(By Robert Anthony)
I have been aware of this woman for
so long now, I want to warn all my brothers about her. I would warn the whole
world about her but she has already defiled so many of them and seduced the nations
into her bed. The whole of the Holy Scriptures are warning us about her
adulterous ways. They are a warning of what will happen to us should we not
stay away from her.
In my youth when I was weak,
vulnerable and hopeless she set a trap for me and I fell in, unaware. Day after
day my soul took a beating as she piled her lusts upon me, heaping death and
despair into my heart. My light became dim and Sheol my dwelling place. Who can
defeat her?
With ease, patiently, she takes the
mightiest of men and makes them her captive. Who can get victory over her? She
says in her heart, “I sit as a queen, I am no widow and shall see no sorrow.”
She is a strange and wayward woman, filled with every iniquity of this age. Out
of her mouth comes a serpents tongue, laced with deception and seduction. You
will not defeat her, young man, you must come away from her. There is no other
way.
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Once atop a mountain I looked down
into the valley below and I saw her city. It seemed well pleasing to the eyes
and my heart wondered after her. “MYSTERY” she is called, “BABYLON THE GREAT”.
I left my dwelling place to go after her, to taste of her luxuries and to look
upon her beauty. “THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS” welcomed me in without hesitation. She
opened her lusts and iniquity to me but would not open her heart.
It was as if I had fallen under a
spell!? My sight became dim and my understanding darkened. I would no more be
content with the simple pleasures of life because my flesh wanted so much more.
Her bed was intoxicating, like sorcery and I couldn’t get enough. The
mountaintop was all but gone from my memory as I spilled deeper into her
incantations.
But she would not be pleased with
some food in her belly and the clothes on her back, she wanted more. Written
upon her left hand was excess and upon her right was indulgence, her appetite
for the lusts of men were as a bottomless pit that no amount of heaping would
fill. She was a wicked, brutal, howbeit beautiful, taskmaster. Who would
satiate her endless desire for more?
My eyes dimmed, my body became heavy
laden with sin as I became her captive. I tried and tried to love her but it
wasn’t love she was after, she wanted the souls of men. No man would win the
affection of “THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS,” none would solve this “MYSTERY”. She came
to wage war against all that is good and she will not stop until the desolation
is complete. I pray you men come away from her and her city and never look
back…
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It’s hard to say what first woke me
up? Was it the attack against her city? Or the plague so quickly infecting her subjects?
It’s difficult to say how this came to be but somehow I was shaken out of my
spell and I awoke. I could see for the first time in many years and remember
from where I had come. After the spell was shaken off “THE MOTHER OF
ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH,” suddenly lost her beauty and I lost my desire for
her. I looked up for the first time in years and I saw the mountain, reaching
high above the clouds, beckoning me to return!
O How I missed those streams of
living water, the bread of heaven I would feast upon, the peace and solace of
the woods and the whisper of the wind in my ears! I longed to sit again upon a
mighty steed and take him with me to the high places, returning to the throne
of The Good and Righteous King. How did “BABYLON” ever seduce me away from
Him?! How was my heart ever led away deceived!?
I walked throughout her city as if
sounding a trumpet, saying to them, “We do not have to live in this defeat,
shame and despair any longer! Come away with me! I will take you to a Kingdom
of Righteousness, to the Dwelling place of our God!” But most wanted me to be
quiet. They tried to take my trumpet away from me, to silence my beckoning;
some would have murdered me if they had had the chance! Yet still I sounded the
alarm! My God shook the city at its foundations as I cried out to them, yet
still they would not heed the call.
I returned to Him, to my King and I
waited with Him for a long season as He made me well again.
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But I was not the first or the only
one to have seen the wickedness of the “HARLOT”. Moses warned about her sins in
his law, Joshua battle against her receiving his Promised Land, Samson was
defeated by her in Delilah, David the king of Israel ran from her as Saul came
after him and Solomon knew her well, calling her in his writings, “the strange
woman.” And then came Elijah…
Elijah took her on like none other
before him! She reared her ugly head as “Jezebel” in those days and Elijah was
the chosen vessel to receive the victory over her. She plotted and destroyed,
deceived and murdered all that she could get away with but God would uphold
Elijah to the end! And in the end she was disarmed and powerless as Elijah restored
the hearts of the people back to their God and was taken to heaven having never
tasted death!
