Satan Is Preparing A Bride for AntiChrist

Revelation 17:1-8

¹And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:

 ²With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
 ³So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
 ⁴And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
 ⁵And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
 ⁶And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
 ⁷And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
 ⁸The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
 
This thought has been on my mind for the last few weeks as the headlines from across world get darker everyday; as God the Father is preparing a bride for His son Jesus Christ, Satan is also preparing a bride for his son Anti Christ. This has always been Satan's modus operandi. From the time that Satan or Lucifer rebelled in Isaiah 14:12-15 and Ezekiel 28:15-18, he has been trying to preempt God's plans.

     After mankind fell in the Garden of Eden, Satan knew that God would prepare a people and that He would send a savior. Israel was suppose to be that people but wasn't able to fulfil that role because Satan was able to influence them through the nations surrounding them and the Baal worshippers within the nation. When Israel went into captivity in Babylon Satan ingrained a even more perverted view of God called Cabalaism, a form of Free Masonry. Israel, which is called God's wife in Isaiah 50:14 had become so evil that He divorced it in Isaiah 50:1, Jeremiah 3:8-14 and the entire book of Hosea.

     After the Church was born on the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2:1-47 God had started to form it into a bride for His Son Jesus Christ. Subsequently throughout Acts you can see Satan trying to infiltrate Christianity in Acts 5:1-3 (Ananias and Sapphira), 8:17-24 (Simon the sorcerer), 13:5-11 (Elymas the sorcerer), 14:8-18 (the priest of Jupiter), 15:1-5 (the Judaizers), 16:6-18 (the female psychic), 19:13,14 (the seven sons of Sceva) and 20:28-31 (the false elders of Ephesus). I believe this was the beginning of him starting to prepare a bride for his son the Anti Christ also.

     Throughout the centuries since the beginning of the bride of Christ (the Church) Satan's counterfeit bride (the harlot church) for his son has become adept at imitating it. Revelation 17 gives us a example of  this when the great apostle John in the 6th verse of Revelation 17 admires this whorish bride. The Holy Ghost continues to help the saints of God distinguish between the two. Think of the Reformation, the Great Awakening, etc. But as we get closer to the rapture of the Church the harlot church will gain more acceptance as the true church.

     These harlot churches have effectively destroyed biblical eldership (I Timothy 3:1-7), biblical repentance (II Corinthians 7:8-11), biblical morality (II Timothy 2:19), church discipline (I Corinthians 5:1-13), teaching and preaching the living Word ( II Timothy 4:1-5, Hebrews 4:12, 13) and its' inerrancy ( Luke 16:16,17, Revelation 22:18,19). All these things are antithesis to the Anti Christ bride and the only option that true believers who are part of these churches have is to come out of them as Revelation 18:4 tells us. I Corinthians 6:15-20 explains this in more detail:

15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.
16 What! know ye not that he which is joined to a harlot is one body? for two saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19 What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

     Some identfying marks of the harlot bride can be found in Revelation 17 & 18. This bride goes by many different names; the Ecumenical Movement, the Inclusion Church, Coexist, Interfaith Alliance, Universalism, the National Council of Churches, etc. The only way that the bride of Christ can survive from being absorbed into this hideous hybird of religions is for Jesus to come back to rapture us. Listen to what John says in Revelation 22:20, ".....Even so, come, Lord Jesus." I can hear the urgency in John's words.

     It is a sure thing that rough times are ahead for the bride of Christ, as Satan prepares the harlot church to recieve his son Anti Christ as her husband. True believers must stay faithful to Jesus as we wait for his return. Keep your garments white and your heart pure before God.