The Harlot Church — Zac Poonen

The Two Streams from Genesis to Revelation

As I've studied through the Bible, I find there are two streams that flow right from Genesis, from the beginning of human history outside the Garden of Eden, which is Genesis four, all the way to the end of human history in Revelation chapter 18 and 19 and 2021.

And it's good for us to see these because whether we know it or not, all of us are being caught up in one of these two streams. And it's very important that we are in the right stream. So please listen as I share.

The first event recorded after man was turned out of Eden is Cain and Abel offering sacrifice to God and God accepting Abel's sacrifice, he was the younger brother, and rejecting Cain's sacrifice. And I think the way Cain saw Abel's sacrifice being accepted was the usual way in the Old Testament, fire would come down from heaven and consume that sacrifice.

And Cain saw the fire coming on Abel's sacrifice and no fire on his. And the reason, as I've often said, which if you heard me before, is that in Genesis four, verse three, it says Cain brought an offering.

Whereas Abel verse four brought the very best offering, the first flings of his flock and of their fat portions. Some people who don't read scripture properly say it was because of Abel bringing a blood offering and Cain bringing a grain offering.

That's not the reason, because grain offerings are accepted in the book of Leviticus. And Cain was a farmer, so he could really bring a great grain offering. And Abel was a shepherd, so he brought the sheep.

There was no great virtue in that. But it's very clear in Hebrews 11, where it says that God accepted Abel. And by faith, he accepted Abel. And here it says here, right here, and the Lord, Genesis four, verse four, the Lord had regard not for Abel's offering, but for Abel.

And he had no regard, not for Cain's offering, verse five, Genesis four, five, but for Cain. The offering had value because of the man who brought the offering, verse four. It was not the question of whether there was blood in the offering or not.

And Cain's offering had no value because of who Cain was. So there was something in the character of these men that God rejected. And God accepted in Abel. So that's where we find the difference, Cain.

So if you think of that, that these two streams, there are people who offer to God among Christians, those who bring an offering to God, and those who say God must get the very best. And you find that even in churches, in Christians, you probably look in your own heart and you'll see what your attitude is.

We don't have to judge anybody else, but it's good for us to judge ourselves before God and see which of these two streams we fall into. Are we bringing an offering to God to ease our conscience and to say we have done the minimum required, or when we come to off to give ourselves or anything to God that we give the very best.

See, I call this the maximum type of Christian and the minimum type of Christian. Those are the two streams, essentially. The minimum type of Christian is the one whose reasoning is, what is the minimum I have to do to be accepted by God?

What's the minimum I have to do to go to heaven? What is the minimum I have to do to be accepted in NCCF as a good brother or a sister that people don't look down on me or reject me? A minimum necessary to be accepted as a committed member of the church.

And there are others who when they come to a church, their whole attitude is, what is the maximum I can do to build the body of Christ in this fellowship God has placed me in? What is the maximum I can do in my one life that I have?

It's a very short life of maximum 100 years that I have on earth for God. What is the maximum I can do and each of us can evaluate ourselves. And this is not something that once we choose the maximum, we'll remain there.

There are a lot of people who start off with a tremendous desire to the maximum for God. You see them 10 years later, they've compromised all the way down because the pleasures of the world and love of money and so many other things come in and they've moved away from the Abel stream to the Cain stream.

Saul and David: Humility, Pride, and Submission

Now, this is something that flows right through scripture. And I won't be able to go through all of them, but when you come to the time of David and you don't know how to turn there, but you know there were two streams there too.

One is represented by Saul and the others by David. These are again the days two streams that flowing from Cain and Abel. Now, when Saul was selected to be king, I don't know whether you remember this, that they drew lots and they selected Saul and when they looked for him, we read that he was hiding.

He didn't want to be the king. He was such a humble, modest man that even when his name was selected, we read in 1 Samuel chapter 10, that he was hiding, 1 Samuel 10, 22, hiding behind a lot of suitcases.

He was hiding in the baggage, it says. And they pulled him out and anointed him king. And in such humility, he started off. When there were people who despised him and certain worthless men, Genesis 10, sorry, 1 Samuel 10, 27 said, how can this wretched Saul deliver us?

