Ten Horns Seven Heads And A Harlot

Certain events in the bible are written in a manner that may be hard to assimilate. It is often helpful to ask God in a prayerful manner to reveal those things which are hidden and difficult to understand. One of the keys to the events recorded in the Book of Revelation is first understanding that it is written in layer-upon-layer like a painting, with each overlay there are other elements added that complete the picture. It can also be seen like a cut diamond on which there are many facets, all of which are part of the same stone. In the previous commentary entitled “The Dragon And The Beast,” a picture begins to emerge which hasn’t been evident until the advent of recent world events presenting additional facets of an unfolding mystery.

And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems upon its horns and a blasphemous name upon its heads. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority. One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth followed the beast with wonder. Men worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?” (Revelation 13: 1-4)

The beast rising out of the sea refers to the United Nations, a world organization much greater in size and scope than the previous ruling empires that historically had dominion over the known world, described as a leopard with a mouth like a lion’s and feet like a bear, they are biblical references to ancient Babylon, Media-Persia and Greece. The United Nations (1) is asserting authority over the entire world including all nations and seas. The ten horns (2) represent ten geographic world regions assigned by the UN. The seven heads (3) represent the seven advanced manufacturing and economic leaders of the world known as G-7 which is France, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada. (4) Russia was added in 1997 as an eighth member but was suspended on March 2014 following the annexation of Crimea and the organization reverted back to being the G-7. One of the heads seeming to have a mortal wound was Germany, (5) and was healed nationally when the Berlin wall came down in November 9,1989. The Dragon as previously noted is Satan’s emissary in Rome, he is blasphemously referred to as (6) “The Holy Father and His Holiness,” titles belonging only to God. He has condemned the believer’s personal relationships with Jesus thus constituting a patent denial of Christ and magnified himself altering the traditional role of Pope while operating outside the will of God. He invited Muslims to read the Satan inspired verses from the Quran and pray to a false god at the Vatican and is condoning abortion, the murder of millions, (7) he is exhibiting all the identifying marks of Antichrist. He continues to extol the virtues of the United Nations as the world’s singular governing authority and is in the process of surrendering his own authority to the UN while positioning millions of his faithful followers under its direct authority, the Pope positioning himself as the UN’s de facto religious leader.

Revelation chapter 17 and 18 adds yet a more layers to the same picture, more facets on the diamond. We won’t venture to unravel it all, other than to examine the following verses: 

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who is seated upon many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and with the wine of whose fornication the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and bedecked with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication; and on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of earth’s abominations.” (Revelation 17: 1-5)

Some Protestants insist that the harlot is a reference to the Catholic Church but that is far too simple an explanation, and stems from misplaced resentment and a limited sense of the entire picture. The harlot seated on many waters is indicative of an entity riding high above the other nations, in total control economically and militarily. She is sitting on a scarlet beast with seven heads and ten horns (United Nations and G-7). The woman is described as being arrayed in purple, bedecked with gold, jewels and pearls signifying great wealth. Bear with me, but this brings to mind the description of a song about a great nation (8) cloaked in purple mountains majesty above fruited plains with golden waves of grain, the picture of a wealthy and prosperous nation. 

On her forehead the name of mystery, “Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of earth’s abominations.” This name conjures up the great ziggurat known as the Tower of Babel which was an early attempt by men to raise a tower reaching the heavens thinking there was no end of the things they could achieve. Lucifer had once  magnified himself above God when he said, ’I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High.” (Isaiah 14: 13-14) It had been an affront to God, and recognizing that attitude He destroyed the tower and scattered mankind, confusing their language leaving them speaking in many different tongues. 

Later in time when the Babylonian Empire had subdued the known world, King Nebuchadnezzar who reigned (634-562) built a fabulous city whereupon he also magnified himself above God and immediately was rendered insane as recorded in the Book of Daniel, and again in the annals of ancient history. (9 & 10) Babylon fell to the Persian King Cyrus the Great in 539 BC. These are just the forerunners of the advent of a new and even greater world system made in the image of Babylon where men of all nations, tribes and tongues have reconvened, united and speaking the same universal language, having unlimited aspirations of controlling the world and eventually even the stars.

“The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is to ascend from the bottomless pit and go to perdition; and the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will marvel to behold the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.” (Revelation 17:8)

To understand this we must take into account that the Tower of Babylon and later the Babylonian Empire once existed, (it was) and no longer exists and (is not) , but (is to come) and has again resurfaced in essence as the United Nations, espousing the same willful hubris as before.

The following passages lead one to believe that the nation that has controlled the fortunes and destiny of other nations, condoning all manner of licentiousness, moral corruption and decay, including the murder of untold millions of children in their mother’s wombs, and whose majority have turned their faces away from God, has most likely come under judgment. The destruction of the World Trade center is significant of what may come.

