The Biblical Prophetic Babylon & Loud Cry (Jer 51 | Rev 17 & 18)

When one endeavors to study the prophetic topic of Revelation’s Babylon beyond what is
commonly, truncatedly, presented and emphasized in SDA circles, namely Rev 17:1-9 & 18:1-8,
it is transparently easy to see that much more than a religious aspect of Revelation’s Babylon is
being taken issue with by God. This wider study involves, obviously, also studying the rest of
Rev 17 & 18, (thus Rev 17:10-18 & 18:9-24). However a commonly neglected contributor to this
study is the Old Testament background from which Revelation’s Babylon is drawn from.[1]1 As
many, almost verbatim, quotations and allusions show, that, pointedly in the prophecy in Jer 51,
God spoke of the vengeance that He would be taking upon His actually previously summoned
king and kingdom of Babylon. Before the full and further prophetic issues in Rev 17 & 18 are
discussed, and indeed in order to first have the proper Biblical background for that prophecy, the
circumstances and (Theological) issues involved in the Jer 51 judgement of God need to be
properly and fully understood.

Purposeful Babylon
The most glaring thing that strikes someone (or, at least honestly/candidly should) is,
if/since it was God who through Jeremiah warned that Babylon was coming to utterly judge
Judah for its sins (e.g, Jer 20:1-6) and if/since God had addedly (“counterintuitively”) instructed
Judah to peacefully give in to Babylon (Jer 27:1-15), then why was He now, when that purposed
judgement was accomplished, rather seethingly aiming to take great vengeance on Babylon (Jer
51). A simple answer that can be seen from the Biblical record, and shows that Babylon had done
beyond what God had wanted her to do during this judgement of His people. However that
honestly leads into the Theological questions (i.e., for those who have the Classical
Foreknowledge view of God) of: ‘Didn’t God “see” this coming; that this would be the end
result??’ and also ‘Since that clearly was not His will, why then didn’t He intervene to prevent
these irreparable damages?’ Though in the Biblical “Foreplanning View”, the first Theological
question/issue is easily and rightly resolved by the understanding that God did not expect that
Babylon would act abusively, and to such an extreme; -and there are several points in the
Jeremiah prophecies and ministry that bear this view out, however the second theological issue
still remains...: ‘why didn’t God then intervene to stop those abuses.’ The answer to that second
issue actually speaks to the great wickedness involved in Judah’s sins which made it that they
were, while in their period of decreed judgement, beyond the protective power of God and were
collectively left at the merciless whims of their capturing power.

Why then Babylon?

Those understandings then leads to the question of: ‘why would God choose Babylon at
all to judge His wayward people?’ The simple Theological answer is: God wanted Israel to
tangibly and firsthandedly see, from the world’s leading ruling power then, (with no sign of
Babylon’s demise at all then), and in order to serve as an object lesson to them [Israel], just how
bad things can, and will, get for them without Him, if He completely rejected them for them
choosing to not live according to His laws and ways. In fact, as pointedly stated in 2 Chr 36:20-
21; (cf. Lev 26:33-35, 43a); their actual, temporary deportation to another land was because they

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had systematically violated God’s socio-economic Sabbatical laws in regards to the land (Exod
23:10-11; Lev 25:1-7ff). Just by reading this sabbatical law it can be seen that it would
fundamentally necessitate faith in God, and the Lev 25:18-22 promised ‘three-year harvest in the
6th year of a sabbatical cycle’ was manifestly something that would, and could, like the similar
wilderness days miraculous blessing of the manna (Exod 16), indeed only be Supernaturally
realized. That is, while allowing the land to periodically lie fallow would allow for its nutrients to
naturally be replenished, the abundant/sufficient production of crops in the 6th year, to cover up to
the 3 years’ needs was going to be supernaturally accomplished by God if His people were, in
faith, obedient to Him. And while Israel was to always care for anyone in need on a lending basis
(Deut 15:7-11), the provision here that allowed the poor to freely eat of what the land would
produce during its sabbatical year meant that these destitute ones would not become indebted for
this vital provision.
So it was because Israel had faithlessly chosen to not follow this socio-economic
sabbatical law of God, that they were most crucially, physically and sovereignly dispossessed of
the land that God had provided for them, and here, fittingly/punitively, became quasi-assimilated
into one of the most evil kingdoms then, Babylon.

Socio-Economic Implications for Revelation’s Babylon

This OT Law & History background serves as a foundation for understanding the
prophetic episode of Revelation’s Babylon.

Total Temporal Dispossession - Yes, as commonly expounded upon, the judgement brought
upon Israel in Jeremiah’s time was also for religious violations such as idolatry and profaning
God sanctuary, even not observing the Seventh Day Sabbath as it was required (see Neh 13:15-
18), however in terms of the need for also a physical deportation from their land and to, of all
places, abhorrent, world-ruling, Babylon, the pointed reason was for the non-observance of
God’s sabbatical laws (=Zech 7:8-14). And that was foundationally all due to a lack of faith in
the promised provision of God in the sixth years. Manifestly the poor and needy were
(effectively) also oppressed by them not being able to freely obtain provisions during that
sabbatical year. And that neglect also constituted a violation of the socio-economic rest for all
that was also a basis for the giving of God’s Sabbath to His enduring nation Israel (=Deut 5:12-
15), reflecting, as with the World Creation basis, God’s memorializing seventh-day rest (Gen
2:3); and including also an ‘Authoritative Creation basis’ in regards to the fact that, as God
Himself enunciated in Isa 43:15, as He was envisioning the future exodus/deliverance of His
People then in Babylon (cf. Isa 43:14-21), (-if/when the would penitently ask, Isa 43:22-28, as
Daniel non-presumably would, probably solely, thus, most intercessorily, humbly do (Dan 9:1-
21)), that: ‘He is the “Creator”, (and thus “King”) of this nation of Israel’.

Importance of Socio-Economic Aspect - What is further interesting, is that Israel actually did
not physically suffer during the ca. 490 years when they had not been observing the fallow-land
stipulations of this law. There is no record of their crops or harvest (yet) suffering/failing for this.
Furthermore, as it was the regular cycling of: six years of sowing and harvest & one year of being
fallow that was most beneficial for the proper replenishing of the land, and not the allowing it to

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lay fallow for 70 consecutive years, it can be seen that this was more than just a substantively
needed judgement by God, but instead, indeed one to collectively account for every past
sabbatical year when this law had been ignored. And God manifestly preferentially allowed this
accumulated time to reach the symbologically significant number of "70"; and this had more
widely involved ca. 490 years of probation (Matt 18:21-22; cf. Dan 9:24).
What would apparently come to occur in Israel, as seen in what is currently done in
agriculture where only parts of one’s farmland is made to periodically lie fallow while the rest is
productive, that Israel’s land was going to increasingly produce less and less crops to meet the
needs of everyone as it became deficient in nutrients. So while some may be able to have enough
to eat, there would however come to be more and more people in such vital need, until virtually,
if not literally, everyone in Israel was vitally affected due to then completely depleted and barren
farmlands.

To Avoid All Inequalities - The deliberate provision for the poor during this time also is not
without great significance in this law, and together, the above two key points show that God was,
in this law, equally looking out for the well being of everyone in Israel, both the, [since the land
and resources of Israel had foundationally been distributed to adequately meet the needs of
everyone (e.g., Num 26:52-56; 33:54)], (normatively) cared-for ones, and the (suddenly,
incidentally) needy; and also was trying to avoid the arable land itself to increasingly become a
‘survival-of-the-fittest/strongest/richest’ stake, as surely strife, overall anarchy and bloodshed
would come to exist in Israel in order to personally secure ever-decreasing, remaining productive
farmlands.

Equal Duties and Responsibilities - Notice also that God did not counsel a ‘rotating lot’ plan
for this fallow lot law, as it easily, and feasibly could, and “logically”, should, have been the
case. Instead the whole land of Israel, i.e., all twelve tribes, had to simultaneously fully observe
this law. This most evidently was to show that all of Israel had to collectively participate in this
indeed pointed ‘needs relieving’ law.

A Consequential “Indebtedness” - The fallow land judgement also shows how, in God’s Israel,
the sins of forefathers can, and does affect the children, as these descendants were now having to
quite severely pay for the sins of their ancestors. (Cf. Lev 26:39).

All of these point on the related socio-economic aspects of God’s sabbatical law
sequiturly show that the deportation of Israel into Babylon was pointedly for those socio-
economic reasons. Therefore the “call of them” out of the land of Babylon (Jer 51:6, 9, 45, 50; cf.
Isa 48:20; Zech 2:6-7 = Rev 18:4) exegetically is to be expected to also involve those vital,
sabbatical socio-economic implications. Indeed, the only reason why Israel was in Babylon, and
had to thus later be “called out”, was only because of those socio-economic sabbatical laws
violations. So in understanding the topic of Revelation’s Babylon, one is not only to look at
surfacely purely religious implications, but, as God Himself considers most crucial, also at
sabbatical socio-economic ones. Not surprisingly, in Rev 18:9ff it is seen that Revelation’s
Babylon also has great economic implications, through which she has come to reign Supreme,

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along with the kings of the earth. So those who are being called out of her, and thus back to
God’s land of Israel, are also called to abandon those ‘drunkening and sensuous’ ways of this
Babylon.

Other Background, Theological Implications

Before those economic implications in Revelation’s Babylon are looked at in greater
detail, there are several key things to learn from the OT background of the Babylonian Judgement
and Deportation.

Allowed Aberration
First of all, it is clear that it was God Himself who made Babylon successfully come onto
the path of His increasingly wayward Israel. Obviously that was to effectuate due judgement,
however as God did always intend to restore Israel from such a deportation judgement (see Lev
26:40-45), yet only if they became humbled (something that perhaps only Daniel came to do and
thus, being ‘God’s needed intercessor’ in/for Israel (cf. Jer 5:1; Ezek 22:30-31; Isa 59:16 and this
forum post), allowed for this promised restoration -Dan 9:1-23), and as with any non-terminal,
but corrective judgement, the whole purpose is to provide the most likely, and best, way to
produce such a change. So God Himself brought Babylon to destroy Israel, and then led many
survivors of Israel captive in Babylon.
This understanding is key to Revelation’s Babylon, for while, as seen in prophetic Church
History in Revelation 7 Seals (Rev 6:1-8:1), up through the second seal’s Red Horse period (Rev
6:3-4), it is Historically rightly understood to have applied to the persecutions suffered by the, up
to then, still faithful Christian Church at the hands of pagans. However those persecutions
suddenly ended when the State, in ca. 313 A.D., under Constantine, suddenly made Christianity a
legal religion. However it is then that the Universal “Catholic” Church began to morph into
Revelation’s Babylon as it began to religiously become mixed with worldly practices, beliefs and
customs, and it is also then that a raising up of the Church’s leadership over the laity to a non-
biblical status/level was made (i.e., the superiority of the priesthood, leading to the establishment
of the Papacy), resulting in the laity becoming both spiritually, and then also physically, deprived
as the Church made both: (1) the Word of God rare and inaccessible to them; and (2) then, based
on faulty theology, that the lay person moreover had no means of verifying, also began to impose
derived costly and spurious penances & indulgences upon the people. All of this Prophetically
began to take place under the third seal’s Black Horse period (Rev 6:5-6), thus ca. 313 A.D. to
ca. the 13th century A.D., when then the Church then began to confront reformatory oppositions
to them with the sword.
A key point of difference between the Historical Babylon and its Prophetic depiction is
that in the OT History, Israel was taken to the foreign power of Babylon in judgement. However
it surfacely would seem that in the Prophetic scenario, NT Israel instead became Babylon, indeed
as many reformers of that time rightly identified the Church then. It is however when the
common notion of ‘Divine judgement for (common) sins’ is kept in mind here that one realizes
that just as the summoning and destructions by Historical Babylon had been ordained by God to
strikingly correct Israel of its rebelliousness and disillusion it the believed viability of living
outside of God’s ways, Prophetic/Spiritual Babylon was “allowed” for similar reasons and

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purposes with NT Israel. Just like in the parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32), God would
allow, for a determined amount of time, NT Israel to follow and “play out” its preferred wayward
course to a telling end so that, hopefully, they would tangibly see for themselves that God’s ways
and laws are better. However that permitted waywardness was at quite a great cost to God’s
faithful ones during that time (= Rev 6:9-11), not to mention the many Israelites that would be
lost by becoming born, familiar, comfortable, and thus assimilated in/with this allowed Babylon.
So it was actually, always God’s prophetic plan to allow for a Babylon in
prophetic/Church History, if only to help those who survived this “deportation” to see what
disobedience to God’s law will result in. Still a prophetic call is given for God’s People to come
out of her and return to Jerusalem, even though it, and its Temple, then lay in ruins.

So with this pertinent Biblical/Historical background in mind, a somewhat in depth study

of the Rev 17 & 18 Babylon prophecy can now be done as follows.

REVELATION 17
Rev 17:1 - Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me,
saying, "Come here, I will show you the judgment sentence of the great harlot who sits on many
waters,

judgement sentence - (Gr. krima) The angel’s mission here is to relate the ‘resulting sentencing’
of the “great harlot” (cf. Rev 18:20) and not the ‘“trial” process of this judgement’ (further
discussed in Rev 18:10). But first, as This Babylon has not been priorly identified and discussed
as such (i.e., a harlot) in the prophecies, he first goes through expounding on its identifying
points.

Great Harlot - In the Bible it is repeatedly and consistently seen that a “woman” is symbolic of
God’s People (OT) & Church (NT) (Jer 4:31; Eph 5:23-27, 32-33; 1 Cor 11:2; Rev 19:7; 21:2,
9-10ff [the common Jer 6:2 citation is grossly mistranslated in the KJV/NKJV, see instead
NASB]. And along these symbolic lines, a harlotrous woman is also repeatedly and consistently
used to describe the unfaithful people of God. (Hos 1-3; Jer 3:1-10; Ezek 16). And so this ‘great
harlotrous woman’ is symbolically, defaulty understood to be an apostate manifestation of God’s
People/Church. Indeed Num 15:39-40 pointedly shows that when God’s people entirely forget, or
forget to do all of His commandments, and instead seek to do after their own heart, and what is
best in their own eyes, then they are no longer holy to God, but instead are considered to be a
harlot. So this “Great Harlot” must be a professed people of God who has chosen to not keep all,
or none, of God’s commandments, and instead seek to do what she conveniently considers is
best, yet all the while still claiming some sort of allegiance to God.

Sits on many waters - though this harlot sits on many waters, thus many various people
groupings of the world (Rev 17:15), it is the “River” (= as discussed here, ‘religious grouping’, -
next in importance/power among peoples to political groupings (= “Seas”)) Euphrates that is, as
with Ancient Babylon (cf. Isa 45:1b), most pivotal to her livelihood, prosperity and security. So,

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as discussed in this post at Rev 16:12, simply drying up this single River is sufficient to
spearhead the complete fall of this ‘Geo-City’.

Rev 17:2 - with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of harlotry, and those who dwell on
the earth were made drunk with the wine of her harlotry."

Wine - In Luke 5:37-39, Jesus made the pointed metaphor involving new/fresh wine to
symbolize His New Covenant teachings. (= Communion emblem in Luke 22:17-18, 20; 1 Cor
11:25; cf. Jer 31:31; Heb 8:8-12 ~ 2 Cor 3:6). So “wine” can be understood to be symbolic of the
Gospel teachings of Christ. (= ‘what is to be carefully preserved’, along with the Holy Spirit, in
Medieval Church History in Rev 6:6b). Of course, this wine, being new/fresh, was unfermented
and thus non-intoxicating, which is why those accustomed to drinking old wine, if not fermented
wine, did not want to drink it (Luke 5:39). So the wine of harlotry of this Woman is clearly
teachings that are “intoxicatingly” opposed to Christ’s New Covenant Gospel message.

Drunken Behavior - Here it is distinctly seen that this harlot woman commits the acts of
harlotry (=unfaithfulness to her husband Christ) with the kings/rulers of the earth, thus these are
more political acts which are contrary to Christ’s principles, and as seen later, which result in
producing much wealth, and then this forged illicit “wine” is obviously forced upon the
inhabitants of the earth to make them “drunk”, which results in them becoming
“praisingly/mindlessly boastful” (=Jer 51:7). Then, of course, as typical in such ‘forced and
sustained intoxication’, she can then have, and continue to have, her self-gratifying way with
them. [“Capitalism is the only hope of the world” has been the mindless echoing chant of
virtually all of the world’s peoples and countries.]

Rev 17:3 - And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on
a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

(Harlotrous) Woman (= Church) - John is now seeing the woman of Rev 12:1-6 that had then
fled in the wilderness for 1260 years (538-1798) while the Papacy wielded its persecutive
temporal power against her. However this is a radically transformed woman than the pure woman
(=Apostolic Church) that had fled to the wilderness. While those who had fled from the Catholic
Church had been faithful ones, the organized Church that came out of that wilderness was no
longer in the image of that prior pure woman.
The present, deeper (i.e., as time/history has advanced) implications of this symbol of the
woman here is that this is actually is a leading out Protestant (and no longer Catholic) Church
which has taken the place of that prior Catholic Church in that prophetic development. The
possibility of that switch was actually implicitly included in what EGW was (directly) ‘shown’:

“I saw that the two-horned beast had a dragon's mouth, and that his power was in his
head, and that the decree would go out of his mouth. Then I saw the Mother of Harlots;
that the mother was not the daughters, but separate and distinct from them. She has had
her day, and it is past, and her daughters, the Protestant sects, were the next to come on

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 the stage and act out the same mind that the mother had when she persecuted the
saints. I saw that as the mother has been declining in power, the daughters had been
growing, and soon they will exercise the power once exercised by the mother.”
{SpM 1.4} (Spalding and Magan collection)

So the woman here now is a “grown up” daughter of the past: =the Protestant Church.
And, in turn, the daughters of that leading Protestant Church are all of the 30,000+
“sects”/denominations which have come from the once virtually united, Protestant Reformation
Movement Church. So by then, the Catholic Church has technically become a (inherent pun-
intended) “Grand”-Mother.
Also, the ‘drunkening of the masses’ is evidently also essential to maintain the “festal
way of living” of this, now (Protestant) woman....And it is, as discussed just below, and also later
(at Rev 17:11), in this seamless, deception entrenching and heightening reins take over by this
now “grown up daughter” that she has begun to become a spitting “image” of her revived mother
(=Rev 13:14) and which, by taking formal actions to empower that image will be ‘giving breath’
to it (Rev 13:15) =Rev 16:13-14, 16. See the detailed discussion on this in this exposition on
the whole chapter of Rev 13.

History & Evolution of this Beast - It is also significant here to trace the past
history/“evolution” of this Beast introduced here, the one having 7 heads and ten horns.

Dan 7 Beast - First of all, the mention of it having ten horns links it back to the
“different, strong and terrible Beast” mentioned in Dan 7:7, which had ten horns, and historically
was Pagan Rome. Dan 7:23-24 shows that those ten horns on the head of that Beast will
themselves be distinct from that previously dominant Beast (Dan 7:19), as they would be ‘ten
kings that would arise out of this kingdom’. These, of course, historically were the “barbaric”
tribes that came to defeat and replace the world power of Rome in its Western Parts and ruled
independently from 476-538 A.D. That is until the, ‘Little, but actually Larger-in-appearance,
Horn” (Dan 7:8 & 20), though indeed, comparatively temporally smaller than other powers,
itself having been only a religious power, came and established a “representatively sufficient”
kingdom (= "7" horns) over the previous larger “total” (i.e., Eastern & Western) Roman empire
(= "10" horns)[2]2 So the number 10 here prophetically is not literally quantitative, but
symbolically qualitative.

Rev 12 Beast - Now prophecies concerning this ten-horn Beast, thus ‘a kingdom
composed of various other subdued kingdoms’, are restated in the New Testament, as this Beast
indeed comes to war against True Movements of God. However firstly, it is revealed in Rev
12:7-9ff, which relates events that relatedly occurred before and after the advent of Christ, that
the arch enemy of Christ (Michael) is (a “simple-looking”) “Dragon”, who is the
Serpent/Devil/Satan. No mention yet, until the advent of Christ, of him having multiple heads
and horn. But then in Rev 12:1-6, after the NT Church has been birthed (vss. 1-2), this Beast
opposing power, first appearing in Heaven, is described as a ‘Dragon with 7 heads and ten horn
and with 7 diadems on its heads’ (Rev 12:3). As the Devil now needed more than one ‘way of

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thinking’ to seek to defeat Christianity, this Beast is seen as having more than one “head”. So
now, not only would the ‘Pagan Roman thinking’, which felt threatened by the Christian world
view, be used to oppose the Church, -which resulted in physical persecution, but also other
highly esteemed, ‘world ruling views and ways’ such as: culture, lifestyle, wealth, philosophies,
etc., will be chiefly used to undermine the purity of the Church. This multi-faceted subversion
gradually took a foothold within the Church and became most successfully achieved during the
era of the Medieval Catholic Church.

Rev 13's First Beast {Cf. this presentation} - Indeed it is when the Catholic Church
came to secure a temporal realm from prior parts of the Pagan Roman Empire, establishing the
Holy Roman Empire, that it became most completely corrupt, as it then had temporal power to
itself wage war against those within its jurisdiction which rejected its non-Biblical teaching. This
“Beastly” era is described in the First Beast of Rev 13. That Beast is also said to have 10 horns
and 7 heads, with 10 diadems, now on its horns (Rev 13:1) rather than its heads. Indeed the chief
power of this Beast vs. God’s True Church was in the ‘(enforcing) temporal power’ it wielded (=
‘10 crowned horns’) more than merely its way of thinking (= ‘7 crowned heads’). Interestingly
enough, the main “character” (= “name”) in its way of thinking, was an overarching
“blasphemous” ideology. (Rev 13:1b).
At its root, the term “blasphemy” (Strongs #988) means “to slander”, which indeed
involve ‘damaging the reputation, character and good name of another’ (cf. e.g, Eph 4:31; Col
3:8; 1 Tim 6:4; Jude 1:9; Rev 2:9). As such it is manifested in: ‘an (assumed) man claiming to be
capable of forgive sins as God’ (Luke 5:20-21ff) or ‘being equal to God’ (John 10:24-39; Mar
14:61-64); and thus also, the “slanderous” claiming of a clear work of God’s Spirit as being that
of the Devil (Matt 12:22-31). Relatedly, given the fact that God had “perfectly” veiled Himself in
the Son of Man, it would actually be forgivable to say something “slanderous” against Him, than
against the more clear demonstrations of God’s working through His Spirit (Matt 12:32); -albeit,
only for ‘accidental slanders’ against the Son of Man, and not careless/indifferent ones. (Matt
12:33-37). In short, “blasphemy” is ‘anyone who resolutely/defiantly commits any sin in the light
of clear warnings and knowledge,’ (which are communicated to the conscience by God’s Spirit)
(e.g., Num 15:30; cf. Ezek 20:27).
So in regards to this “God-slandering” character of this Beast, it had “baptized” worldly
views and customs, which it knew to be against God’s will, (as seen in its attempts to amend
and/or “supercede” any condemning Commandments and Biblical Statements), and was
indifferently passing them off as religious ones, thus indeed making them “God-slandering” in
nature, as these now were claiming to be God’s very will and ways. So, e.g., no longer was the
worship of idols a pagan ideology; it was now a religiously-accepted one. Same thing with sun
worship, pagan feasts, various philosophies and worldly teachings, among many other of such
“ideological conversions”. This thus resulted in this Beast having (Rev 13:2a):

(i) - ‘an encapsulating entity which mainly mirrored the culture, philosophies and ideology of
Greece’ (= “body of a leopard”);
(ii) - ‘facilitating, and surfacely acceptable, means of going places and being established that
mirrored the worship of the God-allowing Medo-Persian empire (= “feet of a bear”),

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(iii) - however, like Babylon (e.g., Dan 2 & 3), it would be ‘legislatively dictating what this
worship of God could subserviently consist of’ (= “mouth of a lion”). Not surprisingly this
“mouth” only went on to legislatively express blasphemies (Rev 13:5-6), indeed just what it had
been “thinking” in its heads.

(iv) So the Church that had been purposely established on Earth in the likeness and image
of its Creator and Re-Creator Jesus Christ, had now instead become a monstrous and terrifying,
untameable/wild “Beast” (in itself) on earth. (All contra Eph 4:14-16; 5:23)

Transference of power - Given the great potential success of this, actually self-
composed Beast, the Devil saw that it would be more successful than his own prior
external/paganistic attacks on the Christian Church (Rev 12:3-6, 13-17), and so he gladly gave it
his own ‘power, throne and great authority’ to wreak havoc on earth. (Rev 13:2b).

First Beast Purposefully Divinely Permitted - As prophetically stipulated in e.g. 2

Thess 2:9-11 & Rev 8:10-11 (expounded within this post), and all consistently according to how
God would deal, and indeed has dealt, with His unfaithful/apostasizing, paganizing, “awhoring”
Israel in the past (Deut 4:28; 28:64), but all in the hopeful purpose that they would learn the
lesson of the futility of living apart from, or in disobedience to, Him and His Righteous Laws,
and would then return to Him, genuinely with all of their heart & soul. (Deut 4:29-31, e.g. Jer
29:10-20; cf. 1 Cor 5:5; Rev 18:2-4). And it is the actual direct Bible background for the
characteristics of this First Beast in Rev 13:2a found in Hos 13:7-8 and its context, which
confirms this permitting, and even orchestrating, hand of God in allowing this “Satanic takeover”
of His now paganistically apostasized, yet still Name-professing, People.
In ministry, and through the prophet Hosea, God is trying to deal with a resolutely
‘awhoring’ People (cf. Hos 3). And by Hos 13, as every attempted remonstrating has failed to
evoke any desire to repent in “Ephraim” (=10 Northern Tribes of Israel (vs. 2 Southern Tribes
known as “Judah”)), God then resorts to His ultimate measure, which is to Himself, in “tough
love”, act as a chastising, even destroying, enemy to His Unfaithful People. So in Hos 13:7-8,
God states that He will become like:

(iii) - a lion/ness to His People, and who vindictively/j|z-ealously/protectively devours them

(i) - a leopard who slyly watches and lies in wait for the perfect opportunity to pounce
(ii) - a bear who encounters them for having robbed her of her cubs
(iv) - a wild beast tearing them up

All of these 4 character-istics are involved in the composite beast of Rev 13:1-10 which,
by the authority of Satan, usurpingly, or really: electedly, assumes authority over the Church and
People of God. And from the interpreting Biblical origins and understandings that have been
stated above in regards to both these different animals, as well as the prior Kingdoms and
Civilization traits they represented, it can here further be seen just how the composition of the
Rev 13 First Beast will specifically underminingly affect God’s NT Israel/Church:

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(i) - It inceptively was the incrementally gradual compromising and assimilating of the
Christian/Catholic Church with Graeco-Roman pagan culture, which, “unsuspectingly”, came to,
indeed like a sly leopard lying in wait, pounce on, and plunge, them into this downfall of utter
apostasy towards God. And just like the body contains the functional organs critically vital to
life, strip the Roman Catholic Church of all of these appended and derived Graeco-Roman
paganistic beliefs/teachings and rites/practices (e.g. worship of idol, eternal soul and purgatory,
eternal hell, Sun-day Sacredness, etc) and you’d effectively/actually have a Biblically Reformed
Church body, pointedly if Christ and God, instead of the usurping Pope is made, and maintained
as, its head. (Eph 1:22-23; 4:14-16; 5:23; Col 1:18; 1 Cor 11:3; cf. Matt 23:8-11).