And they wanted to despise him, but it says he did not get offended. He kept silent. Amazing how he started, 1 Samuel 10, 27. But the same man, you read three or four chapters later, he's begun to have high thoughts about himself because he won some victories, which God helped him to.

And then he dared, he dared to do what no king was supposed to do, to do the job of a priest and offer a sacrifice to God. It was God's law in the Old Testament that a king should never be a priest. A priest will never be a king because that was, they didn't know that then, but that it was reserved for Jesus Christ to be the first king priest after the order of Melchizedek.

Today, we are kings and priests, but in the Old Testament, a king could never be a priest and a priest could never be a king. And it was a very serious thing when a king crossed his boundary and decided to act like a priest.

And when Saul did that, that's the time when Samuel came to him and said, God has rejected you, 1 Samuel 13, 14, and God has chosen a man after his own heart. And that was David. So he had two streams.

Both started, David started humbly too. Saul started humbly too. But once God blessed him and anointed him, he began to get puffed up. David, even after God anointed him, of course he failed, he slipped up.

But we never see David as a proud, arrogant man looking down on others like Saul. Even when his son betrayed him, he longed that he would not be killed. So there's a difference there between Saul and David.

David was far from perfect. He committed adultery, but there was something in David's heart, a certain humility, which even when a prophet came and rebuked him, he accepted it. Many kings in the Old Testament would not accept rebuke from a prophet.

They say, who's this guy? And David did, even though he was a king. So you see there's a difference there between Saul and David. Saul seeking his own and rejoicing in the fact that he's got a position of authority.

And David humbly submitting to God's discipline. So that's the same stream there that started with Cain and Abel, Saul and David. And you can meditate more on that. And it comes all the way down into the New Testament.

The Pharisees and the Disciples: Minimum Religion Versus Wholehearted Discipleship

And again, you see the two streams there in the Pharisees and the disciples of Jesus in the Gospels. Now, the Pharisees are great scholars. They knew the Bible. Jesus himself gave a certificate to the Pharisees in Matthew 23.

He told his disciples, everything that the Pharisees teach you, you can do it. Because their doctrine is absolutely right. I mean, their understanding of, their knowledge of scripture rather, not understanding of it, their knowledge of scripture was excellent.

I'm absolutely sure the Pharisees knew the Bible better than the disciples. And you see these two streams again. And the Pharisees doing the minimum required to be accepted by God, paid tithe of dill and anise and cumin, but arrogant in their hearts.

And the disciples probably didn't know so much of scripture, but who gave up everything, gave up their jobs and gave up everything to follow Jesus. Even some of their preferences. Do you know that there were two people who are completely two different political parties who became disciples of Jesus?

Matthew was a servant of the ruling Roman empire. He was a tax collector for them. That's why the Jews despised the tax collectors like Zacchaeus and Matthew, he was a servant of the political system, the current ruling political system.

And there was another disciple of Jesus group called Simon the Zealot. The Zealots were a party that were determined to overthrow the Roman empire. They said, we don't want Rome to rule over Israel. We are descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

We don't want any of these people to rule over us. And they were there to, in a revolution, overthrow the Roman empire. Of course we couldn't do anything, but they were plotting to do that, just like in many countries.

And here were two people in completely opposite political far right and far left type of people like people talk today. And Jesus brought them together. Now I wanna say this, my brothers and sisters, I'm absolutely certain that Matthew and Simon did not discuss politics when they were disciples of Jesus, like a lot of Christians do today who promote their far right view or some other left view or whatever it is.

You gotta be a disciple of Jesus and forsake all that if you really wanna be a disciple. Stick to all that, you end up like the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the Zealots and et cetera, et cetera. So there were the Pharisees who were one stream.

They had religion. They had a knowledge of the Bible, but it was all in their head. It didn't, they always thought of, as I said, what is the minimum we need to do to please God? And here were the disciples who thought of what is the maximum we can do to follow this wonderful Savior?

They gave up their jobs, they gave up everything to follow the Lord. So those are the two streams you find coming right through the Bible. And now we are 2000 years after them and we need to recognize this.

Those streams are flowing in the world and in Christendom today. Those streams are flowing in every church, including NCCF. And we are not here to decide whether the other person is in this stream or that stream.

All we need to decide is which of these two streams am I in? That's what you need to ask yourself. And we shouldn't flatter ourselves even if the elders have a high opinion of you. That is fit for the trash can.

