The Structure of Mystery Babylon

THE STRUCTURE OF MYSTERY BABYLON

Dec 28, 2018 by Dr. Stephen Jones

To understand Mystery Babylon, one must know that it is structured as a corporation. The KJV translators knew this centuries ago when they put it in all capital letters in Revelation 17:5, KJV because in legalese, all capital letters is how you identify a corporation.

Revelation 17:5 KJV  And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

The main goal of Mystery Babylon is to turn nations into corporations on equal footing with the big banks, oil, chemical, pharmaceutical, auto, and other corporations. The corporations then attain power and influence according to their size and money on their balance sheets. This aspect of Mystery Babylon is known politically as Fascism.

But Mystery Babylon is more than a Fascist entity. It also uses Socialism as a way of putting nations (actually national corporations) into their debt. Since the big banks were given power to create money and loan it to the government at interest, theoretically, there was no limit on the amount of debt a nation could have. The only question was whether or not a government could service that debt—in other words, could it pay the interest when its bonds came due?

But even then, the government could go further into debt to pay the interest payments. At some point, however, this system would have to implode. It is a finite system, and its demise has been characterized by volatility and by the exponential rise on all of the financial charts.

The Deep State understood this many decades ago, and they planned to use that collapse to bring in another financial system that gave them even greater political control. Their plan, however, ran aground with the Trump victory in 2016. Now they have been complaining loudly that he is undoing everything that they had put in place for so long.

In fact, we noticed years ago that laws were being put into place where the president was being given dictatorial power over virtually everything in case of “national emergency.” The Deep State was planning for Hillary Clinton to be in place when this happened, but she lost and will never again achieve political power beyond the power to blackmail government agents and politicians.

Trump himself has signed executive orders amending presidential powers in case of national emergencies. He appears to be getting ready to call a national emergency in his war against the Deep State. A year ago (December 21, 2017) he signed an executive order actually declaring a limited state of national emergency in dealing with political corruption and human trafficking. This week he extended that for another year.

But back to Mystery Babylon… and God’s Plan.

The previous beast empires were given the mandate to rule the entire earth, but none of them actually succeeded. Their empires were quite extensive, but they were limited to territory in the Mideast, North Africa, and Europe. Most of Asia and the Americas were not subject to these beast empires.

Mystery Babylon is different in that it is a world-wide empire. Its founders and rulers came to understand that power was to be found by controlling three main areas: spiritual power, economic power, and military power. Any one of these by itself could not hope to succeed. Military power had been tried by all of the earlier empires, including Rome, and had failed. Spiritual power had been tried by the Roman church and had failed again. Mystery Babylon devised a way to gain economic power by gaining the power to create money, and this gave them far greater success than any other previous beast system.

Rome became the spiritual center of power, the City of London became the financial center of power, and Washington D.C. became the military center of power. It was a three-headed dragon, each centered in a different independent City-State. (Yes, Washington D.C. is a City-State that is independent of the American States. The US citizens have blue passports; American citizens have red passports.)

However, God also has plans. Revelation 17 and 18 shows the collapse of Mystery Babylon, but Daniel 2:44 says that the Stone Kingdom will “never be destroyed.” It will grow until it fills the whole earth. The kingdoms of gold, silver, bronze, and iron will all fail and will be replaced by the Stone Kingdom.

Daniel 2:44 NET In the days of those kings the God of heaven will raise up an everlasting kingdom that will not be destroyed and a kingdom that will not be left to another people. It will break in pieces and bring about the demise of all these kingdoms. But it will stand forever.

That is the political history of the world, foretold in the book of Daniel nearly 600 years before Christ.

God is using Mystery Babylon to unite the nations under one head—which we now call the Deep State. When their time is complete, God will then behead the Deep State and take over its territory. The Persians took over Babylon’s empire by conquering the city of Babylon and replacing its king. So also will Christ do so, although His war tactics are vastly different from that of the beast empires.

