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To: af_vet_1981
Revelation 18 is talking about the Roman Catholic Church.The woman that rides the beast. Mystery, Babylon the Great, The Mother of Harlots and abominations of the earth.

Revelation 17:9 This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits.

"It is within the city of Rome, called the city of seven hills, that the entire area of Vatican State proper is now confined." [The Catholic Encyclopedia (Thomas Nelson, 1976), s.v. "Rome."]

"Babylon is a code word for Rome. It is used that way six times in the last book of the Bible [four of the six are in chapters 17 and 18 and in extrabiblical works such as Sibylling Oracles (5, 159f.), the Apocalypse of Baruch (ii, 1), and 4 Esdras (3:1). Eusebius Pamphilius, writing about 303, noted that "it is said that Peter's first epistle... was composed at Rome itself; and that he himself indicates this, referring to the city figuratively as Babylon." [Karl Keating, Catholicism and Fundamentalism: The Attack on "Romanism" by "Bible Christians" (Ignatius Press, 1988), p. 200.]

Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

100 posted on 11/25/2014 11:53:09 AM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: CynicalBear

I asked you to give your interpretation of Revelation 18:8-10.
Can you do that ?


101 posted on 11/25/2014 12:03:26 PM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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