There are two mysterious women mentioned in the book of revelation, one in chapter 12, and the other in chapter 17, and it is very important for each of us to understand what these two represent, so that we may have a clearer picture of what is just about to take place, here at home, and abroad. The reason for the urgent call to understand, is because their activities will have a direct impact on civilization in our day, with consequences reaching into eternity. As was stated on numerous occasions on this forum the prophecies in the Bible often have spiritual and physical aspects, and the fulfillment of prophecies often take place at the point of their convergence.
One of the issues we must consider as we study, is that the fine details of prophecy are sometimes left out until the time for their fulfillment has almost arrived. The reason for this is because it is not only human beings who are studying the scriptures to find out what’s going on. Invisible beings, who live on our planet also study the prophecies diligently so as to have a clear knowledge of when these things are to occur, so that they may position themselves intelligently, unlike so many of us. Let’s read:
[Confrontation. Pp. 34] Satan found easy access to the hearts of men. He is a diligent student of the Bible and is much better acquainted with the prophecies than many religious teachers. He knows that it is for his interest to keep well informed in the revealed purposes of God, that he may defeat the plans of the Infinite.
We begin with the woman mentioned in Revelation twelve, who is figuratively clothe with the sun, and with the moon under her feet. The description must be highly symbolic, since the literal interpretation of the figure is simply impossible. Therefore, the verse which contains the symbolism should not be forced to any irrational conclusion, especially as the clear evidences point in the opposite direction. Thus, as we study, it’s imperative for us to observe diligently the recurrence of the spiritual and physical aspects. Let’s read:
Revelation 12:1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
Question: Who is the woman being mentioned in these two verses?
Answer: She is the true church of God, clothed with the sun, because of the new Testament which fully revealed Christ, and with the moon under her feet, because the old Testament pointed forward to the time when the Savior of the world would be fully revealed in the New testament era. In the natural world, the moon reflects the light of the Sun, and so in the spiritual realm, the old Testament, in symbols and types pointed to, and reflected the rays of The Sun of righteousness, who was to appear.
Let us here remember that, according to the Bible, “The evening and the morning were the first day”, and thus, in the spiritual realm the night, governed by the moon, must precede daylight with the sun. The twelve stars upon her head also represent the twelve apostles, with whom Christ inaugurated the Christian church, symbolized in the scriptures as a woman. Let’s read:
Matthew 19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Jeremiah 6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
Jeremiah 3:6 The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
11 And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
But then, in that same chapter of Revelation 12, a literal, physical woman is being referred to, for the verses specifically state that “She brought forth a man-child”. A church cannot give birth to a physical child, and therefore, the woman in the following passages can be none other than the mother of Christ, even Mary. Thus we have the convergence of the spiritual woman, the true church, and the literal woman in the person of Mary. Let’s read:
Revelation 12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon,
4 And the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
5 And she brought forth a man child, and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
These passages point unmistakably to Mary, also to the experiences surrounding Christ’s birth, and soon thereafter, because, as we study the scriptures we’ll discover that satan, the great red dragon, used his physical counterpart in the person of Herod, who answered to pagan Rome, to mount the effort to “Devour” Christ, as it were. Thus we have again, the convergence of the spiritual, and the physical, the spiritual dragon being satan and the physical agent in the person of Herod, of pagan Rome. Let’s read:
Matthew 2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
6 And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
7 Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
14 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
15 And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Thus, after Jesus Christ had lived and died, and rose
from the tomb, the woman, the Christian church was forced into the “Wilderness” for 1260 years, because of the persecution against her by papal Rome, during the dark ages. It is impossible that Mary would have lived for an additional 1260 years, and so we conclude beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the woman referred to in verse 6 of Revelation chapter 12, must be the spiritual woman, the true Christian church. Let’s read:
Revelation 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
[The Great Controversy. pp. 266] The periods here mentioned—“forty and two months,” and “a thousand two hundred and threescore days”—are the same, alike representing the time in which the church of Christ was to suffer oppression from Rome. The 1260 years of papal supremacy began with the establishment of the papacy in A. D. 538, and would therefore terminate in 1798. At that time a French army entered Rome, and made the pope a prisoner, and he died in exile.
However, there is another mystery woman looming in Revelation 17 of whom we must take cognizance, since she has already spread her tentacles of power over the kings and the presidents of the world. One does not have to be a Christian to pay attention, for even if you are a Muslim, an Atheist, a Mormon, a Buddhist or a Jehovah’s witness, the next passages will, and is already affecting you. Hence the reason why every living person ought to carefully consider the implications of the following information. Let’s read:
Revelation 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
The woman here being described has to be some sort of religious organization wielding tremendous political clout, because her influence affects all the leaders of the nations, together with the majority of people presently. In addition, we are given several specifics in her description, so as to leave no doubt who, and what is being referred to. So let’s list the descriptions one by one:
[1] She sits upon many waters.
Since “Waters” represent the teeming multitudes of earth, under the jurisdiction of their leaders, whom the woman controls, then it means that she is in the driver’s seat, shaping both the political and religious agenda for the nations of earth. Let’s read:
Revelation 17:1 And there came one of the seven
angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
[2] The leaders of the earth are in bed with her, for they have committed spiritual fornication with her, after being made drunk by her doctrines. Therefore, the multitudes that are under the jurisdiction of the leaders here mentioned, are also being affected by her adverse influences. Let’s read:
Revelation 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Jeremiah 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
Hosea 1:2 The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord.