I mean, I'm not saying the opinion of a godly man is not important. If it is a really godly man and a really godly elder, and I believe his opinion would be important. For example, if I was living in the time of Paul and the apostle Paul had a certain opinion about me, I would certainly think of that as very important because here's a man of God having a certain opinion about me, which convicts me.

So, but otherwise, apart from the opinion of a godly man, the opinion of all other people are just fit for the trash can. So we ourselves know. Just ask yourself this question and you'll find out pretty soon which of these two streams you're in.

Do you bring an offering like Cain or do you bring the very best like Abel? Do you do the minimum necessary in order to be accepted by God like Saul? Or do you say like David said in 2 Samuel 24, verse 24, I will never offer to the Lord.

Listen to this. David said, I will never offer to the Lord that which costs me nothing. Those are David's words in 2 Samuel 24, 24, when he had to offer a sacrifice and the farmer there who was a subject of David said, yeah, I'll give you everything.

I'll give you the oxen, I'll give you the altar, I'll give you the wood, everything. He said, no, if I take it free from you and give it to God, what does it cost me? I'll pay for it and then I'll give it to God because I will never give to my God that which costs me nothing.

And that is a spirit that characterizes those who follow in this stream with Jesus is the leader of. That's how Jesus came. He never offered to the Father that which cost him nothing. It cost him everything to follow the Father.

Whole-Life Consecration Rather Than Religious Minimums

For the Pharisees, it was just Bible knowledge, going to the synagogue regularly in today's terms, going to church, making sure you're there, present for every meeting. You're not a backslider because you're there and every Sunday you make sure you attend every meeting and you think that's okay.

It's not okay. It's a question like I often said this, people used to ask us in India, Brother Zach, what is the difference between your church and other churches? I say, well, in many ways, they're similar.

We meet in church buildings and we've got hypocrites in our church just like every other church. But, and there are churches which have good doctrines. We believe good doctrines, but I say there's one big difference I find between us and many other churches.

For us, but most other churches, Sunday is the important day. The day when they go to church as they say it and the day they hear the word of God and they sing and meet together with other believers. That's the most important day for them.

I said, but for us in our church, the most important day is Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoon after you go home. In other words, it's the way you live at home, six and a half days of the week, which is much more important for us in our church than the half a day that you come on Sunday morning to a church service.

I said, that is one big difference. We emphasize in our Sunday morning service, not how well you sing or how well you can preach or how much offering you give. These things don't mean anything to us, but we emphasize how you live the remaining six and a half days after the church service is over.

I said, that's one big difference. So that also falls in line with what I said earlier about the minimum necessary to please God and the maximum I can do in my one earthly life. It's very, very a searching question.

If you are honest before God, you get tremendous light on yourself. I keep asking myself that. I say, Lord, I have only one life to live. And I don't want at the end of my life to be able to look back over my life and say, well, I kept all the rules.

I went to church meetings regularly. I never committed any serious sins. I never molested any woman. I never killed anybody. And I faithfully gave my offerings. And I did all the minimum necessary that evangelical Christians are supposed to do.

I do not want to end my life like that, not at all. And that's something I shouldn't think of at the end of my life. I remember when I began my Christian life as a young Christian, when I was 21 years old, I got baptized.

One of the first verses that the Lord gave me, one of the very first verses at a time when I knew very little of scripture was from that story of David in 2 Samuel 24, verse 24, where he said, I will never offer to the Lord that which costs me nothing.

And the Lord said to me there, in your life, never offer to me that which has cost you nothing. I said, Lord, to the best of my ability, I will follow that. I will not ever insult you by offering you a cheap sacrifice, which has cost me zero or cost me very little.

And there are many Christians today who sacrifice such a lot to advance in their profession. Good. Who sacrifice such a lot to save money, to build a nice house. Okay, fine. Nothing wrong in that. Sacrifice such a lot to get a good car, or fine, fine, fine, fine.

Nothing against all that. God is not against any of these things I mentioned. The question is, how does it compare with what you give to God? I don't mean money. Money is the, we don't even talk, I don't say the last thing.

We don't even talk about it in CFC. Jesus never talked about giving money. He wanted people to give themselves. I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, Romans 12, one, present yourselves a living sacrifice to God.

