This chapter deals with what the Revelation calls “Babylon the Great”. Who is she?
I use the eschatological scheme known as historical: spiritual . Under this scheme we allow the Holy Spirit to interpret for us (with reference to other scriptures) what the prophesy means to us today. If the scriptures are for us all then we need to believe that God wrote them to us all whatever era we live in. 1 John 2:27
Below I reproduce the verses of Revelation chapter 17, with my comments following.
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials [bowls], and talked with me, saying to me, Come here; I will show to you the judgment of the great whore that sits upon many waters:
2 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.
Revelation 17:1,2
This section describes this great whore, who figuratively is the false bride of Christ our God. The whore is the imitation, not the real thing. She is the usurper. Like a queen she has tried to take control of the Earth which is described by “sits upon many waters” (v.1 and v.2 “inhabitants of the earth”) where “waters” is used to describe the inhabitants of the Earth. See verse 15.
15 And he says to me, The waters which you saw, where the whore sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Revelation 17:15
Cross reference this with the following.
17 And it shall come to pass, after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre; and she shall turn to her hire [employment] and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
Isaiah 23:17
Tyre is also Babylon the harlot. Isaiah 23:15 “Tyre shall sing as a harlot”. Tyre or Babylon is the harlot, not the bride of Christ our God. Like in the past she commits “fornication with the kingdoms of the world”, which is instead of acting as the bride and only in relationship with her husband the Lord. The LORD here is translated from “YHWH” or Yahweh who is the Lord God, the I AM, the self existent One.
The kings or rulers of the Earth have “committed fornication” (v.2) with her, which describes their commerce and agreements with her. The kings of the Earth are rulers and powerful oligarchs, billionaire leaders of corporations.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman [the whore] sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Revelation 17:3
The “woman” here is the whore. She sits or rides upon the “scarlet coloured beast” who is Satan, also called Lucifer. Lucifer controls the kingdoms of the world. The seven heads represent the major kingdoms that have endured on Earth: Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, and the final kingdom – one world government of the End Game. The ruler of that one world government is the beast and possessed of Satan. It maybe more than one person who the Apostle John calls antiChrist. Individual emperors of past kingdoms were possessed of Satan.
The “ten horns”, which must be on the last head, represent the modern day megabanks and corporations ruling the Earth. All have been and are under the control of Satan. This is the same beast as in Revelation 12:3. Ten horns are synonymous with ten kings.
4 And the woman [the whore] 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:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Revelation 17:4,5
The whore is decked in fine clothing as she acts as a queen as royalty but is in fact an imitator. She has the outward trappings of royalty but within is full of “abominations and filthiness” from her illicit commerce with the evil “kings” and rulers of the earth — as meet in Davos, the WEF or in Geneva, the UN.
One her head is her name written ” _____Babylon the Great”. The first part is a mystery, meaning it is not revealed here. The word “mystery” is translated from the Greek word “musterion” meaning “a secret through the idea of silence imposed by initiation into religious rites”. That reminds me very much of the secret societies, like the Freemasons, Illuminati, the Jesuits etc. I think these are all connected and are instrumental in the control of the world.
But from the characteristics we can now see who she, the whore, is. On the top of the list has to be the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, but are not. These are often called Khazarians, the evil bankers of the world who control all finance and commerce. The false bride are those who refused the bridegroom Jesus Christ, they are rejected by Jesus our God. Today it is a small group and probably we do not know who they are. Of course the Rothschild family comes to mind. Those who penetrated the royal families of Europe and became the bankers of London, the Vatican, the US Federal Reserve, the BIS, the IMF and many other central banks around the world. See verse 12.
In addition the globalists of the WEF and the UN include the evil “kings” and the “merchants” (see chapter 18) of the Earth under the control of the synagogue of Satan. Those globalists are the harlots to which the whore is the “mother of”. They carry out the bidding of the whore until they turn on her (verse 16).
6 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.
Revelation 17:6
It is easy to see how this could be fulfilled with Christians being treated as terrorists in their own countries. Anyone who quotes biblical passages against homosexuality or child grooming or transsexual surgery for children is called a bigot, a racist and is doing violence. Some have been arrested for preaching Christ in western countries now.
7 And the angel said to me, Wherefore did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman [the whore], and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and ten horns.
Revelation 17:7
The whore in the book of Hosea illustrated Israel, which turned its back on God. Then there is Jezebel
… because you permit that woman Jezebel, which calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
21 And I gave her space [time] to repent of her fornication, and she repented not.
22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery [unfaithfulness] with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds.
