with Elder Elico Manenji
In this chapter is the vision of the judgment of the great whore which sits on many waters and rides on the scarlet beast.
Her actions, description, name, and conduct are explained as both the whore and the scarlet beast shall go into destruction.
_1️⃣Revelation 17:1-7: The description and deception of the whore who rides on the scarlet beast._
The seventh angel with the seven last plagues shows the mystery of the woman who rides on the beast. This woman is said to be a great city which reign or rules over the kings of the earth.
The prophet Isaiah says, "How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers" (Isaiah 1:21).
She is a whore, a corrupt, idolatrous, and wicked city under the control of Satan, her religious doctrines are Satanic and full of blasphemous and demeaning the names of God, she is an abandoned and lewd woman in terms of heavenly principles. Idolatrous worship is frequently represented in Scripture under the character of a whore, whoredom and whoring.
The Scriptures say, "And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them" (1 Chronicles 5:25).
The Psalmist says, "O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewards you as you have served us" (Psalm 137:8)
A pure woman is represented as a chaste virgin, holy and undefiled without guile.
The Apostle Paul says, "For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ"(2 Corinthians 11:2).
⏭️This great whore sits on many waters and commits fornication with kings and inhabitants of the earth to make them drunk with the wine of her idolatry or fornication.
⏸️Many waters are: *"The waters which you saw, where the whore sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues" (Revelation 17:15)
⤴️The whore commits spiritual adultery, it practices unfaithfulness to God as she teaches idolatrous and corrupt doctrines to the people of the world and she seduces the rulers of the earth and led them into the same kind of unfaithfulness, idolatry, and corruption.
The prophet Jeremiah says, "I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the lewdness of your prostitution, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! will you not be made clean? when shall it once be?"(Jeremiah 12:27).
⏭️She sits on a scarlet colored beast which is full of names of blasphemy and the beast having seven heads and ten horns.
The scarlet beast represents Satan and scarlet or red colour is the emblem of her complete domination and force even by shedding of blood.
The Scriptures say, "You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold on your apparel" (2 Samuel 1:24).
⏭️She is adorned in scarlet and purple garments, decked in gold, precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication.
These colors represent royalty, loyalty, a ministration of religious and divine things.
The Scriptures say, "And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the LORD commanded Moses" (Exodus 39:1).
⏭️She has a name written on her forehead "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH" and is drunk with the blood of saints and martyrs.
The Apostle Paul says, "For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now lets will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming" (2 Thessalonians 2:7-8).
⤴️ Her name is the mystery of iniquity, she is called Babylon the Great for her confusion of the world by teaching strange doctrines, she is the exact antitype of the ancient Babylon in her idolatry and cruelty but the ancient city called Babylon is only a drawing of her in miniature. This is indeed Babylon THE GREAT. "She affects the style and title of our HOLY MOTHER, the CHURCH, but she is in truth, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. In being mother, she has daughters that practice her teaching and doctrines.
The prophet Ezekiel says, "Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy"(Ezekiel 16:49).
_2️⃣Revelation 17:8-15: The scarlet beast from the bottomless pit_
⏹️The scarlet beast ascends or comes out of the bottomless pit and goes into perdition or destruction.
The bottomless pit represents measureless space, the subterranean waters or depth of the sea, a world over which Satan presides over but will only come for destruction.
The Revelator saw an angel with the keys to the bottomless pit, *"And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit" (Revelation 9:1).
⏭️Mystery of the seven heads of the scarlet beast- the seven heads are political powers by which Satan seek to destroy the work and people of God on earth.
The Revelator says, "And it was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations" (Revelation 13:7).
⤴️The beast that "was", "is not" and "still is" means that it had dominance of world affairs, but its power was cut off or subdued, but it will survive again to do its exploits before it is totally destroyed by God.
The Revelator says, "And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast" (Revelation 13:3).
⏭️Mystery of the ten horns of the scarlet beast are ten powers that will receive authority from the beast to exercise on earth but for a short time, they will unite with the whore/harlot for some time during the reign of the scarlet beast employing its power to reestablish idolatry.
Samuel said to Saul, "Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king" (1 Samuel 15:22-23).
⏭️Continual influence of the scarlet beast system until it goes into destruction as it will be overcome with the Lamb who is Lord of lords, and King of kings who shall be with His called, chosen and faithful.
The Apostle Paul says, "Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords"(1Timothy 6:15).
_3️⃣Revelation 17:16-18: The hatred and destruction of the whore._
⏹️The unity of the three evil powers will not last forever as the whore as the ten evil governments giving all their power and strength to the scarlet beast will hate the harlot and destroy her, making her desolate and naked to burn her with fire and eat her flesh.
The Revelator says, "Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her" (Revelation 18:8).
⏭️Their love for the harlot will be turned to hatred, they will hate her principles, sentiments, her doctrines which are doctrines of devils, her wicked practices, her idolatries, adulteries, murders, and thefts and they will repent of their fornications with her and cease from them but it will be too late, mercy will have been closed to them.
The Revelator says, "And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled" (Revelation 15:8).
🅰️Appeal
It will be of God that afterwards the hearts of the ten horns were turned against the whore, to hate her and to make her desolate and naked and to eat her flesh and burn her with fire for they shall at length see their folly and how they have been bewitched and enslaved by the great whore and out of a just resentment they shall be made the instruments of God's providence in her destruction.
The wiseman says, "The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turns it wherever he will" (Proverbs 21:1). Amen!!!
Elico Manenji
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