(ii) - Any apostasy accomplishment by Satan here would have been short lived if its generational
continuity was not secured, all along the lines of a bear who has been herself robbed of her
children, not permitting another to have their own children. So here, this apostasy was
perpetuated by involving the children as early, and as much, as possible in its ways, and this can
be seen in how much emphasis the Roman Catholic Church places in both breeding and making
good Catholics of children by parents...all starting with the unscriptural children baptism rite. Of
course this is all done in the name of ‘saving the children’ from being lost and suffering
(paganistic) Purgatory/Hell judgement. By such fearful and ruthless dogma from the Church
against anyone who would leave its ranks, the chances of a next generation arising which would
rebel against the Church, including along the commendable lines of Scriptural Reform, were
greatly lessened. Thus the Catholic Church alone was likely to only grow and spread into future
years.
And on a wider, and symbolic ecclesiastical level, the same “other (type) of children
bereaving” was similarly accomplished by the Church, through its inculcated false teachings, to
the point that even when a generation finally arose which broke away from the Catholic Church
in Reformers and the Protestant Church who allowed for believer to freely worship God
according to their conscience, -(thus fulfilling that symbolic “bear element” representative of
Medo-Persia -which differed from its hegemonic predecessor Babylon by allowing Religious
Freedom to all of its subjects), the offspring, =“daughters”, that was then produced in Protestants
still continued to have the “harlot” forehead (cf. Jer 3:3) mentality & characteristics of their/the
“Mother Church.” (Rev 17:5).
And this “Daughter Harlot Protestant” movement has indeed gone on to continuingly
mirror the God-ward apostasy of their Mother (=Rev 13:14), now in regards to contra-God and
anti-Sabbatical (=Capitalistic) socio-economic matters, which thus is having an even wider reach
and deeper establishment (=“feet”) amongst the people of the Earth.

(iii) - Israel had rejected God as their King who would lead and protect them (1 Sam 8:7); and in
their naturally ensuing misled and vulnerable apostasy, God would taunt them as to ‘where is
their preferred other king now?!!’ (Hos 13:9-11). In the apostasy of the NT Church, it decided to
assure the survivability of its preferred wayward way of doing things by, as symbolizing by the
ruling lion and its mouth: enacting binding religious/worship laws which it would be ruthlessly
enforcing by the sword. (Rev 13:7, 10) Babylon, symbolized by the lion, indeed also had sought
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religious laws enforced also by the penalty of death. (Dan 3).
Tellingly enough, if there is anything which more aided the Reforming of the Church,
(however as well as founding atheism, as seen in the French Revolution), it was this use of
authoritarian legislative, and coercive/penal physical, “devouring” force upon its subjects and
against those who dissented with her.

(iv) - This indeed all just produce a wild beast which eventually self-exhausted itself...only to, as
discussed next, be replaced by a deceptively seemingly better/tame lamb-like beast in the
Second Beast, the United States,...which would actually still be doing the express will of the
dragon (Rev 13:1, 11), thus actually worshipping Satan (Rev 13:4, 12, 16; 2 Thess 2:9-12; cf.
Rom 2:8; 6:16)...

Rev 13's Second Beast {Cf. this presentation} - Then follows another Beast (Rev 13:11-
18), (which is actually a mere “image” of that First Beast), however while seeming to be distinct,
having initially different prominent features. It had managed to step in the place of this prior
Beast because one of the heads of that First Beast had been slaughtered by a fatal wound. And so
despite the fact that this First Beast had gone on to recover from its fatal wound (Rev 13:3-4), it
was this Beast which now had the great, influential temporal power, however that First Beast
regained its great religious influence. And through the image of the First Beast that the Second
Beast had itself erected, it was also causing worship of the First Beast, and ultimately, the
Dragon who was the originator of this authority (Rev 13:4, 12).
Interestingly enough, whereas the First Beast enforced its authority by ‘taking up arms’ in
physical war, this second “mirroring” Beast achieves its ends merely by it having given “breath”
(= life) to the image that it has made to the First Beast: ‘so that this image would of itself speak
(= legislate), and thus “cause/make” that as many would not worship it may be killed. So while
this Second Beast, with its ‘two, crownless, little lamb horns’ (Rev 13:11a), -thus made up of
two ruling powers which are actually not ‘monarchially controlled by a single chief ideology’,
thus: (1) a democratically-determined Free Government (as functionally accomplished in many
possible, periodically ruling, representative political parties); and (2) a Freedom of
Religion/Worship (as seen in its accepted, many, quasi-plethora, of denominations, which
includes Roman Catholicism),[3]3 it however, and continuously/repeatedly, all during this time,
(and not ‘only in the future’), as seen by the use a Greek imperfect tense, would still be ‘speaking
as a dragon’. So what it would be causing its sustained Beast image to “speak” (= legislate) all of
this time (Rev 13:15) would always be just what the Dragon/Devil himself would be saying.

–Now it is here in Rev 17:3, that this evolving, True Christianity-opposing, Devil/Dragon
reflecting, Beast comes to find its ultimate form, thus forming the true/full Babylon that God’s
people are to get out of (Rev 18). As stated above, John now sees a perverted form of the True
Church of Christ. However this woman now also has temporal power through the “scarlet Beast”
which it is riding upon, which indeed characteristically has the unmistakable associating
identities of: “blasphemous (i.e., God-slandering) names”, “7 heads”, and “10 horns”.

Resulting Rev 17 Woman w/Beast - So with all of these explanations, it can be seen that

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this Rev 17:3 Woman and Beast is a furtherance of the Rev 13 Beast, which had been advanced
by the Second Beast there. And while the descriptions in Rev 17 have been commonly claimed
against the Medieval Roman Catholic Church as Babylon, the prophetic facts of the matter is
that, just as the pure woman that had gone into the wilderness had been the Church being pursued
by the Medieval Church, thus, generally speaking, the Protestant Church. And it is that Church
that now comes out of this “wilderness” (which actually is then the inhabited land of North
America, and most pointedly, the present United States = Rev 12:13-16), and when it comes
riding out of that wilderness area, it is now also a temporal power, indeed just like Christian
groups fled to the land of present day U.S. to flee Religious/Catholic Persecution, and then
formed an initially, predominant Protestant Country: the United States of America.[4]4

Twofold Corruptions - So logically and sequiturly speaking, as this ‘Woman and Beast
combination’ = “Babylon” power; American Protestants, now comes to hold the religious and
temporal sway of the prior ‘Holy Roman Empire’ manifestation of that power. And on top
mimicking many of the “God-slandering” claims and practices of the Historical Babylonian
Power (= Rev 13's First Beast), this Second Beast would also add its own Divine slanders. And
that pointedly is in the Economic Realm, in its usurping of the True and Full Gospel of Jesus
Christ with fully acted upon claims that ‘Capitalistic-living is God’s ideal will and way.’
However this “blasphemy” would only result in filling the earth with God-abhorring
“abominations”.
And so it is pointedly out of the latter manifested deceiving system that God’s people in
the end are being called out of (i.e., both in regards to religious and temporal matters). And, as it
was seen in the above discussed OT background of the deportation to Babylon, it was not only
overtly religious matters that were at issue then (e.g., idolatry, temple profaning), but also, and
that quite crucially, socio-economic ones. (See also Isa 47:6). So this joint/two-fold implication
is to be expected in this call out of this prophetic “Babylon”.[5]5

Rev 17:4 - The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious
stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of
her harlotry,

purple and scarlet clothes - Quite interestingly enough, the understanding of this symbol is,
jointly, two-fold. On one side, based on God’s description in Isa 1:18, the color scarlet/red itself
is considered to be the color of sins, and is contrasted with the sinlessness/righteousness color of
white. The color white for clothing is also representative of Biblical, grace&faith-based (i.e. Eph
2:8-10; Jam 2:14-26) good works (Rev 19:7-9; cf. Rev 3:4-5; 16:15).
However, on the “flip side” there is the clear usage of both scarlet and purple for
clothing in the Bible that were to reflect great favor, wealth and luxury. As such they were used
to luxuriously clothe rich people, which included monarchs (2 Sam 1:24; Psa 31:21; cf. Jer 4:30).
That is also why Jesus was clothed in such colors by the, albeit mocking, Romans (Matt 27:28;
John 19:2, 5; cf. Dan 5:29).

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 Relatedly there is also a theologically related usage of these two colors in God’s
redemptive ministry work, as He made those colors to be a part of both the Tabernacle
adornment (see in Exod 26; 27; 35; 36; 38) as well as for the Priest’s Vestments (see in Exod 28;
39). This is straightly seen to be reflective of the fact that the Tabernacle would be the place
where sins would be dealt with and also by the fact that the priests would be involved in the
ministry of taking away sins and also that God expected the very best of support and honor for
this redemptive work from His people.
There is also a quite interestingly Theological reconciling purpose for this consistent dual
use of this color. By making these luxurious, (but sin-symbolic) colors an integral part of the
Sanctuary and priesthood, God apparently wanted to instill in Israel that true, just/honest, and
thus lasting riches and glory in this fallen, sinful world would not be achieved without first
dealing with the (interposing) presence of sin. (Cf. Mar 16:26|Mar 8:36). Indeed had Israel
understood this, they would not have crucified Christ who, despite the fact that He was their
great hope and Messianic King, literally the Crown Jewel of their temporal and religious
expectations, He instead came as a poor, lowly, sin-bearer. (Matt 8:20) So the “luxurious but
sinful” scarlet/purple vestments that were mockingly put on Jesus (who was indeed a Priest &
King = Heb 6:20-7:1) by the Romans actually aptly depicted this Spiritual reality. That indeed
was the vivid and pivotal reality at Christ’s Triumphal entry (Matt 21:1-11). Because of Israel’s
persisted sins, they could not enjoy the Temporal glory that they greatly desired. (= the, to be
cutoff, Messiah-King in Dan 9:25-27).
And on a practically applicable level, with the ‘love of money/wealth being the root of all
sorts of evil’ (1 Tim 6:10), such as chiefly idolatry (Luke 16:13; cf. Exod 20:3), it can be seen
here how the two are intrinsically linked as it was/is the love of money, wealth and gain that
was/is at the root of the Apostate Babylonian System, -both in its Historical Phase (with the
Catholic Church =Rev 17:4) and its Eschatological Phase ((Protestant) Capitalism =Rev 18:12,
16).
What is key to all of this, as brought out by Daniel Pel in his exposition on Rev 17
[27:48-31:18], is that the color blue, which, was also a very present color in the vestment of the
priest and the material for the Sanctuary (see in above cited references), is missing from the
colors of this ‘luxuriously reigning Woman’. As Num 15:37-41 points out that this color was
symbolic of God’s commandments, and the blue tassel that all Israelites were there instructed to
also wear was in order to keep them from forgetting to do all of God’s commandments, (an
instruction that was given on the heels of God speaking of sacrifices for unintentional sins (Num
15:22-31, -and just after an incident where someone defiantly broke the Sabbath commandment
(Num 15:31-36)), then it is seen that this Woman chose to leave this color out of her vestment.
So this could represent several related things:

-Religiously/Spiritually, she could be assuming the function of a ministering (but OT-

styled) priest/sanctuary of God, but, futilely, without paying attention to all, or none, of God’s
Commandments. So she really was not forgiving any, or actual, sins. (cf. e.g., James 2:9-11; 1
John 3:4; Rom 3:20; 7:7).

-Temporally, she had achieved a quite wealthy and luxurious standard/status, as further

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seen in the added mentions of ‘adornments with gold and precious stones and pearls’, but all
“harlotrously” living outside of God’s commandments.

So this Woman was dually acting as a spurious, lawless, sin-condoning Church who thus
obtained great temporal riches outside of God’s ways and will. (Cf. Jer 4:30-31)

Reformation’s Touchstone - Of course the Historic Catholic Church did live in extreme
luxury. In fact, the extorting and spiritually abusing methods that they used to amass this wealth,
as seen in the theology for the sales of indulgences, was the watershed moment that cultimatingly
brought about the birth of the Protesting Church, under Martin Luther, as his 95 Theses (see link
there at bottom to full (translated) text) were pointedly against the thievery in this practice, as
well as the underlying false theology that whitewashingly sustained it.

Woman’s cup - in the hand of this Woman is also a highly valued “gold” cup in which is found
the “wine” of the ‘most abhorrent’ and unclean things of her ‘delighted harlotry.’ Thus it engages
in this unfaithful-to-Christ living by most “delightingly”, even ‘feastingly,’ drinking the
intoxicating wine of things that God abhors and considers to not be fit for various human
consumption/interaction/utilization (= “unclean’).

“cup” symbol - the symbol of a cup itself seems to connote some kind triumph-celebrating ware.
In Jer 51:7 shows that God also had used Babylon ‘as a cup’ towards ultimately triumphing ends.
(Interestingly enough, athletes and sports teams usually are given a “cup” to crown a
championship).

full of abominations.... - It is most sequitur and natural to readily, and indeed rightly, see, indeed
from ample episodes in the Bible, that what God would (foundationally) consider to be
“abominations” (i.e., most abhorring things to Him) would be in the area of sexual sin/perversion
and idolatry (=here) (also/= lawlessness (=here) and spiritualism (=here))...and this
“pompous/arrogant”, “blasphemous”, “unclean/filthy”, “harlot” certainly/evidently knows much
about this...indeed ‘passing it around in that cup’. (cf. this explanation [39:20-42:07ff; 43:55-
48:15ff] by Stephen Bohr on understanding what is in this cup). And the perfect
historical/Biblical example of such “abominable conduct/character” is seen in the only cities
which God (singularly), at least actively/pointedly/directly, “object-lessonly”, destroyed: Sodom
and Gomorrah et al. (Gen 13:13; Jer 23:14; Isa 3:9; Jude 1:7; 2 Pet 2:6). Yet in Ezek 16:46-50,
God knowingly states what was the “capital sin” of S&G. Beyond their notorious sin of sexual
perversion, which was inherently non-natural (Rom 1:18-32), they actually may, as typically seen
and “moronically”/“weak-willedly”, justifyingly claimed today (see here), may mostly/initially
have chosen to act in these “inherently unnatural” ways because of various psychological, even
(if scientifically actually proven to be true), epigenetical-skewing and deficiency; but the sin
which God actionably laid as their “guilt” (Ezek 16:49a) was their socio-economic selfishness
and neglect of those in need. (Ezek 16:49b). Indeed it has not been claimed that Israel itself,
which in Ezek 16 is emblematically being pitted against Sodom, ever descended into, at least
cultural/corporate/“pedestrian” homosexual sin, (-though this may have been inclusively going

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on in their idolatrous “high places”/temple cultus (Hos 4:11-14; Jer 3:2), but they did indeed do
just like S&G in the area of socio-economic righteousness and justice. And God did take offense,
and tangible judgement action against them, for those, indeed abominable/capital sins (Isa 1:9-
17), even deeming/considering their level of abominable sinning to have been worst than S&G
(Lam 4:6), -which is further demonstration that His likewise “guilting” of them was indeed in
regards to such socio-economic waywardness.
...And the reason for the inherently “guilt” for this type of sin being more
condemnable/actionable than sexual, and even homosexual, sin, is that the Creator God may
scientifically understand that degenerating genes, and/or the early childhood plastic psyche, may
lead people, through unrestrained tendencies, to the extreme perversion of homosexual behavior
and practice. So, though God does not condone people giving into these tendencies, such people
may actually have a plausible, but false, (i.e., spurious), reason as to why they are/behave that
way. But in the also abominable/selfishness area of “living and letting die”, which like
homosexual sin, is, as discussed here, directly/inherently contributive to a culture of human-
extincting death, (including, as seen with AIDS, from (the rapid spreading of) deadly sexual
diseases), -indeed as one pastor put it: ‘easily within just one generation’, the current state of
affairs which see people by the multiple-tens of millions, suffer and die from prevenatable,
curable, and/or intentional/deliberate causes/actions is also a culture of death, and thus is
likewise checked by God. Indeed socio-economic oppression and manslaying is easily more
deadly than sexual/homosexual sinning. And in our world today, such socio-economic killings
are being done in the name of a idolized economic system, namely the Protestant-birthed darling
known as Capitalism, where people are left to suffer, die, and even directly kill as for abortions,
not because there are not ample resources on this planet to abundantly meet the needs of all,
including those who have been allowed to die, but merely because either procuring and making
use of these resources is not according to the laughably fallacious, selfishness “ordering” tenets
of this Evil system, -“championed” and propagated by (Protestants in/from) the United States of
America!!

So all this to foundationally say, that, in that “golden cup” of this world-
ruling/influencing/inebriating “harlot”, is not only to be found the various religious and
behavorial “abominations” which are also proscribed in God’s Word, but also, and as God
Himself has considered it, chiefly, in regards to socio-economic perversion, oppression and
injustice!!!

Woman-Beast Identity - At this point, it is better, further, understood what had been
introductorily stated in Rev 17:3.

Capitalism Unmasked - Ask the common person and the first thing that will come to mind as to
“what has made America the wealthy and powerful, “superpower” nation that it currently is” and
you’ll get the dogmatic, one-word answer of Capitalism. It clearly was not merely “Democracy”
as there are many countries that are democratic, but not as wealthy. Instead it was indeed, key in
the game of making money in this world, the full implementation of the Protestant-created
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especially amongst Christians, indeed despite its immediately recognized greed, selfishness,
moral deficiency and ruthlessness, was the superimposed, whitewashing Protestant theology that
it was squarely both God’s will for His People to become wealthy; and also the way that His
favor on an individual would be revealed. (Ironically, but most significantly enough, this was in
direct opposition to the Catholic view on both an individual grace/salvation and also their
material prosperity). Not incidentally, this then led, like falling dominoes, to gradually accepting
other related and self-needed economically advantaging evils such as native land grabs, slavery &
segregation, economic-based wars, the neglect of the poor and needy, -all base and non-justified
things that God indeed “abhors” and considers “unclean”.[6]6 Of course for this newly charted
course to economic prosperity to work, trade with other countries, (which, particularly later on,
also involve the outsourcing of work), had to be established with other governments. And so
what began as an American phenomenon quickly spread, now literally throughout all but a
handful of countries. Of course, as now clearly being seen, Capitalism, when purely and Laissez-
Faire practised, and that to its inherent/inevitable pyramid scheme extent, indeed quickly reaches
its limit of functionality, and those at the to increasingly can, and “lawfully” do, take a bigger
share of the produced wealth. Those at the bottom are then left, like slaves, to merely eek out a
subsistence income, and that while doing most of the wealth-producing work. So, as with the
symbology in this prophecy, to get the masses to accept to be so exploited, they have to be made,
and kept drunk with the flowing wine of this cup.

symbology of “gold” in cup - Interestingly enough, for Capitalism to thrive it has to discredit
and destroy the elements of ‘faith and love’ in society. That is: ‘(man-ward) faith in fellow men’,
to be instead replaced with a compliance-guaranteeing, consequential fetter (e.g., default, front-
loaded (compounding) interest to encourage quick and full repayment). Indeed there is very little
that is freely, “riskily”, left to ‘trust in another person’ in this system. Only seeing is believing.
Also to go is the notion of being truly loving, which involves ‘doing, even self-
sacrificingly, all that is possible to help meet the needs of others. That Biblical trait is instead
replaced with a worshipful notion of “individualistic self-love”.
Therefore with the notion of “gold”, as having been shown here from the SOP, to
symbolically represent “faith and love combined”:

“The gold mentioned by Christ, the True Witness, which all must have, has been shown
me to be faith and love combined, and love takes the precedence of faith. Satan is
constantly at work to remove these precious gifts from the hearts of God's people. All
are engaged in playing the game of life. Satan is well aware that if he can remove love
and faith, and supply their place with selfishness and unbelief, all the remaining
precious traits will soon be skillfully removed by his deceitful hand, and the game will be
lost.” (2T 36, 37)

The Bible goes on to show that “hope” is inextricably link to this faith and love
combination (1 Cor 13:13; cf. 1 Thess 1:3; 1 Thess 5:4-9; -see similar themes being
prophetically involved in Rev 14:9-12; 16:19). Indeed “hope” is what results from the exercising
of such ‘faith and love’, in God and/or in fellow man. So it is easily seen how the removal of this

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chief love trait comes to destroy “faith”, and then “hope”. The SDA Church is big on making the
claim that ‘the Second Coming must soon occur because it is ‘the only hope for this world’’, and
while that is ultimately, Spiritually true, God has unequivocally mandated His Church/Followers
to model this chief element of love to the world. It is thus that both faith and hope can be also
highly demonstrated to the world, all helping to produce the clear final Gospel testimony to the
world. (Matt 24:14; cf. John 13:34-35; 15:12-13).
So it is conversely not surprising that Satan seeks to destroy love in both the Church and
the world, and there is indeed nothing more capable of accomplishing this than the selfishness
and unbelief that is foundational to the economic system of Capitalism. And since it is
“drunkenedly” believed by the vast majority to be ‘the only way that a livelihood could be
obtained in this “game of life”,’ people just fearfully, mindlessly and/or sheepishly go along with
it. And there is nothing more deceptive than for the Church to be the propagator of this false
theology, and this is what this ‘Woman riding on this, also wealthy (= scarlet), Beast’ has now
come to do, and convinced, and/or intoxicated others throughout the world, to go along with it.

(fermented) wine for the masses - As the world is mostly democratic, Capitalism can actually
easily be replaced with a Socialistic economy if people move to, indeed just as Social programs
have been increasingly, democratically, largely “mixed in” and implemented in “Capitalistic”
countries. So for the participation of the “kings” of the earth, thus the world’s democratic
government, the People, who are the “electorate”, must indeed counterintuitively be seduced into
supporting this spurious and whimsical system. And that is done with the selfish and covetous
fairy tale that: ‘if you participate in this system, eventually you also will surely, and
easily/naturally, make it rich’. However in the now clearly observable reality of diminishing,
readily procurable, resources, (though this supply is circularly being capitalistically artificially
restricted), it is here that Capitalism shows its true colors as everyone now still do as they had
been conditioned, and thus continue to fend for themselves, not thinking about anyone else but
themselves, and justifying this as ‘needing to insure their future livelihood.’ Of course that
“future livelihood” is, at the very least, to be, as personally deemed valid, at its present status.
And so, for the multi-billionaire, it is to continue to be at that multi-billion dollar level. And so it
is the unempowered poor who are made to increasingly live with the diminishing rest of the pie.

Substitutiary Mission Accomplished - So while many such socio-economic abuses,

borne out of theological heresy, were especially/paramountly seen in the Historical Catholic
Church, the Protestant Church took this to indeed a whole new, advanced and more
successful/widely accepted level through Capitalism. Thus it is the perfect entity through which
Satan could successfully, and thoroughly, oppose and uproot God’s True Church and People,
even now given them a comfortable, Jerusalem-substituting City as their new home, and that,
imperceptibly so, for those who allow themselves to be drunken by the fermented wine in her
passed around “golden” cup (cf. 1 Thess 5:4-9).

Rev 17:5 - and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery, "BABYLON THE GREAT, THE
MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."

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mysterious name on the forehead - Science and the Bible reveals that the forehead is where the
decision for subsequently acted out deeds are priorly rationally processed and congealed. So
when it is said in the Bible that someone has some kind of forehead, it represents what they have
resolutely decided to be. And so, most relatedly enough, in Jer 3:1-3, an unfaithful Judah is said
to have chosen to have “the forehead of a harlot” because, despite its quite blatantly abhorrent
behavior, and even many painful consequences, it has decided to ‘refuse to be ashamed’ and
continues unabated in its shameful ways. Similarly, this Woman and Beast have rationally seen
the abhorrence of her ways and the various global harms that it is causing, but it has instead
chosen to not be ashamed and continue on this ungodly course. Thus its “character” is indeed
shameless as Babylon of Old (i.e., as seen in Nebuchadnezzar’s resolute obstinacy in Dan 2-4 to
continue to live in defiance of the authority of the powerfully manifested God of Heaven. (cf.
Dan 5:20-21)). The behavior of this socio-economic harlot has indeed birthed similar harlots
through the world, as Christians in other countries throughout the world also readily have
adopted Capitalism. And thus this abhorrent lifestyle has spread throughout the world and
adherents of Capitalism have come to indifferently, detrimentally cause and do quite abhorring
wrongs in this world.

Mother of... the Abominations of the Earth - Indeed, as typically seen in Jer 46-51, of all of
the judgement issues that God has with the various countries/societies in the world, Babylon’s
own stand as His Chief Abhorrence. (See Jer 50 & 51 and cf. this post). Indeed an ‘all-ensuing
evils, global mothering’ that is also done in/with Capitalism (= 1 Tim 6:10), which is,
synonymous with covetousness (Heb 13:5; cf. EW 266-269), which in turn is idolatry (Eph 5:5;
5T 337.2-3), and, interestingly enough, on the same ‘“dangerosity” level’ as: ‘being addicted to
wine’ (1 Tim 3:3).

Rev 17:6 - And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the
witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered greatly.

Drunk with blood not wine - Oddly enough this woman is said to be drunk with the blood of
the saints and witnesses of Jesus, and not with wine. It can here be seen that, like a cunning,
profit-seeking, swindler, though this Woman is making others drunk with the wine in her cup,
(See Rev 17:2; 18:3), she herself is not actually drinking this wine. She nonetheless is still said
to be drunk, and that because of drinking blood of God’s righteous people. This most gruesome
imagery here cannot be ignored, and Rev 16:5-6 shows that this is related to having persecuted
and killed the saints and prophets of God.
So this woman is most satisfied with (simply) killing the faithful and righteous people of
God, and as such, it is straightforwardly seen that she is a pawn of Satan himself, who ultimately
has this great desire and objective. (Rev 12:4, 13-17). So while she drunkens the nations with
wine, she herself prefers to be drunken with the blood of the righteous. And it is through her
sustained “wine-drunkening” of the nations that her cherished “blood-drunkening” is realizable
and maintained.

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now doing the very thing that had forced her to go to the wilderness. It is now also deathly and
vitally, albeit then, indirectly, standing against those who would live according to the Bible and
Christ’s Full Gospel.

Rev 17:7 - And the angel said to me, "Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the
woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.

understanding specifications -John then has to be given pointed “hidden truths” to understand
how this wilderness Woman & Beast is now just as corrupt as the prior manifestation of it (= Rev
13:1-10 - which was the Historical Catholic Church, and which in turn had previously been
manifested in Pagan Rome (Rev 12:3ff))

Rev 17:8 - "The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and
go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth, whose name has not been written in the
book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast, that he was
and is not and will come.

First Beast Image - As seen with the Second Beast of Rev 13, it is responsible for the
resurrection of the First Beast by forming an image to the defeated Holy Roman empire. It
completes its doing so by given ‘breath/life to that First-Beast image it had made’, thus making it
a living entity. (~ Gen 2:7) That past Beast is however itself not tangibly resurrected, but only
present through now its ‘enlivened image.’ And so it is when the Second’s Beast image will be
established that it will most exactly mirror that First Beast by making those who want to truly
live according to the Bible, as mandated in Christ’s Gospel, to be put to death.

