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Rev 16,1-21

(49c) Judgment >> Enemies of God’s righteousness are destroyed  (Armageddon) – The iconic image of endtimes, a darkened sky where the sun no longer gives its light and the moon turns blood red, is stated many times in the Old Testament, also in Revelation chapter six and eight, suggesting that some of the plagues of the seals and trumpets were repeated in the bowls, only on a much grander scale. For instance, recall that the sixth seal was a massive earthquake, and then the first trumpet called for “hail and fire mixed with blood” (Rev 8-7). With respect to the bowls it is possible that the earthquake triggered a massive volcano that erupted, spewing red soot into the air that fell to the ground, giving the appearance of a bloodied landscape. Then again, some descriptions of the Trumpet judgments sounded like an asteroid hit the earth (Rev 8-8), which could have the effect of triggering very large earthquakes prepared for a certain day and hour, which in turn triggered super volcanoes in the ring of fire, that for thousands of years remained dormant but now are on the verge of erupting. This explains the oceans turning blood red. The alleged asteroids/earthquakes/volcanoes occurred during the seals and trumpets, when it says it did not rain on certain parts of the earth for 3½ years. Consequently, the second bowl may be the result of rain finally returning, but instead of it blessing the earth the water washed the red soot into the sea and into the streams, turning them blood red and lowering the PH levels so that every living thing in them died, and the water became undrinkable. This kind of soot is so fine that when it enters water it becomes colloidal, meaning permanently suspended, so that no filter can strain it out of solution. See also: asteroid; Rev 16,9-11; 18i / Earthquakes; Rev 16,17-21; 49b / Volcanoes; Rev 16,1-12; 47f / Hell in incomprehensible; Rom 11,33-36; 217b

(49h) Judgment >> God judges the world >> The last days >> The day of judgment – God's judgment on the wicked was His way of being intimate with unbelievers who rejected the cleansing blood of Christ for the forgiveness of sins and instead received the Mark of the Beast and worshipped his image. Although this was a display of His wrath, it was a way of cleansing the people apart from the blood of Christ, but pouring these bowls of wrath on them did not acceptably cleanse them according to God's standard of purity, so they will have to submit to an eternal purifying process in hell, where they will be continually cleansed. God gave us a shortcut and let Jesus cleans us with His blood, which sufficiently purified us, so we have bypassed the eternal sentence of hell. See also: Mark of the beast; 250h / Hell; Rev 16,1-12; 47f / Cross of Christ legitimizes hell; Lk 23,35-37; 19i

(250h) Priorities >> God’s prerequisites >> Sequence of priorities >> The first is a precondition for what comes after it (Cause and effect) – This chapter refers to the Bowls of God’s judgment that occur after the Trumpets. The Church was raptured at the Last Trumpet, and so the Church is not here during the Bowls. It says about the Rapture that He is coming in the clouds. Left to our imagination, we visualize clouds that we normally see. However, when we look at some of the plagues of the Bowls, it seems apparent what kind of clouds in which Jesus will be coming, not white, fluffy ones but an asteroid plume after it hits the earth at 10,000 miles an hour. Such a cloud would circle the globe in a matter of hours, and Jesus will be riding the front wave of this plume, rapturing his people in the first resurrection. The aftermath of this asteroid striking the earth would explain some of the plagues described in the Bowls of God’s fierce wrath that occur immediately after the Rapture. The first plague is boils; the second plague is the streams and rivers becoming like blood; the third is the sea becoming like blood so that everything in the sea died. A big enough asteroid could do that. The next plague refers to the sun scorching people with fire. A volcano wouldn’t do this, though it would send massive amounts of ash and dust into the atmosphere enough to block out the sun, but it would result in cooling the earth instead of heating it. However, an asteroid would introduce an enormous amount of energy into earth’s closed system enough to heat the atmosphere to legitimize the forth plague, and then the fifth Bowl was darkness, and people gnawed their tongues because of pain from respiring ash and dust. Keep in mind that the seals, the trumpets and the bowls are all additive, meaning just because John quit mentioning them doesn't mean they have dissipated. Now that the world is experiencing the bowls doesn't mean the repercussions of the Trumpets are no longer plaguing the world. Also, throughout the book of Revelation we have seen a cause and effect system at work. For example in the seals, the world economic system collapsed, causing the global monetary system to suddenly halt, which brought about riots and unrest, and then hunger and death, and then wars and desperation, until people were willing to receive the Mark of the Beast just to eat. The trumpets were also based on a cause and effect system; they tried killing God's Two Witnesses, who were raining plagues on them, which prompted the angels to blow their trumpets. The bowls are no different; people developed malignant sores as a result of receiving the Mark of the Beast. “Malignant” means these sores were capable of spreading throughout the body and was often fatal if not treated. It sounds like people developed skin cancer who took the mark. They apparently did not do enough research on this microchip, which may have released toxic chemicals into their system, or possibly heavy metals like mercury leached into their bloodstream poisoning them. See also: Skin cancer; Rev 16-2; 194f / Mark of the beast; Rev 16,1-12; 186h

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Rev 16,1-12

(15j) Servant >> Angels execute Judgment >> In regard to the world -- These verses go with verse 17

(47f) Judgment >> God Judges the world >> Hell is a place of torment – The plagues of the trumpets and bowls depict hell reaching up and tormenting mankind before the time. The people cursed God and grumbled that it never rained, so God sent rain on the earth that mixed with the soot of volcanoes that had been popping around the ring of fire, and the rain mixed with soot and polluted the waters, so their thirst continued. Although the groundwater was unaffected, what was left of it, man had been pumping it from the ground for the last 3½ years without rain replenishing the underground aquifers. During some of the plagues of the trumpets, God allowed hell to manifest, as though anxious to receive its inhabitants and established its environment on the earth's surface. Horrific, demonic, crawling creatures emerged from the abyss and dragged its victims into its lair of darkness (Revelation chapter nine). During the Bowls, God allowed hell to manifest again in the form of great thirst, as Jesus described in the story of the rich man and Lazarus (Lk 16,19-31). Taking away all the fresh water of the earth man will become parched with no drinkable water. The rich man was tormented in the eternal flames, yet this was nothing compared to the thirst he suffered. There is no water in hell, and he longed for Lazarus to dip his finger into the water that was visible across the impassible chasm, asking Lazarus to touch a single drop on his tongue “…for I am in agony in this flame.” This judgment of excessive thirst is their future, when death claims their lifeless bodies and pulls their souls into its hellish, inescapable den. See also: Hell; 186h / Volcanoes; Rev 16,9-11; 18i

