Men of Renown
Part xxxvi
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The Drunken Woman
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Mystery, Babylon The GreatÂ
The Woman
CONTINUES
in the Third and Last Woman in the book of the Revelation
  There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. (Genesis 6:4) And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5)
  This series called Men of Renown will begin with these verses in Chapter 6 of the book of Genesis because it is the perfect scene setter for whatever and whoever follows that enables men of renown to act in conflict against God and His Word. Verses 4 and 5 are an accurate definition of men of renown.
  Why is Babylon symbolized as a drunken woman? Most individuals are curious about the End Times and the name of Babylon. For the unfortunate first-time reader who accidentally clicked on this site . . . stay awhile . . . don’t be frightened . . . this is NOT a religious site. It is a teaching site. So right up front allow me to explain the difference between religion and Christianity. Religion is a man-made program designed to CONTROL the minds and hearts of its followers based on church attendance and a banking system of salvation. Somewhere meshed into religion there will be some form or merchandising. Christianity is about CHRIST. Christianity is a REVELATION (from God), it is REGENERATION (by the Spirit of Christ) and it is a personal RELATIONSHIP (with God IN Christ). Christianity is NOT based on a PLACE but on a PERSON. A Christian can exist without a place to worship. A Christian can exist without a religion, but a Christian cannot exist without Christ. Christ must be the center of all worship, and without Christ man cannot worship God. Now, if you are confused . . . GOOD! So, again let me emphasis that this is NOT a religious site . . . it is a teaching site. You will not be confronted with any particular group or organization being pushed down your throat, nor will you ever see a plea for your wallet.
  Now, that we have gotten past that bit of weak introduction, allow me to continue to confuse you. The site is called The Genesis Epic (Genesis, the first book of the Bible), yet here we are in the last book of the Bible, the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. This article is posted under the theme of Men of Renown, and yet, we are dealing with A WOMAN, or also noted as THE WOMAN. Again, I do not want to panic you. Sometimes when people read certain words, they become terrified, you know . . . words like ‘Bible,’ and ‘God.’ If you’re still reading, that means, you haven’t dropped dead yet over seeing these words. (I josh!) Therefore, let us proceed on with our first question, Why is Babylon symbolized as a woman? (For the timid, you may want to read about the origination of Babylon . . . CLICK HERE.) (And for the brave, just getting this far into this article shows bravery.)
  The game plan is to cover all SIX mentions of a woman, and the woman in Revelation Chapter 17 of Revelation.
1.  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. (Revelation 17:3)
2. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: (Revelation 17:4)
3. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. (Revelation 17:6)
4. And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. (Revelation 17:7)
5. And here [is] the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. (Revelation 17:9)
6. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. (Revelation 17:18)
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The Drunken Woman
  I realize that many do not like to read, and with that in mind, READ the complete 17th Chapter of the book of the Revelation. (You see, as a teacher, I really don’t care what my students like or don’t like.) Eighteen verses won’t kill you. However, out of my kind heart, the following five verses lead into our study verse of 17:6.
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:Â (Revelation 17:1)
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. (Revelation 17:2)
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. (Revelation 17:3)
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:Â (Revelation 17:4)Â
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. (Revelation 17:5)
  The Holy Spirit of God describes BABYLON THE GREAT, first as a whore. Oh. . . oh, we’re in BIG trouble now! Spell check hates that word. The word whore is documented in the Old Testament eleven (11) times, and in the New Testament four (4) times. The interesting point is that this word (the forbidden word by spell check) is documented three (3) times (verses 1, 15 and 16) in our study chapter, Chapter 17. I’d say that God wants to REALLY MAKE a STRONG point about this woman called BABYLON THE GREAT. (Here is the negative part of number three.) MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH is much more than RELIGION. Babylon is thought control. Babylon is soul ownership. It is also delusional goodness. Babylon is Religion Incorporated, and in order to become an acceptable member of this delusion of goodness, a religious resume’ is required constructed on compliance. Babylon is the worship center that mankind has always desired, self-worship where everything and anything become a point of deification and idolatry. It not only takes in a spiritual world, but Babylon also encompasses the ant-religious world as well. Babylon is Satan’s magnetic drawing force capturing the souls of man into a false and corrupt system of worship designed and constructed by Satan himself perpetrated from the very beginning of time in the first religious person . . .the man called Cain.
