That Whore!
April 23, 2025
“That’s not us. It couldn’t be us! This is the United States of America!”
One of the worst and most persistent of the Bible’s Original Sins is what I call the Blame Game. The Gamers have developed what they call a new game, but it really isn’t a new game at all. True, it’s one we may not have noticed on the shelves before, but its rules are much the inverse of blaming others. It’s the Denial Game. (Now available as a video game)…
Denial is claiming not having anything to do with any negative situation or harmful activity with lame excuses for why one is hiding behind the fabled fig leaves.
Every single day that I throw things in the trash. knowing they are going straight to a landfill… Everyday I carefully rinse and place plastic items in the recycling bin, knowing they will probably not be recycled but end up in someone’s Southeast Asian community before slipping into the Pacific Ocean… Everyday I use my charge card to purchase one more item I have no room for… I realize that I am plainly soliciting the great Prostitute…
Let’s take a moment to look at ourselves to see what is really going on right under our feet…
When growing up I would hear someone say about any girl who they thought was sexually active. “What a whore!”
Yet, they never called any boy they thought was sexually active a derogatory name… No, no, no — that guy was some sort of hero!
My point is that people indulge the Babylonian Whore to indulge in her materialistic pleasures, but excuse themselves with prideful boasting of how they took advantage of the pleasurable opportunities of her services…
If you don’t understand what my allegory means in the context of Revelation 17, especially verse 5, And upon her forehead a name was written, a mystery: Babylon the Great, the mother of the prostitutes, and of the abominations of the earth. — Berean Literal Bible (BLB).
There are a lot of events — both current and historic — where I have come to a stark conclusion that the great Whore, Babylon, discussed in the Bible book of Revelation, is not a relic of the past.
Although probably not talked about in High School History Classes or College Philosophy or Seminaries anymore, it is current and prescient for today.
What? Some mystical jargon about some past civilization that no longer exists… What has that got to do with us?
The book is talking about the Empire of the United States of America and its universal, world-encompassing Monetary System.
Oh no? Let’s take a quick gander at our golden goose…
This country has many nice people — kind, generous, thoughtful — but it is also the center of the power of the Beast;
“And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.”
“All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.” — Revelation 18:2–3, Berean Standard Bible.
And in a different Bible translation, if it makes things more clear:
“For all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.”- Revelation 18:3, NIV.
Does that way of expressing it make our situation more clear?
The Whore rides on the back of the Beast.
All people — all of us — are involved, but not all people are aware… and certainly not intentionally participating…
However, we do need to realize we are all being taken for a ride…
Perhaps we are stuck in the belly of the Beast — swallowed whole — but we might not be willing to stay to be digested there…
Still and all, there is a way for us to escape:
“ Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.” — ibid verse 4.
So when does the bus leave?
Sorry. There is no physical bus as we usually think of ways to travel…
In the New Testament there is this encouraging idea of how we could escape in, at least, in our heart of hearts:
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.” — John 3:16–17, BSB.
Yes. It is true that we have no physical place to escape the madness in the world, but yes, we definitely can escape. We can escape to God, to Jesus, and be in another “place” called the Kingdom of Heaven,and in that sense, no longer be unwilling participants…
“The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure. — 1 Corinthians 10:13. New Living Translation.
Carrie Underwood — Jesus, Take The Wheel (Official Video)
This is also a parallel which has the same solution to our conscientious conundrum:
“Later, God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and turned them into heaps of ashes. He made them an example of what will happen to ungodly people. But God also rescued Lot out of Sodom because he was a righteous man who was sick of the shameful immorality of the wicked people around him. Yes, Lot was a righteous man who was tormented in his soul by the wickedness he saw and heard day after day. So you see, the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials, even while keeping the wicked under punishment until the day of final judgment. — 2 Peter 2:6–9, NLT.
Wooden Ships — Crosby Stills Nash and Young
today’s word “dissipation” — https://biblehub.com/greek/810.htm
