Revelation Mystery Babylon the Great
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.”
2 Corinthians Not Being Cowardly
We Are Not Cowardly, 2 Corinthians 4:1-2
The Ministry Paul Has, 2 Corinthians 4:1
The Ministry of the New Covenant, 2 Corinthians 3:6
A Covenant That Surpasses the Glory of the Mosaic Law, 2 Corinthians 3:7-8
Not the New Covenant for Israel, Jeremiah 31:33
We Are Not Cowardly, 2 Corinthians 4:1
Cowardly (Do Not Lose Heart [NASB]; We faint Not [KJV])
Comes from a word meaning, “to behave badly”
Often translated as “grow weary” or “be weary”, but not the same
Weary from sin and heavy-laden, Matthew 11:28
Weary from a Journey, John 4:6
Cowardly and Weary, Galatians 6:9
Not being cowardly because of Paul’s tribulations, Ephesians 3:13
In that which is bad (lacking in character) – one who turns out to be of those who are bad; hence, to behave badly or loose courage or faint
Renouncing the Hidden Things of Shame, 2 Corinthians 4:2
The Walk of Those Who Are Enemies of the Cross, Philippians 3:18-19
Those in the Church Who Have Crept In, Jude 4,13
The Doctrine of the Laodicean Church, Revelation 3:18
In Standing Against the Hidden things of Shame We Are Not Judging Others, 1 Corinthians 4:5
The Hidden Things of Shame are Done in the Darkness
Darkness is a way of life, Romans 2:19
The works of Darkness, Romans 13:12
It is a darkness of the heart, Romans 1:21
Comes from rejecting the truth, 1 John 1:6
We walk in the light, Ephesians 5:8
Not Walking in Craftiness or Baiting the Word of God, 2 Corinthians 4:2
God Gave Gifts to the Church so That We Are No Longer Tossed Around by the Craftiness of Men, Ephesians 4:14
God Catches the Wise of This World in Their Craftiness, 1 Corinthians 3:19
The Craftiness of Satan with Eve, 2 Corinthians 11:3
Baiting – that which ensnares by baiting
Our Exhortation is not from error or impurity by way of baiting, 1 Thessalonians 2:3
We as Christians are to put all malice and baiting (deceit) away from us, 1 Peter 2:1
In Manifesting the Truth, 2 Corinthians 4:2
Showing Things as They Really Are
Introducing or Demonstrating Ourselves to Every Conscience
To Every Ones Conscience, 1 Corinthians 9:19-22
Not Imposing a Lifestyle Upon Those We Encounter that is Contrary to their Conscience
Not Participating in the Works of Darkness, but Reproving Them, Ephesians 5:11
The Conscience accuses or excuses us – for we know Good and Evil, Romans 2:15
The god of This Age Has Blinded the Minds of the Ones Perishing, 2 Corinthians 4:3-4
The Gospel Hidden To the Ones Perishing, 2 Corinthians 4:3
The Ones Perishing Will be Deceived Because They Did Not Receive the Love of the Truth, 2 Thessalonians 2:10
Whether With Law or Without, Romans 2:12
The Workings of Their Minds are Blinded, 2 Corinthians 4:4
The god of This age is Satan, Ephesians 2:2
The Workings of The Mind
The Working of Satan’s Mind, 2 Corinthians 2:11
Bringing Every Thought (working of the mind) into captivity in Christ, 2 Corinthians 10:5
Satan Deceiving the working of the mind from the simplicity of the Christ, 2 Corinthians 11:3
The Jews when Reading the Old Testament, 2 Corinthians 3:14
The Peace of God Surpasses the Workings of the Mind, Philippians 4:7
The Unbelievers are Blinded from Seeing the Light of the Gospel
Scripture Reading
We Are Not Cowardly, 2 Corinthians 4:1-2
Because of this, while having this ministry, just as we were shown mercy, we are not cowardly, but we ourselves speak out against the hidden things of the shame, while not walking in craftiness nor baiting the Word of God, but in the manifestation of the truth, while commending ourselves facing every conscience of men before the God.