Giving Life to the 1st Beast Image - Currently this ‘Beast’ being referred to here in Rev 17:8
will be a ‘enlivened Image to the First Beast (538-1798 A.D.)’ of Rev 13. (See more detailed
reckonings below in Rev 17:10). It is said that it “is not” i.e., in/from 1798 to 2011ff meaning
that it is not in ‘full life vigor yet’. Indeed a (lifeless body) image to that First Beast has actually
already been formed by the Second Beast, it is just that life has not yet been breathed into it. That
is seen by the fact that although the same anti-Gospel, anti-Law and anti-Sabbath/Sabbatical
Principles of God continue to reign supreme in Protestant Second Beast, people who since 1798
have not, and do not, want to live according to those ways can still outrightly live, and/or,
maintain a sustainable living, thus not dying as Rev 13:15-17 prophesies. Indeed the global reach
of this Beast’s enlivened image is not being enforcedly seen through the world and this ‘success
while living without/outside of Capitalistic principles’ is most tangibly seen in countries that
have chosen to not have a Capitalistic economy. (And if better management had been in place in
those countries, they would be achieving, or have achieved, a much better quality of living.
Indeed it was really mismanagement, due to internal corruption, that brought the U.S.S.R. to an
end.) It is however when the world, led by America and other first world countries/economies
will formally codify in law that ‘those who do not go along with Capitalism cannot buy or sell in
any world markets, and are thus to be left to fend on their own, at their own life risk, that the
First Beast will be revived through this image, for it is then, as with the abolishing of God’s

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Sabbath Commandments, that now God’s other sabbatical socio-economic laws (cf. Isa 58) will
be officially also abolished and replaced with this Beast’s “Mark”. Indeed the focal sin of this
(“Protestant”) Babylon is that, in their drunken mindless pursuit of individual wealth, they have
chosen (contra e.g., Matt 25:31-46) ‘to neglect to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to deal
justly, and to love mercy.’ (GC 654.1)

The “Perdition” Beast - 2 Thes 2:3-4 had stated that this lawless ‘in-the-place-of-Christ’ power
would indeed be doomed to perdition/destruction. And it is in the similarly themed “perdition”
episode with Judas (John 17:12), that the full meaning of this development is understood. Judas
did not intend to maliciously “betray” Jesus. He just was seeking to “help” Jesus out, and by
thinking that he knew better than Christ as to what the triumphing principles of His kingdom
should be implemented, if it is to be successful, he acted upon those faithless, selfish and sin-
ignoring beliefs.
Similarly this Scarlet Beast (= the Second Beast with its formed and enlivened First Beast
image) have since the start been acting out of a Christ-opposing, non-loving, theology that
‘Capitalism is God’s very way, both Spiritually and Temporally’, and that despite the blatant fact
that it promotes and practices a fundamental survival of the richest/fittest mentality which chiefly
condones maintaining the overall livelihood through abortions, as well as letting millions of born
people die prematurely of preventable and curable issues. And for various reasons of fanciful
convenience, including sanctimonious “religious ones”, as with the belief of SDA’s that ‘the
Second Coming is too close to do all that can be done to help those suffering and dying people’
(contra God’s sabbatical socio-economic principle in Deut 15:7-11), various groups of peoples,
pointedly Christians, have chosen to indifferently ‘walk around these least of these and instead
continue to go about their (actually basely, grotesquely mal-understood) “more important and
superior religious duties/tasks.”’ (= Luke 10:25-37|COL 376-389).
And even when this First Beast`s Image will be brought to life and its economic dogma
will be coercely implemented (Rev 13:15-17), it will be through an adamantly and/or resolutely
maintained belief that this system is God’s will and, more tangibly, that opposing it and thus
causing it to crucially lessen in value is actually life-threatening to them. Hence the legislative
justification to pass formal laws and policies to oppose any who chooses to live outside of its
ways, as the NJK Project will.
Like Judas, these (Christians) leader and followers of this Mark of the Beast movement
will be acting faithlessly and rebelliously in regards to Christ and His Gospel in such economic
matters, and pointedly, as discussed earlier, just like Ancient Israel chose to not have faith in
God’s sabbatical 7th year rest law which resulted in their Babylonian deportation. Spiritual
History has indeed repeated itself with this Revelation’s Babylon. (See more understanding on
Rev 17:8 here.)

Abyssal Origins - The fact that this Beast will come from the abyss, shows that it is indeed
inspired by Satan himself (through his demons -cf. Luke 8:31), with his post-Calvary, wrathful
plans to actually completely doom and ruin this world, including all life on it, as Capitalism is
actually increasingly doing. (Rev 12:12).
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literally be the “deeps of the oceans” (e.g., Gen 1:2; 7:11; 8:2; Job 38:16, 30; Psa 78:15; Jon 2:5;
Isa 51:10; 63:13 (LXX); Luke 8:31, 33), and with waters in prophecy being a symbols of
“peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues” (Rev 17:15), then it can be claimed, along with the
understanding that this is the choice place for demons, that an “abyss” can be a symbol for the
‘deep/dark/base, demon-influenced, passions of human/peoples/countries’.
And so, applying this understanding for “abyss” in the transpired, Historical fulfillments
of (1) Rev 9:1, 2, 11 (discussed in here) and (2) Rev 11:7; it can be seen that both (1) the events
of the rise of Militant Islam and (2) the French Revolution were both out of base passions of men
and thus literally gave the devil and demons a place to inhabit. The same type of application
checks out in the Eschatological interpretations and application of these prophecies. (See here for
Rev 11).
So this geo-religion beast power in Rev 17 would similarly, really originate out of the
base living of humans, such as selfishness (e.g. 4T 384.3), covetousness (e.g. EW 266-269),
greed (e.g. Luke 12:15), etc (see esp. the [full] MSDAOL discussion in here), and the Devil and
his demons would endorsedly, indeed thus have a prime place to inhabit and establish their long
desire rule which is based on such base traits (See DA 20.1-21.3). And also, with this
understanding, Jesus’ counsel to ‘guard this spiritual abode in man less demons inhabit it’ (Matt
12:43-45), -with this human abode evidently being the other favorite place to (possibly) be (Matt
12:43), would thus Spiritually make even greater, tangible sense.

Rev 17:9 - "Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which
the woman sits,

Needed Wisdom - the appeal to, in context, ‘end-time “wisdom”’ here surely is synonymous
with the ‘borne out of righteous living’, “insight/wisdom” needed to unseal, and thus understand,
eschatological prophecies, which had been spoken of in Dan 12:3-4, 10.[7]7

Symbol of 7 Heads/Mountains - as discussed here, the symbolism of “mountains” involve ‘the

most desired, conflictively, naturalistically-forged, also majestically visible, pinnacles in a land.’
It is where people ultimately desire to be established in a land in conflict, as this world
intrinsically is, due mainly to its greater ability to be defended. In society today this is seen in
reaching the peak of one’s environment, and in the economic world, which most everyone is
affected by, this desired status, admiration and security is mainly achieved by becoming as
prominent, valuable, and thus wealthy, as possible. So indeed in today’s Capitalistic world, the
highest peaks are indeed the downtown skyscrapers that competing companies have erected as
crowning symbols of their wealth, stability/vitality and power. Indeed this whole space is usually
much more than a single corporation actually needs and most of the available offices spaces in
those high rises are sold/rented off to other smaller companies.
So here the notion of a ‘way of thinking’ (= 7 heads) being synonymous with those
‘desired habitation and protection desired peaks’ (= 7 mountains), shows that this woman would
establish its influence by seating itself upon those chiefly representative peaks found in its land.
Thus it would “ideologically” (= heads) seat itself upon the chief mentalities in its land, and
“tangibly” (= mountains) on the highest peaks of these ideas that can be found. And so, e.g., in

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the economic realm, it would ideologically take a seat upon a Capitalistic mindset, and also,
tangibly, atop the most wealthy/powerful corporations.

on which the woman sits - The woman (=now the Protestant Church) is actually seated on a
scarlet beast (Rev 17:3). So that beast is equivalent to the 7 mountains/kings, as later shown: =
kingdoms. So this is the Protestant Church power sitting on a Beast (worldly power) which is
made up of 7 mountains/kings/kingdoms. And technically speaking, contrary to the common
interpretation for that statement, as seen here the Vatican itself, the seat of the Roman Catholic
Church, is actually not seated/located on the Seven Hills of Rome, but the secular city of Rome,
the capital city of Italy, is. So an identification with the Vatican here is not accurate. It is rather
pointing to a worldly/secular power.
So since the 7 heads which are 7 mountains and kings/kingdoms, upon which the woman
sits and is equivalent to the scarlet beast power, this is representing a Church seizing control of a
secular power. Those 7 mountains are later, also “wisely”, identified.

Protestant Endorsement - For this woman to achieve and maintain its position as a wealthy and
widely accepted ruling Church with temporal power, it indeed has to supportingly sit upon those
mountains. Their identities are discussed with the further and fuller specifications in Rev 17:10.

Rev 17:10 - and they are seven kings; five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; and
whenever it is that he may come, as it is necessary that he remain a little while.

Identities of 7 Heads-Mountains-Kings - The identity of these ‘representative desirable ways of

thinking’ thus its “7 heads”, also functioning as “kings”, (which are actually 7 king-doms since
the four beasts in Dan 7:17 involved more than just 4 individual kings: (namely: Babylon: 2;
Medo-Persia: 9; Greece: 5+; Rome:10+)), is seen from previously occurring Beast heads-kings-
kingdoms (=Dan 7:17) in Bible prophecy. The first 4 of those Heads-Beasts-Kingdoms, though
slained at God’s enabling (cf. Dan 2:21; Isa 45:1-2) were indeed said to have been allowed by
God to (ideologically) survived for a pointed future purpose, in due time (Dan 7:12; cf. Rev
17:17). Thus they namely, firstly are: 1. Babylon (Lion - Dan 7:4); 2. Medo-Persia (Bear - Dan
7:5); 3. Greece (Leopard - Dan 7:6); 4. Pagan Rome (Non-descript - Dan 7:7); 5. Papal Rome
(Little Horn (Dan 7:8). As Papal Rome came to an end in 1798, the sixth Beast that is ‘then “is”’,
is Protestant|Capitalistic America, which indeed increasingly came to succeed in the combined
Religious, Prosperity and Temporal, thus Globally most influential, position that the Medieval
Catholic Church had achieved at its Zenith, indeed even ruling over sovereign kings. Then a
heightened form of that sixth Beast will come to be when it breathes life into its already formed
image to the First Beast. Then will the Rev 17's 7-Head & 10-Horn Babylon symbology be seen
in its fullness.

The Sixth Head-Mountain-King-Kingdom - As normative with most world ruling kingdoms,

they usually come to incorporate what they considered to be worthwhile from the kingdom they
conquered and replaced, or simply past kingdoms. Without going into detail here, this was seen
in the 4 world hegemony transitions from Ancient Babylon through the Holy Roman Empire.

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And even in the United States this similar development is seen. So this Woman (=Church) sitting
on those heads=mountains=kings=kingdoms indeed has had to, respectively, select the various
ideological/socio-economic/political traits that would help it to achieve this great Global
influence and superiority. So it, i.e., currently Protestant|Capitalistic America, has explicitly and
implicitly chiefly taken from these past “5 kings/kingdoms”:

1. Babylon - Satan-Inspired, Indifferent Divine defiance (cf. Isa 13:12-14ff; Dan 2-4)
2. Medo-Persia - State-checked Freedom of Worship (cf. Dan 6)
3. Greece - Democracy, Science, Culture, Humanism
4. Pagan Rome - Government, Militarism, Law and Order, Industrialism
5. Papal Rome - Religious Propaganda for Influence

And it has mergingly used all of these selected traits to conceptualize, implement, sustain
and spread its Sixth Head-Mountain-King contribution which is (Protestant) Capitalism.
However when this Sixth entity is to fully manifest itself as the 7th Head-Mountain-King, thus a
seventh world ‘way of thinking’-‘Living/Surviving’-‘Ruling’, it is to keyly bring to life an image
to the persecutively coercing 5th king, thus indeed enforcing this ‘way of thinking and
living/surviving’ through its intertwined political arm, thus by legislation.

Much more can be said here in regards to these selected traits found in the Sixth and then
Seventh Head-Mountain-King. E.g., in regards to the, now culminating, transition from the Sixth
to the Seventh eras; this is currently being seen, thus done, in the modern, second (i.e., post
WWII) phase of Globalization (as now seen in e.g., EU; G-8, then G-20, G-77/~132]
Organizations) which in recent years have (neededly) sought to have more Economic emphases.

Thematic Sabbatical Implication - It cannot be ignored that it is when the Sixth Entity is about
to see that its system is going to collapse, and that by having shown its true colors, that is then
resorts to strong-arming measures, for a Seventh Entity. This parallels how God’s Sabbath, as
also reflected in various spiritual and socio-economic Sabbatical principles is to take place after a
sixth period. So to oppose this natural shifting to a Sabbatical Entity (i.e., the NJK Project) in the
Seventh Period, this challenged Sixth Beast will take binding legislative measure to impose its
own unbiblical, and thus spurious, Seventh Entity. It thus would be establishing a “Full Sabbath
of God” opposing entity.

It is necessary... - As with the summoning of Ancient Babylon against His Israel, God has a
grand purpose to fulfill in regards to now also the whole world, in allowing this Apostate power
to become established. (Cf. Rev 17:17)

Rev 17:11 - "The beast which was and is not, is himself also an eighth and is one of the seven,
and he goes to destruction.

The Full Babylonian Power - Manifestly, when the fullest symbolism of the woman sitting on a
7-headed Beast will be achieved, it will itself form a Beast of its own which will be an eighth

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Beast, thus a distinct eighth global power, having its own/distinct new “way of thinking” -i.e., a
“New World Order”.[8]8 And this is apparently, as seen next in Rev 17:12, when the symbolism
of the ten horns will fully come into place, thus when other ruling powers follow the lead of the
Sixth-Seventh Beast, thus also passing anti-socio-economic sabbatical legislation in their
countries. It thus will be most similar to the here fatally wounded 5th Beast’s Head, which
historical was the Holy Roman Empire, and thus its way of thinking.

Beasts Ideologies in Conflict - It is also most significant to note that (currently) the Catholic
Church, with its foundational Liberation Theology, is actually ideologically, categorically against
the purposes and methods of (Protestant) Capitalism. Indeed its Popes and clergymen have not
shied away from being outspoken against it. However Liberation Theology is still insidiously
dangerous as it is seeking to inject Catholic Theology in the Political realm, which if it is, albeit,
duly democratically established will then make Catholic Theology, and all that inevitably comes
with it, the law and ruling policy of the land.
And even in the current division between Capitalists and Catholics, the Dragon’s
objective are still achieved as both systems are contributively, respectively doing its will against
God’s Full Sabbath Truth. In fact they are both insurance plans for the Devil for if either one
fails, the other can take over to still accomplish his will of opposing anything that has to do with
God’s Sabbath.
So for this outstanding Eight (= Fifth) Beast to “become one of the (later formed) Seven”
it will require that it “comes around” and indeed also fully enjoin and support Protestant
Capitalism to complete this intended economic, Global Babylonian Power. So it will have to
either entirely give up, or adapt its current view of its Liberation Theology. However, as History
has shown in the “Holy Alliance” of U.S. Capitalism and the Roman Catholic Church, also at the
initiative, and main benefit of the U.S., to defeat a common Economic and Religious enemy in
Atheistic Communism, of course for a jointly, yet differently, propagandizingly deemed ‘better
good of mankind’, a similar Alliance will then also be formed, and now to seek to defeat the
Capitalism and Catholicism opposing, Sabbatical Religious and Economic power of the NJK. It
is thus that their Full form Babylon will seek to stand against the Divine, unfulfilled, temporal
Israel of God Plan and compellingly seek to keep God’s professed/potential People from leaving
Babylon.

The Reconciling Impetus - Indeed this is only the NJK’s impetus that will cause those two
opposed, current global powers in their own realm, to join. SDA’s have the (Historical) prophetic
understanding that the U.S. and the Vatican will join together to impose a Sunday Law, and that,
in response to a society/world in civil chaos, however, as discussed in this post, without a Divine
or Divinely-allowed super-natural element (i.e., found in the releasing of the 4 winds), there will
never be this needed “overruling” impetus to democratically cause major Constitutional Changes
in, first/chiefly the U.S. Legislator(s), and then the rest of the world’s countries’. Indeed to
enforce Religion upon themselves, the populations in these countries will have to, by the vast
majority, clear-mindedly think and believe that they are being directly judged by God and that
those various disasters are no longer “natural”, but “supernatural”. (See GC 589-591ff and this
forum discussion).

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 On the other hand, the Capitalistic economy, which is candidly known to be man-
controlled, will, even if it were to collapse, not rationally lead to passing a Sunday Law. In fact,
truly enforcing God’s Ten Commandments will actually only further destroy the Capitalistic
economy as e.g., abortion, thievery and covetousness, which are fundamental to the success of
Capitalism, will then be outlawed.
And contrary to current and common SDA pseudo-“prophetic” convictions, even if
resulting societal chaos and anarchy would threatenedly seek to be instilled due to an economic
collapse, the rational solution then will not be to ‘pass a (Religious) Sunday Law’. What will
only be required then is that the already enacted criminal laws be more forcefully enforced, even
in if through marshal law. However that still does not translate into rebuilding a collapse
economy. Instead, as currently quite popularly manifest in (especially U.S.) political realms,
stauncher Capitalism will instead be advocated. So only a clearly manifest “supernatural” action
will engender a populous, explicitly religious, reaction, thus resulting in seeking to amend
Constitutions and codify pointedly the first 4 of the Ten Commandments into civil society. And,
as discussed in this post, a total economic collapse, vs. manageable economic recessions, even
depression is probably one of the Four Winds that God is holding back until His
Sabbath/Sabbatical Truth Sealing work is thoroughly done, in order to completely avoid such
hysterical scenarios by those who think that their Capitalistic Economic is in any related way
originated by/from God.

Diluting the Wine of Babylon - The anatomy of a typical Economic Collapse is very important
here to clear away the religio-hysterical thinking of many. As seen in the 2008 “Great Recession”
Financial Crisis, an economic crash occurs when future values are not what they were believed to
be. (Indeed note the then populous rallying calls to “(merely) have confidence in the
claimed/posited outlook of/for the economy.”) And as those future valuations were concretely
infused in present markets, through indebtness, then the present society is then forced to live
according to the means that it realistically can. (That is also why there is also a need for capital
funds in banks during a crisis because of the now valueless loans that they have made.). The
grand irony in all of this is that while this causes many job layoffs, as companies seek to survive,
the whole crisis can be solved if all producing companies agreed to lower the prices for their
products. And so we would go back to the days when e.g., a bus ride cost $0.25 or a loaf of bread
cost $0.05, a gallon of milk cost $0.10, etc. It is only by companies that control a capital
gradually increasing prices for intertwined reasons of maintaining profits or acquiring artificially
limited/available supply, that prices have come to reach their exorbitant levels. So when an
economic bubble bursts and people have to live as if they did not have a credit card, it is only
what the economic reality should have always been and through corresponding commodity price
lowering, the adverse effects of this return to reality can be avoided. But of course those who
have invested in those producing companies will never accept to incur losses on their investment
and therefore will prefer to downsize the company, while themselves gradually cashing out
profits. Of course, their “justification” is that they themselves have to live, and other capitalist
are also requiring them to meet their market prices to obtain their product. Clearly it is indeed
their own welfare that they are chiefly concerned about, and not that of others, including the
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controllers are merely wanting to maintain and improve their current level of living, which, if
they have money to make, and freely control, investments (i.e., non-pension plan investments),
means that they already are quite well off.
And so unpayable/unreasonable debt is always the cause of economic collapse resulting
from incorrect economic speculations. So if these debts would produce insolvency, then,
ultimately, the only realistic and problem solving solution will be to seek to make a countries
population survive on its actual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) value. So for e.g., the United
States, that will mean to pass legislation to have its citizen population of ca. 300 million on its
ca. 14 trillion GDP, thus at a standard of ca. $47,000 per capita. Of course that will literally mean
that the U.S. become completely Socialist, even Communist, and that is really the only crisis that
is involved in the typical, man-made, Economic Crisis. All this to say that there is much more to
be involved in a typical, man-made/controlled Economic Crisis to result in societal chaos, and
only God’s “National Ruin” judgement, which are the full blown 7 Last Plagues, which occurs
only after the Sabbatical Sealing is fully completed, will ever involve and produce the needed
Supernatural impetus to resulting in the masses seeking to enforce Religious Laws.
It is tellingly not surprising that those in the SDA Church who “pregnantly” or “birthly”
hold the “Babylonian” view that ‘final events must inevitably begin to unravel because of any
mild economic downturn,’ are those who “vitally”/functionally rely upon the Capitalistic
Economy for survival, i.e., e.g., in retirement pensions, or Church/ministry funding. And so if
the economy lowers in value, causing them to experience personal and institutional financial
hardships, or wipe out pension funds, as the SDA Church is, (through its own devoted
capitalistic, individualistic and selfish mindset), investments-wise, greatly, pervasively,
dependent upon, then “the world can only, surely be close to ending”, because they themselves,
‘God’s own “faithful” servants’, surely will not be able to survive if their Baal-like, all-providing
economy cannot pull through. Talk about ‘snaringly coming to be “specially” deceived’ (EW
266-269)!!! And so, circularly, with this spurious belief, SDA’s thus, “self-survivingly”, think it
best to disobey Jesus Christ and not to seek to help all those in need, but instead, as this snare of
Satan has conditioned them to do, indeed look out first for themselves. And this is tangibly being
done by indifferently ignoring those who are in need of even the very vital basics of life, as
SDA’s in affluent countries don’t then mind still paying the individualism-based, disctatedly
exhorbitant, Capitalistic prices to maintain their standard of living, and that, for much more than
what they actually really need to live upon.
The Theological fact is that God will not allow people in the end to be tricked into
accepting the Mark of the Beast, and that includes this hysterical Religio-economic belief.
Instead these people will first have to take clear-minded actions in opposition to God’s
Sabbatical will, including socio-economic ones, and then He will give these decidedly “Lawless
ones” up to the delusion of/from their false beliefs, which Satan will then indeed seek to, even
supernaturally sustain. (= 2 Thess 2:7-12). Punishing National Ruin, which is indeed much more
than an Economic Crisis, will only comes after such deliberate and knowing National Apostasy.
This entire pivotal “Full Sabbatical” issue can, as done throughout this blog, hashed out
in various pertinent ways, however those who fundamentally do not actually, truly, love their
neighbor, nor, for that matter, God, to, even sacrificially, seek to do all that is currently possible
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Spiritually, never be able to even “see” the Biblical truth, and unequivocal mandate, in this
Present Truth, Full Sabbath Seal of God, teaching. And while those people being daily
slaughtered for such preventable causes, and that, mostly to Christless graves, will surely have
applied a most gracious standard of judgement by God to them, as they indeed were not
“rebelling” against, even potentially, clearly known and understood truths they knew. However,
as seen e.g., in Matt 25:31-46, that conversely involves that those who had refused to come to
their help, for whatever spurious reason they had conceived, will surely be held eternally
accountable for this neglect. So really this call by Christ to help all of those in need, is actually
eternally most crucial to those who are professing to be followers of Christ. (For more on this,
see the various pertinent comments in this post which fundamentally involves this whole
“Economy and Final Events” issue)

Rev 17:12 - "The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom,
but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.

A New World Order - Indeed, as mused in Rev 17:11, adding those 10 horns of power, thus 10
kings to the Woman and Beast imagery, produce a distinct kingdom power entity. And with ten
being symbolic of a totality/completeness, it can be seen that this Full-blown Beast will now be a
global geopolitical entity, and not be limited to one country (namely the United States). So then
will be formed a New World Order encompassing all significant world powers, all to solidarily
enforce Capitalistic principles upon all.

receive authority as kings - See the commenting here (and its asterisked (=“*”) note), in
relation to Dan 2:41-43...
Indeed, unlike during their 1260 year (538-1798 AD) zenith reign of the First Beast
during its Holy Roman Empire era (Rev 13:1-10), the world powers that its held sway over were
monarchial forms of government. Hence the “(diadem/kingly crowns)” on those “10 horns” (Rev
13:1). -(And this was indeed a pivotal step up from the previous era of Satan’s world-conduced
opposition to God’s people when it was ‘a perfect representation of ruling worldy/pagan
ideologies’ (= “(diadem/kingly) crowns on those 7 heads” (Rev 12:3)) that led this charge,
instead of now world rulers defaultly endeavoring to make this their mandate.) It was now, in a
post 1798 AD era {see above at Rev 17:10}, when then, and more pervasively by now, -with, {as
discussed above at Rev 17:3}, the Protestant & Capitalistic U.S. being the succeeding World
Power (=“(Second) Beast”) to lead that Satanic charge (Rev 13:11ff), Democracy was the
common form of government, hence ‘defaultly no (diadem/kingly) crowns on these 10 horns’
(Rev 17:3), that these world powers would (unofficially, -hence no need to ever wear “crowns”)
revert back to ‘having and weildly “authority as kings”, -as if they were not really ruling over
(Constitutional) Republics....(even the Pagan Roman Empire had been a Republic =Rev 12:3)...

for one hour - However as stated at the end of Rev 17:10, that New World Order will only
endure for a short time, as God will then indirectly enter into direct judgement against it to both
cause to disband it and protect His People who have refused to live according to its imposed
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value in post 1844 prophecies, it can still be thematically seen to be linked to the later mentioned,
and more fully discussed “one hour” of decision-making trial” in Rev 18:10, 17, 19. So
manifestly God is allowing this formation so that it can be transparently demonstrated to the
whole world the utter spuriousness and futility of this Babylonian system, even if it is enforced
by law, as ultimately, God Himself will bring about its downfall, as it now is standing in direct,
rebellious defiance to God’s Throne while also being a life threat to His faithful People.

Rev 17:13 - "These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.

U.S.-Led Coalition - This Holy Roman Empire-mirroring, global coalition, “Eighth Beast,” will
however, deferentially and willingly, be under the leadership of Protestant|Capitalistic America.
So the Eighth head here, the Roman Catholic Church, will indeed now cede it Liberation
Theology for the U.S. Capitalistic Agenda instead, -most probably under the, already existing,
merging banner of philanthrocapitalism.
And as already stated, since both the U.S. Capitalistic agenda and the Roman Catholic
Liberation Theology one, both ultimately accomplish the Devil’s contra-Biblical Truth purposes,
if it were to be that it is that this Eight Head manages to sway the U.S. to adopt and enforce its
Liberation Theology agenda, (with all its involved Religious baggage, including Sunday
Sacredness), it would, as previously stated, first require a concrete belief that God is directly
taking judgement actions against them, even in economic matters, and also, in turn unBiblically
mean that the Four Winds have already been released by God, then it can be seen that this
Babylon prophecy can only be when fully accomplished, thus as done in the present
Eschatological Wave of Bible Prophecies, an Economically-based power opposing God socio-
economic sabbatical principles, and not a merely/overtly Religious one enforcing a Sunday Law.

Rev 17:14 - "These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because
he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with him are the called and choice ones
and faithful."

