REVELATION 17 #1 BABYLON THE GREAT

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Revelation 17:1-3

BABYLON THE GREAT: The World Empire of False Religion

“Come, I will show you the judgment on the great prostitute who sits on many waters" - Revelation 17:1




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“A pronouncement against the wilderness of the sea¤...“She has fallen! Babylon has fallen!” - Isaiah 21:1, 9

¤ Hebrew YAM Strongs 3220 the Hebrew here can {quote} "sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin"

QUESTION: Can we take the fact that John was taken to "the desert" (Douay-Rheims Bible) imply Babylon the Great is associated with dry arid regions of Arabia?

1. Most bibles translate Rev 17:3 as "wilderness" ie a deserted solitary (but not necessarily sandy hot or dry region)

2. The Bible already associates Babylon the Great with the wilderness of the sea (compare Isaiah 21:1, 9)

3. Revelation associates Babylon with waters not sandy arid areas (compare Revelation 17:1)

BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON Ancient Babylon did indeed "sit on many waters" Herodotus described Babylon’s reliance on the rivers: ‘The whole Babylonian territory is cut up into channels, and the largest is navigable for ships and runs from the Euphrates to another river, namely the Tigris.’

Greek : eremos Strings #2048 "of uncertain affinity; lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, cwra - chora 5561 being implied):--desert*, desolate, solitary, wilderness". Source : www.htmlbible.com/sacrednamebiblecom/kjvstrongs/STRGRK20.htm#S2048
www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/greek/nas/eremos.html

* Note the word desert which we associate with a sandy hot arid region actually comes from the Latin 'desertum' which literally means 'thing abandoned' (thus we speak about a man "deserting" his wife).

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““ The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is sitting,
mean peoples and crowds and nations and tongues” - Revelation 17:15



“The third one poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water . And they became blood" - Revelation 16:4


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[li]Mother: denominations, sects, cults, new religions [Rev17: 1, 5, 15][/li]

[li]waters: peoples, crowds, nations [Rev17: 1, 5, 15][/li]

[li] Sexually immoral: with the "kings of the earth" : International [Rev 17: 2] [/li]

[li] earth’s inhabitants share in sexual immorality: International influence [Rev 17:2 Also read Rev 18:3 ] [/li]

[li] Has relations with the kings : not a political entity [Rev 17: 1, 2] [/li]

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"... and a third of the ships were wrecked" - Revelation 8:9

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FIT FOR A KING

Colours of royalty
Hindu
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Buddhist
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Muslim
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Jewish
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Christian
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And he carried me away in the power of the spirit into a wilderness. And I saw a woman ... 4 The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet...

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Revelation 17:4-6

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“she was adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls" - Revelation 17:4

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AM15 Pt 3: When was the Babylonian exile? ("Babylon's Ugly Baby")
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“On her forehead was written a name, a mystery:
“Babylon the Great, the mother of the prostitutes and of the disgusting things of the earth.”" - Revelation 17:5



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REV 17:6B

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CHAP 17:7-11 [Babylon the Great #2 POLITICS] >>

CHAP 17:8-15 [Babylon the Great #2 The 8th King] >>



CHAP 17:16-17 [Babylon the Great #3 DESTRUCT°] >>

CHAPTER 18 [Get out] >>

CHAP 18:11-19 [Babylon the Great #4 Merchants Lament] >>

CHAP 18:20-24 [Babylon the Great #4 Disposal] >>

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CHAP Chap 19:4-10 [White Horse] >>

CHAPTER 20 [Thrones] >>

CHAPTER 21 [kingdom rule] >>

CHAPTER 22 [New Jerusalem] >>

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