Revelation: The Terrible and the Good - Pt 10
Revelation: The Terrible and the Good - Pt 10
By Stephen Bennett
(Rev: Chapter 17) March 10 / 2022
Ok… I John, am doing a mental checkup: Now… I just flew with an angel to earth. I saw the greatest earthquake in the history of mankind, where everything on earth was destroyed. I wrote about it on my glow parchment. I pinch myself, yes… I am here in heaven in the Spirit; it is another world altogether.
It feels like I’ve been here for a very long time since I left the island of Patmos in Greece, but… it’s probably just a few moments. I know I’m not mad; I’m John, a former fisherman… now, as I’ve been resting after my mind bending experience, I realised I need ablutions; yes… in heaven as it is on earth. Hmm… I had asked the angel I flew with, who is assigned to watch over me, his name is Adriquel, but he took ages to find a private ˈtoilit place; it wasn’t a common request.
Up Up and Away
When I was all done, Adriquel ‘talked with me, saying to me, “Come I will show you the judgement of the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication’ (Rev 17:1-2). “Ok, great!” I reply. He smiled and said, “Hop on.” I said, “You mean we are flying again?!” ‘Must be another reward for all the writing!’ I thought. ‘So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness’ (Rev 17:3).
I don’t know where our flight took us, but it was pitch dark and there were many stars all around, and I saw breathtaking colourful constellations in the universe as we flew. When Adriquel landed, I cast my eyes across a vast desert; everywhere, were intriguing rugged red rocky monuments, and sharp scattered stones. Once on the ground, we walked a little way to a higher spot, with a jutting rock looking over a red dusty plain; my feet… you guessed it, were stained powder red. Suddenly, a multitude of dim pin-lights shone down from the blackness above us, to reveal a sight to behold.
Mother Harlot Babylon Beast Rider Blood Drinker
‘And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns,’ (Rev 17:3). It caught my breath, and it felt to me, like she was there on display flaunting herself. The large woman was dressed in a religious, dirty, frilly, feminine purple and scarlet, with gaudy jewellery in gold, precious stones and pearls.
She was extremely ugly in a lewd and sexual way; like an old whore, she’d been around forever. ‘In her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication of the earth’ (Rev 17:4). I just felt so sick. Her forehead was large and carved on it in blood was ‘written: MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH’ (Rev 17:5).
This red faced, puffy nose evil spirit woman, was seriously slurring her words as a drunkard with wine, but her chalice tipple wasn’t the fruit of the vine. To my shock, it’s a thick dark red mix of ‘the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marvelled with great amazement’ (Rev 17:4-6). I looked at Adriquel, he shook his head; this woman was gross, and she’d been drinking a very long time…
I considered what I was witnessing, and everything I’d seen to this point in my journey. I realised I’d seen, the most evil, if not the queen of religious demons. She really is behind everything, she drives and rides it all; the false end-time one world church in Rome encompassing all christendom and religions, spiritually deceiving the nations. She’s in a controlling alliance with this final revived Roman empire, couched in the world politics of satan’s antichrist, with every perversion of humanity and all the Babylonian ways of the world. She’s the depths of satan incarnate, the Jezebel of jezebels, the rider who never falls off the bucking bronco.
The beast where she sat, is covered in the worst of every swear word and evil saying against God, woven into its creepy scarlet cloth. This spirit of harlotry makes the nations spiritually blind, as in all the empires of history, believing in the prostitution of false religious idols and lies. Fornicating with them through systems of orthodox spiritual adultery, flaunting her frills and worldly rich robes and the fine jewellery of ecclesiastical pomp. Looking godly but was-not, actually keeping people from God; killing true believers and the non-compliant martyrs. Blah, what a cup to swallow!
Harlotry Israel Straying Yet Loved
I couldn’t help but think of the history of my nation Israel and beautiful Jerusalem, and how this demonic spirit of harlotry has been at work for centuries to keep us all from knowing the Lord. In our past, the national abominations had grown, making us blind and corrupt. We trusted in our beauty, we thought we were cool, playing the harlot with many lovers and idols, all with degenerate hearts because of Israel’s fame. We became more wicked than even Samaria and Sodom; no wonder we were locked away in Egypt 400 years. But wow… Jehovah still loved us and stayed true to establish His covenant (Ezekiel 16, 23). I love Jesus!
Huh… I remember our ancient prophet Hosea. He took a wife of harlotry, because Israel played harlots, departing from the Lord, and were destroyed for lack of knowledge. The wine of harlotry enslaved our hearts; drunk like this demon. We took counsel from false wooden and carved idols, whores against God, breaking His heart.
