![]() “I now know of a certainty that the papacy is the kingdom of Babylon,” he said. So thinking it through, could the woman on the beast also represent a church-one which has its seat in Rome ? It’s a difficult call, but through history, beginning with the Reformer Martin Luther, who split with the Roman Catholic Church over its practices, some have thought so. The woman in white in Revelation 12 clearly represents God’s true church.” Photo by Christopher Czermak on Unsplash “Further on in Revelation, John pictures the church as the bride of Christ. She is described in Revelation 12 as being “a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.” Who is she? “ Paul repeatedly uses the symbol of a woman to describe the church,” says Bible commentator Mark Finley in his book Revelation Speaks. In fact, there is another woman, someone standing in stark contrast to the first woman. And it doesn’t seem to be a perfect prophetic fit. I’m sure their tourist council would disagree. So could modern Rome be this Whore of Babylon? In John’s time, everyone knew that Rome was the “City of Seven Hills” just as we do today. Talking about the beast upon which the woman sits, the angel says, “The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits” (verse 9, italics added). You don’t see it? Then could there be another place? The angel gives the prophet John a clue-and it is a big one. #YOUR CHRONICLE SCARLET DRAGON FULL#He maintains that the Statue of Liberty is secretly a representation of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar.Īnd in his book, The End of America, John Price points out ways that the woman and the US match up: the woman is covered in gold and jewels, America is wealthy her cup is full of filthiness and abominations, the cup represents the pop culture sewage that America is exporting to the rest of the world. He is pretty sure the place is the United States. We’re looking for a place, a modern Babylon-like city. So according to heaven, the woman is not a person at all, rather, representative of something that has the personality and behaviour of a prostitute. We see him staggering about dazed and amazed by what he has been shown in vision when an angel offers to interpret it: “ ‘The woman whom you saw,’ says the angel, ‘is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth’ ” (verse 18, italics added). We suspect he would too if he read a little farther in Revelation and uncovered new details. “Also, the Whore wears scarlet and purple, colours that Michelle Obama wears.”įranklin may think he has nailed it, but at Signs we disagree. Michelle Obama rides in a limo called the Beast,” said Graham. In an interview with the Conservative Chronicle, the younger Graham described the similarities between Michelle Obama and the woman in the vision: “The Bible says the Whore of Babylon sits on a scarlet beast. “Michelle Obama must be the Whore of Babylon,” declared Pastor Franklin Graham, son of America’s most famous evangelist, Billy Graham. The handsome pastor has determined that this bad girl of Revelation has to be “ Hell-ary Clinton.”Īnother former First Lady has also been named as a suspect. Some think they have recognised her in the pop star Madonna! Truly, her music video for “The Beast Within” could excuse you for thinking so, but no matter how much you dislike “Papa Don’t Preach,” Madonna is probably not central in the apocalypse.Īnother candidate has been spotted by the internet’s Pastor Ezekiel, who describes himself as putting the “stud” back in Bible study. So who exactly is she and how should we respond when she appears? You know you’re dealing with a tough character when she has a face tattoo that reads “Mother of Prostitutes”! Unfortunately, the Great Whore of Babylon’s identity has been one which has confounded many biblical scholars. The name written on her forehead was a mystery: Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and of the Abominations of the Earth” (Revelation 17:3–5, italics added). She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. The woman we can expect to see making her stage debut at the close of earth’s history is described by the disciple John who writes in the New Testament about a vision he had. It isn’t Jezebel, the Old Testament queen invoked as the epitome of libertine living, seduction and evil. According to the timeline of Bible prophecy, there’s an extremely nasty woman-a woman not without allure however-about to appear on the world’s stage. ![]()
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