Who is the
Scarlet HARLOT of Babylon?

hy pray to Mary and to dead saints (Deut. 18:10-12) when the Bible teaches us to pray to God (Matthew 6:9; Luke 18:1-7; etc.)? Why confess our sins to a priest when scripture teaches that we can confess our sins to God for forgiveness (1 John 1:9) and to one another (James 5:16)? Is Mary the “queen of heaven” or a “perpetual virgin” or the “co-redemptress” or “another mediator” between God and man (Acts 4:12; 1 Timothy 2:5)? Are the bread and wine actually changed into Christ’s body and blood at the Eucharist over and over again or was he sacrificed only “once” (Heb. 9:25-28)? Do papal decrees really nullify scripture? Do Catholics worship “graven images” (Ex.20:4)? Should a priestly hierarchy lord it over the laity or should there just be "...one ... Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren" (Matthew 23:8)? Does the Bible advocate a celibate priesthood or marriage (1 Cor. 9:5; 1 Tim. 4:3)? Is "freedom of religion" merely "liberty to err" as the Pope says?

Was Peter the First Pope?

“Thou art Peter (petros -- a stone, a rock -- masculine person), and upon this rock (petra -- a massive foundational rock -- feminine) I will build my church, and the gates of the grave shall not prevail against it” (Matt. 16:18) The church is not built on Peter, but is “built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner STONE” (Eph. 2:20). And again, “For other FOUNDATION can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Cor. 3:11). Jesus warned his disciples not to use the title “FATHER” because “all ye are brethren” (Matt. 23:10). Yet the word “POPE” actually means “FATHER.” Jesus warned his disciples not to “exercise dominion” over the flock (Mark 10:43) and said, “If any man would be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all” (Mark 9:33-35). Yet the Pope is head over a large hierarchy. Peter was married (Matt. 8:14; 1 Cor. 9:5) yet the Pope is celibate. Peter wouldn’t allow men to worship him or bow down to him (Acts 10:25-26). Yet men do bow down before the Pope and worship him. Peter was not infallible in matters of faith and morals. Notice that Jesus later in the same chapter called him “Satan” (v.23). Peter denied Jesus three times before the cock crow. (John 13:38) Later Paul rebuked Peter because Peter was again wrong (Gal. 2:11). After that there were disputes among the disciples as to who was greatest which certainly imply that Peter hadn’t been given any superior position.(Mark 9:33-35). Yet the Pope is the chief ruler of the Roman church.

The Keys To Bind And Loose?

“And I will give unto thee (Peter) the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” The perfect passive Greek tense is used in this verse. The verse actually reads, “must be already bound” (Amp.) and “must be what is already loosed” (Amp.) because Jesus the Messiah “openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth” (Rev. 3:7). “We ought to obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29).

Should We Worship Mary?

Catholics place much emphasis on the worship of “Mary” -- a mere human woman --rather than on Jesus olone. But Mary called God “my SAVIOR” (Luke 1:47). Therefore, if Mary needed a SAVIOR, she was not a SAVIOR herself. Mary is not our “MEDIATOR” either, “For there is ONE GOD, and ONE MEDIATOR between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim. 2:5). Catholics call Mary "the QUEEN of HEAVEN" but Jeremiah condemned this goddess-worship (Jer. 7:18-20; 44:17-19). The “woman clothed with the sun” (Rev. 12:1) does not refer to Mary but to “the church in the wilderness” (Acts 7:38) since a church is symbolized by a woman (Eph. 5:22-25; 2 Cor. 11:2). The “twelve stars” upon her head (Rev. 12:1) are defined as the twelve sons of Israel (Gen. 37:9-10).

Was Mary a perpetual virgin? According to the scriptures, the birth of Jesus was the result of a supernatural conception (Matt.1:23), without an earthly father. But after Jesus was born, Mary gave birth toother children - the natural offspring of her union with Joseph,her husband. Jesus was Mary's "firstborn" son (Matt.1:25); itdoes not say he was her only child. Jesus being her firstbornchild could certainly infer that later she had a second-bornchild, possibly a third-born child, etc. That such was the caseseems apparent, for the names of four brothers are mentioned:James, Joses, Simon, and Judas (Matt.13:55). Sisters are alsomentioned. The people of Nazareth said: " . . . and his sisters, are they not all with us?" (verse 56). The word "sisters" is plural, of course, so we know that Jesus had at least two sistersand probably more, for this verse speaks of "all" his sisters.Usually if we are referring to only two people, we would say"both" of them, not "all" of them. The implication is that atleast three sisters are referred to. If we figure three sistersand four brothers, half-brothers and half-sisters of Jesus, thiswould make Mary the mother of eight children. The scriptures say: "Joseph ... knew her not till she hadbrought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS"(Matt.1:25). Joseph "knew her not" until after Jesus was born,but after that, Mary and Joseph did come together as husband andwife and children were born to them. The idea that Joseph keptMary as a virgin all of her life is clearly unscriptural.