  This man, this evil seed, worshiped God. YES and NO. Cain DID worship God, BUT there are two forms of worship: worship that is ACCEPTED by God, and worship that is REJECTED by God. Cain’s worship was REJECTED by God; however, Cain’s fatal error was his refusal to obey God. Cain’s ruinous decision to disobey God’s directive on how to correctly approach God led to the first murder on planet Earth when Cain slew his brother Abel.
  Adam and Eve communicated personally with their Creator before sin. After sin, man could no longer personally approach God, but he could then only approach God wrapped in skins of death. Blood became the core to the approach of God. The third book of the Bible, Leviticus, Chapter 17, verse 11, develops that core (the blood) and connects it to the atonement for souls. For the life of the flesh [is] in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it [is] the blood [that] maketh an atonement for the soul. In the New Testament, through the book of Hebrews, Chapter 9:22, develops the shedding of blood even further. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. Also, it is no accident that when the premise and primary precept in Leviticus Chapter 17 is rejected, denied, and suppressed then the result is Revelation Chapter 17. Everything between Cain’s rejection of God, and MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH ALL revolves around God’s redemptive plan based on the blood of His Christ, the Son of His love. Rejection of God’s specific form of approach to. Him became a fraudulent form of worship, ergo, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT.
Side Note: The Blood. There are specific chapters in Scripture that stand out through the word blood. For example, Chapter 17 of Leviticus, documents blood seven (7) times, however, in these seven verses, the word blood appears thirteen (13) times. Leviticus Chapter 14 has the word blood documented seven (7) times. Leviticus Chapter 20 has the word blood documented seven (7) times. The book of Ezekiel, Chapter 22 has the word blood documented seven (7) times. Doesn’t this cause you to be curios? In the New Testament there is only ONE Chapter that documents the word blood more than any other chapter in the New Testament, and that is in the book of Hebrews Chapter 9, with ten (10) verses, and twelve (12) mentions of the word blood. Each chapter also concerns a specific element regarding the word blood. At this moment, I am wondering whether to drop this thread and to leave it up to the reader to pursue the subject further, or to just to write a brief summary. For now, I will just leave it for you to follow the thread. ♦ End of Side Note of blood. A Christian can exist without a place to worship. A Christian can exist without a religion, but a Christian cannot exist without Christ.
  Part of Babylon’s mystery was the birth and development of a false and fictitious center of worship: RELIGION. Anything and anyone that draws on the element of worship becomes religiousness. Try to separate in your mind the ingrained thought that religion can ONLY BE of a spiritual nature. Christianity and religion are not the same thing. They are not of the same family. A religious person can worship accomplishments, occupation, wealth, and beauty (their own). There is no end to what draws individuals to idolize and to worship heroes. Therefore, to call someone religious does not necessary indicate a godly spiritual nature at all. That is one of the reasons why it is necessary to distinguish the difference between religion and Christianity. This confusion was deliberately planted into the minds and hearts of man to remove the TRUTH of God from man. This is one thing that you will always come across in most of my articles that there is the difference between religion and Christianity. This is a theme that can never be over emphasized. Christianity is REVELATION, a revealing of God the Holy Spirit; it is REGENERATION, a spiritual birth imparted by God the Holy Spirit when a person is reborn with a newly restored soul; it is REDEMPTION through the blood of God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ; it is a RELATIONSHIP, from a child of Satan and a child of wrath to a child and son of God, thus, being at peace with God, and God being at peace with His children. How can someone become a Christian? Two simple words: REPENTANCE and BELIEF. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. (Hebrews 11:6) The word REPENT and BELIEVE may appear to be simple, but it cost the GODHEAD bodily ALL of HIMSELF. Repentance and belief are not necessarily two separate actions. But what should a seeker of God believe? And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. (Mark 1:15)
  The difference between religion and Christianity is a battle. It is the battle between two thrones and the conflict over two thrones. What mankind is entrenched with did not first originate with man, all the evil that surrounds mankind in this moment of history, first began in the realm of the history of the spiritual supernatural sphere in the heavens. The peoples of this world cannot see the core of their problems, and that has been deliberately hidden from man by the originator of all their problems. We are as kittens chasing thousands of red dots streaming all around us, and very few are able to disengage from what appears to be reality to actually recognize and observe the hand that holds the laser. Mankind was created to be actively involved in the UNSEEN realm, the supernatural realm, while in a body of a natural realm. We are people restless and without a mooring place because our earthly father, Adam, willingly rejected our proper state and standing in an UNSEEN spiritual realm. That is why the Bible states that our souls need to be restored, and the Lord Jesus Christ repeatedly speaks of a place of ‘rest.’ The difficult premise to grasp is that mankind, the species man, the race of Adam, can NEVER return to our original state and standing before sin. We have been so damaged by sin, that our physical bodies (the flesh), and the condition of our original souls and our spirit has to undergo a supernatural new birth. There can be NO recovery of what we once were. There can be NO reformation. There can be no RENEWAL of the old man, but there has to be a NEW man. This is what salvation is all about, redeeming mankind from sin and the results of sin. This is also why religion gets in the way of God’s redemptive plan. Religion is based on KEEPING the old, renewing and reforming the old because this is all that religion has. Religion is man’s belief system that mankind is not beyond reformation. Because human nature cannot see beyond humanity, it is then up to God and Him ALONE to once more CREATE another life form: THE NEW MAN, a creation BORN ANEW, born again.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (John 3:3) Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? (John 3:4) Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (John 3:5) That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:6) Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. (John 3:7)
 Religion, whether pagan, or fraudulent Christianity, cannot understand (as Nicodemus could not understand) that the Lord Jesus Christ REQUIRED another creation, a new creation, a creation created in another form of birthing that would be spiritual and not tangible.
