216 Either to the convincing of them unto peace and life eternal, or unto the deliverance of them to the hardness of their hearts and the blindness of their minds, unto their being brought down into captivity and also unto destruction, both temporally and spiritually, according to the captivity of the devil, of which I have spoken.
217 And it came to pass that when the angel had spoken these words, he said unto me, Remember thou the covenants of the Father unto the house of Israel?
218 I said unto him, Yea.
219 And it came to pass that he said unto me, Look and behold that great and abominable church, which is the mother of abominations, whose founder is the devil.
220 And he said unto me, Behold, there are save two churches only:
221 The one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the devil;
222 Wherefore, whoso belongeth not to the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church, which is the mother of abominations;
223 And she is the whore of all the earth.
224 And it came to pass that I looked and beheld the whore of all the earth, and she sat upon many waters;
225 And she had dominion over all the earth, among all nations, kindreds, tongues and people.
226 And it came to pass that I beheld the church of the Lamb of God, and its numbers were few, because of the wickedness and abominations of the whore who sat upon many waters;
