4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. Rev. 17:4–6.
You claim a Gentile church which is a bride of Christ, but it is not. It is another woman but not the true bride of Christ. In the Old Testament Hosea, the prophet says God is Betrothed to Israel, and to be Betrothed to Israel as Faithful husband He is an to be betrothed to your Gentile church would make Christ an adulterer. Scripture cannot be broken. Christ has only ONE Bride and she is Israel as Scripture declares and any interpretation of New Covenant writings that contradicts the Word of God in the Law, Psalms, and the Prophets should be rejected.
Your Gentile church teaches the Law of God, the Law that instructs in righteousness and righteous living is "abolished" and "obsolete" but this leaves Gentile "christians" without any instruction to guide their daily lives and their faith. This makes you antinomian - without Law. The Mother of Harlots is not the Roman Catholic church alone but is also the Gentile church where "wokeness" is taught and great sermons like "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" are never preached so as not to offend your members. And so, sin reigns supreme in your churches. I know because I was raised in your Protestant, Pentecostal fellowships and have witness everything from the inside. Thank God, He called me out into His marvelous light.
GINOLJC, to all
the Mother of Harlots is not the Roman Catholic church, which is correct, it's one of her daughters. and the mother of Harlots is Fleshly Jerusalem, (Yes fleshly Jews), who are not the children of God. lets see it. Revelation 17:5 "And upon her forehead was a name written,
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."
"MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT?" .... the term,
THE GREAT is the Mystery to who
MYSTERY, BABYLON is. so let the bible reveal who she is.
Revelation 17:18 "And the woman which thou sawest
is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." so that woman is "the GREAT CITY".
Revelation 14:8 "And there followed another angel,
saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because
she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication." BINGO, "
That Great City". ........... so who is this GREAT CITY?" .... answer, Revelation 11:8 "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of
the great city,
which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified."
what "CITY" where was our Lord was crucified at? answer, Jerusalem, and who is called spiritly Sodom and Egypt, in Jerusalem? answer, Isaiah 1:1 "The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw
concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah." Isaiah 1:2 "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me." Isaiah 1:3 "The ox knoweth his owner, and the *** his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider." Isaiah 1:4 "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward." Isaiah 1:5 "Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint." Isaiah 1:6 "From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment." Isaiah 1:7 "Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers." Isaiah 1:8 "And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city." Isaiah 1:9 "Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah." Isaiah 1:10 "
Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah." Isaiah 1:11 "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats." Isaiah 1:12 "When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?" Isaiah 1:13 "Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting." Isaiah 1:14 "Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them." Isaiah 1:15 "And when
now ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood."
now spiritually Egypt. Isaiah 51:9 "Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut
Rahab, and wounded the dragon?"
Rahab? it is the Hebrew word for,
H7294 רַהַב Rahab (rah'-haɓ) n-m.
Rahab (i.e. boaster),
an epithet of Egypt.
[the same as H7293]
KJV: Rahab.
Root(s): H7293
H7293 רַהַב rahab (rah'-haɓ) n-m.
bluster(-er).
[from H7292,]
KJV:
proud, strength.
Root(s): H7292
Yes, Rahab, indicate pride or arrogance
yes, those fleshly Jews who inhabit Jerusalem is called spiritually ....... Revelation 11:8 "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of
the great city,
which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified."
101G.
PS you need to research the bible before calling TRUTH EVIL.