That, Romans 12, one, is the equivalent. I always say, that's the equivalent of the Old Testament type. It's not 10%. It is your body and your mind. I beseech you, and we have all the mercies of God. In the Old Testament, it was, in view of all that God has done for you, folks, all the tribes of Israel, give 10 of your flock or your brains.

Don't withhold that. Fine. When you come to the New Testament, it says, in view of all the mercies of God, God doesn't want your money. He owns the silver and gold, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

Why does he want your money? He's not a beggar. He's not hard up. He says, well, there is something I do want from you. Your body, Romans 12, one, and your mind, Romans 12, two. If you don't give him that, if you don't give him every part of your body, and allow your mind to be renewed, to think like God thinks, which is revealed in scripture, you haven't really given what God wants.

That's what it means in the New Testament, to give to God that which costs us something. So then we fall into the stream of the disciples, and it involved a lot of suffering. That also begins with Cain and Abel, the folks who, the minimum Christians will kill the maximum Christians.

Cain killed Abel, and Saul tried his best to kill David, and God protected David. And the Pharisees killed Jesus, and the Pharisees killed the disciples, and subsequently other religious people killed the disciples of Jesus in the early centuries, and even today that's going on.

So those who choose to give God the maximum won't have a very enjoyable life. They'll be persecuted, sometimes physically by death, and sometimes by being called false prophets, and devil, and all types of names.

And I think of when people used to call me all types of names like false prophet, and devil, and I've been called the whole thing. I think of what Jesus said, if they have called the head of the house Beelzebub, how much more the members of his family?

You know that verse in the Matthew? If they have called the head of the family Beelzebub, what worse names will they give to the members of his family? I remember reading that as a young Christian, and I said, Lord, has anybody called me a bad name for being a disciple of Jesus?

I thank God for the privilege I've had through the years of being called almost every bad name, because I've stood up for the truth. And then I see from that verse, that proves that I am a member of his household, because that's what he said.

If they call the head of the household Beelzebub, how much more the members of his household? I said, Lord, I want to be in that member of your household where people have called me by worse names. I want to ask you, my brothers and sisters, you are all, many of you are respectable Christians.

I want to ask you if you've ever been called a bad name for being a disciple of Jesus, by your relatives perhaps, or by people who think you're a fanatic, or standing up for things which they say, why stick up all these silly things?

Other Christians perhaps, other believers? That is one indication that you're in that stream that's flowing towards the kingdom of God. Now, where does this stream end? It ends in the last book of the Bible, in what is called Babylon and Jerusalem.

Babylon and Jerusalem as the Final Forms of the Two Streams

What began as Cain and Abel, and flowed through the scriptures, it ends in Babylon and Jerusalem. So turn with me to Revelation and chapter 17. 17 to 21 is the closing chapters of the Bible where it speaks about Babylon and Jerusalem.

And these are not systems that suddenly turned up. It was way back in the beginning, where man, they wanted to be religious, sure. Cain was not a idol worshiper. You know that he offered his sacrifice to Jehovah, to the true God?

He did not go and offer it to an idol. So those who are in that minimum stream are not idol worshipers. They're not non-Christians. They are people who worship the true God, but they give the minimum necessary.

That was Cain's problem. And they are jealous of someone else who's more accepted by God. That's another mark of being in that minimum stream. If you can look at another believer, maybe in NCCF, maybe another brother or another sister, who seems to be more gifted than you are, who seems to be more accepted by others in the church than you are, and you feel a little jealousy, and you want to do something to be accepted like them, you are following after Cain.

Let me tell you the truth. I've often said in my home church in Bangalore, I said, it's a dangerous thing to come here, I said, if you're not serious about knowing the truth. Because you'll hear the truth here and your responsibility before God will increase.

So if you don't want to hear the truth, go and sit in some other church. And at least you can tell God I never heard it. But if you come here, you're gonna know the truth and your responsibility will increase.

To whom more is given, more will be required, Jesus said. So it's very important to examine ourselves in the light of what God is trying to say to us. Is your attitude that of Cain, I bring an offering, or that of Abel, I bring the very best in everything.

The best of my time, the best of my energy, the best of my life. We never talk about money because Jesus never talked about money. The only thing he said, be careful that you don't love money. But he never talked about people coming to give money because he was not interested in that.

