I came up on this, and I've been studying Revelation, now at on chapter 13-18. Mystery Babylon, the woman riding the beast in chapter 17 seems to clearly denote an empire or city, ie a political-financial-spiritual hegemony. She controls the world's currency & trade. She has unleashed untold abominations and fornications - wars, corruption, sexual perversions & persecutions of the godly, that have killed multitudes and destroyed the moral fiber of the world. I see her as the current western leftist neocon petrodollar empire.
The 10 horned 7 headed beast is typically understood as 7 kingdoms, (5 past, 1 current and 1 future), on which 10 rulers will briefly have control. Per Joel Richardson these 10 appear to be the future gog-magog middle east+ Eurasia coalition.
After a brief alliance with the Whore, they'll hate her and destroy her to utter desolation, which is what 18.23 describes. Pharmakeia here is the chemical sorcery including psychedelic /narcotic type drugs and mass injections that are aligning with the neuralink transhuman mind control agenda. The little horn (8th one) will arise to great power and uproot 3 of the 10 leaving 7+himself. This is the blasphemer spoken of in Daniel 9-11, Antichrist. Many think he'll be from Turkey or Russia, Persia or central Asia..
Relating to current news many believe the jab is a plaque described in Rev 6 &9, leading to some deaths over 1/4 of the earth (no the population, so maybe not all those folks, my estimate 1 bill based on their states goals in the western mRNA counties. Then maybe 3-4bill in Africa +Asia by war, famine, scorpions( beasts), & sword based on Rev 9.
The pope (false prophet?) is feverishly working to unite all religions in support of the beast regime. See his rabid pro jab, climate and LGBTQP campaigns.
I personally believe the smoke of her torment will be a nuclear hit, . After that the beast will gather nations for Armageddon.
Also the idea of taking the mark of the beast for those who worship. It will happen subtly. Those who trust the state will rush for a chip that holds their identity , vax ppt, cbdc, social credit, keys, health monitoring etc. Those who opt out will be derided, persecuted then martyred.
As in 1 Cor. 13:12, now we see dimly and we know (only) in part, but what a view it is anyway!
The _pharmakeia_ of Rev. 18:23 (and Gal. 5:20) is sorcery -- the practice of sorcery -- which is the means by which all the nations are deceived.
There are three other "pharma" references in Revelation, in 9:21 (the _pharmaka_ -- things employed by sorcerers such as poisons and spells), and in 21:8 and 22:15 (the _pharmakoi_ -- the sorcerers themselves and their destiny).
Thanks, I never noted those distinctions and have no Greek at all.
Also now reading back (not in the 4am insomnia with pharma kicking in), I see you were specifically referring to who the great men and merchants were who deceived by sorcery.
I don't know if there's a clear or knowable answer as to who they are. I think part of their sorcery is concealment of their identities, plus they likely have blood oaths of secrecy etc. I do think there's actual occultic witchcraft intertwined with the psychological manipulation. Remember the fathers of psychology Jung and Freud were themselves occultists who did seances and conversed with spirit guides.
As well, I'm increasingly suspecting that technology itself is part of the sorcery or al least used deeply in conjunction with it. Looking at the origins and hyper rapid development of things like satellite and space tech out of the minds of known satanists like Jack Parsons. Plus many UFO sightings which have insane tech with a distinctly anti-Christ message, why not?
You are welcome. The merchants (of the earth) were the great ones of the earth. They were the deceivers of all the the nations, through sorcery, and not themselves the deceived. (Although they would be, but in a different way.)
I am thinking about a post or possibly a series on "what is science?" It is becoming increasingly clear to me that it is not at all what I had thought. I went through a phase of life, mostly in my 50's, where science more-or-less became my religion. And then I began to understand how corrupt it was, 20 years ago. It poisons everything it touches. And that, I believe, counts as sorcery.
One fundamental question: who benefits from modern science? The narrative says that it is all of us, but somehow I am failing to see that. I have my suspicions, but no proof as yet, that the answer involves the spirit world. Something is driving this massive research and expenditure, and it is clearly not the desire to make life better for everyone. There are much, much simpler ways to do that, such as eating high-quality food and avoiding (as best one can) the array environmental poisons served upon us by science, just to name a couple of obvious ones.
