were too afraid to completely separate from the deadly and all-powerful false church. So some fled into the wilderness to form monasteries. But the humanism of the fake church went with them and soon thoroughly corrupted those who fled from the Great Prostitute of Rome. Yet there were still elect spirits being taught God’s ways by His Holy Spirit during that time too, still many truly loving souls.

As for all the non-elect, they began to focus more upon the humanistic concepts related to the glory of man. And this is how the first seal revealed the blatant arrogance of man’s flesh and the pride in the hearts of Satan’s children, exposing their desire to be their own gods, by conquering and ruling over their own siblings in the family of humankind. All this conquering, followed by the plagues of the subsequent five seals, began because God would no longer ignore the paganism of Gentile lands after He came to the world in a body of flesh, as our Messiah (see Acts 17:30-31). God had revealed Himself to the Gentile nations, beginning with the nations of the fourth kingdom of Rome, while He also maintained direct contact with His natural citizens of Israel, the Jews. He brought His Word and His ways to all the nations, calling all to repent into a knowledge of the truth, about Him and His ways. Yet most Gentiles did not repent. Instead, they continued to create their own human gods and preferred their own self-glorifying ways, heaping condemnation upon themselves. Still, God knew this would happen, and prophesied about it centuries in advance. For it would be through their rejection of Him and His ways that God would expose their folly. The religion of humanism, which Satan was spreading throughout his entire world order of sinners, would be exposed through its horrifying and violent injustice, through its psychopathic inhumanity in the second seal’s era and the following eras. Once His elect saw the effects of humanism, their educated spirits would flee directly to Him for their salvation, so His Holy Spirit would teach them the truth about Him and His ways.

As previously mentioned, God’s purpose for this second seal’s era was to mock the inability of man to create his own destiny. The effects of the first seal, as God allowed the world to suffer the vanity of human gods striving to conquer and rule over one another, were bad enough. So many died in service to those fake, human gods—first in the beast’s Roman Empire, then in other parts of the world. But the pains and deaths resulting from the second seal’s plagues, when God fractured the

 

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human-ruled empires and removed peace from the earth, were worse. These effects were first seen in the beast’s Roman Empire but, in later centuries, also in the rest of the world, that is, after God kept on fragmenting humanistic kingdoms. And those deadly effects are still occurring to this day. Surely, through all the pain and loss from the plagues of this second seal, one would think the whole would realize the futility of worshiping human beings. But they did not. Thus, Jesus opened the third seal.

 

Third Seal Prophecies

The Renaissance, beginning in about the 12th century

During the third seal’s era, God allowed a little more stability to be established in some parts of the earth, beginning in the lands belonging to the beast’s religious kingdom of the Roman Empire. The beast’s empire was still fragmented and still fought against one another. For, as Daniel prophesied, the beast’s kingdom would always consist of fragments of willful iron kingdoms loosely bonded by the clay of the beast’s religion of humanism. That is, since the ultimate goal of the beast’s religion was to delude human beings into believing they could be gods, those arrogant human gods invariably and continuously strove to overcome one another through their selfish ambitions, since each god wanted to make oneself into the greatest god, who could own all other gods, who could force all to serve the vain lusts and whims of one’s own carnal will, through the esteeming worship of oneself.

Yet the nature of this lust for power was evolving. During the first two seals, only a tiny percentage, about one or two percent, possessed the power to actually make themselves believe that they were gods who could govern their own destinies. And even fewer could ever even dream of becoming gods who owned and ruled over the destinies of other siblings in the family of human kind. Of course, any concept of becoming a god was a mere delusion. For literally all the privileged elite were, in reality, the most incapable, useless and manipulated people on earth, the furthest thing from being gods who owned and ruled over the destinies of their people. Then their selfish ambitions and strong lusts not only made it impossible to think a single rational thought, but also enslaved them.

So all those human gods did not know it, but all their humanistic concepts regarding their god-like ownership of God’s people and creations, or exerting despotic control over the lives of their siblings through the devil’s invention of money, come from the demons who own and rule over them. All those proud, stubborn, entitled, willful human gods are actually totally manipulated slaves of Satan, who feel compelled to labor night and day to gain the praise of their lying, murdering master. And all those human gods worship the devil because God has handed them over to those delusions created by that demon. So those elite blindly defend their privilege and wealth, but are the most enslaved of all human beings and never feel a moment of love or joy in their entire lives, and the non-elect gods at the very tops of their hierarchies are actually utterly incapable of ever experiencing love or joy.

