What is the spiritual reality of the harlot under the New Covenant?
Requiring females to serve as temple prostitutes continued to be outlawed under the New Covenant, but the emphasis shifted to the spiritual and psychological perspectives. It was these practices that the Apostles told the Gentiles to avoid. Initially, the Apostles had to fight against this old form of idolatry, especially among the Gentiles when they became part of the assembly. In fact, in the last Apostles council in AD 52 at Jerusalem, the Apostle Paul sent letters to the various gentile assembles saying: That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well (Acts 15:29). Now fornication here means with the idols and the temple prostitute. However, as man s knowledge increased, this old form of worshipping stone idols became antiquated. From these examples, one can see why Yahshua (Jesus) the Messiah used the symbol of a whore for Mystery Babylon and called her th
