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Who is the Whore of Babylon?
Catholic Stand ^
| October 8, 2015
| Ray Sullivan
Posted on 10/08/2015 2:46:11 PM PDT by NYer
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To: huldah1776
Babylon was the code word in Revelation for Rome.
Some people might believe that the United States will be the new Whore of Babylon.
Look at the comparison!
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posted on
10/08/2015 3:23:15 PM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: rabidralph
It’s a toss-up between her/him/it and Hillary Clinton
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posted on
10/08/2015 3:23:25 PM PDT
by
Roger Kaputnik
(Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
To: Salvation
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posted on
10/08/2015 3:24:12 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Hoodat
That’s a reptilian-arab hybrid.
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posted on
10/08/2015 3:24:53 PM PDT
by
Roger Kaputnik
(Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
To: NYer
I am no scholar in this area, but if we can take the name ‘Babylon’ at its face, it is in present day Iraq.
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posted on
10/08/2015 3:33:11 PM PDT
by
bk1000
(A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
To: NYer
Walid Shoebat has an interesting twist on all of this in his book “God’s War on Terror — Islam, Prophesy and the Bible.”
He suggests that the Whore of Babylon is Arabia, 666 refers to Allah (Arabic script that looks like Greek 666), Mark of the Beast is mooselimbs wearing headbands or armbands eventually brands with that script, Antichrist is Islam — because Islam is vehement about worshipping only Allah (Satan) and denying the divinity of Christ.
By the way, he expects Iran to destroy Mecca/Medina and topple the Saudi Royals because the Persians believe that Saudi has corrupted true Islam. Hence, the “Whore of Babylon” is Saudi.
This will unite remaining mooselimbs to accept the End Times Caliphate.
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posted on
10/08/2015 3:34:23 PM PDT
by
Zuse
(I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
To: NYer
“Now we all have to ask ourselves if Vatican City has dominion over any kings of the earth today.”
I believe that historically, they at least claimed to have authority to bestow or withhold kingdoms...
Time will tell.
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posted on
10/08/2015 3:34:39 PM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
To: huldah1776
Well done!
A Matthew 16:17 to you!
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posted on
10/08/2015 3:37:36 PM PDT
by
Oratam
To: Zuse
That makes sense. thanks for sharing.
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posted on
10/08/2015 3:39:44 PM PDT
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: NYer
Luther and most of the reformers recognized the Roman Church to be the whore, the city on 7 hills. Seeing this Pope in action, I am starting to believe more than ever that the reformers were correct!
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posted on
10/08/2015 4:14:27 PM PDT
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: Zuse; NYer
As Shoebat says, why are people waiting to see who is the antichrist chopping off their heads when there are people chopping of your heads right now?
I was present at one of his talks where he laid out his views, including the evidence for his reading of “666”. I have to say, it caught my attention.
His biggest point is, we have a tendency to read scripture with western eyes, when it needs to be read with middle eastern eyes which changes some of the basic assumptions regarding prophesy.
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posted on
10/08/2015 4:14:28 PM PDT
by
marron
To: Salvation
Yes the whores of Babylon are being seduced by Satan in greater and greater numbers, especially with modern technology being able to spread the bait. However, I have realized that God’s judgment for the Great Tribulation is worldwide. Every nation, tribe and language will have believers and non-believers. The non-believers are the whores of Babylon.
Seriously, can you see Rome as the great city? Is not technology going to provide the means to implement the one world government of the dragon, the beast and the false prophet? The city will be the hub of the world’s markets, shipping out all kinds of “goods.” The largest ports are in China. But I’ve been watching a new city, the city of Dubai. NYC is 26th in shipping. It could be New York because God calls His people out of her. Don’t know how many Jews work in Dubai. :) So, the city or capital of Satan’s government is still unknown, but Rome? What comes out of Rome that if it was destroyed the merchants of the world would weep and wail? Nope, I am not impressed with Rome.
To: Zuse
Another interesting Islamic connections are the colors of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The "pale" horse in English translations was actually green (chlōros χλωρός,) in the Greek, but the translators had never seen a green horse so they chose "pale". That makes the colors White, Red, Black, and Green. The basic colors of the flags of the Islamic countries currently forming the Caliphate.