Like in the end-times to come, the spirit of harlotry, as this fat mother I’d seen, will still cause us and many to stray. Israel will be an apostasy, as we simply forget our Maker, and build our own religious temples as of old, but God still loves us and will restore us (Hosea 1:2, 4:6, 11-12, 8:14). We must never ever forget our Maker Jehovah, He is our husband as it were (Isa 54:5). We have to return from our backsliding, for God is literally married to us, in covenant (Jer 3:14).
Even greater now, I understood the evil spirit behind religion, and why my Lord Jesus hated the hypocrisy in his day. How jealous God is for His people, and through Christ we are betrothed to Him, one husband, us as a chaste virgin (2 Corinthians 11:2); not something religious but by an intimate relationship. James my brother, warned everyone about the adultery of harlotry with the world, ‘friendship with the world is enmity with God’ (James 4:4). It’s a spiritual warning, about idolatrous fornication, caused by this mother of harlots I’m looking at right now…
As my Israel strayed in history, the apostate end-time religion, along with the false prophet in league with the world politics of antichrist, will extremely deceive and debauch the true spiritual nature of what the Church should be; becoming its enemy. The deceived being spiritually blind drunk, morally ravished, compromised and the hardest to change.
How great is the delusion, ‘Babylon is fallen is fallen…she had made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication’ (Rev 14:8). As I see this mother of whoredom, I secretly hoped she’d fall off the beast and smash her head open like Jezebel thrown out the window (2 Kings 9:33).
(Now click this link, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPJ6lW6wPVM for the song Go by Stephen Bennett, blog author). A Sons of Thunder song circa:1980s).
Captain Marvel
The wind blew ominously in the desert wilderness, and windy twisters are everywhere, raising red dust and stones in columns all around her. As she sat sluggish on the beast, I saw a vast body of constant rippling water around them; in the water I saw the faces of millions who’d been deceived.
With a heavy heart I turned to Adriquel who waited patiently; he began to explain why I was here. He said warmly, “Why did you marvel?” I thought, ‘well… er… I just did, and it got me thinking about a lot of stuff.’ I stared at him; he went on to say, that his task from the King today, is to reveal and teach me the mystery of the harlot woman, ‘the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and ten horns’ (Rev 17:7).
He began to tell me how things develop at the beginning of the tribulation, and it’s quite crazy. The seven heads are successive forms of governing empires, one of them being the antichrist’s, and the ten horns are kings that were controlled and reigned with him for a while. I thought of Daniel and how he responded to all of this when he saw it hundreds of years ago. ‘I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.’ Daniel 7:15. Old Danny, became anxious with a serious headache; I hope I don’t! I think Jesus wants me to dig deep into all this.
Riddles and Wisdom School
Looking at the ‘mother,’ it was obvious to me she was the ugliest thing I’d ever seen. She’s a spirit-rider demon, clinging to anything it can, sucking its life-blood. She controls beast antichrist, the same beast that met red dragon on the beach (Rev 13:1). Adriquel confirmed; the beast I saw, comes from the abyss bottomless pit, and will rampage to utter destruction and eternal damnation; sad beasty-satan. Now the people of the world, not written in God’s Book of Life, will also marvel. Those masses being deceived by beast-satan’s overwhelming end-time power, who has the antichrist man totally possessed, having satan’s power in him.
But then… Adriquel bent my mind when he said, ‘the beast was and is not, and yet is’ (Rev 17:7-8). I love puzzles and riddles, but on the surface this was a head bender that may take me a while to understand. He looked at me like my old school master, and was quite firm, saying, “Here is the mind which has wisdom:’ (Rev 17:9). I looked over to Ms Ugly Harlota, who sat floppy, drunk as a skunk on the fat beast, amidst the swirling red dust and stones; for centuries she’d been so drunk!
Then I sat down on a red rock shaped like a chair, and Adriquel continued with the wisdom lesson. I thought I’d better try and decipher it all, apparently my spiritual mind of wisdom is needed! Hmm… Intimidating, like the first day at school. He stood regal in front of me, and I decided to respectfully listen; unless he left me behind here, for not doing as I am told!
The moment made me think of all the theological Pharisees and Sad-u-see’s across the future of time until the end-days, and all their possible pontifications and differing opinions of all that I am writing about; debating en-masse, and carrying on just like back at home. I feared they may create a future confusion, boggling the average mind with their ideas and elitist semantics. I do hope it is simpler for everybody in the end.
