Bro Russell Explains Our Day

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Short Summary
The discourse explains that the angel in Revelation 17 is interpreted as Brother Russell, who guides the John class through chapters 17 to 22, providing inspired and accurate teachings. The chapter is divided into four parts detailing the history and symbolism of the “great harlot” (the apostate church) and the beast (representing empires and peoples), emphasizing the rise and fall of these powers, culminating in their destruction by the Lamb and the victorious kingdom of God. It highlights the collaboration of earthly political powers with revolutionary peoples against the church, the symbolic meaning of the seven heads and ten horns as empires and kings, and God’s sovereign control over these events.

Long Summary
Detailed Summary of the Discourse on Revelation Chapter 17 (Approx. 500 words)

Context and Key Premise
– The discourse begins by identifying the angel in Revelation 17 as Brother Charles Taze Russell, the founder of the Bible Student movement.
– Brother Russell is understood to be the inspired messenger to the “John class” (true church) from Revelation 17 through 22, serving as a specific divine guide after his death in 1916.
– Unlike his earthly ministry where he could revise views, his inspired teachings in Scripture are considered fully authoritative and without error.

Chapter 17 Structure
The chapter is divided into four parts for clarity:
1. Verses 1–6: Review of Brother Russell’s teachings about the “man of sin” and the apostate church (the great harlot).
2. Verses 7–8: Summary of events following Brother Russell’s death until the start of the mediation.
3. Verses 9–14: Detailed symbolic explanation of the apostate church’s historical and future role.
4. Verses 15–18: Final clarifications on symbolism and identification of players in the prophecy.

Verse 1-6: Introducing the Great Harlot and the Scarlet Beast
– The “seven angels with seven bowls” who spoke to John (Revelation 17:1) represent the glorified messengers, including Brother Russell (one of the seven).
– The “great harlot” sitting on many waters symbolizes the false (apostate) church dominating multitudes (“waters” = peoples).
– The harlot engages in “fornication” with the kings of the earth (Revelation 17:2), best translated as “spiritual fornication” — mixing earthly politics and religion improperly.
– The harlot sits on a scarlet beast with seven heads and ten horns (verses 3–4), representing a corrupt religious-political empire (e.g., the Roman Empire) with seven distinct ruling philosophies (heads = governing philosophies) and ten supporting powers (horns = kingdoms or authorities).
– The woman’s lavish clothing (purple, scarlet, gold, precious stones) indicates her pretensions to royalty and worldly wealth, but her cup is full of abominations and unclean things — doctrinal errors and spiritual corruption.
– Her name on the forehead is “Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth” (verse 5), indicating she is the source of false religion and spiritual corruption globally.
– She is “drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses of Jesus” (verse 6), symbolizing persecution and martyrdom inflicted on faithful Christians.

Verses 7-8: The Beast’s Mystery and Chronology
– The angel asks John (and the John class) why he wonders at the harlot’s apparent power, promising to reveal the deeper mystery of the woman and the beast.
– The beast (the body of the beast, i.e., the peoples who support the empire) “was, is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction” (verse 8).
– This is a chronological anchor: the beast existed during the French Revolution (when the people rose up), was “not” during Russell’s day (1916), but is about to return in rebellion before ultimate destruction.
– The “abyss” symbolizes a state of powerlessness from which the beast (people uprising) will emerge again.

Verses 9-14: Symbolic Interpretations and Historical Identities
– “The seven heads are seven mountains” (verse 9), interpreted as seven great empires or rulers that accepted the Roman Church’s religious authority.
– These heads correspond to seven kings/rulers historically connected to the empire supported by the apostate church (examples: Justinian, Charlemagne, Otto, Napoleon, Hitler).
– The beast itself is an “eighth” but not an eighth head; it is of the seven, representing the revolutionary peoples rising against the ruling powers (French Revolution as a key example).
– The ten horns are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom as of 1916 but will receive authority and rule alongside the beast for “one hour” — a symbolic short but intense period of collaboration aimed at self-preservation.
– This alliance will wage war against the Lamb (Jesus Christ), but the Lamb will overcome them (verse 14) because He is “King of kings and Lord of lords,” and His church (called, chosen and faithful) will be with Him.
– The “one hour” refers to a significant, peculiar time of testing and upheaval, not a literal 60 minutes.

