2. In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand
1.

3. In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
'Til on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live, I live
2.

4. There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ
3.

5. No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life's first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand
4.

8. Mystery
Babylon

9. The Three Angels’
Messages
(A message of Hope)

11. “6.Then I saw another
angel flying in the
midst of heaven,
having the
everlasting gospel to
preach to those who
dwell on the earth —
to every nation, tribe,
tongue, and people

12. 7 saying with a loud
voice, "Fear God and
give glory to Him, for
the hour of His
judgment has come;
and worship Him who
made heaven and
earth, the sea and
springs of water."

13. And another angel
followed, saying,
"Babylon is fallen, is
fallen, that great city,
because she has made
all nations drink of
the wine of the wrath
of her fornication."

14. 9Then a third angel
followed them, saying
with a loud voice, "If
anyone worships the
beast and his image,
and receives his mark
on his forehead or on
his hand,

15. 10 he himself shall also
drink of the wine of the
wrath of God, which is
poured out full strength into
the cup of His indignation.
He shall be tormented with
fire and brimstone in the
presence of the holy angels
and in the presence of the
Lamb.

16. Review
•First angel’s message goes to every
nation, kindred, tongue and
people, the same ones upon which
Babylon sits. The purpose is to call
God’s faithful people out of
Babylon.

17. • The first angel calls upon us to:
• Fear God
• Give glory to God
• Live in view of the ongoing judgment
• The dead remain in their graves while they
are judged by what is in the books and they
are rewarded when Jesus comes, thus they
are now not in heaven or in hell.
• Worship the Creator

19. • “And another angel
followed, saying:
"Babylon is fallen,
is fallen, that
great city,
because she has
made all nations
drink of the wine
of the wrath of her
fornication."
Revelation 14:8:

20. Genesis 11:9
Therefore is the name of it
called Babel;
because the LORD
did there confound the
language of all the earth:
and from thence did the
LORD scatter them
abroad upon the face of all
the earth.

21. Babylon is from the word
Babel which literally means
Confusion

22. Babylon described in Revelation 17

23. • 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 sits
upon many waters:

24. • Revelation 17:2 With whom the kings of
the earth have committed fornication,
and the inhabitants of the earth have
been made drunk with the wine of her
fornication.

25. • Revelation 17:3 So he carried me away
in the spirit into the wilderness: and I
saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured
beast, full of names of blasphemy,
having seven heads and ten horns.

26. • Revelation 17:4 And the woman was
arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,
and decked with gold and precious
stones and pearls, having a golden cup
in her hand full of abominations and
filthiness of her fornication:

27. • Revelation 17:5 And upon her forehead
was a name written, MYSTERY,
BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER
OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF
THE EARTH.

28. • Revelation 17:6 And I saw the woman
drunken with the blood of the saints,
and with the blood of the martyrs of
Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered
with great admiration.

29. Contrast

31. • Revelation 12:1
And there appeared a great wonder
in heaven; a woman clothed with
the sun, and the moon under her
feet, and upon her head a crown of
twelve stars:

32. •Revelation 12:2 And she
being with child cried,
travailing in birth, and
pained to be delivered.

33. What does a
woman
Represent?

34. • 2 Corinthians 11:2
• For I am jealous
over you with godly
jealousy: for I have
espoused (betrothed)
you to one husband,
that I may present
you as a chaste virgin
to Christ.

35. • Ephesians 5:25-27
• (NIV): “Husbands,
love your wives, just
as Christ also loved
the church and gave
Himself for her, 26
that He might sanctify
and cleanse her with
the washing of water
by the word,

36. • 27 that He might
present her to
Himself a glorious
church, not having
spot or wrinkle or
any such thing, but
that she should be
holy and without
blemish.”

37. God’s Pure
Church
The Apostate/false
Church
(main protagonist)

38. • The Church Apostatized
• II Thessalonians 2:3, 4: “Let no one deceive
you by any means; for that Day will not come
unless the falling away comes first, and the
man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that
is called God or that is worshiped, so that he
sits as God in the temple of God, showing
himself that he is God.”

40. Who is this harlot
(false church) called
Babylon?

41. She sits upon many waters
which means that she rules
over them
1

42. •“Then one of the seven angels
who had the seven bowls came
and talked with me, saying to
me, "Come, I will show you the
judgment of the great harlot
who sits on many waters.”
Revelation 17:1

43. • And he saith unto me, The
waters which thou sawest,
where the whore sitteth, are
peoples, and multitudes, and
nations, and tongues.
Revelation 17:15

44. •Her dominion or control
is global or worldwide
2

45. “Then he said to me: "The waters
which you saw, where the harlot sits,
are peoples, multitudes, nations,
and tongues.”
Revelation 17:15

46. •She fornicates with the kings
of the earth. A church involved
with the political powers of
the world
3

47. •“. . . with whom the kings of the
earth committed fornication,
and the inhabitants of the earth were
made drunk with the wine of her
fornication."
Revelation 17:2