The thing which most of Christendom is interested in, we decided right from the beginning in CFC, we'll never talk about it. We are one of the only denominations in the world that do not even pass an offering bag around.

In any of our more than 100 churches, we are one of the only denominations in the world where our elders are not paid, nobody, not me and nobody else as a group. So because Jesus never collected money, Jesus never expected money from people for preaching.

No, he was free from all that. He couldn't live in grand style, but he was happy with what he had. But he did emphasize that if you want to be my disciple, you've got to forsake everything and follow me.

That means that attachment to the world's pleasures, the world's wealth and the world's honor, particularly these three things, the world's wealth and the world's pleasures and the world's honor. If I'm not willing to forsake these, I can't be a disciple of Jesus.

Babylon the Great and Jerusalem the Holy

So when you come to Revelation chapter 17, you read about Babylon and this is a system. There are many denominations in Christianity that talk of some other denomination as Babylon. And they've told people, we came out of those dead denominations and now our church is Jerusalem.

Wow, I hope so. I used to think like that in my early days when I did not know the scriptures and I did not know God. But I've come to see now that it's not one particular church that is Babylon or another church that is Jerusalem.

No, it's a system. The world, what the Bible calls the world is a system. And that system can exist in the mind of somebody sitting in NCCM. It can sit in the mind of somebody who preaches in NCCM. And everybody who sits here is not necessarily part of Jerusalem, not at all.

And there could be as people with the spirit of Jerusalem in some other church. What is it that makes Babylon? We've seen some of it already. But turn with me to Revelation 17 now. Here it speaks about Babylon as a woman, a harlot.

And verse five, she's not just a harlot. Verse Revelation 17, five, Babylon the great. Now, Babylon is called great 11 times in Revelation. One of its marks is greatness. Greatness in the world or greatness in the church.

You wanna be great in the church? You're going the direction of Babylon. Greatness anywhere in this earth, in any system, whether you call it church, whether you call it NCCF, or you call it CFC, whatever you call it, Babylon is the great.

You wanna be known as a great brother or a great preacher or a great saint? You're going the wrong direction, the wrong stream. Jerusalem is on the other hand, in Revelation 21, verse two, see the contrast.

Revelation chapter 21, verse two, Jerusalem, which is the true church of God, is called the holy. So these are the two streams, the great and the holy. And it's only a question of which we want for, which we long for, which do you want to be?

Do you want to be known as a great sister or great brother or a great young person? Or not do you want to be known? The moment you use the word known, you're seeking honor. If you want to be known to be holy, you're in the wrong stream.

The moment you want to be known for something good, you are seeking greatness. Even if it is, you want to be known to be holy. You want to be known as one of the holy brothers or the holy sisters, or one of the holy young people in NCCF, you are in the wrong stream.

That is Babylon the great. Jerusalem is called the holy, and holiness is something which is lived only before the face of God. And it's something only God knows because holiness is of the heart. Jerusalem, the holy, Babylon, the great.

So that's the contrast we see here. And the other thing we see here is that Babylon, Revelation 17, five, is the mother of harlots, not just a harlot, but the mother of mother prostitutes. We don't use the word harlot so often nowadays.

They use wars and harlots in those days. We talk about prostitutes. Babylon, the prostitute, the great prostitute. And it's a picture of one who claims to be the bride of Christ, but plays the fool with the world.

That's Babylon. It's a person who claims to be married to Christ. But fools around with the world. And it's not just the harlots. She's the mother of harlots. The people who say, when they look here and say, well, it looks as if it says here that this is referring to the city of Rome because it says in verse nine, the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.

And it's well known that Rome was built on seven hills. And so they're talking about Rome there and they say finally it leads to the Roman Catholic Church. Well, even if the Roman Catholic Church is the harlot, it's the mother of harlots.

It's produced numerous harlots in Protestant systems and numerous harlots in Pentecostal systems. Because Babylon is the mother of harlots. So even if something came out of a particular church, it's produced so many other harlots.

Harlot means ones who claims to be devoted to Christ, but inwardly is devoted to something in this world. That's like a, it's like a person's wife, inwardly wishing that she were married to somebody else.

Even if she doesn't go and live with that person, wishing I wish I were married to that person. I wish I were married to that person. That's a harlot. She's not a faithful wife. And I want to show you in 2 Timothy in chapter three, three things that compete with God that lead us to harlotry.

