They are all drunk with the wine of her fornication, and with the Blood of the Witnesses of Jesus. Who was it right up until the appearance of the Christ that killed and stoned the Prophets and those sent forth to her? Who murdered the Christ and stoned Stephen to death? Who visciously persecuted the followers of the Christ? It was a Religious Organization was it not? Who killed the Holy ones and witnesses of Jesus? Ones that professed to be God's Favored people, but was a blatant lie. It was devil led! Because this Woman of John's Revelation is called a great City with a Kingdom over the Kings of the earth, is the fact that World -Wide this Religious Woman is in control of the masses of mankind. While she sits on these many waters representative of people. John further clarifies just who this Woman is in verse 24 of Revelation 18 where we are told the following:
"Yes, in her was found the blood of prophets and of holy ones and of all those who have been slaughtered on the earth." {Revelation 18:24 NWT} Now connect these words penned by John with words spoken by Jesus to those early Jews:
"Serpents, offspring of vipers, how are YOU to flee from the judgment of Ge·hen´na? 34 For this reason, here I am sending forth to YOU prophets and wise men and public instructors. Some of them YOU will kill and impale, and some of them YOU will scourge in YOUR synagogues and persecute from city to city; 35 that there may come upon YOU all the righteous blood spilled on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zech·a·ri´ah son of Bar·a·chi´ah, whom YOU murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 Truly I say to YOU, All these things will come upon this generation." {Matthew 23:33-36 NWT}
"The waters that you saw, where the harlot is sitting, mean peoples and crowds and nations and tongues." {Revelation 17:15 NWT}
So, these Peoples and crowds and Nations and Tongues where this great Harlot is sitting, today take the place of the Israelite Nation, who so brutaly murdered the Christ, stoned Stephen to death, killed James, and persecuted the followers of the Christ in the first Century. So, we're looking at now, the entire empire of Blood-Guilty Religious Christendom as the ones doing the trampling on Jerusalem. Only this trampling now, is being done on the Jerusalem above, Heavenly New Jerusalem, the City of the living God. This Trampling began with the crucifiction of the Christ, carried over to the stoning of stephen the murder of James the Persecution of the Christian's under the New Covenant. In that no one knows just how long this trampling will go on because it is still in progress right at this present moment in time they cannot know its length, or when it will end. So, this Trampling did not begin in 607 BCE. Nor did it run for 2,520 years. Did not end in 1914. Which of course means the Christ was not invisibly present in the year 1914, because the appointed times of the Nations did not end in that year at all. Something else it means, is, the seven time prophecy in Daniel 4:16 had absolutely nothing to do with the appointed times of the Nations. That Prophecy was merely talking about the loss and restoration of Kingdoms. Nebuchadnezzers after seven times passed over him, which of course was fulfilled.
Jehovah's Kingship would come into being, by his heavenly Woman displaying only her labor pains in 1914, which pains were pictured by the composite sign of the coming of Christ into Kingdom power,only just beggining. Before the Kingdom would actually come, the entire sign had to be in evidence, but even when it was the kingdom would only be near, not here even then. {Matthew 24:32,33} {Luke 21:28-31}That sign is still going on right now. Only when the Christ actually begins to exercise his authority as king, and, if you will, brings the hammer down on Satan's world-wide system of things, wiping it out in total will the appointed times of the Nations be fulfilled, and the Trampling on New Jerusalem end conclusively. {Revelation 12:10 - The Appointed Times of the Nations and the Trampling on New Jerusalem could never end while satan's sytem of things is still operational and right now, its running at full tilt. Fat flourishing and healthy!
But you cannot calculate the appointed times of the Nations, know how long they will run, or know when they will end, because no one knows the day-date Cain killed Abel, and that would be the starting point to count the length of the appointed times of the Nations coupled with that no one knows, or could possibly ever know, the exact day and hour for divine intervention, and that is the only time they could end. It would be of necessity to know those two dates, because without knowing them no one could ever possibly count the length of time the appointed times of the Nations will run. We do not know when at what Date they began! We do not know how long they will run, because they are still now running. We do not know the date they will end. We only know the event that will bring them to their end.As for this expression: "Domineering Prostitute."
Consider the stand taken by the Pope, as to being Almighty God on earth. The judge of heaven and earth. The vicar or representative of the Christ. Imagine claiming the position as judge of heaven and earth when Jehovah himself has allotted that position solely to the Christ, and his Anointed Brothers. That's a stretch and a half, isn't it? Of course they must be called Father or Holy Father or get this Jehovah's Position, Most Holy Father. Or Reverend right Reverend, Most Reverend.{John 5:22} {Revelation 20:4} As for God Almighty, the Pope and all of the Clergy, no differrent; Then of course their special garb that sets them above the laity in their congreagtions. How's that for domineering prostitute? You couldn't get any better. Arrogance personified. A description that fits them all right down to the ground. It works out like this, in this case, the Higher you exalt yourself the longer the drop to the ground when Jehovah brings them all down, and he surely will bring them all down, according to Isaiah the Prophet. {Isaiah Chapter Two.}The Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses will tell us that aside from them no one understands the Bible. That's funny! I'm not associated with them and I don't have any problem understanding the Bible. Wonder what's going on here?
Claiming that they, the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses are the only ones who understand the Bible, because only their Organization is Spirit Directed, they make fools out of themselves, because their Spirt Direction is somewhat lacking, wouldn't you think? It's been leading them on a path of errror for 130 years with failed predictions false prophecies and very poorly set forth interpretations of the the Scriptures. The Book they claim no one else understands they don't uderstand themselves. They tell us, that the Appointed Times of the Nations began running in 607 BCE. That's wrong! They tell us they ran for a period of 2,520 years. That's Wrong! They tell us they ended in 1914. That also is wrong. They tell us the appointed times of the Nations ended in the year 1914. That's wrong. In their Book: "You can live forever in paradise on earth on page 141 Paragraph 21 they tell us: "This means that Jesus Christ began to rule as King of God's Heavenly Government in 1914. ... "the Kingdom has already started its rule!" Quite obviously that is also wrong. We're 96 years away from the year 1914.
Was what they say to be true, this entire system of things by now would be toast; but everything continues as usual. Think for a moment about what the Governing Body tells us about the year 607 BCE and forward, because what they lay claim to about the Christ arrival in Kingdom power in the year 1914 actually as they say, he's already ruling. Without actually coming right out and saying it, in telling us he's already ruling, they are, probably without being conciously aware of it, telling us they know the Day and Hour, because that only occurs when the Christ actually does begin his active rule, as King of God's Kingdom. So, they have made a major goof-up in playing with Daniels time prophecy on the seven times, but just don't know that they have. Goof-up's they must be quite used to by now. After one Hundred and thirty some odd years of them, it's old hat by now.Wannabe