48. •She is the mother so she
must have daughters
which also must be Babylon.
4

49. •“And on her forehead a name was
written: “MYSTERY, BABYLON
THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF
HARLOTS AND OF THE
ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
Revelation 17:5

50. •She gives wine to all
nations
5

51. “. . . with whom the kings of the earth
committed fornication, and the
inhabitants of the earth were made
drunk with the wine of her
fornication."
Revelation 17:2

52. •She is a very rich religious
system majoring in gold,
silver and precious stones
6

53. •“The woman was arrayed in purple and
scarlet, and adorned with gold and
precious stones and pearls, having
in her hand a golden cup full of
abominations and the filthiness of her
fornication.”
Revelation 17:4

54. •her colors are purple
and scarlet, not blue.
7

55. •“The woman was arrayed in purple
and scarlet, and adorned with gold
and precious stones and pearls, having
in her hand a golden cup full of
abominations and the filthiness of her
fornication.”
Revelation 17:4

56. Blue
Blue a protection
against harlotry
Obedience
Numbers 15:37-41:

57. •She has a history of slaying the
faithful people of God. She is
historically known for
martyrdom of God’s saints.
8

58. •“I saw the woman, drunk with the
blood of the saints and with the
blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And
when I saw her, I marveled with great
amazement.”
Revelation 17:6

59. •She is full of
abominations
9

60. •“And on her forehead a name was
written: “MYSTERY, BABYLON
THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF
HARLOTS AND OF THE
ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
Revelation 17:5

61. •She sits on seven hills or
seven mountains
10

62. And here is the mind which hath
wisdom. The seven heads are seven
mountains, on which the woman
sitteth.
Revelation 17:9

63. •WHO IS
BABYLON?

64. She sits upon many waters
which means that she rules
over them
1

65. •The biggest religious
systems with the highest
membership on the surface
of this earth 1.299billion
baptised membership
(2016)

66. •Her dominion or control
is global or worldwide
2

67. •She fornicates with the kings
of the earth. A church involved
with the political powers of
the world
3

68. • Fear, then, our wrath and the
thunders of our vengeance; for Jesus
Christ has appointed us [the popes]
with his own mouth absolute judges
of all men; and kings themselves are
submitted to our authority. -Pope
Nicholas (858-67)1
• 1 Cormenin (New, History York of
the1876)Popes,369p. 243, as cited in R. W.
Thompson, The Papacy and the Civil Power

69. • The Italians are exalted above all
nations by the special grace of
God, who gives them in the Pope a
spiritual monarch, who has put
down from their thrones great
kings and yet mightier emperors,
and set others in their place,
• The Pope and the Council (London, 1869),
p. 35.

70. •….to whom the greatest
kingdoms have long paid
tribute, as they do to no other,
and who dispenses such riches
to his courtiers that no king or
emperor has ever had so much
to give. The Pope and the Council
(London, 1869), p. 35.

71. •It is the office of the
Papacy to tread underfoot
kings and emperors.
• J. H. Ignaz von Dollinger, The Pope and
the Council (London, 1869), p. 339.

72. •She is the mother so she
must have daughters
which also must be Babylon.
4

73. •In many encyclicals the church
is referred to as the
•“Sancta Mater
Ecclesia”
•The “Holy Mother Church”

74. “Sacrosancta Lateranensis ecclesia
omnium urbis et orbis ecclesiarum
mater et caput.”
the entrance of St. John
Lateran Cathedral in Rome

75. “Sacred Lateran Church.
Church mother and head of
all the churches of the city
and the world.”

76. • The “Dominus Iesus” faith
declaration says,
• “It must be always
clear that the one,
holy, catholic and
apostolic universal
church is not the
sister, but the mother
of all the churches.”

77. •She is a very rich religious
system majoring in gold,
silver and precious stones
5

78. •Ill-gotten wealth
(Sale of penances and
indulgences)

79. • Robert Broderick, ed., The
Catholic Encyclopedia
(Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1976),
pp. 103-04.
• "The pectoral cross [suspended by a
chain around the neck of abbots,
bishops, archbishops, cardinals and
the pope] should be made of gold
and...decorated with gems...."

81. • In his sixteenth-century Ecclesiastical Annals Cardinal
Baronius, though a defender of the papacy, wrote:
Cormenin, op. cit., p. 275.
• The Roman Church was ... covered
with silks and precious stones, which
publicly prostituted itself for gold....
Never did priests, and especially
popes, commit so many adulteries,
rapes, incests, robberies, and
murders ... [as in the Middle Ages].

