Who is "Mystery Babylon"?
A lot of people have written books about America, even Islam,
being Babylon of the book of Revelation.
Did you know that God told us exactly
who "Mystery Babylon" is?
He literally gave us a checklist!
Would you like to see for yourself?
Hi, I'm David Daniels from Chick Publications.
When God tells us a mystery, we can be sure of two things:
1.
God knows all about it.
2.
We won't know about it without Him.
Mysteries are what Jesus called the parables,
when He interpreted them clearly for His disciples.
Matthew 13:11, Jesus here,
"He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you
to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven,
but to them it is not given."
So parables were spoken to keep stuff hidden
from closed-hearted people.
But mysteries of the kingdom of heaven,
those are God's secrets revealed, as much as the faithful
are able to bear.
God has already known and always known everything.
So God can talk about things as already completed,
even when they aren't for us.
Romans 4:17 says
"...God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things
which be not as though they were."
That's why in Genesis 17:5 God said to Abraham,
"a father of many nations have I made thee,"
when he only had Ishmael.
In the same way, God talks about
the Whore of Babylon as a fully-established reality.
All we see is one piece at a time.
But God sees the completed puzzle.
And He tells us about that completed puzzle.
Would you like to see what 8 of those pieces are,
according to Revelation 17 and 18?
Here is a very simple list.
If you want a more detailed answer, look at Chapter 16
of Why They Changed the Bible.
I've arranged the fulfillments in historical order,
so that you can see the development.
1.
Seven Mountains Revelation 17:9
"And here is the mind which hath wisdom.
The seven heads are seven mountains,
on which the woman sitteth."
In the 300s BC, the Servian Wall was built as a defensive wall around 7 hills:
Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Palatine, Quirinal and Viminal.
These became the 7 hills of Rome.
So Rome is called "the city on 7 hills."
2.
Purple, Scarlet and Gold Revelation 17:4
"And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,
and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls..."
February 15th, 44 BC, Julius Caesar wore an expensive
purple and gold toga to the feast of Pan, called Lupercalia.
After this, all Caesars started wearing that expensive purple,
as a symbol of royalty, and scarlet and gold.
This continued right down into Roman Catholic clergy,
becoming commonplace in 500 AD.
But nobody dressed better than the pope.
Purple, scarlet and gold.
3.
Religion Declares Itself "Mother" Revelation 17:5
"And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."
251 AD, Cyprian of Carthage declared in De Unitate Ecclesiae
("The Unity of the Church"), "He cannot have God for his Father
who has not the Church for his mother."
The religion of Roman Catholicism after that took on the name,
"Mother Church."
431 AD at the Council of Ephesus, where they once cried for two hours,
"Great is Diana of the Ephesians," Acts 19:34,
they now exalted Mary as the theotokos,
the bearer of God, the mother of God.
And often, becoming Roman Catholic
is said to be "coming home to mother church"
or "coming home to Mary."
I have some books on that.
In Revelation 18:7 the whore of Babylon says,
"I sit a queen."
Is it any coincidence that the Catholic Mary is also
called "The Queen of Heaven"?
4.
Her Seat on One of the Seven Mountains
Revelation 17:9 "And here is the mind which hath wisdom.
The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth."
Vatican Hill is not one of the 7 hills of Rome.
But listen to this:
313 AD, Constantine gave the Lateran Palace
on Caelian Hill to the Bishop of Rome.
It became and still is, "The ecclesiastical seat
of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope."
And that's not all.
324 AD, the first basilica was built, now called "St. John Lateran."
In it is a throne called the cathedra, which is a seat, a chair with arms,
for the pope.
5.
Drunk with the Blood of the Saints Revelation 17:6
"And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints,
and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus:
and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration."
Look at this list here.
1184 AD the Synod of Verona says you can burn heretics at the stake.
1215 AD starting at the 4th Lateran Council
the Inquisition was formed.
After that, does anyone really want to dispute
the millions of victims, tortured and killed
in the name of the pope, the Mary goddess,
and the Eucharist wafer?
Even if the killings weren't done at Rome,
Roman Catholicism was responsible.
