"WEDDING BELLS SHALL RING SO MERRILY"

SATAN’S ULTIMATE ANSWER - A MARRIAGE!

Satan’s first marriage! Lets read about it, and part of his plan to conquer the world! Remember this marriage will fail, he will remarry a new bride.

His aim is to deceive the entire world. And he does, he will use two men to bring these forces together for this marriage. How does he do it? An interesting story worth telling.

Meanwhile here comes the bride, all dressed in satin of Purple and scarlet, with all here illegitimate children trailing along behind her. But wait a minute here comes some children that are not from her. Who are they? They are children that Satan has spawned around the world, different religions, all worshipping Satan, even though they don't know it. They are not happy with this marriage, but they take part in it. Later, they will cause a great deal of trouble for this marriage.

But how does Satan accomplish this?

He raises up two men, one to unite a force, a military force able to rule the world, with its own money, with its own image, with its own rules and the other to bring in all the religions of the world. This union will finally result in the "Babylon" of the world.

First, the one to unite the religions of the world.

2Th 2:3 Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.

Some call him as the "lawless man". A falling away from the truth. This started in the 1st century, and in the Catholic church, many truths were changed as time went by. The Sabbath in 321, Passover, the elimination of all Yahweh's Holy Days, and the world holy days put in place of them, Christmas, Easter and ect. The name of the Father and His Son were replaced by Greek names.

2Th 2:4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called Elohim or is worshipped, so that he sets himself up in Elohoim’s temple, proclaiming himself to be Elohim.

Here is what he will do:

1. Opposeth Yahweh

2. Exalteth himself over divine authority or the truth of Yahweh.

3. sitteth in the temple of Yahweh, or being the leader, he has the authority of the so-called Christian world.

4. shows himself that he is Yahweh, attempts to make himself known as Yahweh.

5. He claims powers that only belong to divinity.

6. He shows off signs and lying wonders;

He will bring fire down from heaven and all kinds of miracles, that the religions of the world will accept him as their god.

In Part I of this series, I asked the question "Who are the daughters of the great whore?" Are they on earth now? Will they be a part of the marriage of the false church to Satan?

Lets go back to Rev 17:3-6

Re 17:3 Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.

Re 17:4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries.

She now appears riding the Beast. Now having relations with her soon to be husband.

scarlet = color of prostitution

Purple = royalty

White = righteous

She has daughters that come out of her protesting, having great similarities, some of the same doctrines, same worship days, made holy by this false church. Upon her forehead [was] a name written. A title which told who she was and explained her character.

MYSTERY. Making pretensions that the world cannot understand.

BABYLON THE GREAT. Another name is given. She is the wicked city that carried the true Israel into bondage and persecuted them.

THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS. Not only a harlot, but the mother of harlots. One is signified, too, that is the mother of other false churches which have followed her ways.

Re 17:6 I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Yahshua. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.

This implies that she had been a great persecutor and had slain multitudes of the people of Yahweh. There is only one body claiming to be the Christian Church to whom this will apply. There have been some harlot daughters of the harlot mother who have also engaged in persecution, but there is only one self-styled Christian body on the earth of whom it can be said she "was drunk with the blood of the saints."

But when this false church marries, who will be a part of it. Just Catholics (Roman) and daughters, Protestants or will they be others?

Many different peoples and nations and languages. Not just Catholics, Protestants, but religions of all kinds. How does that happen? More on that later.

BUT FIRST, THE SEPARATION OF THE TRUE CHURCH AND THE FALSE CHURCH!

THE EMPEROR NERO BURNS ROME!

But somebody had to be made a scapegoat for the Emperor's crime. Here was a new and despised sect of people, mostly from the humbler walks of life, without prestige or influence, many of them slaves. Nero accused them of burning Rome, and ordered their punishment.

Here was a sect of people that worshipped a Hebrew Yahweh named Yahweh, and His Son named Yahshua. That cannot be allowed. Nero himself thought he was a god, and thought all nations should worship him. After all, Rome is where the gods are. Not the Jews, not the sect of followers of the so-called Messiah, Yahshua.

