BACKGROUND INFORMATION FOR MY COMMENTARY ON REVELATION 17

The following background information may be helpful as to 'WHY' I have written a commentary on Revelation 17. . .

I first became interested in Revelation Chapters 17 over 40 years ago. -- I was born and raised up a Roman Catholic ... I attended a Parochial School until the fifth grade ...in second grade I was given the honor to be ‘Page Boy’ for the local Bishop at a High Mass Confirmation Service in the Catholic Church that I was attending. -- I attended Mass regularly and practiced the Sacraments of the Catholic Church faithfully.

When I was 42 years old, I found my Grandmother’s Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible in a drawer in my bedroom where I had placed it for safe-keeping. For some unknown reason on that day, I began reading Revelation Chapter 17 in her Bible . . . and it was then that I began to be curious about WHO the "Great Harlot" is that the angel mentions to Apostle John in Revelation 17:1.

From that time on I began to read numerous Bible commentaries written by both Catholic and Protestant Bible scholars, and I began to diligently study the Bible. -- After I finally came to realize the true identity of the "Great Harlot" in Revelation 17 I was SHOCKED, just as Apostle John was shocked when he realized who the "Great Harlot" was in his vision from the angel. -- I am sure that YOU will be shocked too when you learn her true identity. 

At the time of this writing I am now 82 years old, and I am living as a "Bible-believing, spiritually reborn Christian". -- I firmly believe 'ALL THE TRUTHS OF GOD’S WORD’ that are written into the New Testament of the Bible because GOD CAN NOT LIE!

BIBLE VERSIONS USED FOR COMMENTARY ON REVELATION 17

To give the reader increased insight into interpretating Revelation 17 and 18, I have listed two different versions of the Catholic Bible for all Holy Scripture verses used in the commentaries. -- I have used New Testament verses from the Douay- Rheims Catholic Bible (DRCB), and also the Tagalog Catholic Bible - Ang Dating Biblia – 1905 (TCB). - (I included verses from the Tagalog Bible in the commentary because I now live and minister in the Philippines, and I want Filipinos to be able to read the Bible verses in the commentaries in their own language.) 

I have also listed verses from the ‘Protestant’ King James Bible (KJB) so that readers can see that there is very little difference in how the New Testament of the Catholic Bibles and the King James Bible read. The above Bible version abbreviations (DRCB), (TCB), (KJB) will be used throughout these commentaries to identify the versions.

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EVIDENCE FOR DETERMINING TRUE IDENTITY OF THE "GREAT HARLOT

I believe the evidence (a summary of clues that I list towards the close of this Bible commentary on Revelation 17) is UNMISTAKEABLE in regard to the “true identity” of “Mystery Babylon the Great Harlot”.  – No matter how hard you may try, I believe that you will never be able to find another entity on this earth that fits perfectly the description given by the angel to Apostle John regarding the true identity of “Mystery Babylon the Great Harlot”