DOES THE BIBLE CONDEMNATION OF THE WHORE OF BABYLON SAY SHE USES SACRAMENTS?
The Book of Revelation warns about the coming of a religion based in Rome.
It regards this religion as a new paganism based on Christianity. It calls
this religion the Whore of Babylon. If you believe the Bible you have to
apply its statements to the Roman Catholic Church. There is nothing else
you can do and the Revelation says her coming is soon.
WHORE CLAIMS TO BE BRIDE OF CHRIST
The whore is called a whore for she should be the bride of Christ and she has
turned away from him though she pretends to be the dutiful wife. To become the
whore, the whore needs to replace the Christian faith with a counterfeit
Christian faith without anybody noticing that the truth of God is gone. She has
to block grace. Catholicism does that with its seven sacraments that can’t
really work.
Revelation 17 says the whore rides on a scarlet beast with blasphemous names
written all over it. If you think the whore is not a religion, her dependence on
a blasphemous anti-god beast indicates that she enables false and evil religion.
Pagan Rome did not indulge in specific blasphemy against Christianity for it did
not take it seriously. The Catholic Church detested true Christianity and today
it tries to pollute it.
Revelation says the whore got the world drunk on the wine of her adulteries -
the communion cup of the Catholic Church which it worships as a counterfeit of
Jesus Christ.
The beast covered in blasphemy has seven heads. The seven heads then are covered
in blasphemies. These heads used to be thought to be kingdoms. Blasphemies are
religious. The beast has seven religious heads. The seven heads are the seven
sacraments of the Catholic Church. The sacraments are central to the faith which
is why they are represented as heads. The identification fits because this stuff
about the seven heads is sandwiched between references to the chalice of the
whore. Her cup is gold to indicate that it is beautiful and good on the outside
and full of shit and what is detestable inside. Early Christians knew that Pagan
Rome made no effort to be hypocritical. The description fits Catholic Rome.
After her downfall, the "voice of the bridegroom" and of the "bride" was to
be heard no more in her (Revelation 18:23). The bridegroom is taken to be
Jesus and the bride the Church. This is clearly a reference to the city being a
totally apostate Christian religion for it is clear that Jerusalem and Rome
always had Christians.
The whore disguises her true nature. Pagan Rome didn't do that. Thus we are
talking about a religion that is the monstrous prostitute but pretends to be a
kindly virgin.
WHORE HAS A PRIESTHOOD
The Bible says that God only lets those who want to be deceived be deceived by
Satan so that they end up in Hell forever. Revelation says that the whore and
the Devil deceive the whole world so the whore is an insincere religion that
knows the truth and presents lies as the truth in order to destroy the truth. A
fake Christian Church would be the best and easiest way to do this. Therefore
the whore is the Roman Catholic Church.
The whore dresses in purple and red. Catholic bishops wear purple and cardinals
wear red.
Catholic apologists say that the red and purple dress means that the colours do
not refer to clothes. They say the red is the blood of the martyrs of Christ
killed by the whore and the purple refers to her claim to royalty. There is not
a single hint of such an interpretation. It is plainer if you agree her dress
was indeed red and purple. Revelation seeks to give clues about what the whore
is.
It is no answer to say that white is more the colour of the Catholic Church. The
red and the purple are the main colours of the whore because they signify her
authority. The authorities in the Catholic Church the cardinals wear red and
they choose the pope so they have great power. The bishops rule the Church and
purple is their colour.
Here is what the Jewish law says about the colour of the priestly robes.
Exodus 28:3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I
have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to
consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
Exodus 28:4 And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate,
and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they
shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may
minister unto me in the priest's office.
Exodus 28:5 And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine linen.
Exodus 28:6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of
scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
Exodus 28:7 It shall have the two shoulder pieces thereof joined at the two
edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
Exodus 28:8 And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
The whore wears all these colours. She is led by a priesthood. The colour blue
alone is missing.
Again when John was making his symbolism he was thinking of Numbers 15:38:
Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes
in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put
upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:
Num 15:39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it,
and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not
after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring.
The whore doesn’t wear blue because she refuses to obey the commandments of
God. Her priesthood is made up of hypocrites who look like priests but who
despise the commandments of God. The priests claim to be priests of God. They
have the Bible and claim to preach it. They could or should wear the blue
ribband but they don't. I Blue isn't used in the Catholic liturgy at all.
The priesthood of the whore in using the colours and powers of the Old Testament priesthood is claiming to be the priesthood of God. It is not a thoroughly pagan priesthood. It is nominally Christian at least.