(49f) Judgment >> Enemies of the prophets are destroyed

(186h) Works of the devil >> The result of lawlessness >> The reprobate >> Man’s role in becoming a reprobate >> Being unable to repent – They did not repent because they could not repent, those who had received the Mark of the Beast, carrying the automatic sentence of hell. Everyone who receives the mark has a reprobate mind, like the Pharisees in Jesus’ day, who also were incapable of repentance, Jesus told them, “How will you escape the sentence of hell” (Mat 23-33). See also: Mark of the beast; Rev 16,1-7; 189f / Hell; Rev 16,9-11; 18i

(245g) Kingdom of God >> Spirit realm imposed on the natural realm >> Literal manifestations >> Manifestation of God’s righteous judgment >> Manifestation of God’s justice -- These verses go with verses 18-21. God executed judgment against the world from the standpoint of the temple, as mentioned in Rev 15-5, “The temple of the tabernacle of testimony in heaven was opened.” There is a temple in heaven, which has a Most Holy Place, but it also says, "I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple." God is the temple and we are in Christ, yet no one was allowed in the temple during His judgment against the wicked, because He shares His final authority over all creation with no one, for the wicked have sinned against no one but Him (Psalm 51-4). No one was allowed in the temple during this period of judgment, not even the seven angels who had the seven plagues, as it says in Rev 15-6, “The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple.” See also: Temple; Rev 17-1,2; 161nTemple of worship (Golden Altar of Incense represented prayer); Phi 4-18,19; 190a

Rev 16,1-7

(189f) Die to self (Process of substitution) >> Separation from the old man >> Martyr >> Martyrs bring about the judgment of God – Extract verses 5&6 from Revelation chapter 16 and the entire book of Revelation would just be a hodgepodge of strange occurrences, terrifying wars, weird descriptions of creatures, scenes in heaven and mystifying judgments from God, but verses 5&6 explain the reason behind it all. The world shed the blood of the saints for the opportunity to participate in Satan’s economy powered by the Mark of the Beast. Satan, using the rebellious world to exterminate the Church, is why God judged the world, and it is why He dropped the curtain on the age of grace. The point of Revelation is this: don’t mess with God’s worshipers. There have been many dark and evil days in history, such as World Wars I&II, including Hitler's aim to rid the world of the Jewish race, but endtime prophecy wasn't fulfilled because, though they were His people according to the flesh, they were not His people according to the Spirit. That is,  Faith in Jesus Christ was missing from the fulfillment of endtime prophecy in Hitler's holocaust. God viewed them the same as unbelieving gentiles, and though he may have eventually gotten around to martyring Christians, his reign of terror ended before that. Had Hitler murdered Jews who actually believed in Jesus, that would have changed everything; as it is, though, we can look to the past as a dress rehearsal of the coming days of antichrist. See also: Blood of the saints; Rev 16-5,6; 218d / Mark of the beast; Rev 16-2; 194f / Israel (Holocaust); Rev 18,15-24; 21m

Rev 16-1,2

(50k) Judgment >> Sequence of Revelations >> bowls of God's judgment >> First bowl - Loathsome and malignant sore

Rev 16-1

(106c) Thy kingdom come >> Faith >> Hearing from God >> Attaining the hearing ear >> Knowing the sound of His voice >> Flowing with the wind of His voice

(115e) Thy kingdom come >> Faith >> Working the grace of God >> Through your ministry >> By the word of God – It was not actually the seven angels who were executing judgment but God, who used the seven angels to pour out the bowls of His mighty wrath on the immoral world of unrepentant sinners. Technically, God’s wrath was not contained in the bowls; they merely symbolized His wrath, yet had the angels not poured out their bowls, God would not have executed His wrath. Therefore, God performs all His works through the obedience of His faithful servants. It wasn’t the angels who did the work, but God worked through them to exact judgment on His enemies. See also: Prostitute; Rev 17,1-18; 50g

(231i) Kingdom of God >> God’s kingdom is a living organism >> Body of Christ is the organism of God’s kingdom >> Jesus is the head of His body’s kingdom >> To be in Christ is to be in the great city

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Rev 16-2

(194f) Die to self (Process of substitution) >> Turn from sin to God >> Hate evil >> Condemning sin >> Judging evil – This sounds like skin cancer. Some say it is the result of taking the Mark of the Beast; whatever materials were used in the chip gave people cancer. It is also just as possible that these boils are the result of a nuclear holocaust with all the radiation that was released in the earth during WWIII in the second seal (Rev 6-3,4). Either way, it is the first of seven bowls that God will pour on the ungodly. The world has been evil in the past; look what man did in the two great world wars; millions of people lost their lives, and everybody lived in abject misery during those wars, but the judgment of God did not fall on mankind; war itself was the judgment. Basically man was judging himself for disobeying God and rejecting His Son. If the world will not receive Jesus Christ, then it will go to war, but if people receive Him, wars will end. They did end for a season; there were no wars in the first and second century, but in the third century war returned to the earth and has continued to this day. God judges the world in the last days due to martyring the saints. There has always been persecution; many Christians have lost their lives throughout the age of grace; even today Christians are being murdered for their faith, but never has the entire world come into agreement to eliminate the Church in a way that would have succeeded, had God not stopped the carnage. See also: Skin cancer; Rev 16,1-21; 250h / Mark of the beast; Rev 16-12; 65c  

Rev 16-3

(50k) Judgment >> Sequence of Revelations >> bowls of God's judgment >> Second bowl - Sea turned to blood, killing everything in it

Rev 16,4-7

(50k) Judgment >> Sequence of Revelations >> bowls of God's judgment >> Third bowl - Poisoned all the fresh water of the earth

Rev 16,5-7

(40l) Judgment >> God is glorified >> God defends His righteousness through judgment

(75d) Thy kingdom come >> Motives of the heart >> God’s motives

(189d) Martyr (Key verse)