The god of This Age Has Blinded the Minds of the Ones Perishing, 2 Corinthians 4:3-4
And if also our gospel is hidden, in the ones perishing it is hidden, in whom the god of this age has blinded the thoughts of the unbelievers resulting in the enlightenment of the gospel of the proper opinion of the Christ, Who is the image of the God, not shining bright to them.
Revelation The Seven Strikes Against Those Taking the Mark
The Second Strike, Revelation 16:3
The Seven Strikes are Directed at Those Who Took the Mark of the Beast and Worship his Image
The Second Angel Pours out His Bowl, Revelation 16:3
The Sea is a Reference to the Sea by Israel – Mediterranean Sea
The Second Trumpet Turned a Third of the Sea to Blood, Revelation 8:8-9
Now the Entire Sea is Turned Likened to the Blood of the Dead
The Third Strike, Revelation 16:4-7
The Rivers and Springs of Waters are Turned to Blood, Revelation 16:4
The Third Trumpet had turned a third of the waters to Wormwood, Revelation 8:10
Now the Springs of Water and Rivers are Turned to Blood
The Response of the Angel of the Waters, Revelation 16:5
The Angel of the Waters Worships God
Referring to Him as the Pious One – Holiness in Action
Giving Them Blood to Drink, Revelation 16:6
“They” Goes Back to Those who Received the Mark and Those Who Worship the Beast
These are Tribulation Saints and Prophets
Today We Do Not Have Prophets, 2 Peter 2:1
During the Tribulation Period There will Be Prophets Again, Joel 2:28-32
They are Worthy of His Strike Against Them for Killing the Saints and Prophets
Those Under the Altar Respond To The Second Strike, Revelation 16:7
Those under the alter killed by the harlot who see the just judgment of God on the ones who killed them, Revelation 6:9
They Respond With Worshiping and Praise
The Fourth Strike, Revelation 16:8-9
The Sun Begins to Super Nova, Revelation 16:8
The Fourth Trumpet Took Away a Third of the Sun and the Spin of the Earth is Increased, Revelation 8:12
Humans are Burned with a Great Heat, Revelation 16:9
The Response of Those Who Took the Mark and Worship the Image is to Blasphemy God
They Will Not Repent
They Do Not Give God Glory
The Fifth Strike, Revelation 16:10-11
Darkness Upon the Throne of The Beast (Jerusalem), Revelation 16:10
Only over the Throne of the Beast and His Kingdom
The Darkness Upon Egypt Did not Impact Israel, Exodus 10:21-23
Darkness Can Cause Pain
Darkness is a Lack of Light
They Did not Repent, Revelation 16:11
“They” is still referring to those who took the mark and worship the image
The pains from darkness and the sores from the first strike
They did not change their mind concerning their works
The Sixth Strike, Revelation 16:12-16
The Great River Euphrates Is Dried Up, Revelation 16:12
In Preparation for the Kings of the East
Along This Path is Where the Blood of the Armies will rise to the Bridle of a Horse, Revelation 14:20
Three Unclean Spirits Sent Out To Gather the Kings of the Earth, Revelation 16:13-14
They Come from the Dragon, Beast, and False Prophet
They Show Signs to the Kings of the Inhabited World
They Gather them For War
The First Part is a War Against the East and West
This Will Turn into Armageddon when they turn to fight Jerusalem
This is in Preparation for the War of the Great Day of God
Those Who Are Prepared for the Coming of the Messiah, Revelation 16:15
He Comes When No One is Expecting
Those Who are Prepared will be Ready, Matthew 25:1
They Gather to Harmageddon, Revelation 16:16
Technically Pronounced with an “H” at the beginning due to the rough breathing mark
Known as Armageddon
Scripture Reading
And the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea and it came to be blood as of [the] dead and every living soul died in the sea
And the third poured out his bowl into the rivers and into the springs of water and it became blood. And I heard from the angel of the waters saying, “You are righteous, the One who was and the One who is, the pious One, because you have judged these things, that they shed the blood of the holy ones and prophets and you have given them blood to drink. They are worthy.” And I heard from the altar saying, “Yes Lord, the God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments.”
And the fourth poured out his bowl upon the sun and it was given to him to burn the humans by fire. And the humans were scorched with a great heat and blasphemed the name of the God, the One having the authority over these strikes and did not repent to express a proper opinion to Him.