The Mass

When the Catholic priest blesses the bread and wine, he says the Latin words, 'Hoc est corpus meus.' In view of the fact that no change takes place, we can understand how the expression "HOCUS-POCUS" originated with these words. After Jesus had blessed the cup, he still called it "the fruit of the VINE" not literal BLOOD (Matt.26:29). Since Jesus drank from the cup also, did he drink his own BLOOD? If the WINE became actual BLOOD, to drink it would have been FORBIDDEN by the Bible (Deut.12:16; Acts 15:20). The very idea of Christ "flesh and blood, body and soul, Divinity and humanity" - being offered REPEATEDLY as a "renewal" of the sacrifice of the cross, stands in sharp contrast to the words of Jesus on the cross, "It is FINISHED" (John 19:30). The Old Testament sacrifices had to be CONTINUALLY offered because none of them were the perfect sacrifice. But now "we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ ONCE for all. For every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:but this man (Christ), after he had offered ONE sacrifice forsins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God - for by ONE offering he perfected for ever them that are sanctified" (Heb.10:10-14).

Should We Worship Dead Saints?

Jesus said, “Thou shalt worship the Lord, thy God, and him ONLY shalt thou serve” (Matt. 4:10). Looking back to the "mother" of false religion -Babylon - we find that the people prayed to and honored many gods. In fact, the Babylonian system developed until t had some 5,000 gods and goddesses (Hays - "In the Beginning" vol.2,p.65). In much the same way as Catholics believe concerning their "saints", the Babylonians believed that their "gods" had at one time been living here on earth, but were now on a higher plane ("Ency. of Religion"vol.2,p.78). "Every monthand every day of the month was under the protection of a particular divinity" (Williams - "The Historians' History of the World" vol.1,p.518). There was a god for each problem and each different occupation. From Babylon -- like the worship of the great mother -- such concepts about the "gods" spread to the nations. Even the Buddhists in China had their "worship of various deities, as the goddess of sailors, the god of war, the gods of special neighborhoods or occupations" (Dobbins - "Story of the World's Worship" p.621). The Syrians believed the powers of certain gods were limited to certain areas, as an incident in the Bible records: "Their gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they" (1 Kings 20:23). Catholics merely adopted this system by changing these gods into “saints”

What Is The Abomination of Desolation?

What is the "Abomination of Desolation" that stands "in the holy place" (Dan. 9:27; 11:31; 12:11; Matt. 24:15)? In 2 Maccabees 6:2 he is called "Zeus Olympios." The guides at the Vatican commonly tell visitors that the bronze statue of "Saint Peter" in Saint Peter's in Rome is the ancient pagan statue of Jupiter (Zeus) which was adopted, "canonised" and sanctified. His one big toe is regularly kissed at certain ceremonies. A round sun-wheel is suspended above his head. He is certainly in the holy (separated) place.

Satan Worship

The ancient name of Rome was SATURNIA, the city of SATURN (Pliny's Natural History 3:5; Ovid's Fasti 6:2). A week of feasting was held in Rome, dedicated to SATURN, called SATURNALIA. It lasted from December 17 to 23. "SATURN or Belus was the first KING of BABYLON" (Eusebius Chronicon 1:81) just as SATAN is called the "KING of BABYLON" (Isa. 14:4,12). Hislop states that SATURN is known in Chaldee (Babylonian language) as "SATUR" (Hislop's Two Babylons, p.269) or SATYR-- the GOAT-legged god. The Azazel "Scape GOAT" of Leviticus 16 that is taken to an "uninhabited wilderness" (Lev.16:22) is a type of SATAN and reminds us of 'SATYRS" who dance in "Babylon" -- a place that "shall never be inhabited" (Isa. 13:19-21).. These same SATYRS are translated "DEMONS" in Leviticus 17:7 (see also 2 Chron. 25:14-15). SATURN was the secret name revealed only to the initiates of the Chaldean mysteries which, in Chaldee, was spelled with four letters: STUR. In this language S=60, T=400, U=6 and R=200 making a total of 666. Jacob Grimm mentions the possibility that the name SATURN is related to the name SATAN (Teutonic Mythology translated by J. Stallybrass, pp.247-248 7 1601). SATURN was the "father of the gods" (Hislop's Two Babylons, p.42).