THE SACRAMENTS - MARKS OF THE BEAST
The sacraments of Catholicism are paralleled in Revelation 6.
During a heavenly liturgy, the Lamb representing Jesus opens seven seals that give out seven curses.
The first seal is associated with a rider of a white horse who goes on a conquest.
Baptism is the first sacrament and associated with white and purity from sin which it purports to forgive.
The second seal brings out a rider of red horse who removes peace from the earth. Red for the blood of Christ. This is the evil sacrament of the Eucharist which has caused the most bloodshed in Christendom and turned each Church into a communion of bigots. The Eucharist is supposed to provide one with the body and blood of Christ in the form of bread and wine.
The third seal brings out the rider of a black horse carrying scales - the sacrament of forgiveness of sins. This sacrament is associated with getting rid of the blackness of sin and getting a person judged or weighed by God.
The fourth seal is a pale horse ridden by death and which is followed by Hell. This is the sacrament of extreme unction or the anointing of the sick which damns its victims in Hades forever though they think it prepares them for death.
The fifth seal is linked to the sacrament of ordination. Instead of priests at the altar, we are told we have saints crushed under the altar who howl for revenge. They are given white robes to indicate that they are the real ministers of God.
The sixth seal speaks of God crushing those who stand against him. This relates to the sacrament of confirmation where people profess to stand for God. They do not in reality and will suffer.
The seventh seal is responded to by a silence in Heaven that lasts a half an
hour. This implies that it is the least of the seven in badness. This fits
marriage. Whereas marriage understood as a contract is fine, God has a problem
with it being said to be a sacrament. It as as good as it is bad hence the
silence. God doesn't want to comment. But seven angels appear with seven
trumpets to inflict retribution for the sacraments and they do that. Confirming
that the last has to do with marriage, we read later in Revelation that when the
seventh trumpet was sounded it was revealed that God was going to marry his
Church.
The sacrament of priests forgiving sins is the most obvious block to divine
grace. When the whore is going to pretend to be the bride of Christ she has to
give out a counterfeit of God’s forgiveness. There is no way she can do that
except by saying you have to go to man for God’s forgiveness or perhaps some
angel or saint. The sacrament of reconciliation in which the priest allegedly
forgives sins is a clear mark of the whore of Babylon. There the priest is told
to forgive sins. If priests forgive sins they do it on their own authority. The
view that they do it on God's authority makes no sense. If God agrees to pardon
the sins of somebody to whom I say, "I pardon you", it is God forgiving the
sins. I am not taking away the sins. I am not forgiving sins. God's agreeing to
forgive and making it coincide with some act of mine does not mean I have power
to forgive sins. It means the contrary. The priest is taking the place of God
and counterfeiting the forgiving power of God. Because people only imagine that
God has forgiven then they will get a shock on judgement day!
Some people say they get grace from the sacraments. If Satan exists he can fake
the effects of grace to delude Catholics more and more.
HER POWER TO FOOL ALL NATIONS
Revelation 18:23 speaks to the Whore as follows "And the light of the lamp shall
shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride
shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of
the earth, for all nations have been deceived by thy enchantments."
φαρμάκων pharmakōn is the word used for the sorcery which she used to trick all
nations into following her. See Revelation 18:23. It literally means magic
potion or charm. Since she carries a cup of abominations magic potion would be
the most natural meaning. The wine of the Catholic Eucharist is this evil
occultic potion. She is clearly a religion. Occultism is a crude form of
religion. No religion is less occult than Judaism so the sorcery is proof
that the whore is not Jerusalem. Catholicism is more occult even
than pagan Rome.
The lamp speaks of the truth revealed by God. The religion will quench God's
truth. Revelation speaks of Jesus being the groom and the real Church his bride.
The prophecy says that the whore will be so far from being the bride that the
voice of the bridegroom and the bride will never be heard in her anymore. It is
a poetic way of saying that she is not the bride of Jesus. And he writes that
the voice of the bride and groom will be silenced because her merchants were the
great men of the earth. But there is no obvious logical reason why there should
be no marriage just because she has powerful friends. But if it is a poetic way
of saying she is not the bride and has no groom because she is worldly then it
makes perfect sense. The whore should be the bride of Christ but is not. The
whore is a religion pretending to be Christian.
CONCLUSION
To the believer, the Bible identifies the Roman Church, if not the priesthood only, as the apostate whore of Babylon and the pope as the Antichrist. This warns that their doctrines are dangerous. Protestants must be persuaded of this so that their efforts to ruin the credibility of the Roman Catholic faith may have greater success. Protestantism is more open to sceptical influence than Catholicism which is why it is better to promote it as the lesser evil.