Verses 15-18: Final Clarifications and Divine Purpose
– The “waters” on which the harlot sits are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues — representing the global human population diverse in ethnicity and language but unified under the false church’s influence.
– The ten horns and the beast will eventually hate the harlot (the apostate church) and make her desolate, naked, and burn her with fire — indicating her ultimate destruction.
– God “puts it in their hearts” (verse 17) — specifically the ten horns (kings) — to carry out His purpose by giving their kingdom to the beast, fulfilling divine prophecy.
– The “great city” (verse 18) is identified as the dominant religious city controlling the kings of the earth, i.e., the seat of the apostate church’s power.
– The chapter concludes with a comprehensive definition of all symbols, emphasizing the timing (past, present, future relative to Brother Russell’s glorification) and the central role of the people (body of the beast) in the prophetic scenario.

Key Theological Points
– The apostate church is symbolized as a harlot who corrupts true Christianity with worldly politics and doctrines.
– The beast represents the people who have been dominated by the apostate church but will rise in rebellion and be destroyed.
– Political and religious powers collaborate temporarily but ultimately face defeat by Christ and His faithful church.
– God uses these upheavals for His divine plan, allowing destruction of the old order to establish the Kingdom of God.

Bible Verses Cited or Referenced
– Revelation 17:1–18 (entire chapter focus)
– Revelation 16 (plagues period preceding chapter 17)
– Revelation 17:1: “And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials…”
– Revelation 17:2: “With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication…”
– Revelation 17:3–6: Description of the woman on the scarlet beast
– Revelation 17:7–8: “The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss…”
– Revelation 17:9–14: Explanation of the seven heads as mountains/empires and ten horns as kings
– Revelation 17:15–18: Explanation of the waters as peoples and the final judgment of the harlot

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This detailed discourse provides a comprehensive understanding of Revelation chapter 17 by interpreting its symbolic imagery through the inspired teachings of Brother Russell, emphasizing the apostate church’s history, the political-religious empires it influenced, the uprising of peoples (beast), and the ultimate divine judgment and victory of Christ’s Kingdom.

Transcript

All right, let me say this first. This chapter becomes easy only if we understand that the angel who appears at its beginning is Brother Russell. So Brother Russell appears here talking to the John class as chapter 17 opens, and he talks to the John class all the way into chapter 22 of Revelation. So he becomes our specific God.

A rather important point, because as great as.

As great as his.

Tony, I’m getting a napkin.

As great as his ministry listened, his ministry continues in rupture, and there’s one big difference. He could and did have more than one opinion on a subject when he was alive. He made a couple errors which he tried to correct. But when he appears in Scripture, he’s inspired because it is Scripture.

So when we see Brother Russell in chapter 17, we can count on what he’s saying without so much as a single word being unimportant or being incorrect.

All right. You will notice on the handout, the first thing I have is the chapter’s construction. I’ve divided it into four parts. I think it’s legitimately divided into four parts. Part one, the first six verses.

Brother will review what he taught us when he was with us in the flesh, primarily. Volume two, the chapter on the man of sin, Part two.

Part two is going to be verses seven and eight, where he is going to show us, in summary, what follows his death. When he died in 1916, he left questions. We’re still discussing those questions, and so very short summary of two verses. He’s going to say, this is what happens after I left you until the mediation starts.

Part three of the chapter is going to be verses nine to 14, where he explains in great symbolic detail what he had just outlined in verses 7 and 8 and the final part 4, verses 15 to 18. He is going to wrap up his explanation of symbolic meanings. I very much, Brethren, would request that you look at your Revelation 17 while we’re examining it. It’s entirely too complicated just to be hearing me speaking. You need to look at the Lord’s Word and let it burn into your brain through your eyes.

Okay, let’s begin with verse one then. What about that seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me? Now, this is important for several reasons. It’s showing that what he’s going to do for us.

I’m getting an echo again.

What he’s going to do for us is to tell us what happened subsequent to the plagues.

He had. The Lord had just outlined the plagues in chapter 16, which basically cover the period from 1914 until the mediation, and if Indeed, this is Brother Russell. That’s a whole other discourse. But it is Brother Russell.

It demonstrates that since he is one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, the other six must be the other six messengers to the church, all in their glorified condition.

Now, in essence, what Brother Russell is saying here in verse one is, let’s review what I’ve taught you while I was with you in the flesh. So this angel came and spoke with me, with John. That’s us saying, come here. Oh, those are important words. If we don’t go to him, we’re not going to get it.