In and around Rome multitudes of followers of Yahshua were arrested and put to death in the most cruel ways. Crucified. Or tied in skins of animals and thrown into the arena to be worried to death by dogs, for the entertainment of the people. Or thrown to the wild beasts. Or tied to stakes in Nero's gardens, pitch poured over their bodies, and their burning bodies used as torches to light Nero's gardens at night, while he drove around in his chariot, naked, indulging himself in his midnight revels, gloating over the dying agonies of his victims.

THE APOSTLE PAUL MARTYRED!

It was in the wake of this persecution that Paul was re-arrested, in Greece or Asia Minor, possible at Troas and brought back to Rome.

This time by the agents of Rome, not as at first by the Jews. This time as a criminal not as at first on some technical violation of Jewish law. For all we know, it may have been in connection with the burning of Rome. For was not Paul the world leader of the people who were being punished for that crime? And had not Paul been in Rome for two years just preceding the fire? Very easy to lay this crime at Paul’s door. But whether that was the charge we do not know.

But this bit of racism did not start with Nero, but with Claudius in 49 AD in which the followers of Yahshua were not distinguished from Jews. After all, they met in the Jewish synagogues, they kept the same days, they observed the same customs, even though many were Gentiles. And Jews in the city of Rome often rioted and the followers of the Messiah got the blame for it in many cases.

And the church begin to split. After all the Jewish converts in these churches had caused many problems for the Apostle Paul. They claimed all had to be circumcised, that they were the chosen people and therefore all Gentiles were second class citizens in the Kingdom.

Now with the persecution that was thrust upon the Gentiles followers, and the death of the Apostle to the Gentiles Paul, and the problems that had with the Jewish converts, many began to fall away. Earlier the Apostle had said, "all Asia had went back".

SO THE FALSE CHURCH THAT SATAN WOOS BEGINS TO REAR ITS HEAD!

And Satan caused these to adopt pagan days, pagan customs and to change the name of the Savior to what was the equilvent of their Greek Yahweh. And this false church began to grow.

By the close of the second century, THE BABYLONIAN MYSTERY RELIGION NOW HAD ITS HOLD on this Bride to be, this Bride that was once engaged to the Messiah, Yahshua, but now is falling away, becoming once again a whore. And she this false bride, this false church begins to persecute the true followers of the Messiah and Jews in particular.

There has to be a separation between Jews and Gentiles. There has to be a way to separate all peoples from the Elohim of Israel to another Yahweh. Indeed to Satan, himself. It went on in Asia Minor in the first and second century and it will continue until this very day.

WHERE DO THESE DAUGHTERS COME FROM?

WHO ARE THEY?

HISTORY WILL TELL US!

THE FIRSTBORN OF THE HARLOT CHURCH!

This false church begins to have relations with her "engaged one" before they are married. Their first born:

Martin Luther

Christianity's persecution of the Jews has dominated the Jewish history since the Christianization of the Roman Empire under the Emperor Constantine in the early fourth century AD To the Jews, the cross has been as much a symbol of persecution and terror as the swastika, only provoking dread. The Jews know the history of Christianity. Most people are familiar with the persecution of the Jews by the Roman Catholic Church. The Spanish Inquisition from 1481 to 1808 is the most notorious example.

The machinery of propaganda was entirely in the hands of the church officials. Preaching, chronicles, mystery plays, and even ecclesiastical ceremonies were the principle agencies available for the dissemination of hate. Preachers dwelt with morbid and sometimes sadistic realism upon the Sufferings of Christ, for which they blamed all Jews of the time and all their descendants. For many centuries the bishops preached a series of sermons during Holy Week, urging their congregations to take vengeance on the Jews who lived in the district. Stoning them became a regular part of the Holy Week ceremonial. Yet what the Jews suffered at the hands of the Protestants is largely forgotten.

Under the banner of the cross and in the name of Christ, the Jews have been cast out of nations, confined to ghettos, lost their possessions and frequently their lives. They have been forced to convert to a Christianity which compelled them to break the Sabbath, to not circumcise their children, and to eat unclean meat.

THEY HAD TO DISOBEY THE BIBLE TO BECOME CHRISTIANS!

