John's astounding vision of the Harlot, the first persecutor of true Christian witnesses in the coming end-time drama.
- By Dr. Gavin Finley
- endtimepilgrim.org
For the first 3.5 years of the future 70th Week
she rides the NWO beast with ten horns.
The Harlot "rides".
In chapter 17 of the Apocalypse, (the Revelation of Jesus Christ), John the Beloved, who has been imprisoned on the island of Patmos, sees an open vision which amazes him. He sees an unfaithful woman, a harlot, riding a beast with ten horns. She holds in her hand the Cup of the Covenant which she has profaned and defiled. John sees the harlot riding the ten horned scarlet red beast as it comes up out of the wilderness.
Quite clearly this is a vision of things to come, and the Harlot a metaphor, a type and shadow of a future global regime. It is a prophecy, not just of things past, but a show-and-tell of unfolding world history, a world that is to be unified, and under a global governance not yet seen.
Revelation 17
1 "Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying,
"Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters,
2. with whom the kings of the earth committed {acts of} immorality,
and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality."
3. And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness;
and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names,
having seven heads and ten horns.
4. The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and
precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of
abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality,
5. and on her forehead a name {was} written,
a mystery, "BABYLON THE GREAT, the MOTHER of HARLOTS
and of the ABOMINATIONS of the EARTH."
6. And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints,
and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus.
When I saw her, I wondered greatly.
7. And the angel said to me,
"Why do you wonder?
I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her,
which has the seven heads and the ten horns."
The Harlot rides a beast beast with seven heads.
They are seven mountains, 7 empires, 7 kings.
This world has so far seen six global empires.
The seventh head is yet to emerge into world history.
The beast has seven heads. So as we cross-reference John's vision of Revelation 17 and the beast with seven heads with the metallic image of Nebuchadnezzar's dream/nightmare in Daniel chapter 2 showcasing five of the seven of these past world empires we can see that the Harlot of compromise and idolatry has indeed been seen at her work of seduction since ancient times, even ancient Babylon. So, adding the former river-based kingdoms of Assyria and Egypt to the five we see given to us in Daniel chapter 2 we can now count off the seven heads.
1 Assyria
2 Egypt
3 Babylon
4 Medo-Persia
5 Greece
6 Rome
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7 The coming New World Order
From Daniel 2 - Feet of iron and clay, of ten toes,
and
From Revelation 17, Daniel 7, and Revelation 13, - ten horns.
Seven heads, seven mountains, seven empires, seven kings
Jesus speaks with the Samaritan woman at the well, telling her of her having had five husbands, and the sixth not being a husband to her at all.
In the biblical prophetic narrative Israel is described as a woman, going back to when Israel split up into two kingdoms at the Breach of Jeroboam. In this dual interpretation Jesus was describing the relationship of His covenant people to the global ruling empires, as well as personally to the Samaritan woman.
The destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. under the Roman General Titus was horrific beyond telling. Mercenaries in the Roman Army went on a killing rampage and the streets ran with blood. Over a million died, including women and children. The Temple was destroyed, and against the orders of the Roman generals. This confirmed the prophecy of Daniel 9:26 that it was "the people of the prince who is to come" who will destroy "the City and the Sanctuary."
For 300 years Christians suffered at the hands of Rome, notably in the arena, and coming to a peak with the Caesar Diocletian. The early Church or Congregation of Israel had no sovereign at that time to act as defender of the faith. But the numbers coming to Christ only increased. Rome eventually had to change tactics with the Balaam initiative and a compromise was brokered at the Council of Nicaea.
In 325 A.D. the Byzantine Roman Emperor Constantine invited the elders of the Christian Church to a conference. The Council of Nicaea married the dominant sectors of the Church to Rome
establishing the Christian Church as the official state religion. This Constantinian Accord has lasted 1700 years. The wars between the Western nations ended in 1945 and with patriotism on the decline patriarchal nationalism is giving way to a
matriarchal internationalism. Global unification as a progressive endeavor has been on the way for a long time. It is a tall order and has never been done successfully before. There is hope that AI and modern technology will resolve the language and cultural barriers that Nimrod encountered in his bid for global unity over four millennia ago back at the Tower of Babel.
So, the world is on an unstable approach to some form of international governance. The patriarchy is much bally-hooed these days and so an earthy matriarchal New Age Aquarian ethos is on the rise. Mother Earth eco-religion also seems to be motivated to step forward and to sooth the savage beast.
As we are seeing with the Abraham Accords a compromised consortium of multi-faith religion looks to be heavily involved. The New Apostolic Reformation and a post-millennialist eschatology under "Kingdom Now" do not seem to be too concerned about the compromise, the power, the wealth, and where all this might lead. They have a world to win, a Church Universal and Triumphant to hammer home, and before Messiah returns. As they see it, they do not have a moment to lose. So, even now, they are ready to mount up, and "take dominion".
Dominion Theology is the new mindset among many ambitious politically active Christians, including the older denomination Calvinist Reconstructionists and the dominionists among the New Charismatics. They seem ready to assume some authority abroad, even on a global scale. A growing cadre of "coexist" hopefuls seem to be primed and ready to sign on alongside a mixed company of international ministries and other contractors. All of these faith-based NGO's are ready to join up to form the new committee based global governance when it emerges.
The Harlot rides the beast with ten horns.
They belong on the final 7th head of the beast.
Today the world is divided into ten-bio-regions.
So, just as the beast comes to its manifestation in the latter days with the seventh head it sprouts ten horns.
Then the Harlot mounts up to ride the thing.
Today the world is divided up into ten geo-political bio-regions, for banking and economical purposes. As we see with the New World Order Map this global subdivision was planned and mapped out back before World-War II.
