Armageddon

By Ernest Johnson

Armagedon: by Ernest Johson
World Disease
Antichrist
Babylon The Harlot

Armageddon is a heavenly war, earthly war and demon war. Armageddon is the Super bowl of wars. Armageddon is about war and the Second Coming of Christ. Armageddon will be an epic, magic showdown. Armageddon is really about the battle for earth and the Return of the Gods.
World Disease. The world disease is anger and hatred. Therefore, human nature will have stiff resistance concerning the nature of Christ. The whole world lays in the power of this wicked disease.

Antichrist. The Anti Christ was foretold by the Prophet Daniel, so was the rise of the antichrist and the mark of the Beast is also foretold in Revelation. The Antichrist and his sister The Harlot will co-create a governmental Beast that will rise to power. The deal is in the details.

Babylon/ The Harlot- The modern day mother of all Harlots is widely believed to the Pope and his gangsters who rule the alien mother church. There is religious Babylon then there is Commercial Babylon. Babylon is associated with false worship, lies, sorcery, corruption and trafficking of human souls.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 18, 2012
• ISBN: 9781479760275

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CONTENTS

APOCALYPSE

BABYLON THE HARLOT

APOCALYPSE

ANTICHRIST

APOCALYPSE

WORLDS DISEASE

ARMAGEDDON

HEAVENLY WAR

APOCALYPSE

BABYLON THE HARLOT

Historisist * The fall of Babylon the Harlot is the overthrow of the papal system and her religion along with her governments. This is yet to happen in the future tense. The following page’s features the divergent reactions of the ungodly and the godly to the final vindication of this false religion.

* The rider on the white horse represents the ongoing conquests of Christ through His Word, or else His continuing campaign of judgment upon His other enemies.

Preterist * Babylon is identified either with Rome or with Jerusalem. If Rome, these chapters describe the downfall of the Roman Empire and especially of the city of Rome, the harlot.

* If Babylon is Jerusalem, these visions depict the burning of that city by the Romans and the mixed reactions of the wicked and the righteous.

Futurist * Babylon may represent the Catholic Church or some great apostate religious entity, forming under the Antichrist in the end times.

* Alternatively, Babylon may be a city either a restoration of the ancient Babylon or the revived Roman Empire.

* In any case, the enemy of truth and righteousness will be restored in the end of the Tribulation to the embarrassment and humiliation of the wicked but to the rejoicing of the righteous. * Jesus visibly returns to the earth in chapter 19, riding on a super white horse.

Spiritual * Babylon represents the old world system as the seducer of the godly.

* Its destruction at the end of the age is depicted in terms of its current manifestation on John’s time which was Rome.

* The ultimate judgment upon this harlot comes through Christ at His Second Coming which is the rider of the white horse.

* Alternatively, the rider may represent Christ’s more gradual conquests over the world system through the preaching of the gospel.

THE VISION OF THE HARLOT

Rev. 17:1-6 Says: {And one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, Come here, I shall show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, * with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality. * And he carried me away (in spirit) in the Spirit into the wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. * And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned (gilded} with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full; of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality, * and upon her forehead a name was written, a mystery, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. * And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints (holy ones), and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered greatly.

This chapter properly points out a detailed description on the judgment inflicted of the formidable anti-Christian power referred to in the last chapter, although under a new image. If the true church is like a chaste bride then the false church is like a harlot. It cannot be doubted that our most prominent teachers have commonly believed and taught that the Apocalyptic prophecies concerning Babylon were designed by the Holy Spirit to describe the church of Rome. This is meaning the Roman Catholic Church. It is well understood that those in the past in John’s day were the most prominent and sober of Christian charity as well as of profound learning.

The wilderness or the desert place is in reference to the low plain surrounding the city of Rome. This place is a desolate state even to this day. Their condition started with the rise of the ten horned beast of western anti-Christianity, upon whose back the harlot Church of Rome rose to supremacy, and has continued since that time.

This woman is decked out ornately with purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. They have these precious things at the expense of the blood of the saints. This strikingly represents the most pompous and costly manner in which the Latin Church has held forth to the nations and rites and ceremonies of its idolatrous and corrupt worship. The purple and the scarlet are depicting the actual color of the robes worn by the Popes and the Cardinals.

THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH is meaning the Catholic Church is the head of the world. She is the mother of all believers. She is the faithful interpreter of God and the scriptures and the mistress of all churches. This means she is the ringleader, patroness and the nourishing of many daughters that closely copy after her. As the mistress she is the mother of all the other impure churches have been spawned.

This inscription that is written on her forehead is meant to mean the she is not ashamed of her doctrines, and even publicly professes and glories in them before all the nations. She has indeed a whore’s forehead she has refused to be ashamed. The inscription upon her forehead is exactly identical to the picture of the person of the Latin Church.

Her cup is full of abominations with indulgences, the worship of relics, and other sacrilegious practices introduced by the Roman Church. Abominations in the Old Testament is a term for idolatrous images; the Roman Church has long been characterized as infatuated with such things.

