Of The Wife or The Harlot?

Revelation 19:1-9

"After these things, I heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, 'Alleluia!  Salvation and glory and honor and power belong to the Lord our God! For true and righteous are His judgements, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her'. Again they said, 'Alleluia! Her smoke rises up forever and ever!' And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sat on the thrown, saying, 'Amen!  Alleluia!'  Then a voice came from the throne, saying, 'Praise our God all you His servants and those who hear Him, both small and great!'  And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of many thunderings, saying, 'Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns!'  Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and HIS WIFE HAS MADE HERSELF READY.' And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me, 'Write. Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!'  And he said to me, 'These are the true sayings of God.' "

It seems that both the harlot and the bride begin equally equipped: one has taken what she was given and used it for her own purposes, rendering unrighteousness; the other has taken what she was given and prepared, MAKING HERSELF READY for marriage with the Lamb of God, rendering a testimony of righteousness.

"Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord listened and heard them; so a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the Lord and who meditate (esteem) His name. 'They shall be Mine,' says the Lord of hosts, 'on the day that I MAKE THEM MY JEWELS (special treasure). And I will spare them as a man spares his own son WHO SERVES HIM.'  THEN YOU SHALL AGAIN DISCERN BETWEEN THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED, BETWEEN ONE WHO SERVES GOD AND ONE WHO DOES NOT SERVE HIM.' " (Malachi 3:16-18) 

The harlot has a form of godliness but denies the power of godliness: that which the Father knows would MAKE HER READY to produce fruit discernable by those who "eagerly wait for the revealing of the sons of God". (Romans 8:19)