Revelation Chapter 17 VERSES 4 AND 5 continued “The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication, and on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” VERSE 5 — AND UPON HER FOREHEAD: — written into her very character and plain to…
Revelation Chapter 17 VERSES 4 AND 5 “The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication, and on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” VERSE 4 — AND THE WOMAN: She is an integral part of this beast until the very…
Revelation Chapter 17 VERSE 3 “So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.” AND HE CARRIED ME AWAY: Brother Russell was the first to understand clearly the 1260-year prophecy of Daniel and its applicable dates. He carried us back in history to lay the historical background for understanding this harlot’s power and characteristics. Thus…
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…
Revelation Chapter 16 Further Explanation of Symbols The Joshua account of the siege of Jericho contains other interesting symbolism’s. In one sense, the ark symbolizes God’s presence amidst His people, but in another sense the journeying ark and the priests carrying and accompanying it represent the transit of the Christ class from the wilderness state toward the house of rest above. The seven priests who blew the trumpets correspond to the seven individual messengers to the Church (Rev. 1:20), but…
Revelation Chapter 16 Joshua and the Conquest of Jericho “And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rear-ward [the rear-ward, the unarmed host—the people] came after the ark of the Lord, the priests going on, and blowing with the…
Revelation Chapter 16 Verse 21 continued “And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.” “Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail.” During the anarchy the masses will not fully realize what is happening—what the judgment is all about —although they will know that the events are without parallel…