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This Bible chapter is describing a great mystery about the Mother of all prostitutes. She is obviously guilty of religious fornication and of abominations. In other words she is guilty of sleeping around religiously-speaking, employing all kinds of different pagan and unsound doctrines, which to me means that she's playing the field with different religions that have nothing to do with the truth.

The scary part of all of this is that she is commonly identified euphemistically as 'Rome', meaning the Roman Catholic church, which fit all the clues given in the description in this chapter.

The Vatican City sits on seven hills, is a sovereign country as well as being a great city and rules religiously over any Roman Catholic monarchs and appointed Catholic heads of world governments.

The King of this country is a leader who is hungry for power; calling for all other religious groups to come under his dominion and claiming to be the only church that has the power to grant salvation. The Catholic Church has stated and believes that anyone outside of Catholicism is lost and without salvation. This is outright religious blackmail and there is absolutely no truth in their claim.

In fact, the Biblical indictment of the Roman Catholic church also jeopardises the claims of Christianity as a whole, because there is little or no real difference in the doctrines of the mainstream Christian faiths, such as the Greek/Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic (except for their Mariology) and Protestant groups.

To understand Revelation 17, it is necessary to look at in the context of other parts of the Bible.

The seven hills on which this city sits are also seven heads or kings; five have fallen, one is and one is to come for a little while. (verse 10) The revelation of this prophesy came out in the 1990's, when Pope John Paul II was reigning. He was the sixth sovereign Pope of the smallest country in the world - only the five Popes before him had been crowned as kings of the Vatican, as well as being its Papal heads. Note the seven are described as 'heads' and as 'kings' which are dual positions these Popes held. There is a specific reason for them being crowned as kings, which will become obvious later.

In verses 8 and 11, it describes the 8thHead or king as being of the seven Papal kings and as 'the Beast that was, is not' and he shall come out of the bottomless pit, and go to perdition. The interesting part is that the whole world will marvel when they see this Beast, especially because

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