The New World Order Map
The ten horns representing these ten global bio-regions are regional principalities, and gathering power, even now. But they have no sovereign power to rule as of yet. That will come later when the horns receive their crowns for sovereign rule for a short time with the Antichrist.
So, as the ten powers, ten horns emerge they will initially become useful at the hands of the Harlot. Because she will be the one tapped to usher in the New World Order. The Antichrist himself will not be revealed and become manifest to assume global power in his own right until later. That will be at the mid-point of the future 70th Week of Daniel.
A Harlot of compromised religion is tapped to usher in the New World Order.
Here in Rev. 17 John sees the beast and the harlot on the scene together. Indeed the harlot is holding the reins here. She is the one riding or reigning over the ten horned end time global beast in this early time slot.. This must be in the time period before the ten horns are given crowns, that is, before they are given their own sovereign authority and the political power to rule. (Rev.13) When John viewed the harlot in Revelation 17 the ten horns did not have crowns or diadems. They did not have their own sovereignty. As John sees the vision of the harlot riding the beast in Rev.17:12 the angel Gabriel reports to John that the ten horns had "not yet received a kingdom". This solidly places the harlot in the first half of the future 70th Week of Daniel, in those first 3.5 years of the New World Order.
So as John sees the vision of the beast carrying the harlot in Revelation 17 the beast system is on the scene but not ruling as of yet. As we see, the beast is still under some constraint, and is not yet fully revealed for who he truly is. Nor has the 666 beast demon of the Abyss, full of abominations, been released to assume rule in his own right. In this earlier time window the Harlot is riding and covering the beast. So we are bound to conclude that this vision of the Harlot emerges into world history in an earlier time frame than the ten horned and ten crowned beast John sees in Revelation 13.
John was quite amazed and initially even in admiration at what he was seeing. The harlot is "taking dominion". She is riding, and quite clearly in control of the ten horned beast system. How on earth did this turn of events happen?
The collapse of the 1700 year Constaninian Accord,
the loss of the ethos of God and king, God and country.
And the beginnings of the end-time apostasy of 2Thessalonians 2.
The opening of the gates to the Harlot of Revelation 17.
Well, it is not as if we were not informed of this ahead of time. The apostle John reports Jesus/Yeshua as saying,
John 5
43 "I have come in My Father’s name,
and you do not receive Me;
if another comes in his own name,
him you will receive."
On another occasion Jesus rebuked the religious leaders of the time for their lack of diligence as watchmen.
Matthew 16
2 Jesus answered and said to them,
“When it is evening you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red’;
3 And in the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’
Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times."
The 1700 year old Constantinian Accord is a co-ruling agreement of "politics and religion", or "God and king", or
"God and Country". This dates back to 325 A.D. at the Council of Nicaea.
Many today wish that it could go on forever. But it cannot. It was a compromise from the beginning. And it has a shelf-life. It is now descending into a state that is corrupt and quite unsustainable.
The ten horned beast is cross-referenced for us from other prophetic scriptural passages. Notably we see the ten horned beast again as the fourth beast of Daniel chapter 7. Here we have a clear picture of the emergence of the New World Order system. And as we notice, the word "qodam" in Daniel chapter 7 verse 7 means that the fourth beast is "in the presence of" the lion with eagle's wings, the bear, and the leopard, forcing us to identify them as modern superpowers, in company with the same ten horned New World Order beast system the prophet Daniel had seen 600 years before John.
The horns in biblical symbology represent powers, those being political, economic, technocratic, religious, or whatever. These forces and influences in the culture are pushing the narrative but still less than sovereign and authoritative.. But as the Harlot rides the beast there is not doubt that for a period of time SHE is very definitely the one exercising sovereignty. She has a global reach, assuming and exerting power over the nations, represented by the waters. This must be a picture of the New World Order as it opens up during those first 3.5 years, the first half, of the future 70th week of Daniel. There is no other place on the end-time timeline on which she can be placed.
The branch of the Covenant people now becoming identified as the Harlot does not seem to hold the cup of communion in holiness. She seems to have forgotten her earlier allegiance and devotion to the Holy One of Israel. In the former times, even these past 1700 years since the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. God's covenant people had given some degree of devotion and allegiance to Him. If that were not so then the assertive dominionist faction of the church would not have been labeled as an adulterer and a harlot. But that is precisely what seems to be happening as we enter into the end-time drama.
A Great Reset, in the final instance is God's Great Reset.
He is the sovereign ruler over all of unfolding holy history.
The World Economic Forum speaks of a Great Reset. But it is actually God's Great Reset, and not man's. The elites simply match God's moves on the chessboard, as they must. The sovereign God of Holy History is in control of unfolding events. Even now He is set to take world history on beyond the 1700 year Constantinian Accord into the future 70th Week of Daniel and the final seven years of this age.
So, from all these passages, Daniel 7, Revelation 17, and Revelation 13 we see that Daniel and John both bring us reports of this ten horned global political entity. Both Daniel and John report that the Beast will persecute the saints, those being the people saved and sealed under the Eternal Covenant of the God of Israel.
We can clearly see that the ten horned beast will take the stage of world history as we cross the Daniel 9:27 threshold. This epic future transition out of the Constantinian ethos of "God and Country" is further confirmed when we come to see that the seven years are 2550 days marked out precisely by the Fall Feasts and the final 7 years of this age.
This ten horned beast entity rules over the world late in the history of this age. We know this from what Daniel reports in Daniel chapter 2. The ten horns on the beast correspond with the ten toes of the statue in Nebuchadnezzar's dream/nightmare. Then as we move on to the climax of the story in chapter 2, as the prophet Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar's dream, the Smiting Stone, the returning Christ in His Second Coming comes and strikes the statue on its feet. This impact totally destroys the whole statue and the Stone becomes the Millennial Kingdom to come.
