6 I also saw that the woman was drunk, [drunk] with the blood of the saints (God's people) and the blood of the martyrs [who witnessed] for Jesus. And when I saw her, I was utterly amazed and wondered greatly.
Remember when our Father had Paul preach in Corinth, Acts 19, how the makers of idols rebelled against him because they were losing money? Babylon, which is the worlds economy, has killed off millions of saints throughout its history and the members of her have always gone right along with it. And after they kill the saints, they make graven images of those who they have killed to sell. Then Babylon tells its citizens who buy the images, to pray to them. So not only did Babylon kill the saints, it then tried to totally destroy the message that our Father spoke through them.
We have now read over 16 chapters in the Book of Revelation. I hope that you have noticed a couple of things through our studies together. First, the Revelation of our Lord is not hard to understand; our Father actually repeats Himself a lot while explaining what He going to doing. Second, our Father gives us more hope then wrath in His revelation and third, our Father controls everything that is happening. Satan and man never control the punishment, our Father does. He will use satan and man, but only to the degrees that He sets.
Also, I hope that you see the anti-christ and his followers will all seem very religious. They will have a form of godliness, but they will always deny the power of our Father by claiming that it is actually man who is controlling what our Father is doing. The seeds of this false teaching have been sown from the beginning. Look at how so many say that they accepted Jesus as their Lord, when the Truth is that He first chose and drew us to Himself, John 6:44. We talk about our faith, when the Truth is Jesus is the Author and Finisher of our faith, Hebrews 12:2. We talk about our works, when we can do nothing without Jesus, John 15:4. We can only do what our Father first empowers and directs us to do. Our righteousness is as filthy rags. We are only more then conquerors because Christ loves us, Romans 8:37.
Always remember that we have been sealed with the Holy Spirit, Ephesians 4:30. If our Father wants us here on the earth during these end times, we will plainly see who and what the anti-christ is. We will be used by our Father to help those in need and we will never be left or forsaking by our Him. Remember also, the Holy Spirit will empower us to read this Revelation out loud in a group. Our Father pours out such a blessing on us when He does. Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, so I pray that you are overtaken with hope to read the Revelation of our Lord to others.
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