War Against the Lamb - Evidently their single purpose is in order to defeat the, as detailed
here, Rev 5 ‘temporally established little lamb which has 7 horns of power’. I.e., the NJK
Project. However as relatedly described in Rev 19:11-16 when this war is fought (see here), the
Biblical (“sword in mouth”) and “righteous” principles found in this little lamb’s Davidic Branch
kingdom, will demonstrate that he is indeed ‘king of these kings’ (i.e., in the
political/governmental realm) and ‘lord of these lords’ (i.e., in the socio-economic sphere) [cf.
such temporal uses in e.g., Ezek 26:7 & Dan 2:37] as, pointedly, those Godly/Biblical “political
and economical” ways overcome the base and earthly ones advanced by this opposing Global
“Eighth Beast.” [“Heaven” in Rev 19, and elsewhere in prophecies of Revelation, can be
(eschatologically) temporally, typologically symbolized in: ‘the place on Earth where God’s
actual/full Gospel Truth/Will is being believed/done (= Matt 6:10; 3:2-3; 4:17|Mar 1:14-15).]
Manifestly it will be through this temporal Lamb power and those with him that the “one
hour” trial of this Babylon power will take place. And when they have been overcome, by indeed
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that its due penalty for its sins of rebellion be poured out on this power.

choice ones - Unlike in the final outcome in Matt 22:14, these people are “called” because, -like
the earlier “invited ones” in Matt 22:2-5, they are “choice ones” (=a Greek adjective). And here,
these ‘called choice ones’ will have stayed with the Lamb because they are also “faithful”....
“faithful” in doing (see EW 15.2; cf. Rev 6:15-17|DA 825.4) the good/righteous “Full Gospel”
works that the Lamb wants and loves to do. (=Rev 19:7-9). These are the Kingdom-establishing
144,000 (Rev 14:1-5|EW 15.1; cf. GC 426.2).

Rev 17:15 - And he said to me, "The waters which you saw where the harlot sits, are peoples and
multitudes and nations and tongues.

Indispensability of “water” - this symbol had been stated in Rev 17:1 and through what it
represents, it shows this woman comes to achieve her power by popularly appealing to the
masses, which is indeed key in democratic societies and also, as recently seen, for dictatorship
overthrowing revolutions. (~Isa 17:12-13a)

Rev 17:16 - "And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the harlot and will
make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her [] with fire.

Coming to their senses - When the eighth Beast coalition has lost its war against the little
lamb’s kingdom, its joined to world kingdoms will realize that they had been grossly misled by,
pointedly, this unfaithful Church which had led it to believe that its, now “morally reformed”,
ways, of now, Philanthrocapitalism was best for them and their kingdoms/countries. And thus
they will entirely abandon her thus causing her to be valueless (desolate), isolated and vulnerable
(naked), thus taking away all that had previously served to make her the temporal superpower
that it was. And they will themselves take measures that cause this Harlot to be begin to be
burned.

Eat her flesh - Precursively related development as the similar Rev 18:2 “birds” implication.
I.e., these kings will themselves, by their “desolating/abandoning” actions, cause this Babylon
power to be exposed as a fraud.

burn her [] - Interestingly enough, as seen in Rev 18:9ff, they will only come to be absolutely
shocked when they see that the fire that they themselves had kindled against her will actually
consume her, and threatens to completely ruin them. So it is only then that they will choose to
disband and stay away from this woman by resisting her seductions and/or refusing her
intoxicating wine, both of which were key to them joining that Woman’s agenda.

Rev 17:17 - "For God has put it in their hearts to execute His purpose by having a common
purpose, and by giving their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God will be fulfilled.

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behind-the-scenes, His object-lesson purposes by allowing this Religious Babylon aberration in
order to most concretely/convictingly demonstrate to this world, and pointedly professed
believers in Him living in this Babylonian power, that this way is definitely not His desired and
righteous way, and that they should seek to leave this Babylon. (cf. King’s Jehu Baal Feast
gathering in order to eradicate all Baal worshippers in Israel in one shot in 2 Kgs 10:18-28, 30).

fulfilling God’s words - As stated in Isa 46:9-11, God does indeed allow/guide earthly entities to,
(and that actually freely, -for they really have the final choice), take actions that will come to
fulfill His previously, even long ago, ‘declared, (presciently most fair and wise), plans’.

Rev 17:18 - "The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the
earth."

City of Babylon Recreated - Just as the pure woman (= True Church of Christ) is, when it is
perfected, “the bride, the wife of the little lamb”, -the Kingdom of God capital city, the New
Jerusalem (Rev 21:9-10), the opposing harlot/apostate Church becomes the arch enemy of God’s
People: headquartered in the empire capital city of this kingdom of Babylon, which is self-
deludedly seeking to bindingly spread its ways and influence to all of the world’s countries.
It is most interesting to note that, in the destruction of Ancient Babylon, God had
expressedly intended that it should never be recreated and populated. However Unfaithful
Christians have managed to, most crucially, Spiritually do just that. And that is indeed most
crucial in a Spiritual Realm because God’s Israel is in the New Covenant Spiritual Israel. So even
if the City of Babylon in Iraq was ever rebuilt and populated, it actually would not be having an
effect of God’s Israel. And to think that the fundamental reason why this 7-Head and 10-Horn,
Babylon power has managed to be established is all because, as seen above in Rev 17:10, it
allowed itself to have as its first head (=chief way of thinking) an “indifferent Divine defiance”.
Indeed Protestant America began this path to becoming this ring leader in this Babylonian power,
when it chose to have and implement an economic system which was clearly in ideological and
practical opposition to Jesus Christ and His Gospel. Thus began the unfaithful and debauchery
days of this Great Harlot leading to its final full blown “Great City Babylon” form.

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In the light of the exegetical understanding of who this Rev 17 Babylon pointedly is:
Protestant U.S.-led Capitalism, its next spoken of ‘“Loud Cry” call out of it’, which is related to
the Third Angel’s Message (8T 118.1-2), can be most accurately understood and heeded by all
who it affects.

“Those whose faith and zeal are proportionate to their knowledge of the truth will reveal
their loyalty to God by communicating the truth, in all its saving, sanctifying power, to
those with whom they associate. Their lives of holiness and unselfish service will be in

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Revelation 18

The language in especially Rev 18 is most clearly drawn from the prophesying in regards
to fall of Babylon in Jer 51. As stated before, there it is seen that this Babylon had actually been
in God’s planning (Jer 51:7), a notion that is reflected in Rev 17:17 in regards to Revelation’s
Babylon. And that is similarly for global object lesson reasons, to show to all of the inhabitants
of the world that, here, despite the seeming greatness and rightness of this Protestant|Capitalistic
Superpower, nothing, but full adherence to all of God’s laws and Sabbatical principles will prove
temporally and Spiritually valid and acceptable in the end. So now, all of the rulers of the world
are faced with the disastrous realities of this Babylonian system.
After several “(U.S.) Financial/Economic Panics” in 1792, 1796-97, 1819, 1825, 1826,
1837, 1847, 1857, 1866, 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1896, 1901, 1907, 1910-11, as U.S. Capitalism
writhingly, but obstinately began to grow, such inevitable, inherent adverse realities were then
most severely seen in the 1930's during the Stock Market Crash and ensuing Depression, which
went on to have global repercussions. It is then that Capitalism was most greatly diluted to
produce what is known as a “Mix Economy” in order to try to tame the inherent self-
destructiveness of this system. And then, after over ca. 70 years of comparative stability under
this diluted Capitalistic system, with however several tweakings done during this time to take
care of other surfacing destructive Capitalistic threats, its still detrimental, self-hindering realities
most severely resurfaced in 2008 with the greatest Economic Recession since the 1930's. Again it
was socialistic measures and implementations that prevented a much deeper Global Recession
and Depression, and still to this day in late 2011, the global system is remains shaky, as seen in
the Euro Crisis (the European Sovereign Debt Crisis) which already damaged and still reeling
Western Europe economies just are not in a financial position to jump in and, as usual, socially
quench, as solely due. All this to show that this most unbiblical system has long proven to be
futile in terms of what an actual economy is supposed to do for all involved in it. Yet it is
countries like America, led by majoritarily Right Wing (Protestants) Christians (e.g., the U.S.
Republican & Tea Party) who will swear by the Bible that this system is God’s ideal for His
people, and also for everyone one in the world. Indeed the imperialistic claim is that for it to
thrive, all countries must staunchly operate by its dictates. And today, countries that prefer to use
more socialistic means in certain economic areas are made to pay a tariff or trade partnership
price in relation to the U.S.
Through such strong-arming measures is seen how a country, such as the planned NJK
Project, that seeks to thrivingly live according to the Bible’s great Socialistic principles vs. the
base, greedy, covetous, selfish, wasteful and ruthless ones of Capitalism, will surely be formally
shunned at the strong-arming leading of the United States. As the foundational ministry of the
NJK Project will be to provide life and a thriving, quality subsistence for also as much as all of
the currently 65,000,000+ annually aborted infants, it is easy to see that (a) this will have some
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detrimental, and only will reduce their supporting economic circle when, as indicated above in
the prophetic statement in Rev 17:16, other, particularly “sobering” poor country then rather seek
to engage in more worthwhile trading with the NJK and even seek to emulate its Biblical,
rational economic system (= Isa 2:1-2ff; 58:10, 14; 60:1-3ff; cf. Isa 45:14; 49:10); and thus (b)
formal and tangible efforts will be made to oppose this ‘threatening” development.

Rev 18:1 - After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great
authority, and the earth was illumined with his glory.

Immediate Background to Loud Cry Message - The prophecy in Rev 18 is depicting events
that take place when the eighth Beast has been formed, which as seen above is the union of the
totality of Global powers under the pointedly religio-economic “leadership” of
Protestant|Capitalist America, which by now itself had come to form an ‘iconic image’ to the
First Beast (Rev 13:14ff) by causing the faithful followers of Christ who refuse to live according
to the covetous and selfish principles that are still keyly present in that, even then,
Philanthrocapitalism, to be, by law, barred from any commercial interaction and provision. It is
thus that they make them to try to survive at the peril of the life for not going along with this now
concretely codified, economic New World Order. And it is also then that they courageously
engage in Loudly Speaking, Preaching and Living in Testimony against this anti Sabbatical
movement, which all is done under the power of the Holy Spirit (7BC 980.3), in, as discussed
here, both the full measure of the Early Rain and hole-filling, complimentary Latter Rain.

The Involved “Great Authority” - Most foundationally, succinctly said here, the
“etymological”/lexically compositional roots of the word “authority” (Greek: exousia [Strongs
#1849]) is two-fold with its root etymology as: ek-eimi “out of” [#1537] “what is/exists” [#1510]
and then from the default usage of the resulting exesti [#1832] “what is lawful” or “lawfully
permissible”. So the real source of “authority” for this word is from: “what (inherently) is” and/or
“what is lawful/permissible”. Interestingly enough, as this authority is related to an Angel from
Heaven, then this authority comes directly from God (-the “I am that always existing one” of
Exod 3:14 (see here)), which, for humans who many not have that direct (=prophetic) access, is
nonetheless equally found in God’s Law.
Such a direct and/or derivable “authority” is actually merely a “lawful right to act” vs.
“the independent, inherent “power” (=dunamis [#1411]) to effectuate the rightful act”. This
distinction can be contemporarily illustrated in two ways. (1) In a modern civil judicial
proceeding, winning a case is a completely distinct thing then actually collecting the judicially
authorized award. Winning the case only gives the victorious party the “lawful right” to collect
its award, but to actually do this collecting, other strong-arm measures, such as hiring a bailiff
may be necessary if the other party is not voluntarily compliant. (2) “Lawful authority” may be
comparable to having the key which unlocks a car’s ignition but the actual “power” which starts
up the car is a completely different system. Without that power (e.g., a dead battery), having a
key is quite completely useless.
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proclaiming that Loud Cry message, have a ‘Divine Right to Act’ as also reflected in/by God’s
Law. In many substantive and prophetic (end time - Mal 4:4-6) ways, this all resembles the
“calling” and ensuing action of Elijah who was the one who initiated his calling to the prophetic
office and ministry by “reminding” God of His Lawfully due judgements for National Idolatry
(=Deut 11:16-17) (See here; cf. in here). But, as it was the case with Elijah, the actual, needed
“(supernatural) power” to validate that acted upon authority came from, and depended upon God.
And by this “Loud Cry” point in the Great Controversy, “Great Authority & Power” will
indeed be needed to win as God’s faithful messengers then will be faced by both, an also
religious opponent which has been given “great authority” (Rev 13:2), with which it has
presumed to change God’s times and Laws (Dan 7:25), and which will passed on to the Second
Beast of Rev 13, and all, in turn then be demonstrably validated by Satanic supernatural power
(Rev 13:12-14; 2 Thess 2:7-12). The only safeguard against this ‘authoritative and powerful’
assault is a Sealing by God’s Spirit in the Truths of God’s Word (Eph 1:13; 4:30; LDE 219.4-
222.1; Rev 7:2-3), all anchored by the all-encompassing Ten Commandment Law of God (cf.
Deut 11:18); pointedly revolving around His Full Sabbath/Sabbatical stipulations. (Exod 20:8-11
& Deut 5:12-15)

Content of Loud Cry Message - This Fourth, Loud Cry Angel is, as discussed here, a return of
the Second Angel, but now with added understandings as to what the sins of Babylon “fully” are.
As seen here in Rev 17 & 18, these sins include more than just the violation of the letter of the
law Seventh Day Sabbath, but also the violation of God’s sabbatical socio-economic principles.
That latter implication is actually the main thrust of this re-established Babylon, and as with the
Historical reason why Ancient Israel had been deported to the city of Babylon, it is pointedly the
issues in those socio-economic sabbatical principles that is to be the gist of this ‘call out of
Babylon’ so that God’s True and Faithful followers can return to God’s land of Israel and help to
rebuild and recommission/repopulate His sacked Temple (=Biblical Religion) and Holy City (=
Biblical Society), all of which, prophetically by then have started to be rebuilt by the 144,000.

The Great Multitude in Babylon - So while, as expounded on here, the Third Angel’s Message
had been the ‘Full Sabbath of God’ Sealing Angel, working to seal the 144,000 (Rev 7:1-8), the
work of this 4th Angel is instead the one which works to produce the “Great Multitude” (Rev 7:9-
17). These ones are those who had been in this Babylon, (both then Christian and non-Christian,
as this Babylon will actually not be imposing religious adherence to its constituents), but chose to
heed this final warning message and came out of her suffering great tribulation (Rev 7:14).

Rev 18:2 - And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She
has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of
every unclean and hateful bird.

“Fallen, Fallen is Babylon” - The quite striking deliberate double mention that Babylon is
Fallen, is thus linked directly to the similar double call in the OT Historical episode when God
was trying to convince and rally His people to overtake Babylon (Isa 21:6-10), as they did for
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justly/deservingly did. And so, as stated in Isa 21:9b; this double falleness was pointedly
religiously seen in the fact that: “all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground”.
Prophetically, this all transpires around the time when the second phase of Babylon (Rev 13's
Second Beast) is about to form an idolatrous image to the first phase of Babylon (First Beast).
And here, God is also trying to convince and rally His people to flee and thus assist in the
overtaking of this, even also pre-emptively, i.e., before it manages to firmly establish that image.
So the ‘First “Falleness”’ of Babylon occurred with its First/Historical Phase, thus the
Catholic Church which focused on the Religious aspect of the Mark of the Beast development.
And the ‘Second “Falleness”’ of Babylon would occur when the United State, led by a
Protestant leadership formed an image to the First Beast through economic measures. In early
SDA History, this could have occurred in ca. 1888 when then Sunday Laws were being seriously
considered in several State and the Federal legislatures. (cf. Rev 14:8). But as God’s people did
not prove to be ready for the End, God caused that Religio-Economic wind, (and the others) to be
held back. (See here). However since then, the sins of Babylon have been added to and
compounded, and so its Secondary Falleness has made further inroads (see EW 277.1) and is
now being seen in its most corrupt Capitalistic ways led by the United States and spread
throughout the world. Even SDA’s have overwhelmingly bought into this lie and snare of Satan,
as discussed below. And so the Rev 18:2 “lookout call” (=Isa 21:6-10) is an attempt of God to
get His people to abandon and escape that spurious socio-economic system which greatly,
hinderingly affects His Gospel Truth and pointedly undermines His socio-economic Sabbatical
ways. (Cf. here).

Undercover Snare - The Devil seeing that he is about to lose his grip on Babylon due to the
most clear Testimony of the now loudly proclaimed Three Angels’s Messages, (with the Third
being most prominent; -cf. 7BC 980.3), and that despite his most formidable opposition power in
this Babylon, the Devil has begun to resort to using various spiritualistic manifestations to keep
the people in Babylon under deception. All of this in now allowed by God for duly impeaching
judgement reasons (= 2 Thess 2:8-11). It is however important to note that in the present
eschatological fulfillment wave of those prophecies in Revelation, the literalistic fulfillments, as
stipulated in the SOP, will now rather come to be fulfilled under related, but more subtle and
spiritual fulfillments. And so, as seen in EW 266-269, the cunning Devil will, as with Eve in
Eden, instead rather seek to defeat God’s professed people through a more subtle deception than
what they know to look out for. Yet they have been told enough to, if obedient, avoid falling for
such a “blindsiding” snare. And so, as expounded on here, and as it was nonetheless
stated/incorporated in the SOP, though most SDA’s have not given much perceptive attention to
it, the crowning “Angel of Light” deception (EW 262-266; GC 588.1-5891ff; cf. GC 523.1-
524.1) that fastens those who favored the Mark of the Beast in rebellion, actual can, and will,
have a spiritual manifestation. This is seen in the following deeper understandings:

Spiritualism and the Mark of the Beast - The prophetic understanding of Spiritualism being
keyly involved with the Mark of the Beast is actually rooted in the snaring lie that the Devil
foundationally told to Eve, and that was that ‘despite the fact that she would be sinning against
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enjoying a more happy and blissful life.’ In fact, as stated in the SOP (EW 148.2), his whole
argument here was based on a “studied” belief/understanding that Adam and Eve would still be
able to eat of the Tree of Life after sinning and thus be able to live eternally as sinners. Now
while the understanding of the immortal soul can be remotely derived here, (if it is also Biblically
understood that: ‘a person does not have a soul, but instead is a soul (= living being)), the basic
fundamental understanding here indeed is, as also straightforwardly stated in Ezek 18:4, 20, that
‘the “person” who sins will die.’ That is ‘the sinning person cannot but pay this penalty of death’.
(See Ed 227.5-228.2 [cf. Rev 11:8|Ezek 16:46-50, 51-52]; and this expounding GYC 2013
presentation (mp3) [25:19-41:11ff] by Stephen Bohr). So, getting right to the application point
here, it is the involved fundamental religious tenet of Capitalism that both ‘God’s Ten
Commandment Law and also His sabbatical socio-economic laws can be ignored and violated
without any consequences in order to practice Capitalism, and moreover there will instead be a
sure reward of both temporal wealth producing a “freer” and happier life, and that all through
Divine approval and blessing.’ However just like Eve’s temptation. Though death and adverse
consequences are not instantly seen by living according to Capitalistic principles, those
detrimental consequence eventually do rear their “Beastly” heads. Indeed Eve also did not drop
dead upon tasting of the forbidden fruit, but that did not alter the inevitable consequence. And
indeed, as discussed here, just like the sinner must be made to die, by being barred access to the
Tree of Life, because violence and death will surely be the end result of sin, God cannot accept
the practising of Capitalism for His People because death also is its inevitable end result. So, as
with the GC which allowed sinners to live their lives and tangibly demonstrate the consequences
sin, God has similarly allowed the Babylonian system of Capitalism to play out in order to
tangibly self-demonstrate its utter futility, moreoverly, particularly in a sinful world.

Spiritualistic Manifestations (=EW 262-266-269)

As it has been presented here from the testimony of the Bible and SOP, it is evidently a
Biblical Truth/Reality that: ‘those who die a literal, or effective, “martyrs” death are, at some
time soon after, resurrected and taken to heaven before the end’. As it was also stated at the end
of that posting, this distinguishing understanding in regards to the teaching that ‘the dead
defaultly remain unconscious/“asleep” in the grave until the final resurrection’ is manifestly key
to not being deceived in the end when, as the SOP revealed, ‘Spiritualism will be used to mislead
people into accepting Sunday Sacredness and the Mark of the Beast, with then demons appearing
to people as their dead loved ones and claiming these things to be true’. (See LDE 156.3-157.4).
In a literalistic fulfillment of this SOP prophecy, (i.e., exactly/literally as revealed in the SOP), in
order to not be deceived here, one would simply have to know that the person appearing to them
was actually just dead. However in a now, also, Biblically-substantiated, Spiritual [no (lexical)
pun intended] application of this development, one now needs to know whether that person had
died “naturally”, or by some form of martyrdom. So in order to validatingly differentiate between
a possible apparition of a martyred, but now resurrected, person vs. a ‘naturally dead person’,
(indeed as it occurred with EGW and her husband James (see RY 161.1-163.2)), one would have
to clearly know that the person in question was indeed martyred for the cause of truth. And yet as
seen with that case of James White, he was not literally, but merely effectively, martyred, by
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and thus very life, for the proper establishment and rapid advancement of the Remnant Church
cause of God. And so it can easily get tricky as to who was “martyred” in death, and thus which
apparition, vision and/or dream, which would involve such a dead person, is from God.
However, the fact of the matter is that, in this now Eschatological Wave of Bible and
SOP prophecies, which have supercedingly replaced, -due to, as summarily listed here, the
indifferently maintained and sustained, radically hindering (=1SM 121.1-122.3; cf. this post)
shortcomings and deficiencies of the SDA Church, the, up to then (i.e., up to ca. 1996), unfolding
Historical Wave of Bible and SOP prophecies; where now much Spiritually deeper applications
of those prophecies are to be involved, with chiefly the deeper, socio-economic Truth of, and
Implication in, God’s Sabbath (Isa 58), which all result in the Mark of the Beast involving
adherence to Capitalism, there now will most likely, even surely, not be a literal fulfillment of:
‘demons appearing as dead people from heaven claiming that ‘Sunday is really the Biblical
Sabbath and is kept in Heaven’. In such a literal context, an understanding of a distinct group of
resurrected martyrs, one would be able to merely entirely reject any apparition of a dead person,
but instead first ascertain whether or not that person was martyred, either literally or effectively.
However there is a much deeper Spiritual application of this ‘naturally dead vs. martyred dead’
implication.
In the wider and deeper context of all that is involved in God’s Sabbath, it is now the
effective opposing spiritual belief that ‘eventhough you may not live according to God’s
sabbatical ways (i.e., helping those in need), you actually will not be condemned or reprimanded
by God’. And as this wayward course is actually the identical evil course of the Atheistic and
Secular World (cf. Rev 9:20-21), it is thus being said that: ‘no one who lives outside of God’s
ways is reprimanded nor condemned by God’. The only thing that really matters to God is to
“make money”. And so, Christians today, including SDA’s, religiously adhere to the system of
Capitalism, despite the fact that it based upon base and evil traits, and results in, through its
inherent survival of the richest/fittest/smartest/strongest self, the vast majority of the pain,
suffering, death, including murders, such as in abortions, in the world today. And so you’ll find,
e.g., a U.S. Republican claiming that they are a born-again Christian, and against abortion, even
contraception, homosexual marriage, etc, yet they espouse a system that, if it had been left to it
foundational Laissez-Faire ways, would have continued to let even more people suffer and die
from preventable, curable and/or deliberate causes. Those staunch Christianity professors may
claim that they are against abortion, yet they, in order to be most faithful to their system of
Capitalism, would have, if not opposed by Biblically-correct, socially conscientious and
Christlike caring people, removed all of the social safety nets which would have no doubt been
even more needed to annually help ca. 1,000,000 more, and for a long time, dependent infant
Americans, born due to non-abortions, and their caretaking families, survive, and left these
children and families to fend for themselves, and, if the case is, also die. So people who
delusionally, as if quite literally under a sorcerous spell (=Rev 18:23; 9:21; Isa 47:9-12ff) adhere
to such a guilefully murderous (John 8:44) ‘doctrine of the Devil’ (cf. 1 Tim 4:1-2) that ‘living
outside of God’s ways does not end up in death’, are indeed already being seduced and deceived
by craftily concealed Spiritualism.
The general implication of that demonic teaching in turn also stands against the actually
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result, die a martyr’s death, are resurrected and taken to heaven.’ That is because that demonic
teaching is instead saying that: ‘sacrificially living for God is not really required since: ‘all and
any of those who die in Christ have this immediate reward.’’ And so this understanding is
applied in the tangible life by Christians not doing more than the bare minimum in their supposed
Christian life. So it is no surprise that when a call is made to, pertinently enough, share or
sacrifice in order to help those who are in need, including vital needs, these so-called Christians,
including from the SDA Church, just say that this is not really required for them to be approved
of by God and saved. In fact, in SDA circles, it is the Letter of the Law and, particularly the
Sabbath that will be upheld instead, however, just like the wider Capitalism espousing Christian,
they also do not care that, by taking this indifferent stance to those in need, they are violating the
very Spirit of God’s Law, including the Sabbath (cf. here). They, and quite contrary to Christ’s
unequivocal teaching (e.g., Matt 25:31-46), do not think that they have any required obligation
and duty to those in need. And the fact of the matter is that such murderously and indifferently
so, hateful people will actually not be saved. And since their revered course of life is condoning
suffering, death and murder, they are actually effectively teaching that: ‘everyone, whether
Christian or not, who lives outside of God’s Law and requirements, will not die, but end up in
Heaven, even immediately upon death, thus, at the very least, as if they had been martyrs for
God’. (=The entire Thomas Paine deception spoken of in EW 263.3-265.2). That is how “all of
the world is aboard that Hell bound train conducted by Satan Himself” (=EW 263.1), a depiction
which is concretely manifested today in the global adherence to Capitalism. However God is
instead clear that only those who have given their life for either Him or others (=Matt 22:36-40)
receive that immediate life reward, and will be the only ones to be saved in the end (cf. 16MR
34.1).

Mixed-Capitalism Heresy - On the flipped side of a Laissez-Faire Capitalism ideology, we now

see how a Mixed-Economy Capitalism (as e.g., in America, held by the U.S.’s Democratic Party
in opposition to Republicans) is championed as the viable solution. And so most countries have
indeed subscribed to this diluted system. It is even implicitly heralded as being Biblical and the
system that is in accordance with the Gospel of Christ, by even non-Christians. However that is
only, as with Satan’s original lie, a most deceptive half truth. “Mixed-Capitalism” is also not a
viable option for God’s People.
And just like the miraculous powers in healing of diseases would be key to deceiving
people to accept this “sinning person non-death” lie, it is along those same lines, often
(circularly) claimed in defence of Capitalism that it actually saves and improves lives by
generating the money to produce advance medicines, technologies and sciences. And so it is
deemed worthwhile and even Biblical by many. This same belief is seen in even SDA Healthcare
institutions where making money is considered to be paramount to helping all those in need of
medical care. And so if a person is not insured or cannot afford to pay for their health services,
especially in First World Countries, then they are not treated.
So it is now spiritually indeed through this “sinning person non-death” lie that the Devil
will fool, even SDA’s into accepting the (“Fuller”) Mark of the Beast.