(218d) Sovereignty >> God overrides the will of man >> God’s will over man >> Reaping the harvest >> We choose our actions, not their consequences >> God controls the consequences of our actions – Definition of Martyrdom: A disciple of Jesus who has been given an early pass into the Kingdom of Heaven with honors. Not only is God judging the world with thirst, He’s judging the world because the ungodly has poured out the blood of the saints during the seals of Satan’s wrath. Like disciplining a dog, we spank immediately after it disobeys so it pairs the behavior with the consequences. See also: Blood of the saints; Rev 17,1-18; 134i

(242a) Kingdom of God >> Opposition toward the Kingdom of God >> Persecuting the kingdom >> Persecution to the death >> Killing God’s prophets

Rev 16-5

(133a) Temple >> Your body is the temple of God >> Holiness >> God is holy >> The Father is holy

Rev 16-8,9

(50k) Judgment >> Sequence of Revelations >> bowls of God's judgment >> Forth bowl - Sun scorched the earth with fire – We can hardly watch the news without hearing about global warming, the more we watch the news, the more it seems that judgment is already being prepared for the unfolding of endtime prophecy. People who are suffering from draught and families whose homes are being washed away by floods believe in global warming, or at least they should. The judgment of global warming is that man is causing it. If people believed this was a judgment from God, maybe they wouldn’t report it in the news so often. Again, if they knew that God would use man’s global warming some day to scorch men with fire as one of the Bowls of His fierce wrath against unbelief, maybe they wouldn’t burn so many fossil fuels. The news is making money reporting on global warming, but one day they will be scorched with fire in a way that is far more severe than we have seen so far, and the Bible says that God is behind it, even though we see people spewing smoke from their tail pipes and out chimneys of factories. They are willing to attribute these problems to themselves, and the government is willing to take steps to find an alternative fuel source to fossil fuels, which they say are the source of increasing greenhouse gases, but when endtime prophecy unfolds and it becomes a judgment from God, they will blaspheme His name. People are willing to forgive themselves for all their stupidity and trouble they cause and are able to laugh about it, ‘Isn’t that just how we are,’ but when God judges them, they hate Him for it. Wicked sinners hate God for His judgments, because He is righteous and they deserve whatever they get.

(104c) Thy kingdom come >> Purifying process >> Purified by fire >> Purified through fiery judgment

Rev 16,9-11

(18i) Sin >> Twisted thinking >> Unable to distinguish between good and evil >> God’s purpose is evil – The fourth bowl was the sun scorching the earth and the very next bowl, the fifth bowl, dictates that the sun no longer shines on the earth. We can just hear man complain that the sun is too hot, and so God says, 'Ok, I'll turn it off for you.' All these plagues contained in the bowls of God's judgment are depictions of hell, which is where most of the inhabitants of earth are going. God introduced them to loathsome sores that do not heal, then to severe thirst, then to fierce heat, and now to darkness that makes man gnaw their tongues from the pain. It is unlikely that anything happened to the sun to darken it; rather, something happened to the earth to keep the sun from shining through what sounds like heavy soot and ash in the atmosphere that remained suspended for a time. Joel 2-30,31 says, “I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.” Joel is speaking of a time before the Rapture, but this verse refers to a time after that. Many of the plagues that occurred during the seals and trumpets will occur again during the bowls, only with greater intensity, and this includes Joel’s description of smoke and ash. They may have been emitted from the eruption of super-volcanoes, or more likely from an asteroid that hit the earth, accounting for the intense heat; otherwise, a supervolcano's ash plumb that blocks out the sun would tend to cool the planet. Inhaling this pollutant would burn people’s lungs to the point of making them gnaw their tongues from pain. This plague is reminiscent of some of the biblical descriptions of hell (smoke and darkness), so again we have hell reaching up and tormenting its inhabitants before death pulls them into its lair of eternal punishment. Some people think God is evil for doing this, but He is giving the people what they deserve (Rev 9-20,21). See also: Hell; Rev 17,1-6; 173f / Asteroid, Volcanoes; Rev 16-10,11; 53k

(157i) Witness >> Validity of the believer >> Evidence of being hell-bound >> Having a reprobate mind

(181b) Works of the devil >> Practicing witchcraft >> Rebellion >> Rebelling against God >> Rebelling against the witness of God -- These verses go with verses 17-21.

(186b) Works of the devil >> The result of lawlessness >> Blasphemy >> Cursing the Holy Spirit >> Consider the work of the Holy Spirit to be sin -- These verses go with verse 21

(201i) Denying Christ >> Man chooses his own destiny apart from God >> Running from God >> Man’s will over God >> Man is unwilling to repent

(202i) Denying Christ >> Man chooses his own destiny apart from God >> Running from God >> Running from walking in faith >> Running from God through disobedience -- These verses go with verse 21

Rev 16-10,11

(50k) Judgment >> Sequence of Revelations >> bowls of God's judgment >> Fifth bowl - Throne of the beast was darkened

(53k) Paradox >> Opposites >> What I used to think >> I thought sinners liked darkness – The Bible teaches that the devil dwells in darkness. Since he likes darkness so much, God thought He would give it to him and his kingdom, but apparently he doesn’t like God’s version of darkness. God gives sinners what they want, only on His terms. Sinners worshipped Satan in darkness, so God gave them darkness that they might worship him in it, and they gnawed their tongues from pain. The source of their pain was soot in the air they were breathing, either from erupting volcanoes or from an asteroid strike, or both. So, if Satan and his servants get what they want, will it make them happy? So many of our desires could not possibly make us happy. This is why it is expedient to serve the Lord, for His promise is that He will fill our lives with purpose and joy if we persevere in service to Him. Satan is the opposite of God: he promises happiness but we never see it, and God promises tribulation but He makes us happy. See also: Asteroid, Volcanoes; Rev 16,1-21; 49c