Revelation 2:20-22
Those who have commerce and fellowship with the whore, and don’t repent of their fornication, of their unfaithfulness, with her will be cast into “great tribulation”. This is the judgment of God on these evil oligarchs.
8 The beast that you saw 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.
Revelation 17:8
The beast is Lucifer who never “dies” but the kingdoms he controls change, they rise and fall. Lucifer comes out of the “bottomless pit” and goes into “perdition” which describe Hell and destruction. See Revelation 20:3 and 7. The clause “the beast that was, and is not, and yet is” describes the period where the Satan was bound in the bottomless pit by Jesus Christ for the period of the Church Age and then at the end released. See Revelation 20: 1-8 The Church Age.
Those whose names are “not written in the book of life” are those not chosen to salvation. This is controversial but clear in scripture that there are those who were predestined to salvation before the foundation of the world.
4 He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
5 having predestined us to be His own adopted children by Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will,
Ephesians 1:4,5
The following also is controversial with many claiming the seven mountains are the mountains around the city of Rome. Though I agree the Holy Roman empire (Vatican) is part of the beast system it is NOT the beast.
9 And here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he comes, he must continue a short space.
Revelation 1:9,10
The seven mountains are the seven kingdoms of the earth, listed above. Five were fallen at the time of the Revelation and one was in existence when the Apostle John was on Patmos where he got the Revelation from Jesus Christ. The last one has now come – the one world government, under the WEF and the UN which are in a treaty with each other.
“The global elites have come together to form what has been dubbed as a one world government. They have signed a treaty that would enable the World Health Organization (WHO) to take control and have governance over any NATO-aligned countries.
… the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction recently held its annual global platform where they planned for pandemic simulations, global governance, funds to fight so-called climate change and the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda, which is also known as the Great Reset.
The UN Secretary-General has also signed a treaty to put the WEF in command of the international organization. This will pave the way for a world government that can declare war against every nation state, populace, family and the medical freedom of people.”
Global elites have joined forces to form one world government
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes into perdition.
Revelation 1:11
The seventh kingdom is the present world government united through the UN/WEF, which is made up of chattel rulers over which they dominate the world. But the beast is Satan, and in a man he is what St John called antiChrist. Thus he is the eighth ruler who will be sentenced to the Lake of Fire. That is the expression “goes into perdition” or goes into destruction.
12 And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength to the beast.
Revelation 1:12,13
The ten horns are symbolic of a small group of these oligarchs who control all the wealth of the world and control governments. They are kings in the biblical sense because they wield power over nations. To receive power within “one hour” signifies a short time in the history of the world.
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.
Revelation 17:14
Compare with Daniel 2:47
47 The king answered to Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing you could reveal this secret.
Daniel 2:47
16 And the ten horns which you saw 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.
Revelation 17:16
Eventually the oligarchs turn on the controlling banksters (the whore) and dump her fait currency and that brings down the whole sham edifice of the global financial system.
Satan’s kingdom is divided because the oligarchs really only take care of their own. By burning down the whore it means to destroy her global system. It is God that does this through these global oligarchs. See next verse.
17 For God has put in their hearts to fulfil His will, and to agree, and give their kingdom to the beast [possessed by Satan], until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Revelation 17:17
As real ruler of the current one world government the beast is an antiChrist leader possessed by Satan. We may never know who this ruler is. The inner sanctum of the synagogue of Satan is not known to the world. They operate in secret in their various secret societies. I think it is some Khazarian bankster at the top who Satan would possess.
18 And the woman [the whore] which you saw is that great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.
Revelation 17:18
The whore is the opposite of the bride of Christ, the true church (assembly of believers). There is only one bride and it is not those who reject Jesus Christ, but those who put their trust in Him. Compare this verse with the following.
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Revelation 11:8
The great city where our Lord was crucified is Jerusalem. Since 1948 Israel has again existed, after nearly 1850 years since its final destruction by the Romans around 130 AD. Jerusalem again is the centre of the synagogue of Satan, where the banksters rule from. It also is given over to sodomy and every fowl spirit.
I know many believe that that city is Rome and the Vatican, also called Babylon the Great, but the reach of the global banksters is far beyond that of Rome.