We cannot figure things out without Brother Russell’s help. This is one of the secrets of the harvest. Come here. He whispers in our ears until the harvest is over. Come here.

I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters.

In essence, he is saying that the false church, that’s the harlot, controlled multitudes of people. Waters are people. She sat on the waters. She dominated the the people, and at the point from the time the plagues begin, she’s still sitting on them.

Verse 2, with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of fornication. By the way, my translation says immorality, but fornication is much better translation because you’re pretty ridiculous.

Fornication is a much better translation because the Lord is trying to tell us that it is the mixing of two things that do not belong together.

It is the mixing of the spiritual with the earthly. So the word fornication is the best translation. So brother ASO is saying this great woman church, the kings of the earth, committed acts of fornication, and she promotes that. It’s a very worldly church, and the church is not supposed to be worldly.

It’s supposed to be spiritual. So when the kings of earth commit acts of fornication with her, it is showing us how Christianity became earthly instead of spiritual in its concepts, and those who dwell on the earth, now that is a symbol for people who have their roots in society, not in spiritual things. Those who dwell on the earth were made drunk. Now you know what happens when you’re drunk.

You have a stupor, and what this is telling us is that all of those who dwell on the earth have an understanding stupor. They cannot figure out what’s going on, may draw the wine of her fornication. Verse 3.

He, that’s brother Ashel, carried me away in the spirit in our minds. He didn’t move us physically. He carried me away in the spirit into a wilderness. That’s the 1260 days of that domination of that holy, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

By the way, we learned all this already from Brother Russell, primarily in volume two. So brother Russell carries our minds back to the 1260 years and tells us that the Apostate Church controlled the Roman Empire.

By the way, that’s the definition of a beast. It is a combination of church being the official religious voice of an empire. That’s a beast. There’s only two of them in Revelation. One with ten horns, one with two.

Okay, I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast. Scarlet, of course, is its sinful condition because it is mixing church and state. It is creating fornication. It is a beast. It was a collection of God dishonesty, dishonoring character traits.

That’s why she’s full of blasphemous names and having seven heads and 10 horns. Now, we’re going to find out that this is an incomplete discussion of the beast. I am sure none of us has ever seen an animal walking around that only has a head and horns. What’s missing? The body’s missing.

That’s going to become important as we pursue this verse. But the point here is Brother Russell is telling us that this empire on which the woman sits has seven heads. Now, a head is something that thinks. It is a governing philosophy. When the governing philosophy changes, the head changes.

So he’s telling us in its history, it will go through seven different governing philosophies, and it has 10 horns, and a horn is a power. I mean, you don’t mind seeing a goat unless he puts his head down and points his horns at you. The horns represent the power in that animal.

And the only reason these large empires could exist is they had the support of the kingdoms under them. So these horns are the power that keeps the empire going. Verse 4. The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with golden precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her fornication.

All right, Brother Austin is telling us that this church, not the beast, the church, was clothed in purple and scarlet. That’s her pretensions to royalty. Reigning before reigning is appropriate, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. Wealth she has, wants and collects and flaunts her wealth, having in her hand a gold cup.

You know, that’s really quite wonderful. This is the cup that the Lord provided is scripture, but it has the wrong thing in it. Instead of having the refreshment supposed to come from that cup, it filled it with with abominations and the unclean things of her fornication.

The abominations were the horrible earthly instituted doctrinal errors, and the unclean things of her fornication was. She said, it’s perfectly fine to be human and earthly and mix that with your going to church, so to speak, and on her forehead, verse 5, a name was written.

Forehead represents the center of religious focus. Her forehead displays a character or a name.

On her forehead a name was written, and here is the four parts of that name. That’s my phone ringing and it will stop.

And those four parts are mystery. Babylon, the great mother of harlots and mother of the abominations of the earth. Mystery is so important. The world views this as a link to God and it’s a link to Satan. Quite a mystery.

The mystery is how on earth could she get away with it Representing God in word, but not in character or in works. The second is Babylon the Great. Now Babylon was the nation which held the Lord’s people, Israel, captive back in the typical time, and that’s what she does. Here she is this religious city which holds the Lord’s people captive in her.

She is the mother of harlots, and I know our general description of that is that denominations come out of her. I think that’s not quite what we want to see in that phrase.

I think the point is she gives birth to people who share her mysterious forgeries and adultery. That’s what makes you a daughter of Babylon. Being a Christian Protestant denomination does not make you a daughter of Babylon. But if you share her mysterious forgeries and adultery, then you are a daughter individually or group wise, and the last thing that she is a mother of is of the abominations of the earth.