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Rev 16,12-16

(50k) Judgment >> Sequence of Revelations >> bowls of God's judgment >> Sixth bowl - Preparations for the war against God – Recall that in the beginning of the Trumpets the Two Witnesses disallowed rain to fall on one third of the earth, and for this reason the great Euphrates River became a dried riverbed. The bowls of God’s fierce wrath have upended the dragon's empire, and as a result he went from ruling a highly sophisticated society to controlling a lot of spear chuckers. It said that from the mouths of the unholy trinity proceeded demons, “three unclean spirits like frogs.” Here again is an occurrence of demons as creatures of various shapes, sizes and deformities with the appearance of ugly and grotesque animals (review the fifth and sixth trumpets in chapter nine). It says that frogs held the closest resemblance to them. These demonic spirits of deception targeted the leaders of nations and confounded them, so that they came together against Israel to wipe Jerusalem off the map in the war of Armageddon. This war will be fought outside the city, for in their attempted invasion of Jerusalem Jesus will ambush them in the valley of Megiddo and make war with them with the sword of His mouth. He will say something to His enemies, like He did at His capture on the night of His betrayal, "I AM He," and they all fell to the ground (Jn 18,4-6). It was as though he shot blanks at them that night because His hour had come and the power of darkness was theirs, but this hour belonged to Christ and the power of God was behind Him, so when He spoke (probably the same words) they all fell to the ground as before, only this time they did not get up. The sixth bowl is the precursor to the war of Armageddon, which is iconic to endtime prophecy. Anybody who does not go to war against Jerusalem (those who are absent in the valley of Megiddo on that day) will be spared, but everyone present will be destroyed. See also: Armageddon; Rev 16-12; 8i / Christ subdues His enemies through the Church; 1Cor 15-25; 48n

Rev 16-12

(8i) Responsibility >> Responsible to defend God's cause >> Preparing for Judgment – The sixth bowl does not seem very severe, yet ironically the ramifications of this bowl will later become man’s greatest downfall. The sixth bowl enables the army of the nations to cross the Euphrates River to access Jerusalem with the intent of destroying it, except that God is protecting the holy city, so that when this last tyrannical army comes against the city of God, He will destroy it. The River Euphrates dried up as a result of past plagues, such as in the days of the Two Witnesses when it did not rain on one third of the earth for 3½ years, supplemented by the fourth bowl of a scorching sun. This indicates technologically how civilization has declined, from implementing a world-wide computer system that can track every person using the Mark of the Beast, a description of our own day and time, to now being unable to attack Jerusalem unless the Euphrates River dries up, otherwise the army would not have been able to cross it, suggesting that all the bridges have been destroyed. Today, if we wanted to destroy a city, we wouldn’t care if there were a river in the way; we would just send bomber planes. Therefore, the sixth bowl confirms that man has regressed to the Stone Age. See also: Armageddon; 65c

(65c) Paradox >> Anomalies >> God helps Satan >> God unites Satan’s efforts to make war with Jesus – There has been no other time in history when man has been capable of implementing the mark of the beast until now. Even in the eighties we weren’t sophisticated enough to do this, so the book of Revelation is depicting quite a fall of mankind within a decade. Here we are in the 21st century and the big push in society is technology. This doesn’t surprise those who follow biblical prophecy. By the time the sixth bowl is released, our technological society has been pounded into the stone age as a result of the wreckage that the spiritual realm has imposed on mankind for obeying Satan, having pummeled the earth and making the conveniences we enjoy today infeasible. At the sixth bowl man is living as in the days of about the 13th century, standing along the Euphrates River scratching their heads, wondering how to get a large army across it. They probably said, ‘Look how stupid God is to let the river dry up so we can attack His people and destroy His city.’ God helps Satan accomplish his goals, but instead of Satan doing his will, God completes His own plans. See also: Mark of the beast; Rev 16-15; 4j / Armageddon; Rev 16,13-16; 160g

Rev 16,13-16

(160g) Works of the devil >> Satan determines the world's direction >> Led by the devil to fight against God – Satan used the false logic that if Christians and Jews don't exist, God does not have a people to rule and prophecy cannot be fulfilled, and in that sense defeat Him on some level, and so during the Seals of Satan's wrath he tried to eliminate both Jews and Christian. Now at the sixth bowl, Satan rallies what remains of the world to attack Jerusalem and wipe it off the map (with sticks and stones), under the misguided logic that if the Holy City doesn't exist, Jesus cannot rule the earth in the Millennium. The war of Armageddon happens near the end of the sequence of endtime events, the so-called war against God, which is just a slaughter, fought by reprobates obeying Satan. He used his accursed children in a hopeless attempt to defeat God. He failed to defeat Christ while clothed in weakness of human flesh, so what makes him think he can defeat Him now in His glorified state? See also: Armageddon; 215g

(215g) Sovereignty >> God controls time >> Suddenly >> The judgments of God come suddenly >> Without warning – Jesus said, “For the sake of the elect those days will be cut short” (Mat 24-22). He didn’t say that the numbers of martyrs will be shortened but the number of days, so the antichrist simply won’t have time to kill everybody. This means he will be behind schedule, on the run, always trying to catch-up. The War of Armageddon occurs just before Jesus returns to the earth and sets foot on the Mount of Olives. It doesn’t say they are a cloud of humanity or numbers that cannot be counted; rather, their numbers will be small, not millions but thousands will remain of the once great populations that once inhabited the earth but have since dwindled from the Seals, Trumpets and Bowls of God's judgment. Those who remain on the earth will all come together in one place, just outside Jerusalem, and they will fight against God. They will be coming against Jerusalem, but when Christ intervenes, they will in vain turn their attack on Him. They are out of their minds, having only swords and clubs for weapons to fight against Almighty God. People’s reasoning will have left them. See also: Armageddon; Rev 16,12-16; 50k

Rev 16-13,14

(65h) Paradox >> Anomalies >> Satan unites the world for the cause of deception -- These verses go with verse 16

(145j) Witness >> Validity of Jesus Christ >> Jesus’ works bear witness of Himself >> Demon possession >> Human state >> Their behavior >> Immoral spirits

(160b) Works of the devil >> Counterfeit God >> Counterfeit spirit

(163k) Works of the devil >> Being a slave to the devil (Addictions) >> Entertaining demons >> Disciplined by the devil as a son -- These verses go with verse 16

(164d) Works of the devil >> Manifestations of the devil >> The world system >> Satan rules the world >> Satan is a tyrant over the world -- These verses go with verse 16

