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4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,

5 for her sins are heaped high as heaven,and God has remembered her iniquities. ESV

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4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed

that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my

name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

Matthew 24:4-5 KJV

3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall

not come, except there come a falling away first, and that

man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that iscalled God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God

sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is

God. 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 KJV

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10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do

wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the

abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred

and ninety days.12

Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand threehundred and five and thirty days. Daniel 12:10-12 KJV

14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness

unto all nations; and then shall the end come. 15 When ye therefore shall see the

abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy

place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) Matthew 24:14-15 KJV

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:

for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Revelation 13:18 KJV

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Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth

upon many waters: Rev 17:1 KJV

With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the

inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

Rev 17:2 KJV

And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold

and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of

abominations and filthiness of her fornication: Rev 17:4 KJVAnd upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE

MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. Rev 17:5 KJV

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood

of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

Rev 17:6 KJV

And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the

mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven

heads and ten horns. KJV Rev 17:7

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8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the

bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall

wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of

the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. 9 And here

is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on whichthe woman sitteth. 10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and

the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven,

and goeth into perdition. 12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings,

which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour withthe beast. 13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto

the beast. 14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome

them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are

called, and chosen, and faithful. 15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou

sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and

tongues. 16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate

the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and

burn her with fire. 17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to

agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be

fulfilled. 18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth

over the kings of the earth. Rev 17:8-18 KJV

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There are several symbols involved in this description, but

the angel explains them to us. If we accept the

interpretation of God's Word, we will have little troubleunderstanding what the chapter teaches.

A. The woman.

Verse 18 makes it clear that she is a city, and in John's day,

she was reigning over the kings of the earth. The seven

heads of v. 3 are identified as seven mountains in v. 9.

There seems to be little doubt that the city is Rome. It is

situated on seven hills; when Revelation was written,

Rome was reigning over the kings of the earth.

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B. The Beast.

This is the same Beast we met in chapter 13, the Antichrist. Verse 8

indicates that this world ruler will come out of the bottomless pit,

suggesting that he was raised from the dead. "Perdition" links him

with Judas (John 17:12; 2 Thess 2:3); and for this reason, some

students believe that Antichrist will be Judas raised from the dead.

The Beast is scarlet-colored, linking him with the dragon, Satan

(12:3). The fact that the Beast has seven heads and ten horns alsoidentifies him with Satan (see 12:3 and 13:1). Verse 10 tells us that

the seven heads are seven kings (as well as seven mountains); and

v. 12 explains that the ten horns are ten more kings. So, the Beast

resembles the kingdom of Antichrist as well as his own person. The"seven kings" of v. 10 could also be translated "seven kingdoms." In

other words, the kingdom of the Beast will be the seventh world

kingdom, the one that "has not yet come.”

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C. The seven heads.

We have already seen that these heads represent seven

mountains (v. 9) and seven kings or kingdoms (v. 10). Thefive kingdoms that had fallen were Egypt, Assyria,

Babylon, Persia, and Greece. The kingdom "that is" would

be Rome in John's day; the one yet to come, the seventh,

would be the kingdom of the Beast. If we compare the

seven heads to specific kings, then the five who were

fallen (of Roman rulers) would be Julius Caesar, Tiberius,

Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. The "one that is" would be

Domitian; the one yet to come, the Beast, the king of the

revived Roman Empire.

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D. The ten horns.

Verse 12 explains that these are ten more kings. They parallel the

ten toes of Daniel's image in Dan 2:36-45, the revived Roman

Empire. In John's day, these kings had not yet received their power;

it is reserved for the last days when the federation of Europe,

headed by the Beast, comes to power. Note that these ten kings

willingly give support to the Beast in his battle against Christ and

the saints; and that, with the help of the Beast, they will destroy thegreat harlot.

E. The waters.

The waters on which the harlot is seated are the peoples of the

world (v. 15). She will have influence over the whole world,politically, economically and, most of all, religiously.

(from Wiersbe's Expository Outlines on the New Testament. Copyright © 1992 by Chariot Victor

Publishing, an imprint of Cook Communication Ministries. All rights reserved.)

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In Rev 14:8; 16:19; 17:5; and 18:2, "Babylon" is supposed to mean

Rome, not considered as pagan, but as the prolongation of the

ancient power in the papal form. Rome, pagan and papal, isregarded as one power. "The literal Babylon was the beginner and

supporter of tyranny and idolatry...This city and its whole empire

were taken by the Persians under Cyrus; the Persians were subdued

by the Macedonians, and the Macedonians by the Romans; so thatRome succeeded to the power of old Babylon. And it was her

method to adopt the worship of the false deities she had conquered;

so that by her own act she became the heiress and successor of all

the Babylonian idolatry, and of all that was introduced into it by the

immediate successors of Babylon, and consequently of all theidolatry of the earth." Rome, or "mystical Babylon," is "that great

city which reigneth over the kings of the earth" (17:18).(from Easton's Bible Dictionary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright ©

2003, 2006 Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)

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