Solomon on Sex #4
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Sunday, May 24, 2026
SONG OF SONGS-- GOD'S TEACHING ON SEX IN MARRIAGE #4
BOOK OF REVELATION #12
Chapter One hundred-forty-one:
The Revelation of Jesus Christ #12
Chapters 18 and 19
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Let's use the same common logic in this chapter as we did in chapter 17. We will notice some key verses. This Babylon has influenced kings, governments, all nations in an overall of the word "all" and have been made drunk by the wine of her wrongs, spiritual fornications. And "merchants" of the earth have grown rich through her. So we are dealing right away with MORE than just a "church" and its theology. She sits as a queen, and thinks she is correct, and will see no sorrow. She is going to suffer death in one day, quick and deliberate death. Kings or government authorities will bewail her, when the smoke of her burning is seen. They will need to be far off, but will lament her destruction as it comes so fast (verses 2-10). The MERCHANTS of the earth will weep over her death, because it's the end of her trading and economy. Again, much more than just a "theology church" (verse 11). Notice the END of verse 13 ... no more "slaves" (margin has "bodies") and lives of people ... Oh, indeed we are back into person's lives being handled. Merchants who were "made rich by her" shall stand off and weep and wail, at her torment of destruction. They will say, "Alas, alas, the GREAT CITY, that was clothed in fine linen, and people, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls. For in one hour so great riches is come to nought" (verses 15-17a). All the shipmasters, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, and cried, when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, "What was like unto this great city!" (verse 17b-18). This is going to be such a massive and LARGE destruction that people working in the ship industry will see from afar the smoke of her burning. Those merchants that do their trading via the movement of ships will weep and cry because their riches are now over and finished (verse 19). This is way more than just a "theological church" of some religion. This great city or power called Babylon will be thrown down with VIOLENCE! (verse 21). She will be a power that did proclaim the "bridegroom" and the "bride - Jesus as the bridegroom, and the "church" as the bride of Christ, but it was DECEPTION and all (certainly a very large part) of the nations were deceived by her gospel. And once more notice verse 24. In her was found the BLOOD OF THE PROPHETS, and of SAINTS, and of all that were slain upon earth (in the context of "Christianity"). She is guilty of killing God's true prophets and saints! This is no mere "church theology" religious group. It is THAT, yes indeed, BUT this account GOES WAY BEYOND, some nice quiet little "religious" church. This chapter is talking about AN EMPIRE! A massive political/trading POWER in the world, that makes merchants RICH and wealthy - literally! A power that deals in all kinds of merchant good, even slaves and the lives of people. It is a world power that kills God's prophets and saints! Let's look at the world scene. Now granted, what I'm about to say could be argued, if you perhaps think Jesus will not return for another five hundred year, things would be drastically different by then, on the world scene. But if you believe Jesus' return if not hundreds of years away, then.... Could South America, very high in Roman Catholic religion, be the global power to be this Babylon here spoken about? VERY UNLIKELY indeed. Could the African continent be this global power - even more unlikely I would say. Could this global power be Russia, a hundred years or so back, Roman Catholicism was very prominent in Russia. I guess you could argue given enough time, maybe Russia is the Babylon o=f Revelation 18. Could this mighty power of this chapter be China? They have right now a red hot industry as of 2007, but they are not and never did have the history of worldwide Christian deception, and mass killings of the saints of God. What about the Arab nations, could they be this Babylon of Revelation? Once more I guess if you argue and answer with "a few hundred years or so before Jesus returns" - you might be able to think the Arab nations will be this power of Revelation. But finally what about Europe? With what we have seen from Revelation chapter 17, this chapter would flow right along, as an extension or further expounding of chapter 17 and Europe being this end-time economical and deceptive "christian" power, that has in its history killed the saints of God, and put forth teachings, and customs and practices, that have indeed covered much of the earth in DECEPTIONS. Europe has finally come together, after many centuries of certain nations and leaders of those nations WANTING to bring Europe together by FORCE of warfare, and did NOT succeed. But "economical" reasons have persuaded them to hook up-arms and walk together. And it so happens that most of those countries are predominately Roman Catholic. I submit to you, that of all the "powers" in the world - the United European Empire fits the description and the future prophecy (taking all the centuries of the past into consideration) of Revelation 18. And so the reality at the end of the day is that this prophecy of Revelation 17 and 18, is the BABYLON POWER OF EUROPE with THE WOMAN "CHURCH" - THE BABYLON MYSTERY RELIGION OF ROMAN CATHOLICISM, riding this last end-time political/economical/religious system. She will come to power relatively quickly, and be so great on the world scene it will take your breath away. She will be the world's greatest trading and economical power that will do wonders in making some people very wealthy. This end-time Babylon will be the "king of the north" in Daniel 11, who will come and destroy the "king of the south" - the Arab confederacy. Then march into the Holy Land, and take Jerusalem - Daniel 411:40-45. THEN there shall be a time of trouble as never was on