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. (John 3:8) Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? (John 3:9) Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? (John 3:10) Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. (John 3:11) If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? (John 3:12)
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The Drunken Mind
  Our globe is currently engaged in a great conflict. Some say it is a social revolution, others state that it is a financial and economic adjustment, while others cling to the myriads of reasons that have led us to this monumental shift from truth to unrestrained and imaginative chaos of lies. Man cannot even label this conflict correctly because he has lost the ability to reason. Since man has been influenced and trained for centuries to reject the idea of a GOD, mankind, therefore, has lost the understanding of a supernatural spiritual sphere far greater than our tangible world. To mention a spiritual sphere merely implies to many non-thinkers a Hollywood-Halloween scene of ghouls, vampires and goblins. The supernatural sphere of the UNSEEN righteous kingdom of God is NOT in the minds of God’s creature, man for man has rejected the existence of God.
This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men. (Daniel 4:17)
And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:Â (Daniel 2:21) He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him. (Daniel 2:22)
  When Adam trespassed against God, all was lost, and we are at the culmination point of the loss of reason, the loss of common sense, the loss of the holy, and the loss of TRUTH. Our global conflict is more violent than a social and civil revolution, it is more drastic than a financial and economic readjustment because the circling conflict is constructed around TRUTH. Mankind could probably deal with revolution or a social and financial readjustment, but TRUTH is outside of man’s scope of reality. In order to accept TRUTH, man would have to deny EVERYTHING that he believes, and EVERYTHING that he has based his existence on. Mankind has finally fallen to the lowest place in all of creation. He is lower than the beasts. For the most part, beasts feel, reason to a point, recognize danger, and possess inherent survival instincts, not so much man. (Practically everything that the powers who rule espouse, such as: climate control, depopulation (murder), land redistribution (starvation), social credits (currency removal), all of these things are based on one concept: CONTROL. Through these control point mankind cannot survive.) The second epistle of Paul to Timothy, Chapter 3, verses 1 – 7 prophetically sets the condition of this globe at the end . . . our age . . . our age of loathsome uncontrolled imaginations.
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. (2nd Timothy 3:1)
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, (2nd Timothy 3:2)
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, (2nd Timothy 3:3)
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;Â (2nd Timothy 3:4)
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. (2nd Timothy 3:5)
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, (2nd Timothy 3:6)
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. (2nd Timothy 3:7)
  Imaginations that are controlled by Satan are never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. One of the great conflicts of our century has been the battle over the mind. Mind control is not a delusion. Government has been actively searching methods to control minds for decades. Don’t walk away from reality. You are no longer living in a playground, but you are living at the greatest period of time, the age of the ‘reset.’ The three points of our battle against the enemy, Satan: the battle over the flesh, the battle over the body, and the battle over the mind. Mankind has not been successful as a whole in maintaining the purity of his body, his mind, or his conscience. Unto the pure all things [are] pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving [is] nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. (Titus 1:15)
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Drunken
Physical Drunkenness compared to Spiritual Drunkenness
  How does all of this relate to Revelation 17:6, And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.?  Again, the Law of First Mention will come into play through the word drunken. Following the word drunken from its first mention in Genesis 9:21 to the last mention in the Old Testament in the book of Habakkuk we will learn more about Revelation 17:6. Habakkuk means ‘ardently embraced,’ or ’embrace.’ The word drunken is documented twenty-six times through twenty-five verses in eleven (11) books. However, we will not be dealing with every book, but we will be considering how drunkenness develops spiritually. We will be looking at Genesis 9:21, 22; Deuteronomy 29:19; Job 12:25; Habakkuk 2:15.