But now she has returned to us. She
has returned more full of vengeance and destruction than ever! And the whole
earth has gone whoring after her. Every nation, tribe and tongue has been
defiled, every ruler, merchant, captain, mighty-man and king has jumped into
her bed of fornication and wickedness. All of the nations of the earth have
grown rich by the excess of her indulgences and they destroy everyone who would
stand in her way.
The God of the mountaintop has seen
the iniquity and knows well of the destruction and so He has returned the
spirit of Elijah unto the earth! The same spirit of the man who achieved
victory over “THE HARLOT” in the days of old has been returned to the earth to
once again receive Victory! The scripture has declared of him, “He will turn
the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of
the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” (Luke 1:17 and Malachi
4:5, 6) And he will not stop until it is accomplished.
Men will not be able to resist him
because Strong and Mighty is the God from whom he is sent. The world will not
have victory over him because his God has sent him to prepare His way and He
will not allow them to stand against him. Through the Spirit in him will the
way of the Lord be prepared and the King will return in righteousness to
restore all that has been lost. Righteousness will return to the earth and the
whole of the iniquity will be found no more, the “HARLOT” and her “BABYLON”
will be removed from the face of the earth and they will be found no more!
HALLELUJAH!
The people of God will be restored
to the mountaintop, what is called Zion, and they know their God as they will see
Him, face to face. We will know Him. We will look upon Him and He will reveal
to us His holy name! It has been revealed and He will be revealed to us again!
HALLELUJAH! HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST! HOSANNA TO THE KING OF KINGS!
There will be no more sin. The
iniquity will be finished and it will be found no more. The people of God will
know their God and they will never again be ashamed! All things will be
restored to us! And we will walk in the house of our God, forever! AMEN!
HALLELUJAH! COME LORD JESUS! COME!
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Brothers, reading again out of the
Scriptures and the letters that our brothers in this New Covenant penned, it is
clear they knew of this battle, the war against the spirit of the world. There
is much of the Mysteries of the kingdom of God that will remain kept hidden
from the congregation, unless we first receive this word; this is also a part
of the gospel of the kingdom of God.
We have an enemy and our enemy has a
kingdom, but God sent His Son to redeem men out from that kingdom! The kingdom
of our enemy is led by a woman who John saw in a vision, in Revelation, and he
called her, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH.” And then John told us to, “Come out of her, my people, that ye
be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues… for
strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.”
This same spirit John judged is the
same spirit Elijah came up against in Jezebel. John saw in his Revelation that
Jezebel had returned, her spirit was alive in the church, defiling all who came
unto her, only now she called herself a “prophetess”. John warned us of the
spirit again saying, “you have allowed the woman Jezebel which calls herself a
prophetess…” And where did they allow her? Within the church…
John wrote us of Jezebel insomuch
that we would not allow her to continue within our church that is to say within
His Church. Then he reveals to us what will happen should we continue to allow
her. God is a Jealous God! He wants to inhabit us! But we cannot be inhabited
by God and by the spirit of the world, together. As Jesus spoke, “No man can
serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else
he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
And then John wrote again, warning
of this spirit, saying, “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the
world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all
that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes and the
pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth
away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for
ever.” Amen.
So Jesus spoke against this spirit
as did Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter and Paul who all wrote against her:
John having been revealed much of her in Revelation, seeing visions in the
Spirit. But all of these Holy men, first and foremost our Christ, knew that the
spirit of the world is a spirit that seduces men, like a whore seduces men and
will eventually seduce the whole of the nations of the world away from their
God!
“Father, I pray that you would
continue to reveal this MYSTERY more, that we of Your Church would come away
and not participate in her adulteries. Amen.”
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Jezebel is already among us.
That is what John saw and explained to us in his Revelation. This same spirit
that has been seducing men since the beginning away from their (our) God is now
within the Church!? This thing should not be so!
What does she, this spirit, look
like? How can we recognize her at work? John wrote that she “teaches and
seduces my servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed to
idols.” These are spiritual things, not things carnal of which John writes
about. So spiritually speaking, what is it to be seduced into fornication? For
that answer we must return to the Old Testament and the Jews Bible for the
prophetic explanation of “fornication”.
Reading again throughout the Old
Testament there is this expression often throughout the prophets especially,
“went whoring after other gods”. Many times throughout the prophets and the Old
Testament it is explained to us that God views it as fornication or adultery
every time Israel went, “whoring after other gods.” Why? Because they were
seduced by “the spirit of the world” away from their True God and into “a bed”
with the false and lifeless gods, committing fornication and adultery.