Understanding the sovereignty of God takes the fear out of knowing what is going on today. We can look at some pretty scary things that Mystery Babylon is doing, as they threaten to wipe out most of humanity through their Agenda 21, their expressed intention written on the Georgia Guidestone, and, of course, the continuing practice of abortion and war policy.

But we are assured in Scripture that their plans will fail in the end. It is not too different from the threat of Pharaoh when Israel was at the Red Sea. The situation looked hopeless for Israel, but God had deliberately led them to that place in order to destroy Pharaoh’s army. Most of the Israelites at that time did not have sufficient faith in God, nor did they know His plan, and so they were afraid and blamed Moses (Exodus 14:10, 11, 12).

Exodus 14:10-12 NET When Pharaoh got closer, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified. The Israelites cried out to the LORD, (11) and they said to Moses, "Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? (12) Isn't this what we told you in Egypt, 'Leave us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians, because it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!' "

The same is true today. Most of the people want to return to “Egypt” because they are afraid of Pharaoh’s army. But we know the plan, being instructed from the Scriptures, and for this reason, we can discuss the current situation realistically without preaching the gospel of fear. We can give hope and confidence, knowing that we now live in a post-Babylonian era. The turning point was reached in October 2017, when the saints of the Most High received the Kingdom, as prophesied in Daniel 7:21, 22, and 25.

Daniel 7:21, 22, 25 NET While I was watching, that horn began to wage war against the holy ones and was defeating them, (22) until the Ancient of Days arrived and judgment was rendered in favor of the holy ones of the Most High. Then the time came for the holy ones to take possession of the kingdom……..(25) He will speak words against the Most High. He will harass the holy ones of the Most High continually. His intention will be to change times established by law. They will be delivered into his hand For a time, times, and half a time.

I do not know how long it will take to fully overthrow Mystery Babylon, but I am confident that it will happen. My personal battleground at the moment is in dealing with various spiritual powers (entities) that are the power base for the Babylonian rulers. As we undercut those spiritual powers, the power brokers on earth find their power exposed and cut off.

The Woman On The Scarlet Beast

THE WOMAN ON THE SCARLET BEAST

8/21/2018

The Woman in the Wilderness

Revelation 12:5-6 NET  So the woman gave birth to a son, a male child, who is going to rule over all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was suddenly caught up to God and to his throne,  (6)  and she fled into the wilderness where a place had been prepared for her by God, so she could be taken care of for 1,260 days.

Revelation 12:1 pictures a sign in heaven of a woman with labor pains.  She gives birth to a male child, “who is going to rule over all the nations with an iron rod”.  When the child is caught up to heaven (ascension of Jesus), the woman, pictured as the early church of believers, flees into the wilderness for a period of 1,260 years.

The church (Roman church) came into power in 529-534 when Justinian changed the laws and reset the calendar and fulfilled the “little horn” (or extension of the Roman Empire) according to Daniel’s chapter 7 prophecy of the four beasts from the sea.  [at this time the Roman church was the only church for all practical purposes]  This is the point in time when the church (or Roman church i.e. “the little horn”) became part of the succession of empires which began with Babylon, because of its religious carnality.

The dispensational belief system has interpreted 42 months as a literal 1,260 days, however it should be understood to represent 1260 years.  The sea beast is and was the Holy Roman Empire or the Catholic Church.  The authority of the 1^st beast (Roman Church) as an extension of the Roman Empire came to an end during the French Revolution when Napoleon captured the Pope (Pius VI) in 1798 and imprisoned him in France where he died in1799.  However, Napoleon reinstated the pope in 1804 in order to have a worthy man crown him as emperor.  There was approximately a 5 year period with no Pope in office.

The ruling government, at that time, placed the Vatican’s finances in the trusteeship of a banking system which later became the Rothschild’s banking system (the second beast) and the Vatican was not allowed to ever have a standing army.

Revelation 13:3 NET One of the beast's heads (i.e. Pope Pius VI) appeared to have been killed, but the lethal wound had been healed (the office of Pope was reinstated). And the whole world followed the beast in amazement;

The Great Whore

The Revelation appears to present two different Mystery Babylon’s that are related but with some different characteristics.  There is only one Mystery Babylon but it has many layers with various interacting groups.  In the discourse of the Revelation, one is referred to as Babylon, the city, and the other as Babylon the Great, the Mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth.