This chart, by the way, comes from Did the Catholic Church Give Us the Bible?
Truly, she was power-mad, "drunk with the blood of the saints."
Revelation 18:24 "And in her was found
the blood of prophets, and of saints,
and of all that were slain upon the earth."
That's 5 so far.
Can you think of anyone else who's batting 1.000 at this point?
6.
A City That Reigns over the Kings of the Earth
Revelation 17:18 "And the woman which thou sawest
is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth."
Walk with me on this.
Unam Sanctam, 1302, pope Boniface VIII
came up with the ex cathedra doctrine that means it's authoritative, of
"the two swords" the "spiritual" sword
and the "temporal" or "terrestrial" sword, human government, that is.
Boniface VIII, the pope, declared:
"...in this Church and in its power are two swords;
namely, the spiritual and the temporal....
Both, therefore, are in the power of the Church..."
Then he said the church was the highest power of all, and:
"...if the highest power of all err, it can be judged only by God,
and not by man..."
What he's saying is that the pope of Rome
has dominion over all the governments of the world,
and is responsible only to God.
February 11, 1929, the signing of the Lateran Accords,
declared Vatican City as a sovereign city-state,
so it was both a city and a country, with its ruler, the Bishop of Rome,
the Pope.
And it's called a "sacerdotal-monarchical" city,
because it is both a religious body and has a single ruler over it.
So since 1929, most countries of the world
have come to the Vatican to have a "private audience"
with the pope.
And Rome, of course, has its ambassadors
to most of the nations of the world.
Can anyone deny the massive influence of Rome
in world politics?
Think about this.
If the government does not please the pope..
(There's a lot of ambassadors; take a look at that.)
If the government does not please the pope,
the pope can tell all of his followers not to obey that government.
And a government does not work without the people.
So world leaders listen to the leader of the largest religion of the world.
And that is to say nothing about the centuries of the
anything but "holy Roman Empire," and all the kings who either gained power
or lost it, because of the pope's word.
And now, since 1929, it is a city and a country.
7.
Nations Fornicating with the Whore Revelation 18:3
"For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath
of her fornication, and the kings of the earth
have committed fornication with her,"
All of Revelation 18 describes the amazing wealth
and trade with nations of the earth.
People make nice with the Whore (get drunk with her),
then they let her pour out her wrath on the saints.
After all, the only people going against the whore of Babylon
ARE the saints.
Pope Francis I just said that the only people
who are causing the troubles of the world
are fundamentalists, you know, Bible-believers.
8.
This is the last one.
Amazing Wealth and Trade Revelation 18:3
"...the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through
the abundance of her delicacies."
I used to have a problem with Revelation 18,
until a friend said that was what clinched it for him.
He said, "Look at all the items listed.
Right there are what the Catholic church buys to make its idols
and buildings and clothing."
Donna Eubanks, a former Sister Superior,
who became a Christian, once showed a Catholic catalog
of religious supplies.
Crucifixes, idols, prayer beads.
All this stuff was made out of
(take a look right there) it was all made out of
what Mystery Babylon got rich off of.
Everything was made out of ivory, precious woods, stones,
gold and silver.
That's what she sells... ... and of course,
"the souls of men," Revelation 18:13.
Think about these people.
Their souls are very valuable, to God.
The precious Roman Catholics need the word.
I have just listed 8 separate points
in Revelation 17 and 18, that are clearly true about
Roman Catholicism.
I arranged them in chronological, historical order for you.
You can check every single one of them yourself.
Look: Send this video to your friends.
And ask them: "Is there anybody else who fulfills all of these?"
God knew all of this and gave us a heads-up
in the book of Revelation, in two chapters.
He told us what to look for before the end.
Mystery Babylon has mostly taken shape.
But something else still must occur.
Matthew 24:14 "And this gospel of the kingdom
shall be preached in all the world
for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come."
You need God's holy and preserved words
to counter this whore.
By the way, what is the one Bible
that Rome hates above all?
The King James Bible.
Quite an endorsement, isn't it?
God bless you, and have a wonderful day.