(183d) Works of the devil >> The origin of lawlessness >> Spirit of Error (Anti-Christ / Anti-Semitism) >> Witchcraft >> Anointing of error

Rev 16-13

(159k) Works of the devil >> Essential characteristics >> Counterfeit >> Counterfeit God >> Counterfeit anointing >> Counterfeit signs and wonders

(245k) Kingdom of God >> Spirit realm imposed on the natural realm >> Literal manifestations >> Manifestations of the devil >> Manifestation of sin

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Rev 16-15

(4j) Responsibility >> The choices you make >> Accountable for your deeds – The last days cannot be compared to any other time in history. Being a Christian in those days will not be a cakewalk but one of the most excruciating times to be alive. As we can see in this verse, walking naked in public (metaphorically speaking) will not be uncommon. Garments symbolize our deeds; the garments that Jesus advocated are referenced in the statement He made in Mat 24-12, “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.” Jesus is clearly speaking to the remnant when he said this. Although the Church will no longer be on the earth at this time, the remnant will be here, those who did not take the Mark of the Beast nor believed in Jesus at the time of the Rapture but have since believed in Him. Christ will direct them to migrate to Jerusalem and live under the city, right under the nose of the beast. They will live in the catacombs, until the seventh bowl before which they should emerge from their hiding place so when the earthquake strikes they will not be buried in the labyrinths. See also: Mark of the beast; 84a / Remnant; 84a / Millennium (Spiritual then the natural); Jn 11,46-48; 39ja

(49i) Judgment >> Judgment day >> He will come like a thief in the night

(69b) Authority >> Discernment >> Discerning the Truth

(84a) Thy kingdom come >> Be on the alert >> Remain on duty >> Stay awake – He is talking to the post-Rapture people, saying there is still hope for some people as long as they have not taken the Mark of the Beast. They are the kind of people today who rebel against society, who do not take the Corona vaccine but neither do they much believe in Jesus. See also: Remnant; 92d / Mark of the beast; 92d

(92d) Thy kingdom come >> The narrow way >> Trail of good works >> Putting on His good works – Jesus is talking to the remnant in this verse, who remain after the Rapture, who have not taken the Mark of the Beast and have since come to believe in Jesus. Clothes in the Bible represent our good works. Nakedness therefore represents a person who has no good works. Consequently, God cites the unbeliever with public nudity, but they are unaware they are naked (like the Children's tale "Emperor’s New Clothes"). They need to develop a God-consciousness by getting saved. “Blessed is he who stays awake,” suggests that God equates falling asleep to indecent exposure. Imagine the shame of public nudity, and then imagine the shame of standing in front of God without a stitch of clothing. Jesus said, “Behold, I am coming like a thief.” For this reason Jesus said more often than anything in the gospels, “Stay on the alert,” especially in the last days. Falling asleep takes us back to the parable of the Ten Virgins, when both the wise and foolish fell asleep during the night (this passage refers to the foolish virgins). Instead of napping and keeping one eye open, they bedded down for the night. They got comfortable and took off their clothes, and were committed to getting a good night sleep. Their consciousness of God fell asleep. On earth, clothes represent the knowledge of God and righteousness, not God's righteousness, our good works. Conversely, in heaven clothes represent the knowledge of sin and righteousness, not our righteousness but His. God had to clothe Adam and Eve after they sinned; He had to kill an animal to clothe them, symbolizing the righteousness of Jesus' blood sacrifice to clothe us in His righteousness (Genesis 3-21,22). In heaven we will know about sin yet be without sin; both God and man suffered a lot to attain this situation, for God has forgiven us and made us holy. See also: Mark of the beast; Rev 16,17-21; 181b / Remnant; Rev 16-15; 92d / knowledge of evil (Adam knew what he was doing more than Eve); 1Tim 2,11-15; 181a

(93a) Thy kingdom come >> The narrow way >> Keep yourself on the narrow way

(99d) Thy kingdom come >> Endurance (Thorn in the flesh) >> Enduring the will of God >> Endure abiding in Him

(100e) Thy kingdom come >> Diligence >> Diligence in the sight of God

(102a) Thy kingdom come >> Ambitious to fulfill God’s calling >> To see God’s will in your life

(113a) Thy kingdom come >> Faith >> The anointing >> Heaven’s clothes >> Protection >> Covering

(127k) Thy kingdom come >> Manifestations of faith >> Goodness >> Rewards for doing good >> Doing good hides your shame

(153d) Witness >> Validity of the Father >> God bears witness against the world >> Shame >> Hiding under a cloud of guilt >> Your sin will find you out

(190g) Die to self (Process of substitution) >> Separation from the old man >> Circumcision >> Undressing >> Naked before God

(206k) Salvation >> God makes promises on His terms >> Eternal security? >> Perish in your sin >> Perish in your omission of righteousness – Jesus said, “Bless is he who… keeps his garments [on].” This paints a word picture of a person getting sleepy and taking off his clothes for bedtime but then finds himself publicly walking in the buff. The fact that they were wearing clothes at one time means they were once saved but then spiritually fell asleep, until the angel sounded his trumpet (Mat 25,1-13). The Christian who loses his God-consciousness has fallen asleep and exposes himself before God and man. Many people think it is impossible to lose our salvation, but we can. They must modify half the Bible in order to believe in Eternal Security. If we take off our clothes, it means we quit believing in Jesus.