It is frightening that this hatred of the Jews is only cultured over in Christianity today. Neither the Roman Catholic Church nor any of the Protestant denominations have repented of it. Today, everyone blames the Nazis for the Holocaust and not Christianity, yet it is willful, historic blindness to not see that all the Nazis did was rooted in the Christianity that shaped the German nation. Even though later generations may not have seen the connection with Christianity, you can be sure the Germans did, and the Jews still do.

It has to be remembered that the Nazi Holocaust was nurtured in the land of the Protestant Reformation. In fact the seed of all that Adolph Hitler would do was carefully transplanted from Catholicism into Protestantism by none other than Martin Luther, the greatest spokesman of the Reformation and one of the most influential men in all of history.

This is a shocking accusation! What could such a hero of the faith have to do with the nightmare of the Third Reich and the demonic figure of Adolph Hitler? Surely, the man who liberated the Gospel from the grasp of meaningless tradition and restored the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith alone would not be guilty of such things, would he? Yet Martin Luther's violent, venomous views and bitter treatment of the Jews was not something he sought to hide. Far from it. By every means at his disposal the pen, the pulpit, and persuasion he sought to gain not merely acceptance of his views but concrete, violent action against the Jews.

LUTHER’S THREE TREATISES

Martin Luther was certainly not ashamed of his words. He wanted them to be remembered and obeyed. It is only his followers who would like to have his words forgotten, since they seemingly invalidate all that he stood for. And so the chances are almost certain that you have never heard of the three treatises Martin Luther wrote against the Jews in 1543: On the Jews and Their Lies, On the Ineffable Name, and On the Last Words of David.

These treatises represented a lifetime of thought on his part concerning the Jews. His first attempt to win them was by persuasion. He wrote these words when he was a younger man: If we wish to help them, we must practice on them not the papal law but rather the Christian law of love, and accept them in friendly fashion, allowing them to work and make a living, so that they gain the reason and opportunity to be with and among us and to see and to hear our Christian teaching and life. ["That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew," published 1523] It was only when such preaching and persuasion failed ("soft mercy" in Luther's theology) that more forceful measures were taken. For over the course of Luther's life it became apparent to him that the prejudices against the Jews he had sought to combat in his earlier writing were in fact true. In his mind they were accursed blasphemers whose Lord was the devil. He now saw it was nearly impossible to convert them, and any suffering inflicted upon them would remind them that they were Yahweh's rejected people. Only the keen awareness of that would soften a few of their hearts.

LUTHER’S LEGACY

The following measures are in a sense Martin Luther's last will and testament, his legacy to the world. The legacy of a man is what his descendants derive from him, a living memorial to who he was long after he is dead. In one of these formal, systematic presentations of his mature convictions he summarized the wisdom his 32 years of Bible study had gained for him into seven recommendations. They are found in the treatise:

"ON THE JEWS AND THEIR LIES"

What shall we Christians do with this rejected and condemned people, the Jews? Since they live among us, we dare not tolerate their conduct, now that we are aware of their lying and reviling and blaspheming. If we do, we become sharers in their lies, cursing, and blasphemy. Thus we cannot extinguish the unquenchable fire of divine wrath, of which the prophets speak, nor can we convert the Jews. With prayer and the fear of Yahweh we must practice a sharp mercy to see whether we might save at least a few from the glowing flames. We dare not avenge ourselves ... I shall give you my sincere advice:

LISTEN TO HIS ADVICE!

Set fire to their synagogues and schools, burying and covering with dirt what won't burn, so no man will see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and Christendom.

SECOND

I advise that their houses be seized and destroyed.

THIRD

I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings be taken from them.

FOURTH

I advise that the rabbis be forbidden to teach henceforth on pain of life and limb.

FIFTH

I advise that safe conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews, for they have no business in the countryside, since they are not lords, officials, or tradesmen. Let them stay at home.

SIXTH

I advise that usury be prohibited to them, and all cash and treasures be taken and kept for safekeeping.