Love of Self, Money, and Pleasure Versus Love of God

A woman who should be loving her husband, loving something else to a greater or a lesser degree. 2 Timothy and chapter three. We read here about four types of lovers. Verse two, lovers of self. Again in verse two, lovers of money.

And verse four, lovers of pleasure. And the fourth is lovers of God. The lovers of God are in one stream and the other three lovers are in the other stream. So the harlot is one who claims to love God.

But if you look at her inner desires and actions in private, and what's mostly going on in her thoughts is money, pleasure, and self means honor. Pleasing oneself with money, pleasure, and honor. Entertainment, not for the sake of relaxation, but entertainment for the sake of pleasure that is defiling.

Movies that defile our mind. Pleasure, the pursuit, the inward longing for money beyond our needs. To be wise, to save up for our children and make sure we have enough to educate them like we ourselves are educated.

That's a righteous thing to desire. We must desire for our children what our parents did for us, sure. But the pursuit of something to the way beyond what we need is a love of money, a love of pleasure, and a love of honor.

And that loving honor need not be in the world. It can be in the church. If I love honor, I'm in Babylon, whichever church you sit in. Because Babylon is one who loves honor. So that is harlotry. The opposite of all that is one who loves God supremely.

That's why Jesus said, you know, the first commandment is to love God with all your heart and soul and strength and mind. That is the salvation is from the opposite of that. Sin is to not love God with all your heart, soul, and mind.

And when it says Jesus came to save us from our sins, what do you mean? It's not just he came to save us from pornography and telling lies and hating people. He came to save us from this not loving God with all our heart, soul, and strength and mind.

Anything contrary to that is sin. That's the first commandment. And if Jesus said that very clearly, the first commandment is you've got to love God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind. And when you don't keep the first commandment, you're sinning.

What better definition of sin can there be than that? Here is God's commandment, let me repeat, love God with all your heart, your mind, your strength, and all your energy and everything. Disobedience to that is sin.

And when he said Jesus came to save us from sin, this is what he came to save us from. He came to save us from not loving God with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind. That is sin. And solitary is to love something else with our heart and soul and strength and mind to some extent.

Even if your wife loves some other man, just a little bit. I mean, she loves you 75%, but she's got a little love for this other man and a little love for this other man and a little love for this other man.

That's solitary. I'm sure all of you husbands will agree there. You don't want your husband, your wife, to give you 75 of her love or 70 of her love and 10 each to three other people. Well, neither does God.

God doesn't want you to love him 70 and 10 love money and love pleasure and love honor. No, you should love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your strength and all your mind. It's pretty total God's demand of us, but that's not unreasonable because all of you husbands demand that type of love from your wives.

So it's nothing unreasonable that the Lord is demanding from us. Absolutely right. That is the bride. Anything other than that is holitary, prostitute. A wife who loves some other man 10 is a prostitute, I would say, without any hesitation.

And that's what's pictured here in Babylon. One who loves God, maybe 70%, but he's got other things, other loves in his life, which are contrary to the love of God. And that's holitary. And you see another thing here in Revelation 17, this woman is pictured like a, this Babylon is pictured as a woman.

Revelation 17, four clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. This is all decorated with all that is of the world. Quite a contrast to the bride. You see, the contrast is what we see always.

The bride is, we read in Revelation 19 and verse eight, the bride is clothed in fine linen, bright and clean. That's it. It's not with all this grand gold and precious stones and pearls and purple and scarlet.

That's a mark of the harlot. And here's the contrast to the bride. When a woman wants to decorate herself, what is it for? To attract other men, even though she's a married woman. It's not enough that her husband is happy with her.

She wants to appear attractive to other men. That's a prostitute. To be decently dressed and all that is a good thing. But if you want to make yourself attractive to other men, that's prostitution, without a doubt.

And when a Christian wants not only to please God, but also to please the spirit of the world, it's prostitution. So we see here also, this woman is sitting on a beast. And I want you to see here that this beast is a political system.

Babylon Riding the Political Beast

In those days, it was Rome. And the Bible speaks here about a Christianity, the woman sitting on a beast. Christianity joining with the political system in the world. It did not start in America with the conservative party.