meditations for an everyday relationship with Jesus

The woman and the scarlet beast

Revelation17:3–6 So he carried me away in the Spirit to a desert. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names, having seven heads and 10 horns. The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls. She had a gold cup in her hand filled with everything vile and with the impurities of her prostitution. On her forehead a cryptic name was written: Then I saw that the woman was drunk on the blood of the saints and on the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was utterly astounded.

It is all cryptic for sure, but certain elements of this prophecy are clear. And could the woman sitting on the scarlet beast be the antichrist? We assume it is a man, but what if this whore is the precursor of Satan himself?

What if the spirit of Babylon makes its way to Rome and establishes itself as Pope? This would be the first true violation of church tradition in the modern age. Sitting on a throne of gold in the third Temple would be an inevitable next step … one cleared by the world’s largest democratic faith institution …

This is not to demonize people in any institution but it makes sense that where this all started it will come full circle and end. Peoples, multitudes, nations and languages will be brought together under one secular hand.

This is the beginning of the end ...

Do not judge

Romans 2:1 Therefore, anyone of you who judges is without excuse. For when you judge another, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things.

In these mean times we would all do well to consider this passage before we open our mouths, not afterward. When we malign those who do not think, look, vote, smell, walk, or speak like us we should understand that the ones being judged are not the other individuals, but us!

Think about it! Do you have a “heart condition?” No excuses ...