So this same spirit is among the
church, teaching them (or trying to teach us) to go “go whoring after other
gods” and to “commit fornication” with them. Our God is a Jealous God! He wants
to inhabit us and to make us His holy dwelling place! This is what Paul wrote
about to the Corinthian Church, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and
that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God,
him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.” (I
Corinthians 3:16-19)
“A house divided against itself
cannot stand.” We cannot serve the Spirit of God and the spirit of the world at
the same time. Our God is an all consuming fire! Read what John wrote to those
who would try to serve both the kingdom of the world and the kingdom of God at
the same time, “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I [would
rather that you would be either] cold or hot. So then because you are lukewarm,
and neither cold or hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest,
I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not
that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked…”
(Revelation 3:15-19)
But the “HARLOT” would have us to
love her seduction! To love her luxuries and her excess. This “Whore” would
seduce us right into the pit if she could, just as she is seducing away the
whole world into damnation, even warring against their God. That spirit of the
world in Jezebel, “MYSTERY” has done it before and she is here now, to do so again.
Look at what John wrote, “In her was found the blood of the prophets, and of
the saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.” The “MOTHER OF
ABOMINATIONS” is again, just as she did thru Jezebel, going to seek to destroy
and murder the prophets of God and the saints. Why? Because she hates all that
is of God. Everything good, noble, pure, innocent, just, everything of mercy,
faith, hope and love, everything that is called God, this spirit and those who
are in league with her, hates.
The battle to end all wars will be
fought between her most famous child, the son of perdition and the army of God,
The Lamb leading the charge! John saw this and wrote, “These shall make war
against the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for He is the Lord of lords
and the King of kings: and they that are with Him are called, and chosen, and
faithful.” (Revelation 17:14)
This “great whore” will not stop
until she destroys everything, men, all that they have built, even the earth,
“And the nations were angry, and thy wrath has come, and the time of the dead,
that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy
servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small
and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.” (Revelation
11:18)
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Why would you be in bed with this
“great whore” Holy Church? Why would you labor after her and at the same time
preach the holy gospel of the kingdom of God?! Have we not been warned of her?
Why will we not listen? Do we just not believe?
James warned us of this also, in
Chapter 5 of his book, “Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries
that shall come upon you.” He continues, “Ye have lived in pleasure on the
earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of
slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just…” (James 5:1-6)
Perhaps this is why Jesus said, “You
cannot be my disciple unless you have forsaken all that you have.” (Luke 14:33)
Jesus, knowing all things and the things of the spirit of the world, taught
them how to live lives as holy men, pleasing unto God. Yet how few came unto
Him? The Son of God performed how many miracles in their midst and yet how many
turned away from their old and worldly lives to follow after Him? (There were
only 120 in the upper room after He went to be with the Father, waiting for the
Holy Spirit to come. Yet how many thousands, hundreds of thousands, saw His
miracles and the amazing sights of God that He performed among them?!?)
The seducing of the “HARLOT” is just
too great for too many. Some are afraid but the rest are seduced by her
fornications and the worldly power that she promises them. Even Christ
was tempted, satan said, “All these [kingdoms of the world] I will give thee,
if thou wilt fall down and worship me.” And Jesus responded, “Get thee [away
from me], Satan; for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and
Him only shalt thou serve.” (Matthew 4:1-11) Later Jesus says this world “has
nothing in me.” (John 14:30)
How can we be both the ministers of
God and the ministers of men? Can a well spring forth both sweet water and
bitter? Desire not the praises of men but the praises of God! Jesus said, “Do
not store up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust will corrupt
but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven…” and “Great is your reward in
heaven!”
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Pray that this MYSTERY will be
revealed unto us and removed out from the hearts and minds of the Church. This
spirit of the world, this “Babel” will not stop until our Lord comes back to
stop her. Men have been building upon her foundations since the beginning and
the day will come when she will be once and for always removed from God’s
earth! HALLELUJAH! AMEN!
Now it is not the time to be afraid
but believing! It is not the time to cower but to plant our lives like never
before upon the Word of God and there find rest. Our God is going to deliver
us. Men cannot deliver us, though they would try. Only Messiah has got us the
Victory and will complete what He began so long ago. He told us, “It is
finished.”
Jesus is coming to be married to His
Church. And this is what Paul wrote about this marriage, “This is a great
mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.” He wrote, “For this
cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his
wife, and they two shall be one flesh.” (Ephesians 5:31,32) The same way a man
and a woman become one flesh in the marriage is the same way Christ will become
one flesh with us. And this too is a mystery.