When the Bible states that “All nations” have drank of the wine of Babylon, it is referring to the central doctrines that have been disseminated and adopted by the overwhelming majority of earth’s inhabitants such as the doctrines of Sunday sacredness, and the natural immortality of the soul. Of these two tenets, Sunday sacredness is the one that is now universally accepted by evangelicals, and most protestants, so from the papacy’s point of view, pope Francis must now be querying what the protest is all about. Let’s read:
[The Great Controversy. pp. 588] Through the two great errors, the immortality of the soul, and Sunday sacredness, Satan will bring the people under his deceptions. While the former lays the foundation of Spiritualism, the latter creates a bond of sympathy with Rome. The Protestants of the United States will be foremost in stretching their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of Spiritualism; they will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman power; and under the influence of this threefold union, this country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the rights of conscience.
Question: Is it true, or is that statement just a
figment of the prophet’s imagination? Come with us as we visit the Al Smith Dinner this past Thursday night, to which both presidential candidates were invited to speak, and which is hosted by the current Catholic archbishop of New York, cardinal Timothy Dolan. The dinner is organized annually by Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation, in honor of Al Smith, the former New York Governor, who was the first Catholic U.S. presidential candidate. The first dinner was in 1945, the year after Al Smith's death, and It is generally the last public event, at which the two U.S. presidential candidates share a stage before the election.
[3] She is arrayed in purple, and scarlet, and has a golden cup in her hand. She is also decked out with gold and precious stones.
[4] She is drunken with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
During the dark ages, the time mentioned in the Bible as the 1260 year period of papal supremacy, millions upon millions of Christians were martyred for their faith, with some estimates putting the staggering figures at between 50 and 100 million. This is why, in the many identifying marks given in the Bible, the shedding of much blood is mentioned.
[5] She is a city.
The Vatican is the only city on earth that fits the bill, for it is both a religious and political power now combined into one entity. Thus, the image of the Beast here in America will include both religious and political powers, uniting under the banner of Rome to enforce Sunday sacredness via the mark the beast. This is why there is such an urgent call to God’s true people now sitting, and worshipping in Babylon, to run for their lives, and come out of the conglomerate, before the plagues mentioned in the same book, be meted against those who adopt her doctrines either ignorantly, or deliberately.
There is one, and only one religious organization which fits the bill, which meets all of the criteria and specifications given by John, and that’s the papacy, now under the jurisdiction of pope Francis. This is the reason why, for the very first time in history, he addressed the both houses of congress, in addition to the united nations general assembly, outlining the agenda for nations, and multitudes, and kings and presidents to follow.
Thus, since the Bible has identified in no uncertain terms, who the spiritual woman in revelation 17 is, there is one, and only one question remaining to be answered: Does she, and will she have a physical counterpart, just as the pure woman of Revelation 12? Folks, brethren, and fellow citizens of this great nation, we beseech us in Christ’s stead not to bury our heads in the sand anymore, for there must be a valid reason why this election season has been so rife with turbulence, with politicians, and all pundits alike, now stating that what’s currently taking place is unprecedented in U.S history.
At the beginning of this earth’s history, a physical woman in the person of Eve played a leading role in the fall of humanity. We observe that satan spoke not a single word to Adam, but instead to Eve. Man followed after, but it was the woman who took the lead. Not long after, The Lord God appeared to our first parents, and after questioning them concerning what was done, He began to outline the inevitable consequences of sin, beginning with the serpent and ending with man. Let’s read:
Genesis 3:14 And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
Question: Who is God speaking to in the above passage?
Answer: Two distinct entities are being addressed here, for the curse is to affect both the spiritual and the physical serpents.
[The Story Of Redemption. pp. 32] The serpent was a beautiful creature with wings, and while flying through the air his appearance was bright, resembling burnished gold. He did not go upon the ground but went from place to place through the air and ate fruit like man. Satan entered into the serpent and took his position in the tree of knowledge and commenced leisurely eating of the fruit.
Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Question: Who is God speaking to in the above passage?
Answer: Again, two distinct entities are here being spoken to. To the spiritual woman, which would be the God’s true church, and to the physical woman in the form of Eve, for He would not refer to the literal Eve as an “It”
Some may now be wondering what do these things mean, and what is the practical purpose and correct application of these revelations. Thus, the following information will be given in the clearest manner, so that even a child could understand. The majority of God’s true people are now sitting in Sunday-keeping churches, and though they may be sincere in their worship, yet it is not in harmony with the day which God has stipulated, and reiterated throughout the sacred history of mankind.
The seventh day Sabbath of the Bible instructs all of earth’s inhabitants to worship Christ in His capacity of Creator of the heavens and the earth, a mandate which would have effectively stymied the false theory of evolution. But as a direct result of efforts to change the day God has blessed, by the mystery woman of Revelation, many are worshipping Christ as Savior, and not as Creator. Therefore, God’s call in Revelation chapter 18 is specifically addressed to all Catholics, Evangelicals, Protestants, and anyone else from any religion who may be an honest, and sincere seeker for truth, to come out of Babylon’s doctrines and her practices, whilst there remains a small window of opportunity to do so.
We therefore end with four passages of scripture which will enjoin the worship of Christ on His day of rest, even the Sabbath of the fourth commandment which will soon be the identifying mark and dividing line between those who serve the living God, and those who do not. Let’s read:
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.
Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Exodus 20:8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work.
10 But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Revelation 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become he habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul
spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
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, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
May God add His blessing to the study and practice of His word.
God bless!