Unveiling Jesus Christ

Unveiling Jesus Christ

di John Cassinat

[§293] Rev 17:16-17: Ten Horns Shall Hate and Burn the Great Whore

This podcast explains the symbolism and imagery used by John in Revelation 17:16-17, which states: “And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.” Horns are a symbol of power and then ten horns represent one part of the whole sum of Satan’s power on earth in the last days. The power of the ten horns resides in the ten kings that represent the modern nations of the world. These ten kings are also part of the Second Beast from Revelation 13:11-18. The Second Beast is synonymous with Modern Babylon, which is corrupted by the influence of the Great Whore of false religion until the time of the Second Coming when the ten kings will then hate the whore of false religion and will seek to destroy her. The desolate, and naked condition of the Great Whore means that she will be openly exposed for everyone to see who and what she actually is. When that occurs, her flesh shall be eaten and she shall be burned as a symbol of her complete destruction and annihilation. All this will occur according to the will of God, even though the destruction of the Great Whore is carried out by Modern Babylon which is an enemy to God. Modern Babylon is ultimately an instrument in the fulfillment of God’s will and his righteous purposes.

[§291] Rev 17:14: The Latter-day War of the Kings/Beast with the Lamb

This podcast explains the symbolism and imagery used by John the Revelator in the Book of Revelation, chapter 17:14-15, which states: “These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.” The persons making war with the Lamb (Jesus Christ) are the ten kings which represent a whole of the part of all modern nations and earthly kingdoms that unite with the Great Whore of false religion to engage in a war against the kingdom of God on earth since the restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1830. Modern nations and new geopolitical divisions have been forming since the early 1800s, which coincide with the rise of Satan’s seventh kingdom known as Modern Babylon, the Second Beast from Revelation 13:11-18, and the little horn from Daniel 7:8. The Civil War in America was the first modern war against the Lamb, where Satan sought to destroy the United States as the birthplace and cradle for the restored church. Since that time, wars have multiplied as part of Satan’s ongoing effort to make war with the Lamb. The Lamb will ultimately prevail because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, which means that at the Second Coming he will rule over both and ecclesiastical and political kingdom because all other earthly kingdoms will be destroyed. At the Second Coming, Christ will be accompanied by a heavenly host identified as the 144,000 Servants who stand with the Lamb on heavenly Mount Zion in Revelation 14:1, and then descend with him at his Second Coming. Revelation 17:15 refers to the Great Whore sitting on many waters that represent wicked people in all the world who support her wicked ideals and her warfare against the Lamb. The waters are identified using the world number four (4) to represent the geographical and worldwide completeness of all peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.

[§290] Rev 17:12-13: The Beast Empowers Ten Kings [Modern Nations]

This podcast explains the imagery and symbolism used by John in Revelation 17:12-13, which states: “And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.” The ten horns are mentioned several times in the book of Revelation, including the 10 horns on the seventh head of the First Beast in Revelation 13:1, and again on the scarlet-colored beast in Revelation 17:2. The ten horns represent power. They are ten in number to symbolize that they are one part of the whole power of Satan’s seventh kingdom in the modern era. Revelation 17:12 indicates that the ten horns also represent ten kings or kingdoms in the modern era since the fall of the Holy Roman Empire in the early 1800s. When John had his vision in 96 AD, these ten kings had received no kingdom. However, the ten kings and their evolving kingdoms now exist in these last days. The ten kings receive power as kings one hour with the Second Beast (Rev 13:11-18), which means that the modern nations incrementally come and go as each receives power from the beast. This power corrupts the leaders of nations and ungodly institutions. The modern nations have one mind with the beast, which means they share the same purpose and goal of wickedness and evil in the last days. As modern nations become increasingly corrupt and more powerful because of their corruption, they give back power to the Great Whore of false religion. She then becomes even more powerful and influential as we approach the Second Coming.

