Revelation 17:6
"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."
We left off last time that the colors, scarlet and purple are the colors of the Papacy. We are also told that the woman was "drunken with the blood of the Saints, and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus." While this refers more to the martyrs of the time of Antichrist, yet who knows, who has studied the history of the Christian church for the past nineteen centuries, to say this is true of the Papal Church during those centuries? We only need to read the history of the persecutions of the early Christians and more particularly the story of the "Inquisition" in Papal lands, to see that the Papal Church has been "drunk" with the blood of the Saints.
The fact that the Woman sits on a 'Scarlet Colored Beast" reveals the fact that at that time the "Beast" (Antichrist) will support the woman in her pretensions, or others words, the Woman as a "State Church," will control and rule the State. Her long dream of world-wide Supremacy will at last be realized, for John tells us that "the waters which thou sawest, where the 'Whore' sitteth, are Peoples, and Multitudes, and Nations, and Tongues."
That means that after the "True Church" (the Bride of Christ) is taken out of this world; then the "False or "Papal Church" (The bride of Antichrist) will remain, and the professing body of Christians (having the "form of Godliness without the power") that is left behind will become the Universal Church.. But this will continue for only a short time, because the "Ten Kings" "of the Federated Kingdom," finding their power, will "Hate the "Whore," and strip her of her gorgeous apparel, take her wealth (eat her flesh) and burn her churches and cathedrals with fire. Rev:17:16.
This will take place at the time the worship of the Beast is set up, because Antichrist in his jealous hate will not permit any worship that does not center on him. Now the Beast which the Woman sits on is to show from whom the Woman (The Papal Church) gets her power and support after the true church has been "caught out," and also to show that the Beast (Antichrist) and the Woman (The Church) are not the same , but separate. Therefore The Papacy is not Antichrist.
So from the foreview of the Papacy we see that the Papal Church is not a dying "System." She is to be revived and become a "Universal Church," and in doing so is to commit fornication with the Kings of the Earth, and that she will again be "drunk with the blood" of the martyrs of the Tribulation Period. So now the meaning of Chapter seventeen of the Book of Revelation is no longer a Mystery. The prophetic portrait of the Woman, corresponds too closely with the history of the Papal Church to be a mere coincidence. Tomorrow we begin Chapter eighteen; "The Fall of Babylon," "The Great City."
Amen!!
Reading: (Rev. 17:6-18)
Ref: (HGSB, BSB)
(C.Larkin)
(Inquisition - Wikipedia Online)
That means that after the "True Church" (the Bride of Christ) is taken out of this world; then the "False or "Papal Church" (The bride of Antichrist) will remain, and the professing body of Christians (having the "form of Godliness without the power") that is left behind will become the Universal Church.. But this will continue for only a short time, because the "Ten Kings" "of the Federated Kingdom," finding their power, will "Hate the "Whore," and strip her of her gorgeous apparel, take her wealth (eat her flesh) and burn her churches and cathedrals with fire. Rev:17:16.
This will take place at the time the worship of the Beast is set up, because Antichrist in his jealous hate will not permit any worship that does not center on him. Now the Beast which the Woman sits on is to show from whom the Woman (The Papal Church) gets her power and support after the true church has been "caught out," and also to show that the Beast (Antichrist) and the Woman (The Church) are not the same , but separate. Therefore The Papacy is not Antichrist.
So from the foreview of the Papacy we see that the Papal Church is not a dying "System." She is to be revived and become a "Universal Church," and in doing so is to commit fornication with the Kings of the Earth, and that she will again be "drunk with the blood" of the martyrs of the Tribulation Period. So now the meaning of Chapter seventeen of the Book of Revelation is no longer a Mystery. The prophetic portrait of the Woman, corresponds too closely with the history of the Papal Church to be a mere coincidence. Tomorrow we begin Chapter eighteen; "The Fall of Babylon," "The Great City."
Amen!!
Reading: (Rev. 17:6-18)
Ref: (HGSB, BSB)
(C.Larkin)
(Inquisition - Wikipedia Online)
May God Bless You
And Your Family
Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
The Cross Life Ministry
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