Babylon the city or the city of Babylon may be Vatican City or Rome, which is the home of the Roman Church as it is related to Babylon the prostitute which is the Roman Church. 

John relates the ancient cities of Babylon, Jerusalem, Sodom, and the nation of Egypt as being associated with the earthly Jerusalem and therefore being harlot cities.  Isaiah 23:15-17 speaks of Tyre as a past harlot city.  The book of Nahum claims that Nineveh was a harlot city.  And of course, Ezekiel chapter 16 is writing about Jerusalem as a harlot city.  Many Protestant churches (daughters) also employ various tendencies of the Roman harlot church.

The Protestant Reformation may have had a decent spiritual beginning but the various denominations that developed and various types of “feel good” churches gives credence to the Revelation statement “that Babylon the prostitute is also:  “the Mother of prostitutes”.

The first metaphoric woman presented in Revelation 12:6 is usually identified as the Church.  Although the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus gave birth to the church, they are usually presented with the similar symbolism.

In Revelation 17:1 we are introduced to another symbolic woman who is also located in the symbolic wilderness.  This one is referred to as “the great whore”.  Later in verse 5 the woman is called Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.  The woman sitting on the scarlet beast appears to be the same woman as presented in chapter 12 due to their location in the wilderness. 

As has been often stated, the Revelation is a prophetic history of the Church from the time of John to the present.  The overthrow of Mystery, Babylon (the metaphoric city as well as a world wide operating system) is currently being fulfilled which will be followed by the Millennial Kingdom of God.  

Both women in the wilderness (chapter 12 and 17) must necessarily be the same woman at different points of time and stages of spirituality.  They both represent different phases or stages of the Church, past and present.

Those who place their faith in the church may have difficulty seeing them as the same woman, insisting that there were two women in the wilderness but that may not be a correct understanding.

Revelation 17:3 KJV  So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

Revelation 13:1 NET Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns were ten diadem crowns, and on its heads a blasphemous name.

Note that the beast rising from the sea in chapter 13 had seven heads and ten horns.  The scarlet beast in the wilderness, carrying the woman, also has seven heads and ten horns.  It would appear that both instances are representing the same beast which would be a religious one under the initial authority of the Vatican or Roman Church.

In Rev 15:5 this second woman also represents “abominations” which is defined as detestable things or idolatry.  It can be said the Roman Church has many images, Mary worship, a re-crucifixion of Jesus with each Eucharist performed. 

Revelation 17:5 KJV  And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Roman Church Idolatry & Other Corruptions

An internet search for Catholic idolatry is filled with rebukes concerning the worship of Mary, statues representing Mary, kneeling and bowing down to Mary, asking for healing from Mary, etc.  It would appear that Mary worship is considered the primary sin of idolatry within the Roman Church.  The various incidents of bleeding statues of Mary will be skipped due to the demonic instances they represent.

The latest sex abuse headline reads:  300 Catholic Priests Accused of Monstrous Sex Abuse of More Than 1,000 Children in Pennsylvania Grand Jury Probe.  This appears to be a widespread affliction within the Catholic priesthood and the overseers appear to be covering up and hiding evidence.  Although only recently brought forth and exposed, this sexual abuse has been occurring since reports first came out in 1960 and it has most likely been happening since the Middle Ages or before.

Some groups of priests have expanded their approach by filming, collecting, and selling child rape pornography.

Revelation 19:20 presents an interesting concept.  The 1^st beast and the 2^nd beast (called the false prophet) are thrown alive into the lake of fire.  The lake of fire judgment occurs at the end of the Millennium at the White Throne Judgment, but these two entities seem to be punished at the beginning of the Kingdom of God, at the return of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 19:20 NET Now the beast was seized, and along with him the false prophet who had performed the signs on his behalf -- signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.