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posted on
10/08/2015 4:20:25 PM PDT
by
SubMareener
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To: NYer
As for the belief that the W of B is the Catholic Church or any supposed Christian body, don’t let it trouble you. If you are a faithful believer, it isn’t you.
If you think of it as a spirit that can inhabit church leadership, there are certainly plenty of candidates. You see in many churches the strong tendency to accommodate the spirit of the age and the powers that be. And you see churchmen who give no evidence of any genuine walk with God, but rather seem to be mere politicians in clerical garb. There are people like that among just about every denomination. Some of them, we might even agree on the names.
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posted on
10/08/2015 4:39:24 PM PDT
by
marron
To: NYer
"Who is the Whore of Babylon?"I think the title fits any nation-state or system that allows its young to be sacrificed (aborted) on the altar of convenience. Another identifying criteria would be, that system of government that would allow the birthright of its children and their future, to be sold (enslaved) for convenience sake.
The American society is (unfortunately) guilty on both counts, which is not to suggest that we are the only nation or system fitting that description.
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posted on
10/08/2015 4:48:16 PM PDT
by
semaj
(Audentes fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold. Be Bold FRiends.)
To: NYer
It's
REALLY OBVIOUS ! MANY are under a
strong delusion !
Bible Prophecy shows that the final coalition of ten nations comprising the Beast power will be in collusion with a great false church.
That church is called the mother church, who has daughters. I was wroth with my people,
I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand:
thou didst show them no mercy;
upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
And thou saidst,I shall be a lady for ever:
so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart,
neither didst remember the latter end of it.
Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures,
that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart,I am, and none else beside me;
I shall not sit as a widow,
neither shall I know the loss of children:
But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day,the loss of children, and widowhood:they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries,
and for the great abundance of thine enchantments (Isaiah 47:6-9).
If those who comprise the daughters of the lady of kingdoms knew who they were, they would be very concerned, indeed!
There is one great nation which is called the Fatherland.
There is one great religious organization which calls itself the mother church.
A German protestor, many centuries ago, began a process whereby daughters came out of the great mother church;
daughters which adopted practically all of her creeds and doctrines, but which eschewed her granting of indulgences and procedural abuses,
while retaining much of her liturgy, many of her rites, and her refusal to obey Gods Sabbath and holy days, along with her sun worship, idolatry, and pagan holidays such as Ishtar (silent h, pronounced Easter today).
This Lady of the kingdoms is characterized as a great whore;
a licentious old mother of harlots who has concourse with the heads of state of the world:And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me,Come hither;
I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters [symbol of many nations]:
With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,
and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication [her false doctrines and political agendas].
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness:
and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast[scarlet is the color of the College of Cardinals],
full of names of blasphemy [they call themselves holy],
having seven heads and ten horns.
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls,
having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
And upon her forehead was a name written,MYSTERY,
BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH (Revelation 17:1-5).
Of this great false church, Halleys Bible Handbook says,This description of Babylon the Great Harlot, seated on the seven-headed ten-horned beast,
while it may have ultimate reference to a situation yet to appear,
exactly fits Papal Rome.
Nothing else in world history does fit.
The desire for worldly power began to manifest itself in the church, on a broad scale, in the 4th century, when the Roman Empire ceased its persecutions and made Christianity the State Religion.
The spirit of Imperial Rome passed into the church.
The church gradually developed itself into the pattern of the empire it had conquered.
The Vatican is where the palace of the Caesars was.
The popes have claimed all the authority the Caesars claimed, and more.
The Papal Palace, throughout the centuries, has been among the most luxurious in the world.
Popes have lived in pomp and splendor unsurpassed by earthly kings.
Full of names of blasphemy, Popes claim to hold on earth the place of God, to have supreme authority over the human conscience,
to forgive sin, grant indulgences, and that obedience to them is necessary to salvation.
How could anything be more blasphemous?
Scarlet [is] the color of the Beast and the Harlot, and also of the Dragon [Rev. 12:3], [and] is the color of the Papacy.
