Revelation 17 Cont

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Babylon the Great in Revelation 17 and 18

Revelation chapter 17. Part of me wants to read 18 too, but there is one big section. Well, I will just read 17. Beginning in verse 1, it says,. And then one of the seven angels who had the seven bulls came and spoke with me, saying, Come here, and I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits upon many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality.

And he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads, ten horns. And the woman was clothed with purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls and having in her hand a golden cup full of the abominations of the unclean things of her immorality.

And on her forehead a name was written, a mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and the abomination of the earth. And I saw a woman drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses of Jesus.

And when I saw her, I wondered greatly. And the angel said to me, Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.

And the beast that you saw was and is not and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose name was not or has not been written in the Lamb's Book of Life from the foundation of the world will wonder when they see the beast that he was and is not and will come.

And here is the mind of wisdom. The seven heads are the seven mountains on which the woman sits. They are seven kings. Five have fallen. One is. The other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must remain for a little while.

Well, that was clear, wasn't it? The beast which was and is not and is himself also the eight is one of the seven. And he goes to destruction. And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.

These have one purpose, that they give their power and authority to the beast. These wage war against the Lamb and the Lamb will overcome them because he is the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings. And those who are with him are called the Chosen and the Faithful.

And he said to me, the waters which you saw where the harlot sits are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues. And the ten horns which you saw and the beast, these will hate the harlot. It will make her desolate and naked and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire.

For God has put it in the purpose of their heart to execute his purpose but having a common purpose and by giving their kingdom to the beast until the words of God will be fulfilled. And the woman whom you saw is the great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.

Hey, let's just go ahead and read 18. And after these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven having great authority and the earth was illuminated with its glory. And he cried out with a mighty voice saying, fallen, fallen is Babylon the great.

She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit and the prison of every unclean and hateful bird. For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.

And I heard another voice from heaven saying, come out from her my people so that you will not participate in her sins and receive her plagues. For her sins have piled up as high as heaven. And God has remembered her iniquities.

Pay her back even as she has paid and give back to her double according to her deeds in the cup which she has mixed with twice as much for her. To the degree that she has glorified herself and lives sensuously to the same degree she will be tormented and she will have mourning.

For she says in her heart, I sit as a queen and I am not a widow and I will never see mourning for this reason and one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine. And she will be burned up with fire for the Lord who judges her is strong.

And the kings of the earth who committed acts of immorality and live sensuously with her will weep and they will lament over her when they see the smoke of her burning standing from a distance because of the fear of her torment saying, whoa, whoa, the great city Babylon, the strong city, for in one hour your judgment has come.

And the merchants of the earth weep and they will mourn over her because no one buys their cargo anymore. Cargo's of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet and every kind of citron wood and every article of ivory and every article made from very costly wood and bronze and iron and marble and cinnamon and spice and incense and perfume and frankincense and wine and oil, olive oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep and cargos of horses and chariots and the slaves and human lives.

Do you hear that? They were trading people. That was a violation of the Mosaic legislation by the way. It says verse 14, and the fruit you long for has gone from you and all these things that has luxurious and splendid have passed away from you and men will no longer find them and the merchants of these things who became rich from her will stand at a distance because of the fear of her torment, weeping in mourning saying, whoa, whoa, the great city, she who has clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet and adorned with gold, precious stones and pearls for in one hour such a great wealth has been laid waste and every ship master and every passenger and every sailor as many as make the living by the sea stood at a distance and were crying out as they saw the smoke of her burning saying, what city is like the great city?

And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping in mourning and saying, whoa, whoa, the great city in which all who had ships at the sea became rich by her wealth for in one hour she has been laid waste.

Rejoice over her, O heaven, and O you saints and apostles and prophets because God has pronounced judgment for you against her. Then a strong angel took up a stone like a great millstone and he threw it into the sea saying, so will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence and it will not be found any longer and the sound of harpists and musicians and flute players and trumpeters will no longer be heard from you any longer and no craftsman or any craft will be found in you any longer and the sound of the mill will no longer be heard and the light of the lamp will no longer shine in you any longer and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride will not be heard from you any longer for your merchants that were great on the earth because of the nations were deceived by your sorcery and in her was found the blood of the prophets and the saints and all who had been slain on the earth.

