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IF IT'S IMPORTANT TO JESUS...
PART 5: Love Wins
(Revelation 1:1-2; Revelation 14:6-12; Revelation 14:8; Genesis 10:1,6,8; Genesis 10:9-10; Genesis 11:4; Genesis 11:5-6; Genesis 11:7-8; Genesis 11:9; Revelation 14:8; Isaiah 21:9; Jeremiah 25:12; Revelation 17:5; Revelation 18:21; Matthew 18:6; 1 Peter 5:13; Four Kingdoms; Quotes; Revelation 14:8; James 4:4-5; Quotes; 1 Corinthians 13:8)
Revelation 1:1-2
1 This is a revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants the events that must soon take place. He sent an angel to present this revelation to his servant John, 2 who faithfully reported everything he saw. This is his report of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 14:6-12
6 And I saw another angel flying through the sky, carrying the eternal Good News to proclaim to the people who belong to this world—to every nation, tribe, language, and people. 7 “Fear God,” he shouted. “Give glory to him. For the time has come when he will sit as judge. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and all the springs of water.” 8 Then another angel followed him through the sky, shouting, “Babylon is fallen—that great city is fallen—because she made all the nations of the world drink the wine of her passionate immorality.” 9 Then a third angel followed them, shouting, “Anyone who worships the beast and his statue or who accepts his mark on the forehead or on the hand 10 must drink the wine of God’s anger. It has been poured full strength into God’s cup of wrath. And they will be tormented with fire and burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and the Lamb. 11 The smoke of their torment will rise forever and ever, and they will have no relief day or night, for they have worshiped the beast and his statue and have accepted the mark of his name.” 12 This means that God’s holy people must endure persecution patiently, obeying his commands and maintaining their faith in Jesus.
Revelation 14:8
8 Then another angel followed him through the sky, shouting, “Babylon is fallen—that great city is fallen—because she made all the nations of the world drink the wine of her passionate immorality.”
Genesis 10:1,6,8
1 Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 6 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. 8 Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth.
Genesis 10:9-10
8 Cush was also the ancestor of Nimrod, who was the first heroic warrior on earth. 9 Since he was the greatest hunter in the world, his name became proverbial. People would say, “This man is like Nimrod, the greatest hunter in the world.” 10 He built his kingdom in the land of Babylonia.
Genesis 11:4
4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
Genesis 11:5-6
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6 And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them."
Genesis 11:7-8
7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.
Genesis 11:9
9 That is why the city was called Babel, because that is where the Lord confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world.
Revelation 14:8
8 And another angel followed, saying, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”
Isaiah 21:9
9 Now at last—look! Here comes a man in a chariot with a pair of horses!” Then the watchman said, “Babylon is fallen, fallen! All the idols of Babylon lie broken on the ground!”
Jeremiah 25:12
12 “Then, after the seventy years of captivity are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his people for their sins,” says the Lord. “I will make the country of the Babylonians a wasteland forever.
Revelation 17:5
5 A mysterious name was written on her forehead: “Babylon the Great, Mother of All Prostitutes and Obscenities in the World.”
Revelation 18:21
21 Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a huge millstone. He threw it into the ocean and shouted, “Just like this, the great city Babylon will be thrown down with violence and will never be found again.
Matthew 18:6
6 But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea.
1 Peter 5:13
13 Your sister church here in Babylon sends you greetings, and so does my son Mark. 14 Greet each other with a kiss of love. Peace be with all of you who are in Christ.