SEVENTH

I recommend putting a flail, an ax, a spade, a distaff, or a spindle into the hands of young, strong Jews and Jewesses, letting them earn their bread by the sweat of their brow, as was imposed on the children of Adam (Genesis 3:19). For it is not fitting that they should let toil in the sweat of our faces while they, the holy people, idle away their time ... boasting blasphemously of their lordship over the Christians by means of our sweat ... For, as we have heard, Yahweh's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!

To Martin Luther, this "sharp mercy" was needed to bring them to repentance, since they were not being converted by the pure gospel he was preaching. This was not a passing mood on his part; once he came to these conclusions he never wavered from them. Martin Luther's last sermon, preached just days before his death, was brimming over with biting condemnation and vulgarities for the Jews. He planted the seed of hate in fertile soil, and it grew over the centuries.

YOU SHALL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS

Those with even a modest knowledge of the brutal history of the Third Reich know that the Nazis put into practice all of Martin Luther's recommendations against the Jews, and more. They burned their synagogues in honor of the "positive Christianity" Adolph Hitler claimed to stand for; they seized and burned their houses; they took public delight in destroying the sacred and precious Torahs and Talmud’s of the Jews; they separated life and limb from the rabbis; they certainly abolished safe travel for the Jews the only travel they had was a one-way trip on cattle cars; they took every bit of their wealth away from them ù even the fillings in their teeth and the hair on their heads; and the ones the Nazis didn't kill immediately they put to demeaning and destroying slave labor. All this they were justified in doing, according to Martin Luther, with prayer and the fear of their Yahweh.

If subsequent generations of Christians (who have lionized Martin Luther as a man of Yahweh) have chosen not to see the direct connection between Protestant anti-Semitism and Martin Luther, the Nazis certainly did. They understood what Martin Luther meant. Julius Striecher, one of the most notorious anti-Semites even in the perverse world of the Third Reich, used Martin Luther's seven recommendations in his defense at the Nuremberg Trials. He even took as the motto for his newspaper, Der Sturmer (the Nazi hate paper) a direct quote of Martin Luther, Die Juden sind unser Ungluck, or, "The Jews are our misfortune."

IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF IT?

Make no mistake about it: In spite of being a devoutly Christian nation, the Germans were under no illusions as to what Adolph Hitler's intentions were towards the Jews. He had told them a thousand times. Many of the tens of thousands of Protestant and Catholic clergy openly supported Hitler. The rest stayed in the passive state they had always maintained.

When they all were given the choice of joining Hitler's state church or going to prison, the overwhelming majority quietly became part of the Reich Church. Becoming the religious arm of the Third Reich, the pastors, both the enthusiastic and the reluctant, had to support it, since they looked to it to define what was right and wrong. It was far too personally dangerous to let Yahweh do this through the Holy Scriptures. To do so was to say that there was a greater authority in men's lives than the Third Reich. This was treason to Hitler.

So, they righteously stood by praising their Jesus, adorning their churches with swastikas, closing their eyes, and saying they didn't know what was going on. It is much easier to think about the heroic few like Martin Niemoller who chose the concentration camp rather than be silent in the face of such monstrous evil than the legions of "good," hard-working, German Christians who filled up Hitler's armies, police forces, death squads, and pulpits. They did not prove able to be in the world but not of it.

What each pastor did do could not be better illustrated than by these words concerning Martin Luther when he was Professor of Theology at the University of Wittenburg:

Elector Johann Friedrich [one of the princes Martin Luther served who supported the Reformation] was prone to solicit advice from Luther and Luther's colleagues only after policy had been set: The original function of the Wittenburg opinion, to advise onscience, was increasingly transformed by Johann Friedrich into the function of relieving consciences, as a religious sanction and assurance. [Quoted in "Luther's Last Battles, Politics and Polemics," by Marc Edwards, Jr., page 205 (1983)] How well they relieved consciences! How well they provided the assurance of Yahweh's favor in this life and welcome in the next! So well, in fact, that the men running the death camps could be heard singing carols at Christmas time. Then, of course, they would get back to their practice of sharp mercy.

How far is the example of Christianity from the heart of Paul the Apostle, who saw his entire ministry among the Gentiles as a means to, "somehow move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them." (Romans 11:14 ).

