Coming Judgment of the Harlot
One of the Angels out from the Seven Explains the Judgment of the Great Harlot, Revelation 17:1-2
A Religious System
Many Waters Refer to Peoples and Nations
The Use of a Woman as the Head of a Religion
Always Used Negatively
Predominately, Cults Started by Women Involve Deception Where Those From Men Tend to be Outright Perverted
The Prophetess Jezabel , Revelation 2:20
She teaches spiritual fornication
She teaches idolatry
Her teaching is deceptive
She Produces Children, Revelation 2:23
A Woman is Not to Teach or Have Authority over Men, 1 Timothy 2:12
She is to learn in quietness (stillness [ἡσυχίᾳ])
Her place is not to teach doctrine (αὐθεντεῖν – to usurp authority)
She is more susceptible to being deceived, 1 Timothy 2:14
Judgment is Coming Upon This Great Harlot
Timing is Given to Us – One of the Angels Having the Seven Bowls
Taken in spirit to a Desert, Revelation 17:3-4
Previously was in the Heaven
Now the Focus is Earthly
Taken to a Wilderness or Desert (a barren place)
The Woman and the Beast
The Beast is Scarlet in Color Indicating a Connection with a Religious System
The Beast is the Man of Lawlessness, Daniel 7:7
At This Stage, the Beast is First Coming into Power (All Ten Kings With Him)
He Has Names That Falsely Attribute Things to Him
He will be Allowed to Deceive the Nations, 2 Thessalonians 2:10
He Comes According With the Workings of Satan, 2 Thessalonians 2:9
The Woman is a Religious System – Scarlet Color is Used to Indicate Religion, Revelation 17:4
Purple Indicating Royalty – The King of Babylon
Using Purple when Mocking Jesus, John 19:2
Adorned with Gold
The Cup in Her Hand
Detestable things – Abominations
That which is highly esteemed among men is detestable to God, Luke 16:15
Things that are Practiced, Revelation 21:27
Fornication – conglomeration of many religious systems
The Name of the Harlot, Revelation 17:5
Mystery has to be taken with Babylon According to Normal Grammar
Not – a mystery, Babylon the great
NAS makes mystery an accusative, Revelation 17:5
ESV makes mystery a genitive, Revelation 17:5
Mystery Babylon
The Use of Apposition
This use denotes more specifically who or what produces the action or presents the state expressed by the finite verb
All Three Define the Subject – Mystery, Babylon, The Great
Babylon is not a Mystery, She is Referred to as Mystery Babylon, not just a Mystery
Babylon
Know for it Political Power
Nebuchadnezzar, the Head of Gold, Daniel 2:38
Prophecy Concerning the City of Babylon will not be inhabited, Isaiah 13:20
Not Known for its Religion
The Religions of Babel are not in Focus
No Clear Revelation in the Old Testament Concerning This Babylon
This is Why it is Mystery Babylon. Now it is a Religious Not Political Power
The Future King of Babylon, Isaiah 14:4
The Future King will Be Concerning a Religious Figure
Clothed with Scarlet and Gold, Revelation 17:4
She Comes in With Religious Authority Over the Beast, Revelation 17:3
It Will Not Be Known By Its Political Power
After Israel is Brought into Rest – During the Millennial Kingdom They Will Have A Reminder of Babylon, Isaiah 14:3
This Babylon is the Mystery Babylon of the Tribulation
Because It is a Mystery, We Have to Look into What is Revealed About It to Understand the Mystery
She Has Religious Authority
She Cause them to Commit Idolatry
She is Seen as Royalty – Not Political, Religious
Scripture Reading
Then came one out from the seven angels, the ones having the seven bowls, and spoke with me saying, “Come, I will show to you the judgment of the great harlot, the one sitting upon many waters, with whom the kings of the earth fornicated, and the earth dwellers of the earth became drunk out from the wine of her fornication.”
And he carried me away in spirit to a desert and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast full of blasphemous names while having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, adorned in gold with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full from detestable things and the uncleanliness of her fornication.
And upon her forehead written, “Mystery Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots and of the detestable things of the earth.”
