LESSON 6 Part 1
DISCOVER THE TRUE BRIDE OF JESUS
REVELATION 17
In Revelation 17 we find the collapse of the apostate world church. In the process
we see Satan’s harlot bride, the delusion of religion. From Eden onward Satan
has been building his church. Eve was tempted and fell into sin but never joined.
Cain was Satan’s first member (I John 3:12) and the church has flourished every
since. Today the church of Satan has many congregations. Some meet in those
ivory towers of academia where God is banished from education. And if God is
out of the equation there is only one other source of authority, right?
Other congregations meet in churches, synagogues, mosques, cathedrals, and
temples where organized religion stresses the achievements of humans working
their way to God. This is the church of good works, self-righteousness and “I do it
my way”. This is the following of rules; the joining of church and the hoping the
good out weighs the bad in the balance of religions. This is the religion of many
ways to God and many gods to seek. This is man’s making their god in their own
image.
Jesus came to seek and save His Bride. He gave Himself to purchase her from
sin and damnation. Jesus ever lives as a Great high Priest to purify and cleanse
His Bride from all defilement. The True Bride of Jesus is a pure and chaste virgin,
washed in the blood of the lamb, sealed by the Holy Spirit awaiting the day of
marriage to Jesus.
Satan also has a bride. We meet her in Revelation 17. She is a drunken,
licentious harlot. She is the full-grown woman of the Tower of Babel. She is the
Queen of Heaven of the Old Testament. She is the Mystery Religion in the cults
of the near and far East. She is the one world church of the WCC and NCC of
America. She is also the embodiment of a false Christianity, led by a false Christ
and embodied in the image of the very mother of Jesus. That is why John was so
shocked. No other beast in 16 chapters of death, demonism and destruction
shocked him until he saw this false harlot bride given the deceptive name of Mary
in religions today. Nothing is more Satanic and dangerous today in the entire
World as the ecumenical (one united) church movement. God hates religious
deception.
The 17th chapter of Revelation describes the Doom of the Babylonian System.
This system is seen as a harlotrous woman. She seems to be a symbol of
Satan’s world religion. This chapter records the demise of the counterfeit church
Satan founded at Eden and has worked on ceaselessly ever since. The Beast
(Satan’s incarnation as a false Jesus) finally destroys the apostate church (Rome
merged with all world religions) and sets up unhindered Satanic worship (via the
beast and false prophets work). His ultimate goals in the World today are to forge
global unity politically, religiously and financially.
So in Revelation 17 we discover the TRUE BRIDE OF JESUS. God’s Word is
here unmasking the apostasy of false religions and revealing that the true Bride
is made up of God’s own saints as 17:14 describes them, they are “called,
chosen and faithful”.
The 17th chapter of Revelation can be divided into three sections. Each has a
key verse that summarizes the central idea.
1. SATAN’S PLAN EXPOSED v.1-6
2. SATAN’S PLAN EXPLAINED v. 7-15
3. SATANS PLAN EXTINGUISHED v. 16-18
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 coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, 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: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery
of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit,
and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not
written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast
that was, and is not, and yet is.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the
woman sitteth.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come;
and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and
goeth into perdition.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet;
but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord
of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples,
and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall
make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom
unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the
earth.
There is a very significant contrast between the two women of Revelation.
God’s saints are seen in Revelation 12 and Satan’s church in 17.
“Only one life to live and soon is past
Only what’s done for Christ will last!”
Hoping to make the time I have left count for the glory of God.
LESSON 6 Part 1 DISCOVER THE TRUE BRIDE OF JESUS REVELATION 17