After hearing Paul's compassion, the ruthlessness of Martin Luther's "sharp mercy" would cause any reasonable man to question whether they had the same spirit empowering them:

For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsman according to the flesh, who are Israelites

... (Romans 9:3).

CHURCH AND STATE

Martin Luther's thinking has borne much fruit since he wrote his three fateful books. Religious persecution resulting from the merging of church and state has been its most common expression since then, and the Holocaust its most specific and awful statement. But it is the unholy merger of church and state that gives such persecution both its earthly power and political motive. In such states a threat to the state religion (unbelief or a contrary belief) becomes a threat to the state. Whether Roman Catholic or Protestant in origin, religious persecution, strengthened by the power of the state, is an expression of beastly insensitivity to the human spirit. When such an atmosphere prevails in a nation, the most unthinkably cruel acts become utterly reasonable, and even receive the enthusiastic support of the large mass of people.

Martin Luther's three treatises sowed an enormous evil of the Roman Catholic system in the soil of the Protestant faith. This unrepented evil waits for the day when it can again be unleashed on the world. Martin Luther was a false prophet who spoke a tainted word and Adolph Hitler was a beast who waged war against Yahweh's chosen people. These things are types of the end times prophesied in the Scriptures.

LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER

The development of Martin Luther's thinking was a gradual process, taking shape during his entire adult life. He grew up in Roman Catholicism, for that was Europe's only religion. It was the binding force in society and government by which everyone knew their place, and heaven was the reward for the generally short and harsh lives people lived. Anything besides strict adherence to Catholicism was perceived as a threat, not only to this life, but to the next. For if the Catholic Church was not the only truth, then heaven might not await good Catholics, and they may have lived their lives in vain. So ingrained was this view of reality that often the Church had to restrain the common people from taking the lives of Jews and other non-Catholics into their hands. This mindset has always regarded with active hostility every attempt to raise up something new on the earth, especially anything that challenged by its sincerity the insincerity and compromise with the world of the established church, whether Catholic or Protestant. There has been a consistent pattern down through the centuries in dealing with these attempts: lies and intimidation are followed by the seizure of the heretic's property, then by cruel physical punishments; and if all this failed to bring the unbeliever back into the fold, execution by the most merciless means.

Martin Luther, like other Catholic theologians before him, thought the same way earthly punishment inflicted by the Church, and where necessary by the state, is actually the working of Yahweh's grace to save some from the flames of hell. In other words, it's always done for their own good. And not only their good, but the good of society as a whole for unbelievers in a "Christian nation" represent faction and division, and must be dealt with, or else the society cannot be blessed by Yahweh.

This has been the story of practically every nation and society where Christianity has been the predominant influence. It is part of the essential nature of Christianity. For when Christians take the reins of power, ultimately the denial of rights to nonbelievers is considered inconsequential, because they are all going to hell anyway.

"Heretics" like the Anabaptists suffered a similar fate at the hands of Martin Luther. Their desire for restoration of the true faith was a threat to the established Church. Martin Luther only sought reformation of the Church that already was, and not restoration of the Apostolic Church that had fallen away at the end of the first century. His crucial decision to persecute those who did seek true restoration, like the Anabaptists, made inevitable the likeness of Catholicism and Protestantism, like a mother and her daughter.

RESPONSIBILITY

It is entirely fair to give Martin Luther the credit (he would not see it as the blame or the shame) for all future Christian rulers who treated the Jews according to the wisdom of his policies. In the light of Yahweh's word, how shall we judge this wisdom? Is it the pure, peaceable, gentle, reasonable wisdom from above, full of mercy and good fruits? Or is it an earthly, natural, demonic wisdom that comes from below? What then was the source for Martin Luther's words, that with them he could bless Jesus Christ his Savior and with them lay the most bitter curses on men made in Yahweh's image? (James 3:9-18). There are other guidelines in the Word regarding righteous judgment as well. The Son of Yahweh never said that you would know false prophets by their doctrine. He said you shall know them by their fruit. He also said that a good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. If Martin Luther and the Reformation were a good tree, then it cannot have produced bad fruit. If it has produced bad fruit, it cannot have been a good tree. These are the words of the Son of Yahweh of which we are not to be ashamed (Matthew 7:15-20). He also said, "A pupil is not above his teacher, but everyone, after he is fully trained, will be like his teacher" (Luke 6:40). It is pathetic to see the Messianic Jewish congregations springing up around the country who owe their standard Protestant theology to Martin Luther and the Reformation. For they shall be like their teacher, as will all who stay under the fallen, compromised, disobedient gospel of the Reformation.