Rev 16-16

(65h) Paradox >> Anomalies >> Satan unites the world for the cause of deception -- This verse goes with verses 13&14

(163k) Works of the devil >> Being a slave to the devil (Addictions) >> Entertaining demons >> Disciplined by the devil as a son -- This verse goes with verses 13&14. In Mat 24-22 when Jesus said that if He didn’t intervene, all life would be destroyed, most of all life was destroyed, and in this war of Armageddon, every person will be killed, sparing no one, so who remained? There will be a still smaller group consisting probably of a few hundred, hiding under Jerusalem in the catacombs, but as things grow dim for their enemies, they will surface and await the arrival of their Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. These are the real left-behind people from the Rapture, who survived the Bowls of God’s judgment, and they will be the people who will repopulate the earth during the Millennium. Jesus had them in mind when He said no life would have been saved had He not intervened. See also: Remnant; Rev 16-15; 4j

(164d) Works of the devil >> Manifestations of the devil >> The world system >> Satan rules the world >> Satan is a tyrant over the world -- This verse goes with verses 13&14

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Rev 16,17-21

(49b) Judgment >> Nations are destroyed >> God judges the nations through the Church – God shook complacency from the Church during the Seals. There is mention of an earthquake like this in Heb 12,25-29, “At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, ‘Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.’” God's judgment in the last days acts as a gradient of severity intrinsic to endtime prophecy from a figurative shaking to literally the most powerful earthquake the world has ever seen. Note that the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air, the atmosphere surrounding the earth, in the same space the devil once ruled the world as the prince of the power of the air, echoing his deceit in the minds of his worshippers. Jesus said that the "stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken," as a result of this earthquake. Moreover, when God said, “It is done [finished],” Jesus uttered those words on the cross, suggesting that so much judgment has plagued the earth because man rejected the blood sacrifice of His Son. This earthquake is the ultimate judgment of God, yet He promised to judge the Church before He judges the world (1Pet 4,17-19). See also: Earthquakes; 181b

(50k) Judgment >> Sequence of Revelations >> bowls of God's judgment >> Seventh bowl - Greatest earthquake in human history

(181b) Works of the devil >> Practicing witchcraft >> Rebellion >> Rebelling against God >> Rebelling against the witness of God -- These verses go with verses 9-11. It would seem unlikely that it would hail on the entire face of the earth, but that will not be necessary, since the entire human population will have decreased and most have camped in regions around Israel. This earthquake is extremely severe, holding to the pattern of greater intensity with each successive judgment throughout the seals, trumpets and bowls. Despite hell that has been unleashed on the earth, there are still people amazingly alive. Many of them will lose their lives in the war of Armageddon, the war against God, but there will be others who will not take part in it, who have not received the Mark of the Beast, who have sought refuge in Jerusalem, and others who have been in hiding from the dragon, from the beast and from the false prophet and anyone who would condemned them. Their deliverance is coming. This is the greatest earthquake the world has ever known. An earthquake occurred at the end of the seals prior to the trumpets that was also very severe but not of this magnitude. The one that occurred between the seals and the trumpets (Rev 6,12-17) moved the islands and mountains, but did not remove them like this one did. It literally changed the topography of the earth in preparation for the Millennium. See also: Mark of the beast; Rev 17,1-6; 173f / Earthquakes; Rev 16,18-21; 245g

Rev 16-17

(15j) Servant >> Angels execute Judgment >> In regard to the world -- This verse goes with verses 1-12

(38f) Judgment >> Jesus defeated death >> God judged the world, the flesh and the devil

Rev 16,18-21

(245g) Kingdom of God >> Spirit realm imposed on the natural realm >> Literal manifestations >> Manifestation of God’s righteous judgment >> Manifestation of God’s justice -- These verses go with verses 1-12. The seventh angel poured out his bowl on the air, which is the medium that once belonged to Satan, the prince of the power of the air; and God's message was broadcast around the globe, just as Satan broadcasted his messages throughout the world. The cities of every nation fell by a great earthquake that had its epicenter in Jerusalem, splitting it into three parts, leaving the city in the center with great crevasses on every side. See also: Earthquakes; Rev 16,1-21; 49c

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Rev 16-18,19

(64a) Paradox >> Anomalies >> Limits of God >> God cannot tolerate sin >> He cannot allow unbelief in His presence 

Rev 16-21

(108e) Thy kingdom come >> Faith >> Balance >> God's sovereignty balances good from evil

(186b) Works of the devil >> The result of lawlessness >> Blasphemy >> Cursing the Holy Spirit >> Consider the work of the Holy Spirit to be sin -- This verse goes with verses 9-11

(202i) Denying Christ >> Man chooses his own destiny apart from God >> Running from God >> Running from walking in faith >> Running from God through disobedience -- This verse goes with verses 9-11

Rev 17,1-18

(50g) Judgment >> Sequence of Revelations >> First half of the tribulation >> The seals of Satan's wrath >> Mystery Babylon, mother of harlots – In Genesis 3-15 God judged the serpent and said to him, “I will put enmity between you [Satan] and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He [Christ, the fruit of woman] shall bruise [crush] you on the head, and you shall bruise him [Christ] on the heel.” When, Rev 13-3 says, “I saw one of his heads as if it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast,” we know this as a deception, being all Satan knows. At one time Satan had the entire universe as his inheritance, and he was stripped of it and thrown to the earth, which became his prison. He was confined to the earth and given no authority, until Adam gave his authority to him through disobedience. God has given man authority to do whatever he wants, and if he wants to give his authority to the serpent, he can and he did. God initially judged Lucifer for rebelling in heaven and cast him to the earth, then again in the Garden of Eden and once more on the cross.  Jn 16-11 says, "Concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged." Accordingly, “When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him” (Col 2-15). Now in Revelation we have Satan claiming to have recovered from the effect of the cross, as though he no longer has the curse of Christ over his head, as though his fatal wound was healed. Note, this interpretation doesn't disqualify any theories about him faking his own death and then supposedly rising from the dead in mockery of Jesus actual resurrection. When it says, “The beast that you saw was and is not and will come,” is not is his current status, though he was at one time the great and powerful Lucifer who owned the universe and then lost it to rebellion. He has no power to influence anybody or anything, except that man gave him power through rebellion, and for this reason he is about to emerge from the abyss, though he will not last long, and then return to destruction (hell). When we talk about fallen angels, some of them roam the earth, while others are chained in the abyss, which is a spiritual place reserved for the damned. It is a prison where demonic entities exist, where they are kept from running free and influencing people, until the day set by the Father. Then these entities will be unleashed on mankind in the last days as the fifth and sixth Trumpet Judgments, and so these demons will wreak havoc as they go about destroying man as judgment for martyring the saints. Another interpretation of this is Catholicism, which was once a world power; it is no longer, but it will regain its power over the kings of the earth for a little while and then be destroyed forever. See also: Prostitute; 134k / Heads and horns of the beast; Rev 17,1-5; 245k / God kicked man from the garden; Eph 2,1-3; 166j

