From the Book of Revelation    145 

    In the years described by this passage, there will be some women who 

exalt themselves by usurping roles of teaching and leadership in the 

Church roles not given to them by God. Moreover, these will also teach 

and lead others to violate the Church's teaching on faith and morals. These 

women will exalt themselves by fighting against the teaching of Christ and 

His Church. The phrase  beguiling my servants to practice immorality  

means that these women leaders in the Church encourage others to break 

the Church's teaching on morals. I am not here referring to all women in the 

Church, nor to all women with roles of leadership in the Church, but only to 

those women who obtain roles of teaching and leadership not given to them 

by Christ and to those women especially who use such positions to 

undermine or oppose the Church's teaching. 

    The next phrase,  to eat food sacrificed to idols,  may refer to some 

misuse or perversion of the Holy Eucharist. The sacrament of Holy 

Communion is true food and the consecration of the Holy Eucharist is at the 

center of the sacrifice of the Holy Mass. During these years, there will be a 

foreshadowing of the abomination of desolation. In some manner, faithless 

and arrogant Christians will alter or sin against the Holy Mass and the Holy 

Eucharist. 

    There will also be some few women who will pretend to say Mass and 

pretend to consecrate the Eucharist. These few will offend God greatly by 

usurping the role of priest and pastor in the Church. This passage in 

Revelation is a warning to the faithful about those few women leaders who 

will try to remake the Church and the Faith according to their own will. 

    There are women ministers in some Protestant churches. When the 

Protestant Churches repent and unite with the Catholic Church, these 

women will not be allowed to become priests. They will have to step down. 

If some of these do not step down, they too will become like the Jezebel 

mentioned in this passage. 

Sardis (Rev 3:1 6) 

      `  I know your works; you have the name of being alive, and you are 

dead. Awake, and strengthen what remains and is on the point of death, for 

I have not found your works perfect in the sight of my God.... Yet you have 

still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments; and 

they shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.  '   (Rev 3:1 2.4). 

    This part of the Church has much sin among many of its members. Yet a 

few remain who are holy, for God's grace never fails to bear fruit. God 

encourages and warns the sinners in this part of the Church to repent and be 

saved.