The smiting stone of Daniel chapter 2
and the Second Coming of Messiah
And so ends the heathen Gentile rule of fallen men. On that day the "Times of the Gentiles" are fulfilled. We know for a certainty that this is the epic, climactic, conclusive, apocalyptic end-time event. Because Daniel was told about this quite clearly.
DANIEL 2
34 "You watched while a stone was cut out without hands,
which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together,
and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors;
the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found.
And the Stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
44 And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed;
And the Kingdom shall not be left to other people;
It shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms,
And it shall stand forever."
So the Harlot, the wayward, headstrong, compromised and debauched faction of Western Christendom, along with national Israel in Judah will divide up the Holy Land. Both of them must be involved in making a deal with this ten horned beast, the end time New World Order system.
We should not be too surprised about this.
Jesus/Yeshua told us that this is how it will all come down.
When John sees the Harlot riding the ten-horned beast in an apparent erstwhile relationship of dominion he is amazed. The angel asks him why he views her in such wonderment. Then he goes on to tell Daniel the rest of the story, and what happens to her at the end.
The prophet Daniel had prophesied 600 years earlier that many of those God had been calling to Himself will be drawn in. They will "go with the crowd" and "get with the strength" to confirm a strong covenant with a brute and a pretender. (Dan.9:27) Jesus Himself told us that many would choose unwisely to go with a person who comes in his own name. (John 5:43) Daniel said that "many" would sign on with him on that 7 year treaty. (Dan.9:27)
These will be times to try men's souls. "Many" who would say that they are God's covenant people will will respond in fear rather than in faith. They will "go AWOL", balk at the end-time witness, and desert the faith in the great falling away. Our Apostle Paul tells us that there will be a mass apostasy. Even those who had previously said that they were Christians and loyal to the God of Israel will go over to another, even ally themselves with a false messiah. See (2Thes.2:3).
Here we see the classic penultimate case of 'Beauty and the beast'. It is a theme that is very prevalent in our western art and literature. But this is not just a Disney children's story. The theme we are continually obsessed with is truly prophetic for our time. Beauty and the Beast will be the awful end time reality. Western Christendom and Israel, (many from both houses of God's covenant people), will start by making a sovereignty sharing treaty with a global mega-dealer.
Beauty and the Beast as with the prophecy of Gomer, has been and yet
will be the penultimate Western cultural and prophetic end-time theme
Three and a half years later the prince will emerge from the wings to break the Daniel 9:27 treaty. Half-way through its seven year course he will stop the daily sacrifices, defile the rebuilt temple and its altar, and thus be "revealed" as the Beast of the Apocalypse. Many will go on to make a personal 666 financial and worshipful covenant in full commitment to this false messiah.
So the harlot element of God's covenant people, Jewish and Christian, people who have the scriptures and should know better, will depart from the devotion, break the law of Israel and desert the pathways of Christian grace. They will be heavily involved with the Daniel 9:27 treaty. This national sovereignty hand-over, this Utopian peace treaty, might seem a good idea at the time. Everybody would like to see world disarmament and world "peace and security" and world prosperity. But without the true Messiah it is an impossible dream. It is a naive Pollyanna style fantasy. The Bible tells us that this Daniel 9:27 seven year treaty will be brokered with the Antichrist in his early "peace broker" role. But the whole notion of ruling the planet without the returning Messiah is an impossible dream. on many accounts. And for those who sign on with the Harlot the outcome will be grievous, a total disaster for them. Later, at the midpoint abomination of Desolation the Beast will become fully manifest. By that time the ten kings will have come to despise and hate the Harlot. John is told that she will end up being burned with fire.
The coming Harlot rule is an awesome truth, and a fearful matter to address. It is almost never spoken about by pastors or Bible prophecy teachers in future terms. But as Biblical Christian believers we must sit up and take notice here. The organized ecumenical church, the Kingdom Now dominionists, and the New Apostolic Reformation activists are already at work in the wings. Dominion Theology is a heady religious potion. And those getting ready to ride, those ambitious religious leaders we see forming on the world scene today care very little about the warning we see here in Bible prophecy. They believe their own religious fantasies and pursue dreams of personal wealth and dominion. Today the ecumenical church is favoring the so-called Palestinians, railing against Israel, and pressuring her to give up the Holy Land. All that remains now is for the Oracle of Damascus prophesied in Isaiah 17 to unfold, pushing the "Road-Map to peace" towards its Dan. 9:27 terminus and a seven year covenant with a false messiah.
So the Harlot has an agenda, to bring in global Christian dominion, and all this before Messiah returns. Certainly the dark principalities and powers in the lower realms of the dark angels have an agenda, to prevent the end-time 5th seal witness of the saints. They pull the strings of the children of disobedience, even the strings of compromising clergymen. The Harlot agenda of seduction and sexual immorality is just the same as it always has been, ever since Semiramis in ancient Babylon ruled over the merchant world. Her rule over the kings of the earth were always centered around her own manipulative usurpation of world power. If God's called out people are with the Harlot then they have left her First Love and become fornicators and adulterers.
Like Gomer the Harlot is out on the town with her lovers, hanging out with those political champions she panders to in the world of politics, power, and wealth.. She has lost contact with her True Husband. She is a runaway bride, even a deserter.
The harlot church says she has no Husband. So the woman of "choice" now has no choice. Her dark angels seduce her to sign on and commit herself to this beastly thing. They plan to usher in the New World Order.
But who is aware of this? Who would suspect such a thing? And who are wise as serpents, and harmless as doves,
....... other than Bible believing evangelical Christians?