(134k) Temple >> Your body is the temple of God >> Sins of the body >> Immorality >> Sexual perversion >> Basic immorality – This chapter (seventeen) is a spiritual description of the seals of Satan’s wrath against mankind. The wine contained in the gold chalice in the harlot's hand represents the blood of the saints. The harlot was not alone in her guilt, but needed the participation of “peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues” to accomplish her goal. Everyone had blood on their hands after the whole world slated the Church for extermination. Satan could not have formed a campaign to rid the world of Christians without the people’s support. Her immorality takes the many forms of greed, lust and pride that she practiced. In general, the word “immorality” refers to spiritual harlotry. See also: Prostitute; Rev 17,1-6; 195g / Blood of the saints; Rev 17,1-6; 173f

Rev 17,1-8

(19c) Sin >> Mocking God Without a cause >> Motivated by demons -- These verses go with verses 14-18. Catholicism, the Holy Roman Empire and mass genocide of Christians are all tied together in the picture of this woman who sits on many waters. See also: Catholicism; Rev 17,1-7; 160c

Rev 17,1-7

(160c) Works of the devil >> Essential characteristics >> Counterfeit >> Counterfeit God >> Counterfeit body of Christ -- These verses go with verses 15-18. Catholicism is the counterfeit Church. Over the last few centuries the Pope has had no more influence on the world than the queen of England, who herself merely symbolizes English rule, but a time is coming when a man will fill the position of Pope, not one of mere pomp and circumstance but one of world power and absolute dominance over the nations like the position she once enjoyed during the dark ages. See also: Catholicism; Rev 17,1-6; 173f

Rev 17,1-6

(3j) Responsibility >> To the Family >> God addresses both genders >> Evil women -- These verses go with verses. See: Rev 2,20-24, the woman Jezebel

(173f) Works of the devil >> The religion of witchcraft >> Catholicism >> Unholy sacrifice (Penance) >> Offering sacrifice without God’s approval >> Sacrifice against the word of God – This golden cup represents the Catholic version of communion, where the bread and wine mysteriously turn into the body and blood of Christ, when an official Catholic priest blesses it. This so-called blessing is a clear case of witchcraft, an incantation. The fact that it requires the blessing of the priest means that the people are beholden to the Catholic Church for their eternal salvation. In fact, the Roman Catholic Church still preaches that all defectors from their religion damn themselves to hell. Actually, the opposite is true; those who take the Mark of the Beast endorse Satan's evil empire and damn themselves to hell. These verses show that there is an indelible connection between the satanic doctrine of transubstantiation and the blood of the saints, suggesting that the spirit behind the doctrine is responsible for shedding the blood of the saints. Mostly in today's Catholic churches the priests withhold the wine from the congregation in fear of spilling it, for they believe it is literally the blood of Christ after the priest blesses it. They allow the congregation only to taste the bread, so the priests rightly drink judgment to themselves and withhold it from the people, meaning that this description of the great whore holding the chalice full of the blood of the saint applies only to the spiritual leaders of the Catholic Church. That is, God charges the clergy for leading the people astray more than the parishioners for believing them. Furthermore, to the degree that the Catholic Church listened to the dragon thousands of years ago and invented the doctrine of transubstantiation, so the leaders of Catholicism will listen to the dragon at the end of the age and martyr the saints. In other words, there is one cause for martyring the saints both in the Dark Ages and in the last days: worshipping and serving demons. God hates the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation, because it is tied to the literal manifestation of Satan, instead of manifesting Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist as the Catholic Church has purported all these centuries. They have used this doctrine and others to hold the whole world captive to its tyrannical reign of religious terror. See also: Blood of the saints; 195g / Mark of the beast; Rev 17-2,3; 55j / Hell; Rev 17-7; 183f / Catholicism; Rev 17,1-5; 21m

(195g) Denying Christ >> Man exercises his will against God >> Idolatry >> Worshipping men >> Worshipping the idol of pleasure – John wondered in curiosity at the beast, and it says that the world wondered about her too, only not the same. They were mystified by her, like looking at Medusa, as one looks into a flickering flame and can't take their eyes off her, turning their hearts to stone. They misinterpreted her as their savior. This is the effect that money has on people. The adulteress woman is depicted in John's vision as being very wealthy, but her wealth actually belonged to the false prophet. Her wealth is not a metaphor to mean something else; on the contrary, she has access to most of the gold that man has mined from the earth since the beginning of time, and John's vision shows the connection between it and the blood of the saints. Satan's kingdom is brought down by conflicting interests between the harlot (the antichrist) and the beast (the false prophet). The harlot’s interest is in being worshipped, which entails murdering those who will not bow their knee to her, corresponding to King Nebuchadnezzar's theatrics from the book of Daniel. Meanwhile, the false prophet’s interests were in becoming unfathomably rich. Tensions grow between these two rivals who have formed a tenuous alliance, and this dysfunction ultimately becomes their downfall. The elementary principles of greed, lust and pride that Satan used against mankind all these millennia will erode his own empire until it crumbles in a heap of ruins. See also: Prostitute; Rev 17,1-5; 21m / Blood of the saints; Rev 17-1,2; 161n

Rev 17,1-5

(21m) Sin >> Greed tries to satisfy man’s need for security >> The love of money – When it says, “Mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth,” The primary abomination is the doctrine of transubstantiation, but she had many other abominations that Catholicism invented, suggesting that Catholicism is mother of everything in Christendom that is false. The doctrinal inventions of Catholicism were designed to funnel money into the Church's coffers. Catholicism has corrupted the world since its onset (around 300 A.D.). God has held His anger all these centuries, all the while charging sin to her account, saving it until the end of the age when He releases it in one explosive demonstration of wrath. Note that Catholicism does not acknowledge endtime prophecy, since it is about them and about the wars they fought in God's name for the purpose of amassing wealth to herself (imperialism). God has held His tongue because these are the issues of men. God has given man freedom to do whatever he wants, and so we have a right to fully exercise our will, which is a huge responsibility, and He has determined not to interfere until the end of the age. For God to fix our world would infringe on our God-given right to create the world as we please, which if He interfered would turn us into robots, and He doesn’t want that and neither do we, so He has allowed Catholicism to go on for thousands of years, in that people were being saved throughout the age of grace in spite of the Church. In the early days of Catholicism before the Gutenberg Press, Bibles were rare; then after a period of mass production Bibles became available, but the Catholic Church discouraged its parishioners from reading it, telling the people they wouldn't understand it anyway, but in reality they were afraid the people would catch-on to their deceptions and leave the Church. Nevertheless, what faith people had toward God, albeit skewed by nefarious teachings and practices, God was able to work salvation in those who believed the simple truths they managed to convey, such as that Jesus died for our sins. God is understanding and forgiving, but what He can’t understand or forgive is blatant misuse of spiritual authority, risking and often sacrificing faith (and the faithful) for personal gain. Catholicism’s doctrinal goals have always been to fill their coffers, tie people's salvation to clergy and make the people dependent on the Church. See also: Prostitute; 117i / Catholicism; 245k / History of Catholicism (Persecuting the saints); Jn 16-2,3; 79c