So Paul warns us, “Know ye not that
your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ,
and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid. What? Know ye not that he
which is joined to an harlot is one body? For two, saith he, shall be one
flesh.” Continue reading, “What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of
the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price…” (I Corinthians 6:15-20)
Paul wrote spiritually of the same
“HARLOT” of which John wrote. Our temple is not for the dwelling of the
“HARLOT” neither of the spirit of the world but our body is the dwelling place
of God! How often did Paul write to us about matters of the family and the
Godly way of living in Him as a family!? Yet much of the Church lacks understanding
in these matters because they still love to sin and hate things that are holy,
therefore men do not protect their wives as they ought but allow them into
fornication.
Adam did not fall first but Eve (I
Timothy 2:13-14). Satan, knowingly coming against the weaker vessel (I Peter
3:7) caused her to sin, being deceived and Adam followed her into the iniquity.
But why didn’t Adam refuse? Or repent for her? Or protect her from the enemy?
Therefore the first deception against man came against his family, his wife and
man did not protect her.
Paul wrote to men of loving their
wives saying that to love them is to “sanctify and cleanse” them “with the
washing of water by the word,” that we might, “present [our wives] to himself a
glorious church, having not spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that
[they] should be holy and without blemish.” Paul continued to explain these
things to the Ephesians in Chapter 5. This is how Paul explained to us,
husbands to love our wives, to keep them holy and blameless and without spot or
blemish.
This is also the spirit of Elijah
sent to prepare the way of the Lord! Elijah, restoring all things unto Christ,
will turn the father’s hearts back to the children and the hearts of the
children back to the fathers (Malachi 4:5,6). And how are the fathers going to
teach their children to walk with God?! but to obey the Word of God. Fathers
will awaken unto righteousness and God will teach them to lead their families
in righteousness and unto holiness, as He is holy. So will men come once again
to teach their children of the Holy Mysteries of the kingdom of God.
Though the world became cursed,
under the curse, “children are their oppressors, and women ruling over them,”
(Isaiah 3:4,12) God will restore all things by His redeemer, His Christ,
restoring a man to the head of His household and a woman as his helpmate. As it
is written, “the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the
man; and the head of Christ is God.” (I Corinthians 11:3) Again Paul wrote,
“For the man is not of the woman but the woman is of the man.” (I Corinthians
11:9) And again, “Wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the
Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of
the Church…” and he continued, “so let the wives be [subject] to their own
husbands in everything.” (Ephesians 5:22-24)
Paul wrote at length about God’s way
to order the churches and God’s way to keep the families in His blessing. Paul
wrote at length about the family and how to keep them away from the spirit of
the world and holy. I need not rewrite the whole of scripture but to lay this
foundation in Christ who is not of the spirit of this world, but is of God.
Christ came to give us life that we might live it more abundantly yet men
choose otherwise, to go whoring after the world and full of the iniquity of the
flesh, rather than to love their wives and keep their families in Christ, holy.
Paul went to great lengths to
explain to the Church the reasons for God’s way of ordering the churches. Paul
wrote again and again how men are to protect their families and their wives by
ordering the churches unto Christ. But to those who would not listen He wrote,
“But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the
churches of God.” (I Corinthians 11:16) Again he wrote, “But if any man be
ignorant, let him be ignorant.” And, “the things that I write unto you are the
commandments of the Lord.” (I Corinthians 14:32-40)
But men would rather live under the
curse than under the blessing!? Rejecting the word of God men will only receive
a curse. There is grace and there is mercy with our God, but rejecting this
mercy and resisting His grace men will only receive the curse. Christ has come
to break the curse but men do not receive His Word. Men would rather have the
temporary pleasures of the world than the lasting rewards of their God and
Father!
The spirit of Elijah has also come
to restore the men of God to the blessing of God, away from the curse and into
His fullness! This spirit set against the spirit of the world, once Jezebel,
has come to restore men back unto the worship of their One and True God and in
doing so they will once again love their families.
Ahab the king of Israel did not love
his wife, Jezebel. If he had loved her he would have kept her from destroying
the holy things of God and murdering the prophets. If Ahab had loved her he
would have withstood her assault against the people of God and Israel, even if
he was afraid. A man is the head of his household, it is therefore that Ahab
not Jezebel had the worse of the sin.
