In this week’s study, I finish up with in Chapter 18. Before I get into the study, I talk about the Boys Scouts changing their titled to Scouting America so they can cater to the gender identity. I take a look at the Steward Health Care Systems scandal on their bankruptcy and then follow the money trail back to Cerberus Capital Management, which included Dan Qualye and Blackwater which lists John Ashcroft both under the Bush Administration. Like I stated before, Are you starting to see the picture? Once again we see the global elite in control. Listen to me, the beast system is all ready taken places! Are you awake to see it?
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee = Another image of desolation, as if every light were put out, and there were total darkness.
And the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee = The merry and cheerful voice of the marriage procession in the streets (notes on Matthew 25:1-7), or the cheerful, glad voice of the newly-married couple in their own dwelling (notes on John 3:29). In other words, life as usual is over, no more marriages, no more reproduction.
For thy merchants were the great men of the earth = Those who dealt with thee were the rich, and among them were even nobles and princes; and now that they trade with thee no more there is occasion for lamentation and sorrow.
For by thy sorceries were all nations deceived = This is stated as a reason for the ruin that had come upon her. It is a common representation of the religious community in Jerusalem where Satan sits that she has deceived or deluded the nations of the earth and no representation ever made accords more with facts as they have occurred. The word “sorceries” here refers to the various arts the tricks impostures, and false pretences by which this has been done. See the notes on Rev. 9:21.
Sorceries = pharakeia (far-mak-i’-ah) in the original language. Pharmacy or even Big Pharma! It is a reference to magical arts and sorcery like that you will recall that Jezebel used in 2 Kings 9:22. It is spoken of even in the context of ancient Babylon in Isaiah 47:12.
24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints = Such as before mentioned, in verse 20 this is another reason of her destruction, besides her luxury and idolatry, namely, her shedding the blood of the saints, with which she is said to be drunk, and therefore blood is now given her to drink,
and of all that were slain upon the earth = not only of those that have been slain in the city of Jerusalem, but of all those that have been slain throughout the world; they being slain by her order, or with her consent, and she conniving at it, encouraging it, and therefore will be justly chargeable with it all;
Once again some Prophecy borrowed from Old Testament Babylon:
(v21) Ezek 26:21 – “I will bring terrors on you and you will be no more; though you will be sought, you will never be found again,” declares Adonai Yahweh.”
(v22) Ezek 26:13 – “So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more.”
(v23) Jer 25:10 – “Moreover, I will take from them the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.”
(v24) Jer 51:49 – “Indeed Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel, As also for Babylon the slain of all the earth have fallen.”
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