Let’s start with a tiny but vital history lesson. If we want to understand the Bible, it is important to recognize that the Israelites of the Old Testament were all deported from Palestine, when they were conquered by the Assyrians and Babylonians long ago, as recorded by the biblical books of Kings, Chronicles and Jeremiah. When they were later freed by the Medes and Persians, a few of them trickled back to become the ancestors of Jesus and His friends, as we read in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. But the overwhelming majority of the Israelites moved to Western Europe and began the Western culture we have been a part of ever since. So when the prophecies make predictions for the Israelites, they are talking about us. The Bible, from cover to cover, is about our culture. Now to our subject.
Our people are often symbolized as a woman in the Bible–a woman who is destined to give birth to the coming, prosperous Kingdom of Christ on Earth. When we’re good, we’re further symbolized as the Bride of Christ. This, too, has a variation. We’re also symbolized as a widow. A widow is a bride whose husband has died. Christ, our Bridegroom, died, rose from death and ascended into Heaven, so when we’re good, we’re also the widow. These are the positive meanings of the woman-symbol. However, when our culture turns bad, we’re called the “harlot.” Therefore in Revelation 18.7 the proud harlot says, “A queen I sit and am no widow.” This is not just a few of us. Our entire, Western society is no longer Christian, in church and out. Therefore the harlot symbolizes all of Western society, right now.
It’s contagious. Revelation chapter 17 says this harlot, our rotten society, has not only corrupted itself. It has corrupted the entire world. But it goes on to say that the foreign nations “will hate the harlot, they will devour her flesh and burn her up with fire.” Because we are no longer the Bride of Christ, we have lost the respect of the world and now they are preparing our destruction. This will be the great war to come, between the West and the rest of the world, which is outlined in other prophecies. They will demolish our corrupted society and lord it over us for three and a half years, until Christ comes to rescue those of us who want to be His Bride from the devastation He will deal out to the remainder.
The Bible’s symbols can best be interpreted by overlapping them over each other, allowing each to further flesh out the picture. Think of them like the anatomy transparencies in a Biology textbook. The more pages you flip, the fuller the picture becomes. Let’s do that. Let’s find other symbols which overlap and flesh out what we’ve learned so far.
Now we’ll look at another facet of the harlot-symbol, which is very encouraging. In the book of Joshua chapter 2, two spies were sent by Joshua into Jericho, previous to out ancestors attacking and conquering that city. The people of Jericho found out and sought to kill them. But they were hidden by a harlot named Rahab in her house. Ferrar Fenton’s translation of Joshua calls Rahab an “innkeeper,” rather than a harlot. Fenton apparently figured because Rahab was a heroine, who became an ancestress of Jesus, she could not have been a real harlot. However, I have four other versions of the Old Testament, every one of them calls her a harlot and I believe them. Confusion sets in when we don’t understand God’s symbols. So Rahab hid the spies and because she did that, they promised to spare her and her family when they returned with the army to exterminate the city.
This brings us to the battle of Jericho, in Joshua chapter 6, in which we get further symbol-clues. The Israelite army marched around Jericho once a day, for six days. Jericho symbolizes the world, or the World Order, which has ruled us for 6000 years, since Adam and Eve were formed here in 4004 BC. Each day of the march around Jericho symbolizes a thousand years, so since 2005, we have been on earth 6000 years. The name “Adam” means to blush red, to flush and turn rosy. Most of the world’s population cannot do that, so there were already people on earth, which the devil had organized into a total slave system, when Adam and Eve arrived. Outnumbered by the World Order, our people were also enslaved but in the seventh thousand years of our people living on this planet, we will be free. Now back to Jericho. On the seventh day, symbolizing the seventh thousand years since Adam, the army marched around Jericho seven times. On the seventh day, on the seventh round, seven priests blew seven trumpets, after which all the army shouted and the walls of Jericho came tumbling down. Then the Israelites ran in and killed every living thing. But Rahab and her family they saved and kept with them, permanently. These are all symbols of things to come. Joshua symbolizes Jesus. The Israelites symbolize His army of angels. Jericho symbolizes the World Order and Rahab symbolizes those of us who see the direction this world is taking and secretly take Christ’s side. The conquest of Jericho symbolizes that in the seventh thousand years since Adam came to the earth, the devil’s World Order will be totally destroyed, so that a new and honest culture can be established– which will benefit all the remaining people of the world.
What about the seven trumpets? This gets really interesting. Numbers chapter 10 explains that the trumpets are blown for two reasons. The first is to gather God’s people to Him and the second reason is to summon His help. Now let’s overlap this Old Testament symbol onto the New Testament. Revelation chapter 8 tells of seven angels blowing another seven trumpets, after which various disasters strike the earth. But now that we know why the trumpets are blown, we can see that the blowing of these trumpets is calling us to get close to Jesus Christ, so as to escape those disasters afflicting other people. This overlaps with Christ’s own words in Revelation, where He calls, “Come out of her, My people, lest you share in her punishment!” He is presently calling us out of this harlot-system. We do not need to leave the country, flee to the mountains, or quit our jobs to do that. We come out in our hearts and minds, right at home.
Why are there seven trumpets? 7 is the number of the Holy Spirit, which means that only those who receive that Spirit will heed the call. How to get the Holy Spirit, privately, at home, is the main focus of my little book, Home Christianity. It’s not hard to do.
Now let us return to Rahab. The sign she gave to save herself and her family from the invading army was a scarlet cord tied in her window. This red color symbolizes the blood Christ shed on the cross to save His people from their sins. There’s more. If she had been the only harlot in Jericho, it seems doubtful that God would have ordered the massacre of the entire city. Rahab is a harlot who changed her mind, from a satanic system to God’s system. So she and her family were the only ones in Jericho who lived. Therefore her memory survives as an example to us all. Notice the kindness of God, Who spares and blesses every soul who quietly takes the side of Christ, in spite of the daily pressures of a satanic civilization.
Notice how the symbols of the Bible play off each other, to portray a fuller picture. They all fit into an integrated system, which reveals their deepest message. If we read the Bible carefully, we can hear the angels blowing their trumpets now, calling us away from a doomed society, toward a far, far better way of life to come, right here on earth.
Thank you for joining me. Now we know who the harlot is and how to deal with that. If you want to see the overall pattern of God’s symbol-predictions for today, I invite you to read my book, The Death and Resurrection of the West Foretold in Prophecy. If you want to know how to get all the way onto Christ’s side, read my other little book, Do-it-Yourself HOME CHRISTIANITY: How to Please God and Receive His Help, Without Preachers, Churches, or Money. Both are available on this website, either as ebooks or real books. You can read the introductory sections for free.