Well, yummy. That's why I read 18 because here it is, you have the in 17 you have the doom of Babylon and then you see the world lamenting or the, let me back that up, the known world from my understanding is lamenting over whoever this Babylon is in chapter 18.

The Historicist View of Revelation and the Day-for-a-Year Principle

So we spent a few weeks on Hortum. Well, now we need to, remember this view? Remember the four views of Revelation? Look at you, she's going to flip back. She's going back 75 sermons ago or lessons ago.

How many have I been here? It might be something like that. Anyway, remember there was four views of Revelation and four views is not pre-millennial, post-millennial, that's not it. Those are one view of one chapter.

Historicist's view is how someone sees the whole entire book of Revelation and what it is, it is set up on a 1260 day to year calendar. Spell check will fix it. Alright, everybody remember that part or do I need to?

Okay. 1260 days for the historicist meant 1260 years. Anybody remember how they came to that conclusion? It goes all the way back to when they sent the spies in, 10 were bad, 2 were good. They came back and they said that God, because of their unbelief, he was going to let them wander around in the wilderness for a day to year.

Remember? 40 years for the 40 days and that's where they came to the conclusion. Now, I don't agree with it. I'm just letting you know this was, hey, just to let you know, if you remember 75 sermons ago or however long it's been, it's probably been close to a year and a half, this is the vast majority of your reformer's position.

So, if anybody from the time of the reformation or right before, I would even go back to John Wycliffe who died around 1384. Good morning. It was around 1384. Hey, buddy. JTA dropped the bus off? So, the 1200, where was I at?

Meanwhile, 1260 days was to you. So, the vast majority of all of your reformers, I said you could even back all the way up to the morning star of the reformation, which would have been John Wycliffe. He died at 1384.

You could back all the way up to him. He held this position. I'm fixing to explain why I am least sympathetic with this position. I think there are things as we look at the book of Revelation and you go, oh, because I'm sure everybody reads commentaries in here, you're going to go, well, Matthew Unger, Barnes, probably the most I'm trying to think of probably the most Matthew, what's that?

Schofield. No. Schofield would burn me at the stake. He was a scoundrel. Anyway, that's another story. Matthew Henry. I'm sure everybody in here probably, yeah, Matthew Henry, he is probably the most common one that people read.

Hey, Matthew Henry is this guy here. But if you read Matthew Henry, you'll go, wait a minute, he really hasn't thought through what he said in chapter 2 when he got to chapter 7 because then at times his comments are in conflict with one another.

It's like, dude, you probably should remember what you said back in chapter 2 before you get in chapter 7. I'm just using that as an example. I'm not saying specifically in Revelation as he's making comments.

Here's why I'm least sympathetic. Because you have 1260 days a year, which means this, and it's from the time of the papacy, and papacy was around 600 A .D. You could even say 590 maybe, but if you go, if this is a year and you add 600, what does that come to?

Okay. Their prophetic calendar runs out around 1860. Because they thought that would be the fall of the papacy. They thought that would be the end of the world. And this leads to date setting. And the reason why it leads to date setting is because if you have a calendar in which you're basing your year today, you by nature, you set dates.

I don't think setting dates is heretical because Martin Luther set dates. A lot of guys set dates because they're looking at this calendar and you go, I see how they came to their conclusion. These guys weren't, the reformers weren't Harold Campings.

Okay? Understand that. They were, in the time in which they were trying to understand what was going on in the Middle Ages, that dark ages, I understand how they came to their conclusions and we'll talk here in just a second why they believed who Babylon was and the whore of Babylon.

So it runs out. They thought the papacy would end here. He would fall. Christ would return. Know this date from history? Great disappointment. Yeah. In many ways, this was good for the Millerites because it ended that heretical group.

They sold everything they had and went up on a mountain and waited. That was the Millerites. Now they carried on into parts of the Jehovah's Witness. But that's the great disappointment in history. People by the droves said, hey, Christ is going to return.

So they did a little extra calculating and said, oh, we missed it. It's supposed to be 1860. And it didn't happen, obviously. So that's why I'm least sympathetic with this view. Now the Seventh-day Adventists have come along and they have tried to fix and tweak and begin to plug in events over church history because the Historicist's View basically has a line and it is the unfolding of church history through history.