[§287] Rev 17:9: The Seven Heads and Mountains of Ancient Rome

This podcast explains the imagery and symbolism used by John in Revelation 17:9-11. These verses state: “And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.” The mind which hath wisdom is similar to the saying found in each of the letters to the seven churches in Asia Minor, which state: “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith.” Wisdom born of the Spirit is required to understand and apply the message concerning the woman of false religion who sits on the scarlet colored beast that has seven heads. The seven heads are also seven mountains that represent the hills upon which Rome was built. This means that the beast represents the Roman Empire. These verses also identify seven kings who represent the seven earthly kingdoms of Satan. The five fallen kingdoms are Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, and Greece. The Roman empire is the sixth kingdom that still is, as of the time of John’s vision in 96 AD. The seventh kingdom yet to come is the Second Beast from Revelation 13, and Babylon the Great (Modern Babylon) from Revelation 17:5. The seventh kingdom exists in the modern age beginning in the early 1830s at the same time the gospel of Jesus Christ was restored to the earth. The seventh kingdom continues a short space between 1830 and the Second Coming when Modern Babylon will fall. The beast in Revelation 17 also represents an eighth kingdom that will come during the little season after the millennium. At that time, the battle of Gog and Magog will be fought as both a spiritual and physical battle. Satan and his unembodied spirit sons of perdition will be defeated and cast into perdition by Michael and his heavenly host at the end of the earth.

[§286] Rev 17:8: The Beast That Was, and Is Not, and Yet Is

This podcast explains the imagery and symbolism used by John in Revelation 17:8, which states: “The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.” The beast that was, and is not, and yet is, refers to the First Beast identified by John in Revelation 13:1 as the ancient Roman empire. In 476 AD that beast‒then known as the Imperial Roman empire‒ceased to exist when the city of Rome fell to the Germanic tribes from the north. By the time Rome fell in 476, a pagan form of Christianity had become the state religion of Rome. Thus, even though Imperial Rome (Pagan Rome) fell, a paganized form of Christianity survived and became a powerful force in the Holy Roman Empire also known as Papal Rome. Thus, "the beast that was, and is not" survived with its false religion into the modern era. He thus became the beast that yet is. The beast that yet is shall ascend out of the bottomless pit. This alludes to the beast in Revelation 11:7 that rises from the bottomless pit to kill the Two Witnesses in Jerusalem at the end of the Second Woe. The evil spirits and people who kill the saints of God in the latter days‒including the two witnesses‒will go into perdition, which means destruction or ruin. Disembodied spirit sons of perdition will go into perdition at the time of the Second Coming as recorded in Revelation 19:20. Unembodied sons of perdition will go into perdition at the end of the millennium as recorded in Revelation 20:10. Revelation 17:8 also states that mortals who dwell on earth in the latter days shall wonder or worship the Second Beast, which is synonymous with the Great Whore of false religion, and Babylon the Great. These worshipers are they whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world. This means they were not valiant in premortality. They were not members of the premortal house of Israel. (Deut 32:8-9) They were not foreordained in premortality to receive exaltation and eternal life through the first covenant with God before their mortal birth. (More 10:7)

[§284] Rev 17:6: The Great Whore Is Drunk with the Blood of Saints

This podcast explains the imagery and symbolism used by John in Revelation 17:6-7, which states: “I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.” The woman drunken with the blood of the saints and martyrs is the Great Whore of false religion, also known as Babylon the Great and the mother of harlots and abominations. (Rev 17:5) Thousands of Christians were martyred during the ancient Roman Empire, including “saints” who were tortured and killed as heretics during the middle and dark ages, as well as Protestant reformers who were subjected to torture and death during the Catholic inquisitions. All these persecutions and murders foreshadow the latter-day murder and killing of saints in the modern era, by the Great Whore primarily during the last 3½ years of the Great Tribulation before the Second Coming. When John’s angelic guide sees that John is astonished by the bloodlust of the Great Whore, he promises to tell John about the mystery and history of the woman responsible for the murders of saints during the ancient Roman Empire, and who subsequently evolves into and becomes the Great Whore drunken with the blood of saints in the last days.

[§283] Rev 17:5: The Name of the Great Whore Is Babylon the Great

This podcast explains the imagery and symbolism used by John in Revelation 17:5 to describe the Great Whore of false religion in the last days. He states that “upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” The names in this verse are written on the forehead of the Great Whore to indicate that she displays herself prominently in the world today according to the ancient tradition in Rome where prostitutes had a brand or inscription in their forehead to identify who and what they were to attract interested patrons. The word mystery is either an adjective that describes the other name-titles in Revelation 17:5 or it is also a name and title for the Great Whore. In either case, the mystery is a hidden meaning or spiritual secret about false religions in the last days that can be known only through the spirit of revelation. The great whore is also called Babylon the Great, which alludes to ancient Babylon. In Hebrew, Babylon comes from the word Babel, meaning confusion associated with the confusion of tongues from the tower of Babel. More anciently, the word Babylon probably comes from the word Bab-il, which means the Gate of God. This contradictory term refers to the wicked and apostate kingdom of Nimrod. He established an idolatrous kingdom whose ideals still survive in the false religions of the modern world. Hence, the Great Whore is called Babylon the Great. The Great Whore is also called the mother of harlots and abominations. She is the mother church who gives birth to many other false churches who spiritually fornicate, which makes them harlots also. Their spiritual activities are called abominations. Hence, the mother of these many harlots is also the mother of abominations.

