The Problem is YOU.

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".....There is no doubt about it, the “woman” is Rome! It is the old Roman

Religion that specialized in “mysteries” and is “unable to understand the Bible!”

In Revelation 17:5 she is called “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE

MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

(Compare Rev. 16:13 and Isa. 57:3.)

John is marvellously shocked at this apparition. He would expect pagan

Rome to kill saints and martyrs, as he was in exile at this time by pagan Rome

for testifying for Christ. But John is looking into the future, and he has been

caught up to the “day of the Lord” to see these visions, and he looks down at the

professing church of Jesus Christ, the professing bride of Christ, and finds out

that she’s the foremost murderer of Christians! This is not pagan Rome. Why would John marvel about pagan Rome killing Christians when he was one of the

ones they were trying to kill? The thing he is looking at is that great “mother of

the faith”—Holy Mother Church. Do you know what the Holy Ghost says she

really is? She’s a religious whore!! (See Rev. 17:1.) This is why the Roman

Catholic Church does not like the Authorized Version; this is why Liberal and

Orthodox scholars have put pressure on revision committees for hundreds of

years to get rid of the King James Bible (AV), and replace it with such

perversions as the RSV (which is the official bible approved by the Roman

Catholic Church for England and the U.S.A. The reason that the Roman Catholic

Church tells its people that they cannot “understand the Bible,” the reason why

Protestant scholars teach that the Book of Revelation is apocalyptic, symbolical,

and “figurative,” the reason why Protestant teachers and preachers do not teach

the Book of Revelation, the reason why God’s people think the book is “hard to

understand,” is because Revelation 17 tells the world that the “mother of the

faith,” “Holy Mother Church,” is in reality a religious prostitute. That is not the

interpretation of Dr. Peter S. Ruckman, and that is not the teaching of the

Baptist Church; that is the infallible, inspired word of the Holy Spirit, in plain

Sixth Grade English, where anybody with an I.Q. of 90 could understand it.

(And you do understand it! The only problem is what to do with it.) Why, today

if a Christian intimated that the Roman Catholic Church was not as good as other

churches, he would have all of Christendom down on his neck! What do you

suppose would happen to you if you got on the radio and said that the Roman

Catholic Church was a religious prostitute? That’s what God said about it! The

problem is not “what it means,” because you know what it means. The problem

is YOU..................."

Taken from:

THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST

The Bible Believer's Commentary Series by Dr. Peter S. Ruckman

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