The banksters have pulled of the biggest wealth theft in all of human history. Paper printing and now electronic currency “printing” of the US Federal Reserve note has taxed most of the world into poverty. It has meant this small group of oligarchs (10 kings, 10 horns) working with the whore, the true Babylon the Great, under Lucifer’s control have dominated and destroyed the world. Many are slaves of this system but don’t even know it.
…… to be continued in chapter 18.
Recommended Reading
- Revelation 1-3
- Revelation 2 & 3: Jesus on the Synagogue of Satan
- Revelation 4
- Revelation 5
- Revelation 6: The White Horseman Brings Toxic Death Shots
- Revelation 6: The Four Horsemen Bring Global Depopulation
- Revelation 7: The Saints Are Sealed
- Revelation 8: 7th Seal Opened
- Revelation 9: Abyss Opened
- Revelation 10: The Little Book
- Revelation 11: The Two Witnesses
- Revelation 12: Believers in the Wilderness
- Revelation 13: The Mark of the Beast
- Revelation 14: The Final Harvest
- Revelation 15 and 16: The 7 Vials of the Wrath of God
- Revelation 17: Babylon the Great
- Revelation 18: Come Out of Babylon
- Revelation 19: Marriage Supper of the Lamb
- Revelation 20: Great White Throne Judgment
- Revelation 20: The Church Age
- Revelation 21: New Heaven and New Earth
- Revelation 22: Jesus the Tree of Life
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10 responses to “Revelation 17: Babylon the Great”
This is eye opening.
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Authoritative sources tell me the Popes of Rome were ultimately responsible for most of the wars of Europe including WW I and WW 2. Authoritative sources tell me Pope Pius XII supported Hitler and is just as responsible for the blood of not only millions of Jews, but millions MORE of non-Jews also murdered by the Nazis! According to one source 25 million in all. Even if you discount the 6 million Jews killed number, why don’t we ever hear about the millions of non Jewish Poles also killed? Hitler considered the Slav people an inferior race! And what about the 1.7 million Orthodox Serbs killed by the Catholic Croatian Fascists, the Ustashi in WW II? We don’t hear much about them either. And what about the 800,000 Tutsi people murdered in the 1994 Rwanda genocide in which the Roman Catholic Church was clearly complicit in and which Pope Francis apologized for in 2017? Why don’t the vast majority of educated people know about all these things? It’s because if they don’t hear it from academia or the mainstream media, they will never hear about it. They won’t hear about it because major sources of information are controlled by the Jesuits. Knowledge of these things points to the Vatican as the primary trouble maker in the world. It points to the RCC as the Whore and the Beast she rides on is referring to the governments she controls.
https://www.jamesjpn.net/protestant-authors/the-catholic-church-heils-hitler-by-james-j-murphy/
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James, I have come to believe that the Jesuits and even Muhammad/Islam are a creation of the synagogue of Satan. After all Lucifer is the biggest liar of all and a murder from the beginning (John 8:44). It is true that the Roman Catholic Church is responsible for enormous atrocities and have blood on their hands, especially the papacy. And that they are antiChrist. However there have been some good popes, in the same way there were some good kings of Israel, though the majority were evil.
I no longer believe the big lie that 6 million Jews were killed by Nazi Germany. Official records from the camps only record about 250,000. There were not even 6 million Jews in Europe at the start of WWII. We have been sold an enormous lie there too. There is even speculation that Hilter was partly Jewish and some of his close commanders and aids were Jewish. The real plan was to force the Jews to go to the Palestine Mandate to occupy the land for the new nation of Israel. Lord Rothschild was the one who financed the wars also got Balfour to declare the Mandate and hence a return for the Jewish people to Palestine.
If you can find it watch the series “Europa the Last Battle” https://www.bitchute.com/video/s1nPYDj7KBEQ/
This here has some of it in relation to Germany https://rumble.com/v1nma6k–hellstorm-exposing-the-real-globalist-genocide-of-germany.html
World War I and World War II were both started and financed by the banksters/synagogue of Satan. See https://mises.org/wire/has-world-war-iii-already-begun
These wars including WWIII are all about the money. They are wealth sucking machines that redistribute territory and wealth at the expense of the people.
In relation to WWI and the Communist revolution in Russia
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Nobel laureate, historian, and survivor of the glulag system) wrote:
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Gideon, I need to see an official document that says, “Official records from the camps only record about 250,000. There were not even 6 million Jews in Europe at the start of WWII” and not listen to some unknown guy on a video telling me these things.