Sister Suzanne Docter liked to tell me that abomination means it stinks, and I appreciate that because in essence the Lord is saying she is the mother of all the things that stink in the earth, in society, and that is true because she fostered and approved of the things the world were doing as long as you went in and paid for them.

Verse 26, and I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered greatly. Now this is John speaking. We, John, the true church, saw this from Brother Russell’s Writings, Volume 2, Volume 4.

And the Brethren were quite amazed. As the harvest opened, we saw that this adulterous woman was inebriated with the destruction of the truly faithful, the blood of the saints, and the blood of any witness to the truth about Jesus, and the brethren were quite amazed when Brother Russell brought this to our attention. It’s not that Christianity hadn’t called Papacy the man of sin for a long time, but Brother Russell defined it so definitively that we wondered. Verse seven is a swing verse.

It says, the angel said to me, why do you wonder? And I think the point there is he’s saying, you know, what I’ve told you is really quite remarkable, but it’s nowhere near what you’re going to get. In other words, to put it in the vernacular, Brother Russell is saying to us, don’t get too excited about its history. Wait till I tell you what’s going to happen to it, which is his next sentence. I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and ten horns.

And this launches us into part two, and part two is short. It’s two verses, important verses, but they are a very brief statement of what he just said he would tell us. He’s going to tell us the mystery of this woman and the beast. Okay, verse eight, the beast that you saw and is about to come up.

Here’s your chronological clue. It is impossible, impossible, impossible to interpret this chapter unless we realize that it is Brother Russell just after his glorification.

After all, when it says it is, you have to be standing at a point in time, or when he says it was, when he said it isn’t, you have to be standing in that same point in time, and when he says it’s about to, you still have to be standing at that same chronological point. So this is a chronological anchor for us. It is Brother Russell, I’m going to just roughly say 1916, when he crossed the border into his reward. The beast that you saw, that’s that one with seven heads and ten horns, was.

But in Brother Russell’s day, wasn’t.

And in Brother Russell’s day, is about in the future from that point to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction.

Okay, The secret to understanding is going to be in defining the beast. This is not just that scarlet beast we read about earlier with seven heads and 10 horns. But as I said earlier, you’ve never seen an animal with only a head and horns. What’s missing? It’s the body that’s missing.

It is the body that’s missing, and Brother Russell tells us about this in volume two, page 354 where he says, this is a reference. I’m not quoting him, just giving you a summary. This is a reference to the body of the beast. What’s the body of the beast?

It’s the people. You remember verse one. What does she sit on? She doesn’t sit on a head or on a horn. She sits on many waters.

The people. That’s the body of the peace beast. That is the subject of chapter 17. You don’t get that. You don’t get the point.

It’s that simple. Even though it seems complicated. So what is it? It is the people in their relationship to those heads and horns. The beast that you saw was back in the French Revolution, you remember, the people rose up against the head and horn and the 10th of the city fell.

We’ve still got nine to go. The beast that you saw was in the French Revolution. Then as Brother Russell is speaking in 1916, it is not. The people then were not in revolution against the heads and hoenns and is about to come up out of the abyss. Now you know what an abyss is?

That’s powerlessness. The people grabbed power in the French Revolution then they hadn’t had it and Brother Russell says they’re going to have it again. This is an uprising of the people who had been under the domination of the woman and under the domination of the heads and horns. The beast that you saw was and is not and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. That’s the nice part.

You know, the people are. The C class revelation ultimately tells us there shall be no more sea. That’s the point. The revolutionary masses, as this chapter proceeds will be destroyed. There will be no more sea.

So here is a nutshell. This group we’re talking about, it just calls it the Beast. But it’s the body of the beast rose up in the French Revolution, was not rising up as Brother Russell was glorified, but will rise up and will be destroyed as a factor foreign those who dwell on the earth. Remember that’s people with roots in society whose name has not been written in the book of life. From the foundation of the world, they’ve never taken advantage of salvation through Christ will wonder when they see the beast that he was and is not and will come.

When this happens, all of society that doesn’t understand the divine plan is in for a great wonderment. Now this is not wonder like ooh, ah. This is wonder like, oh, we will have a French revolution on a worldwide scale. Now in verse Nine. Brother Russell says, here is the mind which has wisdom.

