The Mystery of Babylon

hapter 5 - Eighth Beast

Smoke-screening the Harlot

THE EIGHTH BEAST MANIFESTATION

We of the latter part of the 20th & this 21st century are facing a different image of Mystery Babylon than the image that was projected during any of the seven great kingdoms: Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Media Persia, Greece, Pagan Rome, and Papal Rome.

We are facing the Beast Harlot's best ....the EIGHTH MANIFESTATION, which is of the seven."(Rev.17:11) Her greatest and last deception just before she goeth into perdition."

Deception and craftiness is one area where Satan has no human equal. He is the source of all deceit. He is subtle and a “liar from the beginning”. In keeping with his known methods, Satan has erected SMOKESCREENS at this endtime to keep God's ministers preoccupied with secondary issues rather than what is primary.

Thus saith the Lord : The preachers today are out hunting the Beast, they are trying to find him, while all the time they are looking here and there, the Beast Harlot has come to their very House, ....to their Church religious system, ....to their Community of Believers!

So many ministers do not understand that they should be looking for the Man of Sin, the Son of Perdition, the Spirit of Anti Christ with in their own fellowship.

NOW, it is just as it was with Judas, who set the pattern for the AntiChrist spirit He was right among the apostles ministering and fellowshipping with them. This unfaithful spirit is working today among the church not the world. Don't look in the world, they are already overcome look among the church. Don't look among the Catholics only look among the Protestants, the Charismatics, and the Pentecostals. The Son of Perdition is here now a partaker of the ministry! (This is not a call for a witch hunt. But, when the blind lead the blind, both fall into the ditch.) The snare is laid. But do we see it?

The Mystery of Iniquity has raised smokescreens and diverted the attentions of much of the ministry to issues which keep them from ever truly focusing upon the fullness of the truth of the Great Whore Spirit in this generation. Periodic up dates are the norm for systems which are constantly developing and maturing. Reading statements and testimonies about the Beast and Great Whore by the leaders of the Reformation are enlightening, but they are all observations, ....after the fact! They need to be updated.

Martin Luther spoke from hindsight when he made this statement in the 16th century, "I rejoice in having to bear such ills for the best of causes. Already I feel greater liberty in my heart; for at last I know that the pope is antichrist, and that his throne is that of Satan himself." The time, times and a half time or 1260 years (Dan. 7:25) of the "wearing out the saints" phase was at that time, close to its end. Its course was almost run.

Hislop's, Two Babylons, is a great work of research. But it was, as all research, ....an exercise in HIND SIGHT. It no doubt was inspired of God to provide us with the historical information few of us would have ever found on our own. But we, upon whom the ends of the age are come, do not have the luxury of time to wait for the accuracy of 20 20 hindsight. We must see clearly as we encounter each new facet of the endtime. Or else we will fall into deception which means in some form and degree “becoming partaker of the sins and plagues” which are falling upon Mystery Babylon at the endtime. (Rev.18:4)

We must up date our revelation to include more than Satan's yesterday's strategies. The Protestant Reformation created a whole different image of christianity. No longer was it a "universal Catholic" church which took all the lime light. The Mother Church had to share the stage with all the different Protestant daughter denominations which proceeded from her. Each developed into large religious bodies of their own with members on every continent.

At the turn of the 20th century, God unveiled another phase of his purposes when He began to "pour out of his Spirit" creating another Pentecostal out pouring as in the book of Acts. Thus, He was beginning the fulfillment of James' “early and latter rain harvests” of the earth. (James 5:7) This move shook the religious world of Pagans, Jews, Catholics and Protestants as Holy Ghost filled believers made a place for themselves upon the Christian stage. Now all three stand in the lime light of attention in Christianity: the Catholics, the Protestants, and the Pentecostals.