Blasphemy

Pope Boniface VIII said, “The Roman pontiff judges all men, but is judges by no one. We declare, assert, define, and pronounce. To be subject to the Roman pontiff is to every human creature altogether necessary for salvation ... that which was spoken of Christ ‘thou hast subdued all things under his feet,’ may well seem verified in me ... I have the authority of the king of kings. I am all and above all, so that God himself and I, the vicar of God, have but one consistory, and I am able to do all that God can do. What therefore, can you make of me but God?” (TIME Magazine, May 25, 1981, p.12)

I saw "a WOMAN (Church -- Eph. 5:23) sit upon a scarlet-colored BEAST (Roman Empire is the dragon -- Rev. 12:3-4), full of names of BLASPHEMY ("Vicar of Christ," "Holy Reverend Father," "Your Holiness," "Infallible," "Mother of God") having SEVEN HEADS (Justinian, Charlemagne, Otto the Great, Charles the Great, Napoleon, Mussolini, and one to come) and TEN HORNS" (Rev. 17:3). (Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Vandals, Sueves, Franks, Burgundians, Heruli, Huns, Lombards, and Anglo-Saxons. Three independent authors all testify that these were the ten Gothic kingdoms -- Gibbon, Procopius and Machiavelli [Hist. Floe. i]). Catholic priests are called "FATHER" as a religious title (Judges 17:10; 18:19) and nuns are called "MOTHER" just as the priests of Mithra were called "Father" and the priestesses of Cybele were called "Mother." But Jesus told us to "call no man your FATHER upon the earth; for one is your Father, who is in heaven" (Matt. 23:9).



Homosexual Priests

"And the woman was arrayed in PURPLE and SCARLET color (Church bishops dress in purple and "Babylonian" cardinals wear bright red garments -- Ez. 23:14-15; Catholic Encyclopedia pp.175,178. The regular priests are black-robed Baal worshippers -- Zeph. 1:4, wearing vestments -- 2 Ki. 10:22) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a GOLDEN CUP (Babylonian doctrines -- Jer. 51:7; Isa. 47:12-15) in her hand" (Rev. 17:1-4). This Chalice is "the most important of the sacred vessels ... (It) may be of gold or of silver" (Catholic Encyclopedia, pp.103-104). But this cup is "full of ABOMINATIONS and filthiness of her FORNICATION" (Rev. 17:4). Why? Because she demands her priests to be CELIBATE. This leads to fornication and homosexuality which are abominations, or to molesting choir boys. Paul wrote that a bishop should be "the husband of one wife" (1 Tim. 3:2; Titus 1:5-6). The Bible defines itself in Leviticus 20:13 which says, "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an ABOMINATION."

Murdering Jews and Christians

"I will show unto thee the judgment of the great WHORE that sitteth upon many waters (peoples, multitudes nations, tongues -- Rev. 17:15); With whom the kings of the earth have committed FORNICATION, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication" (Rev. 17:1-2). "And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, BABYLON the Great." Babylon is another name for Rome (Sibylline Oracles 5:159f; the Apocalypse of Baruch ii,1 and 4 Esdras 3:1). She is "the Mother of HARLOTS (Protestant churches) and ABOMINATIONS of the Earth (Catholic dealings with the Mafia and laundering drug money are fully documented in police and court records), ... DRUNK with the BLOOD of the SAINTS" (Rev. 17:6). This refers to the murder of Huguenots, Albigenses, Waldensians, Jews and Protestants. These "heretics" were burned at the stake and tortured in the Crusades and Spanish Inquisition. "The seven heads are SEVEN MOUNTAINS on which the woman sitteth. And the woman ... is that great city (Rome -- "the eternal city"), which reigneth over the kings of the earth" (Rev. 17:3-18) just as Semiramis the Queen of Babylon committed harlotry with all the kings of the earth. Pliny mentions "the SEVEN HILLS" of Rome (Natural History 3:66). Even the name VATICAN means "place of Divinations" (Ancient Monuments of Rome, p.75). She has the NUMBER 666 (Filii Vicarivs Dei) (Rev. 13:8).