So the most elite human gods in Satan’s humanistic world order are slaves whipped into compulsory service, forced to conquer for that devil, as well as to suffer the deadly consequences of their unjust, irrational works. And they will keep on destroying themselves and others as long as the sleeping elect refuse to serve their just and loving God, until the elect wake up and begin to nullify Satan’s humanistic doctrines and works, so they can replace Satan’s world order with God’s loving, just kingdom. And even while those elect fearfully submit to the demands of the wicked, they will still be persecuted and oppressed, no matter how low they bow to those human gods. And all the rest of the world will also continue to fall by the swords of humanists, will continue to be enslaved through violence and threats of severe punishments, because the terrorism of those human gods will never

 

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cease, no matter how much wealth and power they gain through their subjugation of their equal siblings in the family of humankind. Thus, compliance with those humanists accomplishes nothing.

The elite lie to falsely justify their exploitation and the deadly chaos they cause through their lawless terrorism, declaring that it is absolutely necessary to “lawfully” control the people. Yet, if this was true, they would have striven to establish truly just and equitable laws, which are the roots of peace and order. They and their wise men would be teaching their people about honesty and truth, about God’s good ways which benefit all life. But they never do this because they love the exploitative and unjust excesses of their foolish humanistic ways, which always cause death and destruction. So none really want peace and order, and none serve loving justice for the sakes of the people. What they really wan is the gratification of their base lusts, which they can only get by terrorizing their siblings into blind obedience and silent subservience. Then, with all enslaved, their captive elect keep the world functional, as those human gods are busy destroying the world to feed their carnal appetites.

Humanist have always used superficial forms of false “reasoning” through the skillful use of fear mongering superstitions and emotionally charged rhetoric to manipulate their dupes into appeasing the carnal, destructive and idiotic demands of a select few human gods. But, overall, brute force and threats of extreme violence have been the principal means employed by those human gods to control and subjugate their equal siblings in the family of humankind, whom they call their inferiors. During the era of the third seal, however, the power of only a tiny minority of the elite was more broadly distributed to a larger group of elite human gods, to a larger group of upper class “superiors.” In addition to them, them upper middle class and middle class grew exponentially. For more people began to believe in humanistic doctrines. More and more wanted to become human gods who could rule over their own destinies. So Satan distributed the wealth and power of his unjust kingdom to more completely enslaved dupes than ever before, because he was gaining more brainwashed slaves than ever before, and his base of ruthless exploiters grew larger and stronger. Since he granted power to more people, to a growing number of upper and middle class, that devil had to use more mental manipulation and less brute force too. Humanism remained just as psychopathic as it ever was, but it was evolving into a more cunning kind of demonic religion, with far more extensive and inclusive methods of indoctrination in its educational systems, as well as higher levels of stifling bureaucracy.

During the Renaissance, some stability was achieved through economics, by increased trade between nations and a greater use of currency to replace the ancient bartering systems, where the digits of this artificial currency began to dictate every thought and decision of a man. This financial enslavement was a much stronger force of coercion than the empty rhetoric used in previous times, although the use of lying rhetoric has always been a trademark of humanism, and always will be. But financial systems enabled terms of profitable peace between nations, especially the exploitative Roman lands partaking in the lies of the Renaissance, because the economic forces ruling the nations did not want to jeopardize trade relationships and their resulting profits. Then, with increased trading, came an exchange of deceiving and exploiting concepts, but at the cost of also sharing som real truths at the same time. As a consequence, humanists rediscovered the long-lost lies of ancient philosophies and began to turn back to their toxic roots, to the doctrines and ways of classical, humanistic, pagan Greece and Rome. Although this movement was hypocritical, since the Renaissance actually built itself upon the oppressive, hierarchical systems and knowledge of Medieval times, it caused the people to delve deeper into the more demonic aspects of humanism. Humanism was no longer a religion functioning entirely through the ruthless lusts and the brute force of the flesh. During the Renaissance, humanism was now able to work an even more ruthless manipulation upon the spirit.

 

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