There are 2 "Ladies" & their offspring
battling through history:
The elect Lady & her offspring who walk in the truth:
The elder unto
the elect lady and her children,
whom I love in the truth;
2 John 1:1
The Whore & her daughters who are filthy with the fornication of abominations:
I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore
that sitteth upon many waters:....having a golden cup in her hand
full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
And upon her forehead was a name written,
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Revelation 17:1,4,5
Now, Now Ladies.....which Man will you allow to influence you?
The bad boy - spiritual Diotrephes:
I wrote unto the church:
but Diotrephes,
who loveth to have the preeminence among them,
receiveth us not.
3 John 1:9
The mature man - spiritual Demetrius:
Demetrius hath good report of all men,
and of the truth itself:
yea, and we also bear record;
3 John 1:12
Well, we know what God thinks of His people who follow the spiritual Demetrius, the one who gives good report of them to the Father (on their judgment day?):
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven;
a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet,
and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
Revelation 12:1
And we know what God thinks of those who follow this spiritual Diotrephes who led them astray:
I will remember his deeds which he doeth,
prating against us with malicious words:
and not content therewith,
neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would,
and casteth them out of the church.
3 John 1:10