Adriquel cleared his throat and continued his theological discourse. ‘The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits’ (Rev 17:9). I raised my hand and said, ‘Ok sir, I sort of figure it is the Babylon of Rome that rules many nations, where I was in the hot oil?’ He looked at me quizzically as my mind raced, opening up a can of thought worms.
Rome and its current empire, could be the harlots imperial beasty home right now; much that goes on there is certainly in her Jezebelic wheel-house. She drives the ugly depths of what the apostate world end-time religion will descend into, after the rapture of the true Church prior to the tribulation. History’s depths of Babylon deception go way back to Nimrod the mighty hunter and his Babel kingdom (Genesis 10:9), with the building of the tower of Babel to reach heaven, and its confusion of language, scattering the people (Genesis 11:7-9).
Ever since then, global Babylonian cultism has represented a false, and deceptive adulterous relationship with God in the five kingdoms who reigned over a long time. Greece, Persia, Babylon (where brother Prophet Daniel lived in the time of king Nebuchadnezzar), Assyria and Egypt (where we, Israel were captive). They all supported the spiritual harlot momma.
She used them, influencing their politics through her fornication. She rides them, helping corrupt God’s ways for their own ends in a vast system of counterfeit religions; like the errors of Baal worship, the Queen of Heaven, and many pagan rites, which God hates! The Lord’s harsh language calls it abominable filthiness; drawing people away from Bible simplicity right up until the end of the last days with the false apostate end-time confusion. Jesus said, ’unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.’ (Matthew 18:3).
Then… Adriquel confused my thoughts with other specifics about the seven kings, ramping up his riddle factor. “Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time. And the beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going into perdition” (Rev 17:10-11). Phew… what?!
The Seven Kings
Ahh… so the five fallen are the five empire kingdoms of history that have gone, the one-is, is the current Roman empire where the harlot also sits, and… the… that-was, is-not, yet-is riddle of the yet-is beast, is himself a man, the eighth king, one of the seven and he’s the ‘utter destruction I am going to hell end-time antichristo rampager.’
It’s the final king-beast empire, like the evil one of Rome now on earth in my time. It’s a revived Roman one-world version at the end, that will exist for only a short time, ruled by the beast (eighth king / horn, Dan 7:8, 8:9), before Jesus returns. Ok… there’s the seven kings. Hmm… I had to concentrate on this or be lost in this world of angelic riddle. Now, my thoughts are; antichrist is referred to as the beast, so satan the beast is in the beast, and satan is on the rampage through that man. I sorta knew that, as I saw the beast come out of the water and be possessed by dragon satan.
So the beast world government is also the beast that yet-is; the revived Roman imperial government of old, driven by the power of devil-satan and this ugly mother chucker of harlots. How? By the totally satanic, antichrist beast imperial world government… ok… may be knew that too. Phew!
The Ten Kings
Adriquel waits patiently as I take a breather to stop any hyper-ventilating. He looks over at the great whore, pauses, looks back at me, and explains. He described, “the ten horns (I saw on the beast), are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. These are of one mind and they will give their power and authority to the beast” (Rev: 17:12-13).
Wow… it sounded like they are hypnotised, deceived and lied to, all thinking the same greedy thing, what a deceptive game for their thrones. They were a cohort of kings ruling over nations, and kings together are better… or so they think…
The harlot, with her spiritual deception, shares the ruling with the great political power of the beast. The antichrist beast then plays a game with the thrones of the kings, giving a taste of the power he’ll supposedly give them, for just a mere 60 minutes. Then they’ll sign the contract, hand over their sovereignty and he rips off their power and authority to be under his control. Didn’t sound good to me at all!
These emasculated post royals then, “will make war with the Lamb and the Lamb will overcome them, for He (Jesus Christ) is the Lord of lords and King of kings and those who are with Him are called, chosen and faithful” (Rev 17:14).
Dumb deal! Whoops, the dethroned kings thought the beast was the real king and they are his chosen; wrong boys, and seriously stupid, sucked-in for just the sum of 60 minutes. Why?… to attack God! Now there’s a news story! They lose badly and are all annihilated; sad, silly billy kings. I thought of the overwhelming weight of this kingly mistake.
Then Adriquel ‘said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues. And the ten horns that you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire.”’ (Rev 17:15-16).
The religious spirit of Harlota Babylonia rules, but those ten kings realising they are ripped off, do an about turn, and blame and hate her so much. They set out to destroy the religious harlot system of the ecumenical apostate end-time church, run by false prophets. The beast turns round to help them too as he rules the ten horn-kings. All the religions of the world had gathered in one global church, except those in the Lambs Book of life. The one-world church is then destroyed and a new world religion with the worship of the beast as the ruler, political dictator, takes its place.
