Tie that binds them is Mystery Babylon

Revelation 17:1: [1] 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:

"You know what the angel is saying to John? 'I'm going to show you.' The passages are going to interpret themselves. The passage tells us this great whore is a city.

Verse 2: [2] 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.

"This is the spiritual fornication and spiritual whoredom that's been taking place in human history going all the way back to the book of Genesis. That's why it's called a mystery.

"It's not a mystery in the sense that it's unknowable, but it's a mystery because there is operating, in tandem to the satanic policy of evil to control a literal geographic land mass, a spiritual arm to that political arm.

"When humanity is concentrating on the physical, the material, the literal, the geographic, behind it all is a spiritual system that's operating. That's why it's called Mystery Babylon. Israel was victimized by this and they became participants in the spiritual whoredom.

Verse 15: [15] And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

"This woman is a city; the waters represent the nations, represent the multitudes, peoples, various tongues out there. We're being painted a picture here of what John is witnessing.

In verse 3: [3] So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

"What does that denote? In a number of passages the woman is sitting, which denotes control. Certainly there's a relationship between the woman and the beast. In fact, the woman is going to ride this beast.

"So there's this tremendous influence that the religious system has over the kingdom of Antichrist.

Verse 9: [9] And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.

"The seven-headed monstrosity, which is the beast kingdom, the Antichrist kingdom, has those seven heads that represent those seven kingdoms in human history.

"We know from history that these kingdoms rise and fall and yet in the image all seven kingdoms are there. Spiritually there is a unifying force; a tie that binds them which is Mystery Babylon.

"Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece, the northern kingdom, ultimately the No. 7.

[10] 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.

[11] And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

"The eighth, that's the son of perdition; that's the last half of the 70th Week of Daniel."

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