And the fifth poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast and his kingdom came to be in a state of darkness and they chewed their tongues out from the affliction. And they blasphemed the God of the heaven out from their affliction and out from their sores and did not repent out form their works.
And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river Euphrates and the waters of it dried up, in order that He should prepare the way of the kings from the east. And I saw out from the mouth of the dragon and out from the mouth of the beast and out from the mouth of the false prophet three unclean spirits as frogs. For the demonic spirits are performing signs, which come upon the kings of the whole inhabited world to gather them unto the war of the great day of the God, the Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Happy is the one who is alert and keeping his garments, in order that he should not walk around naked, and his shame is seen. And they gathered them unto the place called in Hebrew Harmegeddon.
2 Corinthians Ministers of a New Covenant
The Saints In Corinth Are Paul’s Letter Of Commendation, 2 Corinthians 3:1-4
Do We Begin Again To Commend Ourselves To You? 2 Corinthians 3:1
Are We Introducing Or Demonstrating Ourselves To You Again?
Did Paul Need To Prove To Them Who He Is Again
Does He Need A Letter Or Recommendation For Them Or From Them?
They Know Who Paul Is, For They Are His Letter, 2 Corinthians 3:2
They Are Written In His Heart
All Can See This By Experiencing It And Reading It
While All See They Are An Epistle Of Christ, 2 Corinthians 3:3
The Epistle They Are Is Not Written With Ink
It Impacts The Heart, Which Affects Our Actions
Our Heart Is Our Center, Where Our Spirit And Soul Combine And Where Our Person Resides
It Is Always Those Around Another Person Who Show Who That Person Really Is
Paul’s Confidence Is Through Christ Facing God, 2 Corinthians 3:4
God is the One Who Made Us Sufficient Ministers of a New Covenant, 2 Corinthians 3:5-6
God is the One Who Made us Sufficient, 2 Corinthians 3:5
Sufficient – One who is qualified
The Centurion Speaking to Christ Concerning His Servant, Matthew 8:8
Those who are sufficient (qualified) to teach, 2 Timothy 2:2
As with Paul, our sufficiency is through Christ, not ourselves
Our Credentials mean nothing if we are not speaking the truth
The sufficiency we have comes from God And is Shown by Those We Impact Through Living Out Who We Are in Christ
Ministers of a New Covenant, 2 Corinthians 3:6
Our Qualifications are Not from a Letter, but from the Spirit
The Letter Kills
Trying to overcome sin by law, Romans 7:11
Christ reconciled both Jew and Gentile through His body, putting to death the enmity between them, Ephesians 2:15-16
The Spirit Makes Alive
In Christ We Are Made Alive, 1 Corinthians 15:22
Christ was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in spirit, 1 Peter 3:18
The Spirit gives life, John 6:63
We are alive to God in Our Spirit by the Holy Spirit, John 4:24
The Glory of the Letter Compared to the Spirit, 2 Corinthians 3:7-18
The Glory of the Ministry of Death in Writing, 2 Corinthians 3:7
The Glory Upon Moses, Exodus 34:29-35
When Moses came down from the Mountain with the tablets of the covenant his face was shining, Exodus 34:29
After Speaking with God His Face Would Shine, Exodus 34:34
Moses veiled His Face so Israel would not see the Glory Fading
The Law Brought Death, Hebrews 10:28
The Law Could not Impart Life, Galatians 3:21
How Much More the Glory of the Spirit, 2 Corinthians 3:8
The Surpassing Ministry Has More Glory, 2 Corinthians 3:9
There is No Condemnation (Result of Judgment), Romans 8:1
The Ministry of Righteousness Surpasses the Ministry of Condemnation
The Word of Righteousness is Solid Food, not Milk, Hebrews 5:13
Christ is a Completion of the Law Because of Righteousness, Romans 10:4
The Body is Dead Because of Sin, but the Spirit is Alive Because of Righteousness, Romans 8:10
The Law Has No Glory Compared to Righteousness, 2 Corinthians 3:10
Since that Which Renders the Law Ineffective is Through Glory, That Glory Remains, 2 Corinthians 3:11
Having This Hope, We Make Use of The Glory that Remains, 2 Corinthians 3:12
