WOMANOLATRY & THE BEAST (Part 2 Of 2)

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This is the second and final installment of this series. If you missed Part 1 and want to get up to speed before reading this, you’ll be transported to it by clicking HERE.
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Having established my great respect for Biblical scholar E.W. Bullinger in Part 1 despite my adamant disagreement with him at times, in Part 2 we will examine Bullinger’s unique understanding of some of the End-Time events as described in The Holy Bible’s last “book”, ‘Revelation’.
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‘WOMANOLATRY & THE BEAST’ is a satirical title inspired by E.W. Bullinger’s term, “Womanolatry”, and by the story ‘Beauty And The Beast’. By “Womanolatry” it seems Bullinger is referring to a kind of Feminism Xtreme. The 21st Century Feminists desire to see Man supplanted by Woman as the head of the social order. And you thought it was about “equality”? Pshaw!
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But Bullinger’s concept regarding his term “Womanolatry” apparently pertains to a level even above and beyond superiority: Woman thought of as deity, or “goddess worship”.
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I’ll admit that despite the many years I’ve spent reading and studying The Bible or Word Of God it had never occurred to me that any portion of Revelation might be alluding to, much less blatantly describing, a future time of worldwide goddess worship. So E.W. Bullinger’s take on it really caught me by surprise and forced me to consider it. I’m not convinced that he has correctly interpreted these Biblical passages, but as I’ll further explain afterwards, there are certainly some good reasons to bear Bullinger’s understanding of these passages in mind and not dismiss it too quickly.
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The source of the following E.W. Bullinger quotations come from ‘COMMENTARY ON REVELATION’, the second of two books I read that were authored by this great thinker.

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Naturally I cannot describe all of the many details E.W. Bullinger elaborates on in his 700 page book, but I want to touch on the basic idea he presents about “that great city Babylon” and how, in his mind, it relates to “Womanolatry”.

First I want to point out what Bullinger states in the footnote on page 498. He writes: 

Fornication is everywhere in the Bible the common term used for the sin of IDOLATRY, not only because it is unfaithfulness to God in forsaking Him, the true God, for the worship of false gods; but because it literally formed an essential part of all heathen idolatry.

Bear that concept about fornication in mind because we now turn to ideas about “BABYLON THE GREAT, the mother of the harlots and of the abominations of the earth” [see Revelation 17:5]. Obviously “fornication” and “harlotry” have an organic link, and Bullinger has told us that fornication symbolizes idolatry or false worship.

Hopefully you are familiar with the book of Revelation, but regardless, I recommend you read the following blog bit with your Bible handy, so you can look up the Biblical passages referenced below and better understand the storyline.

The 18th chapter of Revelation describes “The Fall Of Babylon The Great” – Babylon being a very powerful but ungodly city which is utterly destroyed in a single hour, fire being specifically mentioned in conjunction with her demise. (Therefore I and others have suspected that nuclear weapons might play the principal part in the destruction of Babylon, although this form of mass destruction was unknown in E.W. Bullinger’s lifetime.)

Bullinger reminds us that in 18:7, Babylon “says in her heart, I sit as queen, and am no widow...”

What is represented there, according to Bullinger, is the arrogance behind the “Womanolatry” or “goddess worship” that will eventually overrun the globe. Note that in normal manner of royalty, you have a king who rules, and a queen takes over the supreme throne only after a king dies. Therefore, ordinarily, a high ruling queen is also a widow; she’s ruling solely because “the king is dead – God save the queen!” (The dog is dead – God save the cat!)

But in Revelation 18:7, “Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots” boasts that she rules but is NOT a widow; in other words, she rules by her own authority and not because a king (man) died and thereby ceded the throne to her.

I’m now going to quote E.W. Bullinger at length from pages 568 & 569 expounding on Revelation 18:9 & 10:

Whoredom points to, and means, idolatry. That is Babylon’s chief end. ... So Babylon’s cup stands for corrupt religion, which has woman for its central object. ...