If Martin Luther were here now at this beginning of the 21st century, where would he say the "seat of Satan" is NOW? Would he still point to the Pope and Catholicism? No. He would now perceive that the Mystery of Iniquity did not crawl off into a corner and die with the Reformation. She moved on into the Protestants and later into the Pentecostals. The revelation was simpler in Luther's day. Everyone pointed at the Catholic church system. But, with the addition of the Protestant denominations (Episcopalians, Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, etc.) and the Pentecostal denominations (Church of God, Assembly of God, United Pentecostal, & etc) and the present Charismatic element; .....the picture has become diluted. Outwardly, the religious mix has changed in many ways. But, the Devil is still the most subtle beast of the field and is now smokescreening his moves. We must open up the lense and open our field of vision. There is now more in the picture. Satan is using all types of distractions to keep ministers from comprehending what he is really doing.

Since the Reformation, adjustments have been made in the christian community. Consequently, Satan made some adjustments in his Mystery of Iniquity Harlot system, too. Quotes of historical religious leaders which are several hundred years old (not Biblical quotes) are at best unable to give the whole picture of this endtime. The Holy Spirit of God wants us to look through the murky cloud upon today's horizon and focus upon the evil behind all the Smokescreens.

BABYLON IS NOT

Mystery Babylon is NONE of the following:the United States of America, Islam, Communism, Satanic worship, occult, witchcraft, New Age, the Illuminati, the Masons, the Tri lateral Commission, European Common Market, Opec Muslim oil cartel, Economics, Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderbergers, the Rothschilds, Humanism, Homosexuality, Abortion, Central World Bank, One World Order, New York, Los Angeles, London, ....and neither Iraq nor Iran. Nor is it 100% Roman Catholicism. Catholicism is only a portion of the religious harlot.

All of these have portions of manifested evil in them from Satan's designs and plots to take over the planet, BUT none of these are the sum total of the Mystery Babylon, …. The Mystery of Iniquity.

Mystery Babylon is none of these exclusively. Each manifests a portion of the Harlot Beast's evil character; but, none are Mystery Babylon's Beast image today! Yes, they all represent and reveal evil on a multitude of battle fronts. The war is greater than any specific one by itself. Truly Satan has come with "all power" in all of above mentioned perversions …to attack the Bride of Jesus Christ from numerous directions; .....but, ALL OF THESE SHOULD BE LOOKED UPON AS SMOKESCREENS.

BABYLON IS

It is truly a mystery that multitudes today can not see Mystery Babylon APART FROM Roman Catholicism. Many Protestants and Pentecostals have removed from their worship much of the Pagan Rome worship practices which crept into the christian community through the Catholic church; ….such as Mary worship, prayers for and to the dead, purgatory, worship of images and relics, a celibate clergy, and etc. Consequently, they feel they are free of Romanism and the Great Whore Spirit.

Truly, whenever a person rejects any area of Romanish NON BIBLICAL worship practices, he or she sanctifies themselves and come more closely to God in refusing to "eat things sacrificed unto idols". (Rev.2:20) This purifying is accomplished only by the "washing of the water by the Word", (Eph.5:26) not by man's word nor by theologian's word, but Only by the Words of God, of which the scriptures of the BIBLE are a written expression of that spoken word.

Many of the Protestants and Pentecostals have failed to rid themselves completely of the Babylonian Spirit. They are believers who have been BIRTHED into:

....wide spread religious confusion (a multi-taste “life saver” christianity),
....elaborate church buildings (emphasis on the physical),
....a clergy who are lords over God's heritage,
....a spirit of Nicolaitanism (a conquering and suppressing of the laity),
....denominationalism (people belonging to a click more than to Jesus Christ), ....the doctrine of Balaam (a gospel of and for financial gain),
....organizationalism (believing that God needs man to structure his church,
....church creeds with more authority than the written scriptures.. ie.. (tradition and what men say matters more than God's word),
....teachings ….that men receive the Holy Ghost upon simple confession
....water baptism as church membership (rather than for remission and washing away of sins)
The Harlot Daughter systems have done well in terms of following in the Mother Harlot's Spirit. The Pentecostals and Charismatics, by and large, have followed suit. Just as Israel wanted a king, so they want a visible structure like the heathen nations around them. (1 Sam.8:5)

A HARLOT IN HER HEART

Where is Mystery Babylon, the Mother of Harlots today? She is simply where she has always been.

