In Revelation, The whore of babylon is the jewish nation.
Jeremiah 2 and 3, the jewish nation is called 'the adulteress/whore'.
Zechariah 5, she is the wicked woman who is taken to babylon 'to set her house there until it is ready'.
the jews were enslaved by the chaldean rulers of babylon, they served in their homes and learnt every trick from them.
Habakkuk 2 which was about the destruction of the chaldeans in babylon, spoke of 'timber and bricks' of a house speaking as witnesses against the chaldeans. it spoke of deception like 'making your neighbour drunk so you can see his wife naked'.
in this chapter it says
“‘Woe to him who piles up stolen goods
and makes himself wealthy by extortion! (it's actually usury, read other translations)
How long must this go on?’
7 Will not your creditors suddenly arise?
Will they not wake up and make you tremble?
Then you will become their prey.
8 Because you have plundered many nations,
the peoples who are left will plunder you.
For you have shed human blood;
you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.
what's interesting here is that despite the chaldeans creating a monetary system and charging interest, their victims are referred to as 'your creditors' instead.
there are different interpretations on what this might mean. One interpretation is that the chaldeans werent the true wealth owners, but mere facilitators for a real hidden elite who gave them the position and power to rule and were basically getting sick of their actions. Another is that their victims, those enslaved by them, are their 'creditors' in a symbolic sense, because as they went on conquering nations, they had to govern them and as such they became 'slaves to their own system'.
this page contains various interpretations of the verses worth a read
The all important factor here is that in Habbakuk 2, every single thing that's said about the Chaldeans, now stands true for the jewish elite.
Jeremiah 2, 3 and Zechariah 5 also are full of wood/stone symbolism, similar to Habakkuk 2.
This is from Zechariah 5
5 I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.
2 He asked me, “What do you see?”
I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide."
3 And he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished.
4 The Lord Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.’”
the theif = the money lender
swearing falsely = the ones who borrow and can't honour the repayments.
again, the wood/stone theme
both its timbers and its stones.’
See, the difference between christians and me, is that im familiar with HADITH too and as such have access to more 'pointers'.
Look at this hadith
Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas'ud: The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) cursed the one who accepted usury, the one who paid it, the witness to it, and the one who recorded it. (Book #22, Hadith #3327)
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the one who recorded it."
ie the scribe, hence the scroll...and in Zecheriah 5 the SCROLL itself IS the curse.
I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.
2 He asked me, “What do you see?”
I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide."
20 cubits long, 10 cubits wide
what else fits those measurements? the TABERNACLE
The Holy Place where the priests set out the bread of the Presence was a room 20 cubits long by 10 cubits wide and 10 cubits in height
According to the Bible, the Tabernacle, a portable and ornate tent shrine, served as the terrestrial home for ancient Israel's deity from its construction at Mount Sinai under the supervision of Moses until it was replaced by Solomon's Temple
Today what we have is 'the whore of babylon' sitting on the BEAST system.
The Beast is the end times re-emergence of Rome (Daniel 2). This began with the colonial era foretold as the 'rider of the white horse' in Revelation 6. the colonial powers were former roman colonies.
The red horse of Revelation 6 symbolised DEATH, ie the consequence of colonial expansion was the 20th century bloodbath. This included the bolshevik revolution.
post ww1 = league of nations, post ww2 - united nations.
I also have a view that it was a mass sacrifice to give life to the new global/collective thoughtform that's called the 'image of the beast' in revelationprophecy.
However the 3rd horse prophecy in Revelation 6 is very interesting
it clearly was foretelling the age of capitalism, but then it ends with 'do not harm the oil and wine'.
what happened after ww2? israel was created. oil and wine are symbols of the jewish nation.
The 'fall of mystery babylon' foretold in Revelation 17/18 occurs when the 'beast' destroys the whore. The whore takes the beast to it's destination, then the beast kills the whore.
When you see the tide turn against israel, that's precisely what it is, but it is deliberate. Israel has always been a decoy used to deceive the masses.
Zecheriah 11 says the false messiah will betray his nation. We know from revelation prophecies that the Beast of the earth, the antichrist will betray his own people and he will serve the 'image of the beast' (the collective thoughtform that is playing the roleof 'God' today).
I don't want to get too much into that, except that it's the reason why there is another hadith prophecy that speaks of muslims fighting jews, jews hiding behind 'trees and stones'. it all connects with those Jeremiah 2/3 themes and the subsequence chaldean/usury themes.
like in Habbakuk 2 it says
The stones of the wall will cry out,
and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.
Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar: Allah's Apostle said, "You (i.e. Muslims) will fight wi the jews till some of them will hide behind stones. The stones will (betray them) saying, 'O 'Abdullah (i.e. slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.' " (Book #52, Hadith #176)
it's so funny when christians and jews quote this hadith...when it all connects to the bible itself.
Jeremiah 2
27 They say to wood, ‘You are my father,
and to stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
They have turned their backs to me
and not their faces;
yet when they are in trouble, they say,
‘Come and save us!’
28 Where then are the gods you made for yourselves?
Jeremiah 3
“Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there. 7 I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me but she did not, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
8 I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery.
9 Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.
we go full circle in Revelation 11, where Jerusalem is called 'sodom and egypt'
of course
@Red Sky at Morning you are stupid enough to quote Zecheriah 12, but those verses pertain to messianic israel and the Ezekiel 38 prophecy.
i actually do despise you at this point, i used to give you the time of day in a positive sence but now it's like 'this fking idiot right here' when i read the crap you post.
zecheriah 12, nations reeling?
Ezekiel 38
7 “‘Get ready; be prepared, you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them. 8 After many days you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and now all of them live in safety. 9 You and all your troops and the many nations with you will go up, advancing like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.
after the fall of mystery babylon and the beast, it will be desolate and then repopulated with the remnant from all the tribes of israel.
11 You will say, “I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people—all of them living without walls and without gates and bars.
yeh that sounds like the state of israel doesnt it? lmfao
see, i believe you are shown the truth crystal clear so you'll be held accountable for your shit opinions one day. consciousness will hurt you mate...
you see israel with state of the art technology, buillding walls/barriers/gates/checkpoints
and you think 'nayshunz reeling'
see, you might play a nice guy on here but i suspect behind all of this, is a deep and long running hatred for muslims...and since israel kills muslims, you stroke your dick to israel.