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Revelation Chapter 17 VERSES 4 AND 5 continued “The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication, and on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON...

Revelation Chapter 17 VERSES 4 AND 5 “The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication, and on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE...

Revelation Chapter 17 VERSE 3 “So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.” AND HE CARRIED ME AWAY: Brother Russell was the first to understand clearly the...

Revelation Chapter 17 VERSE 2 -- WITH WHOM THE KINGS OF THE EARTH COMMITTED IMMORALITY: This is her primary sin. The Christian Church is espoused to Christ to be wedded to Him at His return. This woman thought that the interval before that return would be more profitable to her if she lured...

Revelation Chapter 17 VERSES 1 AND 2 “Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the...

Revelation Chapter 17 PARTS OF THE BEAST It is immediately noticeable in this chapter that Babylon is portrayed as a harlot SITTING ON a beast. In Chapter 13, church and state were all amalgamated into the beast. The story of the fall of Babylon and of the destruction of the beast, however...

Revelation Chapter 17 In this study we will as usual be consulting our two primary sources on the book of Revelation, viz., the “New Albany Notes on Revelation” (abbreviated here as N.A.N.O.R.) along with excerpts from Brother Frank Shallieu’s work “The Keys to Revelation”, any other sources of...

Revelation Chapter 16 Further Explanation of Symbols The Joshua account of the siege of Jericho contains other interesting symbolisms. In one sense, the ark symbolizes God’s presence amidst His people, but in another sense the journeying ark and the priests carrying and accompanying it...

Revelation Chapter 16 Joshua and the Conquest of Jericho “And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men...

Revelation Chapter 16 Verse 21 continued “And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.” “Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the...

Revelation Chapter 16 Verse 21: And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great. Rendered from the Greek, this passage should read: “There fell...

Revelation Chapter 16 Samson and the Temple of Dagon The story of Samson, in regard to the destruction of the Temple of Dagon (a typical representation of mystical Babylon), illustrates how the religious systems uphold the social and civil order. When Samson pulled down the pillars, the...

Revelation Chapter 16 Verse 19: And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. The literal kingdom of Babylon was composed of three...

Revelation Chapter 16 (As taken from “The Keys of Revelation” by Brother Frank Shallieu) Verse 17: And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, it is done. Verse 18: And there were voices, and...

Revelation Chapter 16 VERSES 17-21 “And the seventh (angel) poured out his bowl upon the air; and there came forth a great voice out of the temple, from the throne, saying, it is done: and there were lightning’s, and voices, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since...

Revelation Chapter 16 VERSES 17-21 “And the seventh (angel) poured out his bowl upon the air; and there came forth a great voice out of the temple, from the throne, saying, it is done: and there were lightning’s, and voices, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since...