the earth - Daniel 12:1. It is the same time Jesus spoke about (Mat.24:24) and Jeremiah wrote about (Jer.30:7). The GREAT TRIBULATION will begin. The Western world will come under the heal of this end-time, 7th resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire. It will deal in slavery and the lives of people. It will kill many of the saints of God for one more time, before Jesus returns. Other of the Lord's people will have to flee to the wilderness. The two witness of God will preach in the city of Jerusalem. Then into the Day of the Lord, this power will try to conquer the people of the East (the 5th trumpet of Revelation 9). But it will not succeed, just as it did not succeed before in World War 1 and 2. The power to the East will counter attack (the 6th trumpet of Revelation 9) and THAT POWER TO THE EAST will be God's hammer to SMASH, BLAST, and bring DESTRUCTION on Europe. And so we are back in Revelation 18, at the time of this Babylon Mystery Religion Empire being DESTROYED, and the merchants of the earth wailing and weeping over her. Chapter 17 and 18 are chapters that "clue us in" on this mighty end-time Beast power and tell us about her destruction in the blowing of the 6th trumpet. They are "clue us in" and "destruction" INSET chapters that have taken us back to the 6th trumpet sound. The 17th and 18th chapters of Revelation are CONNECTED - they are two parts of the WHOLE. And chapter 17th is proved by history to be the Roman Catholic church - a woman whore - riding the empire or Beast, which had SEVEN head resurrection (the 7th yet to come in full reality) in history called the Holy Roman Empire. Every one of those resurrection was in Europe. The 7th and final resurrection will be in the same geographical area of the planet - Europe! It's ALREADY THERE, but the woman/beast has not yet reached full maturity, but it will, in God's time plan, He can hold it back from maturing for as long as He wishes, according to how long He wants the church of Jesus Christ to do its work, before He closes the door on their teaching and preaching of His word, to the nations of the world. The world wide INTERNET is of the greatest tools to proclaim the full Gospel, but when the woman rides the Beast for one last time, and as I have been VERY PLAIN as to who this woman is, you can be assured this Website will disappear off into outer-space, and there will be a time of SILENCE, for the last 42 months of this age, except for the Elijah to come, and the two witnesses in Jerusalem. There is one more important voice that comes from heaven saying, "COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE, THAT YOU BE NOT PARTAKERS OF HER SINS, AND THAT YOU RECEIVE NOT HER PLAGUES!" (verse 4). Do YOU love God's Word, do you fear and tremble in the right way, before the Almighty? Do you desire to DO HIS WILL and live His commandments. The Eternal wants to give you eternal LIFE with Him, but you must be willing to see the deceptions of Babylon and COME OUT OF HER! THE WOMAN THAT RIDES THE BEAST If you need IN-DEPTH proof and reading material, the Roman Catholic church being the "woman that rides the beast" at the time of the end, then you need to read "A Woman Rides the Beast" by Dave Hunt (no relation to me). This large, (over 500 pages) book was published in 1994, by Harvest House Publications. It may still be in print, or Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.com may have copies, or your local Public Library may carry it. The book is LOADED with facts and histories to prove the "woman whore" of Revelation is the Roman Catholic church. CHAPTER NINETEEN Now, in chapter 19 we are brought forward again to the very coming of Christ IN THE CLOUDS with His army, to battle, and have "the supper of the great God" (verse 17). John hears the voice of "much people" (Green in his English/Greek Internilear translates "a voice of a crowd") - not human people for humans do not go to heaven at death - saying, "Alleluia; Salvation, glory, and honor, and power, unto the Lord our God: True and righteous are His judgments: for He has judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornications, and has avenged the blood of His servants at her hand." And again they said: "Alleluia." and her smoke rose up for ever and ever, and the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, "Amen; Alleluia" (verses 1-4). John hears another voice coming out of the throne area, saying: "Praise our God, all you His servants, and you that fear Him, both small and great." He hears as it were the voice of a multitude, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of many thunders, saying: "Alleluia; for the Lord God omnipotent REIGNETH. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to Him: for the MARRIAGE of the LAMB is come, and His WIFE has made herself ready" (verses 5-7). Here we are in the time frame and scene of Jesus coming for His bride the true church of God, and the marriage feast is taking place. What a BLESSED AND WONDERFUL time that will be. Finally the saints of all ages are resurrected or if alive at Jesus' coming, CHANGED from mortal to immortal, from human to divine, from corruption to incorruption. It is the time of what Paul was inspired to tell us about in 1 Corinthians chapter 15. It is the last trumpet sound, the RESURRECTION takes place, the angels gather together the saints from the four corner of the earth (Matthew 24:30,31). It is the time of 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. The angels will gather the saints and lead them to Christ in the CLOUDS, in the AIR of this planet. The BRIDEGROOM and the BRIDE shall be together, the marriage of the Lamb to His bride has come! What GLORY, what SPLENDOR, the angels sing, a display of fireworks like no other display blazes away. The HAPPINESS, the JOY, the PRAISES, the SINGING, the heavenly choir thunders out the news and the approval. At last the time has now come for Jesus the Christ, with His bride and the angels, to TAKE RULERSHIP over the nations of the earth. Jesus' bride, the Church of God, all of