Act 1:6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of Him, saying, Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
Act 1:7 And He said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power.
Act 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Act 1:9 And when He had spoken these things, while they beheld, He was taken up; and a cloud received Him out of their sight.
Act 1:10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
Act 1:11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, Which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven.
We do not yet know the time of our Lord's return. But we do know that the Lord Jesus will return at the time of His Father's choosing.
Now, the zionists and other assorted globalists in charge of the American government, are doing everything in their power to destroy what little is left of our republic and create a police state. In so doing, they serve the interests of the Antichrist. And it may very well be that the illegal occupant in the White House is the Antichrist. Will the impostor and the zionists succeed in their quest to destroy America? They appear to indeed by succeeding.
But in the meantime, we can know the final outcome. If we understand the identities and roles of the two women of Revelation, the Bride and the Whore, that alone can help us understand much of God's plan for the end times.
The Bride of Christ:
Rev 12:1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
Rev 12:2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
Rev 12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
Rev 12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Rev 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and [to] his throne.
Rev 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days.
The people of God, whether Old Testament or New Testament believers, are collectively the Bride of Christ. They are washed in the blood of the Lamb, and have been given garments as of pure white snow.
God's elect, from righteous Abraham forward (and even those righteous ones before Abraham), were chosen to prepare the way for Christ. Prophets, priests and kings laid the pavement stones upon which He would walk, until finally, the Blessed Virgin Mary, descendant of Abraham, gave birth to the Son of God. But that dragon called Satan sought to devour Christ at His birth by means of that scoundrel Herod. And for 33 years, Satan attempted to destroy the Lord through temptation to sin and murder plots by the Pharisees. Finally, Satan used rebellious Jews, aided by the Romans, to kill Christ. But Jesus rose triumphantly from the grave and was caught up to Heaven by His Father.
During the Tribulation of end times, Satan will continue to persecute the people of God. In the middle of that period of seven years, the Great Tribulation will begin, a period of "a thousand two hundred and threescore days". When that time of 3 1/2 years commences, the Bride of Christ will flee to a place of protection.
Our Lord said to the Church of Philadelphia:
Rev 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
And keep in mind that this is not the Rapture. The Rapture is part and parcel of the Second Coming. How God leads His people to protection in the middle of that seven year end-time period foretold by both Daniel and the Apostle John, we are not told. We must simply trust.
And before we go on, keep in mind this word given to Philadelphia by Christ:
Rev 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
The Whore of Babylon:
Rev 17:1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
Rev 17:2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Rev 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 17:4 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:
Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead[was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Rev 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Rev 17:7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 17:8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Rev 17:9 And here [is] the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Rev 17:10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
Rev 17:11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
Rev 17:12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
Rev 17:13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
Rev 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Rev 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Rev 17:16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Rev 17:17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Rev 17:18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
The Whore of Babylon is a people who have rejected the divine promises offered them. These are the people who have turned to Satan.
Jeremiah 3:8 says "And I the Lord saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also."
And our Lord said this to the non-believing Jews:
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
The majority of Jews rejected God the Father and they rejected His Son. With their rejection, they became the children of Satan. The Lord no longer even recognizes these people as Jews. As our Lord said in Rev 3:9, "Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; ..."
It is important to note that the vast majority of people today who identify themselves as "Jews", are in fact, not ethnic Jews. Genetic and historical evidence demonstrates that the Eastern European "Jews", known as the Ashkenazis, are the descendants of Turkic and Slavic peoples, primarily the Khazars. Yiddish is a Slavic language. The descendants of the Biblical peoples are today's Sephardic Jews and the Palestinians.
These self-proclaimed "Jews", and their followers, the judeo-christians who have likewise rejected Christ, and all others who stand against Christ; are collectively, the Whore of Babylon.
The Beast upon which the Whore rides is the Satanic power of world government. The five kings who are fallen are Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia and Greece; all world powers which ruled over God's people. The king that is, from the time perspective of John, was Rome. The king that will be is not revealed. But if we are now approaching the era foretold by Revelation, the king that will be, is the former United States of America. It may also be an alliance of the former US, Khazar Israel and even the European Union.
America now dominates the world. If this is the end time, the impostor President may very well be the Antichrist. The power behind the throne (and we must say the truth regardless of accusations of "anti-semitism") will be the "Jews", as they already are; the impostor President's chief-of-staff is the Mossad operative, Rahm Israel Emanuel. And their great city of Babylon which "reigneth over the kings of the earth" could be either New York (economic Babylon) or Jerusalem (spiritual Babylon). Revelation calls "the great city" Jerusalem, "Sodom" (Revelation 11:8) because of its great evil.
Yet, even the Antichrist will come to hate the great Whore of Babylon and destroy it. For as we are told in Rev 17:16, "And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire." If the Abomination is the Antichrist, his hatred of White Christian civilization, even the pretend Christianity of the Judeo-Christian Church of the Great Whore, will be more than the Abomination can contain.
As foretold by the Apostle Paul in Romans 11, there will be a remnant of Jews who will return to Christ and be saved. These small number of Jews will become part of the Church, the Bride of Christ. But the majority of "Jewry" will be turned over to the Antichrist for destruction as an act of divine judgment.
Listen to the words of Revelation and understand.
Read Revelation 19. It tells us Christ will return. The whole universe will celebrate the Wedding Supper of the Lamb. The Groom, our Lord Jesus Christ, will take His Bride, the Church. And as the Lord told the Church of Philadelphia, the fallen "Jews", those "which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie" will be forced to bow before the feet of Christ's Bride, the Church, and worship.
And what will become of the Abomination? The Scripture says:
Rev 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
And now take notice. Our Lord tells us not to despair.
Rev 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Rev 22:21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Act 1:6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of Him, saying, Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?