1Â And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. (Genesis 9:21) And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. (Genesis 9:22)
  This is the act that gave birth to the curse on the new earth, the new world that had been washed clean from its sin and debauchery. And now, by Noah’s drunkenness, man would once again begin his downward plunge into beastly madness. The progression from drunkenness to nakedness to dishonor to the curse on Canaan was quickly accomplished. Through Noah’s prophecy the descendants of Shem, Ham and Japheth became divided into three separate branches of mankind. Through Ham’s act of dishonor, he revealed his contemptuous state of heart against his father Noah and therefore, against God.
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. (Genesis 9:23)
And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. (Genesis 9:24)
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. (Genesis 9:25)
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. (Genesis 9:26)
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. (Genesis 9:27)Â
  There is much in the word honor, for scripture does not say to love your father, but to honor your father. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. (Exodus 20:12) Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother. (Mark 10:19) Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) (Ephesians 6:2) Although many fathers are not worthy of honor, all children with fathers are required to recognize that a father’s position and place is one of honor whether or not the father lives up to that place of honor or not. Honor is not based on the worth of the person to be honored; it is based on the worth of the One who created and formed all things, even mankind. Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? (Malachi 2:10) (Also note that this is not the same thing as what we hear today that we are all children of God. we are all created by God, but we are not all children of God.  Malachi, 2:10 was directed entirely to the Jew, notice the phrase the covenant of our fathers. The apostle Paul in Acts 17:26 – 29, marked the difference that all of mankind is God’s offspring, created by God,  And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device. We are all created by God, but we are not all children of God.)Â
  What began with Ham through his contemptuous act of dishonor and mocking his father’s nakedness without any thought of his own act brought a curse onto Ham’s descendants. Nimrod was a grandson of Ham and a great grandson of Noah through Cush. And through Nimrod, we have Babel, Shinar and Babylon. Want to understand why we in this age are in such a chaotic state, then go back to the origin of man to the beginning of chaos: Ham, Cush, Nimrod, Babel, Babylon.
  How Ham treated Noah reflected the state of his soul. Ham dishonored God, he purposely humiliated his father Noah because Ham wanted to humiliate God. He had heard his father preach many times in the land of dishonor and depravity about the righteousness of God and the coming judgment, yet even after experiencing the end of the old world and the birth of a new world, the sin within him overcame him and could no longer lay dormant. In dishonoring Noah, he dishonored God, the Father of all, and the Creator of all.
But to us [there is but] one God, the Father, of whom [are] all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him. (1st Corinthians 8:6)
One God and Father of all, who [is] above all, and through all, and in you all. (Ephesians 4:6)
But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand. (Isaiah 64:8)
Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. (Isaiah 63:16)
  As Cain was the first religious person in the old world, Ham was the first betrayer and renegade in the new world. He is the archetype of The Beast to come, the man of sin, the 6 – 6 -6 of the end times. In dishonoring his father, Ham disclosed the enmity of his heart against his Creator God. Physical drunkenness opened the door that allowed unbridled spiritual drunkenness to wash over the world through the descendants of Ham.
2Â Â Then the next time that the word drunkenness is documented is in Deuteronomy 29:19. Note the double nine (9), the double completion, the double finality. Through this reference, Moses stated the words of God in judgment in a curse to those who do not take to heart the words of judgment. And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst. This is mankind in our age, they hear the words of God’s judgment, yet they totally disregard His words, and through the vanity of their minds state, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst. Again, they choose instead to walk in the imagination of their hearts. And adding to their reprobate minds they are not content to fill their empty, dry souls with the water of life from God IN Christ Jesus, but they add drunkenness (spiritual drunkenness)Â as their source of life.