(117i) Thy kingdom come >> Faith >> Eyes of your spirit >> Seeing visions – John wanted to know the identity of this harlot and what she represented, and the angel who accompanied John told him plainly the answers to his questions, yet we have since haggled about what the angel said to him. This is an example of interpreting our visions. We can have a vision well enough but then misinterpret what we have heard and seen from the Lord. This suggests there are multiple layers of a vision. If we get it right it can change our lives in very positive ways, but if we get it wrong in can change us in very negative ways, suggesting also that there is great responsibility and accountability in receiving a vision. The most important thing we must do when receiving a vision is to never handle it with the flesh but with prayer. We must be sure God is involved in every aspect of the vision, in our interpretation and application of it in our lives. See also: Prostitute; 245k

(245k) Kingdom of God >> Spirit realm imposed on the natural realm >> Literal manifestation of the devil >> Manifestation of sin – The most popular identification of the harlot is Rome, and there are many reasons this is true. Also, since the harlot is Rome, her religion is Catholicism. While it does say later that the waters “are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues” (v15), there is reason to believe these waters also mean literal water. Italy is a peninsula, meaning that it is surrounded by water, and it says in the next chapter that ships will anchor in harbor and watch the smoke of her torment and mourn over her, who was once a source of great wealth to them. The book of Revelation speaks of a beast, consisting of seven heads and ten horns; it speaks of an antichrist figure and the false prophet, but the angel promised to specifically show John the harlot in this chapter. The beast upon which the harlot sits serves as a basis for the harlot’s glory and power. See also: Prostitute; Rev 17-1,2; 161n / Catholicism; Rev 17-1,2; 161n / Heads and horns of the beast; Rev 17,3-5; 164c

Rev 17-1,2

(161n) Works of the devil >> Satan determines the world's direction >> Carried away by lust – There are a couple things that stand out here. First, the person responsible for martyring the saints is a woman; and second, she is a harlot, not an adulteress. If she were an adulteress, she would be married, and if she were married, her husband would be Christ. Instead, the wording is “harlot”, meaning she is the false bride of Christ and leader of the false church, Catholicism. The woman represents the Pope, not that he is a woman but that he represents the counterfeit the bride of Christ. It says that this counterfeit bride made the kings of the earth commit acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth and were made drunk with the wine of her immorality. This wine is in reference to communion, but instead of wine being in the chalice, the blood of the saints fills the cup. The word immorality is a metaphor to mean idolatry, meaning that the whole world was in agreement with martyring the saints. It wasn’t just the rulers and leaders of nations, but the people themselves who conspired against the saints to exterminate the Church. It is Satan's goal to rid the world of Jews, Christians, the Bible, faith, and whatever else has to do with Israel's God. Satan will use the Pope to do this from Rome, but when his efforts fail, the beast (false prophet) will burn Rome and migrate to Jerusalem and pose as Israel's messiah in effort to obfuscate a growing endtime revival. The antichrist will come in many forms (four to be exact). The last antichrist will enter the temple and display himself as God. A Great Endtime Revival is coming, and Satan will present Himself as Israel's Messiah in effort to quell the revival by offering an alternative, but the Jews will reject him, and when they do, Jesus' word will come to pass in Mat 24,15-22, "Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. Whoever is on the housetop must not go down to get the things out that are in his house...." See also: Great Endtime Revival; Rev 17,3-5; 164c / Prostitute; Rev 17,2-6; 159i / Blood of the saints; Rev 17,2-6; 159i / Temple; Rev 17,8-13; 46f / Catholicism; Rev 17,2-6; 159i

(164f) Works of the devil >> Manifestations of the devil >> The world system >> Satan’s system of authority >> He is the prince of the power of the air

Rev 17-1

(15h) Servant >> Angels have authority >> They have the power to decree an order -- This verse goes with verse 7. Normally the Holy Spirit reveals His word to His people, but angels are often seen in Scripture dispatched to fulfill endtime prophecy.

(49g) Judgment >> God judges the world >> Enemies of God’s will are destroyed

(189f) Die to self (Process of substitution) >> Separation from the old man >> Martyr >> Martyrs bring about the judgment of God -- This verse goes with verse 6

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Rev 17,2-6

(159i) Works of the devil >> Essential characteristics >> Counterfeit >> Counterfeit God >> Counterfeit anointing >> Drunkenness >> Having a party spirit – The harlot's imagery describes a composite of both man and demon. Satan is the dragon, but when he interacts with man, his appearance is that of an immoral woman, a harlot, and the Church is Satan’s primary target for his power of deception and destruction. It says that the woman is drunk with the wine of her immorality, and it turns out this wine refers to the blood of the saints. The harlot commits spiritual immorality, which translated means "Idolatry". The term worldly Christian is an oxymoron, meaning “idolater”. Ezekiel chapter 16 equates this kind of Christian to a harlot, people who claim to believe in Jesus but commit spiritual immorality against God, "Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord God says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them, therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked. And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy" (Vs 35-38). Although this refers to faithless Israel, it fits the judgment of the Catholic Church for the centuries of bloodshed and indulgences it has committed in seventeen hundred years (read Revelation chapter 18). See also: Prostitute; Rev 17-2; 162h / Blood of the saints; Rev 17-3; 160a / Catholicism; Rev 17,3-11; 65h