The Harlot will conduct her affairs using the age old wiles of Jezebel. She will pull off that treaty of Daniel 9:27. She knows that the nations will not trust nor give their sovereignty to a patriarchal dictator. Seizing this opportunity she will step forward. And like the tables of Jezebel in the high places that assumed and usurped illegitimate power under King Ahab, she and her committees of multi-faith religion, New Age Aquarian dreams, and Coexist will insinuate her way into world power.
After her takeover she will grasp the power and it will be a return to business as usual. The United World Church will revert back to its medieval role, persecuting Biblical Christians. Presumptuously the harlot will mount her perch atop the beast. Then she will set forth to rule the nations.
So the end time harlot will assume sovereignty over the nations. She will seduce the unwary and use her religious witchcraft. She will dominate, intimidate, and manipulate. Then she will grasp a firm hold on her ill gotten illegitimate authority.
O yes, the end time Dominionist World Church will deny the coming Messiah. They will seek to set up their 'Kingdom Now' and "rule and reign" in their own right. They will act presumptively in the spirit of the Dominion Theology we see today. They will mount up to rule before Messiah returns! That, after all, is the true essence of Church Dominionism.
Harlot religion is really a quasi-Christian system of bondage, a controlled opposition front against the true faith that was first delivered to the saints. The harlot will intimidate and imprison many fine Christians in times to come just as she did in the past. But all this will be to no avail. Because bound or free, true Christians are truly free in Christ and full of joy when they witness for Christ in this way. The Apostle Paul was many times in chains in prison. But he always declared that the Word of God was not bound.
The Whore of Babylon will have to be this way. Because she will be beholden to to her handler. And in the future 70th Week that man will be the phase 1 Antichrist. When the harlot tries to rule the world the beast Antichrist knows she has bitten off more than she can chew. She has launched out seeking to fulfill an impossible dream. That man-made religious agenda to bring in a global unity based upon sentiment and religious humanism without consecration to Christ simply has no power to create lasting change. Religious humanism will be just as much a failure as the secular humanism was that preceded it.
Harlot Christianity is in effect "religious humanism". Is religious humanism any better than the secular humanism seen in the past Modern Era? Will Harlot religion end in the same tragic way?
Let us pause here and catalog the former bloody failures of secular humanism.
#1 French Secular Humanism; The late 1700's saw the French Revolution rise up. It was based upon "human reason", a worship of "Nature", and a Freemason crafted pagan theology called Deism. The result? Total failure. The French Revolution ended in a "Reign of Terror". This was followed by monetary inflation, economic collapse, and dictatorship under Napoleon. The Napoleonic Wars ended in defeat by the British at the Battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo.
#2 German Secular Humanism; Germany had embraced the rationalism of the so-called "Enlightenment"of the 18th Century. And after Luther's Reformation of the 1500's Germany had failed to go on and develop a faithful Biblical Israelology. Accordingly the German people were pushed back into a medieval Augustinian, Origenian and anti-Semitic "Replacement Theology". This is a nasty theology. It alienates Jews forever. Theology does not stay in a box. There were political consequences to all this. The 20th Century saw Germany take the West into two World Wars. World War 1 saw the deaths of 20 million. World War 2 saw 50 million perish. Germany's Third Reich saw the rise of a national socialism called Nazism and a dictator tyrannizes Germany. The result? A shameful genocide against 6 million Jews. Germany suffered a terrible military defeat at the hands of the Red Army and the Allied forces of the West. Allied bombing raids saw terrible fiery destruction of many German cities.
#3 Russian Secular Humanism. The early 20th Century saw the rise of Bolshevism and a Utopian dream of a worker's paradise. Communism finds it eventual expression in a bloody tyranny over the noble souls of Russia, the poets, artists and writers, the Christians, and the Jews. Satanist dictator Stalin eventually takes power and pretends to rule on behalf of the lower working class. Millions of people enter the Gulags to be underfed and worked to death in the cold. 60 million people die under Stalin.
#4 Chinese Secular Humanism. 1949 saw Mao Tse Tung make his "long march" and Communism established as a "Cultural Revolution" in which neighborhood committee members ruled. Low grade henchmen and henchwomen aided and abetted by the group consensus acted as judges. The mob provided the executioners and 75 million people died during those dreadful times which still continue to this day.
#5 Cambodian Secular Humanism. The 1970's saw the Communist coffee houses of Paris excitedly talking about a perfect society with a single class strata composed of agricultural and factory workers. This led on to its political expression "killing fields" and an arbitrary spree of mass murder across the countryside of Cambodia. One third of the population of Cambodia were killed.
The Harlot of unified multi-faith world religion rules over the
beast system for the first half of the final 7 years of this age.
The Antichrist Himself waits in the wings, biding his time.
And so, as the harlot rules the Antichrist waits behind the curtain, biding his time. During her short 3.5 years of rule she will try to mold all her subjects to her master's wishes. She will be put under enormous duress to persecute the saints and halt their witness, just as she has done in the past. 500 Christians, from all over the world, die for the faith in Jesus every day, right now. This will increase dramatically when the Harlot gets power. And Joseph's coat of many colors is dipped in blood.
What about Israel, and her coming Messiah? Is anti-Semitism also wrapped up in this latter day Church Dominionism? It certainly did in the past. This time it will be no different.