We do not deny that the Church of Rome to-day is preparing for this WOMANOLATRY; and, in all Roman Catholic countries, is fostering (not intentionally, it may be) a Womanolatry of a different kind, which is leading on to that moral corruption which will end in a religious corruption of a similar kind.

At the first, Babylon had male gods. Later on, each male god was given a female partner, with the result that Ishtar became pre-eminent.

This it is that makes the sin of Babylon; and it is this religion of Womanolatry which will be perfected in Babylon. It will be received by “the kings of the earth”; and the peoples of the kings of the earth will be taught it by an order of priests, just as were the people of Ephesus. But Babylon will be the great goddess. She will have her Temples the world over: “Mother of all harlots”. And this is the religion which is being prepared for even now. ...

But Mariolatry [the worship of Saint Mary, Mother of Jesus] is increasing more and more, and is not now confined to Rome. And this is preparing the way for the revival of Ishtar. It puts woman, as woman, at the head of the universe, teaching that which is a perversion of “the mother of all living”. Is not THIS the only logical reason for the hatred of the Beast? Commerce does not furnish any adequate reason for this hatred.

The great Question will be Supremacy. Who is to be supreme, Woman or Man; Babylon or the Beast? THAT is an all-sufficient reason for their hatred; and as the supremacy involved in Babylon is contrary to God’s ordinance, He will “put it into their heart to destroy the woman”.

This view makes things much clearer than commerce can do. And if the sin of Babylon be as we have suggested, viz., a system which makes drunk with this false religious excitement the kings of the earth, the Priests and Priestesses, and Temple servers, then it is these who will be stripped of all their possessions and burnt with fire in every land where they are found. This will take place pre-eminently in Babylon. But before this takes place, the call will go forth to God’s people to come out of her, that they be not partakers in her judgments.

As this will take place in every land, the kings of the earth can stand afar off and wail; for, the superhuman Ten Kings and the Beast will dominate the world.

The final judgment of Babylon will be sudden and complete. The conflagration will be so great that, from the first, total destruction will be seen to be inevitable.

So, E.W. Bullinger believes that Babylon – the city at the heart of worldwide goddess worship – will be destroyed in a power struggle against Revelation’s “Beast” [or anti-Christ figure] and the ten supernatural, demonic kings allied with the Beast. Goddess worship loses in a battle for evil supremacy against the Beast who is related to the infamous number 666.

Bullinger further ties his concept of “Womanolatry” into the bigger story of Man’s ancient fall (and eventual redemption) on the Earth on pages 685 and 686 when he reminds his readers:

The first Paradise was in the keeping of Adam and his Bride. The man did not lose it for his race. He was “not in the transgression” (1st Timothy 2:14). It was the woman, through Satan, who lost it. ... “The woman being deceived” was the cause of the sentence to go forth...

Despite E.W. Bullinger’s powerful intellect and scholarly approach to Bible study, I find a few problems with his understanding of Babylon in Revelation.

For one thing, Bullinger was convinced that the Babylon in Revelation was the same Babylon of the Middle East, rebuilt. It is described in The Bible’s last book as being a port city accessible to ships. On page 574, Bullinger notes:
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Rawlinson speaks of the Euphrates as being navigable for ships for some 500 miles from its mouth. And with little effort could be made available for ships of large size.

While that may be possible, I find it unlikely. And at the least, if ancient Middle Eastern Babylon is also the Babylon of Revelation, it would seem that the Biblical End-Times are yet a good distance into the future, as I’ve explained on this blog previously [see the link at the end of this post].

But my biggest problem with Bullinger’s scenario involves the power struggle. Anyone familiar with this blog knows that it goes into great detail examining the methods being employed by the Illuminati in constructing a one-world, global government, known by the phrase “New World Order”. [For some examples see: ‘Conspiracy? Nah, Coincidence.’; and 
‘X-Y-Z:The Mechanix Of Amerycan Politicz’; and 'See The New World Order In Black & White'.]

