Revelation Chapter 17 VERSE 2 — WITH WHOM THE KINGS OF THE EARTH COMMITTED IMMORALITY: This is her primary sin. The Christian Church is espoused to Christ to be wedded to Him at His return. This woman thought that the interval before that return would be more profitable to her if she lured the world’s leaders into a cooperative union. It would make life easier. Perhaps this is why, of all the denominations, the Roman Catholic Church (and its few…
Revelation Chapter 17 VERSES 1 AND 2 “Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment 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.” ONE OF THE SEVEN ANGELS: Believed to be Brother Russell during his ministry. WHO…
Revelation Chapter 17 PARTS OF THE BEAST It is immediately noticeable in this chapter that Babylon is portrayed as a harlot SITTING ON a beast. In Chapter 13, church and state were all amalgamated into the beast. The story of the fall of Babylon and of the destruction of the beast, however, requires the SEPARATION of the symbols for church and state. Note also that this is NOT Papacy riding the beast. Papacy was (Chapter 12) portrayed as the “man-child”…
Revelation Chapter 17 In this study we will as usual be consulting our two primary sources on the book of Revelation, viz., the “New Albany Notes on Revelation” (abbreviated here as N.A.N.O.R.) along with excerpts from Brother Frank Shallieu’s work “The Keys to Revelation”, any other sources of information including the Reprints will be duly noted. It has always been my opinion that no one particular brother, and this includes the Pastor himself has ever been given all knowledge, all…