Dear saints, this harlot religion is an awful thing. O yes, an end time compromised Christendom will "take dominion". A "Church Universal and Triumphant" will "ride". Even as the the true and faithful Church, the true and faithful Bride of Christ is persecuted. (Rev. 17:6)
John saw this unfaithful harlot Church system as world history moved on into the Apocalypse. He also saw her come to an ignoble end. It was not a pretty sight. John saw the harlot burned with fire. (Revelation 18)
These harlot years must occupy the first half of the seven years. The harlot must ride during those first three and a half years before the mid-week 'abomination of desolation'. The phase 2 or Beast mode Antichrist will then be "revealed" for who he really is. He will have previously been waiting in the wings as a consort to the Harlot. But half way through those final seven years he is possessed and changes character.
At the midpoint of the future 70th Week, The Restrainer is removed from his task of withholding the beast demon in chains of darkness. And the hideous thing emerges once again from the Bottomless Pit to change history. The Antichrist, a man, is possessed by the Beast demon of the Abyss. And midway through those final seven years the Antichrist makes his play to use his 666 economic/worship system to assume total world power.
When John sees the Beast in Revelation 13 the harlot is no longer riding. So we can reasonably assume that the harlot rules for the first 3.5 years of Daniel's 70th Week. She rules during the first 3.5 years of the final seven years of this age.
So this Revelation 17 snapshot of the ten horned beast reveals the Harlot. She is "taking dominion" and riding the beast. She is stepping forward before her Messiah has arrived on the world scene. And she is presumptively exercising world rule with a pagan self-worshiping or narcissistic consort. (See John 5:43)
Here in Kingdom Now Dominion Theology we see a church that has loved power. She has longed for the Dominion. And whenever she steps out to grasp that power the blood of God's covenant people is shed. (Heb. 11)
What we see here is another iteration of Jezebel. She has stolen Naboth's vineyard. She has also presumed to deify the virgin Mary. She twists the truth to make her co-redemptrix with Jesus, which is a heresy. More recently she has "named and claimed". She has "blabbed and grabbed". Now, finally, the whore of false religion gets the dominion she wants. She has finally achieved her dream. She sits upon her throne, seated upn the beast, in her own 'Kingdom Now'.
It is hers! - At least for a short time of 3.5 years.
Therefore, we can place the vision of the harlot riding the ten horned beast. It is in the first half of the final seven years of this age.
It seems thjat sovereign ruling authority is to be given to the Harlot church, by the Antichrist, as he steps aside in his early peacemaking role. This is before the final 3.5 years of the Great Tribulation of the saints. The early 70th Week rule of the Harlot is rarely spoken about by Bible prophecy teachers. And the false doctrine of Partial Preterism tries to hide this from Christians by affirming that the 70th Week is contiguous with the first 69 weeks, with no gap. They ascribe the Tribulation events spoken of by Jesus in the Olivet Discourse to the sack of Jerusalem back in 70 A.D.
Here is the bottom line in all this. The reign of the end time harlot Church is well represented in Holy Scripture. So it is extremely embarrassing to organized compromised ecumenical Laodicean religion. And so the Harlot Church endeavors to engage a false chronology in order to "cloak", "vaporize", or "spirit away" her future 3.5 year reign. by denying it the 3.5 years with The Preterism or hemi-preterism is trying to make us believe that Daniel's future Seventieth Week is not entirely there. So therefore, any end-time concerns Christians may have are unfounded. All the issues with Israel were dealt with back in the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. So, the future presents us with nothing to worry about. It is past history, (they say).
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The Luciferian spirit of self worship and
narcissism marks the character of the Harlot.
Her end comes in awful fiery judgment.
John is astonished at what he sees. He sees the harlot holding the cup of the covenant which she has defiled with worldly and New Age spiritism. In her "Christ-consciousness she is not worshiping Jesus Christ in her heart of hearts. Nor is she giving homage to the One to whom all honor and worship is due. No, she is intoxicated with herself, even the Luciferian selfism and religious humanism. She is drunk with power. Her power!
Revelation 18
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously,
so much torment and sorrow give her:
for she saith in her heart,
I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
When John sees the harlot she is behaving in an abominable and bloody way. She had defiled the holy cup of Christ, (and herself), with the filth of pagan admixture. She is killing God's true saints. John saw her drunk with the blood of the saints. And so as the age draws to its close she comes to an awful end. (See the scripture from Revelation 17 as it continues below).
Revelation 17
12. "The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom,
but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.
13. "These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
14. "These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them,
because He is Lord of lords and King of kings,
and those who are with Him {are the} called and chosen and faithful."
15. And he said to me,
"The waters which you saw where the harlot sits,
are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.
16. "And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast,
these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked,
and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire.
17. "For God has put it in their hearts to execute His purpose by having a common purpose,
and by giving their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God will be fulfilled.
18. "The woman whom you saw is the great city,
which reigns over the kings of the earth." -Rev. 17
When John sees this amazing vision he is astounded. Here is a woman, and a woman in holy scripture is a picture of God's covenant people and the the future Bride of YHVH God Himself, the Lamb's Wife. (Hosea, Rev.21:9)
Well it may be said that the Book of Revelation is a story of two women. Because here we see a woman alright. And that woman is certainly making her emergence! But what sort of a woman is she? And what sort of a grand entrance does John see her make?
The woman of Revelation 17 is certainly not anything like the woman of Revelation 12 John saw in another vision. She is not the woman in travail who wears the starry crown. This woman is not that glorious woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and crowned with a diadem of 12 stars. This is someone else entirely!
John is amazed and appalled. The woman he sees is a whore. Here is a woman who defiled the cup of the covenant. And she has presumptuously taken dominion over things she has no business meddling with. Is the harlot Israel? Is the harlot the Church? Or is this harlot part of both?