Okay, let’s take that phrase. Brother Russell’s not saying you have to be smart, that that’s not the point.

He is telling us that wisdom is the application of knowledge. He said we’ll be able to understand this forecast correctly the meanings of the symbols involved, and only the saints will be able to do that.

Now, right following that wisdom statement, Brother Russell starts a series equivalence.

We could use equal signs, but please notice the seven heads are seven mountains. That’s an equal sign. What are the heads? They are mountains. They are empires.

This is no small kingdom. This is a huge empire. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. Now, brethren have tried all kinds of things in interpreting this with careful what brother Russell is telling us, On which the woman sits. If the Roman Church is not the controlling religious influence in that head, you got your interpretation wrong.

When we go to define the seven heads, each one must be one which accepts the Roman Church as its religious defining authority.

So here in the handout.

Well, let me keep going. Okay. In verse 10, Brother Russell goes further in his definition. He says the heads are empires on which the woman sits in control religiously, and they who the seven heads or the seven empires, doesn’t matter, they are seven kings.

Brother Russell has another equal sign there. He’s saying, interpret. Here’s how you interpret these mountains. That these heads are seven people, seven rulers, and that’s how we normally tend to actually refer to the parts of the ten horn beast.

We usually refer to the individual that is in charge as each new head came on the scene. So we refer to Justinian’s Rome, Charlemagne’s Rome, Otto’s Rome, Leopold’s Rome, Napoleon’s Rome, Victor Emmanuel’s Rome, Hitler’s. Oh yes, the seven parts of the Beast. Its seven heads are seven kings or seven rulers.

And brother also says the last one not going to be here very long. He remains a little while. Well, as I counted, Hitler lasted 13 years. That’s pretty old history of this whole.

Verse 11, the beast. Remember, this is the body of this bull which was in the French Revolution is not in 1916, is himself also an eighth. Do not think eighth head. That’s the normal conclusion we don’t want to jump to. The Revelator was very clear.

There are seven heads, not eight. So Brother Russell is trying to tell us here it’s an eighth thing. When the heads are gone, you gotta deal with an eighth thing. The beast, the uprising of the people which was in the French Revolution is Not is himself also thing and is of the seven. In other words, you have to look back in the history of the seven heads to find it.

And we do. We look back there in France during the revolution, and there it was. It rose up. But it is going to become the eighth factor with which we have to deal with. Not a new head.

It is of the seven, and it goes to destruction. You remember we saw that back in verse eight. It will come out of the abyss and go to destruction. In other words, don’t worry about this upheaval of people as it comes. It’s going to be destroyed.

I’m trying to follow two things here at once. Probably not doing a very good job of it.

Verse 12. The 10 horns which you saw are 10 kings. Well, the description earlier shows that this beast has 10 horns. This is possibly a symbol of the whole area that is controlled by this beast. 10 meaning a number of earthly things in completion.

But then again, the actual kingdoms that supported the Holy Roman Empire, for example, is about 10. It is a reference to those that have been supporters of these heads when they existed. They are all European. So this is a European picture. The 10 horns which you saw are 10 kings who have not yet received a kingdom.

Will you notice that it doesn’t say 10 kings which have not received kingdoms? They have not received a kingdom.

We have to be careful with specifics in the wording of prophecy. Brother Russell is trying to tell us these European powers will receive a single authoritative rule. Is this the European Union? I don’t know. Maybe it’s something that’s yet to come.

But in Brother Russell’s Day, 1916, the ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour that’s yet coming.

But be careful.

The implication first is they will receive a kingdom that’s going to give them authority, a union of European powers, and then they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour. Remember who who the beast is. It is the revolutionary peoples.

It is the revolutionary peoples. It is the revolutionary peoples. I’m stressing that this is not governments.

This is not the Roman church.

The 10 horns are going to work with the beast for an hour. Why? Because they want survival, and they will find that survival is the way to go.

If they fight the beast, they will fall. By this time in history, they will have learned when the people are uprising. You want to last. You work with them, not against them. So we have a collusion here between the European political powers.

And the uprising peoples for one hour. Now our just check it out for yourself. Don’t take my word for it. Look all the way through the New Testament. Hour is a specific period of time in which something happens.

A time of peculiar circumstances is not a chronological, and when it puts the word one in front of it, it is using that word to stress the fact that it is an unusually significant time of special circumstances. Just like people can say, oh, I went out last night and I had one good time. Meaning I’ve had a lot of good times before this one. Just really super above all the others.

