The harlot

[Shilohsfoal]

I remember when,I first learned jerusalem was the harlot in revelation.I sought to understand why Gods wrath was directed toward jerusalem.What I learned was from two simple verses was people of Jerusalem worships the beast and receives his mark.

I then sought for the beast that Jerusalem sits upon and I found a little horn surrounded by others who hate the harlot.

Little do people understand the beast that was and was not and yet is has already appeared and people from all over the world followed after the beast.

This is the water where the harlot sits.

http://biblehub.com/revelation/17-15.htm

 

 

Edited October 29, 2017 by Shilohsfoal

[unworthydude]

1 hour ago, Shilohsfoal said:

I remember when,I first learned jerusalem was the harlot in revelation.I sought to understand why Gods wrath was directed toward jerusalem.What I learned was from two simple verses was people of Jerusalem worships the beast and receives his mark.

I then sought for the beast that Jerusalem sits upon and I found a little horn surrounded by others who hate the harlot.

Little do people understand the beast that was and was not and yet is has already appeared and people from all over the world followed after the beast.

This is the water where the harlot sits.

http://biblehub.com/revelation/17-15.htm

 

 

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Yes, this shows that Jerusalem or Mystery Babylon represents not just a city as it is mentioned throughout Rev 17:18 and 18:10, 16, 18, 19, 21 but it also represents a people who sit on many waters, a.k.a., "peoples and multitudes and nations and languages." (in Rev 17:15)

The Old Testament used this kind of descriptive language all the time to describe and represent His people under their tribal cities of Samaria or Jerusalem or family names of Ephraim or Judah or even North or South for the ten tribes above the two tribes in the South. See Ezek. 16 and 23

 

I too sought to find why God's wrath is going to be unleashed on Jerusalem and I understood when I read this in Zach..

Zechariah 11:6-14  For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the LORD. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”  (7)  So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named Favor, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep.  (8)  In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.  (9)  So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another.”  (10)  And I took my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples.  (11)  So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD.  (12)  Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver.  (13)  Then the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD, to the potter.  (14)  Then I broke my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

Not only was Israel slated to die under the legal covenant that they broke through their many sins but then they murdered their Saviour. This verse above makes me cry because we can see Jesus's heart in their betrayal to weigh out 30 pieces of silver that Judas was paid by them to hand Him over so they could crucify Him.

It also occurred to me that Satan had entered Judas (Luke 22:3) and that the Jews had made a transaction with the devil to have murdered the Son of Man. They gave themselves over to Satan. This nation is not a victim of circumstance as many in the church suppose today but the Bible points more to their culpability in pursuing such vile evil. Christians generally don't read the prophets and relegate it all to the past but most of their prophetic message is the culmination of Israel's story to which we have been born into but don't understand their current relationship to God biblically. We superimpose what we want to see rather than what the Bible has said. They have committed great evil and have not repented. I think as Christians we just want to love them because we have received grace for our sins and project our love on them without taking the truth of it all into account.

Edited October 29, 2017 by unworthydude

[Last Daze]

6 hours ago, unworthydude said:

When you have Israel being called a whore in the last days scenario, how can you discount that so easily with arguments that don't actually rebut at all the biblical statements made?  Strikes me of just intellectual dishonesty to not even acknowledge the plain reading found throughout the prophets of Israel being a whore who God will judge at the end for breaking his covenant. Evidence should matter to a Christian. The word harlot was not just used historically but used prophetically in the passages sited. Please reread them in context. Reducing them down to your minimalized perspective doesn't account for the truth they reveal.

You gave some good advice earlier.  Keep seeking.