<TITLE>22. Par 177-186</TITLE>L-177 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw--I saw a woman setting upon a scarlet coloured beast,...
Now, what does the word "scarlet" detect? It detects royalty. Means... I mean, means "royal, loyal royal" (See?), like kings and so forth.
... full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Now, the seven heads are the seven mountains on which the city sets. And this woman is a city, we know.
And the woman was arrayed in purple...
The woman... The beast was scarlet, but the woman was arrayed in purple. Now, have I not warned you the other day, there's three curtains? I don't know how long I'll live, but remember this. As I've told you many years ago, "Watch Russia."... There's three curtains; remember this. There is the iron curtain. There is the bamboo curtain (Red China and so). And there's a purple curtain; you watch that curtain; that's the deceiver. So much...

L-181 ... the woman was arrayed in purple... scarlet colors,... decked with gold... precious stones and pearls,... (Remember me speaking back here what the first altar was of the Nicolaitane? See? Woman being the church)... having a golden cup in her hand... (You remember? The gold overlaid the altar; cup, she was giving the people.)... full of the abomination of the filthiness of her fornications:
That's what she's giving the people; they were swallowing it. Sure. Drunk on it, just drunk. All that bunch of Irish, and French, and so forth, cut your throat if you say one thing against that church. Sure, they would. See?
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON...
Now, where did Babylon move from? From Babylon up into Pergamos, and become... Satan shifting his seat... Oh, I wish we could go through all Revelations, so you could see it.
... BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS... A MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
What was she? A mother of harlots. Them wasn't sons. Was they?

L-184 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... their church. Yes, sir. Said, "Isn't the church called in the Bible, Babylon?" See, in their own book. All right.
Now, if she was a prostitute, a whore, and she was the mother of harlots, she had to have daughters. And if they were daughters, they were girls; they were churches. Now, where did the Protestant church come from? Is that right? What's the difference between a--a whore and a harlot? The same thing.

L-186 Martin Luther came out, to switch out, to give the true church a chance; Wesley; on into Pentecost; and every one of them went right back to that Nicolaitane idea of organizing with general overseers, and everything else, and went right back with the same baptism that they were baptized with, same form, same ceremonies, even many of them with catechisms and "hail Mary." Not hail Mary's, but... What's this that's about the same thing? That Apostles' Creed... Show me the Apostles' Creed in the Bible, brother. If--if they had a creed, it's Acts 2:38; that's what they commanded everybody to do. Where'd you ever hear an apostle make a creed, saying, "I believe in the holy Roman Catholic church. I believe in the communion of saints"?
When Peter, the one that had the keys, said, "There's no other mediator between God and man, but Christ Jesus."


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