The Ten Demandments

12.31.2010

Revelation 19:1-2 “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”

If the Bride is the Church then who possibly could be the great prostitute? I used to think the prostitute was false religion or totalitarian government or education or such. I’m now of the mind that the great prostitute is our world culture that is opposite to and vehemently opposed to God on every level of life. If the Church is God’s purpose then the world is counter-purpose. The great prostitute is that world system and way of thinking that is bitterly opposed to whatever is good and righteous, and true.

The 10 Demand-ments of the world:

1. Thou shalt determine to love thyself above all else.

2. Thou shalt surround thyself with images of thyself and thy wants.

3. Thou shalt revere thine own name above thy neighbors – after all thou lovest only and always thyself.

4. Thou shalt become a machine and shall work ceaselessly to build thy kingdom and thy throne; and thou shalt find no rest in thy pursuits, not even thine own.

5. Thou shalt blame thy father and mother for thy present faults and failures.

6. Thou shalt kill time, conversations, and relationships.

7. Thou shalt scheme and plan to vaunt thine own sexual desires to the foremost of thy mind; seeking only thy pleasures and treating all others as sexual objects.

8. Thou shalt lay claim to anything that is not red hot or nailed down – after all if they didn’t want thee to have it, they would have kept it more securely.

9. Thou shalt lie, and gossip, and spread malicious untruths whenever possible to take adverse attention off of thee, and put it on thy fellows.

10. Thou shalt keep up with the Joneses and spend resources thou hast not on substance thou wantest not to impress people thou lovest not – and thou shalt do this ceaselessly.

The great prostitute is the system that causes this to propagate and flourish. My friends, may 2011 find us more and more free from this false system…

Father God,

Thank You for freeing me (if yet only in stages) from this self-centered, self-absorbed and selfish system; and bringing me into Your Kingdom of truth and light. Amen.