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Babylon, it can be readily understood that: (a) the dwelling place of demons are the more direct,
hands-on involvement of the Devil and his angels, albeit “undercover” so as to not awaken and
scare away the Christians who are in this Babylon; and (b) the prison of unclean spirits refers to
a pervasive and overt collection of an influence that are opposed to what God considers as
acceptable. It is however the mention of ‘every unclean and hateful bird’ that is surfacely
enigmatic. However, as related in this post, when it is naturalistically understood that a “bird”
comes to symbolize a small but relatively quite formidable power, and that this is concretized
today in most advanced technologies,[9]9 where it can be seen that, and related to what was
stated above, those ‘unclean and also hateful birds’ refer to both ‘technologies, or the use of
technologies, that oppose the purity and righteousness of God’ and also technologies that are
“confined” to be used for ‘non-loving’ (= hateful) purposes. Indeed, they are used instead for
paramount, money-making ends. And so despite the advances that Capitalism has (actually
slowly, due to competition, rather than cooperation/collaboration) made in vital and life saving
technology, these technologies are not allowed to freely “fly” throughout the world to help all
those in need of it, but are instead, through this effective, actual “hate” of others, kept
“imprisoned” within this Babylonian, Capitalistic System. And so millions have suffered and
died, through mainly poverty, because they cannot afford the medicines, health services, vital
technologies, etc, developed by profit-seeking Capitalists. So those “birds” are thus indeed either
outrightly “unclean” or made “hateful”, and have collected and been confined in this Babylon.
Relatedly, despite the little lamb’s “warring implements” of “the word of God and
righteousness” (Rev 19:11 & 15) used against this final global Beast power, it is a call to other
flying birds, thus, ones distinct from those that are “imprisoned” in Babylon (i.e., the NJK’s
independently developed and/or procured technologies), that will provide the finalizing blow to
the leading Beast Powers. (= Rev 19:17-21). Forget ‘the emperor not having any clothes’ then,
these leaders of the tri-part Babylon will instead ‘not be left with any flesh on themselves’, and
thus all will see them for the merchants and peddlers of, not merely “lies”, but actually, murder,
and ultimately, relatively prematurely for all, and even eternal, death! (=John 8:44; cf. 37-
50)[10]10 As their above-discussed, foundationally relied-upon, spurious dogmatic “refuge” that:
‘one can ignore, as passé and not even true, what God had said in regards to socio-economic
principles and righteousness, and not only live, but actually greatly thrive,’ (=Gen 3:1-7), will
then be fully exposed, and completely swept away. (Cf. Ezek 13:1-16).
Indeed, thematically relatedly, the “flesh-eating testimony” spoken of against the
idolatrous and arrogant rich in James 5:3b will here not be anything “fire-like”, but rather those
‘called upon “technological” birds’ in Rev 19:17-21 who will “show up” these Mark of the Beast
World leaders, moguls, and enjoining public, by using those very same “technological birds” to
instead glorious achieve Full Godly righteousness, both religiously as well as socio-
economically, including fully meeting the needs of all those in need; -thus “testifying” that
Babylon had indeed been harboring “hateful (contra. Matt 22:39-40) birds”!

Rev 18:3 - "For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her fornication, and the
kings of the earth have committed acts of fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth
have become rich by the power of her insolent luxury."

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Harlotrous Gains - This statement emphasizes just how this Babylon acceded to its globally
most influential, Superpower position, and the key to this rise is in the wealth-derived power she
managed to generate by her insolent luxury. As this Babylon, and pointedly the Woman leading
it, is the Protestant Church, her insolent harlotries are seen in the fact that she resolutely chose to
ignore true Christian virtue and principle for the pursuit and gain of wealth, which in this world
produces power. So, as with the “Unjust Steward” it has preferred to serve Mammon instead of
God. (Luke 16:1-13).

Key “Democratic” Intoxications - Again in this verse is seen the progression that is fitting for a
present day democratic context:

(a) First ‘the nations are made drunk’, and that by the “immoral passion” this Woman proudly
promotes, - i.e., a passion to achieve the spurious “American Dream” that indeed swoons many
of the world’s poor and needy to think that this is really and simply achievable by all who
“serve”, and are faithful to, Capitalism.[11]11

(b) Secondly, ‘the kings of the earth’, thus world government leaders are mostly democratically
convinced (= ‘seduced’) to officially adopt this economic system, indeed, e.g., even in a
politically non-democratic country such a China, and the recently “converted” Russia.

(c) And thus, thirdly, ‘the “merchants” (i.e., various business people) of the earth’, in those
participating countries, are able to achieve great riches. It is indeed most notable that is only
those “merchant” which are ever said to become rich by the “power” available in this affair. Not
people in general, nor even kings. And that is exactly what is the case, as presently, in
Democratic Capitalistic Countries. Indeed a government official that would have personally
become rich while in office by the various business/trade deals it has made with other countries
would actually be impeached, indicted and prosecuted for corruption. And so, while those
government officials do live luxuriously while in office due to the higher tax revenues they can
collect from booming economies mainly from western investments, they are themselves not
personally rich from this commercialism. All that these kings have done is “commit acts of
fornication” with this shameless harlot Woman/Beast’ and not personally enrich themselves as
the merchants. And so, consequently, throughout Rev 18 (in vs. 11, 15, 19) it is consistently
pointedly the case that it is those who are directly engaged in business who tangibly, pecuniarily,
suffer from the fall of this Babylon.

Rev 18:4 - I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, so that you
will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues;

God’s Call - Evidently here this voice from heaven is distinctly the voice of God, personally
calling out to ‘His people.’ (Heb 3:7-4:13; cf. John 10:16). Manifestly the angel’s only mission in
this is to make the announcement that Babylon if Fallen, and, why, and, to what extent (vs. Rev
18:2). So each one in Babylon will have to personally decide whether to heed this voice of God
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with their professed God. (cf. Rev 3:20 & 7BC 966.9-767.1).

A Final Plagues Precursor - As discussed in this post, the “plagues” (= blows/wounds) of God
are to disillusion people against the strength and viability of the Beast power. As Rev 17 & 18
are linearly revealed after the chapters on the Plagues in Rev 15 & 16, it very well may be that in
a merciful precursor, during a “little time of trouble” God will allow for a typological fulfillment
of those ‘disillusioning wounds’ before this final call to come out of Babylon. Indeed it is
significant that its is one of those ‘Plagues angels’ that comes to reveal how Babylon will be
judged (Rev 17:1a). The prophetic understanding here is this typological plagues will transpire
during the sealing of the 144,000, and that will serve to convince the Great Multitude to come
out of this Babylon. And they will do so before the full blown pouring out of these “plagues” is
done.

Rev 18:5 - for her sins have joined up to be as high as heaven, and God has remembered her
injurious wrongs.

sins...as high as heaven & injurious wrongs - Just like the related little horn power had not only
tried to wield its authority towards earthly realms but also heavenward, towards the throne of
God (Dan 7:25; 8:9-11, 25.), this derived, “mirroring” power will reach its tolerated limit when it
is sins will seek formally and coercively usurp the authority of God. And so it is that when this
‘Protestant|Capitalistic Global Conglomerate will formally enact anti-Sabbatarian laws, including
and pointedly, those which seek to bindingly and vitally install/impose Capitalism for all, will its
“sinning” be made to “reach” as high as heaven (cf. 8T 94.2) and God will repay her for her
“injurious wrongs”.
The background of this statement in Jer 51:8-10 reveals that those wrongs had not been
duly adjudged by God priorly because He was mercifully trying to heal this somewhat honestly
misguided Babylon. (Indeed in the background OT account, as seen in Isa 13:1-14:23, God, since
the days of (First) Isaiah (739-686 B.C. - (Isa 1-39)) did have capital issues against the kingdom
of Babylon, yet the punishment there was postponed (Isa 13:22b), most probably because His
own people were not acting any better, and that against more light, and so He fairly could not
judge Babylon while sparing them.) But now, by taking resolute and formal actions, and that
against clear light of wrong through especially the Third Angel’s message, to oppose His will and
continue in its injurious ways, this causes God to “remember” those mercifully pendingly
judgement-postponed, but actually impenitently persisted upon, related sins/wrongs of this
system. However, temporally now most tangibly and urgently, God here has to intervene in order
to also protect His now life-threatenedly cornered, faithful People.

joined up to be - By looking at the (LXX) Greek of the OT background passage in Jer 51:9 and
the (NT) Greek for this alluded statement in Rev 18:5 it is seen that the notion of merely
“reaching” up to heaven expressed in the OT text is not the pointed intention in the NT text.
Indeed the Greek word in Rev 18:5 kollao has the literal meaning of “to glue together”, and is
used in the Bible to indicate: ‘a joining or close associating together’. It is where we get our
English word “collate” which means “to assemble in proper sequence” thus connoting ‘two or

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more things very similar to each other that are joined together to form a single, contributively
furthering’ unit.’ So this could here be focusing on the fact that, while God had judged Historical
Spiritual Babylon by removing it from authority in 1798, this Eschatological Spiritual Babylon
has picked up where its predecessor had left off and continued these Heavenward sins. To the
point where it now has reached Heaven by formally outlawing, at the penalty of death, the true,
Full Sabbatical worship of God, and pointedly here, in its Godly socio-economic realm.

SOP View on Sins of Babylon - The Divine views given to EGW in EW 273.1-276.1 are quite
pointed in showing that God considers the sins of socio-economic oppression as being the
greatest sin of Babylon. In EGW’s days, this was manifest in the practice of slavery, particularly
with the cloak of Christianity that was being sanctimoniously draped over it, however in our day,
as discussed here, those enslaving methods have been replaced by Capitalism, which also has as
its fundamental tenets: “selfishness, fraud, and deceit” and is also being cloaked as ‘ideal
Christianity’. Given the way in which Capitalism is sanctioning the needless dying of people
with preventable and curable causes, and even causing and condoning the deliberate murdering
of infants through abortions, for mainly various socio-economic reasons, all contrary to God’s Isa
58 Sabbatical message, it will indeed be ‘more tolerable for heathens, papists’, and also slave
owners than for the Capitalist today in God’s final vengeance upon this Babylon, which includes,
through its worldly policies and endorsed capitalistic approaches/practices, most in the SDA
Church today (=EW 273.2 = 54.2-56.2), for as e.g., seen here, SDA’s ministers similarly “take
their texts from the Word of God, but preach smooth things.” (EW 273.1). That is all why ‘Jesus
and the angels only look upon these in anger.’ (EW 274.1 = “the wrath of the Lamb” -DA 825.4
= Matt 25:40-46 = Zech 7:8-14 (cf. Ezek 8:18) = Rev 6:16; 14:10). As the communicating angel
related in that revelation:

“The names of the oppressors are written in blood, crossed with stripes, and flooded with
agonizing, burning tears of suffering. God’s anger will not cease until He has caused this
land of light [i.e., the United States of America] to drink the dregs of the cup of His fury,
until He has rewarded unto Babylon double. Reward her even as she rewarded you,
double unto her double according to her works; in the cup which she hath filled, fill to her
double.” (EW 275.2)

Indeed: “Nothing less than the whole armor of righteousness can enable man to overcome
the powers of darkness [cf. EW 263-266ff] and retain the victory over them.” (EW 273.2a)

postponed judging - Given the understood Jer 51:8-10 notion of ‘granted mercy to this Babylon
to see if it could be healed’, indeed just like a similar chance given to rebellious Israel, and thus
mercy that is somewhat due; as God was now dually working to set up, and bring about, an Israel
object lesson, and then punish if still due this utilized Babylonian power, it can be seen in this
derived prophecy that God is now to pour out His judgement on this indeed resolutely and
indifferently ‘mimicking’ Eschatological Spiritual Babylon, which indeed had much tangible
Historical evidence to not continue to go down this path. Most condemning enough, it was
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United States Constitutionally incorporated its Freedom of Religion/Worship amendment right at
its founding. So they are indeed most guilty for now also denying this right against what they
now know to be the Truth, and here, when it comes to the also Divinely highly esteemed Truth of
God’s Sabbatical socio-economic laws and policies. So though the Historical Spiritual Babylon
was temporally removed from power in some effective judgement, they certainly had not faced
the wrathful judgement (Rev 14:9-11) that this Eschatological Babylon will face,
notwithstanding that this judgement will also affect all those who are now with, and have
remained in, it (Rev 18:4). So it may be the Jer 17:9-10 principle that is here at work where God
is allowing these spiritual Babylonians to freely and concretely demonstrate what their full
intents and desires are in the face of all those past, and recognized warnings against this
unbiblical course. And then they can be abandoned to the full measure of their True &
Righteousness-rejecting ways to be then duly and fairly judged. (2 Thess 2:7-12)

Rev 18:6 - "Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according to her
deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her.

give her back double - This double penalty is a most severe judgement, and it may justly reflect
the fact that God, with this Eschatological Babylon, is actually also now fully judging the
incorporated Historical Babylon, to which the Rev 13 Second Beast has made an image of,
indeed as seen in Rev 17:11 with the “eighth” head of this Beast, which is the ‘forcefully
imposed morality’ “way of thinking” of the wounded 5th head. And as seen in contemporary
justice where Punitive Damages can be added in quantums of Compensatory Damages (e.g,
double, treble quantums) for “criminalized” tortfeasing (i.e., acting in full knowledge of
detrimental harm), the double penalty imposed by God here would be in the light that this
Eschatological Babylon did indeed knowingly act in full, mimicking knowledge of Historical
Spiritual Babylon.

Rev 18:7 - "To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give
her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, 'I SIT as A QUEEN AND I AM NOT A
WIDOW, and will never see mourning.'

OT Background - This entire Babylon Judging episode is based on what God did to the Ancient
Babylon, as recorded in Isa 47. (From Deutero-Isaiah’s prophecies (Isa 40-55)).

matching torment and mourning - the amount of ‘torture and loss’ here is to, at the very least,
(that is before the doubling penalizing takes effect), to fully offset the wrongs and unjust gains
that this system had made through her unbiblical ways.

sitting as a married queen - It is interesting here to see the notion of non entrenched power of
this Harlot Woman Babylon (=Apostate Church). She says that she sits as a queen, when the
actual realities is that she is not at all enthroned but has merely been allowed to sit on a Beast
(earthly power/kingdom). And for a kingdom (the United States) that claims to have no ruling
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Monarch. So she is merely/assumedly functioning as a Queen by finding herself seated on this
Beast, thus indeed effectively ruling it. She also is implying in that statement that she is currently
married to a king, when the actual fact is that there is not king sitting next to her. Her actual
husband-King is Jesus Christ (2 Cor 11:2), but she has chosen to unfaithful to him, as so she is
assuming that through her acts of harlotries with other kings/world powers, she thus must be a
monarch. This is how she is assuming that she will never be without a husband as she expects
that there will always be at least another king in the world to “endorse” her, thus causing her to
never see mourning, and thus continue to give her this assumed status.
However the wider fact of implication is that everyone is about to turn in horror against
this spurious Religio-economic system. And even the seat given to this Woman by this Beast will
come into play. And so indeed, America as a strictly Political entity (the thought of which would
surely be condemned as heresy by many) will have to make a radical choice of whether or not to
continue to so religiously espouse Capitalism or entirely shake it off its back, thus not allowing
the unbiblical ideology of this Apostate Woman, who is claiming this to be the Gospel Truth, to
guide and dominate it. Yet as the also royal and luxuriously clad Beast, i.e., also in “scarlet”,
came to gain this luxurious wealth through the harlotries of this Apostate Church (i.e., the
Protestant ideology of, and claims for, Capitalism), and did indeed willfully allowed her to
become seated on its back, this separation is not likely to occur. And so it will suffer great loss in
the judgement of this woman, and that mainly through the losses that will be incurred by also its
own “merchants” who were also getting rich because of this Biblically illicit system.

Rev 18:8 - "For this reason in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and
famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for the Lord God who executes her sentence is
strong.

one day sentence execution - The implied swiftness in this judgement, (i.e., total destruction of
a Superpower city) in “one day” (though not literal time), will indeed demonstrate that it is God
Himself who is executing this sentence. Interestingly enough, in Capitalistic Investment markets
it is easy to see how cataclysmic losses can be incurred in a day, with entire companies capable
of suddenly collapsing, and that is due to an hysterical “Panic” of investors/traders. So for God to
effectuate such swift and deep damage, He will simply have to instill and/or maintain this spirit
of great fear amongst those who control this most significant funding part of Capitalistic
economies.
Ironically enough Capitalists pride themselves that their system if “freely”, (and that
whimsically), based on ‘what/how people want/choose to value companies, products and/or
commodities’ instead of using a factual and scientific, true-costs approach to determine prices.
So this spurious fundamental tenet will come to prove their self-defeating achilles heel as
investors/traders then will hysterically no longer greatly value various goods and services.
It very well may be the realism of the NJK Project’s Economy, that will make these
people realize the utter futility of their subjective and whimsical price setting, and cause them to,
en mass, “dump” this system and their patent fictitious/fanciful pricing.

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system’s own revered “implements” against it. In the time of the Fall of Babylon in the days of
Jeremiah, God, on top of having helped to lull Babylon into an increasing false sense of security,
as He had indicated in Jer 50:39, apparently turned a drunken feast of Babylon into an
unshakeable drowsy stupor (Dan 5:1ff; cf. Isa 45:1b), which resulted in Babylon falling without
even a fight. The same thing is to occur with this Eschatological Babylon as God apparently will,
as seen in Rev 14:9-10; 16:19) “wrathfully” mix in His own cup some kind of distinct, deep
drowsing substance into the wine of Babylon, indeed a sort of flunitrazepam (a.k.a. “roofies”)
which then allows God and/or others to do whatever He/they wants with the (deserving) drinker.
(Jer 25:15-16ff; cf. Isa 51:17-23). As discussed here, the theological reality in this ‘cup of
“passion”’ development, is that God will completely withdraw His Spirit here and no longer give
any light of warning or wisdom to those who insist on following their paths of wrong doing, thus
leaving them to fully incur all of the adverse and detrimental elements involved in this crooked
course. (Jer 25:27-29ff; cf. 34:12-17ff).
And one has “successfully been made drunk” when they come to have absolutely no
problem with the things about themselves which they know are wrong, and now, under this ‘new
“spirit” influence and altered state of mind’, do like them. Indeed they just are now,
inevitably/helpless, and quasi-resolutely so, just more of themselves, as is (always) was, -a state
which they actually do much prefer, than having to “sober-mindedly” face/deal with reality and
truth. (Isa 6:10; cf. 1 Thess 5:2-10; 2 Tim 4:1-5; 1 Pet 1:13ff; 4:7-10; 5:8-10).
Indeed as any arresting police officer can testify, it is most telling and typical of a drunk
person to be non-sequiturly and indifferently flippant and giddy about, even the most dangerous
things that they are doing while under the influence, such as driving drunk. They also find things
that are quite serious to be comical and hilarious. This is the exact opposite demeanor of those
who will be ‘sighing and crying’ for the doomed state of the Church, i.e., in turn, first the SDA
Church, and then, recursively, the wider Christian Church at large (Ezek 8 & 9), and these
“careless and indifferent ones” (EW 271.1) will not be sealed with the Seal of God. (5T 207.2-
212.4).
As seen in this post under Rev 6:17's statement, and as also revealed above in Rev 17:17;
God will also be, all in the context of His now ‘no longer merciful course’, and that
“passionately” so,[12]12 in regards to this conglomerate Babylonian Power (=Rev 14:9-11),
proactively acting to press out this wine beverage, from then ‘Babylon’s own ripe grapes’ (=Rev
14:17-22 = Isa 63:1-6), with which He will oversaturatingly drunken this power from his ‘feet
deep/high’ vats of wine, pressed from the fruit of her own wickedness (=Joel 3:13), and that to its
self-injuring utter demise. (Rev 16:19). Indeed those vats will be so high that, by being “up to the
horse’s bridle” (Rev 14:20), even the horses, which, as seen here, is symbolic of the
“Evangelistic/Militant” implement of a Church, will easily become drunk also by naturally
drinking this ‘readily accessible, self-detrimenting, bloodily-intoxicating, booze concoction’ (cf.
Deut 32:14), thus guaranteeing the just (Rev 16:4-7; cf. 17:6), easy defeat of that hapless army.
(Isa 49:25-26; Ezek 39:19; cf. Deut 32:41-43)

Rev 18:9 - "And the kings of the earth, who committed acts of immorality and lived sensuously
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smoke of her burning|fiery ordeal - There indeed is ‘never smoke without fire’, however there
more accurately is ‘never smoke with something “burning up/being consumed”’. So those kings
will weep and lament over Babylon only when they pointedly see that it is not able to withstand
the fire that has been ignited on her for the (“proofing”) fiery ordeal that she is made to go
through (see above in Rev 17:16).
The applicability of this specifying point is seen in the fact that Capitalism, through its
many downturns, damages, tangible wrongs and catastrophes, has already been exposed to
various self-igniting “market” fires (economically a.k.a. “fire sales”), yet it has managed to
survive them. However this lighted fire is one that will now tangibly consume her, and this will
even shock those who had lighted it, these kings (Rev 17:16), by them having go away to get
better value and prices (i.e., from, or in emulation of, the NJK’s Biblical economy).
Hence will be a typological “day and night tormenting” (= “torturing”) of this power and
its continued adherents, in the presence of this ‘established little lamb power’ (Rev 14:10-11; cf.
19:19-21). Indeed the smoke involved in these related judgements will concretely signal to all
that this Babylonian power has been irreparably affected, and it will apparently be only then that
those kings will realize that they have reached a point of no possible “reassuring” soothing or
overturning. (= Isa 47:13-14). Notice in Rev 19:19-21 that it is only the “two” (vs. 20) entities of
the “Beast” (America) & its “False Prophet” (-apparently a heightened form of its controlling
Apostate Woman, by then manifestly seeing ‘false, fastening visions’ from the Devil himself
(Rev 18:2)*), that are thrown alive into the lake of, brimstone-stoked, fire.[13]13 The kings of the
earth are instead slain by the sword (word of God), and, as discussed in Rev 18:2, already called
and assembled birds have a feast on their flesh.

* Indeed, it is interesting to see how this “Woman”, which Historically was prophetically
symbolically represented by “Jezebel” (Rev 2:20-23) during Revelation’s Fourth Series Era when
that power, -the Roman Catholic Church was then deposed, did go on to effectively also (cf. 1
Kgs 18:22, 40; 19:1) established a false prophet entity, pointedly the dually reactionary
Protestant-Capitalistic Church which, like the RCC had done with Rome, did go on to ‘ride the
world ruling “beast” (=country) America’ (Rev 17:3). And as it is due with false prophets (cf. Isa
30:10; Ezek 13:1-16; 1 Kgs 22:12, 13; Luke 6:26) that Woman/False Prophet does biasedly
reflect&influence the ones which have put her in this position.
And so, fulfilling to a “T” the indicators of a false prophet stated by Christ in Matt 7:15
by leading that Beast to express and fulfill the, “swindling” (1 Cor 6:10), antinomial/lawlessness
(2 Thess 2:7; cf. Rev 2:14-16), even murderously persecutive, spirit of Antichrist (Acts 20:29-
30), borne from the Dragon, Satan (2 Thess 2:8-10; cf. John 8:44), -which fundamentally is to
‘enslavingly’ remove one’s liberty to not transgress God’s Law (cf. John 8:31-36), while, all the
while making it think to be/seem Godly and Christ-like. (=Rev 13:11ff “iconically” (=Rev
13:14ff) emulating Rev 13:1-10).
It is all just a calculated, subtle re-approach of Satan (=EW 266-269; cf. e.g., 1 Cor 5:10-
11), but this time through less overt and explicit “dragon-like” features and appearances than
what had been priorly used (in Rev 12:7-9ff; Rev 12:3-4ff; Rev 13:1-2ff versus Rev 17:3).

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Rev 18:10 - standing at a distance because of the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, woe, the
great city, Babylon, the strong city! For within one hour your “crisis” has come.'

“Woe, woe” - All pertinent/related things having been considered the double “woe” expressing
here, as similarly done two times more in Rev 18:16, 19, is most likely a direct allusion to the
“Second Woe” event described in Rev 11:14 which occurs at the end of that “Shaking” event,
where God’s Church, led by its ‘deceived|corrupt|fallen “7000” leaders’ (Isa 29) is most
“naturally” in cahoots with the World all to take their revenge on God’s Two Witnesses (Rev
11:10; =LDE 173.5-174.2; 180.1-6), which all culminates in God executing His most wrathful,
“world-stopping & overturning” judgements against all of these Mark of the Beast worshippers.
(=Isa 30 - Psa 2|Rev 2:27; 5:9-10; 19:11-16)

Grand Deceiver Judged - It is interesting to see that God will focusedly, most severely, judge
the instigator of this global apostasy system (cf. Rev 16:10-11). As already discussed, other
participating kings/kingdom will suffer their naturally derived damages, but the main thrust of
these, even “doubled” judgement will be on the Woman who had respectively ‘seduced and
drunken’ these other ‘kings and nations’. (Rev 17:1-2). Logically, the only way that it was able to
seduce and drunken these others was because it was being highly trusted. And that may be all
because, (a) in regards to the Woman, it was an attractive one, as Protestantism is to some, and
(b) in regards to the Beast, America, by having allowed itself to be so control by this women and
her proposition for quick and ruthless wealth, for after all it was quite needy in its barren, newly-
discovered world, start, a union which did result in luxurious living for both, then other world
kingdom would have indeed been fooled into fully trusting her. After all, in her Religious
“Gospel” professions, she seemed so benevolently and honestly-minded, along with her
interlinked, “dreamy”, “individual prosperity and freedom” message. However it inceptively
flawedly was “wealth and liberty” at the expense of its true Husband Jesus Christ and His actual
Gospel. (2 Cor 11:2-4)

fear of her torment - The “torment” here is literally speaking of “torture”, and, as involved in
any torture, the goal is to get the subject to confess/speak the Truth. And so the “torment” of this
Babylonian power will in strict, and (Divinely) just, keeping, similarly be for the ends of getting
her to confess, admit and/or self-reveal the Truth here, i.e., that ‘her peddled ways were not at all
Godly as she fundamentally was claiming’. (Cf. the comment on Hell Fire’s torment in this post.)
Apparently the kings of the earth who are ‘standing at a distance for fear of her torment’
are avoiding being tortured themselves because they have already, to some degree, “freely”
confessed this Truth, and had priorly abandoned this spurious system, however, as it is really the
ensuing judgement that has befallen on this system that is convincingly keeping them from
returning into partnership with her, and as that departure, as discussed in Rev 17:16 & 18:9, may
have merely been out of economical logical and convenience, they indeed still have a pending
just penalty to pay for their past supporting, and establishment-aiding, association with her.

...within... - This expression is in the Greek Dative case and is syntactically functioning as a
“Dative of Time” to indicate ‘the time when the action of the main verb is accomplished.’ (cf.

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“crisis” - This is a literal rendering of the underlying Greek word krisis which in Greek
definition focuses on the precursory court session|trial|decision-making involved judging in a
judicial process and not on the resulting sentence itself (= Gr. krima) -(explained in more detail
within here; cf. SDABC 7:863; PDF p.6682). A good example of this distinction is seen in Rev
14:7 versus Rev 20:4, 12-13 with the occurrence of krisis in Rev 14:7 speaking of the Pre-
Advent “decision making” phase of the Final judgement and Rev 20:4, 12-13 occurrences of
krima being in the Post-Advent sentencing phase of judgement, during the Millennium (=GC
660.4-661.2).[14]14

one hour - with the above specific understanding for “crisis”, the prior statement in Rev 18:8
concerning ‘destructions in one day’ is more precisely understood, as it is can now be seen that
the “crisis” which will be the trial session of this Babylon will (figuratively) only take “one
hour”, however the ‘sentence execution’ of that decision will itself transpire within “one day”.
And as seen in Rev 18:17, that “crisis” which results in utter destruction occurs in the sudden
‘loss of value’ of prior highly valued items.

