um could you explain this please?
Sure, but it will take a while, and I don't want to go OT, but if we can remember this is all related to how we are being governed today, I think it pertains well to this discussion. In scripture, I hope you'll agree there are some symbols most scholars agree upon: a woman in prophecy is a church, a beast is a government or country (look in Daniel, especially with how the leopard with 4 heads and 4 wings is symbolic of Greece - the 4 heads were the 4 generals that eventually took over upon Alexander's death, and the 4 wings represent speed - he conquered the entire known world quickly), wind is symbolic for strife, and water or sea is symbolic for people, nations, multitudes, or tongues.
There are 2 women in revelation, one in chapter 12, and another in 17. The one in chapter twelve is the true church, it's sources of light are the moon under her feet, the stars over her head, and the sun she is clothed with. These are natural sources of light made by the Creator. She has a remnant that is persecuted by the dragon, and there are two characteristics that remnant has at the end of the chapter: They keep the commandments of God, and they have the testimony of Christ. Most churches today keep only 9 of the commandments. Daniel 7:25 speaks about a man who would think to change times and the law. That man was Constantine, and on March 7th, 321 AD, he made his edict regarding sunday as the national day of rest. It was a political move on his part, as the pagans were divided from the Christians, and he figured he could weld them together if each was willing to compromise. There is also a time period in both Daniel and Revelation of 42 months, 1260 days, or time, times, and the dividing of time. This is all the same period when a certain power would wear out the saints of the Most High God, and to realize what it refers to, one must know that both Ezekiel and Numbers give instances where God uses a day equals a year in prophetic timing. That 1260 days is a 1260 year period that began when Roman Emperor Justinian made a bold move and name the bishop of Rome to have preeminance of all of Europe in the spring of that year. If any king wanted to do anything, he had to get that bishop's approval. This lasted for 1260 years until General Berthier marched into Rome in the spring of 1798, captured the pope, and took him back to France where he died in exile. This is the deadly wound Revelation speaks of that happened to the first beast, which was Rome. That wound was later healed when Gaspari (acting for the Roman Pontiff) and Mussullini signed the Lateran Pact in 1929. The papers of the day even ran headlines of "Old wound healed between church and state".
Now getting to the woman of Rev 17, she is decked out in purple and scarlet, the colors that are prominent in this politicoreligious power (I was Catholic for 32 years, BTW, and I want to stress this is not directed towards people who are Catholic, as I know there are a lot of sincere people in this church - I am speaking of the entity that is the Vatican - which actually means mystery). See:
http://www.biblelight.net/vatican.htm
This woman sits on seven hills, which later in the chapter are described as 7 mountains, and Rome is the city of 7 hills. She has a wineglas in her hand full of filthiness and fornication. Check these Vatican coins out depicting the sunwafer in a the woman's wineglass, and realize sun worship goes back to Egypt and beyond, and in fact, one of the 10 plagues was darkness over half of Egypt to show God was more powerful than Ra. I'll continue in the next post.
and thanks
