We already know that the Bible is talking about a huge beast and the person who rides on the beast is a woman. We believe that this woman is referring to Babylon, also known as Roman Catholic church.
Why is the Roman Catholic church considered to be a whore?
That’s a pretty strong word. Why would the Lord call it that way?
If you look at history, the Roman Catholic church system is a continuation of what God’s looking at with pagan Rome. Pagan Rome was filled with idolatry and they persecuted Christians.
If you study history, you’re going to find out that the Roman Catholic system transitioned from a secular power to religious power. Secular leaders of Rome put on religious costumes and that’s where priests, bishops, and eventually popes came into existence. That is a matter of fact history, even in secular schools.
If you read one of their ancient writings, a great example is Beowulf, during that time they thought that the pagan god was the exact same as Jesus, the Christian’s God. At that time, they were mingling so much paganism with Roman Catholicism, and that’s where it became more of Roman Catholics.
During the first century, the Catholic church was not even called Catholic at that time. The system was born through that Roman system and that word came to be later on. Bishop and priests didn’t get their names in the early centuries even though they existed. They got those titles until much later on.
The Roman Catholic system has a history of paganism as well as persecution. Didn’t Rome persecute the Christians before it became the Roman Catholic church? Yes. The first persecution of Christians recognized in history was actually by the Roman Empire. That’s the official persecution. Concerning local persecution, we know it started with Stephen and his own people, the Jews.
The woman riding on the beast killed Christians
The woman is riding on a seven-headed beast. The woman is called Babylon by God but she is known as the Roman Catholic church.
One of the keys is its history of persecution.
Roman Catholic has an infamous history of persecution called the Inquisition.
During the timeline of the Inquisition, they literally killed, the smallest number is thousands, the largest number is millions. That’s even more than Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany.
Catholic scholars don’t like those numbers because it makes them look bad, eviler than Adolf Hitler. Because of that, they try to make excuses saying that it’s only thousands. If you compare the population statistics, they’ll record the Black Plague there, which obviously wiped out a huge amount of the world but you’re going to notice something strange where there’s still a huge drop of numbers and a very small growth.
When you total all of that, it’s actually millions. One of their arguments is that in order to do that, they had to burn hundreds or thousands of people in one day. Thing is, they did. They might argue saying that you can’t do that with every burning because when you burn a person at the stakes, it takes hours. Have they not heard of mass burnings? That’s what they were infamous for, they surrounded families, women, and children in one bonfire and burn them all up. That’s how they quickly finished the job.
The Jesuits, masters in tortures and undercover work
The Jesuits were especially infamous for specializing in tortures and doing conspiracy tactics.
The Jesuits were one of the earliest people, if not the earliest, who specialized in being undercover agents within politics, kings and governments. These guys are incredibly powerful because Jesuits are small-sized.
When you look at history, or even current events today, they dominate as scholars in universities. They are PhDs, they’re scholars, they’re brilliant guys who can speak several languages. The pope used to be a Jesuit.
They survived approximately 200 years of suppression. There were Protestant nations kicking out Jesuits and then it came down to Catholic nations, those guys had a high value of Jesuits but they kicked out two Jesuits. It was so bad that even the Pope himself kicked out the Jesuits. Why? Because that’s how brilliant these guys were, they were doing cup poisonings everywhere, assassination attempts, in fact in the Gunpowder plot, Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby were connected to Jesuits.
The best candidate for the woman – the Vatican
If you look at current events, name any system in the entire world today and even throughout history that is the best candidate or the best prospect of both religious and secular power, there’s only one city that has religious and political power. That’s the Vatican.
Not even Mecca and all other Muslim nations have that kind of capabilities. The pope is the one who holds ecumenical meetings with all kinds of religious systems around the world and the pope is the one who meets secular politicians and kings of nations.
There is no better candidate where you think about persecution, history, a combination of religious and political power. Not only that, their system is female.
What do they call the Roman Catholic church? They call it Mother church. Even common Catholics will ask why is it more about Mary rather than Jesus.
In Revelation 17, she is known as Babylon, she is known to have a cup in her hand, what religion believes in having a cup for worship service? She is also known for the blood of martyrs throughout history. This is all screaming plain as day that it’s the Roman Catholic church system.
