Revelation 18:12 “The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,”
What kind of merchandise would the Catholic church take charge of? Look at the past 2,000 years of church history and you’ll see the Roman Empire, the Catholic church, even today, dominate all of this. They have gold and silver.
Gold is controlled by globalists, but when you go to the religious background of the globalist, you won’t just find them with famous bankers, you’re going to find it eventually at a Jesuit or a Roman Catholic individual.
A lot of people want to aim for Rothschild who is part of the Jewish system and he’s known as an extremely wealthy banker, his title is the guardian of the Vatican’s Treasury.
No matter how high you go, you’ll see something Catholic involved, that’s where all the gold is going.
Just look at their buildings, that’s where all the materials (precious stones) are going to go.
Which church always emphasizes beads (pearls)?
What religion emphasizes fine linen?
What religion emphasizes purple?
This is all screaming Catholic. You can’t say America, it’s wrong.
What religion emphasizes silk, the red-colored robe of scarlet?
Thyine wood is a special part of wood that’s becoming very rare in the land of Palestine, which we recognize as Israel. Within Israel, it is a rare element and it was given that name by two groups of people in the biblical time. This wood was very precious to them for burning sacrifices.
Babylon has a sacrifice with the golden cup and that’s the Catholic Mass, they have the blood of the tribulation saints whom they offered as sacrifices as explained in Revelation 6. This precious thyine wood is named by the Romans.
Notice the verse says ALL thyine wood, because it’s a rare type of material that they use for merchandise.
What religion would have all sorts of vessels in their church?
Dishes, cups, etc. Roman Catholic church again.
All sorts of previous materials, ivory and wood. And brass, iron and marble.
Look at the Catholic church buildings and cathedrals, they would consist of all these rich vessels, precious wood, marble, iron, brass etc everywhere.
Revelation 18:13 “And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.”
All sorts of ointments and smells. You got the perfumes.
That’s a special kind that our Lord Jesus Christ was given.
Frank-incense, frankly speaking is what they occasionally use for incense.
What religion uses incense quite often?
That’s Roman Catholic church.
What religion emphasizes wine?
What religion emphasizes in using fine flour and wheat?
Notice the Bible talks about how the Babylon system has all sorts of livestock, beasts, sheep, horses and chariots.
Here’s the question, if it’s talking about not just current materials and goods that you can find today, it’s still talking about foreign objects which should have been extinct a long time ago. There’s no such thing as a chariot today so why would there be a chariot during the timeline of the tribulation?
That’s why it’s very important to understand that when you look at the words in your King James Bible, you cannot just automatically assume that a chariot would be a chariot. Just like when they talk about a certain weapon, a sword or a spear as a literal sword or spear. You have to understand all branches of hermeneutics biblical interpretation. During the timeline of John, there was no such thing as a Mustang. John wouldn’t know that in his vocabulary and if he wrote that during his timeline, people would not understand that.
When they talk about a flight that the Jews took to flee from the Antichrist, John mentions flight but he doesn’t mention airplane or helicopter. Why? Because people understand what flight means. In our current day and age we know what flight means, it would be through an airplane. The author is trying to use the best wording that people would understand when they read the Bible because the Bible is not written to us, very special modern 21st century people only. The Bible is written for people of all timelines. So when you look at these words, don’t let it confuse you and don’t bring a wrong interpretation. Sometimes the right interpretation can be metaphorical, figurative interpretation. How do we know that it will be figurative and not literal, is by looking at the context and the historical context as well.
The Antichrist is going to have slaves. Not only that, they have souls as well. Why?
In the tribulation, you have to maintain and protect your soul because salvation is by faith and works. They have to keep their soul from following the Antichrist system and that’s why the Antichrist will persecute these tribulation saints by making them slaves. He’s going to enslave them, not just torture and kill them. Under so much persecution and pressure, they have to maintain their salvation.
James 5:4 “Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.”
James 5:6 “Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.”
He’s talking about rich people in verse 1, that’s why the elite system will join the Antichrist system. If you’re a poor person in the tribulation timeline, it’s guaranteed you’re going to be a tribulation saint, you’re not going to be a rich person. Why? Because you can’t buy or sell without the mark of the beast, you’re going to be dead poor. Not only that, they condemn and kill the just in verse 6.
Verse 3 shows the timeline is tribulation, last days.
Verse 7 talks about the coming of the Lord, he’s telling the people to be patient until Jesus comes.
Verse 8 says to be patient because they’re maintaining their souls and they have to help each other in protecting each other’s souls.
Verses 19 and 20 are protecting the souls of fellow brethren through this patience during the timeline of tribulation.
That’s why the last part of Revelation 18:13, the Roman Catholic church has damned too many souls so the Lord damns her in return in double.