The Church and national Israel will both enter the crucible of the 70th Week together. It is God's plan and purpose for the two of them to be refined. They will emerge as one end time Congregation-Commonwealth of Israel. They will be refined as gold to emerge in glory as a single remnant Elect, a royal priesthood and a holy nation. (1Pet.2:9) By that time we shall have understood the Commonwealth or citizenship of Israel in Ephesians 2:12-13 and the grafting back into Israel of the wild olive branches, as we see, in Romans 11. We shall also understand the ultimate unity of all God's covenant people that is in the New Covenant of Jeremiah 31:31 where God's Torah or law is written in the hearts. We shall also perceive that the indwelling Messiah is the promised Seed of Abraham we see in Galatians 3:29. In that day we shall know that the remnant Church (or Congregation), and remnant Israel are as we see in the two sticks of Ezekiel 37, united as one in the hand of Messiah.
We also know that the Messiah will come as the Refiner. (Zech.13:9, Mal.3:3)) At the crucible the gold or silver melts and the refiner sweeps the slag from off the top. His face will then be reflected in the molten gold. And the dross will be cast aside. Is this how Dominion Theology ends?
When John sees the harlot riding the beast she is ruling in her own right. Of course she now has cast aside the former ethos of God and king, or God and country. She is a global entity now and is assuming global rule without divine authority.
It is a sad story. She was to be a "called out" covenant people, and Ekklesia, a Royal Priesthood-Holy Nation, betrothed in holiness to be the Bride of Christ. She has certainly been given access to Christ and His authority in the Great Commission. She also knows that the dominion over this earth belongs to her Husband, the coming Messiah. But here she has acted presumptuously. She has jumped the gun.
She says in her heart, "I sit as a queen, and am no widow". He has given me power, not just to wage spiritual war, operate in the gifts, and to cast out evil spirits but to rule over men. I am given the Kingdom Now to establish my pyramid of hierarchical power and to rule over others. I AM just like God. I AM a "little god". So I will take that power from Him and rule my own way for my own good pleasure. And I will take Messiah's future temporal authority over this earth for my own!"
This is the Nicolaitan spirit and it is a seriously deranged mindset. Jesus said He hated the practices of the Nicolaitans in their bid to assume rule over other human beings. The harlot has decided that she will forget the Gospel outreach wherein Christ ruled from His throne in human hearts. She will assume the earthly dictatorship on her Husband's behalf. She will rule the planet! And she will "rise up" and "take dominion" before Messiah returns. Oh yes. It will be very hard for her to knock this world into shape in the power of the flesh. But she is undeterred. She will do whatever it takes to establish her Kingdom Now!
Dear saints. This is an awful transgression. This is Luciferian self worship, a wolf in sheep's clothing no less. It has no place in the Congregation of Jesus Christ/Yeshua Hamashiach. Pray God that no one reading these words gets seduced into Dominion Theology.
Because in the following chapter, Revelation 18, we see its terrible fiery end.
Harlotry and the spirit of Jezebel.
When a woman usurps the rule for herself over the domain and usurps the authority of her Husband this is an awful thing. This is the spirit of Jezebel.
Queen Jezebel was the quintessential prototypical example of this. She exhibited a rebellious attitude and an insatiable lust for power. She undermined the God given authority of her husband, King Ahab, who was ruler over the northern Kingdom of Israel. Jezebel usurped the throne using the devices of witchcraft, (that is by domination, intimidation, and manipulation). Make a note of these. Whenever you see this going on be on the lookout to discern a spirit of Jezebel at work. By cunning devices Jezebel made a grab for the royal scepter. Then without divine authority she proceeded to usurp the power given to her husband King Ahab by God. She ruled over God's Kingdom by grasping the scepter of his authority for herself, which in her hand has now become illegitimate authority.
Are we seeing this spirit of rebellion at work in the church today? We hear a lot about misogyny. And there is much tolerance of sodomy and lesbianism in the liberal church. But is this dark spirit of Jezebel being discerned? Is it being confronted, and cast out?
Alas, the indolent non-confrontational spirit of Ahab allows this Jezebel spirit to go unchecked. Religious witchcraft is a sinister subtle rebellion against God's authority. Indeed rebellion against God's legitimate authority is the true essence of witchcraft. Here is God's Word on the matter.
"To obey (God) is better than sacrifice........
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. " (1 Sam.15:22-23)
When John sees this harlot he is absolutely flabbergasted. Here is a woman who was destined for wonderful things. She could have gone on to see true glory. But what does he see. The woman has become a harlot! And she is attempting to ride a wild ugly beast of all things!
The harlot's perch on that awful beast is clearly very dangerous. The beast has ten horns signifying 10 global powers. Why on earth is she doing this? What happened to her devotion to her Betrothed? Does she even remember Him? And what of her new and latest lover? Does she realize that those ten horns will eventually gore her to death?
This is an awful picture to see. Here is a woman who could have entered into true glory. But she has gone the way of the world. She has forgotten her Beloved.
And now she is the woman of Mystery Babylon. She is just another unfaithful woman, another harlot. She has usurped authority to ride a global beast. It is a beast she cannot hope to control.
The Harlot rides the Beast in the first half of the final 7-years of this age.
The prophetic time period for this vision must be the early. It must be the first half of the 70th week. Because in another vision John sees the beast in a different time period. He sees the beast without the harlot on its back. (Rev.13)
When the harlot rides the beast we see that those ten horns are not yet crowned. They do not yet have their own sovereign power to rule.
When they do have that power to rule it must be very late. Because the ten horns are ten kings.
Daniel 7
23. Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. 24. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise:
From Daniel's earlier vision of the statue in Daniel 2 we know that it will be in the time of the rulership of these ten kings that the smiting Stone will fall. THEN God will establish His Kingdom on this earth.