3Â Then the Holy Spirit of God follows through in describing spiritual drunkenness in the book of Job 12:25, They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like [a] drunken [man]. Those who are spiritually drunk walk in the imagination of their hearts. This is a true description of the madness that surrounds us today. In the book of Jeremiah, Chapter 51, verse 7, the Holy Spirit of God again perfectly states the condition of mankind as drunk with power, drunk with wealth, drunk with sex, drunk in their evil uncontrollable imaginations of their love for their own selves. Babylon [hath been] a golden cup in the LORD’S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad. Yet this does not complete the message within the word drunken.
4 The very last mention of the word drunken is documented in the book of Habakkuk, Chapter 2, verse 15. Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to [him], and makest [him] drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! How does the Holy Spirit of God use the word drunken in the last mention? He connects it to nakedness. First, it was the physical nakedness of a man, a righteous man, a preacher of righteousness, a man who found grace in the eyes of the Lord, a man who had seen the complete annihilation of a world wiped out through a massive cleansing judgment, a tired and tried man who stepped out into a world anew, clean, and pure as a new creation, a second chance for mankind to once again honor and praise a God of grace and mercy.
Side Note: The UNSEEN message in the numbers strikes again. And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. (Genesis 9:28) And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died. (Genesis 9:29)
There is more than the time frame that Noah lived BEFORE the judgment. Noah’s span of life also BEFORE the judgment speaks volumes about the condition and state of mankind. Here we go again with a bit of baby math:Â 950 – 350 = 600.
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. (Genesis 7:6). In this number of 600 we have the number six, the number of man; there is also the number 100, 10 x 10 = 100. The number ten represents God’s perfect order, God’s divine order. Through the number 100 we have God’s divine order in completeness, His divine order concluded. Man’s judgment is set, there can be no escape from what God has ended. Twice, the Holy Spirit of God wrote the conclusion of depraved man in his evil imaginations through the number of 600. Twice, God testified to man’s end, once in Genesis 7:6, and if mankind cannot bear to read of his sure end, God the Holy Spirit doubles down in Genesis 9:28 and 29. And to top His judgment off as a neatly tied bow, God ends it all in 9:29. and he died. Actually, look at the arrangement of the numbers 9 (the finality of judgment) 2 (witness and/or testimony) 9 (confusion, and finality with judgment). Death awaits the fresh, clean, new world of the sons of Noah, as death waited for mankind to fill up his cup of drunkenness in their evil imaginations during the 600 years in the life of Noah. 9 – 2 – 9 . . . in this number we have history and prophecy. . . the first judgment of the earth in the first number 9 (history) and the last judgment of the earth in the last number 9 (prophecy).  ♦ End of Side Note: The UNSEEN message in the numbers.
  Although the last mention of the word drunken takes us back to Noah, Habakkuk 2:15 is about a judgment equal to the first judgment on the earth. As you read through this little book of embracement of three (3) chapters you have a world embraced with violence, strife and contention, where the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth, where injustice and wrong judgment surrounds the righteous. Recognize our world today? When men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth . . . when mankind is all of these things then the book of Habakkuk, through words of pure perfection, describes another judgment of massive consequences when a cleansed and pure earth become vile and filthy through spiritual drunkenness in their uncontrollable evil imaginations of their love for their own selves.
The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. (Habakkuk 1:1)
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! (Habakkuk 1:2)
Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. (Habakkuk 1:3)
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. (Habakkuk 1:4)
Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. (Habakkuk 1:5)
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs. (Habakkuk 1:6)
 In the second Chapter of Habakkuk a prophetic vision is unwrapped to reveal a person, a man whose soul which is lifted up is not upright in him. As Lucifer was lifted up so this unnamed man is also lifted up against God.Â
And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. (Habakkuk 2:2)
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. (Habakkuk 2:3)
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. (Habakkuk 2:4)
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:Â (Habakkuk 2:5)
Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! (Habakkuk 2:6)
  In Habakkuk Chapter 3, verse 7, God the Holy Spirit drops into the narrative the name of Cush, the grandson of Noah, the son of Ham, and the father of Nimrod. I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. Do not tell me that I have to put this together for you! The tent, the home where this great conflict originated was in the tents of Cush, the conflict of ALL men against God. The land of Midian is also connected, but through this connection it is speaking of the conflict of the tribes and nations from Abraham, for Midian was one of the six sons of Abraham from his wife Keturah, after Sarah’s death. So, therefore, you have the nations of the world, the Gentile world, and the world of the Jews in contention against God in the final judgment of Revelation Chapter 17.