The Cardinals hats and robes are scarlet. (Halleys, pp. 731,732).
One need not wonder about the interpretation of the ten horns,
nor about the location or identity of the great harlot who rides the Beast.
John was told,And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet;
but receive power as kings one hour with the beast[the power of a king is absolute; the power of his economy and his military].
These have one mind [one policy; one agenda; they are in complete agreement],
and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
These shall make war with the Lamb,
and the Lamb shall overcome them [this DATES the prophecy insofar as the sequence of events;
it is the FINAL economic/military coalition prior to Christs return!]
: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings:
and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
And he saith unto me,The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,
For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will,
and to agree,
and give their kingdom unto the beast,until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth (Revelation 17:12-18).
To which great world capital city do the heads of state go?
To whom do they appeal?To the Dalai Llama?
To a representative of Islam, or Buddha?
No, they go to the pope in Rome!
It is this city, more than any other which has reigned over the kings of the earth.
Over the centuries, Rome has crowned them, or taken away their crowns.
The most revered human religious leader in the world today is the pope.He issues statements aboutthe wars of the world;about the Mideast;about politics and religion.
That
"church" is not hard to identify in the Bible.
The Bible uses
the word "woman" to sometimes
represents a church.
Now WHAT
CHURCH has had other Churches come OUT of her ?
... the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls,having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
and upon her forehead was a name written,MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
WHAT CHURCH
KILLED many for worshipping on the SABBATH ("Judaizing") and NOT accepting their SUNDAY rule ?
Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lord's Day;and, if they can, resting then as Christians.
But if any shall be found to be judaizers,
Read Dr. Samuele Bacchiochi
"From Sabbath to Sunday", pages 173 through Page 238, or the whole book.
Then read about how long ago (
about 530 BCE) this was
prophesied :
" ... he shall speak great words AGAINST the most High,and shall wear out the saints of the most High,and think to CHANGE TIMES and LAWS ..."
But
"THE GREAT WHORE" IS mentioned in the Bible.
SATAN HIMSELF has mislead many, and will deceiveth the whole world.
My guess is that he will do it through that church,
or AS MANY CHURCHES AS HE CAN !
Who
ENFORCED Canon 29 ? What do
you THINK ... that our Heavenly Father meant when He had
His messenger say:
" Come out of her, my people,that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues.
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Reward her even as she rewarded you,
and double unto her doubleaccording to her works:in the cup which she hath filled
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously,
so much torment and sorrow give her:for she saith in her heart,I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Therefore shall her plagues come in one day,death, and mourning, and famine;
and she shall be utterly burned with firefor strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. "
WHY did our Heavenly Father
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST (John 1:2) KILL all those people and cities in the Old Testament ?
Was it NOT
because of
their religion that
they REFUSED to OBEY GOD and OBEY HIS COMMANDMENTS ?
You really should THINK ABOUT
these things !
So,
can you begin to see vaguely through the darkened veil, now ?
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posted on
10/08/2015 4:53:08 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Jan_Sobieski
The Vatican is across the Tiber from the seven hills of Rome. Where are you getting this misinformation?
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posted on
10/08/2015 4:59:11 PM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: NYer
Who is the Whore of Babylon? Renee Ellmers
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posted on
10/08/2015 4:59:36 PM PDT
by
montag813
(Bring Back Tar and Feathers)
To: Yosemitest
And remember what is written concerning her complete and utter destruction, that it is visited upon her in the span of one hour. (Revelation 18:15-19)
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posted on
10/08/2015 5:05:00 PM PDT
by
semaj
(Audentes fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold. Be Bold FRiends.)
To: donna; huldah1776
Quote-The Whore of Babylon
There is one color that the whore isn’t wearing in Revelation 17 that was prominent for the priest- ephod of BLUE.
Not to mention the BLUE tassels..
Blue represents, according to scripture, a reminder of His Commandments.. Numbers 15:38-41
A ‘blue less’ woman/church/religion..
One that will not remember His Commands..
And frankly, that is bigger than one denomination of religion...
We have been told babel means confusion..
And that is exactly what the secular world and religious world peddles..
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