Kings Nasty End
I John, remembered some of prophet Daniel’s visions. The Jews still worshipped in the tribulation, and many others in the world around the middle of Daniels 70th week (Daniel 9:27). But the day came when the antichrist uses his kingly cohort to destroy the apostate church as he doesn’t need them anymore, and sets the world up to just worship him in his revived empire around the second half of Daniels 70th week (Daniel 11:36-37). It’s history repeating itself, where tyrant empires try to destroy God’s people… like future Hitler in World War Two…. Hmm… I wonder what that is? Terrible no doubt… just before Israel is… 1948 you say?
Ok… hmm … anyway… the nasty ending of the false world church is like a zombie cannibal fest, where it’s stripped of everything, its flesh consumed and burned in fire, but… in doing so the kings do God’s will. God allowed the wickedness to go only so far… “For God has put it into their hearts to fulfil His purpose, to be of one mind and give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.” (Rev 17:17).
Ahh… so the Lord is behind it after all! He knows all that is happening; everything is connected. I thought… no need to worry then! Jesus said, “Be not troubled or terrified” (Mark 13:7, Luke 21:9). Believe! Simple!
(Now click this link, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ceb_GvjfKY for the song Thief of Dreams by Stephen Bennett, blog author).
Woman City Harlot
Hmm… then Adriquel said something odd, “and the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth” (Rev 17:18). I know she’s ugly big, but how can this er… woman, be a city? Then I got it…
The mother of harlots is spiritual Babylon, and has been active for centuries, ruling the Roman church, pushing its control and authority over the state. Using many abominations, and is so intensely active and busy in the end of times, she is bloated fat; drunk on the blood of many true believers more than all of history… but thanks to the kings and the beast, she is brought to nothing in a fiery flesh destroying end, revealing all her naked evil. Scary movie the final hurrah…
Adriquel abruptly stopped and said. “And there endeth the lesson.” ‘Ok, that was a lot to take in’ I thought. I was feeling a bit dusty. I turned to look at the woman on the beast. The pin lights went out, and in the dusky red desert ambience, she wallowed in the silhouette shadows like a huge blob. Ms City Harlot; full of herself, drinking from an overused endless goblet of red, as thick blood dripped from her chin and her eye-balls. Her black eyes caught mine and she sneered at me. Oooh… what a sight!
I stood up and said, “Well… thank you Adriquel, I will write all that down and try and process it quickly.” He replied, “You are welcome.” The angel was always polite. With no more words between us, I jumped on his back, strapped in, and we flew off; I’m an old hand at this now!
After a short while, we flew through the black hole with lights all around it and I was carried back into heaven. I alighted, grabbed my writing kit, and found a place to sit and finish all my confusing notes whilst still in my head. I tell you something though, I will never tire of flying… oh… hmm… yes, maybe the silver things with wings and little windows I saw crashing to earth when the seventh bowl was poured into the air… were…
Jesus said,“… do not be troubled; for such things must happen, but the end is not yet.’ Mark 13:7. “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.” John 14:1.
“But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers” 1 Peter 4:7.
‘He (Jesus) who testifies to these things says,“Surely I am coming quickly.” Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”’ Rev 22:20.
‘And He (Jesus) said to them, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” Mark 4:9. “Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!” (Luke 11:28).
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NOTE: Now go to Revelation - The Terrible and the Good Pt 11. This series of blogs on the book of Revelation, will continue up to 15 parts, soon to be released - Pt 1, the political and societal destruction of Babylon in chapter 18. endtimewriters.com
PRAYER OF FAITH: The Call to give your life to Jesus Christ.
No matter where you are in your Christian walk, Jesus is with you; in your triumphs and trials, to the end! If you have never known God; know this;
“Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world (ages)” Amen’ Matthew 28:20. ’But he who endures to the end shall be saved. And the gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come’ Matthew 24:13-14.
Pray this prayer from your heart and your spirit will come alive to God, for with him there is hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11).
“My Father in heaven, I give you my life, I repent of all my sin, recreate me brand new. I give you my heart. Fill me Lord Jesus Christ with Your Holy Spirit. I believe You died for me on the cross, and by Your shed blood, you washed away my sins once and for all. Raise me from my deadness of my life to live a new life, just like you Jesus, when you were raised from the dead; I believe you did that. Make my spirit reborn, and let me come alive as well, filled with Your Holy Spirit.”
“I believe I belong to you Lord. Help me to know you well, teach me Your ways, that I become all that I am meant to be. Help me to love and find love. I thank you Lord that you will always be with me.”
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