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Question: "What will be the end times one world religion?&q
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By: lastdayschristians Date: July 29, 2013, 11:20 am
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Question: "What will be the end times one world religion?"
Answer: The one world religion described in Revelation 17:1-18
as “the great harlot” will be part of the end times scenario.
The term “harlot” is used throughout the Old Testament as a
metaphor for false religion. The actual identity and makeup of
the religion has been debated for centuries and has resulted in
a number of different views among Bible commentators and
theologians. There are convincing arguments for the one world
religion being Catholicism, Islam, the new age movement, or some
form of religion not even invented yet, and an internet search
will produce many more possibilities and theories. There is no
doubt that some sort of one world religion under the false
prophet will be a part of the end times, perhaps made up of a
number of different religions, sects and isms that are around
today.
Revelation 17:1-18 gives us several characteristics of the one
world religion. The false religion will dominate all the
“peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues” of the earth
(Revelation 1b, 15), meaning that it will have universal
authority, no doubt given by the Antichrist who rules the world
at that time. Verses 2-3 describe the harlot as committing
adultery with the “kings of the earth” referring to the false
religion’s influence among the world’s rulers and influential
people. The reference to being drunk with the wine of her
adulteries may refer to those who are drunk with the power they
receive from worshiping the false god of the false religion.
Satan frequently ensnares those whose lust for power drives them
away from the worship of the true and living God. The alliances
forged by the false religion will unite church and state as
never before.
Verse 6 describes the harlot as being “drunk with the blood of
the saints” and the blood of those who testify of Jesus. Whether
they will be martyred at the hand of the Antichrist or by being
systematically starved, believers who are on the earth during
the tribulation will experience the wrath of the harlot and her
power source, the Antichrist. Those who oppose the worldwide
religion will be killed and those who refuse to worship the
Antichrist by accepting his mark will be unable to buy and sell,
thereby making survival very difficult (Revelation 13:16-17).
Eventually, the harlot will lose favor with the Antichrist who
will want to receive the world’s worship for himself. He will
not share the adoration of the world with the prophets and
priests of the false religion, no matter how obsequious or
fawning they may be. Once the Antichrist gains the world’s
amazed attention by his miraculous return from the dead
(Revelation 13:3, 12, 14), he will turn on the false religious
system and destroy it, establishing himself as God. The
deception, Jesus tells us, will be so great that, if it were
possible, even the elect would fall for it (Matthew 24:24).
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