The
woman: the great ecumenical center of the earth
17:18 And the woman* which thou sawest is
[1] that great city, which
[a.] reigneth over the kings of the
earth [lit., which has
kingship over the kings of the earth].
[*The great religious whore is: Mystery Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations (Rev. 17:5). In Chapter 18, John has just been shown God’s judgment of Babylon The Great, the world’s great commercial center. Yet, verse 19:2 calls this great commercial center “the great whore.” Both the great religious center (Mystery Babylon The Great), and the great commercial center of the earth (Babylon The Great), therefore, will be located in the same city: Babylon. HERE IS THE GREAT MYSTERY: EACH OF THE 8 GREAT WORLD KINGDOMS (Rev. 17:10-11) HAS HAD OR WILL HAVE ITS GREAT RELIGIOUS WHORE CITY. For the revised Roman Empire that is yet to come, its 10 kings will destroy its great mystery religious city (Rev. 17:16). These kings then will give their power, authority, and kingdom to the Antichrist (Rev. 17:12-14, Rev. 17:16-17), who will form the eighth and final world kingdom to oppress Israel: the revived Grecian Empire. In fulfillment of Bible prophecy (Dan 9:27), the Antichrist will enter Jerusalem and desecrate the rebuilt temple. He will then consolidate church and state in the rebuilt city of Babylon [not necessarily in Iraq]. THEN THE GREAT MYSTERY: the spirit of the destroyed Mystery Babylon is resurrected in literal Babylon as the great religious whore city of the revived Grecian Empire. It demands universal worship of the Antichrist. God destroys it under the 7th vial of wrath (Rev. 16:19).]
A
full chapter definition
Mystery
Babylon is: a great whore [prostituting] city that sits upon many waters
[peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues], 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, who also sits upon
a scarlet colored [bloodstained] beast [full of the names of blasphemy, having 7 heads
<<which are the 7 mountains (7
mountain kingdoms) on which the woman—the
great whore [prostituting] city—sits>>
and
10 horns <<
which are 10 kings which have receive no kingdom as yet, but receive power as
kings one hour with the beast (the
eighth mountain kingdom with a king), who have one
mind, whom God has put in their hearts to fulfill His will and agree to give
their power, strength and kingdoms unto the beast / eighth mountain kingdom /
king, who make war with the Lamb and are overcome by Him, and who hate the
great whore [prostituting] city, and make her desolate by burning her with
fire, the smoke of which burns for ever>>,
that
was, and is not, and yet is, who
ascends out of the bottomless pit and goes into perdition [destruction], of
whom the whole world wonders after whose names are not written in the book of
life from the foundation of the world,
who is
the eighth king [kingdom with a king] and of the 7 [kingdoms with
kings, 5 of which are fallen—in John’s day, one is, and the other not yet come],
who is arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and
precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of
abominations and filthiness of her fornication, and upon her forehead a name written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE
MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH, who is drunken with the blood of saints and with
the blood of the martyrs of Jesus, and is hated by the 10 horn kingdoms with kings who
receive their power one hour with the beast who make her desolate and destroy her by a fire which burns for ever.
Summary:
The scarlet colored [bloodstained] beast upon whom the woman sits is [full of the names of blasphemy, having 7 heads <<which are the 7 mountains (7 mountain kingdoms) on which the woman—the great whore [prostituting] city—sits>> who is the eighth king [kingdom with a king] and of the 7 [5 of which are fallen—in John’s day, one is, and the other not yet come].
The 10 horns << which are 10 kings which have receive no kingdom as yet, but receive power as kings one hour with the beast (the eighth mountain kingdom with a king), who have one mind, whom God has put in their hearts to fulfill His will and agree to give their power, strength and kingdoms unto the beast / eighth mountain kingdom / king, who make war with the Lamb and are overcome by Him, and who hate the great whore [prostituting] city, and make her desolate by burning her with fire, the smoke of which burns for ever>>, and is hated by the 10 horn kingdoms with kings who receive their power one hour with the beast and who make her desolate and destroy her by a fire which burns for ever.
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