The Prostitute Daughters

Before anyone gets upset with my comments on corruption and idolatry, let it be known there were several church people, both Catholic and Protestant oriented, throughout the years and ages that were spiritual and desired to be a citizen of the Kingdom of God.  Within the Roman Church many of these individuals were tortured, burned at the stake, or just murdered before, after, and throughout the inquisition period.  Their kingdom doctrines and beliefs did not line up with the accepted doctrines of the Church.

The seven letters to the churches found in Revelation 2 and 3 represent seven stages of the Church throughout history.  We are currently in the era of the Laodicean church.

The primary complaint of Jesus to this church era is:  “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot!”  Although many people have just quit believing the faith based on the Kingdom of Jesus most (NOT ALL) of the remainder merely go to a church building on perhaps Sunday as some type of duty or taught ritual.  The mark of a Christian is not attending a church building, having a position on a committee, or singing in the choir.  It is living the life of a citizen of t

he Kingdom of God all day and every day.  If you don’t live the life, think the life, and teach the life of a Kingdom citizen then you are most likely not a Christian.

Joel Osteen is an American televangelist based in Houston, Texas.  His televised sermons are seen by over 7 million viewers weekly and over 20 million monthly in over 100 countries.  What is his message that is admired so much?

The Osteen website claims they teach:  the inerrancy and inspiration of the Bible, the triune nature of God, and salvation by faith in Christ, which sounds reasonable.

Osteen teaches that physical healing and wellness were provided in Christ’s atonement. “Jesus came that we might have a more abundant life. He came to carry our weaknesses, our sickness, our pain, so that we can walk in total freedom, peace, power and purpose” (from Lakewood Church’s official website).

What he is reportedly said to teach is the Prosperity Gospel: God’s will is that we be blessed with material things, which is a view that contradicts 1 Timothy 6:6.

1 Tim 6:6-10 Now godliness combined with contentment brings great profit. (7) For we have brought nothing into this world and so we cannot take a single thing out either. (8) But if we have food and shelter, we will be satisfied with that. (9) Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. (10) For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.

As the Lakewood Church’s website says, “To be successful in your walk with God, commit to honor God with your finances. When you commit to give the Lord the first 10% of your income, God promises He will pour out blessings you cannot contain. Tithing is the first key to financial prosperity.”

Lakewood’s website then quotes the favorite proof-text for this teaching, Malachi 3:10. It is a prime example of taking Old Covenant promises to Israel out of context to apply them to New Covenant believers.

What is the Prosperity Gospel?

In the prosperity gospel, also known as the “Word of Faith,” the believer is told to use God, whereas the truth of biblical Christianity is just the opposite—God uses the believer. Word of Faith or prosperity theology sees the Holy Spirit as a power to be put to use for whatever the believer wills. The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit is a Person who enables the believer to do God's will. The prosperity gospel movement closely resembles some of the destructive greed sects that infiltrated the early church. Paul and the other apostles were not accommodating to or conciliatory with the false teachers who propagated such heresy. They identified them as dangerous false teachers and urged Christians to avoid them.

The Exodus Example

These two women in the wilderness are patterned after the Exodus experience of the Hebrews under the leadership of Moses leaving Egypt and traveling through the wilderness.  The Israelites were required to travel across the wilderness to get to the Promised Land, which they would have reached in 490 days if they had the necessary faith. 

At Mt. Sinai the vast majority refused to listen when God wished to speak to them personally with His voice of fire.  Due to their fear of God within the fire, they instructed Moses to listen to God by himself and then relay the message to them, which he did.  The Israelites lack of faith also caused them to worship the golden calf only weeks after refusing to hear God speaking for themselves. 

When the Israelites camped at Paran in preparation to cross over into Canaan, Moses send 12 spies to check out the land.  Because the people listened to the 10 false reports instead of the two positive reports of Joshua and Caleb their lack of faith and their fleshly motivation God caused them to remain in the wilderness until all adults except Joshua and Caleb were dead.