Revelation 17:3 “So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.”
Notice that this is a scarlet colored beast that she is sitting on.
This beast is red in color, he has seven heads and ten horns.
Revelation 17:4 “And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:”
She is dressed in purple and red. What religious system has purple and red? Not only that, they would wear those colors while holding a cup.
What religious system decks themselves with gold and precious stones, pearls and holding a golden cup?
Notice that not only the woman is dressed in red, but the beast is dressed up in red. What demonic figure is a red-colored figure having seven heads and ten horns? Go back to Revelation 12:3, this is the particular beast that she’s riding on and that beast is Satan. The Roman Catholic church’s foundation is sitting on Satan, that’s how the Lord sees it.
Revelation 12:3 “And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.”
The Roman Catholic church is sitting in its seat, and its seat is Satan itself. If her seat is Satan, where is Satan’s seat? Remember the term ‘Satan’s seat’, we know that it has to be Rome. Everything adds up with the verses when you look at the best prospects in today’s timeline, in the past, and even scientifically predict in the future what their actions are going to be, and you can see it’s tied to the Roman Catholic church.
John is carried away in the spirit into the wilderness
Let’s go back to word by word study on verse 3.
Revelation 17:3 “So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.”
“So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness:”
So John is at a spiritual plane and God, in this spiritual power, takes John away into the wilderness.
Here’s something powerful about the book of Revelation, it’s not in a sequential timeline. Notice the word ‘he carried me away in the spirit’. What did we argue before when you divide Revelation by chapters? It’s not in chronological time events. You can’t divide it that way. You have to divide it literally as the book is titled: revelation.
Revelation means a spiritual vision or transaction. When God gives a spiritual revelation, He can carry you from one domain to a different domain, jump you to a different timeline, to a different person, to a different symbolism, to a literal place. That’s why it’s literally called revelation. This is evidence that this is not in time sequence, but more of a spiritual, visual moving, that’s the sequential order. When God speaks, He’s speaking in a spiritual plane. Spiritual plane is not bound by time, matter, space. It’s everywhere, that’s why the Holy Spirit can be everywhere, He’s not bound by the laws of science.
Verse 3 is proof of that. Here’s a bigger proof, Revelaton 16:9, Babylon is gone, falls to the ground and all of a sudden in chapter 17, it starts? No, that doesn’t make any sense at all. Look at verse 3 carefully, it says God has spiritually carried John to a wilderness, he’s in a different spiritual world.
The being has a lot of names of blasphemy
This being over here has a lot of names of blasphemy that you want to know about. Why is that very telling? Because the Antichrist wants to put his name on your forehead. The Antichrist’s beasts, not Satan’s beast in Revelation 13, has the name of blasphemy on his forehead.
Satan got names of blasphemy as well. For Satan, it’s not really known. For the Antichrist, we can guess “vicarius filii dei” or 666.
When you look scripture with scripture on ‘names of blasphemy’, the only clue you can find is “vicarius filii dei” 666. Not only that, Revelation 13 says that the mark of the beast’s name and number is 666, then perhaps this beast could have its name as 666 as well. But that’s not really known yet.
Revelation 17:4 “And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:”
We’ve explained everything here, that’s the description of the woman, but we’re going down to the last part.
In this cup it’s supposed to contain the liquid of her abomination and filthiness, that’s all the wicked things she did, of her fornication.
God spiritually refers to this in a sexual, perverted, luscious, wicked sense. In verse 2, we’ve already explained that this is referring to spiritual fornication. The point of fornication is mingling of one body to another, that’s the idea.
That’s what God is condemning in Ezekiel where Israel joined her body of a nation with other nations around her, making compromises, being ecumenical, making dealings, religiously and even politically.
Doesn’t the Vatican do this too? This is all screaming out that this is Roman Catholic church? This is no doubt referring to Babylon.
This means that this system is going to be the most powerful in the world by the time of the Antichrist. Right now it may not seem that way where the Vatican is the most powerful system in the world, but it is building up. In Revelation when the Antichrist comes, he will make it full-fledged.