Daniel 7 KJV
42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay,
so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
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44 And in the days of these kings
shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed:
and the kingdom shall not be left to other people,
But it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms,
and it shall stand for ever.
So when we see those ten horns with crowns upon them and the beast at large without the harlot riding on its back we know that this is a late picture of the New World Order when it finally rears its ugly head. In the Revelation 13 vision John sees the beast with heads inscribed with names of blasphemy. (Rev.13:1) Here then we see the beast unveiled for who he really is. He has committed the abomination of desolation. And we know that this happens midway through the 7 years. (Dan.9:27b, 11:31, 12:11) The time period here is the latter half of the 70th Week.
So we must assume that the harlot we see in Revelation 17 is an early picture of the New World Order when it is under the control of a harlot. This will be a politico-religious regime of global proportions. During the first half of the 70th Week, (the 70th Week is the final seven years of this age), the world system will be under the dominion of this harlot. This end time harlot will ride the beast in an earlier time period than the vision John saw in Revelation 13. In that vision John sees the beast coming up out of the sea (of nations). This must be the beast unveiled in his later manifestation. Because here we see the ten horns are crowned with diadems of their own sovereignty. And at that time the beast is no longer being ridden by the harlot.
The Harlot suffers the loss of global political power. In Revelation 17 we see her rejected by the world. She ends up being despised and burned with fire, and by the very heathen nations she had pandered to.
The prevailing theologians of this world do not read their Bibles. Nor do they take the Gospel Message and Bible prophecy to heart. Ecumenists for the most part are politicians first and men of the cloth second. Many of them do not know Christ in a personal way. Nor are they guided by His Holy Spirit. Most of them have no clue about this massive end-time worldwide gathering storm against compromised Christianity.
Here are the facts of Church history and the facts of Israel's history before. Compromised claimants of the covenant acting in the flesh persecute the uncompromised children of the covenant, those who are of the Spirit. Ishmael, son of the flesh, persecuted Isaac, son of the Promise.
Galatians 4:28-29 (NKJV)
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.
29 But, as he who was born according to the flesh
then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit,
even so it is now.
In the short term it seems that compromisers come out ahead. But in the end no man or woman on the face of this earth is more despised than a compromised Christian. The Apostle John saw the frightful doom of the harlot in the latter days. Her destruction will be complete and total. The end-time story of the harlot is written about ahead of time in Revelation 17:15-18:12.
Revelation 17:15-18:12 (NKJV>
15 Then he said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits,
are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.
16 And the ten horns which you saw on[a] the beast,
these will hate the harlot, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
17 For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind,
and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.
18 And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.”
As usual, it is the artists who pick up this message first. They then express the truth they are perceiving in their art, music, or poetry. Then they present it to the world. They are telling a story and showing us a certain future reality ahead of time.
Here is an example. Pagan artists have picked up on this theme of the harlot as she comes to her bitter end. And from a Biblical perspective this just happens to be very very true. In the song "Gold Dust Woman" we see the harlot coming to the end of herself. She is privileged beyond measure, with wealth and riches; even a "silver spoon in her mouth". The world stands by and observes what she does.
The worldly observers conclude that her so-called "faith" is "a Godless challenge". And why is that? Because she "picks her paths and then, (after she decides what she wants), she prays". In other words she uses God as a means to an end and tries to maneuver Him to get her way. As she "visualizes, prayerizes, and actualizes" she is the queen of all she surveys. The harlot is a material girl. She dictates her demands, blabbing and grabbing what is coming to her from from a Sovereign God who to her is a "Sugar Daddy". She "names and claims", which is fine, if it is in the sovereign will and anointing of God. But this harlot woman is not doing that for the glory of God and with that motivation. Instead she is "naming and claiming" for herself and for her own carnal desires.
But to what end?
She "wakes up in the morning, to see her sunrise lusts go down".
"So rock on ancient queen," (here is the reference to Jezebel).
"Follow those who pale in your shadow."
Another classic line is this one.
"You know that rulers, they make bad lovers.
You better put your kingdom up for sale."
How true! Here we see a reference to the Kingdom Now or Kingdom of Self Dominionist movement.
Unfortunately this spirit is gaining ground fast in the compromised quarters of the Western Church.
The song concludes with a question.
"Well, did she make you cry,
Make you break down,
Shatter your illusions of love?
Well, is it over now, do you know how,
Pick up the pieces and go home?"
God help us!
And may God preserve us from going the way of the harlot!
You can view the song "Gold Dust Woman" being performed by "Fleetwood Mac"
on THIS VIDEO or on YouTube or Google Video.
After the Harlot regime has been ejected the beast assumes total dictatorial rule over the New World Order.
In Revelation 13 John sees the ten horned beast.
REVELATION 13
13:1 And the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore. Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns {were} ten diadems, and on his heads {were} blasphemous names.13:2 And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like {those} of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his power and his throne and great authority.13:3 {I saw} one of his heads as if it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth was amazed {and followed} after the beast;13:4 They worshiped the dragon because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast, and who is able to wage war with him?"13:5 There was given to him a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for forty-two months was given to him.13:6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, {that is,} those who dwell in heaven.13:7 It was also given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them, and authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation was given to him. -Rev.13:1-7 NASB
The scripture above is a vision that John saw whilst in exile on the Island of Patmos late in the first century. It is a powerful picture of the endtime global scene during the second half of the 70th week and the reign of the Beast/Antichrist. However, 600 years before, the prophet Daniel, had also seen a vision of this very same endtime ten horned beast. He saw it arising as the fourth in a series of contemporaneous beasts to arise from the sea, (symbolic of nations) in the latter days. Daniel described it as dreadful. This ten horned beast appears to be the world power base from which the "little horn"/"prince"/Antichrist erupts. The prince gains sovereignty in his own right and is fully revealed as the Antichrist/beast that he is in the final 3.5 years/42 months/1260 days of Daniel's 70th week. Here below is the scripture from Daniel 7.
