The Blasphemous Beast

“I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.” (Rev 17:3)

In the previous section, we have seen the three appearances of the beast with seven heads and ten horns. The subtle changes in its crowns foretold a dramatic trend in the government of the nations away from monarchy to the final beast with no crowns. A similar progression is to be seen in the word blasphemy.

No mention of blasphemy is made in regard to the seven headed beast in chapter 12. The beast in revelation 13 has a mouth that speaks blasphemies, but the beast of Revelation 17 is covered with blasphemy.

Blasphemy is profane or contemptuous speech against God, especially deliberate mockery. Further, Christ was accused of blasphemy for claiming to be God and having the power to forgive sins.

Voltaire The Caesars of the Roman Empire were pagans. They worshipped a pantheon of gods and would have welcomed the Christian’s god if they had been willing to worship their idols. They persecuted the church but were not blasphemers. So it is appropriate that the beast in chapter 12 has no mention of it.

The Papacy however, the “voice” of Revelation 13:6, was clearly blasphemous. For centuries the Popes claimed to be God and to have the power to forgive sins while the priests “created” God in the Mass. But while the church reigned no voice dared mock God.

As the 1260 year reign of the beast drew to a close the church came under attack from one of history’s greatest intellects and wits. Voltaire was a lifelong enemy of the church. His brilliant satire expressed what many thought but no one had dared utter.

The apostle of infidelity was the leading intellectual in Europe for 50 years. He poured forth a torrent of propaganda into the spiritual void left in France after the expulsion of the Hugenots. The Catholic Church was his principle target.

His books were a sensation in Paris where a flood of atheistic literature undermined all morality and religion. This ignited the French Revolution where a prostitute was enthroned Goddess of Reason, the worship of God was outlawed and the Pope was imprisoned. For the first time in history, a nation shook its fist in the face of God.

French infidelity unhinged the morality of the colonies after the Revolutionary war. Deist Thomas Paine published two popular books that rejected the Bible and ridiculed Christianity. The average Christian in America had never heard anyone attack the Bible before and was unprepared to defend it.

To make things worse, the westward expansion at the time created a frontier with few churches. In the wake of the French Revolution and the rise of the pit beast, America turned lawless, violent and immoral. But a spontaneous revival saved the new country from the abyss.

The Great Awakening not only checked infidelity, it triggered the greatest expansion of the church in history. The Victorian age was an age of the church with which Christ could find no fault. (Rev 3:7) But the final Laodicean church age was destined to be lukewarm and blind. It was foretold that when He returned He would find little faith in the earth. (Luke 18:8)

Ours is an age animated once again by the spirit of infidelity. The enemies of the church have gained the high ground. Prayer has been outlawed in the schools, the television and movie theaters routinely blaspheme God. And rock bands compete with one another to see which can be the most profane.

The pit beast is a church state beast. The church of the N.W.O. is the Ecumenical Super Church which includes all religions including Protestantism and the Catholic Church.

Catholics have been shocked to see the ecumenical Pope reaching out to Muslims, Voodoo doctors and Hindus. Protestants in an attempt to be inclusive have rejected Christ as Lord of All. He is now just Lord of the Christians. The narrow way is intolerant.

The religion of the pit beast is godless humanism. Its lethal vapors have permeated every strata of our society. The doctrine of evolution dethrones God and deifies Man. When men proclaim themselves gods then the prophecy is fulfilled for the pit beast was to be covered with names of blasphemy.

These “god” men are so presumptuous that they declare war against the Lamb (Rev.17:14). But God is not mocked, he saw it all from the beginning and revealed the fate of the eighth and final beast to John at Patmos. (Rev. 19:20)

Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau
by William Blake

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau:
Mock on, mock on: tis all in vain!
You throw the sand against the wind,
And the wind blows it back again.

And every sand becomes a gem
Reflected in the beams divine;
Blown back they blind the mocking eye,
But still in Israel's path they shine.

The atoms of Democritus
And Newton's particles of light
Are sands upon the Red Sea shore,
Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

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