And they just are plugging in dates. Plugging in dates and some things don't even match up. You could go back to one that some would say that the rise of Islam was the locust hordes that came out. And then there's some that say that wasn't the locust hordes that came out.

That was the rise of Islam. Some would say there's even one Historicist, Robert Bellarmine. He was basically the papacy's fire-breathing dragon against the Counter-Reformation. He said that when the locusts came out of the pit, that was Luther.

And all the locusts that came out with them was the Lutherans. So there's just no consensus. But what we can say is that what they did think of what was happening was with the rise of the papacy and the Catholic Church, they saw Babylon as the Roman Catholic Church.

And they saw the Antichrist. Even if you go and you read the Westminster Confession of Faith, which is a Presbyterian document written in 1646, chapter 25, it says that the man of lawlessness, the man of sin, the Antichrist is the Pope.

Just don't bash them too much, because our Baptists forefathers, when they wrote the 1689 Confession of Faith, in chapter 26, paragraph 4, they said the same thing. Why did they understand it that way?

Because they saw the rise of Babylon as the Roman Catholic Church. Let's just be honest. Who killed more Christians from the time of Constantine just past Constantine all the way up until I'll say Diocletian.

Adolf Hitler. What's that? Adolf Hitler. No. The Roman Catholic Church killed more Christians in that time frame for roughly 1800 years, roughly. Roman Catholic Church. And when it says the blood of the saints and the blood of the prophets, you can say, wow, that's how they understood it.

And when you have a man standing in the Temple of God, as it says in 2 Thessalonians, stands himself in the Temple of God, claiming himself to be God, and to be worshipped as God, who did that? The Pope.

Look, the Pope called himself the Vicar of Christ. There's only two people in all the world that have ever stood up and said, I am the Vicar of Christ. One's the Monarch of England, and the other one's the Papacy.

So we understand how they came to that conclusion. I think they're wrong. They've run out of time. None of them lived long enough to see the end of it, because they ran out of time. I'll put this in quotes, because I don't believe that the Pope is the Antichrist.

I believe that the Pope is Antichrist. I want you to understand. I want you to know that I believe that the Pope is Antichrist. Anyone that puts themselves in opposition to the finished work of Jesus Christ is Antichrist.

And how do we know that? Because John says, John, not in the Revelation, but in 1 John, says that there are many Antichrists in the world. And who is of Antichrist? Those who deny that Jesus has come in the flesh.

Now, the Papacy didn't deny that Jesus came in the flesh, but they did deny the fact that Jesus' work in the flesh was sufficient for salvation. That's the problem with the Roman Catholic Church, is not that they don't believe in grace or that they don't believe in the Atonement.

What's that? Yes. Yes. I've got to be careful, because I don't want anybody to ever think that I don't want to misrepresent Rome. And you say, why not? Well, I don't want to misrepresent anybody. But they're not a works-based salvation.

They do believe that grace is necessary. They do believe that salvation is a work of God, but it's not sufficient. That's the problem. Christ's Atonement is not sufficient. Neither is grace sufficient.

So what happens? You have to either get to the merits of the saints or go to Purgatoria, all of that. So, one, they run out of time. We can understand why they saw Babylon as the Roman Catholic Church.

We can understand why they saw the papacy as being the Antichrist, a man of lawlessness, the beast, son of perdition. There we go. There's only two people in all Scripture called the son of perdition.

One's the person that raises himself up at the end of the age, the man of lawlessness. And then the other one, Judas. Judas. Both of them, I believe, at the end of the age, whoever this person is, I believe that Judas was filled with Satan.

Because that's what Scripture says. Satan in his heart. I believe at the end of the age obviously there will be a man that has Satan's skin on, basically. You don't like my conclusion of that? That's fine.

We can disagree. You show charity to me, I'll show charity to you. But if you don't show charity to me... I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'll still show charity. So, understand? Complicated? Overwhelmed with information?

Well, it's only just begun.

Good question. Where did that. 1260.

Day come from? 1260 days from Daniel? Yeah. It comes from Daniel. Hey, if anybody wants... I don't know if y 'all remember early on. If you want to go back, I think I dealt I don't remember. I know I dealt with all of them at the front end, but I think I almost dealt with one every week.