And he said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the harlot is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the harlot; they will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire, for God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by being of one mind and giving over their royal power to the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. And the woman that you saw is the great city which has dominion over the kings of the earth.” (Revelation 17: 15-18)

1.  http://www.un.org/en/index.html

      

2.  http://sciencing.com/10-geographic-regions-world-8774247.html

     

3.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Seven

4.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Eight

     

5.  https://www.thoughtco.com/the-berlin-wall-28-year-history-1779495

    

6.  http://aliveinchrist040801.tripod.com/titleblas.htm

    

7.  https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-welcomes-visit-from-noted-italian-abortion-promoter

    

8.  http://www.usa-flag-site.org/song-lyrics/america/

    

9.  https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=Daniel&qs_version=RSV

    

10.  http://www.ancient.eu/Nebuchadnezzar_II/

The Dragon And The Beast

There are millions of Catholics the world over who are devout Christians and followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, this goes without saying and is indisputable. So let me say at the outset that this is not an attack on Catholics who are our brothers and sisters in Christ. We know that many are vexed and disappointed by the continual revelation of pedophilia and other sinful behavior by the clergy when they should be examples of a higher standard, but there are even more serious issues that require our attention, understanding and prayerful consideration. 

Not long ago in 2014, Pope Francis shocked Catholics around the world by holding an Islamic prayer and Quran recital in the Vatican. For the first time in Vatican history, the Pope allowed for the reading of Islamic prayers and Quran readings from the Catholic facility. The readings and prayers came as Pope Francis met with former Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the Vatican. His decision to declare the Bible and the Quran the same and allow Islamic prayer in the Vatican directly contradicts Biblical teaching. The Pope’s attempt to absorb a heathen religion, the most anti-Christian, Jew hating, murderous, Satanic religion on the face of the earth is a direct affront to God, His Son Jesus Christ, and faithful Christians around the world.

“I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and turning to a different gospel, not that there is another gospel, but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed.

Am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ. (Galatians 1:6-10)

Francis should not be, and is not a legitimate servant of Christ as he seeks the favor of men which is contrary to his calling as he seeks to subjugate a worldwide congregation under the control of the United Nations. His Catholic credentials are doubtful as is his Christianity.

“Children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come; therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out, that it might be plain that they all are not of us. But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all know. I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and know that no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also. Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is what he has promised us, eternal life.” (1John 2:18-25)

Breaking with centuries of Christian tradition, Pope Francis recently told a crowd of 33,000 Catholics in Rome, “Having a personal, direct, immediate relationship with Jesus Christ is dangerous and very harmful and must be avoided at all costs.” This is a patent denial of Christ that raises fears that Francis assumption of the Papal leadership from Pope Benedict XVI was an unprecedented move which may be part of a sinister agenda, it now appears that the Catholic Church is  sanctioning the worship of another god under the guise of liberal tolerance, a direct contradiction of God’s word.

Jesus said,“I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also; henceforth you know him and have seen him.” (John 14:6-7) “I and the Father are one.” (John 10:30)

“So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven; but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.”Matthew 10:32-33)

In a speech, which took place on June 25, 2017 Pope Francis stated, “The United States of America has a distorted vision of the world as he called for a one world government and political authority. He argued that the creation of a one world government is necessary to combat major world issues and that the UN must be granted full governmental control “for the good of humanity.” The globalization movement is the process of transitioning the nations of the world into a global government. World religious leaders, led by the Vatican are playing their part in this great deception and proclaiming the need for a New World Order with global financial control. The climate change and global warming hoax ascribed to by Pope Francis is the elite’s preferred method of an attempt to shepherd humanity closer to unified totalitarian rule. The Jesuit Pope is a key player in the plan to usher in a New World Order, determined to mislead his flock while catering to the global cabal.

The Book of Revelation is written allegorically and is frightening and difficult to understand by the casual reader, we won’t get into it although chapter 13 talks about the Dragon and the Beast in reference to the last days preceding the second coming of Christ. Suffice it to say that these two entities referred to are relevant to these times and events. The Dragon has always been a descriptive name for Satan and extends to his activities in whatever form he wishes to take, even in the personification of a mortal man. The Dragon referred to in chapter 13 has great authority and is highly revered by multitudes around the world. There is now a final world system referred to biblically as “The Beast,” it is a composite of all of the great world systems that went before it. The Dragon then will be worshipped by his followers when he gives over all of his authority to the Beast, this is what is now happening!

Keep in mind that salvation does not come as a result of a membership in any organization, and one’s membership in any specific church or denomination is not God’s criteria for mankind, on the contrary. God’s criteria is and always has been a personal and abiding relationship with Christ. 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.” (John 3:16-17) 

“But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.” (John 1:12)