Greetings. Ecclesiastes 3:18I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. If we have ever gone to a circus; you might have seen a scantily clad woman riding on an elephant? When was the last time you observed a two- legged beast walking another four-legged beast? The word beast is found almost three hundred times in the Bible. People call themselves various beasts found on this physical planet. Sport teams and singing groups often refer to themselves as animals. Most people might get offended if you call them a beast. Unless God manifest or make it known unto us: we are just two-legged beast and don’t even know it. Unto God we all are just brute beasts. 2 Peter 2:12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption. We have spoken evil by interpretating the scriptures with our own natural wisdom we were all born into. 1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. We have spiritually refused to believe we have no superiority or preeminence in Spiritually understanding of the Bible, than that of a beast. Ecclesiastes 3:19For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. If we observed a dog walking down the street, we both are breathing the same oxygen to sustain physical life. The Prophet Job thought very highly of his beasts and as millions of Americans do. Americans spent 64 billion dollars on pet food each year and some beasts even eat at their master’s table. Job 30:1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. Job was being laughed or mocked or he was in derision by his three younger companions. Job let his younger companions know that his dogs were better than their fathers. Most people don’t want to be laughed at or called a beast, yet that’s how God sees all of us. Psalm 2:4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. When we try and understand the Bible in our own wisdom: we are mocking God, and yet we are the ones really being mocked by God. Trying to understand the Holy Scriptures in our earthly, devilish wisdom is sin to God. Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin. Once we Spiritually understand our spiritual understanding is only equal to that of a beast: than God can become our God and lead us. Psalm 73:22So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

 

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Surprisingly, the word beast is found more times in the Book of Revelation than any other of the Bible books. Thus, we will ask the Holy Ghost to reveal some of the many mysteries hidden here. Revelation 17:3So 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. Two types of women is mentioned in the book of Revelation and a woman in the Bible symbolizes a law and not a physical woman. It is either man’s bad law or a good Law from God. This next Bible verse shows us two types of laws hidden in the same verse. Romans 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Both laws are spiritually hidden from us when we are led by our own law of law of sin and death. Revelation 17:3So he carried me [John] 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. A law or a woman in the wilderness cannot be a good thing. Jesus was carried into the wilderness also. Matthew 4Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. I must confess I feel so spiritually insufficient even in looking at the things in the Book of Revelation or any Bible book, but I know God is my sufficiency. The ground symbolizes what is in our heart or mind what is being planted there: as we read God’s word. Matthew 13:23But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. We must first hear something and then understand Spiritually what the Holy Ghost is trying to reveal to us. Our ground or heart becomes hardened over time. Spiritually we are either in a wilderness or in a watered garden of God. Isaiah 58:11and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. The woman writing the beast is the same type of woman found in the following verse. Genesis 16:7And the angel of the Lord found her[Hager]a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.  The Book of Revelation is a composite of other Bible stories found in the Bible: Spiritually Revelation the culminates higher spiritual thought. God rejected Hagar because Ishmael her son was not the promise seed, or a thought born from above. Ishmael would go on to become a powerful nation, our evil thoughts in interpretating God words become immensely powerful over time. Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. Our thoughts become an evil spiritual kingdom or nation, with us being the head. Genesis 17:20And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. Abraham seed or thought would also become a great nation. Genesis 18:18seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation. Thus, we have now two spiritual nations that are contrary to one another. Isaac was born after the spirit, and Ishmael was born after the flesh. Until we come into the full knowledge of the Spirit, we will fear our own knowledge born after the flesh.
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The beast the woman is riding was full of the name’s blasphemy or words that are against God true word or name. The Apostle Paul was once a blasphemer because he spoke against God's words. 1 Timothy 1:13 who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. Man being the two-legged beast he is, has taken by force God’s Spiritual law or woman symbolize in Revelation 17:3. Man having taken God’s law and made a spiritual law of sin and death. We become spiritual servants of this evil law or woman and will spiritually follow her into a spiritual wilderness. When God is not speaking through His word to us, we are in a spiritual wilderness. God’s word symbolize a gentle water when we hear it the way he speaks it. Psalm 63:1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is. When have we ever heard that somebody thirst for the knowledge of the word of God? Revelation 17:3 So he carried me [John] 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. The sevens heads on the Beast are things God hates. Proverbs 6:16These six things doth the Lord hate:
yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 a proud look, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
18  an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,
feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19   a false witness that speaketh lies,
and he that soweth discord among brethren. These things that are hated by God are what we do physically and mentally. Let us first know what would be a true witness to God. Job 16:19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high. When we say a scripture means something other than what God is said in heaven: we become a false witness. Everybody is a false witness at first because we all make God’s word our own wisdom or witness. King David had many false witnesses come against him, and these false witnesses were his own wicked thoughts: that came against him concerning God’s word. Psalm 27:12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. Our own carnal thoughts become our cruel enemy that seek to destroy any Spiritual knowledge God could ever give us: our own witness that speaketh lies. These false spiritual witnesses have shed the innocent blood of Jesus. Matthew 26:60but found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses. We have many false witnesses against God’s word and by agreeing with them we become one with the old man of sin. Thus, now we have two false witnesses: ourselves and image of a false Christ when we first read the Bible. We must see the image of ourselves as God sees us: a two-legged beast. Romans 6:6knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Jesus was put to death by the false witnesses of men. Spiritual we shed blood and are swift to do it: we cannot wait to open wide the mouth about Spiritual thing. Psalm 35:21Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it. Spiritually man has seen nothing but a false witness and called it God’s word. The Question has been asked and spiritually shown how we have all shed innocent Blood. 2 Corinthians 5:21For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. We have all put our own evil carnal judgement or thoughts on God’s word, which is sin. Our false judgement of the Bible is our spiritual law and like the spiritual beast we are, we all have a proud spiritual look. Revelation 17:3 So he carried me [John] 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. No physical beast has ten heads and with a few exceptions more than one head. Siamese twins have two head and maybe God was trying to tell us something about ourselves. James 1:8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. We are unstable because we are in our own ways or thoughts about the Bible. Isaiah 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. Why would this beast have seven and ten horns? God gave me an answer sooner than I thought. Revelation 17:9And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. Some of ancient Israels had their toughest enemies that dwell in the mountain and many strange things happen in mountain. Jesus was tempted by the Devil in three places and the last being into exceeding high mountain. Matthew 4:8Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them. Mountain symbolize places of power from them you observed all things: Jesus saw all wicked thoughts of men concerning the Bible and these thoughts become an evil spiritual nation. Ezekiel 37:22and I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.

 Michael Rudolph Hodges 2/4/2025

​​A WOMEN RIDES A BEAST