The Mystery is that she exists in the Spirit of Religious Confusion within the religious institutions, doctrines, practices, dogmas, and creeds of religious men and women as they go about their daily lives attempting to worship Almighty God. It matters not which religious garment this Babel spirit of confusion wears; whether pagan, humanistic, Judaic, or Christian.

On the surface, false religions and apostate christianity may appear different and diverse; but, ...beneath all lies that same old Mystery of Iniquity Spirit which transferred itself from Pagan Rome into Roman Catholicism. If they can not worship God according to his revealed word through Jesus Christ and his "present truth" (2 Peter1:12) or "meat in due season" for this age, (Matt.24:45) ....then they are worshipping under the influence of the Mystery Whore's fornicating spirit.

Worshiping Jehovah God in doctrines and practices that are foreign to the foundations laid by Jesus Christ and Heavenly Jerusalem's 12 apostles of the Lamb; … places believers and non believers in a state of unfaithfulness, or spiritual fornication and adultery toward the God of creation. They can’t be true or won't be true to the WORDS of their creator GOD! They are just like many Old Covenant Jews who exalted their traditions and creeds ABOVE GOD'S WORD, ....thereby making the "Word of God of None Effect". (Mrk.7:13)

They are always deviating in some respect from the preached word of the New Testament church written in the Bible. They won't be bone of his bone or one with HIS WORD; always holding out for the WORDS of their preacher or the words of their religious church system above the WORD OF GOD. Thus, the Mother Harlot is alive and well. The Wound has Healed! The same pagan nature and character Satan injected into Catholicism was transmitted into the hearts of Protestants, Pentecostals and Charismatic believers. Those same traits are manifested from those who can not exclusively attach themselves to God's Word.

CAN YOU SEE HER ?

She has found an especially fertile ground within the United States and it's religious denominations, institutions and creeds: Catholic, Protestant, Charismatic Pentecostal, luke warm Pentecostals, and etc. The Harlot Spirit is upon all religious people who say they love the Lord Jesus Christ, but are entrapped and ensnared by Mystery Babylon Religion. They either can not OR, will not come to the same gospel and "the faith which was once delivered unto the saints" (Jude 3) of the New Testament.

The day is rapidly approaching when voice and light of the Christ’s good news is withering away from the Great Harlots religious system. Mystery Babylon has fallen. She is the cage of every unclean and hateful thing which God & the Lamb abhor. The nations of the world are drunk and intoxicated by her fornicating unfaithfulness. God’s present cry is “Come out of her my people, that you be not partakers of her sins and her plagues.”

Rev 18:4 Sometime in our immediate future his time of patience will cease. The light and voice of the bridegroom and the bride (Christ and his true children) will be turned off and the light of God turned out. He will no longer be spiritually speaking and working in their religious systems. God did it in the O. T. unto his natural seed Israel. (Jer 7:34, 25:10) Shortly, He will do the same to all those who are His Spiritual seed in Christ by new birth (His Spiritual Body) and to those who portray themselves as members of his called out body. He knows them who are truly his.

We do not insinuate that these people do not love Jesus. They do! However, they are just like a woman who loves her husband; but, if another man makes advances upon her she will climb in bed with him, too. She just can't seem to be 100% of the time faithful and true to her husband. And so is it with this Harlot daughter spirit; it just can't be TRUE to the HUSBAND ALONE,… to JESUS CHRIST alone, …to the WORDs OF GOD alone. SHE KEEPS HAVING RELATIONS WITH OTHER "WORDS" which are not GOD'S WORDS. She keeps deviating from the spoken and written WORD of GOD, ...fornicating a little here and a little there. If they could only imitate their 1st century brethern who "continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine". (Acts 2:42) We are speaking of the 12 New Testament apostles, not those who came years later and called themselves apostles.

Therefore, it becomes more clear why God has spoken, "Come Out of THAT Spirit....COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE!" (Rev.18:4)