The Black Swan Rising Podcast

5) The Fall Of the Whore of Babylon and the rise of the Beast


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A midnight in Portugal, a blinding outline of the Lady of Guadalupe, and a single chilling sentence: leave my message alone. That shock becomes our launch point into Scripture, symbolism, and the headlines most of us skim past—linking Revelation’s beasts and Babylon to the modern architecture of money, sanctions, and the fragile plumbing of precious metals.

We start with the “Queen of Heaven” theme in Revelation 17, unpacking how the Whore of Babylon operates in mystery and influence. From there, we connect Revelation 13 and Daniel 7: a composite empire, a head that survives a mortal wound, and a blaspheming mouth that rules for forty-two months. We revisit the early church power struggle—Nicolaitans, Nicaea, and the fusion of creed with crown—to show how institutions die and revive under new forms. With that pattern in mind, we test a live hypothesis: a once-wounded power reemerges through alliance. Could Russia’s post‑Soviet collapse fit the deadly head wound, and could BRICS+ function as ten horns lending power at a critical hour?

The conversation turns practical where prophecy meets markets. We examine how Western bullion banks stack enormous paper claims on limited physical metal, why BRICS nations are building metal‑backed exchanges, and how a delivery squeeze in silver could trigger cascading failures. Revelation 18 lists gold and silver first among Babylon’s lost merchandise and describes a collapse “in one hour” that leaves merchants wailing—not for lives lost, but for wealth erased. Whether you accept this mapping or not, the pattern forces sober questions about opaque power, moral compromise, and how fast a system can fail when confidence breaks.

This is a watchman’s episode—story‑driven, text‑anchored, and uncomfortably timely. We’re not predicting dates; we are weighing evidence, testing patterns, and urging spiritual readiness. If you value thoughtful, scripture‑literate analysis of geopolitics, finance, and faith, you’ll find plenty to agree with, argue with, and share. Subscribe, send this to a friend who follows prophecy and markets, and leave a review with your take: are we seeing the ten horns take shape, or is this another false signal?

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