Knowing how close the Illuminati currently is in securing a stranglehold on the entire world (financially first; militarily second), and believing as I do that the Illuminati is working toward that aim on behalf of the Beast who will then step in to rule globally (as described in Revelation) when the world stage has been set for him, I find it difficult to believe that a religious system of goddess worship could be instituted worldwide without the approval and aid of the Illuminati, and by extension, of the Beast.

I can conceive of Bullinger’s scenario being accurate ONLY if we were to assume that the goddess worship centered in Babylon (wherever that “Babylon” is located) is initially approved and supported by the Beast and his Illuminati henchmen. Does the Beast later double-cross Babylon when he feels the time is right to destroy her? [Revelation 17:3-7 might seem to uphold such an interpretation.]

My suspicion has long been that after the 42-month period that the Beast has been granted authority to rule has elapsed [Revelation 13:5] and things begin to fall apart for him because he demands that the world worship him as the one true god [2nd Thessalonians 2:1-4], that’s when Babylon rebels against him and he destroys the city in one hour. Babylon is likely eradicated with nuclear arms, although let’s not forget that the “second” Beast has power to call fire down from the sky “in the sight of men” [Revelation 13:11-13], so it could instead be that Babylon’s destruction is the result of a fire of supernatural origin.  

I should also point out that the 2nd Thessalonians 2:1-4 passage might just as easily apply to Bullinger’s interpretation as to mine (i.e., when the Beast or Beelzebub [a male] “opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped”, this could be the crucial turning point when the animosity between the Beast and Babylon’s goddess worshippers results in deadly conflict).

There is one thing, however, one completely inescapable fact that is observable on a daily basis that forces me to consider Bullinger’s interpretation seriously. Unless for the last twenty years you have been living under a slug that has been living under a rock, you have noticed the drastic change that has taken place in the mentality of Women generally, and in the the way all of society relates to and regards Women in nearly every aspect of American life.

For many people, the publication of Betty Friedan’s 1963 book ‘The Feminine Mystique’ marks the beginning of the modern Feminist movement, but in fact, Lenin concurred with that type of thinking even earlier while leader of the communists in Russia, as it was in accord with the vision of Marx’s Manifesto to “support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things”.

Naturally, the Women’s Liberation movement received a lot of support from the American Civil Liberties Union, a communist front group founded in 1920. It was also pushed forward by the Rockefeller Foundation and other Illuminati foundations and organizations. According to producer/filmmaker Aaron Russo, Nick Rockefeller told him privately that it was the Rockefellers who funded and principally promoted the Women’s Lib movement in order to tax the previously unworking half of the population and to get children away from their parents at an earlier age. [You can hear those statements HERE.]

In his excellent book on Feminism, author J.P. McDermott wrote:

In essence, feminism is the belief that women’s fulfilling traditionally masculine roles is preferable to their fulfilling universal, traditionally feminine roles. A doctrinal feminist would only admit that there are differences between the sexes when the admission would serve to elevate women, denigrate men, or to somehow advance the feminist goal. … [one of ] The immediate goals of feminism [is] androgyny … the “feminist movement” (and the changes resulting from it in women, even those women who don’t claim to be feminists) can be appropriately described as the number one source of ailments facing this society and the individuals within it today.

McDermott wrote that in 1996, but things have gotten a whole lot worse since then. The psychological perversion that has taken place in Womanhood at large over the last 20 years has been primarily brought about by the Illuminati-controlled mainstream media, entertainment companies, and education institutions.  I’ll argue that if you watch so much as an hour of television 7-days a week, you have been brainwashed (or “conditioned” if you prefer that word) by the Illuminati’s social engineers.

Unfortunately for women, they are especially susceptible to mental conditioning having been naturally wired by God to be more emotional. (All those books out there about ‘How To Pick Up Women’ are teaching time-proven techniques on how to manipulate women through their natural emotional tendencies.)