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Drunk with Blood
Blood of the Saints
Blood of the Martyrs of Jesus
  Let’s move onto the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. Only in Revelation 17:6 do we have the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus documented. The Holy Spirit of God has set a clear distinction between these two phrases. Saints takes in ALL people of faith IN God THROUGH Christ in both the Old and New Testaments. However, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus takes in two very specific time periods, those who were and are martyred for the truth of Christ in the Church Age, and those who are martyrs after the Church Age when the Holy Spirit departs from the earth. For instance, in Acts 22:20, we have Paul’s witness of the death of Stephen during the formative years of the infant Church. And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him. In Revelation 2:13, we are informed of Antipas who was slain among you. Stephen faced the murderous mob of religious Jews and was stoned for his testimony. However, Antipas was murdered BY professing Christians, IN the midst of other professing Christians. There was an era in the Church, or I should probably write that there IS a time frame in the Age of the Church when possessing Christians were murdered and are still being murdered by professing Christians. Again, it is needful to write that non-Christians and ignorant Christians are not able to distinguish between fraudulent Christianity and true Christianity. The difference between religion and Christianity is a battle. It is the battle between two thrones and the conflict over two thrones. In Revelation 2:12 in the church in Pergamos, the Holy Spirit identifies this specific period of Church history to be an era of the sword, where Satan devised an intriguing scheme that to the world would appear to be Christians slaughtering Christians. And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges. And what a clever scheme that was! This lie is still being verbally promoted to cause the unknowing and the stupid . . . oh, excuse me, I shouldn’t use the word stupid, let me rephrase my thought . . . the dumb witted, that’s better . . . those who know nothing about history to believe this lie that Christians kill Christians. It was the battle of religion against Christianity. It was the first religious man on earth who murdered his own brother. That was Cain. Again, I repeat, religion and Christianity are not of the same family. The Spirit of God has always shown that there are two seeds, the evil seed, and those of the Seed of Christ. But man without the Spirit of God cannot see anything outside of his own time frame, or outside of his own religious hatred. There are two types of people: with Christ or against Christ . . . with God or against God. How many times must people be informed of this truth? And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. (2nd Corinthians 11:14) Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. (2nd Corinthians 11:15)
 Now, back to Revelation Chapter 2, verses 13 – 17. The time frame was during the reign of Constantine the Great, the Roman Emperor (306 -337 A.D.) when the Church married the world. Many have been taught that this time period was a positive period of growth for the Church. NOT. This time period began the destruction of the Church when the world flooded into the Church and truth and the word of God became corrupted by the whirlpool of greed and the love of power over the souls and minds of mankind.
I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. (Revelation 2:13)
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. (Revelation 2:14)
So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. (Revelation 2:15)
Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. (Revelation 2:16)
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. (Revelation 2:17)
  To understand more about the man Antipas and the era of the church in Pergamos CLICK HERE. The battle between religion and Christianity will end. How will it end? Which side will be victorious? After the Spirit of God departs from the world IN the departure of the Church through the translation of the Church into glory, there will be many souls who will be saved and there will be the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. Although the Holy Spirit departs in the Body of Christ, God has never left His creation with a witness of Himself and of His goodness, and of His power and grace and JUDGMENT. In Revelation 11:3, there are two witnesses who torment the worshipers of the Beast. How do these two torment the world? They torment the world with TRUTH. As Noah preached the righteousness of God to a world facing complete annihilation, so also these two witnesses will preach the righteousness of God to a world facing the wrath of God. And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. (Revelation 11:3)
And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.(Revelation 11:9)
And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. (Revelation 11:10)
And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. (Revelation 11:11)
And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. (Revelation 11:12)
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (Revelation 20:4)
And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: (Revelation 6:9) And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? (Revelation 6:10) And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. (Revelation 6:11)
  The battle between religion and Christianity WILL END, but not before religion is consummated in bringing many prepared minds and souls to its ultimate goal, the worship of the Beast. Since most of us live under tyrannical rule (although many refuse to accept this reality especially those in the United States) understanding how easily man can be manipulated through mind control is not a major leap to see that the peoples of the world will gladly give their allegiance to the Beast. (Surely, you have not forgotten how easily people were manipulated through unwarranted fear forced to wear worthless masks and to accept unproven dangerous and deadly vaccines in the last plandemic. That trial run of population control was just the beginning of what ‘our betters’ have planned for us before the next election or during the next designed emergency crisis.) These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. (Revelation 17:13) Although this verse is specifically directed to those in leadership positions, it also speaks of the minds of those who believe every word, every picture, and every lie that they see and hear from their governing lords and masters.
