SERMON NOTES. 2-1-09.

 

"WHO IS THE GREAT WHORE OF BABYLON?"


This is a PG-13 type sermon, as the children are dismissed from the church audience.


Ezekiel 24, a question for you. Verse 15 start there.
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With a blow...your tears shall not come....make no mourning for the dead...
in the evening my wife died.....in the mourning I did as commanded."
"Being dead in your sins," as they die on the vine.
2 John 1:1, "all who know the truth."
Deut.7:6-8, that was a chosen lady, Israel.
Genesis 12, covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel.
"For you are a holy people...for His own possession...you were the fewest of all peoples...
from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt."
We don't understand the romantic love of God.
God is a romantic and he loves his bride.
"The Greatest Love Story Never Told" book cover displayed.
God was married to Israel, as she took the promise to love, honor, and obey.
God says, "I'll show you miracles when you love, honor, and obey!"
Prov.31:10- on, this woman, virtuous and excellent, was the Lord's bride.
The love He has for His wife, His chosen people,
is different than His love for the rest of His creation.
Reading the passage. "She is like a merchant ship." "Portions to her maidens."
She does Him good. Jer. 3:8. Divorced for her adultery.
Then Judah became more unfaithful than His bride Israel.
Judah made Israel look good.
The Lord experienced lots of pain and hurt. Ezekiel 6:9.
Learn how to feel with that someone you love.
Hosea married a prostitute, to know how God felt, as he got in touch with his God's feelings.
"How I have been hurt by your adulterous affairs!"
He would rather live without her than to compromise with her harlotry.
He sent her away; see Hosea 2, someday I will renew the covenant. 
Deut 24:1-4.
Matt. 15:24.
Hebrews 8, new covenant with house of Israel and house of Judah.
"Bound by law....dies...released from the law.....free from the law....not an adulterous..
bear fruit for God."
This plan defeats Satan. "I'll go to My grave loving you."
She repented and died, 2 Cor.11:2, betrothed again to her Husband, as he died on the cross.
"To Christ I will present you as a pure virgin."

 
The whore, harlot, prostitute, adultery. Rev 17, about the woman who is not a lady, as she is very ugly. Rev.17:1-6, "With whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality....clothed in purple and scarlet.....the unclean things of her immorality....Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots....I will tell you the mystery of the woman."

 
The who, the what, the how, the why, the when, of her.
Who is she?
Babylon is a who, not a what. It is a woman.
Who is this woman?
They say it is the catholic church, or Rome.
 Holy Spirit revealed to the preacher.
She is an enemy of God and His kingdom.
She had the blood of the saints on her hands, immoral, decked out, drunk, and wealthy.
Rev.18:17, She is wealthy until she loses it.
She loses this wealth. Rev.18:7, she is married, "Give her torment and mourning...
I will never see mourning"
A widow does not become a widow unless she is married and loses her husband.
The husband was also called the master, the head.
She was a whore, prostitute, and then who was her husband. Rev.18:2, "full of demons...prison of every unclean spirit....unclean and hateful birds."
Demons, and the knowledge thereof, as the preacher has numerous degrees.
40 years ago, the demonic activity was not as great as it is today.
Demons come in through conduits, as the people let them in. You admit that you were responsible for letting them in, with filth, immorality, pornography, booze, drugs, entertainment;
people let these demons come into them.
The whore was full of demons, and full of immorality and uncleanness.
Demons seduced her, Rev.18:2, "Dwelling place of demons."
1 Tim.4:1, a "fallen woman," as a term in society, as the virtuous woman falls to fornication,
like the "Fallen Angel" song by Willie Nelson.
The demons seduced her and she fell away from the faith,
paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, the seductions.

 
Keep your family covered in prayer everyday; hold up the shield of faith.
If you listen to the demons, then you fall away from the faith.
Children lose their coverings, as families are broken, marriages are torn apart.
Are we one in the Lord, husband and wife?
Deut 32:17-18, prophesy about Israel.
The snakes promote demons in music, entertainment, incantations, and advertising.
The Song of Moses is about today. "Forgot the God who gave you birth."
His sons and His daughters became demon possessed.
Psalm 106:37, about women and the abortions sacrificed to keep their boyfriends.
Sacrificed to the idols of Canaan...played the harlot in their deeds.
The children were sacrificed to demons.
 