The men who allow this Jezebel to
continue within the church also carry the greater of the sin then the women who
live out the spirit of Jezebel within the church, for they are the ones with
the authority given by God who allow it. It is therefore John wrote, “you allow
this woman Jezebel…” (Revelation 2:20-23) because at any moment they could put
an end to it, but they don’t, Paul had already written at length about this
subject, years before John wrote his Revelation. John’s Revelation obviously
being totally in agreement with Paul’s letters ordering the church, “Let your
women keep silence in the churches…” (I Corinthians 14:32-40) and “I do not
allow a woman to teach or to usurp authority over the man, but to be in
silence.” (I Timothy 2:9-15)
These things gave God unto the
churches that the men might come to lead their households in holiness (as
priests) thereby the churches following the same example, men leading them in
holiness. But if men will not keep themselves holy, keeping themselves away
from the spirit of this world, they will neither keep their families holy, unto
Christ, and will thereby live out the curse. There remains no blessing living
in the iniquity of this fallen world.
When men return unto their God and
Father, they will return unto holiness and their families will follow them unto
the blessing and the reward! But men of this generation would rather sell their
birthright to feed their flesh, as did Esau, the profane person, before them…
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“Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have
hated,” (Malachi 1:2, 3 and Romans 9:13) declared the Lord God. And why did He
hate Esau? Because Esau sold his God-given birthright for a meal, to feed his
flesh. How often do the men of this generation, of His Church, trade away their
inheritance for the delights of the flesh?! For a momentary pleasure and a
temporal pursuit!? This thing should not be so.
As Esau was a profane man,
constantly desiring after the affairs of this world, so the men of this
generation, even of His Church, profane the temple of God, their own bodies, by
daily longing after and fornicating with the spirit of the world. They have
traded away their birthrights for the feeding of the flesh and the temporal
delights of the “WHORE” who has “defiled the whole earth”. And they have led
their families into the same iniquity; and therefore into the curse.
And then as Abel comes to make his
offering before the Lord, his offering that is received, Cain comes to kill
him. And why? Because Cain has not the love of God in him but lusts rather for
the fallen things of this world in envy. Men cannot please God and love the
world together. Men will either please God or love the world. This truth is
clear throughout scripture.
So the “Whore” will continue. She
will tempt Esau to turn away from his birthright and instead feed his flesh as
she will provoke Cain unto envy, until he murders his own brother. (Did not
Ahab allow Jezebel to murder many of his own brethren of the children of
Israel!?) What must God do to awaken the men of this generation to love!? He
already gave to us His only Son!? What must God do to convince them that He
loves us!?
When the men of this generation
return to the love of God they will stop destroying God’s temple and they will
return unto His commandments because they love Him! Israel will receive the
inheritance and Esau will be quieted! Abel will be received and Cain will be
punished for all the evil he worked upon God’s earth. God is restoring all
things unto Himself and He did so through Christ Jesus our Lord!
God is making His covenant with a
new generation of Abraham’s, Isaac’s and Jacob’s: they who are willing to
believe upon the promise and thereby receive the blessing! God is restoring His
covenant to a new generation of children who will take Him at His word and
simply believe. God will restore to them all things! The Blessing, The Inheritance,
The Glory, The Reward and Eternity! In these last days, God is making unto
Himself, sons.
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The sons of God will be content to
walk with their God and Father; the world will have nothing in them and they
will be made free of the iniquity of the “Great Whore”. The Father will
delight Himself in them and Great will be their Reward in heaven!
These sons will celebrate the holy
things of scripture and will take pleasure in keeping themselves separated from
the iniquity of this world. The sons of God will live in unity one with
another, because the Spirit of God will live inside of them! And they will
desire the fullness thereof, the spirit and the truth! And God will rise up a
Mighty Army, of sons!
The scripture has already declared
all of these things of which I now bring to your remembrance. A Great and a
Mighty work God will do in these last days, bringing the Gentile Church unto the
fullness and then Israel will be saved! (Romans 11:25) And then the end will
come. This thing God is doing, and it is beautiful in His sight!
The whole of creation is groaning
and travailing waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God (Romans 8). God
will bring them forth! Man will not make unto themselves sons of God, but God
will bring them forth! Men will politick and deceive, lead into iniquity and be
led into iniquity but the Son of God will save souls and bring many unto
righteousness!
Soon all things will be fulfilled.
The iniquity will be finished and she will be removed from the face of the
earth; and found no more! “BABYLON” will come into remembrance and God will
throw her into the sea! He will make all things new! John saw, “a new heaven and
a new earth,” for God has declared, “I make all things new.” (Revelation 16:19
and 21:1,5)
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