I came up on this, and I've been studying Revelation, now at on chapter 13-18. Mystery Babylon, the woman riding the beast in chapter 17 seems to clearly denote an empire or city, ie a political-financial-spiritual hegemony. She controls the world's currency & trade. She has unleashed untold abominations and fornications - wars, corruption, sexual perversions & persecutions of the godly, that have killed multitudes and destroyed the moral fiber of the world. I see her as the current western leftist neocon petrodollar empire.
The 10 horned 7 headed beast is typically understood as 7 kingdoms, (5 past, 1 current and 1 future), on which 10 rulers will briefly have control. Per Joel Richardson these 10 appear to be the future gog-magog middle east+ Eurasia coalition.
After a brief alliance with the Whore, they'll hate her and destroy her to utter desolation, which is what 18.23 describes. Pharmakeia here is the chemical sorcery including psychedelic /narcotic type drugs and mass injections that are aligning with the neuralink transhuman mind control agenda. The little horn (8th one) will arise to great power and uproot 3 of the 10 leaving 7+himself. This is the blasphemer spoken of in Daniel 9-11, Antichrist. Many think he'll be from Turkey or Russia, Persia or central Asia..
Relating to current news many believe the jab is a plaque described in Rev 6 &9, leading to some deaths over 1/4 of the earth (no the population, so maybe not all those folks, my estimate 1 bill based on their states goals in the western mRNA counties. Then maybe 3-4bill in Africa +Asia by war, famine, scorpions( beasts), & sword based on Rev 9.
The pope (false prophet?) is feverishly working to unite all religions in support of the beast regime. See his rabid pro jab, climate and LGBTQP campaigns.
I personally believe the smoke of her torment will be a nuclear hit, . After that the beast will gather nations for Armageddon.
Also the idea of taking the mark of the beast for those who worship. It will happen subtly. Those who trust the state will rush for a chip that holds their identity , vax ppt, cbdc, social credit, keys, health monitoring etc. Those who opt out will be derided, persecuted then martyred.
As in 1 Cor. 13:12, now we see dimly and we know (only) in part, but what a view it is anyway!
The _pharmakeia_ of Rev. 18:23 (and Gal. 5:20) is sorcery -- the practice of sorcery -- which is the means by which all the nations are deceived.
There are three other "pharma" references in Revelation, in 9:21 (the _pharmaka_ -- things employed by sorcerers such as poisons and spells), and in 21:8 and 22:15 (the _pharmakoi_ -- the sorcerers themselves and their destiny).
Thanks, I never noted those distinctions and have no Greek at all.
Also now reading back (not in the 4am insomnia with pharma kicking in), I see you were specifically referring to who the great men and merchants were who deceived by sorcery.
I don't know if there's a clear or knowable answer as to who they are. I think part of their sorcery is concealment of their identities, plus they likely have blood oaths of secrecy etc. I do think there's actual occultic witchcraft intertwined with the psychological manipulation. Remember the fathers of psychology Jung and Freud were themselves occultists who did seances and conversed with spirit guides.
As well, I'm increasingly suspecting that technology itself is part of the sorcery or al least used deeply in conjunction with it. Looking at the origins and hyper rapid development of things like satellite and space tech out of the minds of known satanists like Jack Parsons. Plus many UFO sightings which have insane tech with a distinctly anti-Christ message, why not?
You are welcome. The merchants (of the earth) were the great ones of the earth. They were the deceivers of all the the nations, through sorcery, and not themselves the deceived. (Although they would be, but in a different way.)
I am thinking about a post or possibly a series on "what is science?" It is becoming increasingly clear to me that it is not at all what I had thought. I went through a phase of life, mostly in my 50's, where science more-or-less became my religion. And then I began to understand how corrupt it was, 20 years ago. It poisons everything it touches. And that, I believe, counts as sorcery.
One fundamental question: who benefits from modern science? The narrative says that it is all of us, but somehow I am failing to see that. I have my suspicions, but no proof as yet, that the answer involves the spirit world. Something is driving this massive research and expenditure, and it is clearly not the desire to make life better for everyone. There are much, much simpler ways to do that, such as eating high-quality food and avoiding (as best one can) the array environmental poisons served upon us by science, just to name a couple of obvious ones.