82. •her colors are purple
and scarlet, not blue.
6

83. • Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic Encyclopedia
(Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division,
1991), p. 175, 178.
• Cappa Magna - A cloak with a long train and a
hooded shoulder cape...[it] was purple wool for
bishops; for cardinals, it was scarlet watered silk....
• Cassock - The close-fitting, ankle-length robe
worn by the Catholic clergy as their official
garb....The color for bishops and other prelates is
purple, forc ardinals scarlet.... (Emphasis added)

84. •She has a history of slaying the
faithful people of God. She is
historically known for
martyrdom of God’s saints.
7

85. • "From the birth of Popery in 606 to the
present time, it is estimated by careful
and credible historians, that more than
fifty millions of the human family,
have been slaughtered for the crime of
heresy by popish persecutors, an
average of more than forty thousand
religious murders for every year of the
existence of popery."
"History of Romanism," pp. 541, 542. New York:
1871.

87. •She is full of
abominations
8

88. •She sits on seven hills or
seven mountains
9

89. • "It is within the city of Rome,
called the city of seven hills, that
the entire area of Vatican State
proper is now confined.“
• The Catholic Encyclopedia (Thomas Nelson,
1976), s.v. "Rome."

90. •She gives wine to all
nations
10

91. Wine represents doctrine
Fermented wine
represents false doctrine

92. • Isaiah 28:7 But they also have erred
through wine, and through strong
drink are out of the way; the priest
and the prophet have erred through
strong drink, they are swallowed up of
wine, they are out of the way
through strong drink; they err in
vision, they stumble in judgment.

93. •Jeremiah 51:7: “Babylon was a
golden cup in the Lord's hand that
made all the earth drunk. The
nations drank her wine; therefore
the nations are deranged.”

94. •Isaiah 28:8
For all tables are full of
vomit and filthiness, so
that there is no place
clean.

95. •Isaiah 28:9 Whom shall he
teach knowledge? and
whom shall he make to
understand doctrine? them
that are weaned from the
milk, and drawn from the
breasts.

96. Some
Prominent false
doctrines
Which Babylon
has given to the
world.

97. Baptism

98. Idolatory

102. Sunday
“baptised Sun Worship”

104. Deuteronomy
27:14-15: "And
the Levites
shall speak
with a loud
voice and say to
all the men of
Israel:

105. 15 'Cursed is the one
who makes a carved
or molded image, an
abomination to the
Lord, the work of
the hands of the
craftsman, and sets
it up in secret.' "And
all the people shall
answer and say,
'Amen!'”

106. Exodus 20:4-6: "You
shall not make for
yourself a carved
image — any
likeness of anything
that is in heaven
above, or that is in
the earth beneath,
or that is in the
water under the
earth;

107. The Lord’s
Supper

108. Veneration of
Mary

109. Purgatory and
Hell

110. Eccle 9:5,6
For the living know that they
shall die: but the dead know not
anything, neither have they any more
a reward; for the memory of them is
forgotten.

111. •Babylon falls because
she rejected the first
angels message

112. • The first angel tells us that:
• Jesus was sacrificed once for all
• He is our only and sufficient high
priest,
• We saved by his righteousness
alone and not by our works
• We should reflect God’s character

113. • We should care for our body and mind
• To keep God’s law
• We are in the hour of God’s judgment
• The dead are dead until the
resurrection and that only God can give us
life
• We should keep the Sabbath in honor
of the Creator

114. Eze 22:26-28
Her priests have violated
my law, and have profaned
my holy things; they have
put no difference between
the holy and profane,
neither have they shewed
difference between the
unclean and the clean, and
have hid their eyes from
my sabbaths, and I am
profaned among them

115. Hosea 4:6
My people are
destroyed for lack of
knowledge; because
thou has rejected
knowledge, I will also
reject thee, that thou
shall be no priest to
me: seeing thou has
forgotten the law thy
God, I will also forget
thy children

116. Jer 51:6,8,9,51
6. Flee out of the midst of
Babylon, and deliver every
man his soul: and be not
cut off in her iniquity; for
this is the time of the
Lord’s vengeance; he will
render unto her a
recompense
45. My people, go ye out of
the midst of her, and
deliver ye every man his
soul from the fierce anger
of the LORD.

117. Revelation 18:1
And after these
things I saw
another angel
come down
from heaven,
having great
power; and the
earth was
lightened with his
glory.

118. Revelation 18:2 And
he cried mightily
with a strong voice,
saying, Babylon the
great is fallen, is
fallen, and is
become the
habitation of devils,
and the hold of
every foul spirit, and
a cage of every
unclean and hateful
bird.

119. Revelation 18:2 And
he cried mightily
with a strong voice,
saying, Babylon the
great is fallen, is
fallen, and is
become the
habitation of devils,
and the hold of
every foul spirit, and
a cage of every
unclean and hateful
bird.

120. Revelation 18:3 For
all nations have
drunk of the wine of
the wrath of her
fornication, and the
kings of the earth
have committed
fornication with her,
and the merchants
of the earth are
waxed rich through
the abundance of
her delicacies.

121. Revelation 18:4
And I heard
another voice
from heaven,
saying, Come out
of her, my people,
that ye be not
partakers of her
sins, and that ye
receive not of her
plagues.

122. John 10:16 And
other sheep I have,
which are not of this
fold: them also I
must bring, and they
shall hear my voice;
and there shall be
one fold, and one
shepherd.