DANIEL 7
7. After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong. It had huge iron teeth; it was devouring, breaking in pieces, and trampling the residue with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.8. I was considering the horns, and there was another horn, a little one, coming up among them, before whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots. And there, in this horn, were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking pompous words.
In both these visions by John (Rev.13) and by Daniel (Daniel 7) there is no harlot to be seen. She may still be around until quite late in the reign of the beast. It is quite probable that her eventual destruction may be quite late in the 70th week.
The destruction of the Harlot.
Here is why the destruction of the harlot will probably come late in the 70th Week. God tells His people...
Pat Marvenko Smith, copyright 1992.
Visit her 'Revelation Illustrated' website.
Revelation 18
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
Come out of her, my people,
that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven,
and God hath remembered her iniquities.
If the harlot is to be judged in such an awful way surely God, (who made a deal with our father Abraham concerning innocents in the judgment and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah), will give His people time to get out of the cities of destruction.
In Revelation 12 we see the woman of Israel, which includes God's covenant people drawn from the 12 tribes of Israel and from the nations. The covenant they are under is provided for by the atoning blood of Israel's Sacrifice Lamb. These people will be airlifted out to a place of exile, a mystery which the Bible refers to as 'Bozrah'. Indeed Messiah, when He comes, will be paying a special visit there. He will have some accounts to settle with certain parties, namely the Edomites.
We are speaking here of Divine judgment of the wicked at Bozrah. (Isa.63) We are also speaking of the magnificent Bozrah Deliverance. This climactic history will be very late in the age. The awesome Bozrah Deliverance will be in the same time period in which Messiah delivers Jerusalem at the Battle of Armageddon. The destruction of Mystery Babylon may well come amongst these late cataclysmic events at the close of the age.
So when at the mid-week abomination of Desolation the beast is revealed for who he really the harlot passes out of the main political picture but even after having lost sovereignty she is perhaps not entirely gone from the scene. In Revelation chapter 13 John sees the beast coming up out of the sea of nations. The prophet Daniel sees the same ten horned beast. Then he sees a little horn emerging to displace three of the ten horns. And at that point the Harlot is gone from the scene and the Beast phase Antichrist in his 666 role is coming up to rule alone.
John goes on to give the time period for the rule of the antichrist. It is 42 biblical months, or 1260 days. This corresponds with the latter half of the 70th Week. (Rev.13:5) This is the final three and a half years of the final seven years of this age. It coincides with the time period of the Great Tribulation, the time period of the two witnesses, the trampling of Jerusalem, and the time period of the exile of the woman.
The beast emerges out of the sea, a picture of the raging of nations King David wrote that song about in Psalm 2. There is no harlot riding the beast in this vision. The harlot is not even in view in John's Revelation 13 vision. What has happened?
Well, quite clearly the harlot will have lost her ruling place of dominion at the abomination of desolation, midway through the final seven years of this age. The ten horns must then have been given ten crowns or diadems presenting them with sovereign rule over the ten sectors of the globe we see in the New World Order Map. The ten kings are exercising rulership over the ten geopolitical global kingdoms.
We can surmise that the ten horns have replaced, supplanted or ejected the religious whore from her high perch. When those ten horns have ten crowns she is no longer riding on the back of the beast. (Rev.13) Have they burned her with fire? It is the authors opinion, (without direct Biblical proof), that this destruction we see in Rev. 18 will probably not happen until the very end of the seven years when the "cities of the nations fell".
The ultimate destruction of the harlot will probably come some years after her global rule has been terminated. Her fiery destruction will probably come late in the second half of the 70th Week.
So, in that latter half of those final seven years the Antichrist is in the arena, and he is no more Mr. Nice Guy. The restrainer of the beast demon of the Abyss will have been removed. At that time, midway through the final seven years of this age, the Antichrist will be possessed. Possessed by the beast demon that arises from out of the Abyss or bottomless pit. (Rev.17:8) At that time he will commit the awful sacrilege, the Abomination of Desolation. At this time the Antichrist will be "revealed" as the beast and begin his blaspheming '666' role.
The ten horns and the crowns placed upon them signifying sovereignty is a very important sign. We know that it must be in the second half of the 70th week because John tells us that the rule of the Beast Antichrist is 42 biblical months. - Rev.13:5 This is the time period of the Great Tribulation. (Dan 12:7) This is the time of Jacob's Trouble. And it begins after the midweek abomination of desolation.
See this chart of the 70th week of Daniel.
In a vision focusing on a later point in time (Rev.chap.13) John saw a ten horned beast arising from the sea, (out of the nations) in the latter days. At the time pictured in this vision the the harlot is no longer seen to be riding and controlling the world power. When John sees it the ten horned global power has ten crowns or diadems of its own. His vision apparently focuses in on the ten horned global beast at a later time after the awful abomination of desolation when the beast takes power in the middle of the 7 years of the 70th week. So Daniel saw the world power at the point when the ten horns had apparently thrown off the rulership of the harlot.
As for the harlot, she is no longer riding the beast. She is no longer ruling and reigning. When the Antichrist is 'revealed' as the beast at midweek the harlot is no longer on the central stage of history.
At some point, probably quite late in the time period of the last half of the final seven years of this age, the ten horns turn on her in a murderous rage. John sees the harlot totally destroyed. She is burned with fire, by the ten horns. The ten kings of the end time global power who earlier had thrown her off their back have now come along and finished her. The harlot is destroyed by the Beast. She is burned with fire.