The Veil Remains On Israel When Reading the Old Testament, 2 Corinthians 3:13-15
When An Israelite Turns to The Lord (Jesus) the Veil is Taken Away, 2 Corinthians 3:16
Typically a Jew that is Saved Today Based Upon the Death and Resurrection of Christ is More Fervent in Preaching the Gospel to Israel
Paul Expresses this Passion, Romans 9:1-3
Freedom Where the Lord is, 2 Corinthians 3:17
Law is Bondage, Galatians 2:4
Freedom is the Ability to Live Out Righteousness, Romans 6:18
The Glory of the Ministry of Righteousness is From One Level of Glory to Another, 2 Corinthians 3:18
Our Glory does not Fade
We reflect the Lord with unveiled faces
We are transformed into the image of Christ, showing His glory
In Christ we are able to Mature, Hebrews 5:12-14
Using of the Renewed Mind to Determine the Will of God, Romans 12:2
Coming to a Full Experiential Knowledge of The Son of God, Ephesians 4:13
Scripture Reading
Do we begin again for ourselves to commend ourselves? Except we need, as some, a letter of recommendation towards you or out from your recommendation? You are our epistle, having been written in our hearts, experientially known and read by all men, while manifesting that you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, having been written not with ink but by [the] Spirit of [the] living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of a fleshly heart. And we have confidence of such kind through the Christ facing God.
Not that we are sufficient from ourselves to consider anything as out from ourselves, but our sufficiency [is] out from God, Who made us sufficient ministers of a new covenant, not from letter, but from Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.
But since the ministry of the death in writing, being engraved in stone, came to be in a proper opinion so that the sons of Israel did not have the ability to gaze into the face of Moses because of the glory of his face was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be in more glory? For since the ministry of the condemnation is glory, much more surpassing the ministry of the righteousness in glory. For even the thing in a state of being glorified did not have a state of glory in this part on account of the surpassing glory. For since that which renders ineffective is through glory, much more the thing remaining in glory. Therefore while having such hope in much boldness we make use of [it]. And not just as Moses placed a veil upon his face, for the purpose that the sons of Israel did not gaze upon the end of the rendering ineffective, but their thoughts were hardened; for until today the same veil, not having been unveiled, remains upon the reading of the old covenant because it [the veil] is rendered ineffective in Christ. But today when Moses is read a veil lay upon their heart. But whenever he should turn facing [the] Lord the veil is taken away. And [the] Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of [the] Lord is, there is liberty. And we all, with an unveiled face, while reflecting the glory of [the] Lord, are being transformed into the same image from a quality of glory unto a quality of glory, just as from the Spirit of [the] Lord.
Revelation Reaping
Happy Are the Dead, Who Die by a Lord, Revelation 14:12-13
The Patience of the Saints, Revelation 14:12
A Holding Out Under Circumstances
They are The Ones Who Will Have to Deal With Those Who Have the Mark of the Beast
Those who will go into captivity, Revelation 13:10
Their Patience is They Know Judgment is Coming Upon Them
These are the ones who keep the commandments of God and the faith in Jesus
The message at this time is of the Kingdom of the Heavens
They will be proclaiming the resurrection of the Messiah
Happiness of the Dead, Revelation 14:13
These are the Ones About to Die
Happy Because They Will No Longer Be Suffering in Toil
Their Work is Done
They will be Killed by their Masters (a Lord)
This is During the Second Half of the Tribulation Period
The Reapers, Revelation 14:14-20
Reaping of the Gentiles, Revelation 14:14-16
This Messenger is Likened to the Son of Man
The Resurrected Christ
Golden Victor’s Wreath
He is the Conquer – the Victor
Crowned With a Victor’s Wreath
Victor’s Wreath for His Work on the Cross, Hebrews 2:5-8
