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Originally Posted by tbpew
So, I have tried to explain that I was out to consider that a "universal seductress" may be manifested in the earth's economies; these engines are the means for humankind to acquire wealth as a means to power. When this idea is peppered with the plain witness that "the love of money is the ROOT OF ALL EVIL", it seems to get some traction in my pondering.
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Yes sir. I can certainly agree with this thought. The scriptural admonition that the love of money is the root of all evil is, indeed, a universal one that continues for as long as mankind breathes air on this earth.
The scriptures being discussed in the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ would, most certainly, be the result of said tendency within the nature of man. That love of money, hence power, would be the base and driving force that led that great whore etc to her place of total and complete apostasy.
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PS: Dig, I am going to need you to connect the dots with your cite:
Luk 13:33 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the [day] following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
If every prophet MUST PERISH inside of Jerusalem, please share the principle for me that is established in the law. I need your help in supply of some of your thinking here.
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The basic thought that I have trying to get someone to address is this.
1. It is said in the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ that the great harlot (or whatever other names that city is known by) is guilty of the blood of the prophets.
2. Jesus said of Jerusalem...
Luk 13:33 Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the [day] following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
Luk 13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen [doth gather] her brood under [her] wings, and ye would not!
Luk 13:35 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until [the time] come when ye shall say, Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
The Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ also said that great city would be made desolate.
These things do not, of their own accord, make Jerusalem the undeniable lone candidate but they would seem to, most certainly, make that great city a worthy candidate for careful consideration.
The identity of this great city had already been shared in
Revelation 11.
Rev 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
The city would sit on seven mountains.
Rev 17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Jerusalem sits on Mt. Goath, Mt. Gareb, Mt. Acra, Mt. Bezetha, Mt. Zion, Mt. Ophel, and Mt. Moriah.
There may very well be some overflowing universal application that we see played over and over again as man continues to fall for the love of money that comes so naturally but these scriptures seem, to me, to speak to a very real city have a very literal application.
I don't deny, in the least, the universal application that you speak of. But I do not feel that any universal application would be so sans any specific and tangible interpretation. Especially in the face of such a growing cloud of witnesses.
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