Rev 18:11 - "And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys
their cargoes any more--

cargoes affected - It is most significant to see here that it is pointedly global trade that is affected
in this judgement. Even back in Bible times, there was no need to ship things across seas, by
cargo, unless they were being sent to another country/kingdom. Using the seas to send
commodities from one city in a country to another was very rare, if not non-existent, as it would
be needlessly taking up maritime resources. Instead land routes using animal drawn wagons were
used. And trading by sea, was mostly seen for supplying something that could not be
produced/obtained in one’s own country. Otherwise, these cities within that country could have
access to their country’s common resources and raw materials, to produce those items. So the
focus here is pointedly on global trading.
Interestingly enough today, despite the world currently being in a “Super-Jumbo Jet Age”,
the vast majority of global trade is still being done by cargo ships, whether it is for raw materials
or produce goods, including the product of outsourced work. So this statement still finds most
pertinent application today, and it is indeed economically most vitally important to e.g., the
United States to maintain fluent and abundant global trading, including outsourced work. If those
sources of supply are cut, then the U.S. would have to depend on its very limited domestic
resources, and it is then that it can be seen how its economy would most rapidly come to a
screeching halt, and notorious collapse.

Rev 18:12-13 - cargoes of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls and fine linen and
purple and silk and scarlet, and every kind of citron wood and every article of ivory and every
article made from very costly wood and bronze and iron and marble, and cinnamon and spice and
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and sheep, and cargoes of horses and chariots and (slaving) bodies and psyche of men.

Sectors targeted - every economic sector is indeed covered here from (and all, high end ones),
namely: financial ones; various “building” materials; produced goods; foods; heavy duty
“machinery”; and even ‘human labor and resources’ (See next comment). So a country deprived
of this from trading will internally fend on its own to produce/provide them, or alternatively
replace them, or simply go without them.

(slaving) bodies and psyche of men - A key “commodity” of this global trading are (a) physical
bodies, no doubt for slave, or even hired (migrant), work; and also (b) the intangible
“commodity” of the ‘worshipful devotion of men’ (= “psyche”) who are willing to stake/invest
their ‘being/life’ (i.e., ‘the redeemable good in them’) to obtain the promised riches in this
unbiblical enterprising (cf. Mar 8:36), no doubt in the process also tangibly sacrificially costing
the lives of many of these people, as also seen today in “sweatshops”, and negligently hazardous
work sites, where safe, healthy, and even sane, working conditions are neglected so that owners
can maximize their profit. (Cf. Ezek 27:13).

willful deprivations - As these are all luxurious and costly items, the shunning of these by
consumers, and thus abandoning by merchants, may indicate that a global Recession, even
Depression, has been instilled, and people prefer to go without those superfluous items. And in
order to aid the failing local economy, jobs will also no longer be outsourced to cheaper labor
forces elsewhere, but kept at home. And to do this “labor repatriation”, it will have to be the
desire of local needy workers, and not those outsourcing profiteering owners, that will be obeyed.

Rev 18:14 - "The summer fruit your psyche long for has gone from you, and all things that
were luxurious and splendid have, of themselves, perished from you and men will no longer
find them.

summer fruit your psyche - The expected fruits of the (conducive) summer harvest that they had
been psychologically conditioned to mentally & bodily wholly believe in and trust (e.g., a.k.a. the
“American Dream (for any and all)”) has not blossomed as so promised, and that for
“unanticipated” adverse reasons during here (balmy) summer months.

have, of themselves, perished -Again here it will be “more than enough/needed”, luxurious
living that will be affected in this Babylon judgement, and will actually be naturally discarded of
as typical in severe Recessions/Depression. Indeed one of the chief tenets of Capitalism is that its
adherents can have whatever they are willing to work to pay for. However now, they will be
made to living merely according to their needs; and stop their previously unscrupulous and
abusive exploiting practices.

Rev 18:15 - "The merchants of these things, who became rich from her, will stand at a distance
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See comments in Rev 18:10.

stand at a distance - As typical investors do stay away from investing in a tanking economy. (Cf.
Rev 18:17)

Rev 18:16 - saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, she who had clothed itself in fine linen and purple
and scarlet, and had been adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls;

Focus on “Great City” - The focus here is indeed squarely on the material wealth of this
Babylon, which it amassed by perverted and anti-sabbatarian socio-economic, Capitalistic means
which deathly neglected the world’s poor and needy who could not vitally compete or keep pace.

Derived Material Riches - Apparently, while this Woman clothed herself in luxurious clothing,
her material adorning wealth of gold, precious stone and pearls, had instead been provided by
other associates, probably as partnership gifts. In order to convince these others, she indeed had
to look luxurious, hence her dressing up so. In history, it was indeed the apparent ready wealth
that was being accrued by Protestant Christians, that convince other countries and peoples to also
participate in this system, which thus served to more deceptively increase the material wealth of
this Apostate Church.

Rev 18:17 - for within one hour such great wealth has been made desolate!' And every
shipmaster and every passenger and sailor, and as many as make their living by the sea, stood at a
distance,

has been made desolate - Exegetical studies show that the term “desolate” does not necessarily
mean “physical destruction” but simply a loss in inherent/given value. (cf. Matt 23:38; Jer 4:27
(LXX)) So as much of this wealth is in hard commodities such as gold, silver, pearls, marble,
iron, ivory, etc., which are deemed to be inherently valuable, these will become “desolate” by the
sudden loss of those values ascribed to them. And in Capitalism, everything is whimsically
priced according to ‘freely/desiringly-deemed market values’, and not according to concrete
scientific data and information.

as many as... - More specifically here, this judgement will indeed affect global trade and all that
is linked to it to make it function or profit from it.

Rev 18:18 - and were crying out as they saw the smoke of her burning|fiery ordeal, saying,
'What city is like the great city?'

Grand Object Lesson - When they see that this ‘Great Economic Superpower is atrociously
failing its proofing fiery ordeal, and is being consumed, it will indeed cause the rest of the
adoring world to see and know that if it could not make it, and continue to live according to its
previous achieved standards, then there surely is no hope for them.

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Rev 18:19 - "And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping and mourning,
saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had ships at sea became rich by her
valued|honored|respected|dear worth, for within one hour she has been made desolate!'

Alternative Search - Countries which had highly respected and valued, and thus quasi-blindly
given the reins of their economy to this profiteering Babylon, by mostly selling off its various
resources to it, to support its luxurious living and themselves gaining some lesser and cheapen
financial wealth in exchange, will now hurtingly weep at the turn of events here. It will therefore
have to adopt another system than this short-sighted Capitalistic one in order to even survive.
And unless a Capitalistic mindset is totally abandoned, this urgent survival will not be done
quickly enough, to the detriment people of many within its jurisdiction.
As typical, this suddenly failing of global trading will indeed much more affect poorer
countries than richer, First-World, ones, because those richer ones have an market base that is
sufficiently enough established and widespread to allow for adequate producing and buying
within it. Still both rich and poor countries in this trading equation will correspondingly have to
pay for the loss of this unequal exchange where rich countries could get cheap labour and
production from those poorer countries, and poor countries could get a revenue from these
financially prosperous markets. The whole blatant inequality faultline in this enterprise shows
how illogical it was, and was indeed doomed to catastrophic failure. But of course, on one hand
the profiteering capitalists really does care about such deemed far-off/long term implications, and
the revenue obtaining poor capitalistic individual generally only care that s/he is making money
to survive in, regardless of the source/means.

Rev 18:20 - "Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God
has pronounced/adjudged judgment for you against her."

Due Justice - Indeed God’s faithful ‘Church members’, ‘Church leaders’ and ‘Prophets’ have
tried throughout the years to stop and overturn the various abuses of Babylon, and thankfully,
God will here intervene in due/full time to provide this long sought for justice.

Rev 18:21 - Then a Mighty Angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea,
saying, "So will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down with violence, and so that it might not
be found any longer.

Mighty Angel - Manifestly this is a special task for an angel from the select, presence of God
Mighty Angels. (Cf. Rev 5:2; 10:1).

a millstone thrown into the sea - It is not coincidental that the imagery here echoes what Jesus
had “recommended” in Matt 18:5-7, 10|Mar 9:42|Luke 17:1-2 to anyone who would merely
‘cause a little one to stumble’; -how much more for physically murdering them (abortion) or
letting suffer and die from curable or preventable causes (cf. Matt 25:45-46). And for the future
own good of all, this Mighty Angel, at God’s empowered directive, will fittingly execute this
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Babylon. (Cf. Jer 51:63-64; [3SM 415.5]; see also the related comments here in regards to the
Sixth Prophetic Era (i.e., Sixth Church/Seal/Thunder/Trumpet/Plague))
It is most significant that, as seen in Matthew documenting of Christ’s statement here
(Matt 18:5-10), that in the midst of dealing with ‘causing little ones to (merely) stumble’, in Matt
18:8-9, Jesus makes His, probably most graphic and “violent”, statement of, if need be: ‘cutting
off your foot, and/or hand, and/or plucking out your eye’. The fact of the matter is that this is
contextually all “advised” in relation to ‘causing little ones to stumble’, as Jesus concludingly,
pointedly resumes this topic in Matt 18:10. This radical view of Jesus to: ‘protect these little ones
at all costs, even to the point of deliberate and irreparable violence to one’s own body, flies in the
face of the common excuse for abortion which purportingly claims: “It’s my body”. Jesus,
echoing the OT’s similar radical care for also the unborn, stated in Exod 21:22-25*, clearly does
not endorse such a, actually scientifically false, rationale, and with the punishment for infringing
here being Hell Fire. (Matt 18:8b, 9b).
*[Exod 21:22-25 is discussed in Part 2 (page 26ff) of the PDF forum reprints on this page.]

-with violence, and so that it might not be found any more - This Mighty Angel will do this
throwing down with most striking, depicting force/violence so that this Babylon will addedly not
be desired to ever be re-established. So here apparently is the doubling Punitive element in God’s
judgement. Indeed just gently laying this great millstone above the waters would result in it still
surely, but gently/silently sinking to the bottom, however that commissioned Mighty Angel,
indeed wants to make a most striking point here by this chosen disposal method. And just like
Ancient Babylon was never to be inhabited again, this Spiritual, Eschatological, Economic
Babylon, and pointedly its sinful ways (~cf. Mic 7:19), will, through all of this, hopefully never
sought to be re-established on earth again. Indeed a strikingly demonstrated spuriousness and
futility of the whimsical Capitalist Economic, vividly exposing it as ultimately, utterly worthless,
should produce this desired lasting effect. So there will not be a gradual, optioned considerate,
easing transition away from this economic system, but an actually legal/permissible, most radical
thrashing of it. It is indeed long overdue time to urgently implement a global economy that will
rightly and adequately allocate this planet’s various available, especially vital, resources to, now,
all 7,000,000,000 people on earth.

Rev 18:22 - "And, so that the sound of harpists and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters
might not be heard in you any longer; and no craftsman of any craft might be found in you any
longer; and the sound of a mill might not be heard in you any longer;

More Aimed at Consequences - The purposefully desired Punitive effects of the Mighty
Angel’s forceful/violent judgement casting down in Rev 18:21 are further stipulated here and
also the next verse. In all of this, the purpose is to literally wipe the smirk off the face of this
wrong doer, and nothing like possibly forceful and swift and unrelenting, (indeed as an ever/only
sinking millstone), execution of judgement to do so.

The Drunken Party’s Over - This is applicably indicating that the renown, and also globally
exported, American cultural swagger will thus be silenced. That will be because the suddenly

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urged times will not be permissive/conducive to a spirit of partying and festivity. Indeed in a,
moreover, sudden and severe, recession, the first economic sector to suffer it that of
Entertainment. (Indeed in severe economic times, people in the entertainment industry are
asked/expected to symbolically tone down their customary extravangant pomp and fanfare (e.g.,
in/for award ceremonies) so as to not ‘irritatingly “clash”’ with those hard times.) A secondary
sector to greatly suffer is small business where indeed ‘people market their various
mastered/niche crafts’. And as the mill represents a facilitating (powered) method for production,
e.g., a flour mill, another sector to greatly suffer in a Depression are those similarly facilitating
services (e.g., lawn care, “eating out”, private commuting). People instead resort to less costly,
do-it-yourself, unassisted and even, unpowered, means.
These effects will be made to surely transpire as severely so then, and a great
demonstration of this feasibility was seen in the Sudden and Severe Stock Market Crash in 1929,
which caused the “Roaring 20's” to screetchingly come to a most depressive end. Indeed what
great American thing came out of the 1930's.

Rev 18:23 - and the light of a lamp might not shine in you any longer; and the voice of the
bridegroom and bride might not be heard in you any longer; for your merchants were the great
men of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your “drugging”.

Primitive Measures - The punitive carrying out of that forceful/violent casting down judgement
will also cause that people will also either resort to, or be limited to, cost-saving measures as
severe as only work when natural elements allow it, (as e.g., seen in very poor countries where
there is no, or not enough, electricity). While this may seem preposterous today, even in
conditions of a normative severe Depression, with the ending of global trade, which today also
involves the importing of energy such as Crude Oil, even America may be forced to quite strict
energy saving/rationing measures, or instead make drastic and widespread changes to be capable
of using available renewable energy sources which, if not sufficient can cause power shortages.
Ironically enough, this is a change that short-sighted Capitalistic pompously preferred to ignore
and put off, as seen, even for, vital Global Warming issues.

voice of bridegroom and bride - As, at-odds-to-actual-love, as it is, people usually put off
marriage until they are financially stable. On the other hand, there are many marriages which
involve financial convenience by the cutting of several duplicate expenses (e.g., housing, heating,
insurance, etc) through this marital joining. However since people do live together without being
married, and also in most of those cases, mainly out of savings concerns, and also while a
wedding can (profiteeringly) be quite a costly expense, this statement is apparently indicating that
the common celebratory “joyful life” aspect prominently seen in marriages will also lose its prior
“cheerfulness” and people will rather engage in, even informal/unofficial, legal unions, -if any
sort of conjugal union at all, all out of a necessity to save money in those “swiftly imposed” hard
times. [Cf. this 2017 report relating an empirical example/demonstration of such
‘wedding/marriage-sequitur’ correlations/developments in/from the, now ca. 7-10 year, Greece
Economic Downturn.]
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reaching that they will not only destroy unjust, luxurious gains, but also made to affect the almost
basic “amenities” of an enjoyable life. So just like this Capitalistic system ultimately made those
who could not compete init live at a very basic, subsistence, level, God will two-foldly work to
“repay” this Babylon by also reducing it to this bottom-rung, basic life-scraping level. AMEN!!
(~Rev 19:3-4)

great men of the earth - As indeed seen in today’s global economy, it is the wealthy people in
the countries of the world who engage in such Global merchandising, obtaining many things
which are not readily available in their own countries/economies. And many of them come to live
at a much higher standard of living than their compatriots. So as it is that these global
participants will scurrying cut trade relations with this Babylonian system, indeed as fast as it is
rapidly sinking, those effects from this corresponding swift cutting off of Global trading will
further complicate economic matters for Babylon.

nations deceived by your “drugging” - The commonly translated word “sorcery” is rather the
word for administering a medicine or a drug to produce an altered state of mind. Medicinally, this
would be sort of a painkilling numbing drug. But as such a mind-altering substance, it can also be
used to produce the out-of-mind, and euphoric, effects associated with non-medicinal drugs.
This Babylon was able to achieve this fooling, global drugging through its wine of
harlotry (Rev 17:2), thus through its: ‘this is God’s very will’ claims for its spurious economic
system, and those in the world who came to drink this wine, probably not even expecting it to be
fermented, coming from a supposedly Bible Christian, became drunk, and ended up mindlessly
doing whatever this system suggested to her. And as previously stated, in a Democratic context,
it was indeed the people, (who collectively form groups known as “nations”), that had to be
pointedly drugged for this system to successfully take root.
Interestingly enough this same theme of “drugging”, along with similar contextual
mentions of “plagues”, “fornication|immorality|harlotry” is mentioned during the events of the
Sixth Trumpet Rev 9:13-21. The persisted wrong doing there (vs. 21) occurs just before the
Mighty Angel with the Little Scroll next comes on the scene (Rev 10). Historically, this was the
final stage period of the Medieval Church, and those also plague-judgements by God then on her
‘did not cause her to repent’ (Rev 9:21). Instead these evils continued and now are full-blownly
revived in this Eschatological Rev 17-18 Babylon manifestation. So God now will also engage in
judging this Babylon with plagues (= “wounding blows”), and this time will bring about her to
due ruin.
There is also an Eschatological application to that 6th Trumpet, just before the
Eschatological Events of the Little Scroll episode of Rev 10 & 11 begin transpire.

Rev 18:24 - "And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all who have been
slain on the earth."

Economical Murderer - again the saints and prophets of God who spoke up against this ungodly
system were vitally affected, even killed by those who refused to hear those Biblical
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indirectly, (i.e., in some avoidable way), responsible for virtually, if not literally, all of the
untimely deaths (= “(sacrificially) slain”) people on the earth, it is seen how truthful this
denunciation is. (=Jer 51:49). Even in Medieval times, the Historical Babylon was responsible
for the hundreds of million is persecuted to death in the name of God, in a claimed need to
“purify” God’s temporal realm. And while the gross apostasy of that Church thus prevented it
from being the global life preserving and saving agent that God intended it to be, and was thus
similarly indirectly responsible for all of the slain on the earth, this present Eschatological,
Economic Babylon, which by now does have a global reach, is much more directly culpable for
those untimely and needless global deaths. Her swift and severe judgements are therefore most
deserved.

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Recapping Summary
-Revelation 17:8-18 speaks of a quasi-global, geopolitical coalition (= “10 kings”) with the Beast
which she is riding vs. 7, (indeed a distinct entity from “the Woman”), which however is being
controlled by Revelation’s Babylon, In Rev 18 it is seen that this previous Church and State
cooperation is now quite perfectly fused together to jointly form Babylon, and in vss. 9-20ff it is
seen that this had been a cooperation that had brought great economic prosperity. And all of this,
as with the Ancient Babylon episode & God’s Israel, had actually been His purposeful, deliberate
will (see Rev 17:17).

-While it is correct to understand the prophecy of Rev 17 to, though only partially, Historically
apply to the Medieval Church, here in Rev 17, it is actually making a distinct/morphed, yet
ideologically related and quasi-derived, Eschatological re-emergence. Also significant to the
understanding here is its linear location in the prophetic timeline, as it comes to light after the
judgement of the plagues (Rev 15 & 16) have been related. In fact it is one of those “plague
angels” that now informs John about this woman & beast coalition. (Rev 17:1) (Correspondingly
it is also one of the “plague angels” that shows John the Righteous counterpart to this ‘Great City
Babylon,’ the “Holy City Jerusalem’ (Rev 21:9-10ff).)

-The prophetic indicators in Rev 17 show that this Eschatological Beast greatly resembles the
Historical one, and it is here that is understood the ‘image to the first beast’ that comes to be
made by the Second Beast of Rev 13, the United States. Whereas the actions of the First Beast
were pointedly religious, though also affecting the temporal and physical life, the actions of this
mirroring Second Beast will be pointedly economic, yet also affecting the Religious/Spiritual,
and also physical, life.

-Also the chief affectation of the First Beast was in the ‘mark of its authority’ in religious
matters, namely its change of the Seventh Day Sabbath to Sunday, the First Day. By this bold and
widely accepted/respected, Ten Commandment, major change, it, self-admittedly, proudly thinks
that it has a right to make any other “lesser” changes in religious matters.

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-Similarly, the Second Beast has made a major change in regards to God’s Will and Law for His
people. It has systematically replaced all of God’s still binding socio-economic Sabbatical laws
and principles, which all have the purpose of meeting the needs of the poor (cf. Isa 58), with
diametrically opposed greed, selfishness individualism and covetous quasi-laws and principles in
Capitalism. It has even given it a religious authority which many adherents today of this system,
adamantly and obstinately believe is the Biblical will of God. So, prophetically, it is no surprise
that the re-manifestation of Revelation’s Babylon, when it is judged by God, results in great
global economic overturnings.

-Indeed the United States has managed to spread the spurious (as transparently and objectively
increasingly, concretely seen) belief that ‘Capitalism is best’ to virtually, the entire world. The
handful of nations that have chosen not to go along with this system have been officially
economically ostracized and indifferently left to ‘survive if they can’. All nations have sought to
emulate the Capitalistic way in which the U.S. has made its economic wealth which in turn has
permitted it to become a world Superpower. Yet, it is today becoming more and more, and quite
painfully so, self-evident, at various levels, that this system is not at all sustainable, and to thrive,
it must have a significant disparity between: the (profiteering) haves and the (exploited) have
nots.

-As with God’s design and purpose in allowing the prominently Religious Babylon, which has a
great impact on society, in order to show how the disregards of God’s Religious Laws will lead
to naught, His design and purpose with this prominently Economic Babylon, which also has an
impact upon society, is to now show that disregarding His sabbatical socio-economic will
similarly lead to nothing worthwhile. So God is not merely concerned with Religious matters in
this GC, but also with socio-economic ones. In fact as seen in the Sun vs. Moon symbolism,
which respectively represent the Temporal Economy vs. the Religion one, the brightness of the
moon is entirely dependent on the Sun’s. In the same, related way, in regards to man-ward
interactions, the health of the Religious Economy is correspondingly determined by the state of
socio-economic affairs.

Conclusion - The True Loud Cry (EW 273-277-279)

From the fact that this end time judgement on Babylon is indeed to pointedly be
economical, as seen in the distinct emphasis with its OT background of Jer 51 where the
emphasis there is instead to physically destroy the city and its inhabitants (Jer 51:62); it is
sequiturly understood that the “Loud Cry” call in Rev 18:4 (=Rev 14:8) for ‘God’s People to
come out of her’, ultimately [i.e., in an Eschatological Wave of Prophetic Fulfillments],
accurately, involves, -in connection with giving the warning of the (patent) way God has revealed
that He will be overthrowing her (=Rev 18:6-8ff), abandoning her anti-sabbatarian Capitalist
ways, (something that even, and especially, SDA’s need to do), to instead return to, and build up,
God’s ruined Holy City and His Temple currently being downcast by this “Great City Babylon”, -
which moreover is defiantly passing about its wine in God’s own Temple elements. (Dan 5:22-
24)!

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http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/book-preview-god-all-mighty.html
-Needed Intercessor
http://www.maritime-sda-online.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=132212#
Post132212

Rev 17:1
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/advanced-prophetic-symbology.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/primer-on-plagues-rev-8-15-part-2.html

Rev 17:3
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-battle-of-har-ar-magedon-rev-1312.html

SpM 1.4
https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/516.2#7

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/advanced-prophetic-symbology.html#dragon

First Beast
Discover Prophecy-8 The Actual, Certain, Unavoidable Identity of the Antichrist by David
Asscherick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3hYEImyr6E

First Beast Background

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/primer-on-plagues-rev-8-15.html

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/pleading-proverbs-264-5.html#stateofdead
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/01/sacrifice-of-christ.html#helltorment
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/the-lord-of-sabbath.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/the-ministry-of-francis-chan-david.html#littlehorn
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/pleading-proverbs-264-5.html#manofsin

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people-part-2-ezekiel-9.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution#Revolution_and_the_Church

Second Beast
Discover Prophecy-20 The United States in Bible Prophecy by David Asscherick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nns01lfrT3o

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Rev 17:4
http://livingwater.no/english/Audio/Revelationseminar6.mp3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/95_Theses

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/11/shaking-in-it-biblical-context.html#laodiceanmsg

(Chief) Abominations in Golden Cup

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people-part-2-ezekiel-9.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/biblical-prophetic-babylon-loud-cry.html#spiritualism
5. The Symbols of Revelation 17 - Final Movements - Stephen Bohr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ6lFN5yxQo&t=39m20s
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/01/theological-views-commentary.html#SBohr
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/11/world-of-morons.html#lifestyle
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/11/world-of-morons.html#epigenetics
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/seventh-day-adventists-believe.html

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/11/world-of-morons.html#Sodomites
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/aborting-abortion.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/aborting-abortion.html

Rev 17:8
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/unrolling-of-scroll.html#perditioncamp

Abyss Meaning
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/primer-on-plagues-rev-8-15.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant_Islam
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/testimony-to-church-part-1a.html

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/01/testimony-to-church-3-judgement.html
http://www.njkproject.info/njk/forums/msdaolnjk.pdf
http://www.njkproject.info/njk/sitekey.html

Rev 17:9
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/advanced-prophetic-symbology.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Hills_of_Rome

Rev 17:10 - Globalization

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G8

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_77
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_globalization

Rev 17:11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Theology
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/03/fuller-understanding-of-mark-of-beast.html

-GC Sunday Law Agitation

http://www.maritime-sda-online.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=130969#
Post130969
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/06/coming-of-sealing-angel.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Crisis_2008
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/ministry-of-david-gates.html

Rev 17:12
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/primer-on-plagues-rev-8-15.html#realDan24143

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic

Rev 17:13
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthrocapitalism

Rev 17:14
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/unrolling-of-scroll.html#7spirits
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/the-typological-second-coming-rev-1911.html

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/1888-message-for-today.html#truerighteousness
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/the-144000-kingdom-number.html

Rev 17:16
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthrocapitalism

Revelation 18
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Financial_crises
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_sovereign_debt_crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement

Rev 18:1
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/book-preview-god-all-mighty.html#IAM
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/unrolling-of-scroll.html#oathmaking

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http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/testimony-to-church-part-1a.html#Elijah_7000

Rev 18:2
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/06/coming-of-sealing-angel.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people-part-2-ezekiel-9.html

http://www.njkproject.info/njk/hc_organization/hcsynopsis.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/01/real-outpouring-of-holy-spirit.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people-part-2-ezekiel-9.html
-Angel of Light
http://www.maritime-sda-online.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=134529#
Post134529

Bohr on Ed 227-228
http://gycweb.org/media/danger-sgnals-part-1
http://gycweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/05-Danger-Sgnals-Part-1.mp3
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/01/theological-views-commentary.html#SBohr

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people-part-2-ezekiel-9.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/character-of-god-controversy.html

Spiritualistic Manifestations
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/theological-musings.html#martyrs
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/unrolling-of-scroll.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/seventh-day-adventists-believe.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/06/coming-of-sealing-angel.html

http://njkproject.blogspot.ca/2012/04/aborting-abortion.html

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people-part-2-ezekiel-9.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_paine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Democratic_Party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/advanced-prophetic-symbology.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes

Rev 18:5 Sins of Babylon

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/text-proof-reply-to-message.html#Isaiah

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/pleading-proverbs-264-5.html#slavery

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http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/1888-message-for-today.html#falserighteousness
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/1888-message-for-today.html

Rev 18:8
http://www.njkproject.info/njk/hc_economy/njkeconomy.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flunitrazepam
http://www.maritime-sda-online.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=132443#
Post132443
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people-part-2-ezekiel-9.html

Rev 18:9 Woman = False Prophet

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/primer-on-plagues-rev-8-15.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people-part-2-ezekiel-9.html

Rev 18:10 Two Woe

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/the-soon-second-third-woe-911-ii-rev.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/11/shaking-in-it-biblical-context.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/01/gods-whirlwind-judgement-on-sda-church.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/the-soon-second-third-woe-911-ii-rev.html

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/01/sacrifice-of-christ.html#helltorment

GGBTB, 155
https://books.google.ca/books?id=XlqoTVsk2wcC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA155#v=onepage&q&f=fals
e

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/the-ministry-of-francis-chan-david.html#IJsession
SDABC Page 6682
http://bibletools.info/Rev_18.10
https://archive.org/details/SDABibleCommentary17GenesisRevelation
https://ia600408.us.archive.org/23/items/SDABibleCommentary17GenesisRevelation/(SDA)%2
0Bible%20Commentary,%201-7%20(Genesis%20-%20Revelation).pdf
GC 660.4
https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/132.2946#2983