them, each individual is dressed in CLEAN, WHITE, linen, which represents RIGHTEOUSNESS! (verse 8). They will be BLAMELESS before Christ and God the Father. No sin will be found in them. No sins will be mentioned, they are clean and white, pure and holy. You need to read my study (if you have not done so) called "The Truth about Judgment Day" and understand it correctly. John says he was told: "Write, BLESSED are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. These things are the true sayings of God" (verse 9). John falls at the angels' feet to worship him, but is told not to do so, for the angles are like his fellow servants and brethren, that have the testimony of Jesus; all are to worship only God. And the testimony of Jesus Christ is the "spirit of prophecy." Those in Christ, at the time of the end of this age, will KNOW the prophecy of Jesus, they will understand, the truth of the matter will be shown to them, they are the ELECT that cannot be deceived. They will know the prophecy of Jesus, they will know who the true servants of God are and who the false teachers are. JESUS COMES AS KING AND LORD John sees heaven open, and behold a white horse and He that sat upon it was called FAITHFUL and TRUE. He is coming in RIGHTEOUSNESS to JUDGE and make WAR!! This is not the little Lord Jesus in a manger in a stable, this is not the bloody and battered Lord shedding His blood on the cross. This is the MIGHTY, the POWERFUL, the ONE who can make RIGHTEOUS WAR, who can JUDGE with righteousness the nations and the people of the earth. He is the ONE who can perfectly decide who are to be DESTROYED of those on earth who are destroying the earth. His eyes are as a FLAME of FIRE; on His head are MANY CROWNS (He is King of kings); and He has a name that no human knows, only He Himself. He is clothed with a tunic dipped in blood (He will now spill the blood of the armies of the world who come to fight Him); and His name is called "The WORD OF GOD." He is the very living word of God, the PERFECT ONE! Oh yes, He has His armies also, just like the world and the Beast power and the people from the East, will have their armies, so Jesus will come with His mighty armies of saints and angles. What a scene, the armies of the Lord will ride white horses, be clothed in white raiment, clean and white (verses 11-14). Put yourself in the mind-eye picture, can you imagine the scene? It is the battle of the ages. It is the battle like no other battle. It is the battle to STOP men from destroying the earth. It is the time as Jesus said, that unless those days were CUT SHORT, no flesh would be saved alive, the people of the earth would indeed obliterate themselves from off this planet. But the days will be cut short. Jesus will come with His army. At the command of His voice (a sharp two edged sword) He will SHOUT the battle CRY! His army will come down from the clouds with a mighty thunderous shout, the heavens will be ablaze, the lightnings flashing here and there. What the world (and especially the human armies at the place called Armageddon, led by Satan, by the man "beast" general, the man "false prophet") will believe is the forces from another planet, an invasion from outer space, will in fact be the GLORIOUS, POWERFUL, MIGHTY, SPECTACULAR, JUDGE of the nations, Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, coming to RULE with a ROD of iron, and to tread out the winepress of the fierceness and WRATH of ALMIGHTY GOD!! The prophecy of Zechariah 14 will be! It has now come to pass, it is now a reality in our New Testament Bible Story. Jesus has come. On His vesture and on His thigh is the name KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. The armies of the Beast power in the Holy Land, and the armies of the Eastern powers, from the other side of the Euphrates, will have collected themselves together at the plain called Armageddon. They will have their state-of-the-art space age rockets and tanks, and their fast nuclear weaponed planes and all the latest war machines that man has invented, to that time in history. They will be ready to DO BATTLE! But it will be NO CONTEST! Jesus will say the word, and all the people of the armies there to fight Him, all their flesh shall MELT off their bones. The blood will flow from Armageddon like a river for 183 miles, going south, passing Jerusalem, and on down to the land below. Indeed the time has then come in Revelation 19 that was foretold long ago by Zechariah - chapter 14 (verses 14-16). THE END FOR THE BEAST AND FALSE PROPHET We still step back a little in time. God wants to give emphasis! An angel standing in the sun, cries out: "COME YE FOULS OF THE AIR, GATHER TOGETHER FOR THE SUPPER OF THE GREAT GOD, That you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and they that sit on them. the flesh of all, both small and great, free and slaves." Yes, that GREAT WAR of the end of the age has come. The rubber is going to hit the road. The acid test has come. The beast man and the kings of the earth, and their armies are gathered together (verses 17-19). The BATTLE is under way! THE BEAST MAN IS TAKEN, TOGETHER WITH THE "FALSE PROPHET" MAN, who wrought miracles. Yes, Satan will have his miracle working man on earth also, just as God will have His two miracle working men - the two witnesses in Jerusalem. Jesus will take these two evil men - the beast man and the false prophet man, and they will face capital PUNISHMENT. They will both be THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE - they are now DEAD, dead as a door nail! The armies of these two end-time evil men with be slain. He who sits on the white horse - Jesus the Christ, will speak the word and the armies of mankind will be slain. The fowls of the air will have their feast of the supper of the Great God (verses 20-21). It only remains now for the Devil, for Satan to be chained, and God's promised ONE THOUSAND YEARS of the age of RESTITUTION will commence. The AGE TO COME, is about to start! ................... To be continued |
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