DISCOVER THE TRUE BRIDE OF JESUS

REVELATION 17

THE ORIGIN OF PAGANISM IN ROMANISM

So how did Rome inherit this wickedness? Hold on to your seats, here is an overview of world history:

PAGAN ORIGIN: It is shocking for Roman Catholics to learn that the proposal of the Lord’s Supper as a sacrifice was first made by a Benedictine monk,

Radbertus, in the ninth century and was the subject of many fierce verbal battles by the bishops until Pope Innocent III declared it an official Roman doctrine in 1215 AD. The very principles found in the bloodless sacrifice of the Mass as it is in the Church of Rome today can be traced back through the labyrinth of paganism to the fountain of idolatry, ancient Babylon. Rome’s most blasphemous and massive religious fraud originated in Chaldean idol worship

and will continue until the time of the end when, according to Revelation 17 and 18, amid the wonder and admiration of the World, Rome will be judged with violence and be thrown down and shall be found no more at all, for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. This brutal, bloody, and blasphemous harlot is none

other than the universal false church, the wicked wife of Satan!

God had no sooner begun the blessed work in preparing for Himself a people than the Devil did likewise. In fact, the first baby to be born on this Earth later became Satan’s original convert! See Genesis 4:8 this is where religion starts.

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field,

 that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

As I John 3:12 explains Cain was the tool of Satan.

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him?

 Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

We shall now consider the historical, current, and future activities of this perverted prostitute.

The harlot viewed historically:

Satan’s church began officially at the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1-9 this is the beginning of organized religion, nearly 24 centuries BC. Here, in the fertile plain of Shinar, probably very close to the original Garden of Eden, the first spade of dirt was turned for the purpose of Devil-worship.

1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s  speech.

8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

* The first full-time minister of Satan was Nimrod, Noah’s wicked and apostate grandson (Gen. 10:8-10). Secular history and tradition tell us that Nimrod married a woman who was as evil and demonic as himself. Her name was Semerimus. Knowing God’s promise of a future Savior (Gen. 3:15),

Semerimus brazenly claimed that Tammuz, her first son, fulfilled this

prophecy.

* Semerimus thereupon instituted a religious system, which made both her and her son the objects of divine worship. She herself became the first high priestess. Thus began the mother-child cult which later spread all over the world.

1. From Babylon it spread to Phoenicia under the name of Ashteroth and Tammuz.

2. From Phoenicia it traveled to Pergamos in Asia Minor. This is the reason for John’s admonition to the church of Pergamos in the book of Revelation: “I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is…” (Rev. 2:13).

* In Egypt the mother-child cult was known as Isis and Horus.

* In Greece it became Aphrodite and Eros.

* In Rome this pair was worshiped as Venus and Cupid. Dr. J. Dwight Pentecost writes, “Several years ago I visited an archeological museum in

Mexico City. A recent find had just been put on display, which Mexican archeologists had authenticated as belonging to the period about 200 years

before Christ. The object was the center of religious worship among some of the early Indians in Mexico. To my amazement, it was an image of a mother with a child in her arms. This Babylonian religion spread abroad to become the religion of the World….”

* What was the teaching of Semerimus’ satanic church? That Semerimus herself was the way to God. She actually adopted the title “Queen of Heaven.”

1. That she alone could administer salvation to the sinner through various sacraments, such as the sprinkling of holy water.

2. That her son Tammuz was tragically slain by a wild boar during a hunting trip.

3. That he was, however, resurrected from the dead forty days later. Thus, each year afterward the temple virgins of this cult would enter a forty-day fast as a memorial to Tammuz’ death and resurrection.

4. After the forty-day fast, a joyful feast {Easter} called Ishtar took place. At this feast colored eggs were exchanged and eaten as a symbol of the resurrection. An evergreen tree was displayed and a Yule log was burned. Finally hot cakes marked with the letter T (to remind everybody of Tammuz) were baked and eaten!

FINALLY, SATANS PLAN EXTINGUISHED v. 16-18

How can we close? By focusing our hearts on the True Bride of Jesus! When the true church exits, the false church will remain as in all there are wheat and chaff…

What is our hope as those who believe in Christ? Revelation 17:8 sums it up. We are those who are in the Book of Life.

There are 8 glorious elements describing those in that book.

They are:

1. HOLY ONES BECAUSE ALL WRITTEN THERE ARE CALLED HOLY

Isaiah 4:3

And it shall come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in

Jerusalem will be called holy—everyone who is recorded among the living in Jerusalem.

2. HAPPY ONES BECAUSE OUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN

Luke 10:20

 “Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”

3. VICTORIOUS ONES BECAUSE THEY ARE OVERCOMERS

Revelation 3:5

“He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. Daniel 12:1 “At that time Michael shall stand up, The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people; And there shall be a time of trouble, Such as never was since there was a nation, Even to that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, Every one who is

found written in the book.

4. JOYFUL WITNESSES BECAUSE THEY DEFY EVEN THE ANTICHRIST

Revelation 13:8

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names

have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the

foundation of the world; Revelation 17:8 “The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.;

Philippians 4:3

And I urge you also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

5. BEFORE KNOWN ONES BECAUSE IT WAS WRITTEN BEFORE THE

FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD

Revelation 13:8

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world; Revelation 17:8 “The beast

that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is; Philippians 4:3 And I urge you also,

true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

6. NEW BORN ONES BECAUSE ITS THE BOOK OF LIFE

Revelation 20:15

And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire.

7. BLOOD BOUGHT ONES BECAUSE ITS THE BOOK OF THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN

Revelation 21:27

But there shall by no means enter it anything

that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

8. GLORIFIED ONES FOR THEY ENTER THE HEAVENLY CITY

Revelation 21:27

“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.