Four Kingdoms
Babylon (Daniel 2:37-38)
MedoPersia (Daniel 8:20)
Greece (Daniel 8:21)
Rome (Luke 2:1)
Eberhard II, Archbishop of Salzburg (1200-1246)
Those priests of Babylon alone desire to reign, they cannot tolerate an equal, they will not desist until they have trampled things under their feet, and until they sit in the temple of God, and until they are exalted above all that is worshipped…He who is servant of servants, desires to be lord of lords, just as if he were God…He speaks great things as if he were truly God. He ponders new counsels under his breast, in order that he may establish his own rule for himself, he changes laws, he ordains his own laws, he corrupts, he plunders, he pillages, he defrauds, he hills—that incorrigible man (whom they are accustomed to call Antichrist) on whose forehead an inscription of insult is written: ‘I am God, I cannot err.’ He sits in the temple of God, and has dominion far and wide. - LeRoy Froom The Prophetic Faith of our Fathers, vol.1, p.797
John Wycliffe, English Protestant (1328-1415)
“With whom, think you,” he finally said, “are you contending? With an old man on the brink of the grave?—No! with truth,—which is stronger than you, and will overcome you.” - Ellen White, The Great Controversy, p.90
John Wycliffe's Prayer
Let us pray unto our God, that He will stir up our pope, Urban the Sixth, as he began, that he with his clergy may follow the Lord Jesus Christ in life and manners, and that they may teach the people effectively, and that hey likewise may faithfully follow them in the same. - John Foxe, Acts and Monuments, Vol.3, pp 49-50
Martin Luther, Lutheran (1483-1546)
We are of the conviction that the papacy is the seat of the true and real antichrist. - Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, vol.3 (New York, NY: Cosimo, Inc., 2007) pp.658-659
John Calvin, Presbyterian (1509-1564)
Some persons think us too severe and censorious because we call the Roman pontiff the antichrist. - Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, vol.3 (New York, NY: Cosimo, Inc., 2007) pp.658-659
John Knox, Scotch Presbyterian (1505-1572)
The papacy is the antichrist, and son of perdition, of whom Paul speaks. - Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, vol.3 (New York, NY: Cosimo, Inc., 2007) pp.658-659
Roger Williams, Baptist Pastor (1603-1683)
The pretended Vicar of Christ on earth, speaking against the God of heaven, thinking to change times and laws, he is the son of perdition. - Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, vol.3 (New York, NY: Cosimo, Inc., 2007) pp.658-659
Cotton Mather, Congregational Theologian (1663-1728)
The oracles of God foretold the rising of an antichrist in the Christian Church, and in the pope of Rome all the characteristics of that antichrist are so marvelously answered that if any who read the Scriptures do not see it, there is a great blindness upon them. - Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, vol.3 (New York, NY: Cosimo, Inc., 2007) pp.658-659
John Wesley, Methodist (1703-1791)
He is in an emphatic sense, the man of sin. He is too properly styled the son of perdition, claiming the prerogatives of God alone. - Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, vol.3 (New York, NY: Cosimo, Inc., 2007) pp.658-659
Westminster’s Confession of Faith (1647)
There is no other head of the church but the Lord Jesus Christ. The pope is not the head, but is that antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition that exalts himself in the church against Christ and above all that is called God. - Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, vol.3 (New York, NY: Cosimo, Inc., 2007) pp.658-659
Isaac Backus, Baptist Historian (1767)
She [‘the church of Rome’] is the mother of harlots, and all churches who go after any lovers but Christ, for a temporal living, are guilty of playing the harlot. - George R. Knight, Editor. Questions on Doctrine (Andrews University Press 2003), p.168
George Knight, Adventist Historian (2003)
“She [Babylon] is the mother of harlots and she has lots of daughters. Including all individuals or groups of individuals that advocate unchristian doctrines, practices, and procedures of the papal church” (Questions on Doctrine, pp169-170).
Revelation 14:8
8 And another angel followed, saying, “Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”
James 4:4-5
4 You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. 5 Do you think the Scriptures have no meaning? They say that God is passionate that the spirit he has placed within us should be faithful to him.
Councils and Decrees of the Council of Trent, Canon 12 (1547)
If anyone says that justifying grace is nothing else than confidence [faith] in divine mercy, which remits sin for Christ’s sake, or that this confidence [faith] alone justifies us, let him be anathema. - As cited by Clifford Goldstein, “Speaking as a Brother”, Liberty Magazine, NOV/DEC 2014, pp.24-25
Priest Brady, 1903
It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Protestants, that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance of Sunday. Sunday worship is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church. - Steve McKoy, The Mark of the Beast and the Coming of Christ, p.42
1 Corinthians 13:8
8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!