According to https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/holocaust/annihilation/ : “2,000,000 is the barest minimum number of Jews murdered, tortured and deliberately starved to death in Eastern Europe. The number is probably much greater.”
Two million sounds a lot more reasonable than only 250,000, a number way too low in my opinion. How do you know that’s not just antisemitic neo-Nazi disinformation? I don’t see any good fruit in denying the Holocaust. And as I said, what about the non-Jewish Polish people who were murdered by the Nazis?
“Historians estimate that between 1.5 and 1.8 million non-Jewish Polish people died during Nazi occupation.” – Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zk94jxs/articles/zh9dwnb
Who benefits from denying the Holocaust and the number of deaths of not only Jews, but millions of non-Jewish Poles, Serbs, Romanis, and Russians, the people lost the greatest number of soldiers and civilians? Only the Vatican / RCC because Pope Pius XII was just as guilty as Hitler.
My sources tell me Pope Pius XII was complicit in supporting not only the criminal Nazi regime, but also the Japanese in WW II. He even tried to free from prosecution major war criminals!
One of the murderers of the Poles, Arthur Greiser, had so much blood on his hands, the Polish government did not listen to the Pope’s intervention for him. Quotes from the book:
“Arthur Greiser, former Gauleiter (an official in charge of a district of Nazi Germany) and executioner of Poznan, who was recently condemned to death, has just asked the Pope to be kind enough to intervene on his behalf.”
Official Polish Press Agency, 20 July 1946: “Plus XII has sent a message to the Polish Government, asking that Greiser be reprieved. Not a single Pole will find an ounce of pity in his heart for the blood-thirsty executioner of the nation. Official circles qualify Plus XII’s intervention as stupefying.”
These are quotes from a book “The Vatican Against Europe” by Edmond Paris. You can read the entire book on
https://www.jamesjpn.net/war/the-vatican-against-europe-edmond-paris/
By the “synagogue of Satan” you are referring to Jews? The Bible tells me Satan’s conspiracy against God and man started in the Garden of Eden, way before Israel and the Jews came on the scene.
The question of the Holocaust being a major factor in the creation of the modern state of Israel is debatable. Some say the Zionist movement was sufficient. Milton William Cooper, the author of Behold a Pale Horse, wrote:
“Those of you who believe that Hitler was financed by Jews so that he could murder Jews have a serious logic deficit.”
In his book, Cooper wrote the only group that is powerful enough to bring all the opposing interest groups together is the Illuminati. In a podcast he said the Jesuit order *is* the Illuminati! I suppose we can call that the Synagogue of Satan. But I wouldn’t call it mainly Jewish or Zionist. Zionism is only a small part of Satan’s plan.
Right or wrong, that’s how I see it.
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Jesus defines synagogue of Satan. The are no Jews in that. He says they say they are Jews but they lie. Revelation 2:9 and 3:9.
Watch “Europa The Last Battle”!
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I started to watch https://rumble.com/v1nma6k–hellstorm-exposing-the-real-globalist-genocide-of-germany.html and found it too fantastic to believe! It’s based on a book by Thomas Goodrich “Hellstorm The Death of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947” How can we trust this guy is telling the truth? His version of history is totally different than anything I ever hear before!!! And who is he? I can’t find his bio anywhere. I go a lot by who the author.
I’ll try to again to see Europa the Last Battle. It wouldn’t play for me. I’ll try again.
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Consider, it is always the victors who write the history. At the moment, I am reading the novel (or “documentary”) “1984” by George Orwell, and though I know it is fiction, it perfectly captures the rewrite of history over and over again by those who control the levers of power. This has always been the case, and it is happening now and has happened right in front of us. Consider all the lies that were told about where COVID-19 came from. Some scientists, like Dr Mike Yeadon, do not even believe there ever was a virus SARS-COV-2, it was all a sham, a con, to get the world (6 billion people in this case) to take a deadly toxic shot and commit mass suicide. And the lie (from Satan, the father of lies) work rather well.
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I think this is it via Youtube. Europa Last Battle.
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Your account of the ten kings is interesting. I’ve always pondered this in the same way as many in that I was looking for ten obvious identities, countries, or leaders that are openly active in the world. They never seemed to eventuate in accord with Prophecy The view you present is a logical and fits with the rapid rollout of the beast system. They are there now, ten hidden puppet masters opposing Yawah in almost every facet of His ways. Truely, now, good has become evil in the sight of man while evil has become good, all in front of our very eyes. Come Lord Yeshua.
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Perfectly said. God bless you.
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