And that’s the point here. This is going to be one terrible hour.

The European kings will together in their singular kingdom of authority, work with the uprising of the people. The body of the beast. I’m taking that out of volume two. That’s not me.

These have one purpose.

Their purpose is self preservation, and they give their power and authority to the. I’m going to say body of the beast based on volume two, page 354. Okay, now.

Part four.

Well, not quite. Verse 14 belongs with that previous part. These will wage war with the lamb. Enough. These political powers plus the body of the beast will wage war against the lamb.

They are fighting against the incoming kingdom. It is the last threat to the incoming kingdom, and the lamb will overcome them. You remember the beast goes to destruction. That’s mentioned Both in verse 8 and in verse 11.

The Lamb will overcome them, and now brother Russell explains why. Because he is Lord of Lord and kings of kings. There aren’t any other kings that have a say. He is the controller over kings.

And those who are with him are the called the chosen and faithful. Please notice the church is gone at this time. The great company may still be lingering around, but the church is gone. They are with him, and you have this formula called chosen faithful.

That’s on the other side of the veil. That’s not here. He will overcome them because he is King of kings and Lord of Lords, and his whole church is with him called chosen and faithful.

Now part four. Part four before verse 15, Brother Russell has taken care of identifying most of the symbols he has used. But a few are yet to be clarified. In verses 15 to 18, he does this additional work for us as well as adding some additional information about the players. So this is kind of a mop up 50.

And he. That’s Brother Russell said to me, that’s us, the John class.

And brother Russell’s referring back to verse one. No, the waters which you saw where the harlot Sits. You remember verse one. The harlot sits on many waters. That’s the peoples.

The waters which you saw where the harlot sits are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. Well, that’s.

Basically the world of mankind. But we could divide it up. Those are ethnicities. Multitudes gives the concept of enormous involvement, not just localized protests. Nations show that the entire political entities will be involved.

Tongue suggests that communication barriers will not exist. Masses speaking a plethora of languages will act with one accord.

Okay. The waters which you saw, and this takes it beyond Europe now, are peoples in multitudes and nations and tongues, and the ten horns which you saw and the beast. These are the two factors that are left. Everything else is gone.

The beast doesn’t have any heads.

What’s left here that’s active is the horn.

Body of the beast. The ten horns which you saw and the body of the beast. These will hate the harlot. There’s proof positive that the beast in verse 12 that has authority for an hour is not the church.

It’s the people. The people in upheaval, just as happened in the French Revolution, and here is the demonstration of it. The ten horns and the beast will hate the harlot. They’re going to hate the Roman Church.

The Roman Church is not cooperating with them. They’re hating it, and they will make her desolate and naked and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire. She’s a goner. But she’s not cooperating with the kings and the uprising people.

Don’t get that wrong. If we read here exactly what Brother Russell says inspired. Brother Russell says you get the answer correctly. Verse 17. For God has put it in their hearts.

Whose hearts? The horns and the uprising people.

No, just the horns. I’m sorry, I made a mistake there. God has put it in their hearts. That’s the horns. To exercise his purpose by having a common purpose and by giving their kingdom to the beast until the words of God will be fulfilled.

Shorthand for that verse. God is using the collaboration of the ten kings and the uprising hordes of people to do away with all remnants of the old order of Satan. God put it in their hearts to tear things apart, and he’s going to let them tear it until his purpose has been accomplished. Final verse.

The woman whom you saw is the great city which reigns over the kings of the earth. Just in case we hadn’t caught that from verse one, this is the great religious city which had control over certain kings of the earth. Those kings which supported all the seven heads. So brother Russell has succeeded in defining every single symbolism in this chapter. It flows beautifully.

It has no problems. It depends on your knowing when was, is not and is about to come is in time, and it’s when Brother Russell is glorified.

It depends on your reading volume two, page 354 to know that the beast he is concentra on here is not the heads and the horns. The beast is the people that have been sat upon. The chapter starts with that fact. The Great harlot. Verse one sits on the waters.

Verse 18. The chapter ends. The great city reigned over the kings of the earth. Well, that didn’t do it. There.

Okay. It takes the heads and the horns into account for the total destruction of everything. This is the final description of how it all ends. You remember Brother Russell said, I’m going to show you the judgment of the great harlot. So he gave us all the history.

He explained what it was like when he was glorified. He explained how the harlot would be destroyed and by whom it would be destroyed.

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