What is the spiritual immorality that Les sees in Revelation 17?
The spiritual immorality is the amalgamation of idolatrous worship—all religions, including Shinto, Hindu, Mohammedan, Catholic, and Protestant, brought under one great satanic umbrella. It is not primarily physical sexual immorality but a demonic union of false worship, represented by the golden cup full of abominations and filthiness.
Les teaches that Revelation 17's woman is arrayed in purple and scarlet, decked with gold, precious stones, and pearls, with a golden cup in her hand, all speaking of tremendous wealth. He notes that in many large religions the subjects are poor as church mice while the wealth is in the hands of the hierarchy. All the religions of the world—Shindos of Japan, Hindus, Mohammedans, Catholics, Protestants, and more—will come under this one great umbrella, and it will be satanic and demonic. The golden cup is full of abominations and the filthiness of her immoralities. Les emphasizes this is not so much physical sexual immorality but the spiritual: an amalgamating of idolatrous worship and so-called biblical worship, a tremendous amalgamation of all these various idolatrous religions. Verse 5 names her mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.
And 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:
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Is the one-world religion in Revelation 17 satanic and demonic?
Les teaches that this one-world religion is indeed satanic and demonic. He explains that the woman's purple, scarlet, gold, precious stones, and pearls represent tremendous wealth held by the hierarchy while their subjects are poor. All the world's religions—Shinto, Hindu, Mohammedan, Catholic, Protestant—will come under one great umbrella. The golden cup full of abominations and immoralities signifies not physical but spiritual immorality, an amalgamating of idolatrous and so-called biblical worship. Verse 5 names her Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth, and verse 7 shows she is carried by the government.
Where is the wealth in large religions according to Les, and what will the Revelation 17 religion be like?
Les says that in large religions of the world, the followers are poor while the hierarchy holds all the wealth, and this same thing will be true of the end-times religion pictured by the woman.