Is not Martin Luther the "eye" through which Protestantism saw her clearest doctrines? How did the clarity of his doctrines carry through to the purity of his deeds? So then, if the "eye" is bad, isn't the whole body of the Protestant church full of darkness? How great is that darkness!

The writer to the Hebrews wrote, Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of Yahweh to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith (Hebrews 13:7). We will all receive the reward we merit for the faith we imitate. For each person's faith is known by his conduct, or as James put it, his works (James 2:17-20 ).

Martin Luther taught by word and example that the ends of preserving one's life one's influence, power, wealth justify the means f compromising the truth. This is all any emperor has ever demanded his pinch of incense the acknowledgment that there is none greater than he. It is no different than what was offered to (and refused by) the Son of Yahweh in return for worshipping the evil one the kingdoms of this world (Matthew 4:8-10).

From the teaching of Martin Luther, sprang the Protestant world and it will product many:

MORE DAUGHTERS AND GRANDDAUGHTERS AND GREAT-GRAND DAUGHTERS AND THE LIST GOES ON!

But she sits on many waters, many peoples. Does this include others than what is known as so-called Christian religions? Yes, it does. It is because there is one that will unite all religions to worship him and his bridegroom. That is the false prophet that comes into Jerusalem.

We’ve seen a little of this false prophet, called a Beast. Now let the prophet Daniel tell us some more.

Da 11:36 "The king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every El and will say unheard-of things against the El of elohoim's. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been determined must take place.

Da 11:37 He will show no regard for the elohoim of his fathers or for the one desired by women, nor will he regard any Eloah, but will exalt himself above them all.

Da 11:38 Instead of them, he will honor a Eloah of fortresses; a Eloah unknown to his fathers he will honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts.

When will he honor a Eloah of fortresses? After his marriage to the Beast Power.

Pagans had no Eloah of fortresses, only a female goddess. She was Semiramis.

Therefore, male head of this union is Eloah of fortresses. He claims to be god.

A PLACE OF SAFETY

He shall set up a new god, WHERE? In His estate. In his city. At the door of his palace. Who is this god of fortresses? One who his fathers knew not.

We need to look at what Antiochus did in Jerusalem to help us understand this. He set up a image of Jupiter (better known as Zeus) outside the temple.

This god was not known in Jerusalem until Antiochus introduced it. He was called the god of heaven.

Some read this verse as: The shall commit the munitions of strength (or of the Most High Yahweh)(the city of Jerusalem) to a strange god. He now puts it under the protection of Zeus. This god not only will he acknowledge but shall increase with glory, by setting his image even upon Yahweh's altar. Also he will cause those that minister to this idol to rule over many, and shall put them into places of power and trust, and they shall divide the land for gain. This worship is for money.

WHO WAS THIS GREEK GOD?

Zeus, in Greek mythology, the god of the sky and ruler of the Olympian gods. Zeus corresponds to the Roman god Jupiter.

He did not create either gods or mortals; he was their father in the sense of being the protector and ruler both of the Olympian family and of the human race. He was lord of the sky, the rain god, and the cloud gatherer, who wielded the terrible thunderbolt.

This deity had been adopted by Antiochus Epiphanes as a special patron, and Antiochus had contributed greatly in the temple at Athens.

Antiochus was determined to make Juduea Hellenistic, or to follow the Greek world.

THIS ZEUS IS THE GOD OF FORCES. HE WAS THEIR PROTECTOR!

That was the type. Who then is this one the false prophet, worships?

HER HUSBAND! THE BEAST POWER! AND HIS IMAGE!

None other than her husband. The union is now complete. She worships her husband, the beast power who controls the world, who gives her safety, who is her god of forces, who is her protector and the protector of her city.