From the start of the modern Feminist Movement, Women were conditioned by the social engineers to think of themselves as equal to men in every respect. But over the last 20 years, they have been further brainwashed to think of themselves as SUPERIOR to men in every respect. I have touched on the success of this Illuminati manipulation in previous posts like THIS one.

Feminism has accomplished nearly all of its goals (except female ministers and priests ordained in all religions, and female combat troops – which will surely be the next obstacle to fall away, probably in this current court challenge that's in the news these days). 

The obsession that many women now have with traditionally male-associated things like pickup trucks, tattoos, contact sports (including boxing, wrestling, and cage fighting), and using profanity like a sailor, and acting out violently in schools and in their homes is NOT natural to them but is a result of twisted conditioning by the Illuminati’s media and entertainment corporations.

Over the last decade, more and more American men have begun looking overseas to find wives because the femininity that American women once possessed and which was a normal and desired counterpart to a man’s masculine traits has disappeared, having been transformed into some kind of warped, abnormal He-Woman psychosis.

And the move recently has been toward thinking not just about equality with men but superiority over men, hence the spate of violent female action heroes in books and movies, such as V.I. Warshawski, Beatrix Kiddo, Buffy Summers, Mallory Kane, Katniss Everdeen, and so many others that a comprehensive list would be way too long. How many movies of the last 15 or 20 years can you name that didn’t include at least one scene of a woman physically (and/or intellectually) dominating a man? Now THAT would be a short list! Daily we are being brainwashed to think of women as the violent “protectors”.

And it hardly stops there. How about the increasingly popular pagan worship of “Gaia”? As THIS site explains, Gaia is “a part of one spirit goddess that sustains life on earth” and those pushing for this alternative form of religion are encouraging “Gaia worship and the uniting of all life forms around the goddess of Mother Earth”.

Think about how “in” or “cool” it has become over the last 20 years for people to refer to themselves as witches and Wiccans! In the 1970s, had a woman referred to herself as a “witch”, most people would have raised an eyebrow and steered clear of the crazy person; today, at most, they’ll merely shrug and remind themselves of those noble little words to live by: “diversity”, “tolerance”, “inclusiveness”, and maybe even “personal empowerment”.

Wikipedia’s page for Goddess Movement opens with this:

The Goddess movement is an overall trend in religious or spiritual beliefs or practices which emerged out of second-wave feminism, predominantly in North America, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand in the 1970s. Spurred by centuries of male dominated organized religion (or a supreme deity referred to by masculine pronouns i.e. "he"), some women embraced the idea of a female deity that was more in keeping with feminist beliefs and the inherent value of women.

In the American political realm, women have risen to unprecedented positions of leadership and power, in the Senate, in the House Of Representatives, in presidential cabinet positions, as state governors, as city mayors, and many even as chiefs of police!

I won’t even go into detail about how much women are valued over men in America’s ‘Family Courts’, I’ll just urge you to read Stephen Baskerville’s shocking book ‘TAKEN INTO CUSTODY: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, And The Family’.

Taking all of these recent radical trends into consideration, I must admit that although it had never occurred to me on my own, E.W. Bullinger’s Biblical end-time exposition in ‘Commentary On Revelation’ and his view that the “great city Babylon” will be the center of a future worldwide goddess worship seems highly plausible.

Whether Bullinger is right or wrong, one thing is exceedingly clear. In modern America, the natural order that God established and commanded through His prophets is dead, dead, dead! Isaiah 3:12, Ephesians 5:22-24, Colossians 3:18, 1st Timothy 2:9-15, and 1st Peter 3:1-6, what have these got to do with the rebellious 21st Century America? 

~ Stephen T. McCarthy 

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To read my own theory why I suspect “That Great City Babylon” is actually New York City, click this link below:

The “Ho Bib” Tells Me So

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