Because some of them were so complicated on the front end. If you want to go back, you can see it. But the 1260 days comes from Daniel. Were you here when I just said it's a day to year? It's a day to year.

So, they saw as it's 1260 days in Daniel. They say, well, that equals one year because of when they came out that why did God punish the nation of Israel to walk around in wilderness? It was for every day a year.

So, 40 days? He gave them 40 years. Their calendar says, Daniel says 1260 days. He meant years. I don't agree with it. That's just how they came to their conclusion. And they run out of time. And the only way that historicist view has even stayed afloat is because of the Seventh Day Adventist.

And they've had to tweak it and add all kinds of stuff to it that honestly, it's not even historicism anymore. This is probably everybody's familiar with this. I could probably just start putting stuff up here and y 'all could just name it out.

Because this is primarily what we have lived and breathed in in American culture. And I do want to say that not all futurism is dispensational. But a good bit of it is in America. And you know dispensationalism didn't catch on on the other side of the globe.

So they brought it over here. And it bit like wildfire. I'm not saying that dispensationalism is heresy. But it is interesting that it came about at the same time we had all of the, in the same time frame that you had all of the Mormons, Jehovah's Witness, Reconstruction, I mean Apostolic Reformation movement.

All of that at the same time. So it was just like it was all this and all of those, to let you know, were prophecy fervor as well which caused all that to do. But the futurist view of the section we're doing now says that, this is Babylon, here World Ecumenical Council of Churches.

Apostate. I'm going to put churches here. Futurists hold that view. One of these. Some of them still believe it's going to be the Roman Catholic Church. Some of them do. Matter of fact, I, there are some guys that are Reformed Baptists that still believe that it's going to be the Roman Catholic Church.

Now, my reasoning for them, well one I know, because I asked specifically, hey man, what is your view, what is your conclusion on the man of lawlessness at the end of the age, and it was what does the confession say?

What? So the confession dictates what you, how about get in the word and tell me what you think. So, anyway, some believe it's the Roman Catholic Church. Some of them do believe it's the World Ecumenical Council.

Okay? And the World Ecumenical Council was just a group of churches that got together and were just going to love and be Jesus. Who cares? As long as you believe in Jesus. It's almost like the Jesus only movement.

Okay? Then you had some of them believe it's the liberal apostate churches. This would include United Methodist. Yeah, I want to make sure I don't but I've got to be careful because I do think there are some of the PCUSA that it would be some of the Pentecostals.

It would be these. And why? It's because each one of these, oh, that looks like an H, doesn't it? Some of these have moved away. This would mostly be your oneness. These have moved away from orthodox Christianity.

So what about United Methodist? Didn't they come out of the Wesleyan movement? Yes, they did. They did. But they also then moved out of the Wesleyan and they moved into ordaining women, non-ordaining women, homosexuality, all of these.

Hey, and I'll even say this. Each one of these is embraced either transgenderism or homosexuality. In some form or fashion. And that should be a dead giveaway. Now, could this be the scheme at the end of the age?

It could be. I mean, it could. I mean, I don't think the Roman Catholic Church is going to be it, but it could be. I mean, look. Remember, I said it from the beginning. What's the best part about futurism?

Never tested. No historical evidence to go, hey, that's wrong. So all you have to do is say, it ain't happened yet. That's all you got to do. That's their default. Now, it also could be, the most common would be a revived Roman Catholic.

A good bit of people believe that. You know, you got the ten horns and the seven heads. Some of the futurists don't even believe that that is the Beast, the Beast of Revelation in 11 through 13. They don't believe that that has anything to do with Rome at the time.

They believe that was something at the end of the age. And it'll be revived. Did you raise your hand? And you will have a conglomeration of the old provinces of Rome, and then you will have this ten-nation Confederacy, and you had men like, what was the dude with the big crazy hair?

Empy? Empy? What's that? Hal Lindsey? Yeah, Empy, Hal Lindsey, and even John MacArthur was real. I love John MacArthur. I know he's with the Lord and everything. I'm not going to say nothing bad about him, but he missed this one terribly, and he never breached on it again.

