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talking scripture. I'm Mike and I'm Bryce and today we're going to be talking

about revelation 17 and 18. This is going to be the

collapse of the order of the world. So the whore of all the earth, Babylon the

great is going to fall and in

that's in 17 and in 18 the Saints are going to be called out of Babylon and

the people that supported her are going to cry and they're going to moan they're

going to belly ache and this is all part of John's packaging of dualism so the

woman that is the church she's clothed in the sun the opposite of the woman is going to be the whore.

And so the image that John wants to portray

is a woman that's beautiful.

She's sitting on a dragon with seven heads

and she has a cup in her hand and she's drinking the blood of the Saints.

And so with that image in mind, Bryce, why don't you go ahead and pick it up and talk a little bit about

you know what's going on here and how it applies to a Latter-day Saint audience.

So everyone go back and read First Nephi chapter at least 14 before you read

Revelation 17 because I remind you remember how Nephi saw the same thing? Nephi saw the end of the world, but wasn't allowed to write about it, but this is where they transition. There's a whole lot of carryover because in Revelation, or in 1. Nephi chapter 14 he sees that the great whore of all the earth,

the abomination, the mother of Harlott, is all of the false religions and so you got to remember first n e514 10 there are only

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