Rev 18:21
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/primer-on-plagues-rev-8-15-part-2.html

http://njkproject.info/njk/hc_ministry/worldaid/abortions.html

Rev 18:23

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMRkQ-enzGs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/unrolling-of-scroll.html

SDA & Rev 17&18

http://www.propheciesdecoded.com/program-two
http://www.propheciesdecoded.com/17-babylon-low

NRLA Reichman
http://www.sealingtime.com/media/productions/Religious-Liberty/NRLA-Prophecy-Festival/200
9/index.html
http://www.sealingtime.com/media/productions/Religious-Liberty/NRLA-Prophecy-Festival/200
9/video/MQ/2009-07-11%202009%20NRLA%20Prophecy%20Festival%20-%2003%20-%20Ec
onomic%20Meltdown%20and%20Bible%20Prophecy,%20Making%20Sense%20of%20it%20Al
l%20-%20Alan%20Reinach.mp4
http://www.sealingtime.com/media/productions/Religious-Liberty/NRLA-Prophecy-Festival/200
9/audio/2009-07-11%202009%20NRLA%20Prophecy%20Festival%20-%2003%20-%20Econo
mic%20Meltdown%20and%20Bible%20Prophecy,%20Making%20Sense%20of%20it%20All%
20-%20Alan%20Reinach.mp3

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/july-dec09/america_07-10.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Use_and_social_impact

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthrocapitalism
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/church-triumphant.html

Revelation 19
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/biblical-prophetic-babylon-loud-cry.html

Pharaoh Hardened
http://www.maritime-sda-online.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=132668#
Post132668

Rev 22:11
http://www.maritime-sda-online.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=131748#
Post131748

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http://text.egwwritings.org/publication.php?pubtype=Book&bookCode=EW&lang=en&pagenum
ber=273
http://text.egwwritings.org/publication.php?pubtype=Book&bookCode=EW&lang=en&pagenum
ber=277
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/unrolling-of-scroll.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-posting-note.html#eschatological
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/gods-purposes-through-islam.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/the-soon-second-third-woe-911-ii-rev.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people-part-2-ezekiel-9.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/03/fuller-understanding-of-mark-of-beast.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-prophecy-of-daniel-2-dan-231-45.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/the-144000-kingdom-number.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.ca/2012/04/gods-new-true-remnant-church.html

Notelinks

Note #3 - US President Power

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Libyan_civil_war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Odyssey_Dawn#Criticism
Nixon When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiHN3IJ_j8A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejvyDn1TPr8

7 Horned/Eyes Lamb
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/01/four-living-creatures-throughout-bible.html#powers
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WgrfNTarOmY/UQBdhQX4W_I/AAAAAAAAE-U/Fd9fzPXNZ6Q/s
1600/Lamb-Seven-Eyes.jpg
(http://www.atotheword.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Who-is-Worthy-to-Open-the-Book-an
d-to-Loose-the-Seals.jpg)
http://www.epochalypsis.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/over-the-top-lamb.jpg
http://www.propheciesdecoded.com/program#six
http://www.propheciesdecoded.com/06-seven-seals
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/01/four-living-creatures-throughout-bible.html#powers

http://www.njkproject.info/njk/hc_organization/gov/administrative/structure.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/the-144000-kingdom-number.html
http://www.njkproject.info/njk/hc_organization/hcsynopsis.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_general

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http://www.njkproject.info/njk/hc_organization/gov/administrative/structure.html

http://www.maritime-sda-online.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=130933#
Post130933

http://njkproject.info/njk/hc_organization/gov/constitution/njkconstitution.html

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H7306&t=NASB
https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H2656&t=NASB

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people.html#torchlights
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/church-triumphant.html

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/testimony-to-church-part-1a.html

Note #4
http://livingwater.no/english/Audio/Revelationseminar6.mp3
http://www.propheciesdecoded.com/program-two
http://www.propheciesdecoded.com/17-babylon-low
http://www.sealingtime.com/media/productions/Religious-Liberty/NRLA-Prophecy-Festival/200
9/index.html
http://www.sealingtime.com/media/productions/Religious-Liberty/NRLA-Prophecy-Festival/200
9/video/MQ/2009-07-11%202009%20NRLA%20Prophecy%20Festival%20-%2003%20-%20Ec
onomic%20Meltdown%20and%20Bible%20Prophecy,%20Making%20Sense%20of%20it%20Al
l%20-%20Alan%20Reinach.mp4
http://www.sealingtime.com/media/productions/Religious-Liberty/NRLA-Prophecy-Festival/200
9/audio/2009-07-11%202009%20NRLA%20Prophecy%20Festival%20-%2003%20-%20Econo
mic%20Meltdown%20and%20Bible%20Prophecy,%20Making%20Sense%20of%20it%20All%
20-%20Alan%20Reinach.mp3

Note #5 - Babylon Roots

http://www.pmchurch.tv/article/65/archives-dvd-s/three-angels-one-warning

Sin Psycho-genetics vs. Junk Shot”

http://www.maritime-sda-online.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=135109#
Post135109
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/book-preview-god-all-mighty.html

Note # 7 - Needed Wisdom

Vicarius Filii Dei
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarius_Filii_Dei

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http://amazingdiscoveries.org/S-deception_beast_666_Vicarius-Filii-Dei
http://biblelight.net/666.htm
http://www.666prophecy.com/666meaning.asp
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-battle-of-har-ar-magedon-rev-1312.html

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2012/05/testing-spirits-1-cor-1210.html#jtierney
http://eighthking.blogspot.ca/2011/12/whos-is-anti-christ-eighth-king-of-rev.html

Note #8 - Spurious Righteousness

New World Orders
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_globalization
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/01/testimony-to-church-3-judgement.html

Philanthrocapitalism
http://www.nupge.ca/content/4572/vatican-announces-support-robin-hood-tax
http://wcr.ab.ca/Columns/OpinionsStories/tabid/70/entryid/1661/Default.aspx
http://njkproject.info/njk/forums/msdaolnjk.pdf
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people-part-2-ezekiel-9.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/01/testimony-to-church-3-judgement.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bono
Bono Said WHAT About Jesus?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkozK_uNMjs&t=1m2s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_Red
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDUN

Live Q&A with Graceland's Serinda Swan - Celebrity Interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmo3TPqAn4&t=24m55s

2012 World Economic Forum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum
2012 WEF Opening Session
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjphL8crLQ4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keys_of_This_Blood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/AM12/WEF_AM12_ExecutiveSummary.pdf
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/01/four-living-creatures-throughout-bible.html
http://www.njkproject.info/njk/hc_organization/hcfoundations.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people.html

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http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/01/four-living-creatures-throughout-bible.html

Note #9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Use_and_social_impact

Note #10 - In Time Movie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_time
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/wisdom-of-children-of-this-age.html

Note #11 - American Economic Inequality

http://msnbcpod.vo.llnwd.net/content/video/podcast/pdv_maddow_netcast_m4v-10-26-2011-204
011.m4v
https://archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20111027_010000_The_Rachel_Maddow_Show#start/13
80/end/1440

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/11/sealing-of-gods-people-part-2-ezekiel-9.html?showCom
ment=1263999223523#c1094006061793060529
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/11/world-of-morons.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/seventh-day-adventists-believe.html

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/12/endtime-reality-check.html#sdapseudosop
Jeffery Sachs Charts.MOV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S851zI2M9M
http://www.clicker.com/tv/morning-joe/dr-sachs-brings-graphs-breaks-down-income-inequality-
2149129/
https://archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20111004_100000_Morning_Joe#start/900/end/960
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recession
http://msnbcpod.vo.llnwd.net/content/video/podcast/pdv_scarborough_netcast_m4v-11-29-2011-
060051.m4v
https://archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20111129_110000_Morning_Joe#start/960/end/1020
http://www.jon2012.com/index.php/issues/financial-reform-ending-too-big-to-fail

Note #12 - God’s Silent Treatment

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/seventh-day-adventists-believe.html
http://www.maritime-sda-online.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=132443#
Post132443
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2009/10/testimony-to-church-part-1a.html
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-first-vision.html#firstvision

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http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/11/shaking-in-it-biblical-context.html#adamantwall

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/01/gods-whirlwind-judgement-on-sda-church.html

Note #13
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2010/12/seventh-day-adventists-believe.html

Note #14
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/06/coming-of-sealing-angel.html

GGBTB, 109-110
https://books.google.ca/books?id=XlqoTVsk2wcC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA109#v=onepage&q&f=fals
e

Interlinks
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/biblical-prophetic-babylon-loud-cry.html#7horns
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/biblical-prophetic-babylon-loud-cry.html#spiritualism
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/biblical-prophetic-babylon-loud-cry.html#Rev19
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/biblical-prophetic-babylon-loud-cry.html#philanthrocapit
alism
http://njkproject.blogspot.ca/2011/10/biblical-prophetic-babylon-loud-cry.html#noflesh
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/biblical-prophetic-babylon-loud-cry.html#FirstBabylon
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/biblical-prophetic-babylon-loud-cry.html#DAVOS
http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/biblical-prophetic-babylon-loud-cry.html#666

Emails
Hello WLC, it is refreshing to see that you are honest enough to detailedly admit to your error on
the Rev. 17. It is also interesting to see that you have seen that the seven heads can also be 7
kingdoms. (Dan 7:17)

Unfortunately you have (again) pursued the meaning of “kings”. However when the symbolism
of heads-mountains-kingdoms are jointly understood, it is seen how these are representative of
leading New World Order Ideologies which have shaped the history of our world, right down to
today. And so today we actually are in the time of 7th head-mountain-kingdom, which is the
“world shaping/dominating” socio-economic ideology” of the Post pure-Protestant Capitalism,
(i.e., after the crash and depression of the 1930's), Socialistic Mixed Economies which at its
heightened form has been manifested as (Economic) Globalization.

But it is soon going to give way to a more deliberately humanitarian system, yet where
Capitalism is still upheld, but as PhilanthroCapitalism, and this present humanitarian Pope

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Francis is likely to lead in the establishing of this, supposedly more humane, “New World Order”
era. But that will all be fulfilling Early Writings 266-269 as this still falls short of God’s Biblical
Socialism ideal. (e.g. Luke 3:10-11; Acts 2:44-45; 4:32-35; 2 Cor 8:7-15).

See much more on this throughout my blog from pointedly this blog post:

http://njkproject.blogspot.com/2011/10/biblical-prophetic-babylon-loud-cry.html

God Bless,
Ronald
Director of the NJK Project

Notes
1. [1] Some examples are: (Jer 51:6 = Rev 18:4); (Jer 51:7 = Rev 14:8; 17:2, 4; 18:3); (Jer 51:8
= Rev 14:8; 18:2); (Jer 51:9 = Rev 18:4-5); (Jer 51:13 = Rev 17:1); (Jer 51:45 = Rev 18:4);
(Jer 51:48 = Rev 18:20); (Jer 51:49 = Rev 18:24); (Jer 51:63-64 = Rev 18:21).

2. [2] History books will clearly show that there were more than 10 Barbaric Tribes/kingdoms
that ruled independently in the previous territory of Rome, as indeed seen in the divisive
arguments in SDA History in choosing which of those kingdoms should fulfill the statement of
the 10 horns in Dan 7. Similarly, there were also more than three horns that were “uprooted”
from the previous group of Pagan Rome replacing kingdoms. There is also the fact that this
understanding of the Pagan Rome Empire is only limited its Western Part, however in 476 A.D.
it did extend as far East as Palestine.
When however it is understood that the number 10 is symbolic of a totality, while the
number 7 is symbolic of ‘perfect representation from a larger group’, it is easy to see the intended
meaning in those specifications. I.e., the Holy Roman Empire would not rule in the totality that
Pagan Rome had, but would establish instead a significantly representational kingdom from those
kingdoms that Pagan Rome priorly controlled.

3. [3] Importantly enough, there is a more precise understanding that can be arrived at with the
symbols of a Beast having ‘2 little lamb crownless horns’ on its head. [Cf. the Medo-Persia
coalition which indeed consisted of a joint rule by two (previously) independent kingly powers -
Dan 8:3, 20; cf. 21]. In the U.S., there functionally are really 3 ruling powers. The ‘mouthpiece’
of the nation is from its “head”, which is the Executive Presidency Branch. Then there is the
Legislative Branch (Congress); and then there is the Judicial Branch. Really it is the Judicial
Branch that is substantively reflective of the U.S. freedom of Religion as it determines what is
morally right or wrong in regards to subjective issues. That is why the issue of ‘the religion of a
Supreme Court Judge’ is such a major and prominent issue when initially selecting, and/or then
confirming, them. So e.g., while there may not be a specific law permitting a practice, lifestyle,
activity that is actually condemned in the Bible, as most prominently in the case of abortion,
judicial decisions can effectively deem those practices as moral/lawful. And so it can be
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controlled by those two powers. Indeed, as it was shown to EGW in a revelation:

“ I saw that the two-horned beast had a dragon's mouth, and that his power was in his
head, and that the decree [Bill Signed into Law (and not vetoed) by President] would go
out of his mouth. ” (SpM 1.4a)

Indeed both the powers of the U.S. Congress and U.S. Judiciary ultimately, (at least in
Law, i.e., as it has been Constitutionally arranged and codified), have the last “say/word” as to
what the Executive Branch can (lawfully) do. So the head of this Beast can really only “speak”,
and thus, do, what its two horns of power are permitting. Still as the “head” will ultimately
determine where its (two) horns are pointed towards (cf. Dan 8:4, 7), indeed the “bully pulpit” of
the Presidency can greatly sway both the Congress and Judiciary to follow its lead. Indeed that is
why the Office of the publicly elected Presidency was created, -to functionally and prominently
be the nation’s “Head of State” (= [International] Spokesperson) as well as its quite authoritative,
and even defaultly binding, [Domestic] directional voice. In fact with the U.S. President
Constitutionally having the default final say as to what becomes enacted as Law in the country,
with only a then two-thirds super-majority vote by the (multi-partisan) Congress capable of
overriding this veto; and conversely, with the President only needing a simple majority vote from
Congress to have his own bills passed as laws, then, legislation wise, the Office of the President,
made up of a singly deciding person, actually is, relatively speaking, more powerful than the 535-
member partisan Congress. In fact the other major power of Congress to “declare war” can
actually be, as it was done in the 2011 Libyan conflict, bypassed by an Executive Order, for at
least sixty days, (which in the Libya case, that time was not even enforced through a posited
loophole), by a President who deems a military action as nationally urgent and necessary. So the
most powerful entity in that Second Beast is, constitutionally, the “Head of State” Office of the
Presidency. (As one U.S. President has infamously said, and which has, much more than not,
repeatedly proven to be the case, (most notoriously in the George W. Bush Administration): ‘If
the President does it, that means it’s not illegal’.)
So the powers make up of the United States, the country that came to fill the, Great
Controversy advancement-wise, most pivotal, Divinely-planned and orchestrated (cf. Dan 2:21)
prophetic role of Rev 13:11ff’s “Second Beast Power”, interestingly compares with the little
lamb mentioned in Rev 5 which itself has multiple, here 7 (also [albeit, themselves] crownless),
horns ‘of power’ (Rev 5:6). As mentioned in this post, the idea of a separation of ruling powers
seems to have originated with God as He was Nationally/Politically organizing His Israel, with
different ruling powers being held by different tribes. So this Little Lamb power having 7 horns,
thus 7 ‘separated ruling powers’ is indeed fully within God’s Will/Ideal. And by indeed having 7
horns, instead of the (joint) 2 of the Rev 13 Second Beast, it is much more “representative” in
power of the constituents of its kingdom. Indeed, as seen in many scandals in, pointedly here
U.S. Political History, a more perfect representation, and powers ‘checking and balancing’,
would be effectuated if: (1) Law Enforcement powers (Department of Justice/FBI) where
separate from the Executive Branch; (2) the Press had judicially binding fact finding/reporting
power; (3) the two Chambers of Congress were not essentially simply replicates of each other.
A setting up of such an ideal 7 Branch/Powers, all affecting/affected by a single “Head”

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(thus reflective of the 7 horns of the little lamb of Rev 5:6 [incidentally, best depicted by this
drawing of this symbolic imagery (used in Net 2011's presentation)]) {Slain Lamb Photo} has
been done here for the government structure (see more here) of the planned Christian country,
NJK, Project. The interlinked 6 governmental powers in that NJK structure, all under a 7th power
of a Presidency, and in turn all subject to their highest and final oversight authority of a
Monarchial “Head” of State which are, under the NJK Monarch level, representatively
functioning as are modern day Governor Generals, such as, most notably, in the British
Commonwealth, is all typologically fulfilling the SOP-revealed ‘7 Golden Crowns within a
Crown’ (EW 53.1|281.1; cf. 12MR 249.3 & 16MR 34.2) to be worn by this Kingdom of God’s
Davidic King who is also prophetically characterized as ‘one like unto a son of man’ (Rev
14:14).
As seen in prophetic symbology in Rev 5:6 & Dan 7:8, 20, the “eyes” are used to
symbolize the “Spirit” of something, -and in those instances: those “horns” = ‘ruling powers’.
Those “eyes”, as in nature, greatly shape the ‘views’ and “spirit” of an/its entity. Indeed Christ’s
statement that ‘the eye is the lamp/torch’ of the body (Luke 11:34) was, not surprisingly, most
insightfully accurate as a symbolism equation for the mention in Rev 4:8 ‘lamps = spirits’ and
then Rev 5:6 that ‘eyes = (same) spirits’ show that all of these symbols are intrinsically
associated. Therefore building on what was mentioned in this blog post concerning these 7
Spirits of the ‘temporally established, Davidic Branch (Isa 11:1-3a), little lamb = (NJK’s 7
Ruling Powers), these ‘Godly Spirits’ are involved in the responsibilities of those 7 ruling
powers as:

(1) “the Lord (~prophesying|‘forth-speaking’)” (= Presidency) - {Num 11:24-29 (cf. Luke

10:1ff; 17-24); 1 Sam 10:6, 10-11|16:14-15; 16:12-13; 2 Sam 23:1-2ff; Isa 42:1-4|Matt 12:15-21
(=Luke 3:22); 61:1ff|Luke 4:18}

(2) “wisdom” (= Judiciary) - {Deut 34:9; Jdg 3:10; Exod 28:3; 31:3; 35:3; Job 38:36; 39:17;
Ecc 2:26; Dan 1:17, 20; cf. Isa 28:6; Mic 3:8}

(3) “understanding” (= People) - {normatively/commonly, externally|self-produced: 1 Kgs 3:7-

12; Deu 4:5-8; Job 28:28; 38:36; 39:17; Dan 9:22; cf. Pro 3:5; 4:1-7; Isa 27:11; Dan 1:17, 20}

(4) ‘planning|purpose|counsel’ (= Public Ministers) - {cf. Isa 30:1-2; Psa 33:11; 73:24; Pro
19:21; Zech 6:13}

(5) ‘might|strength|courage’ (= Compliance [cf. here]) - {Jdg 6:33ff; 13:25; 14:6, 19;
15:14-15; Isa 28:6; Mic 3:8; cf. Ezra 10:1-4}

(6) “knowledge” (= Information|Press) - {Exod 31:3; 35:3; Num 24:16; Psa 19:1-2ff; 94:10;
119:66; 139:5-6; Ecc 2:26; Isa 53:11; Dan 12:4; Hos 4:6; 6:6; Mal 2:7}

(7) “fear of the Lord” (= Pastors) - {normatively/commonly, externally|self-produced: Exod

20:20; cf. Pro 1:7 & 9:10}

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-A few notes:
(a) see conversely Isa 40:13-14 for God Himself having such distinct Spirits;
(b) Exod 31:3; 35:31 is an example that show that one person could be given multiple “Spirits”;
(c) The last six (sub-)powers (#2-#7) are deliberately stated in Isa 11:1-3a in related/reciprocal
groupings, namely, the Spirits of:

[Group 1] #2 Wisdom (Judiciary) & #3 Understanding (People) - for wise living, legislating
and (accepted) wise judging (when needed) (cf. Deu 4:5-8; cf. Psa 19:7).

[Group 2] #4 Planning|Purpose|Counsel (= Public Ministers) & #5 Might|Strength|Courage

(= Compliance) - (Will) power and energy to faithfully/rightly carry out/comply with good Plans
and Counsels

[Group 3] #6 Knowledge (= Information|Press) & #7 Fear of the Lord (= Pastors) - The

combining and calibrating of common/natural knowledge (e.g,, general education, science) with
the knowledge of the Author of, and Power over, this “information”.

(d) As specified/emphasied in Isa 11:3a the ruler here will “delight in the fear of the Lord” Spirit
which is the NJK’s Pastoral Power. And as it was priorly stated in the NJK’s Constitution, that
Pastoral Power Branch is the only one of those 7 powers in which an NJK Monarch, pertinently
here, an HC Princep, will be selecting the primary candidates for that Power’s election.*

* Interestingly enough, though exegetically not really/technically stated as such, the word
translated “delight” in the Isa 11:3a (NASB) is/means literally “smell” (Heb: riach; =Strongs
#07381a - cf. Amos 5:21; -the actualdefault/technical/literal Hebrew word for “delight” is:
chephets; =Strongs #02656: e.g., 1 Sam 15:22; Psa 1:2; 16:3; Pro 31:13; Eccl 5:4; 12:1; Isa
46:10; 53:10; 58:13), and as such could be correlated to the present day idiom: ‘sticking your
nose in something’, i.e., ‘as if it is your business to do so’. Well given that the NJK will be a
Theocratic/Religious Kingdom, it will in fact be its Monarchy’s ‘pertinent business’ to insure
that pointedly the Spiritual, Pastoral Power is the most Biblical that it can be.

Also, a joint studying out of the symbolically-related elements in Rev 1:20b; 4:5 & 5:6
reveals that: (1) The “7 Lampstands” (= 7 Churches) (Rev 1:20b) which are in the Sanctifying
Holy Place are to be ‘lighted up/enlightened’ by the fire of the “7 Torches” which are before the
throne of God, thus in the Glorifying Most Holy Place, and which are His 7 Spirits (Rev 4:5),
and (2) those 7 Spirits are then sent throughout all of the Earth (Rev 5:6), and that when they, as
7 Eyes, are then closely associated with the Little Lamb’s 7 Horns. This is all done in a temporal
realization of the ‘Kingdom of God’; = the Church Triumphant. So though the previous 7
individual Lampstands (cf. Rev 2:5) have been directly substituted with those 7 concentrated
Horns, “God’s Spirit” is still, and actually, more widely, then sent out throughout the earth. This
thus most tangibly, thus fully and properly, accomplishes Matt 24:14's: ‘kingdom testimony to all
(other) nations’.
This notion of ‘correct “Theological Views” (=7 Torches|Spirits|Eyes) leading to a

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proper Church (7 Lampstands) and Kingdom of God (7 Horns) Global Witness’, was actually
drawn from God’s OT revelation through Zechariah (Zech 4) about His ‘Two (Israel) Witnesses
to the World (i.e., a Biblical Religion and Kingdom modelling) to be accomplished by the newly
established Joshua the High Priest (Zech 3:1-7) and Zerubbabel the first Restoration Governor
(cf. Zech 3:8-10); -and all initiatingly done through th work of a priest-ruler (=Zech 6:11-13).

4. [4] Many SDA expositors present this fuller, more specific view of the Rev 17 Babylon. E.g.,
Daniel Pel [mp3] and Ron Clouzet in the recently presented NAD’s Net 2011 (Night #17),
among others.
Related to this entire blog post exposition, see the 2009 Northwest Religious Liberty
Association (NRLA), Prophecy Festival presentation by Alan Reinach entitled: “Economic
Meltdown and Bible Prophecy, Making Sense of it All”, [website], who, to my knowledge
amongst SDA expositions, rarely, rightly sees the undeniable/inherent Economic, Financial, and
even U.S. Capitalism implications of Rev 18. (mp4 - stream) (mp3) [ca. 52:00ff].

5. [5] It is relatedly most interesting to see, as brought forth in the 10-20-12 sermon here entitled
“Babylonian Confusion” [see at 13:54-20:37ff], (see also PP 118.4-5 & SDABD 797 “Nimrod”)
that the “roots” of this now prophetic and symbolic Babylonian Power actually, most tangibly, go
all the way back to the attempt by Nimrod to build a great city and tower in the plains of Shinar,
all to (futilely) try to defy, oppose and overcome the word, will and power of God. (See Gen
10:6-12). Indeed the roots of this Babylon are clearly an evolution of that same spirit back then,
and it also clear that all along it was Satan himself who was doing this purposeful inspiring, in
order to, from those days right after the flood, have a “universal empire” which would “banish
righteousness” from the Earth. As Nimrod was a descendant of the cursed son Noah, Ham,
through his son of similar character, Canaan, (as God had psycho-genetically, prognosticatively
observed (cf. Gen 16:10-12) that this manifested perverse character would most likely be
perpetuated through his ensuing genealogical line), he was one of those descendants who had
continued to manifest this perverse spirit and disposition towards God and righteousness, and so
Satan chose to inspiringly work through him to try to establish, from the “confederating” city
they were intending to establish there, and an ensuing (first ever) kingdom, a global empire
which would promote this God-defying and usurping character and lifestyle. And so Satan has
indeed always been trying to have this key, uniting, City-Empire on the Earth. And in Babylon,
(which it can be argued that God actually tried, if at all possible, but indeed to no avail, to
convert and save by allowing the Israelites to be made captive by it), whether Inspirational,
Literal, or now Prophetic as manifest in the United States of America, Satan has managed to
maintain that rebellious spirit to oppose the cause of Righteousness of God on Earth.
Interestingly/Relatedly enough, when God later chose the righteous Abraham it was to, in
His own corresponding way, establish through this founding single man: a city ((eventually)
Jerusalem, cf. Heb 11:10), and then a people (Israel), and ultimately a Universal Kingdom (the
Kingdom of God), which would opposingly fill the Earth with Righteousness. And God is still
endeavoring to complete this redemptive plan, -just as Satan is working towards his own
“lawlessness” (=2 Thess 2:3-4) end goal, -all culminating into the eschatological clash between
Babylon and (the New) Jerusalem.

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6. [6] Most crucial to what came to make America a global superpower is what keen
historians/economists (see e.g., here) see as the ‘accidence of two worlds wars’ in the first half of
the 20th century which America was not as catastrophically damaged, nor impoverished by, as
other then ruling European powers (e.g., Great Britain and Germany). On top that, America came
to greatly profit by those wars with countries investing their available funds into America’s great
industrial plants. Indeed it is those investments by overseas allies that came to lift America out of
the Great Depression. And it thus came out of the war as the world’s only quasi-intact economic
power and has not (yet) looked back since.

