No musician or craftsmen to be found
Revelation 18:22 “And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;”
It’s the whole music industry here and all those who majored in arts here. As the Roman Catholic church burns to the ground, the Bible says that their musicians are not going to be heard anymore.
A lot of people don’t pay attention to Hollywood, they only look at Jews and they put all the blame on the Jews and that’s the reason why Jews will run all over the world. If you say that God will restore the nation of Israel and the Jewish people, they think that you’re Antichrist. No, it is the Antichrist that is against the Jews because the Jews repent and turn to God during the tribulation. The enemy is actually the Roman Catholic church, the Roman power.
If you pay attention to Hollywood and look at their religious background, you’d be surprised how many musicians or singers are Catholics. They may not be practicing Catholic but they were raised Catholics, they’ll have Catholic connection or they are sympathetic toward Catholics.
You won’t find a trace of any craftsman or those majoring in crafts there anymore. Let me tell you who majors a lot in crafts and they make money off of it, those are Catholic images. The Lord is definitely sending judgment upon the great whore where they will not be damning souls anymore.
Notice that the sound of a millstone is not going to be heard anymore.
If you’re thinking that the sound of millstone is rarer and rarer because of technology, it’s possible that it can be figurative or metaphorical meaning that the sound of their food economics or food industry is not going to be operating anymore.
But it could be possible where they’re still using millstones during the tribulation. If you think of a country that can still do that especially when you think about Italian food, they might still be using a lot of old-fashioned tools to produce genuine Italian meals.
Jeremiah 25:9-14 “Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations. Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle. And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations. And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations. For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.”
Pay attention, this proves that Babylon cannot be Israel. Remember the last part of Revelation 18:22 where the sound of the millstone shall be heard no more. Look at verse 23.
Revelation 18:23 “And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.”
Notice that this matches with Jeremiah 25:10. Some might think that this is referring to the nation of Israel but it’s already fulfilled in verse 10.
In verse 11, God says that was already accomplished during the 70 years of captivity under Babylon. Now God isn’t going to forget Babylon. In verses 12 and 13, all the judgment that He pronounced in verse 10 He’s going to return it to Babylon. He can’t do that back at the nation of Israel. This is proof that Jerusalem is different from Babylon, in Jeremiah 25, Babylon is not Jerusalem, Babylon conquered Jerusalem. Babylon receives its judgment, not Jerusalem, because they already fulfilled their judgment during the captivity.
Look at the words in Jeremiah 25, verse 13 ‘prophesied’. verse 14 ‘according to their deeds’. verse 9 and 12 ‘desolation’.
Later on in the teaching, you will find out that up in heaven, there is going to be a marriage supper of the Lamb, the voice of the bridegroom and the bride says come at Revelation 22. The bride here is the church, it’s not Israel.
Revelation 22:17 “And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.”
The bride and the bridegroom bid them come.
When you return to Revelation 18:23, the bride is not the Roman Catholic church, because the voice is all gone from the bridegroom and the bride.
The Bride of Satan
Here’s something enlightening, this might help you with your studies in the future. The Roman Catholic church is the bride of Satan. Satan always tries to imitate God. Notice that their wedding and their kingdom was first before God. Satan’s wedding (which is imitating God) was first before God, Satan’s kingdom on earth during the tribulation was first before God, he’s trying to imitate God.
When you hear liberal scholars try to point out myths or manuscripts that are older than the Bible and they use that as an argument that Christians or Old Testament Jews copied from pagans.
How do you not know that Satan was trying to imitate God so he did it first? You will notice throughout the Bible, Satan will try to do something first and then God’s people will do it later but that doesn’t mean that God’s people were copycatting the devil. The devil was copycatting God, he wanted his people to do it first so that he can claim ‘copyright’. Satan’s a thief and you need to watch out for that.
Back to Revelation 18:23, notice that Satan’s marriage is destroyed, it’s ruined.
In Revelation 17, Satan’s children turn against the mother, the 10 kings or demoniacs betrayed the mother and Satan himself betrayed his wife. That’s why you don’t want to join his family network because he’ll betray you. All he wants to do is to see you burn and fry in hell, be as miserable and sad as him when he burns in hell.
That’s the total opposite of God with His marriage. His children are invited, they’re eternally secured and His wife is the body of Jesus Christ and He can never betray her.
It’s heresy when people talk about God betraying His bride and beating her up during the tribulation and that you can lose your salvation.
It’s heresy when you talk about the church going through the tribulation or perseverance from the saints because you’re saying that God will treat His children and His bride the same way that Satan does to his bride and children.
And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee
There’s going to be no more lights in them.
What screams candles? Isn’t that the Roman Catholic church?
Bridegroom and bride, their voices aren’t going to be heard anymore.
Satan and his bride’s welcome invitation is going to be found no more. But this could apply to regular wedding ceremonies. What church practices that? Roman Catholic church. You can see a lot of religious ceremonies here, not just secular monetary economic systems. This is a religious and secular system combined in one city and there’s only one city you can think of as the best candidate out of the entire world and that is Vatican city, Rome.