 
Higher learning degrees, and over 30 years in this preaching ministry,
the preacher has seen the women fall for the deceptions of sinful pleasures,
the wine of immorality, and the purple robe. Lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes,
and the vaingloriness of life, promoted through the entertainment media.
Listening to the doctrines of demons, as the wives are being seduced and taken away.
Satan's M.O.(modus operandi) has never changed since the garden.
She was once a pure virgin. Satan targets the weaker vessels.
Amos 7:17, she was once a virtuous wife, before she was seduced.
"Fall by the sword...die upon unclean soil."
The wife would become a whore, and she gets paid for it by the ex-husband,
as she shacks up with her boyfriend, as her husband pays for her whoredom.
Righteous indignation about this whoredom, adultery, and fornication.
Hosea 4:13, "They offer sacrifices to idols...your daughters play the harlot
and your brides commit adultery."
 
 

Tell your daughters to dress properly, and your sons to dress properly.
Low hanging trousers and backwards baseball caps depict Africanized sodomite bums.
Hip-huggers pants and low cut blouses and barefoot thongs depict broadway whores.
The preacher dresses well, as you feel on the inside how you dress on the outside.
THEY want your daughters to be whores, and your sons to be lazy, sewer rat slugs.
We are not of this world. We are a called and chosen race, as His pecular treasure.
Exercise modesty in your appearance and dress, and the proper degree of this,
as this is part of the "holiness of life."
 
 

 
The whore is a who, Rev.17:18. & 18:10. She also can be called a, "What."
She is also a city, "reigns over the kings of the earth."
"The great city Babylon....your judgment has come."
Rev.17:15, talking about what, sitting on peoples and nations.
The term "City" can represent a land, or a nation.
Judah was taken into the Babylonian captivity.
Zech.2:1, a city can represent a land.
Jerusalem is portrayed as the Israe-lies and the jews and the old world city.
"To measure jer-USA-lem.....will be inhabited without walls....
wall of fire around her....as the four winds..."
KJV Bible, as towns without walls, for the multitude of men and cattle.
A city can represent a land.
She is a bloody city. It is an ugly story full of immorality, fornication, adultery, uncleanness.

 
 
The rest of the story, they didn't live happily ever after.
Satan, and 2 Cor.11:2, seduced God's chosen people.
She is the Prov.31 virtuous woman. However, she is seduced into whoredom for mammon.
"As a pure virgin....your minds will be lead astray."
She ceased to be the faithful wife, as she went a-whoring after Baal and his bennies.
Rom.16-20.
Isaiah 1:21, talking about His bride and His land."Has become a harlot....but now murderers."
Rev.18:4, she is a harlot for the pay.
The rampant whoredom of the land today, for the pay benefits of the highest political bidder.
God's covenant people have gone a-whoring after lying politicians for their health, safety, welfare, and salvation. They have eagerly swallowed the lies by hook, line, and sinker.
God will correct His bride again.
"Come out from her My people."
"Give back to her double........give her torment and mourning......."
Torment, plagues, pestilence, famine, read about it. God will cleanse his land of the filthy dregs.
Only a remnant will be saved. Repent or perish, as the wages of sin is death.
 

 
Our God can handle it, and He won't give you more than you can handle.
Jesus said a man's worst enemies will be the members of his own household.
"An excellent wife...she does him good."
God's judgment time will cleanse the land of wicked sinners.
 

 
When thinking about her coming judgment, it is hard to rejoice and easy to mourn.
Ezek.24:1, the prophets are taught to be close to their God to know how He feels.
"The bloody city" He uses Babylon to strike it.
Ezek.24:15, "You shall not mourn...groan silently.....my wife died...."
God said He wanted Ezekiel to know how He felt.
He has got to do it to be a just God. He is going to clean this pig sty up again.
This land has become an abomination, but the remnant will be saved.
 
 

 
Isaiah.62 Rom 9:27.
Isaiah 62:1, called Zion, until her righteousness goes forth.....new name..
crown of beauty.........called my delight is in her....land will be married."
 
 

 
Come out from her,as God is going to clean this place up.
"It is the remnant that will be saved."
"We would have become like Sodom..."

 
We know who she is now, and we feel Your pain, O Lord our God!"
Closing prayers for the saints in accordance with Numbers 6:24-26.