Revelation 17:1-6
THE KINGDOM OF ANTI-CHRIST SYMBOLIZED BY THE GREAT HARLOT. The vision of the great harlot:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE KINGDOM OF ANTI-CHRIST SYMBOLIZED BY THE GREAT HARLOT. The vision of the great harlot:... [ Continue Reading ]
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,... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO HE CARRIED ME AWAY IN THE SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS. AND I SAW A WOMAN SIT UPON A SCARLET-COLORED BEAST, FULL OF NAMES OF BLASPHEMY, HAVING SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE WOMAN WAS ARRAYED IN PURPLE AND SCARLET COLOR, AND DECKED WITH GOLD AND PRECIOUS STONES AND PEARLS, HAVING A GOLDEN CUP IN HER HAND FULL OF ABOMINATIONS AND FILTHINESS OF HER FORNICATION;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND UPON HER FOREHEAD WAS A NAME WRITTEN, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I SAW THE WOMAN DRUNKEN WITH THE BLOOD OF THE SAINTS AND WITH THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS OF JESUS; AND WHEN I SAW HER, I WONDERED WITH GREAT ADMIRATION. Although this chapter makes the impression of an independent vision, it is very closely connected with the foregoing chapter and with the plagues... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO ME, WHEREFORE DIDST THOU MARVEL? I WILL TELL THEE THE MYSTERY OF THE WOMAN AND OF THE BEAST THAT CARRIETH HER, WHICH HATH THE SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS.... [ Continue Reading ]
The mystery of the woman:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BEAST THAT THOU SAWEST WAS AND IS NOT; AND SHALL ASCEND OUT OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT AND GO INTO PERDITION; AND THEY THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH SHALL WONDER, WHOSE NAMES WERE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, WHEN THEY BEHOLD THE BEAST THAT WAS AND IS NOT AND YET IS. T... [ Continue Reading ]
The explanation of the heads, the beasts, and the horns:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HERE IS THE MIND WHICH HATH WISDOM. THE SEVEN HEADS ARE SEVEN MOUNTAINS ON WHICH THE WOMAN SITTETH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE ARE SEVEN KINGS; FIVE ARE FALLEN, AND ONE IS, AND THE OTHER IS NOT YET COME; AND WHEN HE COMETH, HE MUST CONTINUE A SHORT SPACE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE BEAST THAT WAS AND IS NOT, EVEN HE IS THE EIGHTH, AND IS OF THE SEVEN, AND GOETH INTO PERDITION.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE HAVE ONE MIND, AND SHALL GIVE THEIR POWER AND STRENGTH UNTO THE BEAST.... [ Continue Reading ]
THESE SHALL MAKE WAR WITH THE LAMB, AND THE LAMB SHALL OVERCOME THEM; FOR HE IS THE LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF KINGS; AND THEY THAT ARE WITH HIM ARE CALLED AND CHOSEN AND FAITHFUL. As the angel tells John, it is not an easy matter to understand the mystery here revealed: Here is the mind that has wi... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAITH UNTO ME, THE WATERS WHICH THOU SAWEST, WHERE THE WHORE SITTETH, ARE PEOPLES AND MULTITUDES AND NATIONS AND TONGUES.... [ Continue Reading ]
The conclusion of the explanation:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE TEN HORNS WHICH THOU SAWEST UPON THE BEAST, THESE SHALL HATE THE WHORE, AND SHALL MAKE HER DESOLATE AND NAKED, AND SHALL EAT HER FLESH, AND BURN HER WITH FIRE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR GOD HATH PUT IN THEIR HEARTS TO FULFILL HIS WILL, AND TO AGREE, AND GIVE THEIR KINGDOM UNTO THE BEAST, UNTIL THE WORDS OF GOD SHALL BE FULFILLED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE WOMAN WHICH THOU SAWEST IS THAT GREAT CITY WHICH REIGNETH OVER THE KINGS OF THE EARTH. The angel here takes up his interpretation anew, in order to give the explanation of certain features of the picture shown above: And he says to me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot is sitti... [ Continue Reading ]