Rev 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
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'...the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters'
The great whore.
That word invokes quite a picture doesn't it? Whore. It's derogatory, detracting, dishonest, degrading. Does anyone say it with affection? Well maybe nowadays they do, but if said in any serious content calling someone a whore is bad-mouthing them. If a friend calls another friend a whore it's said in jest and there's no consequence. If a friend calls another a whore during an argument it brings consequences doesn't it? It's hurtful. To be a whore is considered allowing yourself to be debased by others.
whore (hôr, hor) noun
1. A prostitute.
2. A person considered sexually promiscuous.
3. A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain.
Compromising principles for personal gain. Sexually promiscuous.
If you're married to someone and you are sexually promiscuous are you cheating on them? Are you betraying them? I'm not talking about the marriages of old or even current where it's acceptable in some parts to have more than one wife, I'm talking about where it's not acceptable.
When God created man He would forever be known at their Creator. A Creator who created a creature that was intelligent and able to make its own decisions about many, many things. One of those things was the decision to believe in the creator, to trust in the one who created them. In an ideal world we could say like a parent wants their child to trust in them, yet more and more nowadays there are parents who could careless if their child trusts them, a child to them is more of a hindrance than one beloved. Yet, trust is something desired and something that can be betrayed. God wanted His children to trust Him and they didn't. The trust was betrayed. God decides to over and over again to forgive His children to give them opportunities to regain that trust. When the children of God were freed from captivity in Egypt a covenant was made, a covenant the children accepted yet time and time again they betrayed the trust of that covenant. Since not long after man's creation there has been a breaking of the trust between man and God. Children that were supposed to be true to God betrayed Him with other gods. Betrayal. Whore. Principles that were put in place by God for His children were compromised selfishly. God's children became whores. The covenant entered into was broken, other gods were embraced. Whores.
The great whore. The great apostasy from God. The greatest trust betrayed.
Judgment will come for the great whore, for the apostasized system that has gone from being a Bride of Christ to a whore. Two sides- the true and the false, the just and the unjust, the good and the evil. There are only two sides in the greatest controversy, two sides in life. One side that is true to God and the other side who betray Him. We will either be the Bride of Christ to be embraced at the marriage supper of the Lamb, or the whore that will be cast out and destroyed forever.
It's important to know what God desires of His Bride, it's important to truly know God and through the grace and mercy of Christ we can.
Amen.
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