Rev 17 [§281] Rev 17:3: A Woman Sits on a Scarlet Beast [Roman Empire]

This podcast explains the imagery and symbolism used by John in Revelation 17:4-5 to describe the history of the Great Whore of false religion who sits on many waters with worldwide dominion in the latter days. In Revelation 17:3, John’s angelic guide physically transported John “in the spirit into the wilderness.” The wilderness was a desolate place representing the habitation of the Great Whore, who is both barren and desolate as the wilderness in which she dwells. In Revelation 17:3, John “saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.” The scarlet coloured beast is the ancient Roman empire, which is also a symbolic synonym for the First Beast in Revelation 13:1. This connection is evidenced by the seven heads and 10 horns present on both beasts, as well as the names of blasphemy imprinted on both images. The blasphemy in both cases relates to false religion in the Roman empire. The woman of false religion in Revelation 17:3 sat upon‒and was thus supported by‒the ancient Roman empire represented by the scarlet coloured beast. The beast is red to represent the blood of martyred saints who were persecuted and died in the ancient Roman empire. Revelation 17:4 coincides in time with the establishment of the Constantinian Church of Rome early in the fourth century AD. At that time, the persecuted Christian religion became the state religion in the Roman empire. The priests and clergymen in this apostate Christian religion were lavished with gifts, position, and power in the Roman empire. John describes this evolutionary transition in Revelation 17:4 as a “woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls.” The evolving woman in Revelation 17:4 also had “a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication.” This means that throughout the long period of the Great Apostasy, this woman of false religion spiritually fornicated with emperors and then governments in the emerging nations of Europe until the time of the Protestant Reformation. At that time, this mother church illegitimately gave birth to a large number of other false religions. She thus became the mother of abominations and the Great Whore of False Religion in the modern era since 1830.

[§280] Rev 17:1-2: Overview of the Great Whore [False Religion]

This podcast explains the imagery and symbolism used by John in Revelation 17:1-2, which say: “AND there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 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.” The seventh Vial Plague of the Third Woe at the Second Coming is the context and setting for these verses. Here, an angelic guide explains to John the final judgment or destruction of the Great Whore who represents false religion. She sits upon many waters because she has dominion over all the earth among all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people. The Great Whore is symbolically synonymous with one of the two horns on the Second Beast in Revelation 13. The other horn of power on the Second Beast is symbolically the same as the kings of the earth identified in Revelation 17:1-2. The Great Whore commits spiritual fornication with the kings of the earth who represent political and secular leaders in the modern era. These governmental leaders gain power as they yield to the influence of false religion. With that power, and using the moral compass of false religion, these leaders enact laws and take civic actions that morally degrade society and harden people's hearts against the true worship of God. Thus, they drink the wine of her fornication and become increasingly intoxicated in sin. The kings of the earth lead the modern world down the same path.

[§279] Rev 16:21: An Exceedingly Great Hail Falls on Men

This podcast explains the relationship between the great earthquake identified by John in Revelation 16:18-20 and the great hailstorm that he describes in Revelation 16:21. Using the flood in the days of Noah as a model, type, and foreshadow, I theorize in this podcast that that the hailstones during the greatest earthquake of all time will come as a result of the rapid changes in the earth’s topography that will reunite the western and eastern hemispheres that were separated during the universal flood. Dr. Walt Brown’s “hydroplate theory” postulates that a great deal of hail and freezing rain fell at the time of the flood and this serves as a theoretical model for what will occur during the seventh Vial Plague as well. Revelation 16:21 states that “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.” Although geologic forces can explain the presence of hail during the greatest earthquake of all time, the hailstones will surgically fall upon wicked people as a judgment from God. The magnitude of God’s judgment is reflected by the weight of the hailstones which John identifies as one talent each. A talent could be anything between 50 and 100 pounds. People afflicted by this final great plague of hail‒probably mingled with blood and fire‒will not repent. Instead, they will curse God and blaspheme his name because they know he is the source of this judgment and their punishment. Their death by hailstone is the great antitype for the Mosaic law which required people to be stoned to death if they cursed and blasphemed God.

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