Crowned Him – Gave a Victor’s Wreath (ἐστεφάνωσας)
Because of suffering of death, Hebrews 2:9
He overcame death, Hebrews 2:14
Another Messenger Call Out to Reap the Earth, Revelation 14:15
The Time When the Son Requests the Father to Give Him the Nations, Psalm 2:8-9
This Reaping is for the Harvest of Dry Grain (ξηραίνω – made dry)
Angel is Speaking to the Son in His Humanity
The Reaping of the Earth, Revelation 14:16
Just of Unsaved People
Taking us to the Time of the Battle of Armageddon
The Reaping of the Jews, Revelation 14:17-19
Another Angels Comes out of the Holy of Holies with a Sharp Sickle, Revelation 14:17
Not Christ, Who Reaps the Gentiles
The Angel with the Authority Over Fire Calls to the Angel to Reap the Vines (Jews), Revelation 14:18
The Angel having the Authority over the Fire
The fire is referring to the fire of the altar
Michael will stand up for the Israelites, Daniel 12:1
The vineyard refers to Israel
Vineyard of Israel, Isaiah 5:1,7
These are unsaved, rebellious Jews
They are cast into the winepress of the burning anger of God, Revelation 14:19
Winepress is the judgment
As Christ is stomping the winepress this angel casts the rebellious Jews into the winepress
The Trampling of the Winepress, Revelation 14:20
The Trotting Starts Outside the City of Jerusalem
This Section of Scripture is Focusing on the Area Around Jerusalem and Moab
It goes from there about 180 miles
2 Corinthians Being Gracious
The One Who Grieved, 2 Corinthians 2:5
If Anyone Has Cause Grief, 2 Corinthians 2:5
Paul was not personally grieved by the one who grieved them
He speaks a bit about it so they are not burdened
Not being a financial burden to the Thessalonians, 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8
The burden we have being in this tent, 2 Corinthians 5:4
Burdened with sleep, Luke 9:32
In Asia being excessively burdened, despairing even life, 2 Corinthians 1:8
The Punishment by the Many Was Sufficient, 2 Corinthians 2:6
Paul is referring to the man kicked out of the Church, 1 Corinthians 5:1-5
The Assembly Did Not Need to Administer More Punishment
Properly Dealing with Erring Christians
The One Not Obeying the Word Given through Paul, 2 Thessalonians 3:14
Separate from this person, 2 Thessalonians 3:14
Admonish, but do not treat as an enemy, 2 Thessalonians 3:15
Admonishment is to put to one’s mind
The Word of the Christ should dwell in us richly, admonishing us, Colossians 3:16
Admonish those who are unruly (out of rank), 1 Thessalonians 5:12
Do Not Associate with fornicators, 1 Corinthians 5:9
Do Not Associate with a Brother Who is a Fornicator, Greedy, an Idolater, Abusive, Drunkard, Swindler, 1 Corinthians 5:11
One Who is Factious (a follower of false doctrine) is to be admonished twice, then refuse, Titus 3:10
Do Not Be Deceived, You Are the One That is Negatively Impacted By Those Doing Wrong Around You, 1 Corinthians 15:33
Being Gracious, 2 Corinthians 2:7-8
The One Punished Should be Treated with Grace, 2 Corinthians 2:7
Paul Does Not Use the Word “Forgive”
We Treat Each Other With Grace
Gracious as God is Gracious, Ephesians 4:32
Gracious Towards Yourself and Others, Colossians 3:13
God was gracious to us in Christ, while we were dead in our trespasses He made us alive in Christ, Colossians 2:13
Eternal life is a gracious gift, Romans 6:23
It is in addition to the gift of righteousness (salvation), Romans 5:15
God Forgives
When we agree with Him that we have sinned, 1 John 1:9
Happy are those who are forgiven, Romans 4:7
The Vow of the Mentally ill (Due to a wrong act committed by them), James 5:15
Our sins are forgiven for His sake, 1 John 2:12
Marking Those who Do Wrong, 2 Thessalonians 3:14
We do not associate with them
A Person Who Has Repented We are Gracious Towards
This does not mean to allow them to harm you again, or even be in a position to harm you
Gracious is permitting them to be edified by the Body of the Christ (The Church) without considerations of merit.
Punishment is Not Meant to Swallow Someone in Grief, 2 Corinthians 2:7
Satan seeks to swallow up those who are not prepared, 1 Peter 5:8
Punishment comes from the word for rebuke, 2 Timothy 4:2
Rebuking is for Correction, Not Causing Excessive Grief
Reaffirming Love, 2 Corinthians 2:8