And she will set up his image in front of the temple for all to worship.

This image will even speak.

What is this image? Could it be the "cross" that General Constantine used at the engagement? Maybe a swatiska, a form of the cross. More on that later.

MORE ABOUT THIS FALSE PROPHET TO COME!

As we read earlier in Rev 13, he will perform great signs, bringing fire down from heaven, he deceives the inhabitants of the world, sets up a image in honor of the beast power, forces everyone to receive his mark, causes a situation that no one can buy or sell without the mark, or the name or the number of his name.

Re 13:13 And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men.

Re 13:14 Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.

Re 13:16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,

Re 13:17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

This other beast is now her husband, he has now married her. They are now one. Babylon now is talking about the both of them, the Power or the State, and a Church. But later all these prophecies will be about Satan’s new end time bride ISLAM.

AND THE BEAST POWER BUILDS HER A HOME, A HOUSE, A CITY!

And she divides the city into 3 parts. One for the Jews, one for the so-called Christians, and one for the other children of Abraham.

Re 16:19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before Yahweh, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

"The fall of Babylon, which was divided into three parts, called the cities of the nations (v19); having had rule over the nations, and taken in the idolatry of the nations, incorporating into her religion something of the Jewish, something of the pagan, and something of the Christian religion, she was as three cities in one.

BUT NOTICE, NO PART FOR THE TRUE BELIEVERS, NOR THE BASTARD CHILDREN THAT SATAN HAS SPAWNED OVER THE WORLD.

Interesting to say the least. With the Pope going into Jerusalem to govern, allowing three major religions equal access - he in a way sets up cities of the nations, that is, a city where they can say their city. Why and how comes in Part 3.

"The capital and seat of the apostate Church, spiritual Babylon (of which Rome is the representative, if one literal city be meant)." Cities of the nations, "other great cities in league with spiritual Babylon." But Rome will be called Rome where the false prophet is. Later that will be Jerusalem.

NOW THE WIFE DOES HER BRAGGING!

Isa 47:8 "Now then, listen, you wanton creature, lounging in your security and saying to yourself, 'I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.'

THE BRIDE!

A great religious organization taking the very titles of Yahweh, saying they are Yahweh. This church calls herself the mother of all religion. Catholic

AND THE GROOM!

There is another government that calls itself the father. Germany

She has children --

BUT THE MARRIAGE IS DOOMED TO FAILURE!

Isa 47:9 Both of these will overtake you in a moment, on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and all your potent spells.

Let me give you an example of a type of this marriage. At the beginning of WW2 Hitler’s (type of the Beast Power) armies begin to move all over Europe, saying they were bring forth the (1000 year reign). England had been brought to their knees, Russia was not in good military shape. America just now joining the war, not equipped and needed time to be equipped. and Hitler’s armies were traveling at great speed across North Africa heading for the Holy Land. If they had made it, what image would you have seen in front of the Temple in Jerusalem. A great iron Swatiska or iron cross. But Yahweh stopped that, before it happened, by great weather miracles. It was not yet the time for this in the plan of Yahweh. So it did not happen. But it came close.

What "image" did General Constantine see when the engagement took place? A cross! Look at the image erected by Nebechadnezzar (Dan 3.1) in the plains. Estimated to be 90 feet high and 9 feet wide. We have always assumed that was an obelisk. But, with so called "Christianty" hiding the fact that the cross is a pagan symbol, could it be a cross? With the 9 feet being the arms of the cross? Interesting thought!

WHO IS THIS FALSE PROPHET?

No one really knows! Many (including myself) believe it will be a Roman Catholic Pope, but some think someone else. Many in the Protestant world think it is a Pope, and therefore, they believe He won’t deceive them.

But remember this marriage will fail, Satan will find a new bride, who will love him. This first marriage is just a type of Satan’s final marriage to Islam.

But more on that, and the two witnesses, in Part 3 of this study. Also, more on this marriage of the Beast Power and the False prophet (also called a Beast) and the STONE that will break it into pieces.

The ultimate answer and true answer, this time a marriage that will last forever. A Set-Apart Marriage.

But, that will be covered in Part 3.