Even if we take harlot in its natural sense of sexual immorality, its use here is appropriate since sexual criminality has been common in the Vatican during certain periods. Pope John XII (955-963) was guilty of every crime. He violated virgins and widows, high and low. He lived with his father’s mistress and made the Papal Palace a brothel. He was killed while in the act of adultery by the woman’s enraged husband.

In addition the harlot is drunk with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. This is a clear reference to the bloody prosecutions perpetrated by the Roman church through the centuries. It has been calculated by those who keep count that the Popes throughout the ages have directly or indirectly slain on account of their faith fifty-million Jesus believing martyrs. The next view is the scarlet beast is undoubtedly the same beast from the sea that was described in chapter 13. The colors are the colors as imperial dignity of Rome. The beast represents the Roman Empire. Her being drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs is meaning her prosecution. She is intoxicated with the fanatical zeal to exterminate the Christians. There have been millions who have been murdered by this church this is where we get the scarlet color.

Another view is that the city of Jerusalem is the harlot of Babylon. Rome was not as bad as the city of Jerusalem. As Revelation presents a series of contrasts: A Lamb vs. a dragon. The Father’s name vs. the beast’s name on the peoples forehead’s. The bride vs. the harlot. So also the Apocalypse contrasts two cities, Babylon and New Jerusalem.

As the symbolic name for Jerusalem, Babylon would be as fitting as Sodom and Egypt, which were applied to Jerusalem earlier. The phrase that great city was used of Jerusalem as it is used repeatedly in these chapters regarding Babylon.

In chapter 14 the winepress was trodden ‘outside the city" which almost all understand to refer to Jerusalem. The only city named in the chapter 14:8 is Babylon, hence Babylon equals Jerusalem.

The division of Babylon into three parts best fits Jerusalem. The very name ‘Harlot" is an established label for Jerusalem from the Old Testament. It could never be applied to Rome or any gentile city, since they have never been in a covenant relationship with God. The metaphor of harlotry is exclusively used in the Old Testament for a city or nation that has abandoned the Covenant and turned toward false gods; and with only two exceptions, the term is always used for faithless Israel.

If the kings of the earth can be understood to mean the rulers of the land (Israel), then Jerusalem, as appropriately as Rome, could be said to be that great city in 17:18.

The expression that great city which reigns over the rulers of the land vs.18 is fully equivalent to that which is said of Jerusalem in Lamentations 1:1-Who was great among the nations! The princess among the provinces."

The Jews were idolatrous as was Rome. No other city than Jerusalem could be charged with the blood of the prophets and saints and apostates. The next view is that those who understand that the harlot is to be a religious entity, a coalition of apostate churches, headquartered in Rome, and most probably, dominated by the Vatican.

The description of the woman as arrayed in purple and scarlet and decked with gold, precious stones, and pearls is all too familiar to one acquainted with the trappings of ecclesiastical pomp today and especially of high officials in the Roman Catholic Churches of today. The wickedness and pagan rites of Babylon crept into the early church and were largely responsible for the corruptions incorporated in Roman Catholicism from which Protestantism separated itself in the middle ages.

With this in mind it is hard to escape that the Roman Catholic Church is the harlot. This is not the whole picture though. The apostate church is not merely the Roman Catholic Church here. It also includes other groups in the family relationship with their mother.

Else where in scripture the word harlot is generally refers to the apostate Judaism, which refers to the practice of spiritual adultery, usually including the worship of idols. The symbolism of spiritual adultery is not ordinarily used of heathen nations who know not God, but it is used always used of people who outwardly carry the name of God who actually worshiped the beast.

Others interpret Babylon in political, cultural or commercial terms principally. This is referring to the anti-God systems of man in any age. Therefore, Babylon is to be a symbol of human civilization with all its pomp and circumstance, organized in opposition to God.

In this context, Rome is not the only city to fit this bill. There is every city in every culture and more than one era of history. It conveys the total sum of pagan culture, social, intellectual and commercial, that had opposed and oppressed the people of God from time immemorial. This term seems to include more than any one city of civilization, although Babylon and Rome and Jerusalem were best examples of this though.

Babylon also could be referred to a dominate world system based on seduction for personal gain over against the righteous demands of a prosecuted minority. This is the final expression of worldly power. Every great center of power which has prostituted its wealth and influences restores to life the spirit of Babylon, which will provide the social, religious, and the political base for the last attempt of the antichrist to establish his kingdom.

The woman sitting on the beast is meaning that position indicates on the one hand she is supported by the political power of the beast, and on the other she is in the dominant role and at least outwardly she controls and directs the beast. Her sitting on this beast is also indicating that she will have power over the man of sin. This even must occur during the first part of the tribulation before the man of sin overthrows religion and requires everyone to worship him.

This woman being drunk with blood is meaning here to be the inquisition. During these times the torture chambers and the countless victims were burned to death and were cruelly tortured. The unspeakable horrors of centuries of violence and murder come to our mind as we read this description.

The last view is John was surprised by the harlot because no other name mentioned has ever