Israel was afraid to hear the voice of God at Mt. Sinai, therefore God’s message was relayed to them by Moses.  The congregation under the “little horn” Roman Church was not allowed to read and listen to the Word on a personal level.  They only knew what they were told by the priests.  Both Israel, conquered and deported by Assyria, and Judah, conquered and held captive by Babylon were punished due to a history of carnal flesh, harlotry, and idolatry.  The Christian church has been retained in a metaphoric wilderness for the same issues:  carnality, harlotry, and idolatry (which is scripturally identical to harlotry).

The majority of the so-called church has been disqualified from ruling the Kingdom of God during the Millennium.  The apostle Paul explains that only the remnant of grace known as the overcomers or the “elect” are the true chosen ones, similar to the days of Elijah when he said, “I alone am left and now they want to take my life,”  but God answered: 

1 Kings 19:18 NET  I still have left in Israel seven thousand followers who have not bowed their knees to Baal or kissed the images of him."

Quote from Dr. Stephen Jones:

So here in Revelation 17:3 we see that the church, which fled into the wilderness shortly after Pentecost in Acts 2, was not able to enter the Kingdom at that time, but like Israel, she had to spend a long time in the wilderness. That in itself is an indictment upon the church. Whereas Israel spent just 40 years in the wilderness, the church spent 40 Jubilee cycles in the wilderness.

The harlot is described as sitting on the beast (although many claim she is riding the beast).  She is not portrayed as sitting on a throne since a throne is symbolic of law and this woman is considered lawless.  She follows the carnal laws of the beast system and not the laws of the Kingdom.  The phrase “full of blasphemous names” portrays the many manifestations of immorality and lawlessness in the red beast.  Although the great harlot is much more than the fleshly church, it most definitely includes it.

The Harlot’s Description

Revelation 17:4 NET  Now the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet clothing, and adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup filled with detestable things and unclean things from her sexual immorality.

Purple and scarlet clothing speaks of royalty while gold, precious stones, and pearls speak of great wealth.  

          

It is now apparent the Roman church and its popes, cardinals, and others have attempted to somewhat duplicate the clothing and vessels listed by God in the Pentateuch as the apparel of the temple priests.  Of course, they have added greatly to the masquerade.

Although literal gold cups have been used in the Roman church, this scriptural golden cup has more to do with symbolism and prophecy.  John employs many scriptures and ideas from the Old Testament including this golden cup reference in Jeremiah 51:7.

Jeremiah 51:7 NET  Babylonia had been a gold cup in the LORD's hand. She had made the whole world drunk. The nations had drunk from the wine of her wrath. So they have all gone mad.

The gold cup was given to Babylon by God for divine judgment upon Judah and other nations.  Now God has given the gold cup to the harlot to bring judgment upon the nations of today.

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

The woman sitting (riding) on the beast is called the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.  Harlotry is a euphemism for idolatry and abomination is a euphemism for an idol.  Therefore this harlot is the mother of all idolatry appearing in the earthly church.  Idolatry is not limited to worshipping false gods, it also includes submitting to the laws of the beast rather than the laws of God.

Drunk With the Blood

Revelation 17:6 NET  I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of those who testified to Jesus. I was greatly astounded when I saw her.

Although Leviticus 17:10 forbids the drinking of blood, the harlot has become drunk with metaphoric blood.  God created blood as the emissary of the soul for the work of atonement.  The apostles had no problem with this for they write in the first Church Council:

Acts 15:19-20 NET  "Therefore I conclude that we should not cause extra difficulty for those among the Gentiles who are turning to God,  (20)  but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

This apostolic edict was repeated in Acts 15:29.  However, the Roman church which strongly upheld its own Church Councils failed to recognize and enforce the very first Church Council held in the book of Acts.

To drink blood is a natural sign of a spiritual problem.  Scripture defines murder as an act of drinking blood (or spilling blood).  Therefore, when Jerusalem killed the prophets, they were in violation of drinking or spilling blood, even with the law of God threatening to cut off anyone who drank blood.  When the prophets called Jerusalem "the bloody city," they were figuratively accusing it of drinking blood, and by extension they were saying that the city would be "cut off from among his people".