Fish Worship

The pope's hat originated from the "head of the fish (that) formed a mitre above that of the man, while its scaley, fan-like tail fell as a cloak behind, leaving the human limbs and feet exposed" (Layard's Nineveh and Babylon). Furthermore, Catholics won't EAT FISH on Friday which is a "doctrine of demons" (1 Tim. 4:1-3). The Messiah "began to be popularly called ICHTHYS (or ICHTHUS), that is 'the Fish,' manifestly to identify Him with Dagon" (Hislop's Two Babylons, p.247; see also pp. 252 & 270). Augustine excused it this way, "If you combine the initial letters of the five Greek words, which are Iesous Chreistos Theou Uios Soter, Jesus Christ the Son of God the Savior, they make the word ICHTHUS." (City of God, 5:447). Tertullian called Jesus "our FISH" (Whittick's Symbols Signs and their Meaning, p.185). Deuteronomy 4:15-19 says, "Watch yourselves very carefully, so that you do not ... make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape ... any fish in the water ... do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping" (NIV). The son of the Syrian goddess Atargatis was known as ICHTHUS too (F. Creuzer, Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Volker 2:394). Yet how often do we see the fish-ICHTHYS bumper sticker on "Christian" vehicles.

Sun Worship

The nimbus (radiant light) or HALO around many of the ancient gods and goddesses originated in SUN worship. Statues of "Mary," "Joseph" and the baby "Jesus" all have HALOS around their heads. J.C. Cooper's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols, p.112 says, "NiMBUS, HALO ... originally indicative of SOLAR power and the SUN'S DISK, hence an attribute of SUN-GODS." Our words "HOLY" and "HALO" both come from the Greek word "HELIOS" meaning "the SUN god." But God says, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any GRAVEN IMAGE, or any LIKENESS of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God" (Ex. 20:4-5). Furthermore, monks and priests cut bald TONSURES upon their heads (Lev. 21:5). But God says, "They shall not make baldness upon their head" (Lev. 21:5). Men "shave the hair of their heads as, they say, Dionysius, shaved the hair of his. That is, they cut their hair in circular shape and shave the temples" (Her. 3:8)

Idol Worship

Catholics worship "the QUEEN of HEAVEN" ("Ishtar" -- Jer. 44:17-19) using HOT CROSS BUNS (Jer. 7:18-20), graven IMAGES (Ex. 20:4; Deut. 4:16) and PICTURES (Num. 33:52). They kiss BAAL STATUES (1 Ki. 19:18) and carry them around (Isa. 46:6-7). They GIVE MONEY for their DEAD in purgatory (Deut. 26:14) and recite "VAIN REPITITONS" (Matt. 6:7) such as "Hail Mary." But only Jesus is MEDIATOR between God and man (1 Tim. 2:5; Heb. 4:14). Why CONFESS to a priest (cp. James 5:16)? Why WORSHIP ANGELS (Col. 2:18)? God is our ROCK -- not Peter (Ps. 18:31). Catholics celebrate ISHTAR SUNRISE services (Ez. 8:16) and pollute God's name with their X-MASS (Ez. 20:39) and X-MASS TREE (Jer. 10:1-5). They WEEP for TAMMUZ during 40 days of LENT (Ez. 8:14) because Tammuz died at age 40. The CROSS came originally from the first letter in his name, a "T." The letters IHS stand for the Egyptian trinity of Isis (Semiramis), Horus (Tammuz) and Serapis (Osiris or Nimrod) (p.42, Conder's Mystery Babylon the Great). Satan is worshipped as a "Holy" GHOST. Rome dismisses "freedom of religion" or the "private interpretation" of scripture as "liberty to err."

Phallic Obelisks Became Steeples

"There is evidence to show that the spires of our churches owe their existence to the uprights or obelisks outside the temples of former ages" (Sex Worship And Symbolism of Primitive Races, p.38 by Brown). "There are still in existence today remarkable specimens of original phallic symbols ... steeples on churches ... and obelisks" (Eichler, The Customs of Mankind, p.55). But "the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more" (Isa. 27:9 ASV). God says, "I will cut off your carved images and your pillars out of the middle of you, and you shall no more worship the work of your hand" (Micah 5:13 ASV). Erect obelisks were phallix symbols. "Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself IMAGES of MEN, and didst commit whoredom with them" (Ez. 16:17). Lucian, who was an Assyrian, and visited the temple of Dea Syria, near the Euphrates, said there are two PHALLI standing in the porch with this inscription on them, "These PHALLI I, Bacchus, dedicate to my step-mother Juno." The Israelites erected an "image of jealousy in the entry" of the temple" (Ez.8:5) and since "obelisks were ... set up ... in front of the entrance of temples" (p.945, vol.19, Encyc. Brit.), it follows that the "image of jealousy" was an obelisk. There is an obelisk at the entrance of St. Peter's Bascilica in Rome which came from Heliopolis, Egypt, in Caligula's reign (37-41 A.D.). Heliopolis is the Greek name of Beth-shemesh -- an ancient center of sun-worship. The obelisks there were called "images of Beth-shemesh" (Jer.43:13). Since the obelisk had to be ERECT in order to symbolize a PHALLUS, God foretold that these "images shall not stand up" (Isa.27:9). Obelisks became STEEPLES. It is no coincidence that BELLS are found in church STEEPLES and are called "BELLS" -- Baal's PHALLUS. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any carved IMAGE, or any likeness of anything (such as the PENIS) that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; Thou shalt not BOW DOWN thyself to them ("BOW DOWN" is defined as SEX in Job 31:10), nor serve them, for I the Lord thy God am a JEALOUS God (Why jealous unless SEX is involved?) (Ex.20:4-5). ADULTERY is IDOLATRY.

