JERUSALEM; ROME; REVELATION - The Preterist Archive

east ‘Babylon.’ “Three unclean spirits like frogs [a possible reference to World-wide
spiritism?] come forth out of the mouth of the Satanic dragon and out of the mouth of the
Roman beast 208 and out of the mouth of the false-prophet [of Islam?]. 209 For they are the
spirits of devils [or demons], 2l0 working [pseudo-]miracles. 211
393. They are spirits which go forth to the kings of the Earth and of the whole World -
in order to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.” 212 Indeed, it is Christ
Himself Who - by sovereignly causing Satan to send forth these demon-spirits - gathers those
kings together into a place called ‘Armageddon’ [or the ‘Mount of Idolatry’ or ‘Slaughter’]. 213
394. However, when the seventh plague is poured out into the air - amid tremendous
cosmic convulsions (such as lightning and earthquakes) - the great city (of the Roman
establishment) gets divided. And the cities of the nations (allied with Rome) fall. The ‘Great
Babylon’ [alias Rome] is given to drink of the wine of the fierceness of the wrath of God. 214
And this ‘Babylon’ of false Roman religion shall be destroyed. Thus: Beatus; Joachim;
Pierre d’Olivi; Luther; Calvin; Poole; the Dordt Dutch Bible, John Cotton; Goodwin; Matthew
Henry; Jonathan Edwards; Newton; Brown of Haddington; Adam Clarke; Scott; and Albert
Barnes.
395. That this ‘Babylon’ is indeed the Roman establishment, headquartered in the city
of Rome, is made very clear in Revelation chapter seventeen. For there, we read that one of
the seven angels with the seven plagues said to John: “Come here! I will show you the
judgment against the great whore [named ‘Babylon’] that sits upon many waters [‘the great
River Euphrates etc.].” 215
396. “So he [the angel] carried me [John] away, in the Spirit, into the wilderness. And
I [John] saw a woman sit[ting] upon a scarlet-coloured beast.... And upon her forehead was a
name written: ‘Mystery Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the
Earth.” 216
397. Said the angel to John: “The woman you saw, is that great city which reigns [in
John’s own day] over the kings of the Earth.” 217 That ‘great city’ was the city with ‘seven
mountains’ - the city of Roma Septicollis or ‘Rome of the Seven Hills.’ Thus: Ovid; Virgil;
Horace; Tertullian; Victorinus; Eusebius; Jerome; Ambrose; Augustine; Bede; Berengaud;
and, of course, all of the later Classic Protestant theologians.
398. John was given to understand that the city of Rome was an antichristian religious
whore or an immoral “woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the
martyrs of Jesus. 218 She rides sitting on a scarlet-coloured beast - and even steers it. 219 That
beast, with seven heads and ten horns, 220 is the political Roman Empire. Thus Joachim,
Dante, Ribera, de Lapide, Bellarmin, and many others.
399. Explained the angel to John: “The seven heads, are [the] seven mountains” of the
Seven-Hilled Rome. Thus the A.D. 300 Victorinus, the Geneva Bible, and the Dordt Dutch
Bible. “ And they are [also] seven kings. Five are fallen, and one is, and the other has not yet
come.” 221
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