1984, matter of fact. They were getting close to that ten-nation, and he said, it's fixing to happen, and when it happened, boom! Well, you know what happened? Instead of adding two, they added four and went to like twelve nations.

That blew the ten-nation Confederacy out of the water. And then one guy, it was funny, then one guy heard some guy say, he said, because it wound up being another one was adding it was thirteen, and he said, well, it's thirteen because the devil's trying to deceive you so that it really means ten.

There's an explanation for everything. So anyway, once again, it just ain't happened yet. If it doesn't work out the way you say it, it just ain't happened yet. Now, could it be I don't think this is it, okay?

Because I don't believe there's going to be a Roman Empire with an emperor. But, could at the end of the age, all of that be included in that? Yeah, and I'm going to tell you why. Because each one of them denied the sufficiency of Christ as some point of his deity, some point of his atonement, and at the end of the day, if you deny Christ work, though you claim to be loyal to him, but in your actions deny his finished work, you are the followers of the son of perdition.

Let's just admit we have to be honest about that. You can say you love Jesus, you can say you believe he was the Son of God, but if you're not trusting solely and completely in his finished work, you will die in unbelief, okay?

Any questions on futurists? Anybody remember these? Yeah? What is it? Idealist or spiritual view. Same thing, it's just however you want to word it. And what it says is history doesn't matter. And I'm going to tell you, if this is so intellectually appealing because historical events really don't matter, they really don't, because what you're going to do is over the course of church history, you're going to see principles carried out until from Christ's ascension to his return.

And these principles are everything from how we understand the beast. Look, when I did the beast, I told you that I believe that that specifically was speaking of the Roman Catholic Church, I mean the Roman Empire, and that the second beast was Nero in its original context.

But if you remember what I said, I said, but that doesn't exhaust the iteration of the beast. What do we do? We see a beast in every generation. Do we not? Every generation you will see some form of that.

So that is the principle, and I'm just going to use the beast because it's the easiest one, and you will see beast, and I think we all agree. Name some of them. Name some beasts over the church history.

Hitler? She said one. Who else? Stalin. I mean Stalin. Any dictator that points to, what's the little fat guy that looks like a Teletubby? God, what's his name? I can't remember his name. Kim Jong-Dil-Pickle?

What's his name? What's his name? He looks like this when he comes walking up. So think about those men who hey, G .G .Ping, you've got to have a picture of his G .G .Ping, you've got to have a picture of him in your home.

The state church over there, the authorized Christian church over there still has to have a picture of him in their church. And you know China, you know how the underground church is growing, but you know who keeps telling on the underground church?

The licensed church. The licensed church. So we see that iteration all through church history, it will culminate at the end of the age to a one person man of lawlessness, son of perdition, the book of Revelation does not use the word Antichrist.

Just somebody sent me a thing, I think Tuesday, this guy kept saying well if you just read Revelation you'll see where it names the Antichrist. It doesn't even say Antichrist, that's the thing dude, read your Bible.

It never says Antichrist in the book of Revelation. So principles all through church history until his return and they will just continue to unfold, they will just recycle and keep going until it comes.

And I'll tell you what man, that is very appealing because then you don't really have to deal with the fact that this event, the fall of Jerusalem and I will say this, the date of Revelation, nope, it don't matter.

It wouldn't matter if it was written in 70, before 70, it wouldn't matter if it was written in 80, it wouldn't matter if it was written in 90, or it wouldn't matter if John wrote it in 99 or 96 when he died, it wouldn't matter.

Why? Because it's not speaking of a specific event, it's just speaking of destruction. Now I said 70, 80, specific reason, because if it was written before 70, it was speaking about a specific event. Okay, so we good?

The Orthodox Partial-Preterist Reading of Babylon as Apostate Jerusalem

Now, I'm going to give you the correct one. Save the correct one for last. Does anybody remember what I said my position was on the whole book? Orthodox or preterist? Preterist, but eclectic. Eclectic.

And I know eclecticism is usually taboo, sort of like the word progressive, okay? But I'm eclectic because I do believe that all of them have some things that we can pull and go, oh wow, we understood.

But if you're going to understand the book of Revelation, every person has to come to the fact that some of it hasn't happened, and some of it has. Okay? So if you can take a futurist, and I've done this, I've said, hey, do you believe everything's in the future?

