It's about the devil and those who worship him as Lucifer. That's who it's about, and they will use any religious or political faction to bring themselves to power in the end, including radical Islamic extremists.
Exactly, and ISLAM is the devil's religion. This, from Rev 12, is none other than Satan:
[SUP]3 [/SUP]And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads.
This from Rev 13:
Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name.
This from Rev 17:
And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Notice the 7 heads and 10 horns in each of the passages? John gets this imagery from Daniel:
Daniel 7:23
“Thus he said: ‘The fourth beast shall be A fourth kingdom on earth, Which shall be different from all other kingdoms, And shall devour the whole earth, Trample it and break it in pieces. The ten horns are ten kings Who shall arise from this kingdom...
Thus a "BEAST" is a KINGDOM or EMPIRE. A horn is a King or Country. The "Woman" is a harlot which means she is a false religion as we see in many passages including this:
Exodus 34:16
and you take of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the Harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.
The last symbol to understand is "Mountain."
Isaiah 2:2
Now it shall come to pass in the latter days That the mountain of the Lord’s house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it.
Thus a "Mountain" is a religion/faith based belief system. So many Christians incorrectly think and are indeed waiting to see, the development of a new One World Faith controlled by the AntiChrist whereby the entire planet must worship Satan through this religion or be killed. This is incorrect. This is not what John is telling us. True, Babylon was a mystery to John. Why? Because this final evil religion was not yet born in his day. But she is alive and well in our day and she came to life in 630 AD.
Let me transliterate Rev 17 for you replacing the symbols with common words. "Horns" which I call "Leaders" may be individual "countries" which were not in existence at the time of John but come into existence towards the end.
Revelation 17:
And I saw a FALSE RELIGION supported by a EMPIRE full of names offensive to God, having seven (historic) Satanic Controlled Empires and ten leaders. 4 The FALSE RELIGION was dressed in colors of royalty and sin, having served a faith full of abominations and the filthiness of her false god worship. 5 And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF ALL FALSE RELIGIONS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6 I saw the FALSE RELIGION with blood on its hands for killing saints/ martyrs of Jesus.
7 But the angel said to me, I will tell you the mystery of the false religion and of the Empire that supports her, which has the seven Empires and the ten leaders. 8 The Empire that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of hell and go to spiritual ruin. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the Empire that was here before, went away but returns.
9 “Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven false spiritual belief systems on which the MOTHER OF ALL FALSE RELIGIONS sits. 10 There are also seven Empires. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time. 11 The Empire that was, and left, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to damnation.
12 “The ten horns which you saw are ten leaders who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast.
Thus Mystery Babylon, the Mother of all False Religions, is very old and was present in other forms throughout history. In each of these past Satanic Empires you had commonality in the gods they worship and the symbols they used. The Crescent Moon and Star was present in every past Empire. In Egypt you had Isis. Look at her Tarot card and the symbol on her head which appear to be horns of a calf (ring a bell?) and a sun/star.
When the Children of Israel went to the Promised Land of Canaan, they encountered Ba'al which is AKA Moloch.
Acts 7:43
You also took up the tabernacle of Moloch, And the star of your god Remphan, Images which you made to worship; And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.’
I tried to attach images of each past beast but the size was too big to post. On Moloch/Ba'al's head the same symbol is present.
The Assyrians had ISTAR who also wore the same symbol.
Next was Belit of Babylon.
The Persians had Mithra who wears a "sun" on his head.
In Greece, you had Helios the Sun god and Artimas the god of the Moon.
In Rome it was Apollo and Diana.
The Byzantine Empire (which was the Eastern Roman Empire) which became the Ottoman Empire used coins with crescent and star symbols which the Ottomans later adopted. I wish I could show the picture.
The symbol of Islam is the same. It is the
Crescent Moon and Star. Islam is by far the largest false religion on the planet. It comes complete with a false god ALLAH, his false prophet, Muhammad, and has roots back to Abraham. It will be ISLAMIC nations that rise up against Israel in the end. In the past every beast nation below has enslaved or occupied Israel.
The 7 beasts described by John are as follows:
1.Egypt = Arab/Muslim = Today Islamic
2.Assyria = Arab/Muslim = Today Islamic
3.Babylon = Arab/Muslim = Today Islamic
4.Medo-Persia = Arab/Muslim = Today Islamic
5.Greece = Arab/Muslim = Today Islamic
6.Rome = European = Not Islamic
7.Ottoman = Arab/Muslim = Today Islamic
Each of the above BEAST kingdoms we in a line of successive empires, each having defeated the one prior. Satan's influenced and controlled each and each persecuted Israel. The succession of empires ended with the Ottoman Empire (mortal wound). But she is coming back and will continue a short time.
A new global religion cannot and does not fit as it would not have the historical context of religions and past empires which enslaved Israel and supported the false religion. Islam fits every clue. Islam beheads Christians and hates and wishes to destroy Jews. Muslims backed Hitler.
ISLAM is the Pink Elephant in the room and is so obviously Mystery Babylon yet nobody sees it as such because it is hiding in plain sight. Because most Christians incorrectly interpret Rev 13 and most of Revelation for that matter, they are missing what is right in front of them. Most Christians are not even aware of the threat posed to them by Islam and the spiritual and actual warfare that is being waged against us. Things are going to get a lot worse before Christ returns. Christianity is all but completely gone in all the nations which surround Israel and Christianity is on a sharp decline in much of Europe where mosques are replacing churches at an alarming rate. Christianity is "falling away" just as Paul predicted.
. You have not been deceived by this rapture nonsense so let see if you can follow this. I am going to show in the next few slides how Mecca is the Great City which gets nuked (by radical Islamists no less) and how it all fits.
