The Woman and the Beast seek common Ground,
So the Woman can ride the Beast for more than 3 Years,
At the end the Beast will buck off the Woman to consume Her,
And will burn to the ground all her great edifices of false Worship!
Revelation 17:3-6 – 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.
[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: [5] And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
[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.
Revelation 17:16-18 – 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. [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. [18] And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
The great city that ruled over the kings of the earth when John wrote the book of Revelation was Rome, which became the abode of the Pope and the Vatican.
November 7, 2008
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Pope urged to admit common ground
By Robert Pigott
Religious Affairs Correspondent
November 4, 2008
When 138 senior Muslim scholars and clergy tried to establish the common ground between Islam and Christianity last year, they said the very peace of the world hung on the outcome.
On Tuesday, a high-ranking delegation is beginning a rare visit to Rome in an effort to persuade the Pope to endorse what they say are the shared origins and values of the world’s two biggest religions.
Their letter, A Common Word, cited passages from the Koran which the scholars said showed that Christianity and Islam worship the same God, and require their respective followers to show each other particular friendship.
The document examined fundamental doctrine and stressed what it said were key similarities – such as the belief in one God and the requirement for believers to “love their neighbours as themselves”.
Significantly the letter acknowledged that the Prophet Muhammad was told only the same truths that had already been revealed to Jewish and Christian prophets, including Jesus himself.
After a year using the Islamic principle of seeking consensus, the letter has developed into a “manifesto” and is backed by almost 300 leaders from Sunni, Shi’ite, Sufi and other Muslim traditions.
‘Out of hand’
The initiative was welcomed promptly by several Christian leaders, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
The Vatican has, however, responded more cautiously to the prospect of identifying common beliefs.
There has been renewed urgency among Muslim leaders to forge new bonds with Christians since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
A lecture by Pope Benedict quoting a 14th Century Byzantine emperor’s accusation that Muhammad encouraged the use of violence in spreading Islam led to a furious reaction among Muslims and contributed to the sense of a widening gap between the religions.
The high-ranking delegation going to Rome includes the Grand Mufti of Bosnia, an Iranian Ayatollah, a Jordanian prince and British converts to Islam.
They are also aiming to work out practical measures for resolving crises in Muslim-Christian relations, such as the angry controversy that followed the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in Denmark in 2006.
Dr Ibrahim Kalin, a Turkish scholar who will be among the Muslims who meet the Pope on Thursday, said the dispute about the cartoons showed how important it was to establish regular dialogue.
He said: “Things got out of hand very quickly.
A line of communication is needed where we can issue a statement and mobilise resources as a pre-emptive act.”
Some of those behind the Common Word initiative believe it has been too easy for radical or extremist Muslims to use the media to promote a distorted view of Islam. One of their principal aims is to create a body that can speak authoritatively for mainstream Islam.
‘Agree to disagree’
Although the Pope can speak for about a billion Roman Catholics (roughly half of the world’s Christian population), Islam has no central authority able to represent its 1.3 billion faithful.
Apart from practical mechanisms to cope with disagreements, the Pope’s Muslim visitors are hoping for a measure of agreement on matters of fundamental belief, and for an exchange of reading-lists – each side providing the names of the books that most accurately describe their values and traditions.
They also want to extend the Christian-Muslim conversation to include that other Abrahamic religion, Judaism.
The Pope is on record as seeking dialogue with Muslims, and is reported to favour a franker, more robust, approach. He is likely to have his own priorities, including a discussion of religious freedom.
It is a sensitive issue, not least because some Muslim-majority countries forbid conversion, and oppress their Christian minorities.
Last month a formal meeting of Catholic bishops in Rome said the conversation should stress the need for equal rights for women. Some Islamic states – such as Saudi Arabia – limit women’s rights.
Other awkward issues could include the need for democracy.
There is plenty that both sides are clear they cannot agree. Muslims regard Jesus as an important prophet, for example, but they do not believe he was crucified.
Another of the big differences between the religions centres on how God is understood.
in Jesus as part of a divine trinity with God the Father and the Holy Spirit conflicts with Muslim doctrine.
“The Trinity is currently not accepted by Muslims as explaining the infinity and oneness of God,” said Dr Kalin.
“We don’t agree on that, so we shouldn’t try to sink these differences into a warped theology, but talk to each other on the basis of agreeing to disagree.”
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