God is the only UPRIGHT rock (Ps.92:15) that BEGOT US (Deut.32:18), just as a penis is upright and begets children. Both a rock and a penis are HARD also. Moses said, "Ye shall overthrow their altars and break their PILLARS, and burn their ASHERAH with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven IMAGES of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. Ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God" (Deut. 12:1-4; 4:15-16; Lev.26:1). Baal Peor means "My Lord the OPENER," and Peor signifies "the OPENING of the MAIDEN'S HYMEN." In Syria, says St. Jerome, the image of Baal Peor had a PHALLUS protruding from its mouth. "They went to Baal Peor, and separated (STRADDLED) themselves unto that SHAME; and their ABOMINATIONS were according as they loved" (Hos.2:16).

Temple Prostitutes Became Nuns

In pagan Rome the Vestal virgins tended the sacred fire.of Vesta. In Scandinavia the priestesses of Freya were bound to perpetual virginity and also watched the sacred fire (Mallet's Northern Antiquities 1:141) and in Peru Incan nunneries housed the virgins of the sun (Prescott's Peru 1:103). In Athens virgins were maintained at public expense, who were strictly bound to a single life (Potter's Antiquities 1:369). The term "NUN" itself is a Chaldean word meaning "daughter." The Mithratic, Eleusinian, Isiac and Cabiric mysteries all had their VESTAL VIRGIN priestesses who lived in monasteries and took vows of chastity just like NUNS. Catholic priests and nuns are FORBIDDEN to MARRY (celibate) which is called a "doctrine of demons" in 1 Timothy 4:1-3. There were girls and men (Hierodouloi) regularly attached to the heathen temples for sexual service and were expected to surrender themselves to men-worshippers in much the same way as Herodotus describes in the temple of the Babylonian Venus Mylitta where every native woman, once in her life was supposed to sit in the Temple and have intercourse with some stranger (Her.1:199; Baruch 6:42-43). The Nautch girls of India are connected with Hindu temples and had in times past a sexual function, and whose dances in honor of the god are, even down to the present day, sexually expressive. (see Carpenter's Origins of Pagan & Christian Beliefs, p.182). Temple revenue was generated by "the hire of an HARLOT" (Micah 1:7). James Breasted says that in his opinion the Egyptian Osiris Mysteries emerged in "Europe three thousand years later" (Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt, p.27).

The Roman Catholic Church In Prophecy

The Pope "shall speak great ("pompous" -- R.A.V.) words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints ... and think to change the times ("the feast days" -- New American Catholic Bible) and the laws; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time" (Dan.7:25). Since a "time" is 360 days (Rev. 12:6,14), we know this is 1260 days, or 1260 years, each day for a year (Nu. 14:34; Ez. 4:6). In 538 A.D., Justinian wrote a letter to the Roman Pope offering to unite church and state. The pope accepted. Then 1260 years later on February 11th, 1798, Napoleon's general Berthier took Rome and established the Roman Republic February 15th, 1798. Pope Pius VI was taken prisoner. In 606 A.D., Constantinople's Emperor Phocas decreed Roman Pope Boniface III head of all churches, thereby giving the popes temporal power. On October 5, 610 A.D. Phocas was "taken out of the way" (2 Thess. 2). Then 1260 years later, the temporal power of the Papacy ended when Garibaldi overthrew the Papal States of Italy in stages: Venetia fell October 1866 and Tuscany on October 1870. Also a literal 1260 days transpired between the Lateran Council in May 1514 to October 1517 when Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the Wurtemburg Church.

"Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms ... But these two things shall come to thee ... in one day: the loss of children (Protestant Reformation in 1517), and widowhood (Loss of temporal power in 1798, 1866 and 1870) (Isa. 47:5,9). Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues" (Rev. 18:4).

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