Yep. Okay, so then John wasn't writing to real seven churches in Asia Minor. No, he really was. Okay, then that was something that was in the past. He really wrote to some churches about some event that was going to take place in the future.

So at least you can get them to go, okay, it was really in its original context written to seven churches. Okay. Now, this is preterist position. You have orthodox, and then you have full. This is partial, and this usually ends up in heresy.

This ends up in heresy. Preterist, Latin, preter, in the past, in the back, behind you, basically. Okay? Orthodox says that parts of the book of Revelation have been fulfilled, and we would say that a good bit of it.

Okay? And then this is has to be written between 65 and even before 70. Okay? When I say that, I put 70 there, but technically it would have to have been written right before 70 because of the destruction of Jerusalem.

But I'll even say things could have unfolded relatively quickly, but hey, I used to hold as early as 64. That was super early. But I have changed my ways. Because of 64, that means I have to deal with Nero executing Paul and Peter, and anyway, I had to move my date further on.

So my position is definitely suspect to the date. Every other position is not. Okay? So, if we can prove that the date was written before 70, we could get rid of some of the other positions. If they can disprove that the book was written after 68, 60, whatever, before 70, or written after, then you get rid of the others.

But you can't. Nobody really knows. Okay? Nobody really knows. That's why whether you hold the position, and I'll erase this, whether you hold this date or the 65 to 70 date, you're not a heretic. If you don't believe, if you're one or the other.

Okay? You can be either or. But, if you're going to hold the position that the book of Revelation was specifically dealing with the destruction of Jerusalem, you cannot be this. And why? Just logically.

Because the date of the fall of Jerusalem is a historical event. It is, and if he's writing about something that happened in the past, it was not prophetic, he is giving us a history book, therefore John should not have put it in, therefore it's not inspired by the word of God, and it should not be there.

But, because I have made the argument all the way through the book that I really do believe that it's dealing with the destruction of Jerusalem primarily, based on the Olivet Discourse. Olivet Discourse, Jesus specifically said this place will tumble.

And why? Remember what he said? Because they shed the blood of the saints and the prophets. He said, I'm going to wipe you out. He said, I'm going to wipe you out because you have murdered Abel to Zechariah the son of Berechiah.

Why is Zechariah the son of Berechiah? Anybody know why? What's the last book of the Hebrew Bible, Old Testament? Chronicles. Chronicles. Chronicles. Who's the last martyr in the Hebrew Bible, in the Old Testament?

Zechariah the son of Berechiah. And Jesus says, because of what y 'all have done you're going to now heap on your head, and because you're going to kill me not one stone is going to be left upon another.

Jesus said that when he rebuked them on Matthew chapter 23 and he says, I leave your house desolate, and he went on to the Amalvelos, and then he told his disciples, gave them clear instructions of what was going to take place in chapters 24 and 25.

So the preterist view my position is partial preterist and that this is specifically speaking Babylon is apostate Jerusalem. Why does Jesus ultimately wipe out Jerusalem? Because they did not trust in the once and all sacrifice that he, what did all the Mosaic legislation point to?

What's that? Every bit of it. Every bit of it. I'll even say even the fact that you couldn't eat shellfish points to Christ. Why? Why didn't they eat shellfish? Because shellfish eat off crud off the bottom of the ground.

Jesus is life-giving, therefore all the animals that they ate, ate off life. Look, there was fish there was certain fish that they couldn't eat. It had to have scales, or it had to be a what? Striker.

Why does it have to be a striker? Because what does a striking fish do? Eats off something alive. So all of them eat fed off life. I'll even say, why didn't you sew two fabrics together? Was it because God was just trying to be difficult?

I want you to be hard trying to find certain types of cotton? No, it's because my people will be pure. You're not going to take two things and make an impure garment by weaving two products together. That's why.

Why didn't you sew two types of seed in the same field? Because he wanted what you planted to be pure. Okay? And we ain't gonna finish. Babylon, I believe is apostate Jerusalem. I read 18 because when we got to the end and we gotta go.

When we got to the end here's what it was, and we'll pick up here next week. Not pick up at the end of 18, but we'll pick up right here. And in her was found the blood of the prophets and the saints and all of those who have been slain on the earth.