7. [7] Indeed, in elaborated detail, this added qualifying comment clearly involves that even if an
interpretation is given next, it will still require some wisdom to understand it. The only other
time that such a wisdom statement was made in Revelation was for Rev 13:18 and the 666
number. As seen today most Christians have a literalistic interpretation of that prophetic
statement and thus claim that people will be tattooed with the number 666 and/or anything with
the number 666 is bad. However as SDA wider knowledge and experience about prophesy has
led them to see, that 666 number is itself still encoded and only the title of the Pope as “Vicarius
Filii Dei” (discussed/explained/documented here, here and here; -see also the discussion in this
post at Rev 13:17-18), that best (i.e., thematically, substantively and technically) fulfills that
numeric symbology. So similarly, for the identification in Rev 17:9-11, it will require “a mind of
wisdom” to accurately figure it out.
Now it is consistent in the Bible that age typically provides such wisdom. That is seen in
the symbol of white hair (e.g., Dan 7:9; Rev 1:14 = “one like unto a son of man”) (which was
used by judges today to signify that they are wise). The reason why wisdom is associated with
age is because an older person has more experiences and thus can make better/informed
judgements later. Now, as stated in James 1:5, God can (supernaturally) give someone wisdom
into/for something. That is what was done for Solomon at his request. (2 Chr 1:8-13|1 Kgs 3:7-
9). And in Dan 12:3-4, 10, those who (lit.) are “wise” (=KJV; cf. Gen 3:6; Deu 32:29; Job 22:2;
Psa 36:3; Pro 16:23; etc) would be able to figure out end time, sealed prophecies. (And in Rev
5:12 wisdom, among other things, is called for the little Lamb which was slained, which he
manifestly uses to unseal that scroll in Rev 6.). All this to show that, as explicitly stated in Rev
17:9, it will require wisdom, which, in such spiritual matters, either comes from God, or through
God-guided experiences, and not a straightforward application of “7 kings must be 7
rulers/popes” to figure out the meaning here. EGW makes an interesting related statement in
regards to having understandings, through also Divine-led experiences, in Biblical passages:

As presented through different individuals, the truth is brought out in its varied aspects.
One writer is more strongly impressed with one phase of the subject; he grasps those
points that harmonize with his experience or with his power of perception and
appreciation; another seizes upon a different phase; and each, under the guidance of the
Holy Spirit, presents what is most forcibly impressed upon his own mind--a different
aspect of the truth in each, but a perfect harmony through all. And the truths thus revealed
unite to form a perfect whole, adapted to meet the wants of men in all the circumstances
and experiences of life. {1SM 25.4}

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 So just like the specified number of the beast, 666, in Rev 13:18 is not a literalistic
application of that number, so isn’t the application of the stated elements of Rev 17:9-11.
This is all contrary to the surface/shallow “inexperienced/unwise” claim made by James
Tierney in his interpretation of this chapter/prophecy here that:

“The bible never gives symbolic meaning to interpreted texts. Example; further in Rev 17
verse 10 [sic] says, "The waters you saw where the prostitute sits are peoples, multitudes,
nations and languages", so the interpretation has been given. The waters are diverse
peoples covering the whole world. So when in that same chapter the seven heads are
seven hills and seven kings this cannot be interpreted symbolically because the
interpretation is given.”

8. [8] It is interesting to see how those eight cited “heads”/‘way of thinking’, being those 8
distinct World Powers in History, have indeed sought to variously establish imperialistic or
quasi-imperialistic New World Orders. In indeed seeking to unite world countries & peoples
under their hegemony (= “Superpower” authority), each brought to the table a chief
Ideology/Practice that it thought would best/most fairly realize this end; also preserving trace
elements of “valid” ideologies and practices from past NWO realizations. And mind you, none of
those Superpowers had malevolent intents, per se, even when forcefully establishing their power
over other countries and people. They instead all thought that this was best for those other
peoples and for the “peace” of the world, which of course would also/chiefly greatly benefit
them. (E.g., now, the U.S. and its ‘freedom and democracy’ militaristic campaigns). This
Historical NWO odyssey is succinctly summarily detailed in the following listing:

1. Babylon - Babylonian religious superiority, and thus religious intolerance and state worship.
2. Medo-Persia - Freedom, (albeit checked), of religion and worship.
3. Greece - Direct Democracy, Education and Liberalized Popular Culture
4. Rome - Representative Democracy and Militaristic Policing Security (a.k.a. the Pax Romana)
5. Holy Roman Empire - Variously, forcefully Imposed Christian Beliefs
6. United States - Individual Economic Prosperity through Capitalism
7. GeoPolitical World - GeoProsperity Through (Economic) Globalization
8. GeoReligious World - Geo “Social Justice” through Philanthrocapitalism*

* Still to formally come, yet making telling inroads today, as seen in the recent (11-18-2011)
Vatican approved call to have a “Robin Hood” tax on Capitalism, which was readily
seconded/applauded by the Occupy movement, and which, not surprisingly, is calling for ‘an
“ethic of solidarity” among rich and poor nations for the global economy’, also omniously
portending that ‘democracy itself, even in strong countries, is at risk.’ Indeed the (unhindered
purposed/prophesied (Rev 17:17)) Masterminded aim of/(for) this Unrighteous/Unjust|Lawless
side (2 Thess 2:12|Zech 5:8a; Gr. a-dikia (not righteous) -cf. Rev 3:14ff| a-nomia (no law) -2
Thess 2:7) is to keep Capitalism in power by any “appeasing”/“pill-swallowing” means. This
diverting view therefore also comes to include a, ca. 40/60, “Mixed Economy” approach to
dilute, and thus sustain, Capitalism, for it still falls way short of God’s Biblical Socio-economic

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ideal. (Indeed this approach with socio-economics, theologically corresponds to the spurious
attempt to substitute the: ‘24-hour Worship and Rest of the Seventh Day Sabbath’ with the: ‘ca.
one Worship Hour, and no rest, but instead self-gratifying leisure and recreation...on the first day,
Sunday! (=Dan 7:25; Isa 58:13). As seen in the forum discussions linked on this page, see
especially this discussion (PDF) , even SDA’s (literally) religiously swear by, and staunchly
defend, this now sparsely existing, spurious rebranded/recalibrated form of Capitalism. Relatedly
see also the Capitalism supporting comments on this “SDA Sealing” blog post. As usual, indeed
as basely conditioned to do, Capitalists, naturally, selfishly, thus “chiefly sinful” don’t bother to
think further than themselves and today! (Cf. other such ‘circuitous, conscience-appeasing-while-
flesh-gratifying’, “incorporative” forms of philanthrocapitalism such as U2's Bono[-who is a
Christian Believer]’s “Product Red”, among others, branding; -as e.g., “perfectly” “non-
sacrificingly”, “selfologized” here [24:55-25:44ff]; =Satan’s own inevitably bankrupt, Universe-
ordering “self-ness” idea.)

Yet it is most significant to see that all of those New World Order attempts have come to
fail because they would, either entirely, or in compromising parts, refuse to live according to (all
of) God’s Biblical ways. And, interestingly enough, as these “unbiblical”, World-Ordering,
Superpowers thus came to have an issue with God Himself, then He did in some directly acting
or permitting means intervene to bring their, actually Divinely-allowed, World Hegemony to an
end (Dan 2:21). This is namely:

1. Babylon - Arrogant refusal to acknowledge God despite His great manifestations in/to them.
[e.g,. Dan 3 & 4] - (Isa 48:11; Dan 5:20-23; Jer 50 & 51)
2. Medo-Persia - Intellectual, and thus Physical Lethargic Slothfulness [Dan 7:5 versus 6] - (Pro
6:6-11; Ecc 9:10)
3. Greece - Humanistic Moral Degeneracy [cf. e.g., the Corinthians - 1 Cor 5] - (Matt 22:37-40)
4. Rome - Abuse of Power [Dan 7:7, 23; Luke 3:14] - (Matt 20:24-28; John 13:5-10)
5. Holy Roman Empire Also Divine-ward Arrogance & Heresy [Dan 7:8, 11, 20, 25] - (Isa
42:8; Matt 15:3)
6. United States - Greed [Rev 13:11ff] - (Pro 11:1-6)
7. GeoPolitical World - Profiteering despite now formal “neighborhood of countries” [Rev
17:17] - (Deut 15:1-6; Luke 12:15)
8. GeoReligious World - Selfishness also despite the “brotherhood of nations”, (the chief of
sins) [Rev 18:2-3; 2 Thess 2:7-11] - (Deut 15:7-11; Acts 2:43-45; 4:32-35; 2 Cor 8:7-15) [again,
the full/formal realization of this eighth power is still in the future, but is now increasingly,
gradually coalescing**.]

** 2012 World Economic Forum Proposal/Plan - A most significant development in this

‘repacking/rebranding of Capitalism’ is the call of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF),
for its 2012 meetings in Davos, Switzerland (see the keynote opening session here), to try to
reform Capitalism, with their conference theme being: "The Great Transformation: Shaping New
Models". Some people, are even more explicitly calling for Capitalism to be given a “moral”
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thus, contrary to Malachi Martin’s famous “Keys of this Blood” endgame scenario, Capitalism &
Catholicism would have (compromisingly) found a way to coexist and share global hegemony. -
Telling how Biblical Socialism was “demonized” by the aberration of Soviet-styled
Communism; -a priorly defeated third player in Martin’s (‘insider’) New World Order
prognosis.). The aim of these initiatives are borne out of a belief that Capitalism, as it is currently
practised, is broken, and a new model/framework for it should be sought and implemented so
that it can be a system which benefits all, and not only the rich and powerful. And as one person
said: ‘Why should 5-6 billion Asians (i.e., all those living on the continent of Asia), not also live
as the 1 billion Westerners?!’ Towards this end, it is also being advanced that foundational
“capital” building blocks must now be primarily considered as innovative ideas, and not merely
‘hard/tangible capital’ as it has explicitly formerly always been, is. That would indeed level the
playing field for many.
The “Catch-22” irony of this whole matter is that it would indeed actually be the element
of (Biblical) morality that would better the system because selfishness, the chief of sins (4T
384.3; 7MR 232.4), is at the root foundational of Capitalism. Case in point: German Chancellor
Angela Merkel [also chairwoman of the Christian Social Union (CSU), which mergingly
includes the former Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)], pointed out that the critical
problem of 23,000,000 unemployed people in the European Union could conceivably be resolved
if each of the EU’s 23,000,000 businesses hired one of those unemployed person. But of course,
those businesses are not doing this because they are all individually concerned with maximizing
their profits, or even just staying in business, and so cutting a position or two is seen as a
“necessity” for them. As usual, there is to be no sharing in Capitalism, -yet Capitalism today,
being a “Mixed Economy” at best, is crucially, inherently composed of 30-40% Socialistic
Sharing!
What is most interesting about the appeal of the 2012 World Economic Forum, is that, in
their Executive Summary for that meeting (see PDF here), they listed and described 4 Chief sub-
themes for that proposed ‘“Roadmap” to New Models’. And these proposition actually directly
compare to the 4 Faces (=4 Living Creatures) of the NJK Project (see here), which are its
Religious/Biblical Foundation (=Psa 11:3 =The NJK’s “Mount Zion” -Psa 87:1ff = Rev 14:1ff).
As such, the chief, and most crucial, difference between the WEF and the NJK is that the NJK’s
4 Chief Models are all aimed towards fully reflecting the will of God (=Rev 4:11; 14:7), while
those set forth by the WEF are aimed at serving the purposes of the Economy. In other words, the
NJK Biblical model is because that is the expressed will of God, while the WEF model is
because it is seeking to make “the economy” (= the (Capitalistic) Sun) work for them (= neo-sun
worship (as discussed here on Ezek 8:16, this is also being done by the leading men of Judah, the
leaders of the SDA Church).
The World Economic Forum’s 4 Chief Models, along with their desired objective, are
(vs. the NJK’s 4 Faces):

• Growth and Employment Models - (vs. the NJK’s Man Face)

“The policy prescriptions, industry models and performance incentives that emerged from an era
of consumption and debt-driven growth must be transformed to deliver quality growth. Growth
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the rebalancing and deleveraging of the global economy. As traditional work opportunities
decline as a result of production increasingly based on knowledge and ingenuity, individual
entrepreneurship will become a critical factor for future job and growth creation.”

• Leadership and Innovation Models - (vs. the NJK’s Lion Face)

“The leading countries and global governance institutions of the Cold War era must create space
for major emerging economies, private sector institutions and multistakeholder partnerships.
These new actors should have the responsibility not only to address important global and
regional challenges but also to introduce innovative solutions. The future will also show that
younger and older generations will play a greater role compared to today. Thus, the rebirth of
intergenerational responsibility must be embedded in leaders to avoid a future demographic
divide.”

• Sustainability and Resource Models - (vs. the NJK’s Ox/Cherub Face)

“The realization that human activities have a major impact on Earth’s ecosystem must drive
future changes in behaviour and policies. Our ecological footprint will have to be fully
internalized in business models. A new mindset should drive collaboration and innovation
among governments, industries and companies to ensure that future resource constraints do not
lead to greater energy, food and water insecurity.”

-Ecology is being advanced as the new ‘moral imperative’ i.e., “god”, to dictate what right and
wrong is.

• Social and Technological Models - (vs. the NJK’s Eagle Face)

“The next wave of technological innovation, particularly in life sciences, nanotechnology and
artificial intelligence, will not just deliver productivity gains but will also transform us by adding
new dimensions to our lives. At a societal level, the norms, behaviours and values that are
protected and celebrated in the physical world are neither clearly established nor firmly anchored
in the digital world. As the “Internet of things” that connects billions of sensors and devices
becomes a reality, stakeholders should work together to safeguard the knowledge, data and
networks that are critical resources for our future development.”

Do read about the NJK’s 4 Biblical Foundations as revealed in the teaching of the Four
Living Creatures to see how the NJK’s and WEF’s models do indeed effectively compare, but
most importantly, do contrast in ideological foundation, and why so. In short, the WEF’s
‘Capitalism Reform proposition/model’, while it most deceptively seems innocent enough, and
even quite vitally necessary, is only a framework to further the work of ignoring/opposing the
worship of the Creator God, and continuing the Mark of the Beast rebellion, especially when it
will, by necessity, be given a “moral head” for guidance.

9. [9] A surfacely anecdotal illustration of this ‘power of (advanced) technologies’ in our day is
seen in how recently developed social media networks such as (pun intended) “Twitter” have
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virtually uncheckable communications, which permitted also further revolting truths to be widely
seen, which all help to sustain revolutionary demonstrations.

10. [10] Incidentally, a, (disclaimer:) Hollywood production that, I concede, has managed to, and
that quite strikingly so, bring the point home of the whole ruthless absurdity of Capitalism is the
2011 (PG-13) movie In Time {Luke 7:31-35; Pro 8:1-36; cf. here} as it substitutes in its plot,
time as a currency for money; and with, as seen in Capitalism, many people living in ghettos
(thematically called “timezones”) literally having barely enough time to make it alive through
another day (i.e., living day-to-day), while other filthy rich people, living in another, and “gated”,
timezone have managed to amassed enough “time” to live (without aging) for thousands, even
millions, of years. And moreover, as in Capitalism, it is the rich people who, and that
calculatively so, determine what the ‘value of the time currency’ (= the cost of living) are, i.e.,
the ‘time cost & wages’ for various good, services, and labor, as well as interest rates. And the
real “kicker”, when comparing this fictional depiction to the real life system of Capitalism that it
is quite openly and overtly, decryingly spoofing is that: people today ...even if they become filthy
rich... still end up dying as anyone else!!

11. [11] As seen in this [10-26-11] The Rachel Maddow Show segment [15:47-26:26] this, it can
surfacely/shallowly be claimed that U.S. Capitalism and its promised “American Dream”,
‘worked just fine up until ca. the 1980's when President Ronald Reagan’s Republican Economic
policies favoring the rich caused the American Dream to no longer be within the reach of
everyone as previously since the Post World War II, 1947+, era.’* (Which was actually, as
commented on Rev 18:2, the era of a greatly diluted Mixed-Capitalism). That is the perfect
example of how morality and religion is desperately seeking to be needfully mixed in with
(Protestant) Capitalism. Indeed Capitalism was tamed for a while, until, in this increasingly
ungodly recent era, people began to realize that they had absolutely no obligation to, effectively,
live according to Biblical morals and principles, and not instead, selfishly, greedily, and
covetously want and take as much money and wealth as they can; and indeed “fairly”, according
to the guaranteed promise of American, in satisfactory pursuit of their happiness. [It was
probably a wealthy lobbyist who, at some point suggested this to the Reagan Administration.]
Nothing indeed illegal is being done in such individualistic pursuits. And so for things to actually
change either such inherently “Religious/Christian morals” will have to be outrightly, and
enforcedly, “imposed” in Civil Government [not likely for both Constitutional and Money in
Government reasons]; or the people in America would have become truly-converted (i.e., “born
from above”) Christians, and then would, justly, democratically implement this morality. And in
such a latter case, the sequiturly deemed only valid solution then would be, in now our present
world of increasingly diminishing and limited resources, to straightly, completely replace
Capitalism with even full-blown Communism [also not likely to happen for (fallen) Human
Nature reasons]. So this Babylon is, as prophesied, “doomed” to continue on its increasingly
“drunken” course and inevitably, eventually judged for this. [Nonetheless: Jer 18:7-8: e.g., Jon
4:11]
Indeed the apt prophetic/Spiritual involvement in this development is that, like any
respectable person who drinks alcohol, the intention usually is not to get completely drunk.
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prosperous” late 1980's on have come to spuriously be, when the wine starts to incessantly flow,
(as this Satan-controlled Woman surely wants to abundantly make it so), people increasingly
become more inebriated, and then, most typically, end up doing what they restrainedly never
intended, which actually indeed is just a release and/or accentuation of what they had been
restraining. The only remedy then is to stop taking in more wine, sober up, and then teetotal the
fermented wine, even beer or wine coolers, of this purposely mischievous, deceptive and demon-
possessed Woman; drinking instead for the pure and unfermented wine of Christ’s Gospel
Truths. Yet Christians, and even SDA’s [see e.g., comments and discussion links in this post’s
comments], moronically, mindlessly, generally, and at least “medicinally”, strongly advocate to
instead ‘take in (at least a little of) this Woman’s fermented wine.’ (Hence the chief, and
thematically-recurring, impeaching “thesis” of this post.)

* Cf. a similar 10-04-11 Morning Joe ‘recently skewing income disparity’ presentation [ca.
15:00-23:00] by American Economist Jeffrey Sachs.

On the parallel, quasi-alternative side is the sanctimonious claim, particularly in the

aftermath of the 2008 Great Recession and the way in which it was “repaired”, by the bailing out
the “too big to fail” private investment firms/banks, that, as stated by 2012's Republican
Presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman (see here at ca. 16:00 | policy), “Capitalism without failure is
not Capitalism”. Of course, as is the conditioned norm with such (Right Wing) Capitalists, the
full implication of such expressed (socio-)economic tenets is defaultly and/or actually/really not
thought through. On the fundamental side, if the government is not going to bail out any, then
even small, bank, and as a larger firm/bank means more profits for owners/investors, then what
right does the government have to limit what size a bank owner, or ‘colluding’ bank owners,
want to establish their firm. It is here outrightly actually suppose to be the market, and not the
government that decides how big this bank will be accepted to be. The only policy that the
government can make on such private companies is that they will indeed not bail any bank,
whatever its size out. And so, at the other “functional” side, such a claim is mainly, actually,
intrinsically, fully involving that: ‘for Capitalism to thrive there must always actually be fully-
incurred failure’. Thus: “failure” without any socio-economic safety net, nor rescue plan, at all.
And that of course is not merely only for “too big to fail” companies, (as if socio-economic
history is now to be reset from the Fall of 2008), but also, indeed in order to be ‘equally fair’,
also for private citizens.
And so, indeed “True Capitalists”, are longingly yearning for the ‘boom and bust’, 1930's
and before, days of Laissez-Faire Capitalism!! And if everyone then is indeed suppose to ‘fully,
themselves, look out for themselves’, thus also in terms of Healthcare, Pensions, Disability,
Unemployment funding (indeed why needlessly pay into (for others) the social safety net of
Insurance), then company owners, (usually, mostly shareholders who are looking to maximize
their profits), will similarly be seeking to procure both their personal “happiness”, as well as their
Personal-Social Security. Inevitably the only socio-economic “synergy” in this Laissez-Faire
scenario will be the continual, and actually, tangibly most detrimental and non-productive,
striking strifing between owners and employees, moreoverly, surely tangibly confronted by a
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services. And most ironically enough, the only way in which this will all work out, indeed with
workers capable of striking until they get whatever revenue/working conditions demands they are
making, is when owners/shareholders and workers will come to agree to equally share a
companies profits, including salaries, amongst them. Indeed why settle for less with such
successfully wieldable ‘capital procuring power’. It can easily become the “Dream” of anyone to
make enough money to, at least, be able to afford whatever luxurious thing they want.
However the realistic fact is that, as it nearly occurred in most clear (Socio-Economic)
history, those who directly control the various capital here, thus owners and (especially wealthy)
shareholders, will come to make poor dependent employees cave in and accept whatever meagre
and (literally, physically leading to) “bare-bone” salaries, and perhaps bonuses, they deem fair to
give them, for again, especially in the current (Biblical) morality-shunning, unscrupulous 21st
century age, (not to mention that, e.g., many jobs today can actually easily be automated, and
those owners would then much rather invest in the development of more performant, much-less-
demanding/“unpredictably-unstable”, computer software and/or robots, than hire a person), will
be to ‘take it or do leave it (and croak)’, indeed as there will then also be a very long line
mobbing throng of people behind that “choosy” person who will instead gladly take that low
paying job.
Why go down such an animalistic, strife-filled route instead of acting as intelligent and
rational humans and thinking, and also sharing/caring for each other, indeed to the benefit of all.
Manifestly God did indeed presciently know, and that from the start of the Great Controversy’s
chief issue (PP 33.1||GC 678.3), that such a ‘loveless and selfish’ course which is pointedly
going against His ‘Law of Love’ (Matt 22:34-40; cf. DA 641.3) was ultimately, completely futile
and utterly detrimental.

12. [12] Most crucially related here, it is commonly assumed that if God is not manifesting overt
displeasure at a course, that those engage in it actually, even self-professingly, know to be
unbiblical and unrighteous (cf. John 9:39-41), such as with the many, standing abominations in
the SDA Church, that this is because ‘God is not seeing any of such things as being against His
will’, when the actual, Spiritually deep fact of the matter is that God’s “passion” (a.k.a. “wrath”)
has already long been kindled against that group (cf. Isa 28:7-13), thus namely in regards to the
SDA Church, as revealed here, definitely by June of 1999, (see here), and He Himself is no
longer acting to guide these now deliberately/indifferently wayward ones off of their wrong
course, but is silently leaving them on that course so that they will reap the whirlwind of what
they have been sowing (see Heb 12:5-8; Psa 94:12-13; Isa 28:13; 5T 207.3-4; 211.3-212.4; cf.
Hos 8:5-7ff); and/or much, much worse (for any paramilitary or military entity knows that the
most successful subversive plan, especially to covertly self-defeat a formidable opponent, is the
one that is most credible, and thus largely true), pointedly for those who are even more closely
professing to be His followers, but are still rebelling against His will, He then is, indeed as now
an “enemy” (Isa 63:10), is acting to provide these spurious claimant with veiled/opaque
answers/guidance, which they non-ashamedly (e.g., Jer 3:3)/“flint-facedly” (Ezek 3:9),
affrontedly (e.g., Jer 3:4-5) and pompously (Ezek 13:1-16), “naturally” (1 Cor 2:14; cf. 3:7-18)
misclaim, misunderstand and misapply to their own self-destruction as they seek to understand
them through the false prism of their cherished idols. (=Isa 42:14-17; Ezek 14:1-5). In fact, so as
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judgement’ (cf. EW 55.1-56.1), God actually still answers their prayers which are in His will, and
will actually only contribute towards His final, total victory over them, and yet He also does so
‘merely according to their (little) faith.’ (cf. James 4:2-4) And so these drowsed ones thus
continue to think that everything is “A-Okay” until they end up smashing head long into the non-
reminded-of wall that was always ahead. (=Isa 42:13-17 & this “wall” is the Amos 7:7ff
“adamant wall” established by God, out of a most severe judgement, in the midst of His
professed people.) And that is why there patently is a “gnashing of teeth” reaction in such ‘last-
minute-realization’ judgements (Matt 8:10-12; 13:30, 40-42, 47-50; Matt 22:1-14; 24:45-51;
Luke 13:23-30), -which is a psychological and emotional sequencing mixing of nervous shock,
spiteful (out)rage and sorrowful despair, when, as seen e.g., in the context of Matt 25:30: it is
suddenly revealed what the real character of their Master actually was, which these wicked ones
had thought they had figured out based on the projections of their own slothful and selfish ways
(Matt 25:26-27).
Ironically, and most interestingly enough, in the “Time of Jacob Trouble” occurrences,
which of course transpired with the Historical Jacob, and also with Christ in Gethsemane, and is
to be the experience of the faithful ones in the Church (EW 272.1), it then seems that God is has
become an avenging enemy who is entering into judgement with them for their sins, -sins which
they have actually incurred in the course of zealously endeavoring to do all that they can to fully
accomplish God’s will (i.e., Jacob’s desire to obtain the Esau-despised Blessing, and not likely to
obtain it by explaining this to Isaac since Isaac almost obliviously preferred (the first-born) Esau
(Gen 25:23b, 27-28); Jesus allowing Himself to become a sacrifice for Man’s sins, the faithful
ones in the Church resolutely desiring to live by the Higher standard set forth by the True
Witness (EW 270.2)), however God was/is during these times, Personally, mentally and
physically preparing His faithful ones for the then Satan-led ordeal that they will have to face
next (i.e., Jacob confronting the murderously-intentioned Esau; Jesus facing the direct assaults of
Satan on the Cross; and the 144,000 vs. the desperate Babylonian system) (cf. EW 283.2 &
21MR 326.2). And so trying to determine what “God’s will” is by merely looking at
surface/peripheral appearances, and not by evaluating the substantive issues involved, and in
regard to who is actually fully/really/truly endeavoring to do God’s expressed will, will lead
many to cry out and believe that there is “Peace and Safety”, in i.e., the present/popular state of
the Church, when really there is nothing but decreed judgement and its looming utter destruction.
(Ezek 13:1-16) This “quiet” and even, comparatively “prosperous” time is merely God’s lulling
peace before the desired windstorm, indeed all calculatedly to keep this Apostate Church lulled
in its sleep until it is way too late. (Ezek 7:20-27). No need looking for a new (Prophetic) word
from God to correct what has already been clearly declared to be the wrong course. (Lam 2:9b)

13. [13] Cf. the SOP’s, worldly (a.k.a. Babylonian) cities-destroying, “Ball of Fire vision in
11MR 361.1-362.2 which the Lord, the Master Self-Exegete, pointedly based on: (1) Isa 29:19-
24, which from vs. 19 is pointedly dealing with a reversal of situations for the socio-
economically oppressed, afflicted and needy, -deliberately not (here) including the inherently
“miraculous” healings of the ‘deaf and blind’ of vs. 18, and all in the context of a reassuring
promise being made to God’s faithful Jacob (= prophetically Jer 30:7) who is warring against a
rebellious Judah (Isa 29:1-16ff); and (2) Isa 30:8-15 for the ensuing actions of this rebellious
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oppression and guile (= resolute Capitalism adherence) for its shelter and survival (vs. 12)
instead of heeding God’s peaceful solution (vs. 15).

14. [14] It seems quite significant to note that ‘decision making’ judgement is spoken as “an
hour” (Rev 14:7; 18:10). This thus may further add to the understanding of the “half-hour”
mentioned in Rev 8:1 as a halved/partial judgement for the Second Coming postponing reasons
discussed in this post, causing time to continue and the (Eschatological) Trumpets sequence to
transpire in order to both “judge” and “militate” against the cause that delayed that prior Second
Coming, and uproot and replace it.

(By the way, John 5:29 “decision making judgement” is exegetically, accurately speaking of: ‘...
the resurrection out of/derived from/dependent on [previously arrived at] decisions’. [= “ablative
genitive of source” -cf. Wallace, GGBTB, 109-110]).

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