  There is coming a time when ALL religions will be annihilated because the Beast will not have any form or type of worship that does not center around his own being. Thinking that he has finally annihilated true Christianity, the Beast will turn against the very foremost religious powerhouse (Roman universal ritualism) that rode on the back of Satan’s power conquering the souls of men, women and children. 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. (Revelation 17:3) Since the beginning of time, even before Babylon existed in name and territory, Satan carried the kernels of religious paganism on his back throughout the world beginning with the clan of Cain . . . . . . I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast . . . . and of the beast that carrieth her.
 The former world was overtaken by the clan of Cain, through the women of the line of Cain, called the daughters of men. That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. (Genesis 6:2) Having used the woman Babylon as the mother of all harlots and abominations of the earth in every form of pagan worship and major counterfeits of Christianity, Satan will no longer have any use for this woman, Babylon. Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. (Nahum 3:4) This last massive controlling center of religious power centered in Rome has to be destroyed by Satan. And upon her forehead [was] a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. (Revelation 17:5) The Beast (through his elite global rulers, and his prophet) will no longer allow this powerhouse (Rome) to have any more power to interfere or challenge and counter their plans for global control. (This is a battle between two thrones.) And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. (Revelation 17:16) Since religion was formed, developed, directed and controlled by Satan, he can also end it all whenever it has accomplished his plan. Satan devours his own. The religion of Babylon will end when Satan has the religion of the Beast in place.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;Â (2nd Thessalonians 2:3)Â
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (2nd Thessalonians 2:4)
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? (2nd Thessalonians 2:5)
And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. (2nd Thessalonians 2:6)
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. (2nd Thessalonians 2:7)
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:Â (2nd Thessalonians 2:8)
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, (2nd Thessalonians 2:9)
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. (2nd Thessalonians 2:10)
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:Â (2nd Thessalonians 2:11)
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2nd Thessalonians 2:12)
  Having set up his own religious worship center in Jerusalem the Beast cannot allow the remnant of Jews who have escaped into the wilderness to continue to exist, and he turns all of his military forces against them. (Revelation Chapter12) Remember that Rome is destroyed, (Revelation 18) but Rome was never where Satan wanted to place his final throne of earth, it was only a means to gain control over the minds and souls of man. Jerusalem has always been Satan’s goal because God had set Jerusalem as His throne on earth. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. (Psalm 2:6)
  Just a mini side note: notice where the last mention of holy hill is found. Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God [is] holy. (Psalm 99:9) A triple nine (9). Nine of course represents conclusion. Most times it is connected to judgment, and in this last mention of holy hill we have both: conclusion and judgment because it is through judgment that God places His Son, His Christ on his holy hill. Also, in the triple nine (99:9) God affirms this by saying through the UNSEEN numbers structure: CONCLUSION, CONCLUSION: CONCLUSION. Through the work of God IT IS SETTLED, Christ will sit on His holy hill. Through the work of God the Son, IT IS SETTLED, He as King will sit on His holy hill, and through the work of God the Holy Spirit, IT IS SETTLED, the throne of God will be the center of all earthly worship.
  Wherever God sets His seal THAT is the exact place where Satan sets a conflict. And with this thought we have come full circle from this previous statement: the difference between religion and Christianity is a battle. It is the battle between two thrones and the conflict over two thrones.
  This is what it has always been about from the beginning of sin in the realm of the supernatural sphere of God in the heavenlies. The war in heaven began when Lucifer demanded that ALL the angels worship him. Lucifer wanted Melchisedec’s position as High Priest. Lucifer wanted Melchisedec to worship him. (This is one of the reasons why we understand that Lucifer does not possess divine foreknowledge because he actually believed that his failed coup d’état would succeed.) What he could not accomplish in the heaven, he tried to accomplish on the earth when he said to the Lord Jesus Christ in the wilderness, And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. (Matthew 4:9) If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. (Luke 4:7) Matthew 4:9) From the very beginning it was about worship. It was about false worship versus pure worship. It was about bowing the knee to religion, or bowing the knee to Christ, the Son of God, Melchisedec, the High Priest of God, and to the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
  Much more can be written based on our primary study verse, however, it’s not gonna happen here and now. So long, farewell, and goodbye until, God willing, we move onto the next verse with the fourth mention of the woman.
Men of renown is a companion piece to Giants in the Earth series.
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