Queen Elizabeth II
The woman sitting on the beast in the Book of Revelation (Rev 17:3) is the most vivid image of evil womanhood in the Bible. She is said to be the Whore of Babylon, a prostitute of prostitutes.
But who is she?
The Whore of Babylon is just that, the female ruler of Babylon. The evil empire, Babylon, has an even more potent ability to do evil than the Antichrist. That is the way it must be. Babylon is mirrored on the Roman Empire, and the Whore could well be a man or a woman.
But the gender chosen by the author of the Book of Revelation is the female one. That is the prophecy and thus we should be guided by it. The Whore is a woman. Moreover, when the prophecies are fulfilled, the Whore is to be a woman. The central coincidence therefore is that the ruler of Babylon is a woman and not a man.
As we are living through the age of the fulfilment of the prophecies of the Book of Revelation, we are bound by logic to seek a woman who is typical of the kind of woman who the Bible would define as a prostitute.
But she must be a woman. She must be there both to guide women away from her and serve as a warning to men.
There is only one woman who serves this joint purpose in our sphere here in Northern Ireland. Within the context of the English-speaking world being the power that is known in the Book of Revelation as Babylon, only the British Queen can be seen as the Whore of Babylon.
She is the Head of State of the British nation, and of the Commonwealth of Nations, the former colonies of the British Empire. She exerts influence far and wide on many men and women who look up to her in all her splendour.
‘That is the way,’ they say, as they look at the Queen of England with all her wealth and money, and castles and estates, palaces and servants.
But Jesus is ‘the way, the truth and the life’. The two ways are in competition. The British Queen serves the god of money in her escape from reality. Jesus serves the natural way of the strong human being in his modest life and the absence of possessions. Jesus serves God.
Everything taught to children about Christ and the Christian way is destroyed by those who honour the British Queen. She is the epitome of emptiness and thoughtlessness as she lives in the privileged world surrounded by material possessions and money.
In her heart she boasts,
‘I sit as Queen;
I am not a widow,
And I will never mourn.’ (Rev 18:7)
The pertinent coincidences here are that she is a queen, and that she is not a widow. She is devoid of emotion, so she will never mourn, another coincidence, as she embraces the world she inherited, a desert in the middle of a famine of human love and goodness.
Most importantly of all, the British Queen has no soul. She is empty. Her spirit is dead. She is death warmed up. Examining her speech, one has to conclude that she speaks without love. She has nothing in her heart.
She is surrounded by servants, who pay her empty compliments and make her think that they love her. They don’t love her as a human being. She will never know what it is like to be loved as a human being. She will only ever know what it is like to be in empty relationships with those around her.
The British Queen is the Whore of Babylon. Of that, I am sure.
If you feel that I’m being a little harsh here, then you must not understand the essentials of the Gospels: “It is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.” It’s very clear that the British monarchy represents a type of world that is certainly not Christian